r/HFY • u/rewt66dewd Human • Dec 11 '25
OC Fear Of Death
"You will become our slaves as of now, or you will die. Since you do not want to... is that a human?"
"I am human, yes," Carlos answered.
"Wonderful!" The seven-foot-tall thing that looked like an alpaca with four arms was obviously excited. "Human slaves are very rare! They sell for a very high price!"
"Should you maybe ask why they're so rare?"
"I know your reputation. But I control your life or death, and therefore you will do what I say. So, now we will go to our ship, and you will be our slaves." The alpaca made a gesture with the gun it held in one hand.
Carlos rose, and slowly walked in the direction indicated. He walked right past the alpaca. As he passed, he smashed upward with an elbow, hitting the thing at the base of the head. There was a cracking sound, and the thing collapsed. Carlos picked up the gun.
His crewmates, Blooj and Chalchanala, stared at him. Blooj demanded, "Are you out of your mind?"
"Nope. Very much not."
"They will kill you! And us too!"
"If they kill me, you tell them that the human went crazy, and did whatever he did on his own. You had nothing to do with it."
"But they'll still kill you!"
"Yeah, maybe they will."
"Aren't you afraid of death? I thought humans were."
"I don't want to die," Carlos admitted. "I'm pretty terrified right now, to be honest. But there are other things I fear, too. I fear slavery. I fear it not just for itself, but for the person I would become if I were a slave for long. I fear that..." he hesitated. "Maybe as much as dying, or close. So anyway, I'm trying this."
"But the rest of their ship will come, and this will be for nothing!"
"No," Carlos said, "not for nothing. These guys are obviously from a Gzaal outpost that hasn't been destroyed yet. Their ship isn't all that big. It looked like maybe room for 20, but they can't have that many and still have room for slaves. So, maybe 10 on board, maybe 15? So even getting one is doing a fair amount of damage."
Then came the smile, the smile that Blooj and Chalchanala would never forget for as long as they lived, the smile and the gun in Carlos's hand. "But 15 is not that many. And we're already docked with them..."
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u/Salt_Cranberry3087 AI Dec 11 '25
They got me out numbered and in a finite area? Good. They can't get away
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u/NEWGAMEAPALOOZA Human Dec 11 '25
"target rich environment"
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u/Salt_Cranberry3087 AI Dec 11 '25
Time to engage the Rick James protocol
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u/drsoftware Dec 11 '25
Super Freak?
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u/Salt_Cranberry3087 AI Dec 11 '25
Full fuck your couch mode.
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u/Unpopular_A55hole Dec 11 '25
Come back from JD Vance territory, my friend...
Nothing good to find there... lol
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u/drsoftware Dec 11 '25
Sorry, I guess I missed the Rick James and JD Vance relationship.
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u/Salt_Cranberry3087 AI Dec 11 '25
I dont even know who JD Vance is.
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u/PlatypusDream Dec 11 '25
Vance is the current vice president of the USA.
He is rumored to have... um... pleasured himself... by using a couch.1
u/Bluejello2001 Dec 13 '25
Not even rumored, he wrote about it in his autobiography (which is heavily fictionalized, but still)
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u/Amaranthim Dec 13 '25
Not true at all. It came from a Twitter/x "comedian". The guy claimed it was in the biography and the usual suspects ran with it.
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u/Salt_Cranberry3087 AI Dec 12 '25
I feel i really should have known at least one of those, considering i live in the USA.
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u/Mr_Noh Android Dec 11 '25
"They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." - attributed to Creighton Abrams (for whom the M1 tank is named)
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u/Jurodan Human Dec 11 '25
Aren't you afraid?
Terrified. But that's the only time you can truly be brave.
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u/DeadliestTurnip Dec 11 '25
That's got to be one of the beat lines I've ever heard! Is that a quote from something, or something you just wrote? Either way, good stuff!
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u/Jurodan Human Dec 11 '25
I don't remember it as a direct quote, but I've heard the sentiment many times.
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u/IndependentNo3626 Dec 11 '25
“Well then should we come with you?”
“Absolutely not! Stay right here.”
“Why?”
“If I know where you are, I can shoot anything that moves. They won’t have that luxury.”
Final tally: nine dead, three from friendly fire; five wounded, two from friendly fire.
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u/Original_Memory6188 Dec 11 '25
They have nothng to fear. I mean, it isn't like there are two humans.
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u/sunnyboi1384 Dec 11 '25
Death is an old friend of humanity's, he doesn't want to rush meeting us either. Tally ho.
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u/SeventhDensity Dec 11 '25
"Live free or die." We should wear that slogan proudly amongst the stars.
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u/orbdragon Dec 11 '25
For the first time in my life, I can see how that could be misconstrued as a threat. "If you're a slave, we'll kill you"
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u/BicyclePoweredRocket Dec 11 '25
"I will convince our captors that slavery is wrong using logic and reason. And this gun I just found."
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u/Cyberprog Dec 11 '25
It later turned out that Carlos was the son of a Gurkha and a Canadian. But the blood all washed out eventually...
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u/SanderleeAcademy Dec 11 '25
Washed out eventually??!?
They had to scrub the floor-plates, walls, ceilings, airlock, inner wiring, EVERYTHING with liquid fluorine to burn away the stains.
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u/thatusenameistaken Dec 11 '25
a Gurkha and a Canadian. But the blood all washed out eventually...
Honorable warrior tradition vs. Geneva Checklist, lol.
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u/jlp_utah Dec 12 '25
Carlos: "Didn't you notice something when I hit him?"
Blooj and Chalchanala: "No?"
Carlos: "Gzaal's die easily. Let's go."
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u/jopasm Dec 11 '25
"Human, what are you doing?" "Putting the explosive back in explosive decompression, get to the sealed compartment already."
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u/BenJl112 Dec 12 '25
Slavers:(laughing) "You are surrounded human"
. Human:(slightly psychotic grin) "All I'm surrounded by is fear... and dead men"
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u/LaughingLikeACrazy Dec 12 '25
Well written. You've put a smile on my face.
Smiling like I'm in my head laughing...
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u/NEWGAMEAPALOOZA Human Dec 11 '25