The Thing: Vinoids

A Story by Abishai100

A group of government workers stationed in the Arctic contend with a 'vinoid-alien' intelligence thing forcing them to become dark.

One more sci-fi horror fanfiction inspired by the Carpenter masterpiece The Thing (Kurt Russell), a nice summer piece, right? Enjoy (and thanks for reading),

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A certain US ice-station in the Arctic was hit with a strange UFO which was now buried in the snow, forcing the miners and scientists and soldiers to go digging for samples of life evidence inside the shuttle, which they found in the form of a small midget-sized humanoid which/whom they kept in a cage inside their Arctic facility in the snow.

The main scientist was Amlan Satan, convinced the unconscious midget humanoid was some kind of rapidly growing alien intelligence intent on communicating with us to deliver some message about advanced technology, making Amlan very idealistic and curious about the nature of alien contact and the quality of this intelligent humanoid, and so Satan (Amlan) decided to remain optimistic about this special Arctic experience!

Amlan dressed up in heavy snow-gear to visit the alien in the cage which was in an out-shed of the ice-station managed by the US government. He brought with him samples of powder-foods and dissolving cake-foods as well as his handy-dandy laser handgun which he's prepared to fire upon the creature's face if any signs of hostility should arise. Therefore, Satan (Amlan) remained an Eskimo-like skeptic, despite his obvious curiosity!

Satan's not the only one at this ice-post made by the US government. There're two female scientists and a male soldier. The first female scientist is Mena Shah, an expert in bio-regeneration who's at the ice-station to study forms of micro-bacterial proliferation in cold environments. She's no idea that the alien 'thing' in the cage in the US government ice-station is some kind of lethal killer, intent on destroying her sense of scientific vision.

The other female scientist is Sharon Gangulee, a member of SETI who has experience with alien-communication analysis and hypotheses. The US government mysteriously posted her in that Arctic ice-station, and everyone assumed that her position represented some faraway diplomatic vision to prepare for any bizarre circumstance for what was supposed to be an otherwise regular ice-station science/military endeavor to study biological adaptation in the cold, making Sharon a rather sensual emissary of natural human paranoia!

The other member, the male soldier Childs, is an expert killer. He's no clue yet that the alien 'thing' in the cage in the US government ice-station has begun to grow in size and replicate in varied forms, creating tiny versions of itself which scurry around the station and prey upon all organic signs of life, seeking a direct attack on the mammary glands of women and the adrenal glands of men. This alien 'thing' simply seeks to gorge and merge with the flesh of human beings, and when Childs realizes this, he immediately procures his blinding UV-lantern and his electro-harpoon spear to gut the damn 'thing' and all its offspring parts at the ice-station.

CHILDS: This 'thing' behaves like a predatory vinoid creature with varied prongs or tentacles for flesh bites.

SATAN: What the hell is a vinoid, soldier?

CHILDS: What it sounds like, Amlan --- vine stretching muscular fibrous tentacles of furious growth!

SATAN: Does this 'thing' want to colonize the human species on Earth, soldier?

CHILDS: Who knows, but we can know nothing, so who cares?

SATAN: Is this 'thing' some kind of messenger of the Tree of Life, Childs?

CHILDS: I doubt it.

Childs was right. This was no alien curious about evolutionary studies. It simply wanted to gorge and absorb and torture the human body and colonize Earth with rapid replication and attacks on the breasts of women and the throats of men. It did what an adversary willfully wanted to and performed malicious attacks based on the weakest parts of the human form --- perhaps the weak veins of the human leg-thighs! Mena and Sharon, the only two women of the Arctic group, joked that the leviathan-like vinoid alien 'thing' creature was perhaps some anti-Hindu messenger of the tentacles of pure cannibalism!