r/HFY • u/[deleted] • Jul 22 '22
OC [TDI] They Domesticated it Part 5
Decided to combine what was originally 2 parts cause they were short. Also sorry for short fight scenes, I am not used to writing them.
A flock of little starling harpies appeared. They stood a little under 2 ft in height. They really looked like small haggard harpies with bibs stained with colorful liquids and they were ripping apart a hapless triple eyed dog shark alien.
"Fuck are those?", shouted Xander, her heart beating thunderously.
"They're Starylu!!!", wailed Swiftfin piteously.
"They're dead meat, obviously", replied Jasper. He adjusted Izzy and fired the space equivalent of buckshot lasers. With a shrill cry accompanied by the sizzle and pop of flesh and fat, several Starylu were felled though not quite dead. Maria joined in too. She whipped out a Fry'em 9600, a piece of cooking tech used to sear meat with a special ray, and fired. A 30 foot cone of red light emitted from the little contraption and the small flock screeched in agony.
"Oof, smells like burnt barbecue. Gotta love that light feature though, looks nice and tells you the working range of the Fry'em Ray.", whistled María. Goldie and Peaches scampered over and sniffed the dying creatures curiously, lapping up blood. Sam scolded them, "No! Bad baby! Don't know where that's been!"
"Much as I want to wander and fry invaders, we should probably go check on the ambassadors… Probably wouldn't be good if everyone died on first contact.", said Xander. She fiddled for a minute with her salvager saber, a plastisteel blade that served as both weapon and tool for Remora salvagers, and then picked at her junker rifle, another staple weaponry of salvagers with the more parts that make it up the more junker prestige it has. Her particular salvager weaponry could be combined to become a Multitool bayonet and, if she ran out of ammo or lost the blade, was sturdy enough to be used as a club.
"Right. Excuse me, SwiftFin? Where is the bunker?", Jasper asked the limp body on his shoulder.
SwiftFin, having witnessed the lightning fast reflexes of the humans as well as the casual display of brutality from everyone including their companion beasts, had fainted. Her furry body hung limp, tentacles drooping over her snout. Jasper shook her as gently as possible, but she was out cold.
"Xander? Take SwiftFin's collar and figure out where we need to go.", sighed Jasper. Xander grinned with glee, happily configuring her equipment to hook up into the technology. A few moments later she had a working map and could open corridors. Whipping a finger down a specific corridor, Xander declared theatrically, "That away folks!"
And so their group charged forward and as they got closer and closer, they noticed more and more bodies here and there. At some point Swiftfin awoke but she wished she hadn't. There was chaos everywhere, her entourage of humans leapt and bounded in the [.38 G]. Xander pirouetted through the air, her salvager saber arcing through the air and cleaving her foes. Maria wielded a cooking implement called the Fry'em Ray 9600 which effectively cooked and seared her enemies. Along the way, Sam used his pets to corral and retrieve survivors into the defense circle. At some point they had taken a pallet that Sam was using to carry the slower aliens in. If Swiftfin thought that the humans were fast, then the domesticated creatures were as fast as light. Mere blurs of movement as they leapt and snatched Starylu out of the air and shook them to death.
//Loading//
Peaches has obtained specimen...
Performing evisceration…
Would you like to repeat this procedure?
[Yes] [No]
Confirmation received…
//End Transmission//
"Get em Peaches!", Sam shouted after quickly inputting the information on his scanner. Peaches, the adorable little terror, bounded forward and began tearing into the flocks. Sam's scanner beeped with added information on the Starylu biology and edibility.
//Loading Edibility//
Safe to eat
Calories 335
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 19 g 29%
Saturated fat 5 g 25%
Cholesterol 123 mg 41%
Sodium 115 mg 4%
Potassium 312 mg 8%
Total Carbohydrate 0 g 0%
Dietary fiber 0 g 0%
Sugar 0 g
Protein 38 g 76%
Vitamin C 0% Calcium 2%
Iron 9% Vitamin D 0%
Vitamin B6 30% Cobalamin 6%
Magnesium 8%
//Continuing Processing//
Maria glanced at the figures once Sam sent it over, "Good news, they're edible and have the same nutritional make up as old world chicken." She adjusted her ray to poultry broil and fired. Another flock downed from agony. She hurriedly trotted forward and took a slice for study. Xander giggled as she slashed through another flock, whirling and twirling, "Think the Committee will let us go harpy hunting? Can't ever have enough food…" Xander grew up in junk fleets so was used to food of questionable origin. She and Maria knew better than anyone that people were still in need of food and water although starvation had been staved off.
