You walk out of the "safe zone" in the lab you used to work at. The lab, "Laminax", has fallen apart, and you stumble upon a Nightcrawler. The Nightcrawler is a lethal gootrax that can tank a bunch of hits, even with the best weapons. You see her finish with assimilating a human into one of her lizard minions, and she sets her eyes on you as its next target.

"You'd better hope you've got an arsenal of weapons, human. Your people are fragile.. WEAK, AND DISGRACEFUL TO THE WORLD!"