The Class was Told to Build a Weaponโ Human Snapped a Chair Leg and Called It a Spear.
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The Academy instructor gives a challenge: โBuild a weapon from whateverโs in this room.โ
Alien cadets dive in eagerly, shaping claws of plasma, sculpting blades from liquid crystal, weaving organic stingers from their biotech kits. The room hums with lethal invention.
Then itโs the humanโs turn. He walks forward empty-handed. A few aliens snickerโhumans are โsoft species,โ more suited to carrying tools than making war.
The human kneels, cracks a chair leg clean off, and sharpens the splintered edge against the floor. No sparks, no glow, no exotic materialโjust wood and friction. He straightens up, hefts it like it belongs in his hand.
The class laughs again, but it dies when he hurls it. The crude spear pierces the reinforced target dummy with a deep, splinter-cracking thud. The metal frame groans as the improvised weapon sticks fast.
Silence. The instructor frowns, then types something into his datapad.
โNote: Humans donโt need technology. Anything can become a weapon.โ
The aliens exchange uneasy looks. For them, weapons are sacred tools of war, forged with ceremony. For the human, it was just a broken chair.
And the dented target dummy stays mounted in the classroom for the rest of the semesterโits jagged wound a reminder that nothing in human hands is ever harmless.
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