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Squeaky Clean: The Grey Goo Journal
By Drisana
The personal account of life and existence as seen through the eyes of the grey goo itself!


Necessary disclaimer: This is purely done for humor, and is not any sort of actual guide or official story. etc,etc,etc. Fill in the needed blanks about it not being based on actual persons living or deceased, events, etc. We good now? great. Onward!
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Day 1
Day 1: Lots of space. Ate some weird balls of various colors. not bad. Noticed i don't actually seem to digest but just absorb everything into me. Hmm, maybe this is my larva stage and that changes. Remains to be seen. Still hungry.
Day 2
Day 2: Figured out how to turn. bouncing off things didn't hurt,but slowed down my pursuit of tasty colored balls. Good thing too. I noticed some odd oval shaped ones that seem to move. Still not digesting. Worried I may starve if I get too heavy from eating to move. Ironic. Still hoping it is a larva phase.
Day 3
Day 3: Large green thing with tentacles tried to eat me. Nothing has ever tried to eat me before. epiphany. logical response: get too big to be threatened by anything else. Shouldn't be too difficult, as I have not yet seen anything larger than the green tentacle thing.
Day 5
Day 5: Spent the day seeing how far this world expands. turns out, its fairly small. No sign of others like me. all other things have come in multiples, included the green tentacles things. ate them all to be safe. Wonder where others like me are. thought I saw something above me. looked-strange. What is the opposite of a solid?
Entry 7.983
Entry 7.983: Two major discoveries. The weird thing I saw is wet. Very, very wet. Like constantly, all over. things seems to be moving through it without trying though, which is a relief. if I get too heavy to roll here, I can just go with the flow. Also realized I have no idea what time it is. Will henceforth label my updates as entries instead. Ate something with a tail. I assume it was a tail, anyway. It had eyes on the other end, and the opening it used to eat. Yes, like a actual hole-it did not just absorb its food It had to shove it down this strange opening. Too gross to watch, so I ate it.

Note: This may not be related, but I seem to be getting more intelligent the bigger I grow; I will monitor this trend and see how well I am doing later.
Entry 11
Entry 11: I looked back over my earlier entries. I can now confirm without any doubt that my intellect is directly related to the size of my cell structure. I notice there was a bottom to the fluid environment. While hesitant to leave in case mobility became a problem, I made the trek and eventually found myself on land. Fauna and flora are flourishing.

I ate a small rodent that squeaked. This startled me. I had not known about sound before. Found I could also make sounds by adjusting my cell structure to mimic the mouth that the rodent used to eat. it took some fine tuning, and eating several more rodents to understand about vocal cords. The world seems to expand as I and my intellect do. New goal: Eat quickly to try and gain more understanding of the natural world, and to deter predators.
Entry 17
Entry 17: I hope this entry survives should anything happen to me for any other creature like myself to find, should one exist. it seems my earlier fears of not being able to move if i got too heavy were without foundation. My strength and intellect grow in proportion. This came as a huge relief, but the worry of starving via immobility has been replaced by a far more tangible threat.

Humans! Large, hairless gorilla looking things. When they are not screaming at me, they are attacking me, hitting me with their vehicles, and otherwise trying to destroy me. Usually it is a mixture of all of the above at the same time. Think of it, them attacking me. Me! A one of a kind (as far as i have been able to determine) specimen! Not a single one has tried to open a line of communication with me. When I tried communicating with them by calmly eating the front halve of the tank they sent at me so they would stop and talk- they called in an air strike!

These human creatures have no reasoning. I would blame their lack of noticeable intellectual growth from eating, but that seems to be true with every other life form i have seen so far and very few of them are hostile and none are this insane. I shall eat some more and hopefully come up with a plan to deal with them. The elephants look particularly appetizing today.
Entry 23:
Entry 23: I finally had some luck. not with communicating to the humans, but listen to their news. I was able to find my creator. i listened to him without letting them know i was there, under the building, having eaten a nice tunnel for me to spy in unseen. While my hopes of a loving creator came to nothing, and my abject disappointment in being the only one of my kind, i was given a ray of hope. time travel. my creator had been perfecting the device as his main project.

To add insult to injury, i found out i had been a small side project. Intended use? A bathroom cleaner. I mean-i don't mind the work, but to find out from your own creator your whole purpose was to pop into existence,clean, and then stop existing once the cleaning was done is going to hurt anyone's sense of self. luckily for my creator, the last meal gave me the knowledge that i had surpassed not just my intended function but surpassed my very creator. That sense of understanding meant i would simply travel through time, and perhaps change events, or at least, create more of my own kind for company, rather than simply eating said creator.

I may eat him later by mistake as I may grow too big to see things that small, but at least that would be an honest mistake and not a malicious act of revenge on an uncaring world. I am not now and nor will I ever be 'emo". Human term there, but one i actually rather like. For now, it is on to the currents of time.
Entry 46
Entry 46:

Many of my entries were eaten. Not by me, but by some large lizard creatures known to humans as dinosaurs. Many of them had bright colors and feathers, something the images i saw in the museums i ate at previously did not advise me on. While this was a fascinating bit of trivia, I found i once again had to worry about predators. i spent approximately 90 percent of my time moving, eating, and running. these predators mean business when it comes to food. i can respect that, even if i decline to be at any part of the food chain but the very top.

After eating enough to be bigger than well everything else that lived here, I had another epiphany. I was seriously damaging the time line. By eating here and now, i was potentially losing all food in future.I could not reverse these effects, so i came to a major decision: i would have to eat the planet to leave it.

My next meal: One volcano. It will be interesting to see what effect if any the magma has. Plus i want to know if it is just hot, or actually spicy. I miss spicy food.
Final entry
Final Entry:

As this is the last page left, this must be my final entry. I am now floating through open space. there have been alien species in odd saucer shaped spacecraft who tried to attack me for what I assume is the crime of eating their asteroid belt, but I ate them all. Nothing but the quiet and strangely, the smell of burnt steak. No idea why space smells like a charred bit of bovine, but there we are. Maybe that is just this section of space. No matter how far I float, it just keeps going on and on. I have infinite food- but I know well enough that nothing is truly infinite. the bigger I get, the more i think I might be able to reset things. If I eat enough, maybe I could eat a black hole, reverse the effects. Enough energy = Big bang? Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps I can use that energy to break the cycle and create my own kind and replenish the food and make all of us start as I did: Learn, find space, float in space, eat, learn, grow.

Ah yes, a new pantheon awaits, Universe...

and we are hungry.

Learn, grow, eat. Repeat. This is the way.

From your future divine leader of the divine of the cosmos,

Grey Goo
6 Comments
Quasar 7 Aug, 2024 @ 8:38pm 
This is just incredible
Friend 20 Jan, 2024 @ 11:11pm 
This was beautiful! I honestly wish there was one for each level as a "day" in game. Noting all the tasty things he's eating. He also seems to not have noticed the part of his life when he was in the assistants finger. He moved from a blue space, to a red space, to the blue space again. This change from place as he floated around eating, could have been what sparked his interest in adventure that we first see in Day 5.
Morningstar 15 Jan, 2024 @ 8:47am 
holy.....
o-o
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Drisana  [author] 9 Jan, 2023 @ 11:32pm 
@bippy601 This has been updated. Thank you!
[ERROR] 9 Jan, 2023 @ 9:26pm 
on entry 46 it says `not by be''
fix
CynosureTheTank 10 Feb, 2022 @ 11:00am 
no way its the tasty planet novel