Scientist: "W... We did it, we created it, the Ultimate symbiotic parasitic Mushroom. Deus Ex Cordyceps. And on top of it, we made a weaker one to send to though idiots that locked us underground for months."

Assistant: "Good... no, great work Dr. Blandy."

Scientist: "Dr. Bailey Kane Blandy, one of the saviors of mankind."

He grabbed the weaker Semideus Ex Cordyceps and sent it off via the Pneumatic tubes to the US President. Sighing heavily, he walked over to the Real Prize. The Real Dues Ex Cordyceps. . .

Dr. Blandy: "So how's the human Subject doing at this point?"

Assistant: "Alive, doing well, and cured of Diabetes, and. . . still evolving."

Intern: "So we're really doing this?"

Security Guard: "Sooo... why am I, a part of this?"

Dr. Blandy: "Cause you're our friend, we've lived together for like 4 months now I think."

Intern: "So we just... open the container and breath in the spores?"

Dr. Blandy: "Yup, it took three and a half months or whatever to make this Super Mushroom. This Deus Ex Cordyceps, the weaker version has some of the properties, but this baby. It's our masterpiece Ten Billion percent."

Security Guard: "Fuck I miss anime, I wonder how bad it is out there."

Assistant: "Hopefully not to bad, that fire wall that put around Brazil kept the Mushrrom Zombies trapped right?"

Dr. Blandy: "No net is perfect, if I were a betting man. I'd say 30 to 40% of the planet is lightly infected by now."

Intern: "Yeesh, hope the birds are okay." 

Dr. Blandy: "Anyway, the Test Subject, how's his... stats?"

Assistant: "His muscles are thinner, but he can lift 100 kilos with each arm, last time we tested his enhances strength. He's also sleeping less but claims to have more energy than usual. His wounds heal faster and faster every day, old scars have vanished, he's no longer diabetic as I stated earlier. His IQ has increased by 30 points so far, and growing. He can see in the pitch dark thanks to backlit irises, which have changed from their original color I might add. They look like Sharingan or something similar, red and glowing and the things in them. On top of that, some of his hair has turned pure white. Like snow white."

Dr. Blandy: "Okay, so he's still changing, evolving and mutating, but he is immune to the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis spores right?"

Assistant: "Yes."

Dr. Blandy: "Then we're doing this, besides, we already set the Semideus to the asshats in charge so we can't use that."

Everyone nodded, and braced themselves as Dr. Blandy opened the Container, and stimulated the Mushroom to release a massive cloud of fungi spores. Which they all breathed in deeply, and willingly. Each one knew soon they'd be more or less, no longer human. But with everything else going on. . . it was worth it. . . hopefully.

*A few hours later*

Dr. Blandy: "Y'know. . . The oldest recorded known living Mushroom is like 8,650 years old or so. Imagine us getting a Mushrooms lifespan. We'd live for thousands of years, or more."

Intern: "Yea, there could be a million year old Mushroom in a cave somewhere, and we'd never know."

Assistant: "Great so not only are we going to be Mushroom people..."

Security Guard: "Hi I'm Toad." He said in a shitty impression of Toad from Mario.

Assistant: "Ew, don't do that."

They all laughed a bit before she continued.

Assistant: "As I was saying, not only are we going to be Mushroom people, Not only is the Venom symbiote mushrooms going to change are bodies in ways we can't imagine. But we may end up immortal more or less."

Dr. Blandy: "Maybe, who knows, Only time will tell." 

Intern: "UGH~! When are they going to give the Green light to leave this boring ass place?!"

Dr. Blandy: "We may not get it at all if everything's gone to shit outside. Wish we had the internet or something."

Security Guard: "Since your job is done, I can turn on the wifi." 

He walked off to the security office and entered the password to turn on the Wifi and handed them all there phones. One by one, they checked social media, and new sites, all of them grimly talking about the Mushroom Zombies and how the US is stealing what they're calling a Vaccine for top dollar, hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions of dollars to other countries.

Intern: "Classic corporate greed and disgusting lack of care for human life."

Dr. Blandy: "Jokes on them, the Semideus is about to super bloom and release a super massive cloud of spores. Even if it's in a lab there's no way the bloom will be contained fully."

Assistant: "What was the term you used Doc? Mushroom Mortar?"

Dr. Blandy smiled, it was a shit eating grin, the Semideus was going to shoot it's cap with the force of a ww2 mortar shell possibly even more energy if conditions were right. Everyone wondered, how the Semideus was going to mutate outside the lab in the wild. Would it manifest new abilities, or. . . 

The doors to the bunker were blown in by an explosive charge, as what seemed like foreign soldiers burst in. Yelling for everyone to get down or lay on the floor, guns aimed at everyone. One by one they all got on the floor, the soldiers knocking over desks and tables and shelves.

Dr. Blandy: "ARE YOU FUCKERS INSANE!? YOU'RE GOING TO RELEASE ZOMBIE SPORES THROWING SHIT AROUND LIKE THAT~!!"

The soldiers paused, and put on gas masks before continuing to destroy the place. Bailey and the security guard tackled two soldiers that got to close, and used them as human meat shields as the other soldiers fired. Grabbing the now dead soldiers' guns they fired back injuring or killing a number of soldiers. Picking up the guns of the dead soldiers as the two started to mow the rest down.

Bailey: "As fucked as this is, you gotta love a good meat shield."

Security Guard: "Yep. . . Get down!"

He tackled Dr. Blandy out of the way as a cooked grenade was tossed, exploding as it bounced once off the floor. The Security guard hissed as shrapnel dug into his back, Bailey shooting the two soldiers that rushed in after the explosion.

Bailey: "FUCKING CUNTS~!! You okay?"

Security Guard: "Fine, just hurts like a Nii.."

Bailey: "If you can make jokes your probably fine." 

Security Guard: "How many are left?"

Bailey: "No Idea, but it sounds like they're leaving, They probably did all this to spread the Zombie making spores as revenge for the US charging insane prices for the cure."

Security guard: "Probably. . ."

There was a pause as the shrapnel was pushed out of the security guard's back be thin strands of Mycelium.

Bailey: "Would you look at that... The adrenaline must have worked like super grade fertilizer or something. Propagating rapid growth of our Mushroom symbiotes, that's ama..."

A gun shot rang out, hitting Dr. Blandy in the back of the head, the clear crisp pop of a 9mm. Dr. Blandy's body collapsing under it's own weight with a thud.. . . . Then more Shots rang out soon after. The Soldier smirking behind his gas mask as he walked out after shooting the five of them in the head.