Pathogenesis: Internal Invasion
_This is part of a rather lengthy series. It has heavy dark horror elements later on. If you aren't a fan of the sci-fi horror genre, move along. If you are under 18 or you shouldn't be looking at this sort of thing, move along. If you have objections to graphic violence and adult themes, move along.
If, however, you love the idea of tentacles, alien parasites, vore, mind control, transformation, and hard-core weirdness...Let me introduce to you -- Pathogenesis!_
(This part includes...blarg, just read the tags!)
Pathogenesis: Chapter 3
Internal Invasion
© Searska GreyRaven
Aurus, a lean red panda, was one of the best engineers on the base. He had the concentration and delicacy of a surgeon, and he could zero in on the smallest of hull breaches like a bloodhound. His blue coveralls were patched up with extra pockets and loops for an assortment of tools, and he never went anywhere without his trusty pocket knife. (Which was really more like a pocket tool-set. Twelve different lengths of knife, seven kinds of screwdrivers, a lock-pick, and multi-purpose pliers, all in a palm-sized fold-up gadget.) When the alarm sounded he, being a repair technician, ran to his station and prepared for anything. But the first ship that staggered from the air wasn't just anything. It was a linsang ship, badly damaged. Smoke trickled from one of her after-burners. The tan and black paint on her hull, designed to mimic the linsang people's coloration, had been stripped in places, exposing bare metal, and a few panels were entirely gone, damaged wires melting and knotting together. The linsang vessel landed with a thump. Aurus couldn't help but notice that the ship looked uncannily like road kill. The airlock opened with a hissing screech like an animal in pain, but nobody came out. Puzzled, Aurus took a few steps into the ship's stall and called out.
"Captain of the linsang vessel! Welcome to Rasi base! Please disembark, and we'll fix your ship!" Aurus said. No response.
"Hey! You have to disembark before we'll fix you up!" Aurus said. When the pilot still refused to show up, Aurus furrowed his brow, concerned. Perhaps the captain was wounded, or even unconscious? His hand hovered over his com link, but he shook his head. Best not to get the medical team down here until they knew what they needed. Aurus stepped up to the open door and peered inside.
"Hello?" Aurus said. He paused just inside the door. The power flickered, then shut off entirely. Through the gloom, Aurus could just make out the captain's chair and a pair of pointy ears above the headrest. He paused, sniffing the air. There was something familiar about the scent.
Aurus' eyes widened. Surely not...But as he took another step inside, he saw that his suspicions was true. The captain, Pepper by name, was slumped in her captain's chair. A trickle of blood trailed down her cheek and dripped from the tip of her nose. Her spotted fur was matted with streaks of strange, clear goo, and her fur was scorched away in mottled patches.
"Pepper!" Aurus cried. He rushed to her side and felt for a pulse. There! It was weak, but she was still alive. Pepper had graduated with Aurus from the Academy, and the two had the kind of friendship forged from years of working side by side. Aurus pressed the com link button hard enough to break it.
"I need a med team in bay six, code red!" Aurus shouted.
"Confirmed, bay six. We're on our way." Came the reply. Aurus nodded to himself and turned his attention back to Pepper. Her eyelids fluttered, and she took a rasping breath.
"Hold still, Pepper. They're on their way." Aurus said soothingly. Pepper's eyes blinked open. Her long, banded tail quivered and shook.
"Aurus?" She whispered. "Aurus, you shouldn't be here." Pepper tried to reach up and push him away. Her brown eyes rolled back, as if she was going to pass out again, but she bared her teeth and stayed awake.
"Stay with me, Pepper." Aurus whispered urgently. Pepper tried to nod, but hissed in pain.
"Aurus, you can't...I shouldn't...They'll hurt you too..." Pepper's voice trailed off as she collapsed back into unconsciousness.
"Pepper? Pepper! Pepper, wake up!" Aurus said. Suddenly, Aurus heard footsteps coming his way. The med team had arrived. Aurus stepped back helplessly and watched as the EMTs did their work. Within seconds, they had Pepper on a stretcher and an IV in her arm. They wheeled her out of the ship, shouting orders that Aurus was too shocked to understand. He stood, for just a moment, bewildered. Had Pepper been trying to warn him of something? After the recent attack outside the base, he'd been hearing whispers of rumors, but nothing concrete. Logan had been absent with the bat pilot who had helped in that battle for some time. Aurus had never seen his superior so pale. Perhaps the attack on the base and Pepper was linked, and Pepper knew something.
Aurus ran his claws through his fur in frustration. With a deep breath, he ran after the med team. If Pepper was trying to tell him something, he wanted to be there when she woke.
