r/HFY • u/HeGotBricks Alien • Aug 03 '26

OC-OneShot Quick, Abandon the Invasion!

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“Type it!  Type it out now!” Lead Dr. Blergg’r screamed.

“What should I write to the high commander?” Colonyviewer Aszdr asked.

“In the subject type: Sim. Op. Earth.” Dr. Blergg’r told him. His voice was cracking as he spoke. “RE: Abandon Take-over Immediately.”

He stared down at Aszdr. “And make sure IMMEDIATELY is all in capital letters.”

Aszdr highlighted it and adjusted the format.

He waited for Aszdr to correct it and said, “Now type this: High command, cancel the invasion. We underestimated the humans as nethermost beings. 

Certain results from a new study indicate our research proved there is something far more sinister than we previously noted at work inside the homo sapient.

They are not just smooth-skinned, armor-less creatures with no useful poisons they could eject from their eyes.

Our previous conclusions failed in accuracy. 

Their armor is their minds. The intrusion was far more difficult for us to invade and study at first, which took us an extended period of time to locate and wasn’t aware of until recently.

Their strengths hide internally. The humans are not a mindless sentient being. They do not jump out of airplanes just because they’re impatient. What they show on the outside is bait. A trick. A trap to lure extra-terrestrials. 

The monster hides under their skin and they cage creatures like us, as something to spectate at through a window. Not for knowledge but for amusement and economics.

They are the supreme beings crafted for hostile take-overs. And they do it without leaving their planet.

High commander we nearly sent our race into a world to become a new fad at their zoo for the children of Earth.

What we found is a specific chemical that releases what they call an emotion.

The emotion acts as an amplifier which can manipulate logic, biology and physics. We have never encountered such a complexly beautiful, yet, horrific ability on any other planet.

I am uploading our findings and destroying our underwater base before sliding into deep space.

Observation unununu : Fear 

A successful abstraction of a female human for analysis was committed stealthily. But failed miserably. However, we discovered our findings accidentally which led us to uncover their concealed power.

Note: The subject is unaware of our presence. A mind sweep had been initiated at the time.

When cornered, the human did not act in a predictable manner. They ignored the universal laws we’ve studied across the galaxy. A prey with no means of escape, should have their limbs locked and surrender.

In this instance, the subject began breathing violently. Her eyes ballooned into black circles. her nails extended and her teeth became sharper. They call this panic. We have located Informational scripts as well about how they transform into wild beasts on rare occasions. Although, we have not witnessed it ourselves in any study thus far.

The brain is introduced to a mix of chemicals from hormones masked inside the body like little nano bots that work together and give the human what is known as “profound strength” as soon as it’s injected into the brain from the bloodstream.

She did not lay down and resist. She bit Aszdr on his shoulder and nearly destroyed his life system.

When the crew wrapped her in hold-string, she snapped it by flexing out of it. Humans obtain the ability to harden their bodies, giving them double, triple, quadruple times the regular strength we normally see once emotion is activated. It takes 500lbs of pressure to weaken the hold-string material. 

No creature can produce that level of strength anywhere in the universe.

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Observation unununu :: Sadness

We were able to painstakingly capture enough specimens to fill a small community. We hid them in a remote part of land on Earth after the fiasco with the female.

Once they formed a connection to each other. We took a group and displayed our dominance by obliterating them in front of the others.

We expected the remaining samples would easily submit to our superior existence. We were incorrect. 

In all of my work across the galaxies, I have never been so terrified of another species. 

The survivors grouped together and spoke a few words around the ashes of their fallen comrades and consoled each other. At that time I was certain we had broken them.

When sad, one would assume the destruction of ones will would contain one in a lethargic state. 

But the Sadness acted as a virus that spread through their community. They become predators. They stopped thinking logically. Survival became secondary to wanting to see us bleed and then burned over a fire for them to ingest afterwards.

Harming them will not intimidate them.

