Mortal Protection Services Chapter 9: IV.T: The Terran

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IV.T: The Terran Intervene. Now! But, why? My super-consciousness flooded me with knowledge, or... maybe I already knew that stuff, and it just got boiled up to the surface. I knew it was time to intervene. Now. The Scourge - recently warp capable - was only a scant, fifty light years away from the edge of the small Krethellic-Terran society. Fuck me. That is less than decade away at their current speeds and they'll only get faster... Maybe it'll take a little longer if it gets distracted by some friendlies stabbing it in the ass and slowing it down. "I need to go back. I need to join the terrans. I need to go right now." The imperative from my super-consciousness had... changed me. I decided to go. How very unlike me, deciding. There was a flash of white. It was so bright I couldn't open my eyes, it was like they were brand new and had never seen light before. Go figure. It was taking a bit to adjust to non-hyperspace. Everything is, and there's not nearly enough isn't. Or any isn't at all. I needed a bit to get used to existing again. I tried to will time to stop... But, it obviously did not. Ugh. The regular, constant flow of time. Oppressive . There was a woman screaming - and something chittering wildly - and a speaker with a screaming robotic voice? Oh, right. That was translating for the Krethellic clyman. That's who was chittering wildly, nothing to worry about, just a 1.8 meter tall, fuzzy bugperson. The floor was cold on my bare skin. Oh... I understood what they were screaming about, I was naked. Very funny, Jim. Very funny. "Who the hell are you!?" A new robotic voice asked, the preceding chitters sounded angrier than ones that made the other robotic voice. "And how the fuck did you get in here?" A human male voice tacked on. At least Jim let me understand the Terran language, instead of leaving me with whatever 1500 year old English I used to know. "I'm..." I took a moment to think about my name, I had had a name before abstaining, hadn't I? Could I use that? I tried to draw it up from ancient memory, but when I spoke, I said... "I'm Dilt. Dilt Bifferent." WHAT!? That... That was most assuredly, not my fucking name before. This reeked of Jim's meddling. Well played Jim, well fucking played. I don't know how, but I'll get you back for this... lovely new name. I hope my super consciousness shits in your hyperspace breakfast cereal. "Dilt?" The man snickered. I think he was the one that tossed a jacket over my waist. It came from his direction anyhow. "Bifferent." The woman said. She was trying hard to be less amused than the man, but I could hear the humor in her voice. The second Krethellic clyman's chittering started, and their robotic voice began, "This isn't a time or place for jokes. What is your real name, human, and how did you get in here? This a top secret laboratory." "YES! A secret military research facility. Subspace telescopes." I gave my eyes another try, and they seemed to be working, if a touch painful to use. "I decided on this place because it is the most likely place in Terran, Krethellic controlled territory to successfully build a subspace enfuckulator." The others were stunned into silence... or maybe horrified into it. My vision changed from painfully bright, blurry images, to not quite painful, bright blurry images. After a few blinks I finally started to get some clarity, some focus. Ah, florescent lights, a human/terran/gaian classic. Wonderful. I wrapped the jacket around my waist and tried to stand up and immediately regretted it. I got half way to standing, and found the floor rushing back up to meet me. This fresh body... was not fully online just yet. At least I'd covered my shame. "Oh shit! Ouch, dude! Are you... okay?" the human male asked. His hand wrapped around my arm and sat me upright. "I... yes? Maybe. That really hurt." I tried to smile, but I had just split my lip kissing the floor, and it hurt worse to smile. "I was just born a second ago." "That flash of light, was you? Bei