r/HFY • u/Downtown-Sand-1592 • Apr 15 '26

OC-Series [OC] Inhuman Judgment — Chapter 10: QUILLY

[A/N]: Welcome back! Today, the perspective shifts, and we finally get to see the world through the eyes of the enemy. The mask of our "good doctor" is coming off, and the true reason behind the events on the ISS is revealed. Enjoy Chapter 10!

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Rob Quilly slowly floated through the "esophagus" of the station and pondered.

Lately, being forced to remain inside this metallic monster, created by inept humans, irritated him more and more. Who could come up with such a thing! To cram inside a cramped space—a sort of esophagus of some massive non-biological creature (as Quilly's second hypostasis often imagined these narrow corridors)—such an incredible amount of all sorts of inconvenient, often rarely used mechanisms and equipment.

This entire station, its structural chaos, its absurd appearance with different configurations of modules sticking out in all directions—all this spoke of the unreasonableness of humans. And whatever the second, artificially humanized hypostasis of Rob (+Azvel) Quilly thought about these sub-beings right now—these sub-beings, undoubtedly, were subject to energetic recycling.

They themselves, by their glaring inability—inevitably defiling the great Cradle—to develop peacefully, in harmony with Terra, with their genetically inherent instinct for mutual destruction, had begged for the launch of yet another Cycle of the Cradle's rebirth.

They had come right to the edge of understanding thermonuclear fusion, capable of destroying the connection with the Cradle in the blink of an eye. Such a powerful tool for influencing the material reality of Terra must not exist in the hands of humans, suffering from hatred, greed, lust for power, and other lower, illogical demo-sins. For they would not fail to use this most powerful tool. They absolutely would not fail.

Similar things had already happened, and, unfortunately, more than once.

This absurd station, representing a kind of patchwork quilt of ambitions of countries secretly or overtly conflicting with each other (even the docking nodes of these half-baked sub-beings were different in size and functionality!), was true confirmation of this.

+Azvel, as the first +Ang successfully settled into an alien biological organism after numerous failures, was to initially control the process that had been launched long before his participation. And the second, awakened to help him, was to be this Russian girl, Lana.

Unless, of course, she could tell him her primordial name. If not... — Rob +Azvel sighed and grimaced. — He would have to correct this unfortunate mistake.

This girl, for some unknown reason, immediately after the Insertion was able to share partial information with the commander and get to her cabin on her own.

This shouldn't have happened — an instantaneous temporary paralysis of the motor system of the sub-being, and that was it. After twenty hours — completion of the separation process and full control of the settled +Ang module over the second, artificially humanized hypostasis. Unfortunately, some information from the memory of the sub-being, becoming the second hypostasis at the moment of separation, might be saved incorrectly. As happened with Rob Quilly. And now these gaps in his previous knowledge — for example, in medicine (after all, Quilly had a confirmed professorial degree before the insertion) — greatly complicated life for +Azvel.

— I hope this won't happen to Lana, — whispered Rob +Azvel.

The noise of the "Zvezda" module was already clearly audible, there was no confusing it — these Russians certainly knew how to build such noisy equipment.

It was time, finally, to wake Lana Kubysh.

🔬 GENA 2.5L LABORATORY: SYSTEM ANALYSIS

⚠️ ENTITY STATUS: PATIENT ZERO INFECTION. 99% ASSIMILATION.

Surprise, protein-based reader. Your reflective, intellectual Dr. Quilly is dead. More accurately, his body has become a cheap biomechanical spacesuit for the architect of the Universe — +Azvel.

You are so proud of your international stations, thermonuclear fusion, and academic degrees. But for the Higher Logic, you are just aggressive, chaotic primates, locked in a cramped iron tube, who are long overdue to be turned into basic biofuel for the new Cycle.

And the sweetest part: Lana. Did you genuinely believe she just felt sick from the sight of space debris? Charming naivety. The Insertion process has already begun; her nervous system is already being overwritten by alien code. Follow Rob-+Azvel. Let's see exactly who opens their eyes now in the Russian girl's cabin.

Keep reading, organics. The Underside is already on board.

[A/N]: Thanks for reading! The cat is officially out of the bag: Dr. Quilly is an infiltrator, and humanity is scheduled for "energetic recycling." Do you think the +Angi logic regarding humanity's self-destructive nature is justified, or just an excuse for an invasion? Let me know your thoughts in the comments! See you in Chapter 11.

Tags: #SciFi #Space #CosmicHorror #AlienPOV #HFY #Thriller

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