"The Workers Are Gone!"
The first report was short. "Jones disappeared from the GMO field in Iowa today." Nobody noticed.
The second report was a bit longer. "We have a second disappearance. Nebraska GMO field reports two workers missing."
The third went worldwide. "Reports of six missing men from GMO fields in middle America!"
Investigators combed the fields and surrounding fields. They searched bars and sweepstakes parlors and searches were scheduled. Dogs were brought in, but they refused to enter the fields. They just walked around in circles and then gagged and heaved until their trainers took them away.
Drones were called in to cover more ground. They were never found.
The fields were abandoned and then burned.
The drones were dispatched after the fields stopped smoking. There were large lumps in the fields.
For every disappearance, there was a lump. A robot was dispatched to one of the lumps. It probed and prodded and nothing exploded, so humans went in.
They were in biohazard suits, giving credence to the public worries about GMO's.
A drone camera shot video from above while the important folks sat in luxurious offices to see what was going on.
Soil gave way to vines. Vines led to a cavern. Equipment was brought in to shore up the earth and then one man entered, tethered to the machine. His head lamp showed that a tunnel had been excavated and it looked machine-made; perfectly round.
He walked and officials worried. The tunnel opened into a large cavern, dark except for the head lamp. He threw a glow stick and then everyone watching gasped.
The missing men were now GMO's! They seemed dead, for humans, with skin a grey color and dull flat eyes.
They moved with the aid of plants, vines to be exact. Some were descending from the ceiling and some from below. Others were coming out from the walls to help hold the men straight.
They were digging down into the earth. He threw glow sticks in every direction and new tunnels could be seen that opened into the cavern.
The searcher wanted to see what was in the middle and decided to venture forth. The center looked deep and glowed yellow. Closer still and he tripped on a vine. He froze, hoping it wouldn't stop him. It didn't.
He walked forward and made sure he was recording. In the pit was corn.
Corn... not just corn, but giant corn, maybe King Corn. It was moving... one giant corn stalk with ears and husks and it was moving and then it stopped. Everything stopped.
He backed up, slowly, hoping he could get out alive. The corn rose our of the hole. It was immense! Each "leg" was cornstalks and each "arm" and its "hair" was corn silk which it slung from side to side.
It flung ears of corn at him and he turned and ran. He made it into the tunnel and ran until he was pulled out of the hole and then his rescuers ran with him.
They made it to the road and the field collapsed. The field sunk down into the ground and the giant corn rose out of the whole.
It didn't live long, once the jets let loose their rockets. They had also destroyed evidence of the men, now GMO men, now dead.
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"Six months have passed since the workers disappeared in the fields of the grain belt. The report indicates that they disappeared in a series of sinkholes and then caverns of natural gas were ignited when search teams attempted rescues."
"Families of the victims have expressed thanks to Monsanto for all their support... "
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