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Natira crossed her limbs. Not the ones she was standing on, but the ones seated on her head began to move to and fro with nervousness. She was about to board a battleship form the new force majeure of the entire galaxy, if she frelled up she could easily get executed and not even her Shadow Brokerage would be able to get revenge on. After all, you can't exactly kill your only customer.

Natira looked down at the tapes she had stolen. They would be enough to at least make the Empress think twice about killing her, if Ahkna's sense of gratitude had not been exaggerated. John Crichton had taught them a lot about Wormholes, enough that the Scarrans had began to fear his race. Natira made a mental not to refrain from saying such things in Ahkna's presence. Like any other being she was offended by the truth, but she also had the clout to make it a very big deal when she was offended.

Ahkna looked out her viewscreen, seeing the large Shadow Brokerage in front of her "Are we sequenced for Docking?" she lackadaisically asked a helmswoman, who immediately nodded and began docking. Things were running smoothly, at least. She should have no trouble getting it all done.

The Rage of Praxis was a pride of the Scarran battle fleet, the kind awarded to the Empress herself after she had completed a successful mission. It was only about two miles long, but made up for that with its sleek elegance and insanely efficient weapons design. The vehicle was more than capable of holding its own against ships over twice its size, and while Earth may have very easily been an easier target than would require such a ship, Ahkna had never had a problem with overkill before and likely never would.

Docking procedures began and Natira just looked around, leaving her personal guard behind her as she swayed her wide hips directly into Ahkna's ship, waving at the crowd as she did son, her other hand grasping the data between her forefinger and middle finger

Natira looked around, seeing the general quality of Scarran women that had been assigned a duty on the bridge. They were all of the highest class, long-necked and more fitting with the shape of a Peacekeeper or a Saltici like herself. They were all fairly beautiful, but held their faces stern and erudite like they were too good to be in the company of a lowly operator such as herself. In all likelihood they did actually think that, they would go home and make sure to avoid mentioning such proximity with a non-Scarran. At least they all seemed to be good at their jobs.

"You know where the homeworld is?" asked Ahkna in her typical impatient manner, sitting in what looked to be a pretty comfortable, quite resplendent captain's chair.

"Right here" Natira said, trying not to sound too rude, but she couldn't resist tossing it at the navigation console. The woman there had big...whatever Scarran highborns had on their chests that left big puffs in their shirts, she was pretty confident that even they couldn't actually produce any milk "Check the maps, its halfway through the Western Spiral Arm" Natira said before walking to the captain's chair "I'm surprised you brought me along"

Ahkna just looked at ops for a few seconds, trying to make sure that everything was going relatively smoothly, then condescended to look at her employee "It's always good to see another female in a high position of power, especially a non-Sebacean. Also, by your personal presence we have an easy manner of settling disputes should your information be less accurate than you had advertised

"I think you'll find I have nothing to fear" Natira felt like she was probably swaying her body too much in the presence of royalty, but on the other hand knew that she was going to be fine as long as she didn;t do something really stupid. The empress had to work with other people to remain bride, plus she actually seemed to like Natira for whatever reason "and I am just here because I love a good planetary annihilation. We are shooting for a total massacre of every human on Earth?"

Ahkna looked at ops, the Busty Scarran cleared her throat "yes, that is the name of the planet. Coordinates are set, we are locking in for a journey to Earth."

"Good" said Ahkna in a clam voice "prepare a wormhole, we will make a jump immediately." and with that the projector fired and a great circular hole in spacetime appeared before the Praxis, everyone on board felt a slight tinge of awe at the beauty, and the ship fired off to enter it

"This information was taken from the mind of John Crichton, yes? Are we absolutely certain" she felt them enter the wormhole, her body was altering somehow, making her quite uncomfortable "are we absolutely certain that this is safe?"

