Where do all the weirdos go? (ES 3)
Lefty and Righty’s grubs were hard at work trying to dig through the through ground. After a while they managed to conquer the dirt, allowing the pair of eyeballs to hop into their burrows and close their lids. Once inside they commenced contemplation, communicating via their antennas, trying to make sense of what they had experienced since their arrival on this strange planet.
L: “Whooooow”
R: “Ahrwuuuuuuu”
L: “What in the name of O was all of that Rwrevk? These earthlings are so confusing! How do they even know what’s happening around them??”
R: “Right? All this randomness!”
L: “Everything happened so fast — and there were so many things to look at!”
R: “Was that what O always warned us about?! The chaos of scurrying individuums?
Being unprepared for this kind of environment, my two creatures seem unable to comprehend how interaction can be coordinated without a central nervous system controlling it.
R: “Did you also feel that strange sensation in the center of your body, Lnkroft?”
L: “Yaa! It felt like something was twisting inside me! It was horrific but I somehow enjoyed it… Finally something to tempt our senses! So much excitement! Isn’t that what we always wanted Righty?”
R: “I guess so… It has just been so much at once.”
This was the first time my mutants felt the emotion you humans call fear. A strange but evolutionarily sensible reaction that many creatures experience when under stress.
While they didn’t really know how to contextualize their feelings, they knew it wasn’t primarily positive. At the same time, they experienced the satisfaction of overcoming fears. Emotions have long been eradicated on O as they were an unnecessary hindrance, but maybe the emergence of annoying ideas like individualism are bound to my creature’s redevelopment of emotional reactions.
After Lefty and Righty spent some more time pondering their new experiences, they started wondering what to do next.
“This Fitchliking thingy the Detlef spoke about seems like a good way to get around.” Righty stated. “At least until we manage to befriend one of those metallic creatures!”
“So what do we do now?? Where do we go?” Lefty responded.
“He was talking about something called north, wasn’t he? Maybe that’s the place to find other WEIRDOS? We might not be the only ones on this planet after all.” Righty surmised, with surprising clairvoyance.
After their packs had clambered out of the hole and reattached onto their backs they were ready to return to the highway rest stop. Arriving there, they were once again confronted with the swirling mayhem of human means of transportation. Remembering the advice Detlef had given them, they looked for a sign. Suddenly Lefty’s antenna’s began to tickle with delight; it looked down to find an odoriferous old pizza carton below its foot and used its black eye-liquid to smear ‘Nord’ on it. They walked to the end of the rest stop to engage with the bypassing metallic creatures and to their surprise there was another entity standing there, sticking its thumb out. Well, to be exact it wasn’t a thumb, but four pointy sticks that are attached to a green lumpy and spindle-legged body. Its eyes are hardly recognizable and attached on the two opposing sides of is torso while his ‘head’ was topped of with antler-like protrusions.
“Hey there! Some other weirdos on the road, ha? Nice to see that.” the stranger called out.
Lefty jumped forward grabbing his hand and shaking it furiously “I’m Lnkroft and youuu?”
“AND I AM CALLED RWREVK.” Righty shouted from behind.
Their antennas were wiggling wildly and their eyeballs scanned the new creature vigorously.
“Ehhh, haha, you can call me Ricardo” the stranger answered, amused by these two weirdos. Their appearance reminded him of some other aliens he met years ago at a nomad base.
I will have to admit that Lefty and Righty are not the first of my creatures I sent out to experiment on Earth. Earth has actually been a playground for many alien races in the past. One of the major reasons seems to be that humans have a tendency to ignore anything that would shatter their worldview, and alien creatures hitchhiking in their cars fall exactly under that category. This mental block acts as the perfect disguise for oozing multicolored aliens with tentacles that would otherwise be shot at first sight and dissected for research. Young children are an exception to that rule as their brains have not yet developed the capacity to ignore/to filter out what is really important. Luckily, adults don’t listen to their children when they start talking about trolls other magical creatures, and disregard them as ‘fairy tales’ or flights of fancy. In general, humans seem to be experts in blinding out and forgetting things, attributes which make them perfect guinea pigs. But let’s return to the roadside.
“You don’t exactly look like a WEIRDO! On O we never saw a creature like you!” Righty stated looking at Ricardo’s unfamiliar body “But you also don’t resemble any other earthling we have seen so far!”
“Ähh, well most humans think I am rather weird once I start talking. I am not a earthling though! I come from a Planet called Novelzetla. It’s just a few million light years away, much closer to the center of our Galaxy.” Ricardo answered.
“So there are creatures from other planets here? HOW WONDERFUL!” Lefty cried out.
“We are from Planet O and just arrived here. It has been rather confusing! Those humans don’t really seem to understand that we are different!?” Righty remarked.
“Well they are famous around the universe for that, aren’t they?” Ricardo responded bursting out in laughter and spitting seed-like chunks all over Righty’s eye.
“Ouch! What on O was that for?” Righty cried out as it began its eyeball cleansing dance.
“Eheee, sorry mate! Didn’t mean to, can’t control it sometimes. But keep them, maybe you can use them one day! Where are you heading anyways?”, asked Ricardo.
“North!” Lefty shouted, overly excited, “NORTH NORTH NORTH!”
“Hahaha, can’t wait to get going, can you? I am also going north. There is a meeting of a whole bunch of other weirdos all the way up in Norway! All Hitchhikers! Did you hear about it?” Ricardo took out a big piece of paper with hundreds of lines and dots on it.
“Take a look at the map! Here is meeting spot. It’s near a city called Oslo in the troll forest next to the troll lake. Everybody is welcome so feel free to come by! It’s gonna be awesome, believe me!“ he continued.
Utilizing the impressive scanning abilities which all of my surveillance creatures possess, they were able to record all the information the map had to offer. “Well thank you! This is a beautiful … thingy. So many details to soak in!” Lefty responded in awe at the colorful patterns and lines on the piece of paper.
The only problem is that they totally lack the ability to understand it.
Just then a car stopped next to them. Ricardo ran for it to talk with the driver. When he came back he said: “You guys go first. He only has space for two. I will find a car easily, no worries. See you at the gathering!”
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