The No 1 truth about humans: They are stupid.

Krill was waiting in the docking bay watching as his new medical equipment was wheeled up the ramp. Sunny stood next to him holding a data pad and checking off the shipping manifest as it was wheeled on.

Conn floated a few feet away from them ribbons on his back billowing and churning slowly in the air currents.

He was currently occupied staring down at the screen of his handheld. Ever since the captain had gotten him that game, he hadn't stopped playing. It was a nice break from his usual acerbic, nosy nature.

The last line of medical equipment was being loaded up the ramp, when con looked up from his game.

He turned his head towards the interior doors.

"Prepare yourselves." He signed

"Prepare ourselves? For what."

The question didn't hang on the air for very long before the sounds of human exuberance reached them from down the hall.

Sunny shook her head and Krill sighed, and the three of them braced themselves as the commander rolled onto deck skidding to a stop and running towards the line of boxes, "Is it here! Did you get it!"

"Get what?" Sunny muttered

He snatched the data pad from her hand scrolling through the checked boxes.

"Hey!" She exclaimed, "What are you-"

"Ah ha!"

He began laughing and giggling maniacally running over to a line of already checked boxes hopping up and down in place and rubbing his hands together.

The three aliens exchanged a glance.

Sunny sighed, "What did you do."

The man waved a hand at her as one of the cargo workers opened a box for him, "What did I do? What did I do? I will tell you what I did. I just made this ship officially the most awesome ship in the fleet. "

"And how exactly did you do that?"

"I thought we were already the most awesome ship in the fleet?"

The commander was seconds from squealing with delight as the man cracked open the crate and let the sides fall to the deck.

There were a few boxes in there, but the commander didn't seem to care about most of them grabbing a single box from the pile and hauling it onto the floor where he could get a better look, "Gah, its heavy, that's good."

Krill frowned, "I'm not going to like this, am I?"

The commander continued to grin, "Nope, you're gonna hate it, and that's how I know it's going to be great."

Krill sighed.

Sunny stepped forward as the man frantically ripped open the box, like a man possessed.

The crate opened and the man was now laughing maniacally, "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Krill and the others wandered over glancing down into the box.

Conn sighed, a sound he had programmed into his gloves.

Sunny tilted her head, "What is it."

The human reached inside grabbed a thick, pamphlet with one hand and tossed it out of the way.

Krill was forced to duck to the side as the book when flying past his head and skidded across the floor.

He glanced over and saw the words.

JETPACK OPERATIONS MANUAL

"NO! Oh no! no! No! No!."

"Yes in every way!" The commander said tearing into the foam packaging that held the unit inside.

When he finally pulled it out, he grunted with its weight and sat back on the cold metal floor cradling it against his knees to get a better look, "Ah, just look at it! Look at it! Ahhhhh! Best day ever!"

"No, you send that right back to where it came from!" Krill was saying, "I have a hard enough time getting you to keep your feet on the ground. I will not let you do this stupid, reckless-"

Sunny picked the manual off the ground, "Adam Don't you think you should read the instructions first."

The human was standing now and had the jetpack propped on the side of a crate threading his arms through the upper harness." What part of 'I can fly anything' don't you get."

"So you've flown one before?'

"No, but how hard can it be."

Krill shook his head, "Commander you will not be flying that, not unless you have full body protection, and that means a HELMET as well."

Sunny crossed her arms, "I have to agree with the doctor this time."

He glanced over at them and wilted slightly, "Ok, Ok yes mom let me go get my knee and elbow pads."

"Full body armor or no deal."

He groaned but sighed, "Fine!" Whining under his breath the whole way out of the room

Sunny and Krill exchanged a loo, "Should we just hide it?"

Conn floated down to sit on one of the crates, "I kind of want to see him break his neck."

Sunny glowered over at Conn but the freaky alien just grinned at her his large black eyes menacing against his milky white skin.

