AIN SOPH, Part 6

Episode 2

Will was close to completion when his screen flashed red. In emergencies, TAO was programmed to jump to the front of the screen. His character, Galvatron, based closely on an entirely different fictional Galvatron, was about to clash with a pair of Spidron transports as Will lurched back to his keyboard from his joystick. The Spidrons had taken chase and were attacking with a bone-like projectile that was fired with the force of Magna-Cannon. They had gotten close enough that Galvatron's auto-evade was no longer effective. Ship mode was fast, but not maneuverable. Will changed Galvatron to robot mode to engage. Galvatron was a massive robot with a laser cannon for one arm and nimble spider legs terminating in rocket blasters. 

The bloated Spidrons pulsed with larvae within. When the Spidron swarm attacked a planet, they would first rain these larvae into the atmosphere. Upon landing, the larvae devoured players and NPC's alike, working eaten code into their adult form. Every Spidron was different, formed from the re-written code of an old program. As the creatures grew, they continued to evolve. Small Spidrons were recycled by larger Spidron who were in turn recycled by Spidrons larger still, passing acquired traits to the generations the largest Spidrons spawned. While the creatures maintained a strong insect-theme, they had been in the game long enough that a Spidron swarm could look like anything. The longer they spent in the wild without returning to the main swarm, the stranger the “Scuttler” would become.

These monsters attacking Galvatron were a simple design that rarely revised. Resembling giant manta rays with devil tails and ten puss-dripping vaginas on their stomachs, the transports lumbered through space ahead of the swarms dropping larvae that would become infiltrators.  They were graceful though, and fast. The transports didn’t waver as Galvatron circled and spun around them, blasting with his laser cannon. He scored a few glancing hits, but their armor was not easily penetrated by the robot's weaker weapon. A black hole mine could be useful, but he hadn't found another since he'd proven the weapon could destroy an object as large as a moon.

Episode 3