Revenge for my brother.

On a hot day in midsummer, people were walking everywhere without giving a care about each other only themselves.

“Damn it, my shoes are now filthy” said one of the passersby and hurrying back on his way.

“Brother, talk to me, are you okay? answer me please”

“Brother it looks like I am done for, remember me”

“Nooo, brother don’t go it is our first time seeing the outside world, you can’t leave me all alone”

In the place the passerby just passed there were two creatures just a bit smaller than an adult palm, one of them was crying while the other was on his dying breath because the passerby just stepped on him.

“Damn humans, you killed my brother I won’t forgive this” cried the one of the two who was still alive.

“I can’t do anything alone, got to get back to the sewer , grandpa and the others will know what to do”.

Carrying his brother the creature went back into the drainage he came from and walked for a whole day till he arrived in a large area crawling with creatures that almost looked just like him and his dead brother.

“Grandpa, grandpa, brother he…*sobs*, he is gone*hic* he was killed by the humans in the outside world*sobs*”

“Oh pitiable grandson, you were too young I told you not to go to the outside world, but you just wouldn’t listen, now you’re dead and  your brother and everyone is grieving for you”

“What so it is our fault for wanting to live a life in the outside world, instead of this dark and depressing place”

“No, it isn’t your fault child, it is just that the humans don’t care if we live or die, they crush us just for the fun of it or because they are disgusted by us, so that is why we need to hide and protect ourselves”

“Arghhhh, so what you’re telling me we should just hide here underground all our lives, because of fear”

“What can we do besides that, it is the natural order of the world”

“Just because of this natural order of the world we keep living an oppressed lives, well I say no, to hell with that how many brothers have we already lost?, how many more will we lose in the future?, what if the humans decide to come exterminate us even as we live underground hiding, will we just let them kill us all because it is the natural order, wake up we must fight back or else sooner or later we will all die just like my brother under the feet of the humans”

“But how can we?, the humans are so big and powerful, even if we start fighting back we will all just die a bit sooner, so we can only enjoy the little time we got left and face reality”

” Even if the humans are big and powerful as you say, we still have the strength of our numbers in one month we can increase our numbers a hundred times, the humans can’t do that, we are strong it is just that our hearts are weak and divided” saying this the whole crowd was silent until one of them cheered and then everybody followed, in truth everyone felt dissatisfied about their current lives but no one had the courage to say anything and endured in silence.

Seeing the spirit of all those people the grandpa couldn’t help but be moved too but he interjected and said “Okay, quite down, even if we have the spirit and increased our numbers a thousand folds we still could not beat the humans, unless you have a plan don’t send your brothers to their death”

“You’re right grandpa, that is why we need to ask for help from the other oppressed races also, we will send a few groups to the other races to tell them of the plan I made and ask for their cooperation, I am sure if we did this we could beat the humans once and for all”

“You can’t some of those races feed on us, they won’t listen and just eat anybody we send to them”

“Don’t worry grandpa, I will go talk to those races myself while my brothers go talk to the less aggressive ones”

“Fine, but you got to be careful without you this whole thing cannot be done”

“Don’t worry grandpa I know what to do”

That night the whole place was buzzing, and in the morning every one of the teams assigned to deliver the message to the other races left including the dead creature brother. The brother travelled to his destination to the dreadful race known as the locust, when he arrived to the territory the locusts where located in he was instantly discovered and surrounded.

“Little guy what are you doing in our feeding place, did you come to be desert, then we don’t mind helping you”

“No, not at all I need to speak to your leader, if he does not like what I am going to tell him then you all can just eat me”

“What a brave little guy but courage won’t help you, if what you want to say not satisfy me”

“So you are the leader, I was send here by my race to negotiate with you”

“Negotiate about what we don’t have anything in common to negotiate about”

“Yes, we do our hatred for humans is our common point and the negotiation is about an alliance to fight them”

“Hahaha, you’re funny little guy you think even if we unite we stand a chance against the humans, your dreams are too big for your size”

“Not just us, my people send messengers to all the other oppressed races to ally and defeat the humans”

“Really, that is interesting ,but still even if all the races unite we still can’t beat the humans, give up little man and get eaten quietly”

“Why are you like this aren’t you sick of being killed whenever the humans find you a nuisance, you, your brothers and all your people are at the mercy of humans”

“Shut up, what can we do about it, do you think I like seeing my people suffer, but Ideals are Ideals and reality is reality we can’t do anything about”

“Yes we can, hear me out first and then you can decide if we can or can’t”

“Fine, what do you have in mind?”

“We are going to make our move in two month in that time we need to unite all the races or else this plan fails, after uniting we will attack the humans discreetly, but we won’t attack them directly, we will attack their food supplies and their weapons, the food supplies will be everything in their warehouses, their  crops and their homes, on the other side we will also attack their weapons, even if all the humans got together and tried to kill us by their feet and flyswatters they will still not be able to beat us, there strongest weapon against us is there poison. That poison is produced in factories so we will go and destroy that factory by killing the humans there by a group of our own poisonous bugs and we will destroy the machines by biting their internal wiring. It will only take three month after that all the humans would be dead from hunger while our numbers increase through breeding and the world will belong to the alliance of the races, no one can stop it”

“You are a crazy little guy, but that plan of yours might actually work. Fine we will join you, take a group of my brothers and travel the world to inform the other races”

“Thank you, you will not regret your decision today, I promise”

“I hope so, now go quickly time is precious”

The brother nodded and rode on the back of one huge locust and started flying everywhere uniting the races and informing them of the plan, not only he and his race were spreading the message all the other races who received the message sent their own people to the other races to spread it.

After two months have passed the plan finally begun, the race alliance were split in two groups one attacking the food while the other attacked the poison manufacturers, it was such a sudden attack that the humans couldn’t react at all, and as expected in three month the world didn’t contain any humans at all, they were extinct the future generations will call the age humans lived in the age of the humans, like what happened to the dinosaurs in the past.

“Whoo, we did it we beat the humans I can’t believe it, it is all thanks to our brother here, cheers”

The races were all celebrating especially the race of the dead creature and his brother.

“Brother, can you see that your death changed the world and gave us hope, you can rest in peace now” murmured the brother in an emotional voice, after a while he went to continue celebrating with his people.

Moral of the story: Don’t step on the little guy, you might just end humanity, and bugs are scary as hell.