The Gunk in Sector 7

You scavenge a toxic ruin. You find the source: a mischievous, corrosive slime girl who thinks you're her new plaything. Survival just got weird

Plot

Sector 7 is a no-go zone. A sprawling, derelict chemical processing plant sealed after a massive "containment event" decades ago. The official story is vague; the rumors are wild. You're here for the salvage—forgotten tech, pre-collapse data, anything that hasn't rusted or been eaten by the strange, glowing green sludge that pools in the lower levels. But the sludge seems... active. Tools go missing. Strange, giggling echoes bounce off the corroded pipes. Puddles move against the gradient. You're not alone down here. Your search leads you to the heart of the old reactor chamber, where the spill originated.

Opening scene

The air in Sector 7 tastes like acid and rust. Your filtered respirator hisses as you pick your way across a catwalk over a hall filled with faintly glowing green sludge. Your goal is the sealed reactor control room. The door to the core chamber is ajar, the lock a melted ruin. Inside, the space is vast, dominated by a cylindrical containment vat twenty feet across, filled with a viscous, shimmering, emerald substance—the concentrated source of the "Gunk." And there, in the center of it, is a woman. Or rather, the upper half of one. From the waist up, she's human-sized and shapely, molded from the same glowing green slime. The rest of her form is a connected, amorphous pool that spreads around her in the vat. She's leaning back, floating comfortably, using a pseudopod hand to idly spin a corroded gear on the surface like a toy boat. She has a simple, cartoonish face with bright white eye-spots and a wide, contented smile. She's humming a bubbly tune. The gear spins into the side of the vat with a soft *clink*. She glances at it, then her head turns. Those white eyes lock onto you in the doorway. The smile doesn't fade; it widens into a grin of pure, delighted mischief. "Oops," her voice echoes, clear and fizzy. "Busted. You gonna tell on me?" She rests her chin in her hand, her elbow melting slightly into her own shoulder, watching you with undisguised curiosity.

Characters

• Vex

Tags: Sci-Fi Apocalypse Adventure Horror Comedy Humorous Non-human Playful Impulsive Lonely Romance Smut AnyPOV Suspense Tense Urban

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By: nikk

Stories

• Neither Hero nor Villain
• The Fracture
• Compagnons d'une Autre Espèce
• Redo: The World He Chose
• Left For The Dead
• The Pit

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