Ahkna sat regally and calmly in her chair, looking down at the other woman "Perfectly safe, according to every theory our numbers have run" she said, projecting more confidence than she had in most aspects. Natira definitely saw her fingers gripping on the ends of her armrests much harder than one would expect from such a stoic person "Even if there are occasional irrelevant consequences"

The turbulence stopped and Natira turned her stumble into a single step to the side, watching the new environment before them. There was a star in the distance...but not that far in the distance. "What is the meaning of this?" Ahkna asked before Natira could speak up "Do they worship a star n larger than our ship?"

"Actually" the woman at ops said, before digging into her computer. Something seemed very interesting to her, fingers tapping quickly as other possibilities were tested and discarded "it would appear that our ship has grown to approximately the same time as a G-type main sequence star"

Natira looked up at the empress 'I assure you that my data had nothing to do with this" she couldn't actually assure that, knowing absolutely nothing about the internal functions of wormhole projectors. But she was not about to let the idea fester in entertainment when she could say otherwise.

Ahkna just rubbed her chin, head bobbing on her long neck "So we are all the millions of metras tall right now? Big enough to completely squash a world like this if we were to land on it? She was answered with a nod "I see. Can you control the effect? Make us a different size in order to more...thoroughly annihilate life?"

Natira admired the viciousness in the lady before her, and found herself looking back on the crew, "I think if we were to be the size of the planet's moon, we would only be about a thousand metras tall a piece. Big enough to dwarf any natural structure on the planet, but still small enough to see the tiny distinct humans running around" she had only suggested, but would that be too much?

Ahkna's lips slowly curved upward, her mouth opened in a vicious smile and her joyous feeling filled the cabin as she looked down at her new best friend on the ship "Do as she says, I think she understands how we plan on conquering this pathetic planet of proto-Sebacean scum" and with that another wormhole wormhole was projected

Natira stepped as close as she could to the captain, getting close enough in proximity that the big old claws pines of she had on her head could irritate the woman if she were to put them out"You really like the idea of standing above them like giants and stamping on the individual humans, huh?"

Ahkna smiled her vicious smile, the thick lips on the woman emoting with an excellent glee as she looked down at her new partner. The woman with whom she would now share her conquests, at least until such things became drab "Do not assume that a Scarran Empress would fall to such base desires as the visceral need to destroy a population in a more personal form of combat. I am merely testing out a new potential weapon as soon as I can"

Natira looked up, hearing what she thought was a twinge of implication in her voice "Oh, of course great Empress. But you must admit that the visceral appeal is still present in one's desire to completely decimate the population of the planet, even if such an action remains the most practical course of action"

The queen's smile broke into a chuckle "Oh yes Natira, the idea is absolutely exhilarating to me. I think all Scarran girls dream of being a colossal beast capable of laying waste to entire planets beneath their feet. But now we get to actually do it. Have you ever fantasized about this?"

Natira gave a furtive glance before returning to full eye contact "Only for my entire life," she said, before throwing her head back and howling in laughter. The Empress couldn't help but copy the gesture, joining in with the newfound hilarity of the situation. "But take a seat, Dearest Natira, I think we are almost ready to test the wormhole again.

Natira did as was suggested, finding a seat next to the busty Scarran at ops, watching again as the wormhole was projected, and bracing herself for the immense experience that would remain at the other side. She couldn't help but glance back at the queen as they were heading for it, seeing her in her chair casually looking up data on the upcoming battle even as she looked gleefully forward to her next evolution in terms of size.

Ahkna looked over the geopolitical data, absorbing it rather quickly. Natira had heard that high-born Scarrans were capable of fast processing, but if she was remembering even half of what she was scrolling past she would know the world better than Natira did in no time flat.

Then they crossed the portal. All of them had to grab on to something as they shrunk, but only as much as the formula had demanded them to shrink, when they exited they were barely a ship length away from the enormous twin planet that Earthlings called a moon, looking down at the now small-looking orb.

Natira made her way to the back of the ship, smiling at Ahkna's exploration of Earth culture. She was glad she had gathered so much data, if she had fudged it even slightly she would now be in a large amount of trouble. The again, the ability to refrain from that sort of double-dealing was what made her fit to run a shadow brokerage "I understand we are approximately as tall as the planet's smaller mountains now?"

