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Azure Rain adjusts her suit, and then presses the button to accept the holocall, a wild assortment of holographic races appearing in front of her. She’s not surprised by them as she used to be. She’s what is called the ‘Administrator’ (well it’s called the Skelletofaxis but it roughly means administrator) she manages the planet’s senator, so she had seen this a lot, And now it’s time to ser if Earth’s current chosen Senator, Emily Parsons is up to snuff. The current head of the Parliament, a large porcine figure named, Hotuck, speaks. “We have looked over your application, and are very pleased with Emily Parsons.”

Azure smiled. “Perfect. It took us some time but we thought she would-“

“There is an issue however.”

The blue haired woman tilts her head. “Problem?” She had read over the application nearly a thousand times.

“Yes. Where are the other three applications.”

“….Three?”

“Yes. Three.”

Azure blinks rapidly. “I don’t understand.”

“The Galactic Parliament chooses one senator of each sapient species from each member planet.” Azure continues to stare in noncomprehension. “For instance, Emily is a woman, where is the species that breeds with them? The man?” Azure’s face continues to show confusion until it breaks and she falls into peals of laughter which is echoed by the holograms around her.

“Ok. I see the confusion. Men and Women aren’t other species! They are just our names for males and females.” It is now time for the aliens to look confused, Hotuck’s face looks particularly befuddled around his tusks.

“Male, and Female?”

Azure assumes there must be a bug in the translator. That has happened. “Our Sexes.”

“Is not sex how you reproduce?” Asks, Genegen the many eyed, Tellen senator.

“Yes. But it also the name for how we divide the beings who can breed with each other.” The parliament looks confused until someone speaks up.

“Similar to how Resdens breed with the Desrens on our planet?” Speaks a red hulking individual, Azure had previously identified as male, who is sitting next to the blue individual she had identified as female who was the other species on their planet. Thinking she had found sense, Azure says

“Yes. Just like that.” That’s when the yelling starts. Azure can’t quite pick out a single word among it all, eventually Hotuck, presses a button and all the holograms are muted, no sound coming from them until they notice, and their mouths..and other verbal appendages stop moving.

“One at a time.” He pulls his finger off the button, and a jellyfish looking creature says “The Azure-form claimed Man and Women are not other species, yet they are like the Resdens, and the Desrens who are alternate species.”

“I see, what Jeej-form is saying.” Hotuck starts, “You claims that the species yours breeds with, the man is not another species, yet you breed with them, as the rest of the parliament does with their paired species.

“Wait. You all breed with different species?” Every single being in speaks up with their version of yes. Azure is stumped until she finally offers a weak, “We don’t. Uh. We’ve tested Men and Women separately and while there are many differences, we are the same species. Tests have shown, from the dawn of time. All our animals except a few have that division, sexes we call it.” The alien species slowly nod, seeming to get it.

“So the divisions we have seen among similar species on your planet is just the…breeding pairs of one species?” Hotuck asks.

“Yes! There you are!”

“So we are not missing three applications.”

“You are not.” Azure says, calming down.

“We are missing just one. From …our scans show they are called the Dragons.” Azure nods.

“As the liaison between the species on your planet, it is up to you to secure an application from them, but we will give you time, as if this senator is as good as Emily Parsons it will be worth it. Keep up the good work Administrator.” The other species slowly blink out, and Azure brushes her hair back, and then the end of the call sinks in and her eyes widen and face goes slack.

“Did Hotuck say DRAGONS?!”

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Said the child as he approached the group of men who were robbing him at knife point.

The men laughed, not knowing what would be worse than death. The child, only armed with a school pencil, lunged forward at his assailants- it did little, as the men easily pushed three small prepubescent boy to the ground and took his wallet.

As the men prepared to deliver the final killing blow, a faint song can be heard in the distance.

“Some body once told me….”

It sounded like… Smash Mouth, all stars.

Suddenly, one of the three robbers imploded, as Shrek emerged from his chest cavity. Covered in gore and completely naked, Shrek grabbed the other two robbers, crumpled them into a ball that resembled an onion, and stuck them between his big, smelly toes.

