Here’s Another Fraggie

When I read a story by Akyana (seriously have to love the internet- where else can you go by a nickname and be taken “serious” )I was seriously impressed. I will be posting her stories on my site. But I was SO impressed that I stole some ideras of hers to work on this fraggie  I DO want to do something with these ideas – could rule

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“When your people contacted us-” he said, typing quickly on the keypad as the monitor flickered through differing displays. His bulging belly made it only slightly harder to type, getting in the way only a little. The building shook again, like a series of growing earthquakes.

“Your government contacted us, you were desperate,” she said in mild protest. The growing thundering shakes of the building frightened her, but the buildings were constructed to withstand massive earthquakes- and she had been in this building through some very horrifying earthquakes and never even lost a drinking glass.

“Details,” he said with a shrug. “Anyway, as you can see, before contact, there were over ten billion human beings on the face of your planet.”

“I’ve read about that,” she said. Her face was tight with fright and stress.

“But then we came and started eating you,” he said, and she shuddered. “As you can see,” and the screen display flickered again. “There are now less than four billion human beings left. The ideal population level was set at six billion, but we’re all really hungry…” He smiled again, eyes closed. The bulge in his stomach writhed again, the woman inside him still alive- she would still live, trapped in his stomach, until he started digesting her- something that didn’t usually start until twelve or so hours after he swallowed a woman whole and alive. “If we did decide to just eat all of you and take the planet as ours, there doesn’t seem to be anything you could do about it.”

The shuddering outside suddenly resolved itself to be a giant anthro, fully one hundred feet tall, crashing into view through the picture window. It’s belly was swollen hugely, stuffed tightly with hundreds of swallowed women. The creature, a giant lizard/human anthro, was staggering from the concentrated weapons fire from the human soldiers surrounding it. Some of the soldiers were in the air, flying like human insects, firing their weapons into the ears and eyes of the mortally wounded anthro.

Sara and Steve moved together, forgetting their differing species, both of them terrified by the gigantic creature outside the window as it staggered down the street. Beings like this were a menace to human and anthro alike, eating both with abandon. Steve had never actually seen a macro anthro being taken down by human beings, always having believed that to be a myth. Humans couldn’t do something like that, and he held that belief close to him like a religion.

Finally, with a horrifying crash, the lizard being died on it’s feet- it stopped walking, it’s giant flailing limbs falling limply to it’s side. Then, like a building falling in on itself, it toppled where it stood- it’s head crashing to the ground as it’s knees impacted, and the whole body falling to it’s side against the buildings around it. Falling glass glittered in the air like daystars.

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Outside, one of the soldiers flew down and landed next to her sergeant.

“What do we do now?” she asked.

“Well, we wait until word comes down about what to do with the corpse.” They both looked at the corpse where it lay.

“Should we open it up, maybe see if there’s anyone still alive in the stomach?” asked the flyer.

“Nah,” said the sergeant. “We don’t do anything without orders.”

“I bet a lot of women in that belly are still alive,” she said.

“I bet most of them are,” said the sergeant without a hesitation. “And if orders come in fast enough, I bet a few of them will still be alive when we get it cut open. But we don’t move without orders.”

They both shuffled their feet for a few seconds. “I still think-”

“Don’t think, it hurts. We don’t do a thing without orders. The last team that opened an anthro isn’t even in the military any more- the ones that are still alive, that is.”

“Those women in there-”

“I know. Even though the brain is dead, the body will still live for an hour or two. Anyone in the stomach and intestines of that thing will be digested over the next two hours- the ones that haven’t suffocated. But again, we don’t touch that thing until orders come down.”

“Ok,” she said.

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Steve was still silent as Sara moved to the window to watch.

“I guess we can fight back some,” she said.

“I- yeah, I guess you can,” he said, slowly. From what they had seen, it was obvious that, should they wish, the humans could fight back- could probably rid the planet of every anthro in time. That put a different point in his personal worldview and he didn’t like it.