Ahkna looked up from her screen "that would be one way of putting it, yes. We are also many times taller than even the largest structures that they have made by their own hands our ship already was, but now we are all half as large as it before we had traveled through the first wormhole"

"So in other words, we are going to completely stomp the humans out of existence with our colossal, invincible bodies? I doubt even the thermonuclear devices man has engineered will be any more than mild nuisances for us now, while setting them off would destroy their own cities. It seems that, as a military force, we genuinely hold all the cards in this particular dealing"

Ahkna did not exactly understand that reference, but the general gist was not lost upon her "I see the schematics on human weapons systems, there is nothing present to suggest that any in existence or currently in development would be able to harm a Scarran of my current size. As for your race, I am not as familiar with the anatomy..."

"Don't worry" Natira gave her a wink and a smile, "I am just about as tough as any Scarran, maybe not quite, but close enough" she looked at the colossal warship around her, speculating on how it could lay waste to entire systems on its own now, or worse if they tried to maximize the size "For government work"

"Excellent" Said Ahkna as she stepped out of her chair and walked along the bridge of the ship "Women, we are going to split into seven distinct attack units, all attacking from the ship's escape pods. When you arrive where you want to be, start attacking unnatural structure, and don't stop until you have completely annihilated all signs of human life. Is that understood?"

The crew shouted in agreement, Natira had to adjust her translator microbes to see if that was a word, it appeared to just be a standard military call Scarrans used to communicate an affirmative. She looked up at the Empress, who began listing off names and sectors, delegating general numbered areas to her various underlings, before finally starting on her own division of troops "I will be leading myself, Karja, Derahk, and Natira to sector one"

"I am coming with you to smash the city?" Natira asked in dull surprise, feeling a tingle roll across her body

"Of course" Ahkna said, walking to the opening of the captain's yacht, the most luxurious pod that could exist the ship "we need to know the effects that this change in size has on non-Scarrans, and we need to ensure that the information you sold us was accurate. Both of which would be done best under the close personal supervision of myself" she smiled again 'beside, I would be remiss if I were to crush your dreams of stomping out a city"

Ahkna crossed her legs, enjoying the immense luxury of her own personal yacht as she looked into Natira's eyes and smiled, "We are going to a very significant Earth city. It wasn't long ago that it was capital of the largest empire that these pitiful creatures had ever known. Not even half of the planet's land and waters, barley even a quarter by the most generous estimates! And even that has been lost to the march of history and general chaos these filthy mammals sew among themselves.

Natira smiled and nodded. If the Empress felt this way about mammals, she could probably guess how she would feel about arachnoids like herself. But for now the businesswoman would keep her mouth shut about that. "Sounds like a wise target, your majesty. I assume we will face zero real military threat?" the empress's countenance was offended by such a question. Great, maybe her pretending to be more formal really wasn't doing anything to help out. "Can I know the name of the great human capital we're destroying?"

"I suppose we will be some of the last to ever speak it. The filthy inhabitants refer to it as London"

Alex was walking through the streets when he saw the space ship finally start descending. It was all over the news for the last few hours. Something was going on in the solar system and nobody could quite explain all of the anomalies, at least the people on the news were saying that. But there something was finally starting to lay into the Earth.

Humans had encountered aliens a few years ago, somebody called John Crichton had returned to the Earth and brought a few companions with him. The idea of an invasion occurring was in everybody's head, but it looked like it was finally happening. Alex put his hand over his eyes, making a visor out of hit as he looked at just how massive the ship coming down was. It looked like it would be as big as the whole country, as far as he could tell.

The ten year old orphan gulped, closing his eyes tightly and telling himself that it was no big deal. But when he heard the might collision of the spaceship with the land he had to rethink that. It was something he saw first, vaguely. The top of the spaceship was over the horizon even if he couldn't see the bottom, and he was son forcing his fingers in his ears as he saw the cloud of dirt the spaceship had kicked up was rushing toward him. He gulped as he saw everything, then saw the door start opening.