*
Aurus paced the medical center's waiting room for the millionth time. He had been in the dreary, badly-decorated room for an hour, and no doctor had emerged from the sterile white doors to tell him if Pepper would pull through. Aurus ran his hand through his fur again (fearing that by the time this was over he would have a bald patch on the side of his head) and finally plopped down on a chair. He stared at the clock and tried to will it to move faster.
Finally, a weasel doctor emerged, adjusting his lab coat. His tawny fur was slightly bleached from the sterilizing showers the medical faculty were forced to take to prevent infections. He looked Aurus up and down, as if appraising the red panda, before speaking.
"You are Aurus?" he asked.
"Is she OK? What happened to her?" Aurus said, jumping up.
The weasel doctor smiled, though it was more a curling of his lips than a full smile. "Pepper will be fine. She has a mild concussion, a few burns and lacerations, but she's otherwise in good health. I want to keep her overnight, just to make certain, but she'll make a full recovery in a few days or so." He said. Aurus almost collapsed with relief.
"Can I talk to her?" He asked. The doctor thought about it for a moment and nodded.
"For a short time, I suppose. But she needs her rest." He said, and led Aurus to Pepper's room. The weasel left the pair alone.
Pepper was laying on her back on a white bed. A few patches of fur from her arms and neck had been shaved and covered with bandages, and she had a thin piece of tape holding together a laceration across her brow, but she looked infinitely better than when Aurus had found her. Most of the blood and the strange clear liquid had been cleaned off. He went to her bedside and touched her arm.
"Pepper? How're you feeling?" He asked.
Suddenly, Pepper's eyes flew open. She stared at the ceiling for a moment, as if dazed, before she turned her gaze to Aurus. Her lips moved, but her voice was so quiet that Aurus couldn't hear her.
"What?" He asked, leaning closer.
"Close the door." Pepper whispered. Aurus looked at Pepper, confused. "Please..." She begged. Finally, Aurus obliged her. As the lock clicked home, he heard Pepper give a sigh of relief.
"Aurussss." Pepper hissed. He heard movement behind him, and a split-second later Pepper stood next him in nothing but a thin hospital gown, which she quickly discarded. Aurus may have worked side by side with the linsang captain for years, but he had never seen her completely naked, and the sight struck him momentarily dumb.
"Wha...Pepper...What are you doing?" Aurus said, too stunned to move.
"I need another male." Pepper said. It sounded like her voice, but her usual playful inflection was completely gone. "And you'll do nicely." Pepper grabbed a fist of the engineer's jumpsuit and dragged him away from the door. She picked him up and dropped him onto her bed, a feat the slim linsang should not have been able to accomplish. Aurus recovered enough to struggle, but before he could push her away, Pepper snarled and buried her teeth in his neck. Aurus gasped and froze. Pepper didn't finish the bite, though. She kneaded his neck with her teeth, drawing blood but not doing anything worse than a love bite. Slowly, Aurus relaxed. A feeling of euphoria came over him, and he suddenly didn't seem to care about anything but the feeling of her fur against his body. Pepper pulled back and licked the wound gently.
She smiled at him, the tips of her sharp fangs stained with his blood, and unzipped Aurus' coveralls. She undressed the red panda and straddled him. Just when Aurus thought things were going rather nicely, she pulled his arms over his head and secured his wrists with a pair of medical restraint cuffs. Aurus blinked, and his sudden inability to move managed to break through his stupor, but not before Pepper finished binding his ankles. Pepper had him, spread-eagled and helpless. She smiled again, rubbing her wet sex against him. Aurus felt his body respond, swelling along with his lust. Pepper bent down and ran her tongue along his exposed cock, and Aurus arched his back, moaning in pleasure.
"Yes, you will do nicely." She murmured. She straddled him, grinning, and slipped his swollen manhood inside her. She was so slick that Aurus slid almost completely in her on the first thrust. He gasped, his hips bucking as he strained against the straps that bound his arms and legs. But no matter how he writhed, Pepper held still. Something wrapped itself around his cock, even though he was still sheathed inside her. Aurus hissed with surprise, but a sudden pang of lust urged him to thrust deeper.
"Hold still, love, it'll all be over soon." Pepper crooned. She opened her mouth to laugh, revealing four delicate tentacles that slithered from her throat. She bent down and kissed Aurus' chest, leaving behind trails of viscous, clear goo that looked all too familiar. But his fear was a fleeting thing, because whatever held him inside Pepper began to move. Aurus opened his mouth to scream, but it came out as a strangle cry of passion.
