Literally becomes Ben 10

A moment later the world vanished and I was immersed in a thing of great beauty. Her parasite was prettier than Jack's, at least to my newly developed sense of these things, and it was less crude. Convincing it to give me a download of biological data wasn't as hard as I'd feared, although I knew that it was going to make my head hurt much worse. It was like people who used the Clairvoyant's powers; they were overloaded with information.

But my mind had been expanding with each power I took, altering itself to be able to receive more and more data. I could feel the changes, created through slime biological malleability and my own power interacting. The scary thing was that I suspected that the slimes I inhabited often were getting smarter. I was going to have to be more careful about just leaving them around, or I'd start having to use more free range slimes for my bodies.

Eventually it ended.

"How long was I out?" I asked.

My mouth felt dry and my head was in agony; my previous power gains had been easier, but they hadn't included this kind of a data dump either. These data dumps would get easier and easier as I did more of them, but I had to wonder what it would do for my mind, as it started changing to accommodate that kind of information. Were human minds capable of holding that kind of information and if I could, would that mean that I wasn't human in my thinking process at all?

I had biological plans for fifteen hundred sentient species in my mind, along with a thousand times as many alien animals. I suspected that the parasites had known more species before that; the ones I knew were just those that had been encountered after they gained this power.

"Thirty minutes," Amy said.

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