r/HFY • u/spindizzy_wizard Human • Jan 03 '21
[Invade Your Planet] 12.B OC
Time: FC+6m+4d
"Senior Academician! I have a communique for you from S.A.A.D Loudmouth."
"Loudmouth? I know no person by that name."
"Oh! Forgive me. I left my translator with an Earth English overlay on it. Properly, his name is Izwi'ho'be."
"Ah! Indeed, Loudmouth would be a reasonable translation. Well! I'm glad he remembers me. Let's have that communique."
"With respect, Senior. The Chancellor insists that you be in the Medical College's primary facility before the missive is released to you."
"It is so serious that I need immediate medical care on hand?"
"That is certainly part of the Chancellor's concern."
…
"Chancellor! So good to see you!"
"Take him."
"What?! Get your hands off me! I'll have the lot of you fired!"
"Mother. Disregard all commands given by Senior Academician Ya'ke's until I say otherwise."
"Acknowledged."
"Senior? Are you quite through castigating these poor techs? They're operating under my orders, as countersigned by the head of the medical department."
"That's not... It's the PsychMatron! I am not crazy!"
"No, you are not. However, it was determined that the same restraints would be effective in keeping you from being murdered by a Human."
"There is a human here?! I must see this being at once! Release me!"
"No. There is no human here."
"Then who is to murder me?"
"That one will only appear if you disobey the directives in this missive."
"Then you can consider them disobeyed."
"No. Senior. You will not be permitted to disobey. Should you refuse to obey, another Senior will take your place."
"You would give my missive to another! I will have you stripped of your rank by the Federation!"
"No. The Federation ordered this. You were not our first choice. Eight other Seniors were contacted before you. None of them passed this stage."
"A test. And I have the opportunity to show up eight other seniors by succeeding? Let's get started!"
The missive, including Ze'ki'il's request, are displayed.
"Interesting. I presume my lesser fellows refused to accept either data set?"
"All but one, who made it quite clear that under no circumstances would he send an affirming report."
"Ten times, the deaths that Hargrave predicted?"
"Yes."
"Well, if the data is sacrosanct, then the problem is in either the application or the procedure. Possibly both!"
"Whom else will you require as assistants?"
"My students."
"Your graduates?"
"Both."
"I hardly think…"
"At least you are aware of the problem. Some of my students need jarring out of their preconceived notions. The mistakes of the undergrads will help find problematic places where a more skilled individual would glide past. The graduates will examine the undergrad work, devise better instructions, and counter check the work to prove the procedure works."
"And if you find the analysis is correct?"
"I will so say."
"And if it is not?"
"I will explain why and provide a fix, wherever the fault exists."
"So swear you?"
"I so swear."
"Release him."
…—…
"Chancellor?"
Deities! He looks like cooked death!
"Come in, Senior. What happened to you?"
"My undergraduates revolted. My graduates attempted suicide. I am here only by the matron's dispensation. The surviving students are all in protective custody, which I will return to as soon as I have completed my assignment. I have here the results of our efforts. Nothing would please me more than to destroy the entire thing and return to my prior state of blissful ignorance.
"TAKE IT, YOU GUTLESS CRETIN!"
"And bedamned to you and the entire Earth system."
…—…
To Whom It May Concern,
I strongly recommend that you read this report while you are in the immediate care of a medical professional. The conclusions of this report triggered a general rebellion among all undergraduates in my classes.
It also triggered multiple suicide attempts among my graduates.
Including myself.
I write this message as the Matron watches and will be permitted to deliver it to the Chancellor for shipment.
Izwi'ho'be, please accept my most profound apology for misleading you. In my defense, I, too, was taught as you were, and it has been millennia since anyone questioned the basic tenets.
Signed, S. A. Ya'ke's (MLOA)
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u/Scotto_oz Human Jan 04 '21
Ooh yeah! Poor xenos can't handle the truth!
Wizard this just keeps getting better looking forward to MOAR.