Niples "Choosing sides"

Who: Jay, Phil, CK, Mk6, Seymour, Wowbagger, and 1 Hymenoptera
Where: On the Hymenoptera planet
When: after the Raven rescued Harris
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Everyone except Seymour had chipped in getting Chris to the raven,
which then blasted back to the dwarf at high speeds, leaving the
landing party a RAID to retrieve.
"so are we going to get the RAID back now?" Seymour asked, acting
like a kid that just lost his favourite toy.
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Seymour climbed up to the top of a large rocky hill, careful not to
dirty his clothes.
In the distance, down a steep slope he could see something that
really took him by surprise. Being on a Hymenoptera planet so close
to the supposed Hymenoptera "Homeworld" he expected to see more
Hymenopteran insect mounds, or possibly just more dead Hymenoptera –
not the metal ruins of an ancient city.
He ducked, as not to be seen at all and observed the city. The
structures were made of metal and concrete, they looked like the
major cities of Earth, but a lot more advanced. And a lot more
decayed. Large skyscrapers that at one time would have reached
proudly into the sky were now battered and dirty. Rubble filled most
of the streets that he could see. But there was wreckage of
spaceships too, some laying abandoned, some even embedded in
buildings where they had crashed.
"What is this place?" Seymour asked himself.
A voice behind him made him jump. "They were called the Malekians…"
Seymour turned around to see Jay. Jay pointed to the destroyed City.
"They were very powerful race, ships that could travel to different
dimensions, that could `phase' out of reality and appear again
anywhere. But they had a drastic flaw."
"They trusted the Hymenoptera?" Seymour quipped sarcastically.
Jay scowled and looked back at the remaining Hymenoptera warrior a
few metres behind him.
"No. They were cocky. They attacked the Hymenoptera and lost. Hence
why their city is in ruins."
Seymour raised an eyebrow. "You're not putting up a good case for
your new `friends'. In fact you're just reiterating that they're
just killing machines!"
Jay sighed and sat down. "Seymour listen, being able to speak to the
Hymenoptera means I can listen to their point of view. They just
want the same thing as all of is, to survive."
"But they take over entire planets and eat people!"
"Well yes, there is that. But they need food like everyone else!"
Jay argued.
Seymour looked at the city in front of them. "Tell that to the
people who lived in this city! They all died and probably got eaten.
How would they like it. Their entire civilisation, culture, art,
music…"
"Survival of the fittest." Said Jay.
Seymour sighed. Jay had become rather a different person since he
had a Hymenoptera worm in his ear. He should just be able to speak
to them, but he seemed to be now sympathising with them. Seymour
hoped this alliance would be over fairly quickly.
"Get down!" Said Seymour as many of the black aliens with the green
eyes started walking out of the city. The two aliens driving the
RAID drove up to them. They were carrying a large spider on the back
of the RAID, it was tied up.
"Hey, that's the big Queen thing that gave you the-" Started
Seymour. Jay nodded his head. "Not quite a Queen, a General."
Seymour an Jay watched as the aliens tied the large spider to the
post and then started to pull it's legs off one by one.
Seymour grinned, but Jay watching in horror and began to fell ill,
sympathising for the creatures pain. He put his fingers in his ears
to hide the noise.
Seymour grinned. "Oh look, they're bringing out a red hot poker
next! I'll go get the popcorn!"
Jay smacked Seymour around the head.
"This isn't funny Seymour!"
"Oh brilliant, they're warming up to the main course, they're
pulling all the hairs on his body off one by one!"
"Seymour!!!"
"And now they're getting a big… fly squatter… and… oh, it's all
over. Well that made a mess."
Jay turned to him and scowled. Seymour sighed. "Okay okay, this race
is bad, nobody deserves to be tortured like that blah blah, not even
the Hymenoptera, we should help them etcetera etcetera." Seymour
said dronefully.
"Exactly!" Said Jay.
Seymour thought for a moment. "So who are they? is it the long lost
relatives of this civilisation coming back for revenge?"
"No… something different. The Hymenoptera havn't told me the full
story yet. All I know is that these aliens discovered the technology
here and started using their ships. It had been long lost and
abandoned. Useless to the Hymenoptera, they havn't got opposable
thumbs you see."
"The one down there hasn't even got legs!" Seymour joked, then saw
the look on Jay's face.
"Alright alright, I'll have more respect. Look they're eating it
now, how ironic is that?!"
Seymour looked through some digital binoculars. "There's two coming
back this way in the RAID. I don't really care if they're against
the Hymies or not, they still have my car!"
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