You had done it! You had gotten a position at a nearby workplace, specifically The Reserve. A rather secretive organization, with not much known about them. Why they chose you out of possibly better candidates is rather weird, not that you’re complaining since they pay very well.
When the day of the interview finally came and you were getting ready to drive there, an SUV in all black pulled up next to you. You were sure they had the wrong person, but they confirmed that they were sent to pick you up. Hesitantly you got in the back, with someone sitting next to you. As the car drove off from your house, the person started talking to you.
“So, you’re our new hire?”
“It seems so.” you replied, unsure if these were the right people.
“Well, my name is Jack, and I will be interviewing you today.”
You reply, still a little unsure “Alright, what do you want to know about me?” …
After the interview was over, you were given the job right then and there, which you were surprised about. They would drive you to the building, having already fabricated you a badge and level 2 keycard. You had asked them what you would be doing here, and Jack answered rather vaguely.
“All sorts of things, you’ll just have to wait and see.”
Walking inside with him, he would bring you to an elevator before taking you inside it and hitting the only visible button. The elevator jerks into motion, taking the two of you down to where you assume the lab is. When you get off, he escorts you to a room, already set up for what looks like someone to live in it.
“What’s all this then?”
“Your new room.” Jack replied. “I hope you don’t mind but our workers tend to temporarily live within their workplace.”
“You know, I don’t recall you mentioning this during our ride here.”
“Ah, I must’ve forgotten.” He would reply, perhaps a little annoyed.
Having gotten set up and familiarized with the room you would be living in for a while at least, you would take out a map and find the cafeteria, since this facility had one. How odd. Eventually you would find the cafeteria, finding it to have quite a variety of food, though you would do a double take as you find strange, rather bulky, muscular, and tall, gray creatures mixed in with the humans, eating along side them as if nothing was out of the ordinary. You are tempted to just run out of the entire facility at this point, but you hear Jack speak up from behind, slightly startling you.
“Ah… I guess I forgot that too. You’ll be working with some rather interesting subjects, called Neovoral.”
“Neovoral?! Just how many things are you not telling me?”
He replies, “You’ll understand more as you work here.”
“I hope so, I wasn’t told there would be people here who weren’t even human!”
You make your way through the lunch line, trying to stay as calm as possible, despite these neovoral being here. After getting your food and sitting down at an empty table in the corner of the cafeteria, you begin eating. You’re just watching some youtube, not noticing one of these neovoral sitting down at your table until he speaks up.
“You mind if I sit here friending?”
You jump back, startled at the sudden voice, startled even more seeing it to be a Neovoral.
Trying to be nice, you try to say something, but nothing comes out. You end up just slightly nodding your head, trying desperately not to run away.
“Thanks, names Lyoko by the way.” He would say, noticing he somehow has a Russian accent.
The two of you would eat in silence, with you glancing up frequently to see if he was going to get closer or something. You were relieved when he didn’t. Though as you were getting up to throw away any trash you had, you tripped over a chair leg and nearly fell, only for something to catch you and pull you against itself.
“I know you may be scared of us friending, let me take you back and try to relax you, you seem to be having a rather rough day after all.”
You’re too scared to say anything and just accept your fate, with him carrying you back to a room, presumably his. You see a couple of scientists surprised faces seeing him carry you rather easily, but there’s not much you can do about it. After entering, he lays down in a rather large bed, keeping you close to him.
“Relax friending, I have no desire to hurt you in any way.”
While you’re not sure if he means that, you try and relax anyway, finding his grip on you to be comfortable. Before you know it, you’ve fallen asleep and woken up in his bed, with him sitting on the other side of the room, presumably on a computer.
He turns around and sees you having woken up.
“Ah, you’re finally awake friending!”
“H-how long was I asleep?”
“About 6 hours, give or take a few minutes.”
You just look at him puzzled; you’ve never fallen asleep that fast before anywhere, let alone a workplace. You’re deciding if you should head back to your room, or just stay here for the time being, as you could end up getting lost. You just decide to stay for the time being, too nervous to head out and possibly getting lost.
“Lyoko, was it?” You ask, “Where did all you even come from?”
“Well friending, we only arrived here about a couple of months ago, seeing this planet had people living on it, we decided to land here and see if we could make friends with your species. I’d say that we were rather successful in that regard, wouldn’t you agree?”
You were still baffled at how an alien species came to earth and seemingly nobody knew of it.
“How come I haven’t heard of you guys before? You’d think there would be some news coverage or even a news article on the fact that aliens from outer
space casually came to earth.”
“Well, us Neovoral had planned on it, but the people we asked advised against it, saying it could cause chaos as various of your worlds governments could
try and capture one of us for testing.”
“I suppose you’re not wrong.” You reply.
You take note of how he looks, he’s a two-tone gray with perhaps a blueish tint on his belly and chest. What you’re surprised you didn’t notice before were the green tattoos that were on parts of his body. Along with two symbols on his chest. With the tattoos making him look like he was stitched together by some mad scientist. As most of the neovoral you’ve seen, he’s tall, muscular, bulky, and seems to have a rather large belly. The only clothes he has is a pair of form fitting underwear, dark green in color.
“Why do you only have underwear on?” You ask out of curiosity.
“Us neovoral like how they feel against our bodies, nice and tight. Though lately friending, we’ve gotten custom made ones with holes for our tails.”
“Ah, okay. Mind if I stay here for a bit?” You ask, “I’m new here and don’t know my way around here that much. I’d rather not get lost trying to find my room.”
“Of course, friending! Stay here if you like, you could even move in with me if you so desired.”
Good to know at least, hopefully they’re all this friendly.
“So, are all of your species this friendly?”
“Indeed friending, due to a… rather dark past, we’ve changed our ways and become quite friendly. Ask any neovoral here if you want and they’ll be friends with you just like that!” Lyoko says, seemingly happy to answer any questions you may have about his species.
