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Dive through the door
As you and the guards walk past the door you launch your flesh sideways, hitting the door hard and landing in the room beyond with a thud. You twist one of your legs in a decidedly non-human way and kick the door shut in their faces.
They're yelling, and you hear the sound of the door system rejecting their keycards. You're safe, for now.
Your eyes quickly adjust to the gloom beyond the small puddle of light let through by the door's window. The room is completely empty, with a tiled floor and walls. The floor slopes slightly toward a small drain in the center. Directly above that in the center of the ceiling is the dark bulb of a 360 degree camera.
A red light on the camera winks on. "You're nothing if no predictable," the man's voice crackles over a speaker. "Have you noticed yet?"
Noticed? What could you have missed? Something like Gen X, something easy to overlook? Something you wouldn't notice if you were too focused on something else?
It hits you then. While you were walking with the guards you were so focused on this singular flesh. Now you realize this is all there is. No other eyes. No other hands. Just you, in this room. Alone.
"What have you done?" you wheeze.
"Do you know how you do it?" the voice asks, "How you can seamlessly communicate across all those separate bodies? Don't answer that. I don't care. What's important is, we know. And we know how to block it."
You eye the floor drain. It wouldn't be the first time that you've had to liquefy your flesh to escape a bad situation. But those times, that was just one part of your larger whole. This time, it would be all you have at your disposal. You'd lose a lot of biomass in the process. Whatever comes out the other end might not even be enough to be you any more.
GAME OVER