Flopspike

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The Flopspike is a highly dangerous, highly adaptable species that was discovered on an unknown planet in 2072. 
== Biology ==
The Flopspikes are the most biological perfect organisms Flopkind has ever encountered. They can run at 105 MPH and jump up to 50 meters. They can fly for a short time, have perfect hearing, sight, and smell. They can swim at 105 MPH and breathe underwater. They can also burrow at over 150 MPH. 
A true invasive species, Flopspikes, as their name suggests, are a pale albino-like white color, and are hexapods with six digits consisting of four main legs for locomotion and 2 smaller mantis-like arms for grabbing and holding. They have two eyes located on top and to the side of their head, giving them a wide field of vision, unusual for a carnivore, and are capable of night vision. Flopspikes have raptorial claws located near the stomach hanging down which are used to defend its stomach and attack creatures while being bipedal. These claws would technically make the Flopspike octopedal, however these claws are only used in defense and are more or less vestigial. 
When Floppas landed on the planet they inhabited the Flopspikes killed every single person on the ship, including an Amog-3 sent onto the planet in just a few minutes. It is also noteworthy that the people on the expedition were armed with mossberg-500 shotguns, RPGs, tanks and more deadly weaponry. The Flopspikes are considered more dangerous then the Flopsworn by the FCP Foundation if even one egg was to get onto a ship which would lead back to the Floppa's home world. 
The Flopspikes get their name from having four floppa like ears that can fold themselves into the face of the Flopspike and turn white, essentially camouflaging them among the creature's pale skin. These Floppa ears do not have fur, instead having hundreds of sharp poisonous spikes. The Flopspikes have two large tentacles used for locomotion and reproductive purposes. However the tentacle's most dangerous feature is the fact that it can fire large venomous spikes at the speed of sound at the target, these spikes are venomous and kill in seconds. The Flopspikes also have this venom on their teeth. 
It was calculated that a swarm of around a dozen Flopspikes in a pack favoring the Flopspikes (one female, two alpha males, eleven males) could easily wipe out flopkind if they began to reproduce. 
The word was founded in 1965 after American soldiers from Indochiflopese-American war on an island after their reportages in 1966: the reportage of soldiers was "The creatures on the island, are huge, there was titan monke, a creatures with small yellow eyes, ever giant squid just like flopspikes", where people was shocked about that. 
=== Sexual Dimorphism ===
Sexual dimorphism is distinct on this species, with the females being much larger and more powerful then the males. The female is defended by all males it can call with pheromones and auditory calls. The female is the only entity that can lay eggs. The male is much smaller then the female and most can't even fertilize the eggs of the species. Instead needing an alpha male to fertilize the eggs, an alpha male is identical to a female other then it lacking any ears, instead they are replaced with four large spikes. Alpha males are created when a female regurgitates a thick purple liquid from her mouth into the mouth of the male, which causes rapid growth until they become an alpha male and the mate of the female. Many lesser males fight to be most loyal to have a chance at becoming the mate of a female and passing their genes onto thousands of offspring. Females give live birth most of the time over a period of 4 months, with every litter (produced every week) containing 4 pups, however in situations during war they lay eggs en masse, resulting in underdeveloped young. 
=== Intelligence ===
The species is extremely intelligent, with females being hyper intelligent. Males, albeit less smart then a female or Alpha are much smarter then an average Floppa, being able to command and problem solve. A dull minded Flopspike male could easily solve an extremely complex intelligence puzzle. Females and Alpha males are many margins more intelligent. 
=== Diet ===
Flopspikes prefer to consume meat, but will eat anything. Including plants, carrion and even dirt and rocks. The Flopspikes can also perform photosynthesis, however this requires them to go into a temporary stasis. Flopspikes can also siphon natural gas from the ground and consume it. Flopspikes can also consume electric energy of all kinds, which can cause power outages. They can discharge this electricity to shock enemies. 
=== Dermis ===
The Flopspikes are covered in chitin plates head to toe, with their only weak spots being their stomach and neck. Despite their chitinous plates, the Flopspike has an endoskeleton. Below the chitin and above the skin is a layer of natural Kevlar which protects it from bullets or other weapons if its chitin plates are somehow detached from the creatures body. Below the skin is a pocket of pressurized acid which will spurt from the creature, causing instant death to melee attackers if they penetrate the skin. 
