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Humans are Weird

So this is late but how would an alien react to finding out that any human, and I mean any human, has the capacity to kill if pushed far enough?

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Xarti stood with their shackled, three-fingered hands behind their back. One of the Shan’Ock invaders had a tentacle on their shoulder. Xarti’s small, shy Human companion Brooke was shackled similarly to them a few feet away while the rest of the crew was lined up on their knees at the front of the dimly lit room.

“Tell us where the Shannon Stone is hidden or they die,” the Shan’Ock Commander growled in Brooke’s face.

“I don’t know where it is, I never went down to the planet,” she said her voice quiet and unsure. It was obvious the Human was scared even with her delicate features showing an impressive ‘poker face.’

The Commander leaned toward Brooke’s face and let out a huff of air, “What about you Xartaroan scum?”

My face was not so impressive, “I-I only cook the food, I d-don’t know any.. thing.”

“I’m sure you don’t…. Kill the crew,” the Shan’Ock Commander ordered.

“NO!”

My voice and Brooke’s rang out as laser shots rang through the air. I was speechless after that and my grey toned skin turned a mixture of dark red and black in mourning and fear. I felt my legs turn to the Human food Jell-O. Out of my side eye I saw Brooke’s calm facade disintegrate as she fell to her fragile Human knees sobbing. She sat there for a few moments as the Commander laughed. Slowly her shoulders stopped shaking and her jaw clenched.

“Have you changed your minds Scum?”

“I don’t know,” I said hopelessly as I realized I was going to die.

“Riiiight-“

Before the Commander could finish his sentence Brook had risen to her feet so fast my Think-Brain couldn’t comprehend what had happened. She produced a blade from behind her back cutting through the cuffs so quickly it took me a few seconds to process where the knife had come from. Before the Commander could react all the other Shan’Ock were dead including both our guards. With the fire burning in her eyes and the black blood soaking into her clothes, Brooke terrified me. The last remaining Shan’Ock invaders stood paralyzed with shock, his fear-scent present and his horns had changed to an alarmed yellow color. Brooke stalked up to him and smashed the hilt of the blade into his wrinkled forehead sending the Commander back a few steps. He regained his mobility and retreated toward the teleportation pad. Brooke hurled the blade before he could press the Beam-Up button, impaling The Shan’Ock in his thick neck. Black, oily blood spewed from the wound spraying Brooke in the face, she just licked her lips and kicked the Commander’s body further into the pad. I watched her change the coordinates to empty space and press Beam-Up as I quivered in fear. How could such an innocent and sweet human ever do something like this? I’d heard that some deranged humans had been led to kill other humans, and some had killed to survive but I’d never heard of a human as calm and collected as Brooke resort to killing. She bowed her head over the blood soaked controls and turned to the corpses of our crew before finally speaking.

“Take us home, please.”

I was too frightened to challenge her.

Later, when I was finally stationed on an outpost with more humans I asked one named Tom about the experience. I told him about Brooke’s out of character response and he asked me about how she’d bonded with the other members of the crew before answering me completely. With a grave face he told me something I’d never forget.

“Any Human can be driven to kill if you push them far enough.”

Needless to say, I vowed to never push a Human.