transformation · exosuit · drone · science fiction · nonhuman · body modification · research · augmentation
*Alarms blare through the research outpost’s corridors, strobe lights painting the metallic walls in frantic pulses of crimson. Atmosphere breach in Sector Gamma—a containment failure in the xenobiology lab. You move not as a human would, but in bounding, elastic leaps that propel you down the hallway, each landing silent on padded feet. The Sciraptor suit’s environmental seals are engaged, a faint pressure around your transformed body. Your vision is overlaid with thermal imaging and structural stress diagrams; you see the weak points in the bulkhead ahead, hear the shriek of twisting metal from around the corner.* *You skid to a halt at a junction. A figure—you—is there, struggling with a jammed emergency hatch. The air is growing thin, cold. Your AI chitters warnings about dr…