Silence 1.1

It's odd how days that start off so well can go so wrong.

Two strange worms coil through the endless Void in a dance of eternities.

Take, for example, the Hebert family car.

It was a rather generic car, though at the moment…

It was completely, totally wrecked.

Flames wreathed the destroyed automobile, providing a constant haze of smoke and noise, while the screams and pleads of the two occupants inside added to the hellish scene.

One asks, Destination. And the other halts its dance and asks in return, Choice.

Annette Rose Hebert struggled and gasped weakly, pinned against the driver's side door. Blood ran freely down her face as she tried and failed to get loose. Beside her in the passenger seat, her daughter, Taylor Anne Hebert, fared marginally better.

"M-mom… help…" Taylor sobbed, coughing weakly. Smoke was filling the car at an alarming pace, and though the far off sound of sirens was getting closer, both knew in their hearts that the EMTs wouldn't make it in time.

"Taylor… Taylor look at me…" Annette gasped, reaching out and grasping Taylor's shoulder, "Be strong Taylor… everything will be okay…"

Agreement, they proclaim. And a strange object falls through space, looming in the mind's eye like a falling planet.

Taylor hiccuped, waking from her momentary daze and swiftly forgetting the stars that danced before her eyes. Annette continued offering soft words of comfort, even as darkness began creeping through both of their fields of vision.

One of their fields of vision.

Annette gasped, seeing Taylor begin changing before her very eyes, a cocoon of shadows forming around her, even though Taylor took no notice of her new abilities. Annette smiled sadly, knowing that her daughter would be able to protect herself after all.

Panic fills both creatures as a twisted ò͖̣̳̩̯̮͟͝ţ̴̶͚͚̗̪͍̱̹̙h̠̗̮̯͖e̸̵͙͉̟̺̟̬͖r̷̯̀͢ reaches out with an eldritch tendril and spears the planetoid, infecting it with blackness and horror.

"M-mom...? Mom! Wake up! Mom, please!" Taylor screamed, watching the light fade from her mother's eyes. "Mom…? No…. No! No no no! Mom please! Wake up!"

Taylor struggled to wrench herself from her seat, the crumpled, heated metal around her enclosing her and preventing her from doing more than grasping her mother's dead shoulders.

But it was enough.

As soon as Taylor's hands came upon her mother's corpse, the faint light that suffused her form faded in Taylor's eyes and a strange feeling of s͔͡u̡̡̙̼̻̪̣ͅc̶̛͉͓̭̙͇͖͚͢t̷҉̣i͓͕̣̭̞̣͙͙͠ǫ̗̟͡n̷͏̧̲̙̤̟̝ flooded through Taylor's arms and into her chest, creating a warm, pulsating sensation that filled Taylor with unexpected strength.

Shub Niggurath smiles to itself as it watches its Dark Young spread her corruption and mingle it with the planetoid as it connects to its original host.

Outside the burning wreckage of the Hebert family car, the crowd of worried onlookers and EMTs flinch back in surprise when a shrieking, eldritch wail of despair echoes through the area and the car itself explodes into a mass of flailing shadowy tendrils that snuff out the flame like it wasn't even there.

When the wail and the shadows finally died down, everyone immediately saw the form of a young girl in tattered rags over a crisp business suit sobbing over the partially burned and crushed corpse of her mother.

"Get out of my way, dammit! Let me through!" Danny Hebert roared, pushing through the crowd of onlookers and rushing past the police cordon and over to his still sobbing daughter.

He slid to a halt and felt his world slip out from beneath him, dropping him to his knees as he looked upon the form of his dead beloved wife, still unable to be pried from his daughter's… unnaturally… pale… hands.

"Oh Annette…" he whispered, running his hand through her hair, tears clouding his vision. His throat constricted as he slammed his fists into the ground, heart and soul shattering as he screamed and screamed and screamed, cursing the world, cursing himself, and above all, cursing that damnable device that had inadvertently caused Annette's untimely demise.

Silently, so silently that he almost didn't notice, Taylor reached out and grasped Danny's hand and pulled him into a tight hug, burying her face into her chest as she sobbed.

"S-she tol-told me that it was gonna be okay…." Taylor hiccuped, the shadows around her lengthening and writhing in time with each choked half breath that she took.

Danny said nothing, only clutching Taylor closer to his chest, ignoring everything as he cried and whimpered, even to the point that the EMTs had to physically pry the two grieving family members apart.

This was a mistake.

"Let me Ģ͚̽̿̽͟O̡͙̙̗̲ͤͬ̉̈́ͭ̒̃͘!̪̭̪͓͍͖͎̔̒̒̄ͯ̍͂͑" Taylor screamed, thrashing and flailing angrily, effortlessly tearing her way out of the EMTs' grips and engulfing them with shadow. As she turned around and spotted their panicked forms, she gasped, horrified, and caused the shadows to recede, leaving the EMTs shivering on the ground, both of them scarred for life.

"N-no… no no no no no…." Taylor mumbled, staring down at her hands, heedless of the surprised and almost frightened stare of her father and the now suddenly wary gazes of the crowd still assembled.

"T-Taylor…?" Danny gasped, slumped over in the grips of his pair of EMTs.

Taylor whirled around, eyes wide open and blood draining out of her already pale face. "Oh no… no no no… oh god no!" She ran, shaking her head as her body began changing once more, trying not to remember how the two EMTs she had engulfed had lost the light filling them just from her reaction.

With a final panicked push, she instinctively leaped into the shadow of a nearby building…

And she vanished from the face of the Earth.

Far above the surface of the Earth, a silent, angelic figure stilled and turned towards Brockton Bay.

And promptly fled to the other side of the planet, prompting a massive wave of alerts all over the world as just about near everyone with sensors trained on the Simurgh simultaneously burst into frenzied, panicked action.

Welcome to the rewrite of "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream"!

I'd like to think that it's a little better.

Haha, I still don't know what I'm doing.