PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
There was no shattered graphite armor.
Lying in the center of the molten glass was a small, perfectly spherical, hyper-dense metallic pod. It was steaming, but it was completely intact.
With a sickening, metallic click, the pod slowly began to unfold.
Eliana collapsed to her knees, staring at the unfolding nightmare. "It wasn't a biological organism... the body was just a delivery system."
The true Genesis stepped out of the pod. It was smaller, sleeker, and composed entirely of pure, synthesized Star-Code energy contained within a shifting, liquid-metal exoskeleton.