Have you even seen humans stomping their feet while chanting the same thing all at once? It’s sometimes hard to believe they’re not a hive mind
-- Anon Guest
[AN: Video linked contains swearwords and is a war scene]
They said the Human colonists were sessile. They were weak and vulnerable. Look at them, not a single weapon in their entire set of settlements. They were fat and lazy. Allegedly. I learned, just as many of my unit did, that our leaders lied to us.
There is no such thing as an unarmed Human.
They took up tools for construction, random heavy objects, and blades for preparing food, and turned them against us. They organised in less than minutes. We thought their scattering was submission. They were only retreating to regroup.
We followed them to an open field they had marked for one of their games. Upright sticks marked opposite ends and some Humans had gathered at one side. They all turned towards us as one being.
As one being, they stomped on the ground. They clashed things in their arms together in a rhythm with the stomping. One of them started chanting.
I will never forget that chant for the rest of my life. Especially the part where all of the other Humans joined in. They never broke rhythm. They all moved as one. These were not a hive mind. We had been told. They had been tested. Yet... in that moment, they were one mind in many bodies.
Zox said, "They're farmers. This is a show," and charged. Half my unit joined her.
Half my unit died the instant they were within range.
I broke. I ran. Maybe that was why I lived. Maybe it was my panic and the unpredictable path I took from their city that saved my life.
We were two hundred in our unit.
Three made it home alive. Fifty survived the onslaught, but died of their injuries as the smoke began to clear.
There is no such thing as an unarmed Human.
They will use their tools. They will use random objects. They will use chemistry. They will use their own bodies.
There is nothing more terrifying than a group of humans with the collective determination to see you gone. I lie. There is one thing: a single, angry Human with nothing left to lose.
I thank the Powers That Be that I never encountered one of those.
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