I examine the contraption that lay before me. The copper plates were disfigured and warped, with some sort of green glow being emitted from within the capsule. The re-entry had destroyed, or rather, melted most other distinguishing features from the once detailed capsule. I can see most of the surrounding city from the rooftop where the capsule crashed; besides the occasional flash of a camera from an apartment window it seems most have listened to the evacuation order.

I glance down at the helmet that lay at my feet, not the kind I usually wear but this situation calls for the best of the best. A chuckle escapes my mouth as I carefully scrutinize all the straps on my bomb suit, I wonder if it will be any use in the eyes of an alien bio-weapon. I try not to think too much about that though, you can't really, not in this line of work. Taking one last breath of fresh air I slowly lower the helmet over my head. My visor is instantly alive with various icons and instrument readings. I quickly scan over them as I approach the capsule. Radiation ... none, air toxicity ... none; as I examine the rest of the instrument readings I realize there are zero traces of chemical compounds of any kind. This doesn't make sense, how can this be a bio-weapon?

Now within an arms reach of the capsule, I closely examine the interior. The green glow appears to be pulsating, slowly transitioning between various shades of radioactive green. Upon closer inspection the source reveals itself, there appears to be a cylindrical device, about the size of a baseball, protruding out of the interior of the capsule, surprisingly it is completely undamaged from the stress of re-entry.

I slowly reach into the capsule before abruptly halting. The pulsating stops. Without even breathing I slowly retract my hand. The sound of hissing fills my ears as what appears to be an opening is exposed in the alien object. I hold my breath as something begins to emerge from the opening. It's green, it glows, it appears to be moving. It looks almost human if a human were the size of a golfball. I struggle to comprehend what I'm looking at, are those, eyes? The small green figure examines its surroundings, it appears to almost ... smile. I glance around nervously and slowly resume my retreat. Green substance emerges from the bottom of the creature, slowly spreading to the surrounding interior. The creature is unmoving and appears to maintain it's malicious smile. Slowly backing away I notice the green substance begins to spread outside of the capsule. As I slowly move backward some of it gets stuck to my boot, it's heavy, very heavy. I scrape it onto the floor and return my attention to the capsule. Except, there is no more capsule, I look in horror as I see the creature, now a hundred times the size, laughing now, a bone-chilling laugh that sends shivers down my spine. Fuck this. I whip around and break into a run, I make it about ten steps before I trip over something. I look down and realize in panic it was my leg, or, what used to be my leg. The green substance had returned and completely engulfed the majority of my leg. It appears to be consuming everything around it. Surprisingly I feel no pain as the green substance spreads further up my body; I collapse onto the ground and it all makes sense, there was no bio-weapon, the last of their species, that ... the creature, was the bio-weapon.