The boy looked on in horror, to which the Ogre Lord addressed him:

“Ah laddie. Better in than out I always say…”

The boy, knowing he failed Shrek by being defeated in combat, was powerless against him and his mighty Shrek energy. Shrek grabbed the boy, placed him in his mouth, and swallowed him whole- the boy’s screamed drowned out the by deafening sound of Smash Mouth- All Stars playing loudly from the background.

Never watched Beast Machines (do you mean the Beast Wars series?) but I assume it was just a triple-changer that refused to become a robot.

I thought the fourth member would have been the phone, which was secretly controlled somehow by a sentient artificial intelligence, which would have also explained the ability to achieve interstellar contact.

I really like your take on this.

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I forgot about them.

Instead I was thinking of that one creature from Beast Machines. Its name was Noble/Savage, and its transformation from "beast to beast" was really confusing to the rest of the cast. Turns out the mystery was explained by >!No i'm not spoiling it for you!<

Uh no I don’t believe that is the right solution. Love is awesome, it is what defines us humans! It is not loving to seek the death of all serpents, and it is not love to seek the death of others to prevent one loved one’s own

Have you ever loved somebody? Wouldn't you passionately and actively seek the death of all serpents if they were to die tomorrow due to one? Most humans would.

Good guess, that was my original idea. Wrote it out, hated it, so I swapped it to the mice, which are at least amusing :)

Or his talk about a child smile being magic was literal, and he's actually feeding off of their faith and joy as a power source.

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I was convinced that it was going to be a nascent AI that was hiding itself from humans!

Nah, obviously, he is a triple-changer tank/heli/mech. You know, like Astrotrain is a train/robot/space shuttle.

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I hate magpies.

"Upon observation of Humans, the Galactic Senate recognized how harsh they had treated each other. It came to a conclusion that one senator would not be representative since humans faced different problems. It stratified humans according to four races: Caucasian, Africana, Asian, and Astraloid. Each group was given a senator." He explained. One woman from the crowd raised her hand, after which se said, "Doesn't that reaffirm the discriminatory racial divisions?" To which, Alfred responded, "Which one will be more racially divisive, four senators representative of all races or one senator representing a single one. Look at our past. The United States had 76 presidents and only 2 were African, only 5 were Asian, and only Alexandria was female and Hispanic. What reassures us that we can act more representative when it comes to affairs of our entire species." The woman continued with her complaint, "One would be better because it will challenge us to act right. If Senators are awarded to intelligent life, then 4 senators to represent four races will mean races represent different satient lives."

How many legs is that?!

What’s so bad about love? It is the essence of life

Ace and Sabo

So I died. The soul mate I saw is someone I have never seen, but her beauty is absolute. This feeling of death was amazing like swimming on a rainy day. It felt warm in a way. I couldn’t get her out of my mind here white hair and platinum eyes. I giggled the warmth I was feeling started at tickle.

“A human that laughs in my face. How interesting who are you?”

“Who’s there?”

“This is my domain you are just passing by.”

“Well that really doesn’t answer my question, but what do you mean I’m only passing by!”

“Human please just be silent you will leave of your own will in a little.”

“Not until I get an answer …… also what’s your name?”

“My name? How strange. I am what you call смерть.”

“So are you this warm feeling?”

“….. warm feeling? Human what do you mean?”

“I mean what I mean what do you mean?”

“Why are humans like this uhhhhh!”

I saw her the woman I had just seen a seconds ago. My mind went blank I could only look at her. My eyes didn’t leave her, but I still felt like she evaded my gaze somehow even though I’m looking straight at her. She came close and started touching me.

“You are mot normal hum..”

“My name is ever. Do you have something you want me to call you”

“…. Martha.”

“Well Martha it looks like your the only person I can talk to here, so let’s get alone.”

Time passed and we spoke. There is nothing to do thankfully I like doing nothing. We got closer after a while. One day she asked me to become her reaper. I didn’t understand ,but I just wanted to be with her. We merged i resided in her domain and guided the people through this limbo. She was my everything. We because inseparable.

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Nice story!