This is the Worst Possible Outcome

Aliens.

Aliens!

The adrenaline was slowly seeping away at this point, ragged breaths escaping him as he stared down at the defeated alien.

This was literally the worst possible outcome that could've come from his and his foster mothers' argument. Like, he expected maybe a scolding when he got back, or at worst the police called on him for running away, but no. Honest to god aliens.

Or,

Humans are a young race, and Tommy, a particularly volatile human, is plucked from his home and forced to survive in a foreign land. It certainly doesn't help with the fact that the whole of galactic society is under the impression humans lack the ability for complex thought.

OR, OR, tommy is a sewer rat and the rest of space is new york city and everyone is irrationally terrified of the rat.

Not mine!! Its
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