An Alien Abduction

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"I'm sorry, I can't just stay here. I've got to get back home."
"Then so be it."
He beckons for you to come with him. He leads you into a two storied armory filled with hundreds of weapons lining the walls.
"Your going to need to be armed if you want to survive out there alone."
The captain takes a semi automatic rifle off the rack and hands it to you. You gasp as you feel the hum of machinery under your fingertips.
"But what about ammunition, what if it runs out?", you question.
"Trust me, it won't. All of our weapons are equipped with sub-atomic nuclear batteries, that means they never go dead.",
he turns around to leave and says:" Well, that should suffice."
"Wait", you intervene, "But how am I supposed to breathe out there, it's not like everywhere I go is going to be pressurized?"
"Oh, yeah, sorry I almost forgot...."
You roll your eyes:"Forget? How could you forget something as important as breathing?!"
He makes his way over to the back wall and opens a panel that reveals rows upon rows of little silver discs as small as buttons.
"This", he says, "is placed on the side of your neck and allows you to breathe in any form of any substance in the universe, and an added feature, deciphers any language under the Zandoniaan quatra-Planctum which includes all the languages that are spoken in the areas in which you will be traveling, so you must not fear that you will not understand what is going on in your surroundings."
"You almost make it sound like I'm going on some kind of vacation....,almost."
"Well that is the one thing you must be cautious about at all times.You are never safe out there, you can not afford to relax one bit or that will be your end.
There lingers a short silence. Then the captain claps his hands(?) together:
"Well on that happy note, let's get you fed before you embark on your journey. "

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