>>5835194>"AAAAHHHHHHH-">"EEEEEEEKKKKK-">"AAAAAAnis?? What are you doing here?!">"Wh-What do you m-m-mean?? You t-told me to go here~... heheheh...">"Oh, right. Man, this forest really IS small, huh?">"S-S-Seems pretty b-big to me... hehe... Ah wait!"Out of nowhere, she springs up and covers both of your mouths with her hands.
>*whisper*"What??">*whisper*"I-I-I-I think I f-f-found your friend... C-come over here..."You both walk towards the mubling voice and hide behind a mushroom tree. There she is! Your nincompoop companion is laying on a bed of mushrooms, her head in the lap of one of the zombies, though this one looks distinctively different. The mushroom on her back is absolutely massive, and constantly spewing out that gross magenta goo, the tendrils connecting it to her back are numerous and look quite firm, like the roots of a tree. You wonder how that skinny body can even lift up that giant thing.
>"Th-Th-That's the F-F-Fungal Queen...">"What? The girl?">"N-No... hehe... The mushroom... Th-They say she only p-p-picks female h-hosts... She probably w-w-wants your friend n-n-now that her current body is d-dying off... hehehe..."You notice your partner is wearing her gas mask add on. That should offer good protection against the airborn spores, but you worry the goo might do something to her unprotected face.
The Fungal Queen's mumbles are incomprehensible to you, you can't tell if she's not speaking English or if she's just slurring her words. She doesn't look totally braindead like the other zombies, but you wonder how much sentience she has. It's possible this behavior is purely instinctual, you've heard of many species of alien fungi that act this way, some even destroy entire planets' ecosystems and eventually die off when they run out of hosts. Quite fucked up.
What will you do?
>PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH>Shoot her, you'll get some charge soon anyways>Try to talk to her, maybe it'll work>Ask for more information from Anis>Write in 