This One worked feverishly, excited and driven by innovation. It had come upon a brilliant idea, while observing The Disk Clumps and Fire Feeders swim about aimlessly. It seemed that they lacked direction, that they couldn't move in any meaningful way. They simply reacted to stimuli, without any other sensory information than touch and changes in the environment around them. What they needed now made sense to This One: They needed to see. However, this challenge was a huge obstacle to overcome, and It would need to be very careful and methodical in It's approach.

Firstly, it needed some sort of... Communication within itself, something that thought the way This One did. It began the process by differentiating the cells in the front of the Disk Clumps to the cells in the back, and It struggled greatly to make this change. With the shell concept It had been working on, it modified the Disk Clump's Code, so that as it grew, the shell pinched the organism in the middle, and twirled finely around it's middle. While not very thick or strong, it was now a reality, and offered some protection from the stinging spears of the Others who hunted it. Then, the forward part of the organism was modified to be much smaller, and could retract into the shell, should The Others try to consume it. The back end that stuck out of the shell was merely for movement, and the powerful undulating motion was concentrated there, making it much faster. 

This One stood back, and admired it's new creation. While there was no real structure or design that gave this creature direction, it was now ready for whatever solution This One could think of. After this achievement, it would do the same to the Fire Feeders, so soon as It rested from the intense work, and observed how the new Shelled Clump adjusted to the environment. Curiously, a mistake had been made somewhere along the way, and now it floated vertically, with the undulating back end right at the top, and the head floating towards the bottom of the ocean. It actually didn't move any faster at all, but seemed to just float now, right underneath the surface. Ah well, This One liked a challenge anyway. And the shell should protect it. Hopefully.

[hider=The Crawling Seeker]
17% - Differentiating the Disk Clump's head and rear cells
8% - Implementing the shell from the Disk Clump's mineral absorption
5% - Unused
70% - Undeveloped

The Crawling Seeker has devised another new species, The Shelled Clump, diverging it from the Disk Clump. The Fire Feeders remain unaltered, still very primitive and basic in design. However, the new Shelled Clumps can't actually move very well now, and bob at the surface of the water. [/hider]