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It all starts on the side of Mt. Kilimanjaro, at the science and mining camp Alpha Site 18. Emilio, a black haired, blue eyed, roughed up miner from years of working in other mine shafts and a hard personality with a soft spot for children, was walking toward the main science bay area at request of the head scientist there, Ian Mack.
He walked in into the building, glass doors sliding open with no noise made at all.
The receptionist walked up to him immediately and said “Hello sir. Do you have an intent of visit?”
“Yes.” Emilio replied. “I was to told to come here for an unknown reason by Dr. Mack and that you would tell me where to go.”
“Ah yes sir, you must be Emilio. You are to go to office number 124 and meet with Dr. Griffin in the …show more content…

Emilio walked in and started mining away at the solid gray rock for hours, or so he would think. After roughly 30 minutes of mining, he came across a glossy, orangish, reddish metal embedded in the rock. He swung his pickaxe at it in an attempt to chisel some off and investigate further, but instead his pickaxe cracked severely. Intensely curious about this metal, he ordered one of his fellow miners, a man by the name of Dolan, to come over and help extract it. Since he assumed that any other metal that tried to break it would shatter, Emilio ordered Dolan to mine precisely around the metal. It took him roughly 20 agonizing minutes, but it was precise, with only a few scraps left in. Emilio walked the surprisingly light chunk of ore over to the science bay and brought it back to Dr. Mack.
When he first saw it, Ian was initially confused, but when Emilio explained to him that this metal nearly broke his pickaxe after only one blow, his eyes lit up with excitement. Ian ordered that Emilio was to go into the mine and hunt for more of this ore but before he could finish his sentence, alarms went off all over the building. No, they were going off all over the camp. Dr. Mack, Emilio, and Dr. Griffin, who stayed in the room to study plant tissue on this mountain, walked out of the room to see what was going on. What they saw was terrifying. The receptionist was barely blocking the attacks of some giant, metal spider,

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