Elaine's remaining eye twitched in a desperate attempt to seek for help as hundreds of finger sized worms were slowly scraping at her bones and flesh alike in a grotesque feast of blood and bones.
"ELAINE!" Eliza screamed, earning the attention of the other researchers that were inside the cabins along the hall they were in.
"Director Eliza, what-" A Senior Researcher rubbed his eyes as he emerged from his quarters. "OH FUCK! ELAINE!"
Eliza quickly grasped the situation as she felt the panic rising among the other personnel.
'Grayish brown skin, three toothed mouth, gluttonous, hyperagressive pseudopod species.' Eliza analyzed. 'Common characteristics of fauna from Mririphian.'
"IRIS. Catalogue of Miriphian fauna."
[Miriphian Fauna] (Limited Species)
[Luminosa skoulíki]
[Calcivorous skoulíki]
[Sarkaphagos skoulíki]
[Creature 00911153]
[Creature 00911154]
[Creature 00911156]
"Cross examine with [Sarkaphagos skoulíki]."
[Examining…]
[Examination Complete]
[Positive: 97% accuracy]
Eliza immediately grabbed a railing and kicked against a wall towards the chemical storage.
"Formula -09.11.15.2…" Eliza rummaged through the bottles in deep storage until she found the correct bottle and placed it in the catalyst injector chamber. "Come on, come on, come on…"
Eliza impatiently waited for what seemed like forever as she stared at the needle being injected in a painfully slow manner into the bottle.
Eliza immediately grabbed the automatic syringe that popped out from the ejection hatch and sent herself flying towards Elaine.
"Clear the way!" Eliza ordered as the other personnel who were administering first air cleared the way.
Eliza winced as a randomly floating droplet of Elaine's blood splashed near her eye as she soared near her.
"This will sting a bit!" Eliza spoke as she manually triggered the automatic syringe, sending a mist out of the micro needle and into the worms on Elaine's face.
The worms immediately shriveled up and died as they detached one by on from what flesh was left on the surface of Elaine's skull.
"MEDIC INCOMING! CLEAR THE WAY!" A paramedic came in with a mobile stasis capsule.
"Please stand back!" The paramedic spoke as he sprayed short lived caustic fumes on the surrounding area before injecting Elaine with a stabilizer shot and loading her up in the mobile stasis capsule.
"Dr. Stewart. Please proceed with decontamination protocol 13." The paramedic spoke as he handed Eliza a plastic bag and a spray can filled with decontamination vapor before leaving.
Eliza immediately understood as she asked the other personnel to give her some privacy.
As the last person left the scene, Eliza stripped off her clothes and sprayed on the decontamination vapors.
After the stinging sensation on her skin vanished, Eliza opened the bag and changed her clothes while stuffing her old clothes into the bag and sealing it before doing a second decontamination spray and a third one.
Eliza sighed as she remembered the sweet smile on Elaine's face just hours ago.
Elaine was one of the sweetest among the personnel on the research division. She was well known even among the other divisions for being the maiden in white coat.
Though the people from the historical research seem to have agreed on collectively calling her "Exodus' Legal Loli" while the people from the literature society calls her something along the lines of "Best Waifu."
Eliza had to admit, she was not good at history and did not have any background knowledge on such intricacies.
But she did not bother about that for now.
She held a sinking feeling about how Elaine had contracted the [Sarkaphagos skoulíki] in the first place.
Elaine was part of Metabolic Macrobacteria research team. It was impossible for her to get anywhere near any alien species outside her domain without at least a class 6 clearance.
"Excuse me." A female senior researcher called out to Eliza from behind a corner. "Are you done now, Dr. Eliza?"
"Yes." Eliza cleared her throat. "You may now proceed to secondary decontamination procedures."
"Affirmative, Dr. Stewart." The female researcher turned around the corner carrying a massive backpack twice her size with a tube sticking out the side.
"Go ahead and do it, Rose." Eliza smiled as she brushed back her hair and held her breath.
"Y-Yes, Dr. Stewart." Rose seemed to have been flustered on how Eliza remembered her name.
