She looked at my face and said,
"Please forgive my manner of approach if I had frightened you," her voice seemed to come from all around the room.
"It is hard for me to speak your language, but hopefully this recording will help explain your situation afterwards".
"Some centuries ago, our race reached for the stars, as yours is starting to do now. We traveled far and wide, and as we traveled we learned. We colonized other planets, and we were able to work within their ecosystems. We thought we were alone, as far as sentient beings were concerned, but we started to find others about two-hundred years after we first left our home soil. After that, we found others much faster, and we shared our knowledge with all we found."
As the recording played, the room changed, and I watched as other pink creatures like herself, but both male and female, left a small planet, and grew their influence. I watched them meet interesting creatures, and learn from one another.
"Almost every other sentient species we found descended from herbivores. They were peaceful and trusting."
As she speaks on, the room showed them eating various plants together.
"Then we came upon a primitive race that showed much promise for intelligence, but also seemed violent."
The aliens that was now being showed now were small muscular things, red skinned, and covered with tufts of coarse black hair. They had tusks protruding from their snouts, but they didn’t have pig noses. Their noses were more akin to a horse’s.
"We studied this new race for years, before approaching them. They ate meat exclusively, but didn’t eat their own kind. We hoped this meant that they could be friendly towards us another sentient race, and in our innocence was our doom".
"They treated us well, till we shared what we knew, and gave them our technology. They were quick to learn and ever hungry for it. They began to develop their own technology from what we taught them, and it was too late when we realized their intent."
Silence fell in the room, but my mind seemed to supply the sound effects for the brutality that now surrounded me. This new race had taken the technology, and created weapons from it, attacking, and actually eating their teachers before taking to space, and doing it to other planets. The scene zoomed out, and I watched as this new carnivorous race attacked and devoured planet after planet.
They were getting close to the home planet of the alien I was talking with, and I realized I no longer feared this alien, but the red ones now terrified me.
"They approached our home planet, and we thought all was doomed. We know nothing of weapons. We don’t know how to defend ourselves. Then one of our ships found a new planet, with creatures that were primitive to us, but further developed than the demons when we first found them."
The room closed in on a planet that I immediately recognized as Earth.
"This species descended from omnivores, and it was our hope that we could enlist you in our aid, but many of our race were nervous. We feared that you would do as the demons did, and attack us. We waited, and we watched your race".
"Somehow the demons learned of your planet, and fearing that you might become a rival, they turned their attention to you."
The demon’s ships changed course, and were now headed for Earth.
"It takes many of your solar revolutions to travel through space, and while our planet was now safe, yours is in peril. We argued amongst ourselves whether to warn you, and risk you being another threat to us, or leave you as bait, while we move to other planets that the demons haven’t found yet".
"While we watched and studied you and argued amongst ourselves, we found a gene inside many of your race that lay dormant. When we activated this gene, the results varied. Some gained abilities, others simply died. And in a very few, nothing happened at all".
"Then a plan was created and was decided upon. We would activate this gene in as many of you as possible, and if we found one of you that might be able to defend your planet, we would warn that one of your impending plight."
The room turned back to the blue featureless mass it had been when I was first abducted, and I had to blink a few times to get accustomed to the brightness.
"After watching you during your last dark cycle--"
It took me a second to realize she meant last night when l’d been kidnapped,
- "I hoped that you might be that one. Despite the aggression that was projected on you, you used cunning and self control to turn the situation around." she said