He had never felt anything like it in his life. It was as if every stroke of her body caressed him in places no paw was ever meant to touch. He strained, every muscle tensed as tight as it could be, and struggled to feel more, to pump deeper, to thrust faster. But Pepper held him down with uncanny strength. He groaned, and looked down to the place where their bodies met. Pepper's feminine fluids flowed like water across the line of his thigh, staining his fur a dark russet. His tail, usually full and bushy, was matted with it and stuck to his leg. His skin began to tingle, as if something was burrowing into him...
Pepper snarled and suddenly hilted him within her. Aurus tried to scream, the pleasure overwhelming him, but Pepper locked him in a deep kiss, and the sound became a muffled groan. The tentacles in her mouth reached out and wrapped themselves around his muzzle, but Aurus was too far-gone to care. He bucked and writhed, struggling against the restraints so vigorously that the whole bed rocked. Inside Pepper, he felt his cock become tighter and tighter with need, and whatever held him became so tight that it felt as if it had become a part of him. He was close, so close. Just a little more...Pepper pulled back from the kiss, the tentacles leaving a trail of sticky slime that hung in the air like a glimmering spider's web.
"You're mine, Aurus. Surrender, you're mine. Come for me, Aurus." Pepper whispered. She bound his jaws shut again with the tendrils in her mouth. The twin lines of her nipples hardened, and Aurus longed to wrap his mouth around them. They bobbed, just out of reach. Aurus found himself suckling at Pepper's mouth, at the tendrils that bound him. Tighter, harder, almost...
Aurus screamed in pure ecstasy, emptying his body into Pepper's, but the sound couldn't escape his bound muzzle. His orgasm went on and on, and her body milked every drop of seed out of him until he finally collapsed, utterly spent. Pepper released his mouth and eased herself off him, hopping nimbly to the floor. Aurus blinked and glanced down at his throbbing cock. Tendrils had grown under the skin, starting at the tip, and wiggled down the shaft, branching out like mutant veins. Even though he just had a release, Aurus felt his lust begin to grow again. Pepper blew gently across the tip of him, and his spine bowed with pleasure. That such a small thing could make him feel so good both exhilarated and horrified him.
"Your seed will fertilize the next generation of my offspring, so that I can seed another male with my progeny. And every creature you fuck will become another host, just like me. Your warm, mammalian bodies are the perfect breeding ground for my kind, and we've become very good and bending you to our will." Pepper whispered, and she caressed the dark red fur along his cheek.
"What..." Aurus swallowed. His mind felt fuzzy. "What are you?"
"Your new masters." Pepper laughed.
"I won't. You can't force me to breed for you." Aurus said, groaning. The tendrils continued to grow, creating a twisted web that slowly spread up his body.
"I just did, and I don't have to force you any further. Your body will succumb in time, all on its own. Don't try to resist it. In a few days, you'll mount anything with a pulse, and every time you do, you'll spread my kind to another host. With every spill of your seed, the urge to reproduce will increase, driving you mad with lust. It's already begun." Pepper laughed, and wrapped her paw around Aurus' cock. Aurus howled, his back arching as he pressed into her touch. Pepper withdrew with a knowing grin, and Aurus cried out. Against his will, his body followed her paw, and when he could no longer feel her touch, he whimpered. He lay, gasping for air and trying to subdue the pulsing arousal of his body, as Pepper brushed her hand through his red fur. She gazed lovingly down at Aurus' maleness.
Something writhed inside him, and Aurus looked at Pepper, who laughed. The tentacles in her mouth were gone, now, and she looked almost normal. "What's...happening...to me?" Aurus asked, clenching his teeth. His loins began to feel hotter and hotter, and something tickled his testicles. But both of Pepper's paws were in her lap. Whatever it was, it was inside him, wrapping itself around his balls from the inside.
"My spawn is growing. You have creatures on your world, called 'jellyfish.' My kind are like those jellyfish, only the ocean we prefer is much, much smaller. Our tendrils follow the currents of your veins, your nerves. Our bodies live inside yours. You are a living space suit to us. You eat for us, breath for us, and breed for us." Pepper said.
"I...won't." Aurus snarled. The growing urge to breed made him bear his teeth in frustration.
"You will."
"Parasite." Aurus spat.
Pepper smiled indulgently and caressed the fur between Aurus' ears. She whispered a single word that sent a chill down Aurus' spine. "Host."
The growing lace of tendrils grew languorously across his chest, wrapping around his ribs until they found his spine. Aurus hissed, and after a moment of numbing pain he felt the first tickle of another being in his mind. And as his mind was invaded by the parasite growing within him, Aurus didn't doubt that, despite what he said, he was going to become exactly what Pepper had called him.