So, I may, or may not have been snooping through Krill's reports while he's returned home for, "mating season" sort of hope he meets a nice hot..... Whatever he is.... What makes you guys attracted to each other anyway...? Is it the size of the inflatable sack or something?

That's beside the point though, I thought you all deserved something from a human perspective. Krill has this tendency to make us sound super freaky. I mean calling babies parasites is a bit much. He makes them sound like monsters who feed of a woman's organs or something like that. I actually think babies are cute, and sure, we eat weird food, but none of us ever get actually HURT by it. The amount of poison in those foods aren't enough to do anything to us, so it's not a big deal.

As for me, it's a little known fact that I was part of the human crew and team that made first contact with E.Ts (Extra-terrestrials). It was the maiden voyage of the USS Enterprise (yeah I know kind of nerdy, but we had to do it. Who makes their first interstellar ship and doesn't name it the Enterprise, it would be sacrilegious). Personally I fancy myself a bit of a Kirk, and Krill could be Spock (Him being the voice of reason and all) you know if Spock had eight legs.... And emotions. Off topic, anyway, I was straight out of the academy had all my limbs and both eyes, and I was chosen as part of the bridge crew for our first voyage.

I was honestly surprised when the thing didn't explode as soon as we went into warp, but we held together, and all of a sudden we are in an entirely different galaxy. It was more intense that I could have imagined. One of our infrared specialists detected hits of a heat signatures on a nearby asteroid, so of course we were going to check it out. I volunteered for the mission first, if anyone was going to see an alien, it was going to be me. So we suited up with a team, and sent a landing craft. Imagine our surprise when we sensed signs of life.

***

"Look at this, Captain, these structures, it's like nothing I've ever seen." Captain Kelly moved over to examine the pillar with the rest of the crew speaking quickly an excitedly.

First Lieutenant Vir ignored them wandering over to the other side of the room to kneel down on the polished stone floor. Through the armored space suit, and full-face glass visor, he examined the walls around him. He already knew what this was, aliens, he was sure.

He glanced down at his equipment glowing softly at him through the visor of the helmet .... Wait, that hadn't been there before.

Atmospheric readings.

But they were in the middle of space..... There shouldn't be atmosphere, and it was a pretty complex one to, sulfur, hydrogen oxygen, and carbon. Still not breathable in those percentages, but... damn.

He turned to get his captain's attention, but just then, a small sound caught him through the microphone of his suit. A soft click, like a rock falling, he snapped his head in that direction, just in time to see a flicker of movement and a dash of metallic blue.

He threw his rifle over his back and bolted after the movement.

"LIEUTENANT."

He ignored the voice and raced after the fleeing figure clambering off the small incline and onto a pathway. He scrambled from his hands and toes onto his feet and followed the creature at a dead sprint. The thing skidded around a corner. He followed slamming into the wall before shaking himself off and giving pursuit.

A moment of pure exhilaration added adrenaline to his run, and he spend closer letting off a gleeful laugh, there were aliens, he knew it, he knew it.

The creature took another hard fast turn, and he raced after it, catching only glimpses as the creature raced forward. It was about waist height, but ran on all fours. It had a tail and maybe.... Six limbs.

So cool.

He had to catch it.

A moment later the thing had bolted into a shaft. He followed looking up watching as the creature was carried up by a thick-fiber rope. Alright, he could do that.

Crawling into the shaft, Lieutenant Vir pressed either leg against the wall and began scuttling up after the thing. He was growing closer.

Through the visor of his helmet, he swore he could hear a high pitched keening note. Was that coming from the creature?

He was close now.

He could see it better, about five feet long all together, with six limbs and a tail. Reaching out, he snatched at the tail. The keening continued as the creature hurried it's frantic pace upwards. Its body was covered in a thin hide like snake skin metallic blues and purples leading up to an almost raptor-like head.

He must be dreaming, there was no way this was happening. He scrambled from the shaft racing after the creature and quickly catching up, at the last moment, the thing took a sharp turn leading him into another wide room. It was made almost like an amphitheater starting with a small bowl and widening upwards towards the top. Thousands of dark black eyes blinked at him from those heights. Glowing substances cast the room into bright green luminance.

And then a circle of trailing water burst down from the ceiling crashing around him to the floor trailing away at the edges of the room. He stopped where he was in confusion and shock.

What the hell.

The creature he had been chasing collapsed near the far end of the chamber body rising and falling heavily.

He looked around at the water again, realizing awkwardly how this must look. He didn't mean to scare the creature, and now that the thing had stopped running, it probably meant it thought it was safe.... How would water stop him though? Vir decided to stay where he was for the moment, maybe let them ease up.

He waved a hand at them through the trails of water.

"Hey, it's alright, I'm not going to hurt anyone. I just want to talk."

The room around him shifted. He could see it through the visor of his helmet.

Hm.... Well it wasn't really likely they could understand him, was it?

He paused shrugged, and stepped through the wall of water, shaking himself as he came out wiping droplets from his visor.

The room broke into pandemonium as the creatures freaked out. Water cannons went of splashing him from left to right with the substance. It wasn't even enough to knock him off his feet, and he just stood there hands raised in front of his visor.

He had a feeling that if he had brought a super soaker to the party, than he would absolutely dominate.

Eventually the water ran out and he was still standing looking up at them with his arms crossed.

"Are you done?"

The room was very still.

Wiping his gloves on some of the glowing moss, he approached the first creature, curious. It pulled back against the wall still breathing heavily.

He glanced at his hands to make sure there were no water droplets left. It was probably allergic or something, maybe?

He reached out.

The creature pulled back

He tried to be gentle, running a gloved hand along its ridged back as it pulled away from him. He patted it a few more times. Wow, it felt weird.

That's when Captain Kelly and the others burst into the room, "ADAM!" They held their weapons up brandishing them at the creatures high above.

"STOP." Vir yelled, "STOP."

They did, weapons still aimed.

"Damn Lieutenant, are you ok/"

He walked over, "I'm alright, I think I freaked them out a bit though." He wasn't expecting the open hand slap that clubbed him on the side of the helmet. And the other one as the captain backhanded and then forehanded him repeatedly, "You... absolute..... F******.... idiot..... You could have gotten yourself killed."

It hit him only then what he had done.

Whoops

"Sorry, Captain, I guess I just got.... A little overenthusiastic "

She glared at him through the glass in her visor, "Deal with you, later. Idiot boy."

He wilted and moved to the back of the group.

But secretly, inside he was thrilling with their discovery.

It must have been a dream, who would have thought he, and average kid from earth would have been the first to whiteness E.T life

****

I like to think I've grown up a bit since then. Not so dumb as to chase unknown lifeforms by myself in an unknown alien ship. For that I was NEARLY demoted, and suspended from active missions for over a year. The crew also made up an entire reward ceremony for the, and I quote "THE UNIVERSE'S BIGGEST IDIOT." As far as I know, I think it's still instituted in some areas of the glazy.

So you see, first contact story, no big deal, pretty innocuous if you ask me. Nothing to show that humans are scary or anything.

I honestly don't know where all these weird rumors came from.

Humans aren't scary.