[u]6,5; Perfection Valley[/u]

[i]Vibrations.[/i] Many vibrations, moving toward the not-stones on the surface. Digs Vigorously remembered how most of the other broodlings had wandered off. Something... other... in Digs Vigorously's heart stirred. She'd felt it once before. It was a good feeling. But the remaining broodlings were moving quickly, and she had to, also. Her experience whispered in her ear: don't go for the center ones; strike the edges; strike the wanderers. So she wouldn't strike first after all, but she'd eat a meal. And the hunger in her stomach could subside, for now. She rumbled off toward the edge of the vibrations.

A broodling erupted into the upper void, underneath a vibration, trying to swallow it whole. Another stayed beneath the void, sending tentacles, searching for the vibration. The vibrations were soft; it reminded Digs Vigorously of small meals in her past. So soft that the first broodling missed, and fell back into the soft soil. Maybe the meal wouldn't be so filling after all. She sensed stronger vibrations above her. The food was moving, doing something. It wasn't moving very fast, nor chaotically. Her heart stirred again. This time it was a bad feeling. She stayed in the dirt, waiting.

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[u]6,4: Arizona Red Zone, Tiberium field 11-3[/u]

[url=http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Tiberium]The green crystal[/url] had embedded itself into the earth, spreading tendrils throughout, slowly exoforming the hex. Given time, it would exoform the entire planet, transforming matter into more of itself. A byproduct of the process was the transportation of valuable subsurface minerals into the crystalline structure. Another byproduct was noxious gas, in reality millions of airborne tiberium particles, with the capability to infect living matter.

It was this very gas that infected the workers harvesting the crystal. No symptoms show at first, but in a day's time, bright green veins will show through the skin, infecting blood, corrupting machine, mutating tissue.