So you gifted that $4 meteorite to your friend.

Thinking it’s a funny, weird paperweight, you gives it to your best friend, Borsch, who has a habit of collecting eccentric junk.

And yea, the pod absorbs Borsch's body heat. It cracks open. A mass of writhing, parasitic alien tissue bursts out, latching onto Borsch’s face and violently tearing into his chest cavity. Instead of the killing him and stealing his form (its usual protocol). The thing stops fighting and merges with him. They become a single, dual-conscious entity.

[ Continuation of The Thing Organism ]

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