“It doesn’t look like a 4-year-old to me.” “No, he was in suspended animation for 50 years.” “Do you mean 54?” The commander corrected her. What we were able to recover says that he was experimented on and that he’s only 4 years old.” “Because it was the only thing that he was ever taught.” She was getting angrier that the commander was refusing to see the boy for who he really was. It was so obvious so why couldn’t she see it? “It even called itself an ultimate life form.” “The project surrendered when it became clear to it that it can’t get through all of us.” He slammed his fist on the desk. “He calmed down when everything was explained to him.” “ He was defending himself after he woke up in a new place surrounded by people pointing guns at him.” She pointed at the end of the report. It attacked our soldier when we revived it.” He pulled out a report and presented it to her. It was the reason why the raid at the base was conducted all those years ago. But the definition of the extraterrestrial was vague enough that the project could be included in it, despite it being made by them. Having superpowered aliens on their side could be beneficial and if they were the only country on Earth that offered citizenship to extraterrestrials, it could bring more of them to their side. It sounded like a good military strategy. So without thinking he made a few calls and aliens were granted citizen status. At that point, he was already vaguely aware of the project but they were still figuring out what it was. They wanted him to make it possible in exchange for them keeping a secret about both incidents involving Robotnik. They wanted to officially adopt the aliens. It was far easier to monitor them in a small town than to track them around the globe. The citizens of Green Hills were already used to one alien so adding two more to the mix shouldn’t be an issue and they would have all of them in one place. As before they wanted to take care of the two new aliens and he was mostly fine with that. But then their hedgehog and his new friends saved the world from a crazy superpowered scientist and his giant robot. It was bad enough when they kept the first alien that they found.

Otherwise, you wouldn't have asked for my assessment.” “No, he was a government property but because of your deal with Wachowskis he is now considered a citizen.” She glared at him. It even says it on the tank that we found it in.” The commander pulled out the picture from the file to show it to her.

“That is my assessment.” She said firmly. The mess of her blond locks defied the neat order that he had in his office. She stood there unflinching, ready to fight. He should have picked someone older who was already jaded by their work but it was too late for that now.

But no, he had to pick the one person that was serious about her job. He thought that the shock of learning that aliens were real would be enough to get the opinion in his favor. She was the first social worker that was available to him. He didn’t even think that hard when he picked her to do the assessment. It was supposed to be just a spectacle so everything would be above board. It was so clear to him, so why did she make his life more difficult? She had one simple job, to confirm his assessment and make the project officially under G.U.N. He flipped through the file looking for anything that could deny her claims. The older man was sitting in front of the desk in his private office. “You can’t be serious!” Commander Walters said to the woman in front of him.

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