Turns out he was the alien king. The central node of the hive mind. His sudden death caused an overload in the telepathic network linking all of the aliens' brains. Their heads just started exploding. They all died, and I was hailed as a hero. They had a ceremony and a parade. Women would come up and show me tattoos of my face on their... chest areas. It was overwhelming. They told me I never had to work again. Everything I needed would be provided for me. But all I wanted to do was drive my mo