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"But why is it FRIEND SHAPED?"

Deborah stamped her foot in protest at her commanding officer. She had never gotten used to addressing an alien by that title, let alone a Sulfur based entity who's smell was an acquired taste.

"Private Ranor, please stop referring to subject 27 as 'friend shaped' it has several fatal appendages that are indeed, not friendly."

His tentacle covered half of his face in his approximation of disapproval. When he looked up Deborah's wide eyes almost allowed him to fall in with the Human's psychic net. They're ability to manipulate empathy pathways had allowed them to pack bond with almost anything, but a Sla'Kerl? The home world of that creature could be put into a manual for the remarkable way life exists where it is not wanted. Unfortunately for Deborah the Sla'Kerl's non-combative form depicted a small fur ridden creature.

"Commander, I understand we found it in toxic waste and what not. But between me and you, it's not that dangerous, is it?"

His fins stood on edge at the seemingly innocent question. Humans stood on the threshold of the universe, not yet knowing its dangers from the dangers of their home world. Zarn took a minute to try and read through a statistical graph depicting the Terran system's habitable world. To his surprise the creature's planet almost perfectly aligned with the creatures core needs. He allowed Sulfur to blast through his gills from his pack before speaking.

"I suppose with the running similarity you could perhaps keep this creature in your hab-"

"Oh commander you will not regret this, I will feed it and give it all the nutrient soup it can eat."

Deborah retrieved the creature from its observation cage and held it above her head in the light. It flexed four of its front legs allowing the sharpened chitin to lightly fit it to the front of the woman. When she confirmed that the Sla'Kerl was secure she made her way for the door.

"You will have nothing but good things to say about.."

She turned and gave an exacerbated look, as if the stars had started to fall.

"Well it needs a name now that it's all mine doesn't it?"

She turned and continued making her way out of the room, red marks already on her bare shoulders where the Sla'Kerl gripped her.

"You shall be Zachary, do you like that na-"

The door closed on Zarn and he allowed himself to fall into his seat with a thud. He heard stories of Sla'Kerl's being used as weapons of war, and he had just seen one mew at a human as it would her mother.

"What the hell ARE these hairless primates."

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Submitted by TeamComprehensive750 on Mon, Jun 26, 2023 to /r/WritingPrompts/

The prompt

"A warning: Humans, from the planet known to them as Earth, will adopt anything they deem childlike and will go to extreme lengths to protect that adopted creature and spoil it to eternity." The high representative's letter addressed to the galaxy read as some previous incidents became clear.