She flipped the manual open, "Someone at least better read this before he gets himself hurt."

"You think hed care to know how it worked before he tries it."

"Adam may love science fiction, but that doesn't make him a scientist. I've seen him struggle to put a pen back together after taking it apart. "Sunny muttered walking over to the jetpack to set it up before the commander came back.

She almost thought about just not setting it up He wouldn't get off the ground without reading the manual, but he had been so excited that she hardly had the heart to ruin this for him.

He returned a good thirty minute later wearing a space suit helmet tucked under one arm.

"You know what, this was a good idea Krill."

"It was, so you finally saw the logic of-"

"Because I just realized, if we paint this rig up, I can look like buzz lightyear. Think about it a little green purple and white and I can be a space ranger. It will be the most epic cosplay you have ever seen.

"You wasted company funds on a jetpack?"
"Nope my money. However if I can find a reason to requisition some, you better bet that I will, Now hand it over."

"Helmet first." Krill said sternly.

The man rolled his eyes, "Ok fine."

He slid the helmet on and it locked into place, "So many possibilities guys! I could be Iron man! Or a mandalorian!"

Sunny crossed her lower set of arms over her chest while using the other two to read the manual, "I seem to recall that the first time Iron man tried to use his, he ended up slamming into a wall."

The Commander folded the straps on the jetpack into their place, instead using a different mechanism to attach the jetpack to the back of the space suit.

A few of the marines walked into the room, along with doctor katie.

"Yo is that a jetpack!" Called one of the marines.

"You bet your ass it is." He turned in a circle, do you guys like?"

"Damn!"

Someone whistled.

"Don't encourage him." Krill snarled.

The marines stepped back.

"Yeah yeah, whatever, ok let's get this party started." The commander marched towards the door, and the rest of the group struggled to keep up.

Dr Katie nervously fell into step beside Krill, "he's going to get urt isn't he."

"Yeah.... Bring a stretcher and a C-collar would you." He muttered

Dr. Katie nodded and ran off.

Commander Vir stepped out onto the ramp, "Ok.... now.... Uh.... how do I get it to work?"

Sunny raised an eyebrow form behind the manual, "So now you need my help. I am not entirely sure I want to tell you how to use it."

"You don't tell me I will just look up a video."

She sighed, "It should have connected when you attached it to your suit. You can choose to use the hand controls on your gloves. So first-"

"Oh, sweet."

He pressed one of the glove controls, and there was a sharp clicking sound as the jet pack wings clicked open locking into place, "Oh HELL YEAH!"

"Adam calm down."

"What does this button do?"

"Adam-"

There was a sharp whir and whine as the engine started up.

"Oh yeah!"

"Ok we are done. If you can't slow down and listen to the instructions, than we are going to have to confiscate that." Sunny reached forward intending to grab him, but he danced away.

"So If that was open, and that was start, than this must be up."

"ADAM!"

Sunny lunged forward just as the human's thumb triggered the throttle. She dived right past where he had been standing, and the human rocketed up into the air feet and arms flailing.

"Shit! Adam!"

"Katie, get the medical team down here now."

The bright streak of light passed out of light that was the engine continued to steadily rocket upwards, and for a moment it seemed as if he would at least be fine. That was until he figured out the controls and suddenly started to spin and turn wildly his body thrown back and forth like a ragdoll.

"Shit, shit, shit."

Conn was laughing behind her

She turned on him, "Shut up and help."

Conn waved a hand, "he's fine. He's having the time of his life."

Sunny turned back to look up, watching as the bright spot turned arched upwards and began plummeting towards the ground.

He was growing bigger and bigger in their vision.

"Any second now." Conn said

Sunny's eyes widened in horror.

"He'll figure out how to pull up, any moment now." They could see individual limbs again.

"Yep any moment now."

The assembled humans began to scream, and at the last moment he flung himself sideways parallel to the ground. He shot past them, and for a second sunny thought she could hear screaming though the sound of the engine was a roar.

