Das Hier Black #2

"Now you come back to us Little ManGod? As an astronaut as he meets with an alien on his planet? Why now and not before you terrible little creator? You dropped us like we were too last decade." I said, scarcely able to believe that he could do us like this. SO cold and uncaring, I had certainly thought better of him, even into the first days of the new decade, I had given him another pass. I couldn't now.

"Earther, you make no sense. Who is this Little ManGod you speak of and why is he causing you such misery?"He said to me though the tiny translator that he had agreed would be surgically implanted into him just 12 hours earlier because he and his people had understood this was the best way for us to communicate.

I didn't know what to say to the alien ambassador, because that was what he was, essentially. But I had to say something. "Nothing, I'm just nervous meeting you and was just talking the nonsense of a nervous Earther. Think nothing of it." I said, smiling at him, as I was certain sure that he was going to accept what I said because I smiled and pushed the unnecessary thoughts to the back of my mind and a little nervousness was to be expected.

He looked at me with what felt like anger, though he said nothing, I surely felt negativity flowing out of him. And I didn't like it. Not that you could blame me because he could snap me apart with ease.

"Stop staring at me Earther! It's bad enough that you have but two eyes, which is a sign of weakness and gave us pause in even dealing with you, but to stare at us is worse. So stop it now! or this first meeting is sure to be regarded as a failure. And you don't want that because we do not take kindly to such failures easily.

"Whoa! I wasn't staring., I was just taken aback by your hostility." I snapped back, as unwise as it was to react like that, could you blame me?

"Not only were you staring at me Earther, but you are holding something back from me."

"What are you talking about?" I said to him, with my voice rising as I knew that this was going poorly quicker than I could have feared that it would. And I could fear plenty.

"Fool, I see waves of lie pouring out of you like stink that I cannot bear to smell, but have to because we are peaceful by nature and would only strike at you if you were committed to this lie that you have inside of you.

"You're the one not making sense now sir and I don't understand why this has gone as bad as it has so quickly. Can't we take a breath and calm the futt down before this spirals completely out of control?" I said, imploring him with panic in my eyes as I was sure that this was about to go real bad, real quick.

Than truly I wonder how you Earthers have made it out this far into the galaxy because it is simple. The lie that you are keeping from me is sending wave after after of pain through the entirety of my being and I must say that it is taking all my effort to not strike you down and break you in half. Which as you must have deduced, would be ridiculously easy for me to to do because I am not only bigger than you, but much stronger," He said, sounding full of himself. Though he was correct. And I definitely knew that he could do what he said he was trying not to do with that kind of ease. Though I couldn't believe that he had actually said it to me. How is that helpful in a first face to face meeting between two representatives of vastly different peoples?

I took a deep breath as I fought the first response that came to mind and  counted to ten, then twenty and thirty, finally ready to speak calmly. "I'm sorry that you feel that way, but I really don't know what lie you think I've told you when I am a most honest representative of the peoples of the Earth.

"You are lying. I am hopeful that is an inconsequential one, but the pain that is coursing through my body speaks volumes. You are lying to me and I don't understand why you are continuing to deny that you have lied when you have been found out Earther. Now speak the truth you need to speak before the pain causes me to lose all control over my people's more violent tendencies and I snap you in half." He said, very matter of factly.

"Why..." I started to say, then stopped still as I thought back to what I had said to him, my mind racing to think about the very words that I had used in my encounter with him.

"I see, you realize that you have in fact lied, or are trying to buy yourself time as you are despicable and are trying top figure a way out of your lie. If that is the case, you must know that it will not work, unless you have come here today to die. Have you come here to die Earther?"  

"No! I have not. And I'll thank you not to cast aspersions on the peoples of the Earth. We're not all heroes of course, what race is filled with the perfect and wonderful?" I said jumping a forward, even though we had clearly established a rule of distance that had to be kept between us. And I had just violated it with my reckless jumping forward. I jumped back and mmade a face, that showed I was aghast at what I had done and that it was not my intent to make things even tenser between us.