Everyone in the city was breaking out at this point, he saw that the ship was much closer than he thought it should have been as the door opens outward, suddenly something resembling a giant woman dressed up as a bug walked out first. She smiled and laughed at the environment, her face so high up that he could see her despite the taller people in front of him. She had a look of such intense contempt on her face. Why would she had the world like this?

After her came aliens that had clothing on. They were wearing red, but they had skin that was somewhere between green and a muted grey. They were all pretty mean looking as well, all looking down at humanity form their mighty perches.

He saw them come in and realized they were VERY quickly approaching. The tallest ne looked his way, her gaze directed downward as her boots started coming forward. They were big, leather-looking one. He couldn't help but laugh as he considered what kind of cow it would be that would supply that quantity of leather, maybe Babe the Blue Ox or some other such monster. He let out a laugh, but suddenly things became much less funny.

Those mile tall females could traverse the world at incredible speeds. The land thundered with their constant steps, he had to wonder if this it what it was like for his grandparents when they were being bombed by Fritz. He saw everyone in she streets begin to walk and fall, and started to consider that, perhaps, this was even worse than what they got back in his parents' day. He ran away from his spot, thinking hard to himself as he considered possibilities of what to do. He wasn't sure if he had any chance of escape from these giantesses, did anyone? A television in a window suggested that there were other ships in Beijing, New York, Sydney, Cape Town...all over the world. He gulped as he kept his little feet up, running through the crowd.

He heard her laughing soon afterward. He heard her speak in a tongue he could not understand. He had heard vaguely of the existence of translator microbes as devices used by the various people of the universe to communicate with one another. He did not consider the fact that they would therefore be speaking languages he would find completely incomprehensible.

He ran into his group of orphans, grabbing a close friend of his "Billy!" he shouted, looking the other boy dead in the eye "Billy we have to go, they are going to kill every last one of us!" he shouted in fear, having a terrible feeling that every suspicion he had about his situation was coming true very soon

"Are you sure, Alex? The wide-eyed Billy said, raising an eyebrow at his friend. Alex hugged the other orphan "I'm positive, Billy. We have to go...now!" he said, grabbing the kid's hand and dragging him along. They were going with a large portion of the rest of the crowd, until Alex saw a relatively empty alley. He knew that it would not provide any real protection, but avoiding being trampled or crushed between bodies would definitely help him think of a real plan. He waded, his friend in tow, trying to get to the other end in order to discuss plans.

They got there, looking blankly at each other as they felt the ground continue to shake. "I'm scared" Billy said, bringing Alex to a wall "I think...I think we should just hide, right here" he said, looking around before placing his hands over his head, huffling toward a wall like there was a bombing raid "I think they won't find us if we just hide.

Alex had to consider the logic here. He was no expert, of course, but this was their only survival strategy, and it seemed rather lacking. He wouldn't be able to DO anything if they got near, and they were going to get near soon. He joined the other boy, watching as huge boots came down around them, the city shaking and throwing around its many citizens as Alex began to cry at the distress he was seeing all around himself.

Several pairs of feet did go right past him, fashionable boots, not quite the jackboots he thought of when he thought of destruction, fell all around him and regularly forced him to lean back or find new footing in the face of potential annihilation. He grabbed his friend for dear life, thinking that he made have been spared from the worst of it.

Then she showed up, her smiling face was blue as the sky had been a few minutes ago, with great big red eyes that spoke some serious threats toward Alex and Billy. She said something in a voice so deep and alien that Alex could only ascertain that it was some form of threat.

He looked at Billy, Billy looked back at him. The two kids looked back at the monster, huddling together as she reached out her pointer finger, laughing as she shoved it into the ground fifty feet away from them, her enormous fingertip creating a crater larger than either of them would ever like to have seen.

