The Case

The fourth human turns to the case with a grin on his face. Quickly punching in a code on the keypad and opening the case with a small pop and a hiss, he reaches in and grabs a reinforced glass tube with a metallic pressurized seal on one end. “This is a special project only the highest levels of ONI know about, but has been in the works for over a decade now. I present to you, the ticket to winning the war.” With that he turns towards Kara to give her a full view of the contents within: a very active, slithering brownish green worm of what appears to be 6 inches total. Peck looks at the worm off to the fourth human’s side, pointing out that it doesn't look anything special to him, just a common ground worm from Earth with a different color. “You see Peck, that's what you may think, however this is not some random worm we took off the ground and shoved into a container. This is a neuro, or brain, worm. Naturally there are limited examples of any creature remotely capable of influencing another creature through some means, whether it be psionically, physically, or whatever else. This species of intelligent worm is a parasite that has a small population on a distant classified world that exhibited not only the ability but the active desire to do so, although not on the same scale as the one we have here. ONI collected some samples of this special creature and was genetically modified by some of the organisation's top biologists and neuroscientists to be much more capable of entering a host and either outright possessing them or influencing them heavily. Using a special device that connects to another, much smaller, device attached to their neural system we can issue temporary or permanent commands to these worms either in or out of a host and they will follow without hesitation. Tell them to **** a target, betray allies, gather intelligence, you name it and it will do it, and because of some installed failsafes and rigorous testing we don’t have to worry about betrayal or a galactic wide uprising of some kind, they are loyal to the organization and nothing else”.

Kara was speechless, her previously very obvious rageful and disdainful expression turned to one of confusion, shock, and disgust. These insane humans were seriously considering using some kind of parasite on her. This was beyond heretical, it was just wrong. Who in their right minds would want to do something like this to another being? Peck, who was standing next to the ONI agent and examining the brain worm still moving around its container, looked at Kara. “If this were another human we were talking about inserting this freaky worm thing into, I would probably disagree with any of this. Considering this is not a human but instead a genocidal alien that would gladly see me and the rest of humanity burn in a pool of scorching plasma rather than let us be, screw it. If it means giving this split jaw and the rest of those covies hell then I am willing to do just about anything. Sir, how do we get this brain worm thing to work?” Kara knew that she could not escape what was to come but certainly she had to try. Certainly she could not let these insane humans let this disgusting creature in her. She must fight, do something, anything, to avoid being a puppet for these filthy beasts. She began to lush against her restraints with all her might, hoping to the Forerunners that maybe, just maybe, she can break free and escape.

“Struggle all you want, you're still not getting out of this split jaw. Sergeant, if you would mind helping me by holding the container while I grab and prepare the device needed to command the brain worm and bind it to you.” With that, Peck takes the glass tube from the agent’s hands and the agent begins to work on some kind of small device that looks like a modified chip used to store AI and large amounts of data on. Kara struggled with all her might for minutes, using all of her might and immense strength to attempt to break free.