SITE 6's control center was still manually operated by humans. The room was filled with the rapid clatter of keycaps as the fingers of the staff had transformed into tentacles and were tapping furiously on projection keyboards.0

Being assigned to oversee the site, T6 was suspended upside down from the ceiling as she surveyed the chaotic scene beneath. Once in a while, her spider legs would twitch, her anxiety and nervousness unmistakable.0

Suddenly, a massive, black-glass segmented worm phased in through the nearby wall. Paiper's large, spinning maw gleamed menacingly as it looked at the giant spider.0

"I just returned from SITE 2," Paiper said. "The place has completely submerged. The last transmission we received wasn’t fabricated—something happened to the central computer. We've also lost...0