A Pet

"You are to be a good pet, yes you are, yes you are, wa ba ba bu" The voice says changing to "Babby talk" after the word pet as a mechanical hand with 4 fingers reaches down and tussles your hair.

There is a bright flash and you feel your self fall asleep. You wake up and are in a cage naked but with a soft blanket and a pillow. There is a water bottle suspended from the cage like a hamster cage and a bowl of something that looks like chips in it to the side. Looking through the bars of your cage you see other cages. The cages nearest to you contain other humans, yet to wake up they are of all races and genders. There is a brown haired white woman asleep in the cage to your left and a red-haired white man to your right. Glancing around you seem to have been arranged in a colour gradient to your left are men and women of darker skin and hair colour and right the same but lighter hair and skin.

Looking to other walls are cages and tanks containing creatures you have never seen before. These must be aliens they to have been arranged by colour if their species has variety most do but some are uniform. There is what looks like six-legged dogs with no hair but smooth skin in a range of rainbow colours. There are what look to be cat centaurs is the best you could describe them with the usual range of cat fur colours and patterns. What looks to be a cube of gelly in boxes and many more that fill a shop layout most of which you cant see from within your cage.

A light flicks on illuminating the shop and in steps a stereotypical grey alien: Big head, large eyes about 6 and a half feet tall. They have some kind of uniform on they come round checking all the cages and containers. It comes to the human section and spots you are awake. "Oh good," It says "one of you are awake, I was beginning to worry that we had overdone the trank."

"Let me out of here, I am no pet!" You shout.

The alien walks over and in the same voice you would use for a pet or a baby say "You want out, boy, do you, do you?"

"Stop patronising me, I can understand you just fine." You reply.

Still in the baby voice, the alien replies "Aww, so cute trying to understand. You may hear what I am saying in your own primitive language and I hear your words but you don't really understand what you say, do you little skinny thing, awwr" It coos.

"let me out and I will prove how much I UNDERSTAND!" You threaten.

"No! Bad Human!" The alien shout as you and you feel a **** of shame fill your body. The alien's words make you feel bad for shouting.

"Agg, what is happening, where am I" Mumbles the brunette next to you as she comes around. "Oh! I'm naked, what is this place? Ah, What'S that?" She screams. You hear similar things coming from all the other cages.

"There There, quiet, all is fine, just listen to me." the alien says in a calm soothing tone that makes you feel relaxed as if it's words come with feeling attached. The other humans quieten down most including you cover your nakedness with your blankets. " That's better, now you have all been selected to be pets, what kind of pet and the expectations that brings depends on the species that chooses you." It explains.

Smaller aliens would see you as a like a horse

larger aliens would see you like a cat or dog some might also expect you to be on all fours

very large aliens may see you like fish or mice and keep you in a big cage with other humans or other species to create an ecosystem like a fish tank.

Hope you don't get chosen by an alien who sees you like a mouse but as a live snack for their equivalent of a pet snake.

Some might not see you as a pet and buy you to get you out of the pet life or brake you all out.