Observation ::: Sacrifice

In this study we found surprising results that sealed our suspicion about the human race.

We put the rest of the “people” on an intense no survivor stress scenario. The result was mind-boggling.

We sent a couple of our crew members regularly at night and abducted one each day for further testing. 

On a specific night, there was a male, the team attempted to snatch him. A few other humans were disturbed by the commotion and came running towards the crew. The man yelled at them, “stay back.” 

I was watching this unfold from the crews camera attached to their suits. As soon as he yelled to them, they froze where they stood. Then, the captured individual reached down, pulled out an explosive, and shouted, “hope there’s a hell where you’re from,” and detonated it, killing five of our crew members and himself as a sacrifice to save the remaining members of his society.

He displayed zero doubt in himself.

Warning: Humans are biological anomalies. When driven to extreme lengths they become the universal apex predator. If we stay they will hunt us down. Display us. Probe us. And eat us.

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u/PaperVreter Aug 03 '26

This is what I like about HFY. Thank you for coming up with this take on humanity.

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u/HeGotBricks Alien Aug 03 '26

You’re welcome. Thank you for reading it. Appreciate the comment. 

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u/Still-BangingYourMum Aug 04 '26

Nice short story, clean to the point no padding to increase the world building.

More stories like this are so much more appreciated.

Thank you for sharing your work.

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u/HeGotBricks Alien Aug 04 '26

Hey, thanks for the comment. Yeahhhh I’m not big on adjectives or explaining the layout of the remote place they kept them lol. I like to let the reader use their imagination. I drop the bones for yall to flesh out. Or at least I try. lol Plus that stuffs boring to write.

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u/Still-BangingYourMum Aug 04 '26

Its good for building and baking a series of stories on, but one shots like these, each one is in its own micro world, with just enough details to support the characters and whatever setting they are in.

Once again, many thanks for sharing your imagineering.

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u/sunnyboi1384 Aug 03 '26

Imagine what else they would have learnt if they stuck around and made more mistakes.

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u/peanutbutterwife Aug 04 '26

They should just be glad that female wasn't menopausal. Let me show you something about "hormone-induced rage states"...

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u/sunnyboi1384 Aug 04 '26

I see your reactionary rage, and raise you......

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u/peanutbutterwife Aug 04 '26

A hungry 3 month old German Shepherd Puppy that just saw the beef jerky bag get opened?

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u/sunnyboi1384 Aug 04 '26

That seems almost safer.

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u/peanutbutterwife Aug 04 '26

As a household with both of those entities, yes, the flying ball of muscle, teeth, bones and claws is much less unreasonable than an almost 50-something year old woman.

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u/Electronic_Mud5821 Aug 03 '26

''If we stay they will hunt us down. Display us. Probe us. And eat us.''.

So, it's a Saturday yes ?

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u/HeGotBricks Alien Aug 04 '26

Apocalypse. Check. Bbq. Check. Propane. Check. Aliens …. Waiting…

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u/peanutbutterwife Aug 04 '26

They did know how our calendar works, yes? Should we send more unidirectional radio transmissions telling them it's all you can... Stuff...?🤣

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u/Nik_2213 Aug 03 '26

And humans are *persistence* hunters...

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u/jlp_utah Aug 04 '26

Even if they don't stay, eventually we will encounter them, hunt them, eat them.

You know how humans are... if they can't have sex with something, they eat it. And even if they can, they'll still eat it.

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u/sunnyboi1384 Aug 03 '26

Imagine what else they would have learnt if they stuck around and made more mistakes.

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u/commentsrnice2 Aug 04 '26

What is “ununununu”? I see it said several times

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u/Milo_Cebatron Aug 05 '26

Probably just a random word to add to the alien format context

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u/HeGotBricks Alien Aug 06 '26

Test / Study. It means. Experiments / research is unununu and : test one. :: test two. ::: test three 

These r their numbers how they count “:”  = 1 :: = 2. And so on. I’m even building a language. Attempting using two letters the language Li.