Stories of Formiga: Scraggly and His Crazy Human Customs

Now there was this one time, that not much was going on in the Formiga Space Station. One might say that it was a quiet day, except that some extremely loud blues rock music echoed through the hallways. A young Ormigite intrigued by the sound followed the sound. With his 2 personal guards they weaved in and out of many different hallways till they came to one of the farthest points of the station.Most would think that the far points of the station’s arms are dark and lonely but with the music now loud and blaring the young Ormigite felt like he was at one of his family’s ritual parties. So energized by the exciting ruckus he practically runs down the long hall, comes upon a shop marked “Scrag’s Recycling” and walks right in.

Inside the shop is filled with all sort of junk and scrap metal imaginable, scattered everywhere it seems. Right in the middle of the piles of scrap is a large, heavy set man with dirty clothes and a oily charred welding mask. He is working on some sort of power armor that looks very old but somehow more sturdy than other armors. He seems to be welding, hammering, and slightly shaking his butt to the rhythm of the music. Completely perplexed by the strange human the young Ormigite walks right up to the man and taps him on the shoulder. Startled, the man drops his hammer, pulls off his welding mask and stares in confusion at the extremely small creature. After an awkward few moments of silence the man says, “Hey you’re one of them there ORMIGITES from the planet!”

Then in broken macaneon the Ormigite asks, “Do you perform ritual?” The man is slightly confused but assumes he is talking something about his old earth music.

The man replies, “Yes. Do you want to hear some really good stuff?”

And the Ormigite quickly answers, “YES! PLEASE YES!”

The human walks into the back room grabbing some sort of remote control on his way out. Suddenly the music’s volume increases from loud to blaring! For those who are familiar with pre-invasion earth, the song is “Who Do You Love” by George Thorogood & The Destroyers. As soon as there begins vocal singing in the music the human comes out from the back room bobbing and bouncing as he walks. On his way back in he snatches up a wrench and starts singing to the music. So electrified and animated by the singing and dancing he joins in with the human’s absurdity. The human hands the Ormigite a spare wrench and they both begin hollering to the music at the top of their lungs.

The music slowly fades out and the human takes out the remote and turns his stereo off. He says, “Man you little Ormigites really know how to party!”

To which the Ormigite replies, “Me very like the crazy human customs!”

“Well little guy, it was a pleasure rockin’ out with ya! My name is Scraggly George. And what is your name?”

“I am called Kol’ippa Xal’ika”

“Hmmmm... that’s kinda a mouthful. I’m a call ya Koli.”

The little ormigite just laughs. Then lost in his emotions bounces and mumbles what resembles the human song he just learned. He then says, “I must go now. You must come visit me in the palace. You must show ritual to my brothers and sisters! They will love, they will love you!”

Now there was this time, that some crazy human with his crazy human customs made a great friend with someone not of his class, not of his intelligence or power, not even of his same species. They were more different than night and day but these two became the best of friends.