I woke up to the sound of the lid-hatch opening above my head, creating a dull confusion in my still sluggish brain. For one thing, I was wondering why I was still alive. Weren't the aliens going to feed me to that great /'oi~ thing? Why hadn't they? I finally focused my eyes on the alien who was now standing above me, fiddling with a bunch of equipment that it was carrying in it's arms.
"So," I slurred, "Time of dying, much yet?"
The alien looked at me funny and I remembered that it didn't natively speak my language, so it wouldn't understand that skewered sentance.
"Am I being feed for this 'great thingamabob' yet?" I amended.
It looked at me for a moment, then said something that I never thought I'd hear from one of my captors.
"You must be quiet." it said, "I'm going to help you escape."
I didn't say anything, not quite believing the creature. I hadn't thought they would try and torture me before I was killed, but here it was. They sent one of their kind to give me hope, just before they snatched it away.
"Right." I finally answered sarcastically, "And how are you going to do that? Blow a hole through all the walls in this damn building to give me a clear shot at getting outside to hide out, assuming that we're not in space somewhere right now?"
"No." it stated, focused intently on the things in its hands. "You are going to defeat the Great /'oi~."
"And how am I going to do that?" I asked, "Actually, what is this thing anyways? It's obviously powerful, or respected, or your ruler, or something, cuz you all call it 'great' and you say it will destroy me, so what is it?"
The alien remained silent for a moment, then "It's a giant beast, with six legs, many appendages, and much strength. You will be feed for it to keep it not hungry so it doesn't break out and destroy our people."
"Ok, so two things. One, are we are on a ship, and HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO KILL SOMETHING THAT YOU FEED SO IT DOESN'T DESTROY YOU?!"
"You will have the Fluid." he said simple, not affected by my anger, and ignoring my first question all together.
"And what may that be, pray tell?" I asked, not caring about my first question anymore.
It looked at me funny, and I realized that I used another figure of speech.
"We were a great race in the olden days." the alien said, completely ignoring my question, "We were strong, proud creatures, who were, as we believed, the only complex organisms in the universe. We had monitored the heavens for many many lifetimes, listening for any sign of life out there. We never heard anything, and so we were content to sit on our planet and live out our lives. One day though, our scientists came out with the capability to travel across great distances of space in short periods of time. Our planet, which was slowly dying as our sun weakened, was becoming too limiting for our people, and we needed to find one that we could survive on. Our people sent out an expedition of scientists to examine the planet they found, and it seemed perfect, except one thing. There were others there already. Nobody had even thought about there being other life forms for centuries, but here they were, and they were aggressive. They killed many of our expedition, and when we retreated, the peaceful nature of these scientists was shattered."
"They returned to our planet and told of what happened, and for a long time, we prepared to wipe them out. We returned after that time, having only developed weapons of destruction to wipe them out. We did, but only at a cost of many lives. On this new planet, we flourished, and came to realize from many more deep space expeditions, that there were many, many planets like that one."
"Slowly, our populations grew too much for the planet to sustain, and we left for a new one, but this time we left to conquer. It did not take long, and the planets native species did not stand a chance. We killed almost all of them, and the rest were used as slaves and experimental beings. We lived peacefully for many generations, but our populations again reached the limits of the planets capacity. We needed much more living space. We left to conquer our galaxy, and succeeded. None of the other races stood a chance."
"We lived peacefully for many lifetimes to come. In that time, we discovered, learned, and trained in the art of war. We were once a peaceful people, but now all we seem to want is power, territory, and goods. We have become shameless, slaughtering innocents, razing harmless cities, killing unnecessarily. We have all the space we would ever need, but it's it's not enough. Our leaders want us to conquer and expand for wealth. To become the rulers of the universe. We have created weapons and armor for the ultimate army, but that's not enough either. They want to be the Ultimate Race."
The alien paused for a moment, then made that shuddering purr again.
"And we almost have."
I looked at it for a moment, trying to process all of what I was just told.
"And... So why are you helping me?" I asked, still skeptical.
"Because this destroys all the other races and creatures histories, leaving us ignorant of history." it said after a moment.
"No, really." I said, "Why? If you are the ultimate race, you don't need to care about the other races, let alone their histories."
The alien looked at the ground a moment, then tilted its head back up toward me again.
"Alright. I believe that what is being done goes against the Ultimate Ones. I am afraid that if we create an ultimate species, there will be no reason to look to them, or that our Leaders will declare themselves the more powerful." it said, and then; "That is why I am making you the first, and - if you will help - only, one of the ultimate race."
"Woah, woah, woah. What?" I said, my head snapping up from examining its feet to look it streight in the face.
"I want to make you able to kill the great /'oi~. You need this altering to do this."
"No, but you said that this Ultimate Race shouldn't be created, but that now you want to make me one?"
"Temporarily," said the alien, "We have been testing different aspects of the serum on different subjects from captured planets, and none of them seemed to be permanent. Only one part was able to be created and sustained in a creature."
"What is it." I groaned, not wanting to be altered, especially if it wasn't going to be cool or permanent.
"We created a sustained method of creating a chemical that seems to reduce the amount of effort needed to do physical work."
"Wait... So you are telling me that you created a super-strength serum?"
"Yes, as well as a natural armor, a method to strengthen your skeleton, and a way to increase your immunity to diseases and the strength of your organs. We also created attachable weapons, such as blasters or communicators that we can implant into your body, but those take to long to implant, and sadly, only the strength liquid is permanent, to our knowing."
"...And... What is your knowing?"
"Well, the immunity tests have not been evaluated enough and the natural armor is only as long as the implanted liquid is still in existence. For the strengthening of your skeletal, it can be permanent, but for some subjects it did not bond, so we call it temporary."
"Umm... OK?" I said, seriously worried about how I would turn out after all of these 'alterations' were completed. But then again, I would have no chance of living through this encounter if it didn't try it.
"Good. I will need to sedate you."
"Wait! I need-" and there was a prick in my arm, and the fluffy darkness engulfed me again. I struggled to keep myself awake, but the alien looked at me, tilted its head, then turned for a moment, knelt, stood, turned back to me, and pricked my other arm with another sedative. This time the darkness flooded my veins and slammed my eyes shut.
Sorry for the short chapter, but I needed to set that up, and I need to ask again, I have another chance to turn Kevin into an Anthro if you want me to, and I also have an idea for a kind of humanoid-alien-like thing I could turn kevin into, and I need to know what you good people want me to do, so if you could tell me in the poll that I'm setting up in my profile, it would be appreciated!
Thank you all!
DisturbedFire out.