This was in response to a Challenge at The Prose

The basis of the challenge: Aliens created us. But who created the Aliens?

This scratching was limited to 100 words (a drabble really) which makes something like this for me quite difficult as I love character development (and love to add pinches of humor everywhere I can) – but it ultimately made this challenge cool to do.

Oh and regardless of what you may think there is “no social message” here…
I’m a Metal Head {you figure it out} … …

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Merv walked up to Derv’s desk as he was peeking into his quint-micronoscope, “still progressing?”

Slightly startled, “um, not as we originally hoped.”

Tilting his large head from his clipboard blinking his five non-uniform eyes, “oh… why…?”

“Well those little Grey dudes we manufactured yesterday with the…?”

“Yeah only two eyes… well what?”

A little shaken, “oh yes well they did what we bio-programmed them for and planted other bipeds on a subsystem.”

“And…?”

“Well the subspecies they created are advancing but seem to enjoy killing each other, so…”

“Yeah who doesn’t,” walking away uninterested, “flush it all, start over…”