Hey, InterNutter? Do you think we could get the enemy's view of this? I mean, seeing a human tripping big time on stims rushing their camp like that? I mean, some of the enemy survived to report the counter, right? That might be fun to see. Please?
@internutter/challenge-02745-g188-use-only-as-directed -- Anon Guest
They'd missed one. They'd missed more than one, and they knew it. But it was one that was dangerous. They were barely glimpsed, but all footage identified it as the same Human. Traces left behind were horrifying.
The wings of a local bird, torn off with Human teeth. Deceased troop members, smashed to death with blunt instruments that included rocks, sticks, and bare fists, as evidenced by the blood left on the scenes. Some deceased troop members had also been partially devoured. Pulled apart with hands and teeth.
Some reported terrifying cries in the night. Some footage showed a being moving impossibly fast, with impossible aggression, destroying everything in their path, freeing up fellow Humans that they had held captive. Even more terrifying was that the chief aggressor could haul away injured Humans on an improvised sled on their own. With the weight of five Humans and supplies piled on by the walking wounded allies.
Debriefing the survivors much, much later would reveal that the one they called Destructor was burdened like that so that their allies could keep up. They needed to slow the one named Steev down enough so that they could all rely on their chemically-augmented abilities.
At the time, they could not know that. At the time, what they knew was that their encampments and prison bases were falling, randomly, one by one. None could tell which encampment would be next. All they had in the way of warning was a column of smoke from a neighbouring camp that fell.
Even then, being ready for attack did not guarantee safety. It did not even guarantee defence. They could not, as it happened, anticipate true Human madness. The strategy of those who travelled with Human Steev had a simple strategy. Point them at an enemy camp, let them loose, and follow at their own pace with whatever they had to hand.
Humans could do incredible things with whatever they had to hand. It was one of their gifts.
It still took them three weeks after surrender to isolate and restrain Human Steev and work on disarming the chemical augmentation, as well as undoing the damage wrought by the rampage.
Human Steev, they were reassured, was a "teddy bear" under normal circumstances. Having looked up Terran bears... they wisely decided not to mess with Humans ever again for the rest of time.
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