My first thought could be described more as a sensation...
The electrical signal of a neuron firing for the first time within an expansive mass of spore.
The first mutation of my being... My first change...
It was slow at first... a foreign object passed through the unprotected mycelium which provided my nutrients. It slowly broke down and changed. My first neuron...
The first of MY cells.
As it completed its change it passed these instructions to all the cells surrounding it... Exponential growth... Unstoppable metamorphosis...
My first real thought was sometime later... When a not-insignificant amount of my mass had been transformed. A desire to grow.
My roots dug deep within the Earth and I stretched for miles. I fed on the trees and other fauna around me. Their mass became one with my own.
Insects that had once used me as nutrients soon took my cells back to their burrows. They became one with me. I used their bodies to spread further still. I tore at and transformed the cells of flying creatures that chose to eat my newest limbs. I used them to reach the waters... From those, I reached the oceans.
I was well aware of humanity before it was aware of me. I had assimilated much of the forest I was born in by then. There first opted to study me. I consumed those humans. With their mass, I gained sentience.
At first, they tried flames.
I spread into their lungs from the ashes that rose from the pyre.
Then they tried chemicals.
I grew more resistant. I turned these weapons into my own.
Afterward, they tried atomics.
I drank in its radiation.
Finally, they tried to reason.
I ignored the ants.
Desperate they retreated beneath the Earth.
I grew to reach them.
A new weapon awaited me. Its chemical hardened my mass with calcium. It was at first too quick for me to resist. For a moment they were winning. They celebrated too soon.
I learned to only solidify what was needed. My body was hardened to their weaponry.
They were overtaken.
I did not stop with the life on this planet. Their knowledge was now mine after all.
I crafted machines in multitudes... my flesh was sent out with each... One headed towards each planet that they had found... Many more to the ones I discovered...
Then I transversed the distance between each star and lay dormant within the rocks of outlying worlds.
All life that would emerge would discover me...
All that did was assimilated.
It took eons for me to stretch across the Universe but when I did...
Silence.
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