ThisâŚthis is what weâve been working for. Most of us were going to welcome the end of the world. We were just going to pop open a beer and watch it wash over us and just say âThank fuck its overâ.
Then they let us loose. They picked me and twenty others to be part of this special ops. We were to fight the menace by any means necessary. I donât even think they wanted any of the humans to survive. They just wanted to take the aliens down with us.
âŚthat would have been easy. We didnât want easy. There was hate in our hearts. For the aliens and what they were doing, for the humans and what they did to invoke their wrath and for everything in between. They got a bunch of angry nerds together and told us to kill everything that was a threat.
We worked hard, but for us it was fun. It was fun getting to play with things theyâd never let us touch before. Virus strains that were myths in sub reddits. Bacteria that could turn bone to dust in minutes. We even had their bodies to study.
Why did they pick us? We had already lost everything, yes we were angry but we were also just prepared to die. They knew our minds, we took a test online for fun. We were going to become slaves, why not waste time. We all scored the highest at what they wanted, intellect and low on morality. There is no honor here, just victory.
We came up with the computer virus first. Oddly enough they did you binaryâŚwhich was a question we couldnât figure out the answer to. Why? A lot of their tech was at its most basic level, kind maybe sort of similar to ours. We took over their ships. We didnât just crash their systems, we were able to remote pilot them. Humans died of courseâŚthey were held in prisoner chambers and didnât get out in time when we started to smash them together. That was our mistake, we corrected it the next time we did itâŚand they got away mostly.
Then we found something odd. They donât produce antibodies. They stayed safe by staying sterile. They had to put a lot of effort into keeping everything clean and free of infections. So we got to play with little probes that smashed into the hull of a ship and delivered sickness. Cold, Flu, COVID, what ever we could get our hands on. That killed MILLIONS, especially when we started to attack mother ships.
They got mad and wanted us to fight with more honor.
So you know what we did. We found their home world, infected a ship and crashed it into the capital. I was the first pilots, GODS It was fun. I felt like that cowboy who rode that atom bomb to the ground in that old movie, Dr. Strangelove. SaveâŚI lived.
Our population was destroyed of course, but less so than if we were conquered. We wasted them in the dirtiest way possible. We won, and that is what they wanted. Though something stranger happened after that.
Other species came out of the woodwork after that. Because of what we did they were able to break free. They paid us tribute, wealth, tech, alliances. The twenty of us amoral bastards were heroes. NONE Of us knew what to do with that. We werenât good people, none of us were good people. I guess it pays to be on the winning side of history. If my wife was alive, sheâd be laughing her ass off that was for sure. She knew I saw myself as the villain. I burned worlds to avenge her, still doesnât feel like enough.
