In the early 21st Century a company had discovered a profound invention; the control of fluid of varying viscosity. The small company, specialising in revolutionary science had found a way to allow fluid to control itself. All the companies' employees were gathered around as the small slime matter worked its way around a table, take on different forms, and act with total randomness. All pre-set conditioned given to it by its creators.
That night, it was stored in a secure container and left. By the next morning it had grown.
"How is that possible? It was exactly 500cc yesterday evening and now it's easily double that!"
one assistant squeaked.
"I don't know"
Said Dr Nick, the creator and head scientist at the facility.
"I have no idea how it did so. But we have changed quite a few quantum properties of this stuff, we will need to look at it."
By The end of the day everyone was exhausted from running endless tests on the strange blue matter. Not only had it steadily increased its size all day long but more than several samples had been seen to cling to researches hands or fingers, before being gently pried off and put under the microscope.
"Why is it clinging to me??"
Once scientist was nervously trying to flick the slime off which has spread over her whole hand. It pulsed gently and buzzed before it slid off her, eliciting a little gasp from the woman's lips.
By the end of the day no one was any the wiser. All scientists involved with the day's research reported their own physical contact with the substance, and all had reported an unusual feeling of the slime.
"It's like a small electrical charge, it felt like a tingle all over my skin´
said the female researcher.
"Yes indeed, the matter itself has been changed, I am frankly surprised it is still a slime and not something completely different by now. But the reason to its growth needs to be found."
Packing the slime away into its container for the night, Dr Nick bid a tired farewell to his colleagues as they all headed home for the night. Unbeknownst to him, a piece of that slime had attached itself to his ankle during a busy moment and went inert, changing its colour to match his skin. Dr Nick never realised he had a passenger.
That night he went to bed early. The stress of the day and the obvious issues were all coming at him at once and they all needed his full attention. So many realisations had been discovered, but they all revolved around reactions and effects, and not causes. The answer to the unexpected slime growth was a mystery. The tests he had performed to destroy the slime, radiation, chemical reactions and heat had all proven completely ineffective. Even against the most powerful acids. Forcefully pushing the concerns from his mind, Dr Nick slid into bed for a restless night sleep.
Since he devoted so much time and attention to his work, he never married. Never had kids. Didn't even have a social life. In short, no one outside of his work even knew about him. As he quickly dozed off the slime surrounding his ankle sensed his slumber and came back to life. Slowly it expanded, increased, moved up his leg an inch at a time.
Nick's dreams suddenly took on a rather surreal state.
He was walking through a jungle and stepped into something. Quicksand? Slowly he sank into it, unable to pull his foot free.
"Ahhh..."
A quiet moan in his dream state didn't stop the slime as it continued to encase Nick's entire foot and calf. It sensed its movements restricted by the cloth above and so changed itself to eat the cloth, adding to its own. As it expanded up over Nicks knee and thigh, so too did his bedding disappear and in its place was a soft blue glow emanating from an increasing pool of slime.
Dr Nick was in trouble. His leg continued to sink into the quick sand, (or was it mud?) and he couldn't stop it.
The slim sensed another body of flesh nearby and reached out to touch it, then quickly slide more of itself over to it before expanding slowly around it. It too made its way down Nick's other leg, to his foot before reaching upwards.
'Why am I stuck here...' Dr Nick was in more trouble. For some reason he had sat down onto the quick sand and dipped his other leg in. Now it was up to the tops of his thigh.
As the slime on each leg approached the tops of Nick's thighs, it joined up before slowly expanding over his manhood. Eliciting a soft tingling, it continued to expand, slowly swallowing his length and sliding down under his butt, pulling him gently into more of itself. As it expanded slowly to fill his butt it seemed to stop its expansion and gently pulse around him.
Nick was starting to panic. He just could not get a hold of anything to stop his fall into the quicksand. By now it was up to his waist but instead of a coldness he expected there was just a warm fleshy feeling?
With a start he awoke...
With a cry of anguish he sat up in his bed before breathing heavily, realising it was just a dream.
And then he looked down.
And cried out again.
How whole body was absolutely covered in blue slime. His legs were covered with a pulsing, glowing substance.. it made him feel good?
At once he knew what it was
The test subject! I must have bought some home with me!
Nick quickly reached down to try and push the slime off.
How had it expanding so quickly over me?
As his fingers reached the slime however, they simply sank into the thick fluid.
Pulling back to have another go saw the goop slide with his hands to splatter over his stomach which started to expand over his chest, tickling his sides gently. His hands also had a liberal coating of the stuff.
*****
The slime, while seemingly as inanimate as a plant at first, had constructed a rudimentary thought process, and was now acting on instinct. Spending so much time around people, indeed being created by them, it easily picked up on their thoughts and desires. It even felt it grow off them, desires especially. And it wanted more.
So it had been able to grow, expand, divide and confuse. Amongst the confusion a small piece of itself broke off to risk some uninterrupted time attached to one of the humans, the most important one it saw, and continue to grow.
