by C S » Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:20 pm
As the robot continued through the demolished city, eye looking for his target, a gruff snarl caught his attention. He stopped moving. His laser was still primed to fire when needed. The scorpian's legs scuttled about as he began to turn in place, doing a full circle to find what ever made the noise. Something caught his attention, moving about the wreckage strewn about the streets and into an alley way. There was a scratching noise behind, causing Placentra to snap his body about, catching a glimpse of black coarse fur and a tail that snapped about like a whip but resembled a worm, the creature disappearing into a building. The scorpian's eye stared after it. Then, a loud screech resonated from behind him. Placentra's tail quickly swung backwards, the cyan beam firing out from the weapon mounted on it. A pained yelp followed by a thud sounded. The scorpian turned around to see what could be best described as an abomination. It was about the size of a large dog, rat like fur and tail. It had four legs, but had strange tentacle like structures petruding from their feet. Probably an adaptation, as it had no eyes, in their place were large bumps, the bone underneath them especially thick. Their jaws were like a snake's, able to open to a large angle, but instead of teeth, there was a sharp black beak like structure at the very tip of the mouth. Its mouth was closed, so the scorpian couldnt tell if it had teeth. From behind a pile of rubble came another, this one with one, dark red eye. The other was replaced with the strange tentacles that were on the fallen creature's feet. This one's overall skull sturcture was that of a rat's. There were large fang like teeth that petruded from the bottom jaw, curving about the side of the mutant's face. "So...these creatures evolve independantly in the same enviroment and not as a whole species...extraordinary. Humans make their planet hell and while they fight their battles, the creatures spawned have evolutionary traits unseen before.." Placentra noted to himself. From what he had gathered, evolution of animals took millions of years or more, creatures branching off and becoming new, more adaptive animals to deal with the enviroment they lived. These creatures though, have probably been rappidly changing ever since their first generation got mutated, what caused said mutations, was beyond the robot's knowledge. The creature leapt into the air like a wolf, soaring at Placentra, who quickly fired his grav gun into it, blowing the creature back through the air. The scorpian's tail swung forward as the laser fired, slicing the creature in two when the beam passed over it. Having stored a picture of the creature, he ran a rappid search to see what documented animal resmbled it, natrually finding rats to be the most likely creature to have been what the creatures evolved from. It made sense- this was a city and rats are abundant in large populations. However, as Placentrea realized, rats live in large groups. The scorpian quickly sped off from the site, intending to leave before a hoarde of the mutants were drawn to the area...
