Cmdr Niples "Chicken pox"

Lower levels of the Poultry station
9/9/2100Harris explored the lower levels but had yet to find any sigh of the missing security officer.  Why the hell was he doing this when he could quite easily order someone else to do it.  But no, he's responsible for the security staff.Harris then noticed the shadow looming over him and he turned to see what the shadow belonged to and commented.  "Never seen anything like that before."At the same time, two corridoors away from Harris Commander Niples heard a squarking sound and a rush of air.
He had been following the security chief because he was curious to know what was down in these sections. He hadn't wanted to actually go with Harris because....well, the guy scared him.
 
Hearing the strange noises he ran around the darkened corridor to see if Harris was alright. As he rounded the corner there was nobody there, only a few feathers which had been disturbed that were floating down to the ground.
 
The commander stood there for a second wondering what was happening, and what had taken off with Harris... and if he should leave before they brought him back.
He heard a slight footstep behind him and spun around quickly, half expecting to meet a supernatural creature, possible the same one which may have taken Harris.
But instead, Niples could see the figure of a man in the darkness.
 
"Don't be alarmed" said the man in a friendly voice.
Niples wondered if this man had seen what happened to the security officer, and maybe he could explain a few things.
"Who are you?" asked Niples.
 
There was a pause before the man spoke again, he stepped closer so that his face could be seen in the light from a dim bulb above. Niples saw he was a youngish dark skinned man, with a moustache and a bald head.
"You can call me.... Darren" he said.
 
"Did you see that....did you see what happened to the other man here?"
 
"He was taken" said the man.
 
"By whom? by what?" Niples demanded. "Tell me what you know!"
 
The man who had called himself Darren sighed slightly and slumped up against one of the greasy walls.
"I was a scientist working here on the poultry facility. We were experimenting with new cross breeds and genetic engineering. Our experiments were innocent at first, but then..." his voice sounded more stressed.
"But then Doctor Iceni wanted us to try something different, something off the record."
"Something illegal?" asked the commander.
"Illegal and immoral." said the dark skinned scientist, running his hand over his smooth head. "But it showed us to mess with nature."
 
"What happened?" asked Niples
 
"Doctor Iceni noticed that the chickens we were breeding were not fat enough for most meat producers, they wanted big fat chickens that could feed an entire Ethiopian village with one leg. And then he noticed the station's security officers.... they were large.... they were fat.... they were doughnut enriched. And nobody would care if any of them went missing."
 
"You used security officers for experiments?" asked a shocked Seymour.
 
"We made her. She killed everyone. Everyone but me, yet I am the one who deserves to die the most. It was my project. She let me live because I was the closest thing to a mother she had. But in fact I was the one who had brought her tortured soul to this earth."
 
Niples was confused. "Who is this 'she' you keep talking about?"
And as he spoke he could see pain, anger and fear in the scientist's eyes.
 
"She was the creation. She was the biggest. Born from a DNA mix of a chicken and Bob the security guy. She seemed perfect.... but there was one problem...."
 
"What? what was the problem dammit?!" demanded Niples as the man paused.
 
"She is insane!"
 
"Can we stop her?" asked Niples, starting to feel cold.
 
"She only responds to one person, to me. I call her by her name..."
 
"What is her name?"
 
"Her name is..... Margery"
 
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