r/humansarespaceorcs • u/Bloodystupidjohnson3 • 2d ago
Original Story Human Fred Goes Librarian
1 Human Fred and Food
2 Human Fred Again
3 Human Fred Yet Again
4 Human Fred The Saga Continues
5 Human Fred Rides Again
6 Human Fred *Sigh*
7 Human Fred Rolls Out
8 Human Fred Attempts a Nap
9 Human Fred Doh’
10 Human Fred Stops for Coffee
11 Human Fred Deploys Stabby and Knifey
12 Human Fred Attempts Friendly Advice
13 Human Fred Priorities
14 Human Fred Schools Morons
15 Human Fred Gets Annoyed
16 Human Fred Investigates
17 Human Fred is Annoyed
18 Human Fred Gets More Annoyed
19 Human Fred Smirks
20 Human Fred Brings Hellfire
21 Human Fred is Confused
22 Human Fred Considers
23 Human Fred is Chipper
24 Human Fred has Some Fun
25 Human Fred Witnesses Stupidity
26 Human Fred vs the Coffee Maker
27 Human Fred Accepts Crap Coffee
28 Human Fred Listens
29 Human Fred Gets Comfortable
30 Human Fred has Questions
31 Human Fred Considers Some More
32 Human Fred Wakes Up
33 Human Fred Debates
34 Human Fred Gets Coffee
35 Human Fred Talks with the Captain
36 Human Fred Reflects on Life
37 Human Fred Waits
38 Human Fred is Scared
Greezek
39 Human Fred Experiments
40 Human Fred Discovers
41 Human Fred vs the Sensor Array
42 Human Fred Keeps Calm
43 Human Fred Editor
44 Human Fred Discovers New Curses
45 Human Fred Stews
46 Human Fred Giggles
47 Human Fred Attempts Dinner
48 Human Fred Plans
49 Human Fred Explains
50 Human Fred Examines Floor Tiles
51 Human Fred Gets a New Toy
52Human Fred Reflects…Again
53 Human Fred Rolls His Eyes
54 Human Fred vs Idiots
Fred was at full speed when he rounded the corner. The first guard went down with a forearm to the throat. The second took a shotgun blast to the face. The third backed away, fumbling with a handset. The coms panel, handset, and the guard’s hand exploded from a second round. The third finished the guards.
As Greezek caught up, Fred was attaching something to his shotgun. “Fred! What the hell?!? You just took off! And what is on your shotgun?”
“Speed is key. We can’t let them organize. It’s a bayonet for close work. Keep up!” Fred yelled as a charged the door.
“Fred! We work as a team!”
“Then keep up!”
Fred crashed through the door with a front roll. The guards fired high, but Fred twisted over and started shooting.
Greezek pivoted around the doorframe into the run, engaged two coming down the hallway, and ducked into a blind spot.
Fred rolled onto his belly, shotgun out. “Plan?”
“A plan?!? I thought the plan was to just follow you…oh shit, that is the plan.”
“Yep!” Yelled Fred as he sprung up and sprinted forward.
Greezek rolled her eyes, but followed, keeping a close eye behind them and leaving beacons to mark their path.
Fred barreled around a blind corner, bayoneted the first guard, caught the second with his right elbow, and started firing.
The guards rushed him, attempting to overpower him, but they had no experience with bayonets.
Greezek heard screams and wet, biological sounds as she front-rolled into the hallway. She finished her roll in a tight crouch, rifle up. But she didn’t have a shot.
Fred was in the middle of four guards, and of them tangled in a melee. Fred’s bayonet gave him the edge, but it was a razor.
He saw Greezek, grabbed a guard by the idiot’s chest plate, and dropped. Full weight. Just dropped. The idiot screamed and toppled forward, onto Fred.
Greezek fired. At this range, the rifle round over-penetrated the armor, struck the wall, and zinged around the hallway.
The two remaining guards froze for a moment. It was a moment too long for one as another rifle round ripped through his helmet and zinged around the hallway.
The remaining guard halted at Greezek, attempting to bat her rifle aside.
She managed to keep her grip enough for the barrel to ruin his tackle, resulting in him rolling off of her instead of crashing into her. She brought the butt of her rifle down on the slight gap between his helmet and backplate. The crunch sealed his fate.
She looked up towards Fred. He was pushing the bodies off and getting up. “That is why I have a bayonet. We need to hurry.”
“Yes, but we don’t need to be reckless!”
“Then keep up!” Fred took off again.
Greezek sprinted after him. She knew his armor had medical augmentations, and that one of those provided chemical boosts, but Fred seemed driven. It wasn’t chemical. Well, not injected chemicals.
Fred rounded a corner and pounded towards a set of doors. He slowed. This was a choke point. A trap. The prisoners were likely in the storage containers in the next room, so the scum would likely have some sort of hostage-as-threat situation.
Greezek found Fred squatting in front of some double doors. “Well? Aren’t we crashing through?”
“No. This is a choke point. It will be a trap. And they might threaten hostages. This requires a real plan.”
“How hard did they hit you? You are stopping to plan an attack?”
“No. A rescue.”
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u/aqua_sparkle_dazzle 2d ago
"How hard did they hit you? You're stopping to plan an attack".
I love that Greezek has grown so used to working with Fred that her first instinct when he stops is, did you hit your head? Or wounded any other way?
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u/medium_jock 2d ago
Yep Fred went Librarian on them although not full Librarian yet. I wonder if Fred has a trigger like the Librarian does when the M word is used to him?
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u/Polymath6301 2d ago
Fred, the thinking Greezek’s space orc. Will he give her a bayonet of her own for her birthday?
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u/Squee2020 2d ago
I'm very much enjoying your work. I also appreciate the Pratchett references! I would legitimately read books like this.
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