=== Claws ===
The claws of a Flopspike are extremely sharp and allow them to scale surfaces vertically, with the assistance of their tentacles they can climb at speeds of up to 30 MPH. The claws of the Flopspikes are also covered in strains of deadly viruses, one of which being a virus which causes pathological aggression in infected, essentially creating zombies subservient to the Flopspikes.
=== Toxic Sludge Spit ===
Flopspikes can spit a toxic sludge at their victims from afar, which is not only acidic and flammable, but also absolutely coated in deadly pathogens and parasites. This sludge is also in a hollow portion the spike the species fires from their tentacles. If the venom doesn't kill the prey then this slurry of death will. 
=== Tentacles ===
The Flopspikes can switch between their tentacles launching spikes or spewing fire. The tentacles spew far by firing oil which rubs against hairs which cause so much friction the oil sets on fire. The creature can only launch a sustained blast for five seconds. The spikes in the creature's body are actually a modified version of the Flopspike's teeth, which are generated in a hollow cavity close to their anus. Once the spike is finished with its development it is sent via muscle contractions through a sphincter into the tentacle, where it can be fired at will. This process is incredibly fast taking up to five minutes to reload each tentacle to maximum spike amount. 
=== Brain(s) ===
The Flopspike have four brains, two right below the connective tissue connecting the two tentacles to the back of the creature, one in the head of the Flopspike, and the largest dominant brain right next to the five hearts of the creature connected to the hearts by massive arteries and veins. Each brain has a different purpose, the one in the head is in charge of the digestive track, the two below each tentacle controls the tentacles and their associated organs and the one close to the heart is the dominate brain. It does a mix of every task and more. Extreme cell growth and immune system activity in each of their brains make them immune to Alzheimer's and related diseases.
=== Lungs ===
The lungs of the Flopspike are evolved for all environments. The Flopspike has six lungs (three pairs of two lungs), each of which can breathe in any type of gas and filter it into floppium vapors which the creatures breathe. They do this by having each alveoli have multiple microscopic cellular organs which create chemical reactions using the components of the gas breathed by the Flopspike and reassembling the molecular structure of that gas to transform it into floppium vapors. The Flopspikes don't actually naturally breathe floppium vapors, instead they breathe oxygen. However because the body discovered that when floppium vapors gave the Flopspikes more advantages, the body switched over to the gas. Each pair of lungs has massive veins and arteries connecting to the hearts of the Flopspike. 
=== Circulatory System ===
The Flopspikes have three hearts, two close to the shoulders of the front legs of the creature, and one in the center of the chest next to the primary brain. Each heart is connected by a single large artery with a nerve corkscrewing around it. The nerve and artery are known as the Bobby Bloodway. The two hearts near the shoulders are around the size of a human fist, while the middle heart is the size of an average (non-anthropomorphic) house cat. The heart not only pumps the Flopspike's glowing blue blood, but also stomach acid in veins made of obsidian (A.K.A acid veins). The acid veins pump acid from the stomach to the pocket of acid below the skin of the Flopspike. The veins of the Flopspikes actually go through the acid pocket to reach the skin, however they are covered in miniature acid-proof chitin plates to prevent damage to the veins. 
=== Digestive Tract ===
The digestive tract of the Flopspike is the most mysterious and unresearched part of the creature. What is known about the Flopspike is that somehow before it defecates the feces reaches an organ which transforms the fecal matter into chromyl chloride, with a single cuboidal chunk of the original feces also remaining. The stomach of the Flopspike can digestive literally anything, from carrion to rocks, to titanium, to molten metal. On the left side of the stomach are two organs two times smaller then the stomach itself, one is designed for digesting gas and the other for electricity. The Flopspike defecates the remnants of the consumed gas as a farm of natural mustard gas, which it is known to use in combat. The Flopspike doesn't defecate electric waste, instead using every bit of the energy until it runs out. 
=== Face Patterns ===
All females Flopspikes have bright red, bloody indents in their faces that serve an unknown purpose. Professor Floppa theorizes that these patterns are used to attract mates and to identify a hive from each other. Each set of indents is unique to each creature. Flopspikes also see females with more elaborate face markings as more dominate. It is possible that this is the closest form to sexual dominance a Flopspike can get. 
== Trivia ==
* A group of Flopspikes is called a Sarcous.
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