"You broke the line Earther. And continue to lie. You must be the worst ambassanaut that they could have chosen because it is only by my sheer force of will that I have not snapped you in half ! Tell me the truth now or I swear that I will snap you in half!" he said, clearly in a rage and so not showing the temperment that one would expect out of an ambassador, which suggested that their leader might well be an idiot, or worse, a hateful Hoebidinth that had risen to power through a series of unfortunate events that had been prevented from happening again, like had happened on Earth. But surely I was overreacting because the Hoebi were surely better than the worst of us. They just had to be.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to, you have to know that since you know that I lied to you." I said, realizing too late that I had admitted to him what I hadn't figured out yet, which was odd, but it was too late to take that back. Defeated, I looked down at the soil beneath me and held my breath, knowing that he was going to unleash his fury and knowing that there was nothing that I could do to stop him from living up to his promise.

"You finally admit the truth then? That you have lying to me since the beginning of our first contact, which makes you the worst possible ambassanaut that your Earth masters could have chosen and their sadness at your demise should be tempered by the sheer idiocy of your behaviour this day. because I am ready to snap you in half." He said, as he crossed the line that was supposed to keep us separated and unlike me, continued to walk towards me.

"Stop right there! You not only broke the line but ignored that you had and continue to walk towards me! You're going to throw away the possibilities of our peoples working together for the betterment of us both because of a lie that I still haven't figured out." I screamed at him as he continued to walk towards me with no intent of stopping.How stupid was it that an unintended lie was going to be the death of me?

"No! I will not listen to you any more! Your lie has been bedvilling me the entire time that we have been speaking and I can bear it no longer. Not that I should have had to bear it at all because believe me, it is very painful to deal with a lying alien scum such as yourself. And if I was not such a believer in the possibility of our two people's working together, I would have snapped you in half already and watched as you leaded out like you richly deserve." And I could not believe that he had straight up told me that he wanted to murder me. How was he the best representative of his people? His "power" to sense lies of any kind, if they had the cost as he described should have ruled him out of this important mission. 

And running away was not an option as they had placed lasers ten feet away from our meeting place. Or so they had said, but I wasn't going to test the truth of their words when their ambassador was clearly not suited for this. Not that I ran, but I slid along any ground with ease. So I was stuck and could only wait for the end of my life in the stupidest of ways, dying because I had spoken an unintended lie. "Please, don't do it, Help me figure this out before you do what can't be undone! It's not too late to salvage the relationship between our two great people." I said as he slowed his approach, like he was trying to savour this moment and remember it after I lay dead at his feet.

"No, you need to suffer as I have suffered for your lie, unintended or not, you denied it past the point that I could stand to bear it. So this was long in coming Earther." He said matter of factly.

"But, but, that's not fair. I didn't set out to lie. And a lie should never be the cause of anyone dying. Especially an ambassanaut that came to your world looking to open up a good dialogue between our people." I said as my heart began to race and I felt like I was die of a heart attack.

"Life is not fair stupid Earther. And the pain that you put me through more than merits this fate that waits you. Your death. As for the reaction of your people who will rage against us for your death. It is laughable to think that we have anything to fear from you because out technology is hundreds of years more advanced than yours. And you were only able to come to our world because of our generosity so you are as much the author of your coming demise as I am." He said, acting like he had said the most reasonable thing.

"What" How can you say such a thing to me? It's beyond stupid that you think what you are doing is anything but wrong!" I said as I made a decision then and there. I wasn't going to do nothing. I was going to fight for my life. And the best way to do that was to charge at him, because surely that was the last thing that he expected me to do as he was certain sure that I was weak and unable to strike back at him. Doing this would prove him wrong. "Curse you Hoebidinth, I am not going to just let you kill me! I am going to take you down!"  

Charles Petrie

Date
01-12-20

Time
11:54-11:59=05,16:52-17:59*=67 And 21:16-23:59=163
235 Minutes

Word Count

138+379+1468=1985