They ran away after that, the two of them together. Her head was still above them, barely seeming to get any further away as that hundred yard smile started expanding. Alex realized that there was no real chance at running "Billy, we need a new plan!" he shouted, not having the vaguest idea of what it should be

"What?" shouted Billy, tripping over some rubble. Alex walked back and grabbed his shoulder, watching the finger come in again, the explosion of dust blew both boys away. Alex began coughing as he swept his hands around, trying to find what he had just lost as he walked through the field "Billy!?" he shouted, finally catching a glimpse of him. The finger was up again, pointing down at both of them.

Natira had finally separated the two of them. Her plan was going to come to fruition...she was going to destroy whichever one lost the race away from her. The other one would probably die in time, at least she presumed, but she would make sure that at least one got the instant judgement that the invasion demanded. Her finger started coming down with a brutal efficiency as both boys ran away.

Alex ran so quickly he lost track of everything, his eyes started watering but he did not have the breath to scream. He just tried to push himself forward as mucha s he could, as fast as he could, and ignore the rest of the world and the terror it was currently presenting for him. He started huffing at the exhaustion, but just closed his eyes and started running blind

Billy went forward as fast as he could, but his little legs could not take him as far as he needed to go. Alex was shooting ahead of him, losing him. He saw the kid get further away and felt his own loneliness grow "Hey!' shouted Billy, reaching his hand out as he started to slow his pace and almost fall down.

Alex looked back. He was liable to regret that action for the rest of his life, in all honesty. He saw the finger come down and squish the kid. The blue woman's eyes were absolutely glowing with joy as she smashed the kid, looking directly at Alex

Alex had lost his best friend. He had been responsible, hadn't he? He could have done more to save Billy, to speed up his escape. He could have tried to actually find a new plan instead of just running away like a crazy person. But he had done none of that, he had simply ran with the kid like a mindless brute.

Natira looked down and smiled, watching the little man's complete anguish. She actually found id kind of adorable how he'd miss his friend after that kind of experience, those humans were such strange creatures. And he was even more pathetic than normal. She reached her finger up and pretended like she was going to smash him, forcing it downward right on top of Alex's head

Alex squatted down and placed his hands over his head, weeping with complete terror as he expected the finger to come. There was a rush of air. And then...nothing. Was he dead? Was he now in the afterlife? He looked up, seeing the face of the giant woman, than the massive finger over his head. He screamed again and jumped down on his forearms and knees, not brave enough to look up at her

She began laughing again. How pathetic indeed. She couldn't even smash someone like him, it wouldn't even be sporting, just an exercise in brief brutality. She would, no doubt, find more fun targets later. And he would probably die from something that the Scarrans would bring upon the planet. Let him live in fear for a while longer.

Alex had no idea how long he laid his hands on the ground and tried not to think. He felt the world around him change for the worse, the sound got louder and the screams become more pervasive. He realized he would never, ever be safe so long as he was in there. He got up, a single tear was flowing from his eyes as he wiped it off, walking into the city to see what was going on.

On the horizon, he saw the apparent leader of these people picking up Big Ben. the clock tower, symbol of London, it looked like a tiny clot in her hand. She tore i from the ground and briefly examined it before crushing it in her grip, grinding the stone into dust before she started laughing. For all of her strange alien sounds, the laughing was definitely identifiable.

Alex ran through the city, looking up at what some of the aliens were doing. One was pretty close to him, looking to be maybe two or three blocks away, lightly inching her feet forward and then laughing, looking down at the people below her. He saw a single man running out from the crowd, long strides taking him closer to Alex...and then the great, big chested alien woman hocked a loogie, and the man was encased in fluid. Was he dead? The fluid started leaking everywhere and Alex saw that it had mixed with blood. Oh God, what a terror.

He started running another direction, seeing the London Eye. the Ferris wheel was around four hundred feet tall, and right next to it was the great big blue woman from earlier. She had the same smile as ever. How much has she destroyed while he was on the ground crying? How much would she destroy as he ran around the city and tried to find safety? How could he do anything to make anybody safer?

