"Quarantined would be correct I suppose. It would explain how we all woke up here in the infirmary instead of hopping out of the shuttle on foot by ourselves. So, let me sum this up for you in a few basic words:
Feyri has brainworms.
To be more specific, I think that she got it from you Jim, most likely when you two were alone and you wouldn't talk about what you did together. In order for you to understand what I mean by brainworms, you have to know where they, or rather it, came from. You remember that black disc down on the bottom level? It's basically a region in space thats a lot bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, like kilometers big. And floating around in there were lifeforms that we cannot even sense with our current biological means, and these things ranged in size from tiny critters to huge monsters that were most likely kilometers long.
Anyway, the scientists got a request from the military bigwigs to get something they could use as a weapon or something, so the they decided to catch one of the smaller critters and give it a form that we can percieve with our own senses. They called it a 'worm' and managed to catch one and give it the form of a soundwave. It is literally a noise that's alive, and to a point, intelligent. Thanks to it's containment measures, which was most likely a computer of some kind, it could be downloaded onto digital platforms and that's where you first heard it Jim, on the transmitter."
Taking a breath, Bishop flexes his hand gently to test it under the wrapping and continues.
"From that moment, I suspect that you got brainworms, just like Feyri, so much so that a scan from Steve picked up anomalies in your brain. It transmits to victims by having them hear it's audio form from a host or platform of some kind, and then doing shit to their brain. It was the worm that most likely made you see things that weren't real, like those moving and attacking corpses you get finding, when all they were was images in your mind that were fooling your perception of your senses."
Bishop points to where Jim had his chest damaged.
"Remember that tear in your chest? You probably thought that one of the corpses did it, but to us, you did that to yourself, literally with that cleaver you picked up. You see, I think that the worm can not only make you see or sense things that aren't real, but also change how you think and even control your body to a point, like just before you dropped us down the elevator shaft, you had slammed your cleaver just above Mesk's head. And later, Feyri had activated that strange machine with no instructions or knowledge on how to use it by herself, and you can tell how bad she is with machines.
Anyway, the scientists all listened to the damn thing and lost it and the workers managed to 'cade themselves away and send a runner to the transmitter but he was probably infected too or thought he might have been. That was the body we found by the transmitter, which was wrecked on purpose. He was trying to stop the thing from getting out and in order to prevent himself from fixing the machine, he killed himself by taking off his helmet. The base went into lockdown just after he got out I reckon and sent the automatic quarantine message and somehow the worm got into the transmitter but was stopped in time, and odds are one of the staff or the runner vacuumed all the air out to stop the worm from using air to transmit itself."
He paused a moment to let it all sink in before finishing.
"So yeah, Feyri has brainworms and when I found out most of the key info about the worm from a chip THAT CHARRO DIDN'T SAY HE FOUND IN A BOOK, I told Steve about what I managed to piece together, the most important parts coming from Jim and Feyri, and he jumped the gun and fired at us with the ship's cannons and quarantined the lot of us to scan for the worm. Looks like you've been cleared of infection Jim, so you should be fine and not be bothered from any walking corpses again. So thanks a lot for shooting at us Steve, you douche, but I commend you for doing your job.
And that's about it really. Did I miss anything important Steve?"
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