The cell on screen was splitting, like had been observed several times before. What was interesting was the way it split, not into two, but into three cells. The cell's structure, they knew, was undergoing a rapid metamorphosis, altering it's genetic composition, mimicking it's recently fallen foe, but remaining unique all the same. As they watched, a counter ticked down to zero, dropping into the water the most bizarre contraption imaginable. Almost like a spherical metal frame, with gidgets and doodiddlies all over it's surface, and a sort of goo suspended within it's frame. It floated for a few moments, then slowly vanished, becoming perfectly invisible...
You regain consciousness, having just split. You observe your new, thick overlapping plates of armor, and how your slimy covering keeps the plates from grating each other and making your movement too obvious. Speaking of which, you notice the coloration of your slime has a bit more of an orange tint, now. The toxins it carries, that you produce, are being produced that much more efficiently. In fact, the mere presence of your own toxins are starting to make you a little fuzzy feeling, the shear strength of them being pretty Demonic. Fortunately, the spines that are part of your new armor seem to have veins running through them, glands on the surface to release excess toxins, keeping you from being harmed by your own poisons. They seem to break up on contact with the water, when their not mixed in with your slime, but you're pretty confident that if they scratched something, the toxins would wind up tearing their system a new one.
You then notice the presence of more duplicates than one. Both of the duplicates present are still getting their bearings, obviously just spawned. But as you are the only other one here, where did the other one come from?
You check, paranoid, but the armor from the Tank (+1 DNA) did not spawn an extra one of you.
you have 4 hp
you have 4 stomach
you have 3 DNA
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