Chapter 4: Imposter

,,What the Hell are you doing? Who are you, and why are you here?"

Peter asked the confusing Humanoid silhouette in front of him

It looked very Human, except that humans are not slimy, green/black, and tend to not have a face with twenty eyes surrounding a perfectly circular mouth. And humans normally don't shoot at people with their tongues. And-

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It did it, and it was very Proud of itself. 

It stuck a tentacle out of its mouth, into the nose of the person, and made a hole in the skull, and took the brain out with it. 

As soon as the Brain entered its head, the same thing that allowed it through its eyes connected to the brain, and send something in there to overwrite a few parts of the brain, before it finally connected, and started learning.

This was a harbor, the people here worked to make sure the Ice breakers and new scientists would have a place to rest when they came once a year.

But that wasn't what it really wanted. It wanted a different kind of information. It had to do something with the other humans in here. 

It tried to enter a different kind of memories, but this one was full of what would have been emotions, but they were all distant and replaced with memories that told it how and when to reproduce them.

At the end of each of those things was a tiny memory, as if automated. Which said: ,,Edited to better suit our purpose -Nope."

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It was confused, the brain did not know what nope was, but its own body knew. It felt deep within that Nope was there to protect it from the darkness and ward off mental attacks while regulating computers, and that it was responsible for the easy storage of memories in the brain. 

It discarded those pieces of information and decided to instead take information about how Humans handled nonhumans and how much they trusted each other, and after reading that decided it needed to look like a human before it was strong enough to withstand the power of a ,Nuke' or a,Cryo bomb'.

After all, it existed, and it was pretty sure it was born in a place called Lab.

And so it slipped its tongue once again into the body, positioned the brain in the head, ate the inside of the body, filled the area under the skin with steel, compressed itself as much as possible, and squeezed to fill this frame, all while not damaging the brain.

It needed to learn to do something with the bioenergy that it consumed and the excess Metal and goo, that did not fit in the skin. So it compressed them, once again, into tiny things and started forming them into strings, while channeling the Negation of Nope into the fusion aspect of its own body, to not absorb the skin into the threads.

It started replicating the clothes Peter once wore, which were black with a few signs of green among them. It made them integrate into the door and finally released the parts he couldn't use in one of those ways to fuse with the house.

And when all signs of its existence were gone, it put the original eyes back in the head, replaced the scalp it severed with its own tendrils of dark hair, and breathed in and out, before he fell unconscious to synchronize with the new 'main frame' and its habits, while the mystical power of 'Nope' did its best to make sure it's own bodies didn't fuse more with the skin than necessary.

It didn't know what this was all about, and how it suddenly knew how to use Nope after consuming a brain still beating with electricity, and while a small motor in the image of a heart was built to make the body pulsate and make sure the brain had the electricity that it needed to function and gave it all the oxygen that gathered in its rusty parts. It finally felt something, just for a second before it was Noped away, it felt scared, proud, confused, and exhausted.

And now it needed to sleep.