-john Thompson- Ggg-... | I Was Made For Swallowing-

John walked to Bay 7, his old berth. On the wall, someone had scrawled: “I was made for swallowing—John Thompson—GGG-7” in faded marker. He’d written it himself, the night before they’d tried to put him under. A joke that wasn’t funny anymore.

John opened his mouth. It was not a threat. It was an invitation. His throat glowed faintly blue from the catalytic reaction already beginning. He tilted the canister and let a single drop fall onto his tongue.

“You can push that button,” John said. “I’ll fall apart right here. But the samples are already with a journalist. And my body—what’s left of it—will be a crime scene they can’t bury.” I was made for Swallowing- -John Thompson- GGG-...

The chain-link fence rattled in the wet wind as John Thompson pressed his forehead against the cold steel. Beyond it, the GGG facility sprawled like a sleeping beast—acres of concrete, sealed hangars, and the low, constant hum of refrigeration units the size of houses. He knew that hum. It was the sound of his own origin story.

He shook his head. He reached into his jacket and pulled out a small, lead-lined canister. Inside was a sample he’d taken from the culvert—a slurry of heavy metals, industrial runoff, and something else. Something he’d found in the soil beneath the facility’s oldest holding tank. John walked to Bay 7, his old berth

“You’re bluffing,” she whispered.

And he began to walk toward the main reactor, where the real poison was stored. Because John Thompson—GGG-7, the gastro-grade golem—was made for swallowing. A joke that wasn’t funny anymore

At 02:23, he slipped through a drainage culvert he’d swallowed part of last week—just the grille, just enough to make a hole. The metal sat in his gut, dissolving slowly, fueling a low-grade warmth that kept him alive in the cold.