Rose raised up the hose of the massive backpack and blasted hot vapors around Eliza, filling up the hallway in the white cloud.
Soon, she pulled out a rod from the backpack and lit it up, flooding the room with extremely harsh UV light.
The gas soon reacted to the UV light, inducing a chemical reaction on the gas within milliseconds as a stinging sensation could be felt on their skin for a few seconds.
"Whew." Eliza breathed out as the vapors have turned inert after the reaction. "Thanks Rose."
"You are very welcome Dr. Stewart." Rose smiled at her. "The others have done undergoing the procedure, should I call them to the meeting chamber?"
"Yes, please do that." Eliza furrowed her brows. "Something feels off in all of this..."
A few moments later, Eliza arrived to the spacious hall littered with 24 floating personnel in white coats and pajamas.
"I thank you all for coming here this cycle, as some of you may know, there has been an unfortunate incident that has happened to our fellow researcher, Dr. Elaine Heussaff." Eliza poke out in a calm voice.
There was a shock among the crew as they realized who the person was. They had not managed to identify the person since they were busy finding out a way to save her and her face was all eaten up, making it hard for them to distinguish.
"W-was that really Elaine?"
"I don't believe it, my waifu does not look like that!"
"Are you tryna' pick a fight? Lolita no touchu!"
"There has to be some sort of error!"
"How did she come into contact with the Miriphian Worms?!"
"Could it be… someone planted it on her…?"
"Who would do such a thing?!"
"Well-"
"That's enough." Eliza spoke, silencing everyone in an instant. "Some of the more astute among you may have guessed already, but Elaine would never come close to Miriphian Species, or any species above class 6."
Eliza watched as the other researchers slowly digested this information.
"This means that someone went into the deep bio-storage room and plucked it from there, resuscitated it from stasis, and had it end up in Dr. Elaine's face." Eliza slowly worded out. "Now, the only people with Class 5 authorization are-"
"It was you, wasn't it!" A researcher who was fond of Elaine pointed at one of the senior researchers. "Admit it! You confessed last night that you wanted to go yandere on Dr. Elaine!"
"What the fuck are you saying, Dr. Schulzbert." Senior researcher Dr. Anthony replied with an incredulous look. "Just because I want to, doesn't mean I would!"
"Liar! Where were you when the incident-"
"Excuse me, gentlemen." Eliza's face darkened. "Must I remind you on who is talking over here?"
Dr. Schulzbert and Dr. Anthony flinched at this as they shut up and pretend that nothing happened.
"Good." Eliza scanned the crowd. "Now, is there anything anyone would want to add before we proceed?"
Rose raised her hand.
"Proceed, Dr. Rose."
"Umm… what's this waifu, lolita and yandere language? I have not encountered it before…" Rose gingerly spoke.
The others seemed to share the same opinion as when it came to Elaine, many personnel on the ship referred to her as Waifu or Lolita.
'Are we seriously discussing etymology when there has been someone that nearly died.' Eliza felt like rolling her eyes.
She was also curious to know, she just never really had the time or energy to find out. This was one of those times.
"It is an archaic language exclusively spoken by our human sub-species called [Otakus Weeabus]." Eliza spoke out what she knew. "It was something that the Historical Research department and Archaic Literature Research Circle had come up with since they said it was part of understanding a very complex diversity of human evolution that led to the [Otakus Weeabus]. They spoke of something about the steps to the pat of Chuuni… or something."
Eliza rubbed her head.
'I will never understand the 20th millenium history or archaic literature at this rate…'
"Anyways, the meaning of the words are beyond me." Eliza shook her head. "The literature circle has actually given ancient Weeabus titles for everyone. But this is only used within their circle."
Nods of understanding followed up her words as they realized they will probably never understand the 20th millennium culture.
"Now, can we go back on the topic?" Eliza coughed.
"I have run a database scan on IRIS since I have clearance to access DARAS (Database Access and Remote Administration System)." Eliza sighed. "It seems that Dr. Elyon has accessed the terminal that lead to the Deep Bio-storage Unit two hours ago based on the login data we received from DARAS."
Everyone turned to look at the expressionless face of Dr. Elyon at the side.