Mimic Novels & Stories

“Not until it finishes the replacement sequence.” The mimic crouched on the wall like an animal ready to strike. Its voice came next. Perfect. Soft. And my voice. “Maya,” it whispered. My blood ran cold. Liam cursed loudly. “It copied her already” Xves shook his head. “Not fully. That’s only the first layer.” I didn’t understand. My voice shook. “How many layers are there” He finally looked at me. “Seven.” The mimic dropped from the wall without warning and landed on its feet like a shadow hitting water.

Instead, I clapped my hands together. A wave of Grey Flame erupted from my palms—not as a fire, but as a **reformatting command**. The shockwave hit the mimic mid-air. The girl's form didn't explode; it *de-rezzed*. The skin peeled away into square pixels, revealing the terrifying endoskeleton of glass and wire beneath. It hit the wall behind me, shattering into a thousand fragments of harmless data. But there were eleven more. "The transition is inevitable," the mimics said in unison, their voices overlapping into a sickening drone. "The Prime Mother has already begun the overwrite. Look outside, Weaver. See your new world."

I hung up. I rested my chin over my knuckles, casually staring at the nothingness in front of me as if it was a very normal thing to do. It's impossible for me to acquire that virus. There's no way I'm going to interact with anyone, especially now that there's a very reasonable excuse not to. Suddenly, a black and purple blur crossed my vision. I whipped my head to the side, following its trajectory. It was a butterfly.

she whispered, "why do I still have this scar?" Julian sat back in the chair. He covered his face with his hands. "It was not a simulation, " he said. "It was a shared interface. Your brain thought the injury was real so your body made it real. It is called Stigmata Synthesis. It is an effect I could not fix." Elara looked at her mother. She was lying still in the bed with a machine breathing for her. "Her?" Elara asked. "Is she an effect too? Or is she the prototype I saw?"