He was heading straight towards a loading crane.

He was about to hit it when he threw himself sideways spinning in the air his wing almost clipping an armored vehicle.

He was thrown up and sideways his arms pinwheeling as he arched in a parabola over the landing field.

All the humans had stopped to stare upwards at the spectacle, a few had their phones out.

Sunny ran out trying to see where he had gone.

Dr. Katie rushed out onto the ramp with the medical team close behind, "What the ever loving fuck!" She exclaimed, "Why did you let him do that!"

"I didn't think he would be that stupid!" Sunny yelled back

The bright white spot did another arch and then spun and then did a loop.

Conn floated forward, "He thinks he's got the hang of it.... Though.... I have some serious questions about his ability to slow down....'

The group of them stared skyward as he continued to roll tumbled and do loops.

"I am going to kill him." Sunny snarled

"If he doesnt kill himself." Kril sighed.

Sunny glowered at him, "Because you seem so concerned."

"Didn't you hear I am in a constant state of panic, like the hulk is with anger, but.... Lame."

The little white dot arched towards the ground.

"Oh shit, here it comes." Conn said covering his face – not that it would help.

Sunny tired to look away watching as the light dimmed, slowed.

She glanced up watching as Commander Vir descended from the sky his hands held out awkwardly to either side like a tightrope walker one foot down and one foot slightly up.

He was about ten feet above the ground, when he cut the engine.

Sunny yelled in surprise, the rest of the group jumped forward.

He landed fine, at first, then he stumbled forward arms flailing, tripped and plowed face first into the concrete.

Sunny and the group ran forward to where he was lying on the pavement.

"Adam, Adam are you ok!"

It was then –to sunny's great annoyance– that she heard the human laughing.

He rolled over onto his side and pulled off his helmet, which had small scratches across the paint of the face. He was sweaty, red in the face, but grinning like an idiot, "Holy shit, did you see that, that was awesome."

"You could have died!"

"Yeah yeah, sure whatever, but also did you SEE that!"

Sunny felt a surge of anger flare up in her chest, "THAT IS IT!" she reached over and slammed her finger against the release button for the jetpack."

"Hey!"

It fell away, and she shoved it into the arms of a marine, "Hide this somewhere, or throw it away, I don't care."

"Wait, Sunny, but I." She grabbed him angrily by the hand and hauled him to his feet marching across the tarmac with him stumbling behind her. He turned back to look towards the jetpack pulling against her.

In frustration she turned bent down and tipped him over one shoulder pinning his legs with her two right arms.

"Sunny! Hey! What are you doing!"

"I am sick and tired of your shit, Adam." She marched up the ramp as the rest of the humans looked on either bemused or amused.

"Seriously sunny!"

He tried to struggle, but she only adjusted his weight.

"You aren't leaving your quarters for a week!"

"You're grounding me!"

"Literally" She snarled.

"You aren't my mother."

"Oh yeah, but I can call her."

His eyes narrowed, 'You wouldn't dare."

"Don't think I won't."

His face went pale, "look sunny, we can talk about this. You don't have to call her. Come on you know me. I knew exactly what I was doing. Remember. Pilot. I fly stuff all the time."

"You almost died."

"Almost being the key term."

She snarled feet slamming against the deck and she pushed through the cargo bay and out the doors her anger heard for minutes after they were out of sight.

The rest of the humans had a good laugh over the whole thing, though Krill was not impressed, and neither was dr. Katie.

Humans were immensely stupid, stupid and reckless. They had no sense of self preservation, and some of them seemed hell bent on dying early though they never seemed to manage it. Unfortunately for Sunny, she had handed the jetpack to Ramirez, who definitely planned on buying one for himself, and, as Adam's human friend, planned on keeping it for him until he returned.

Maybe taking it out for a spin while he was away.

Because humans are stupid like that.