Various shapeshifting

Then I was on them. I lunged for the throat of one of the men, and I was tearing and shredding it. I felt hot blood on my mouth even as the others tried to drop grenades on me. I had eyes watching from under some of my scales, and I shoved pseudopods back at them, shoving the grenades back into their chests and wrapping them around them. They started hacking at them with knives, but it was too late.

I felt a sudden surge of agony as the ends of my pseudopods just vanished in the subsequent explosions, and I felt my scales shatter.

I was stunned for a moment. I’d only been at the edge of the blast radius for multiple explosions, but it hurt so much that I almost blacked out. I came to with a shattered pile of my scales over me, and for a moment I couldn’t hear. I had to form new ears to hear what people were saying.

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Intruders