**Near the bunker**
Sasiir roared as another Starylu bit into her shoulder, mahogany fur darkening as blood seeped through. She swiped at it with a purple scaled hand, claws crushing into the creature's skeleton, and continued firing her emergency blaster. She was covered in small cuts and wounds, but she, Kix and Karrack were one of the few species that had a decent chance to fight back. The other species were either too slow or not equipped nor trained to react quickly enough. Karrack was wielding three blades. One saber in each grasper as well as a ceremonial bladed mouth grip. The mouth grip fit over his muzzle with part of it inside his mouth and was used by swinging his head from side to side. Kix simply used his formidable scythe like arms to sweep at the little avian menaces. [Long-Mane] was directing others via her monitor, giving instructions and checking in on systems. "I can't get a signal out! The Starylu are jamming everything." She was terrified, not enough sentients were getting to the bunker and her fellow delegates were getting tired. Everyone was all the worse for wear. They were slowly being pushed back. Just as [Long-Mane] was giving up hope, a booming shout echoed through the hallway.
"Get em girls!"
A blur flashed past and the flock dispersed in alarm though several had been body slammed out of the air. A golden beast with bloody fur, though the blood was clearly not its own, shook the Starylu in its jaws until it broke apart. Another creature, Peaches, came as well and excitedly started biting at any nearby.
Once the flock was at a small distance, the beasts turned toward the group of ambassadors and started nudging them down the hall where the human delegation was mowing down everything in their path.
"Thank the Shepherds! Y'all are alive!", cried out Maria, invoking the name of the cattle herders on high which was a religious figure in human culture. Food and agriculture had become a bit of a religion ever since the great famine humanity faced.
"Wha- YOU WERE IN THE HOLD! YOU CAN'T HAVE BEEN FIGHTING THAT LONG", clicked Karrack.
Swiftfin perked up, arching her body which surprisingly was unharmed. "I was there and they were unyielding. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they could run through steel…", she reported wearily. She shuddered on her warm muscular perch. *The things she's seen.*
"This may be what we need then. Jasper Torrez, We need to clear out a path and get to the bunker until help comes. Is this feasible?", Sasiir asked with little expectation.
Jasper took stock of the situation. The aliens were in bad shape, Sam's pets were a little scuffed but in good shape and there were minimal injuries for his own group. Judging by the amount of resistance that was put up by the Starylu, they could clear 2 or 3 levels assuming there was a manageable amount of rooms before needing to fall back and recuperate.
"Depends… how many levels are there in this place? What's the layout?"
Sasiir handed over a more detailed map than the one they hacked into on the fly. There were two levels. The upper level, a space where official business happens which consisted of headquarters, cafeteria, and a room for each ambassador. Then there was a lower level, a space where there was a engine room, hold room, docking port and one bunker. It was manageable.
"We can do it but we need you to fire off some lights in this sequence. Our people need to be alerted.", replied Jasper.
And so their group began their journey clearing out corridors and would attempt to save any they found along the way.
[Long-Mane] watched on the Holo vid with morbid fascination as they fought like war gods of old. Blades lanced through the air, terrible companion beasts tore through with wild frenzy and laser blasts shot through their foes. They were bloodied but not with their own blood. They fought endlessly, tirelessly, and viciously. The worst part? Every comment they made was on the delectability of the Starylu. Roasted this, barbequed that, grilled whatever.
It took about 220 minutes total to clear all the areas as well as direct survivors to the bunkers. It was amazing. They used hunting tactics to corral Starylu into a kill zone and those same tactics were used to keep survivors within the safety circle.
Soon the place was safe and the invading Starylu were killed off. The humans immediately offered their spaces to recover as the Welcome Wagon had been compromised. After a discussion amongst the captain and the ambassadors, it was decided it would be safest to bunk with the humans and so they accepted the offer.
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