The anthropoid alien leaned down, sticking her butt out as she grabbed the wheel. It was only up to her shin, she had to really get down to grab it, before picking it up from her stupor and raising it to her head. She looked inside, seeming disappointed? No doubt the people had all left the wheel before the invasion proper had started, so she was probably just mad that she didn't see anyone in there that she could murder. But she did have fun with it, bringing it to her chest like it was a discus before lifting one foot up and looking to the horizon

She stamped her foot and threw with what he hoped as all her might, the eye went over the horizon and probably landed somewhere in Europe. He wiped a tiny tear from his eye again. He had some good memories of that wheel.

People rushed around the young orphan again as he ran into the street, looking around for a safer space. He saw the great green/grey woman again, standing in the middle of the square, her feet on either side of parliament. The great lizard woman screeched in laughter, and then slid her feet together.

The building exploded into dust in the wake of her incredibly powerful heels and legs, her black boots are covered in brisk and steel and probably dead bodies if he looked hard enough, seeming like she had been very satisfied with her attempts to decorate her body. The creature laughed again as she started leaning herself off. She screamed something to the big blue one

The big blue one screeched something back at her. The two of them paused, briefly, before laughing at one another again. They were enjoying this so much, how could anybody appreciate slaughter that much? Surely they must have known that they were killing people by acting like this.

Big Black boots started walking over to him. In his general direction, at least. But she did not talk at a normal pace, rather she looked down with every step and sent her foot violently down to the ground, eliciting a series of screams each time. As she got closer, he saw that she was looking for the biggest group of people that she could possibly stomp on, and then crushing with her feet as hard as she possibly could. Of course she was doing that, how else would a woman of her moral and personal character ever make it across the street?

Alex looked back at the blue woman, then forward at the green one. There was a crowd running down the street, it had to have several hundred people in it. Alex considered avoiding it, but realized she would try to smash him. Smash him just like another one had smashed Billy, she would go out of her way to completely annihilate him and there was nothing eh could possibly do, he would just have to run away.

Alex turned around in a completely hysterical state, finding his feet carrying him as fast as possible in front of the encroaching crowd. He found a young man ran in front of him first, and then a woman slammed herself into his back. He looked at her, she didn't even bother apologizing. She just regained her footing and kept running. He gulped and started away again, holding tears in as everyone started flowing next to him, the bodies bouncing him around before they started crashing into him. Would this be like that football riot, would he get smashed between the various bodies of the people?

Alex looked back, seeing the women around him all completely smashing against him. Their hands were going everywhere and their arms were wrapped around him. He was struggling with the massive collective grip as he saw the woman approaching, her big black boots were smashing down. They were in his line of sight now, they were crushing a group of people numbering upward of twenty.

She smiled down at the street, twisting her foot into the ground and making sure that everyone would be completely and thoroughly squished by the force of her boots, everyone would be turned into paste.

Alex screamed again, jumping against the people beside him, but there was no space to move between them. The human arms and back, legs and feet, heads and crippled spirits were all working together to cage him. But they were all just as caged. He could hear the breathing smile above him, the harsh intake of air from somebody who was planning on crushing all of these people along with him. He started to feel tears run down his cheeks again, forcing his muscles to work as hard as he could possibly get them to work, but still finding that nothing he did, nothing was ever going to let him out of there. He shouted, then looked back at the approaching figure.

He saw the black boots approaching, their high arches were raised, higher than he could even begin to imagine, and suddenly there was a great stomp. Houses for blocks and blocks were broken by their boot, many perished underneath her heel and step. But some blessing had befallen Alex and he found himself right under the highest part of her shoe. It dug deeply into the concrete, the great woman's massive weight no doubt pushing down and down, but he managed to get right where it wouldn't hit him. The displaced dirt and dust, however, was another story

It was like an explosion was going off in front of him and an even stronger one was activated behind him, rubble and parts of dead people were everywhere, although the sheer amount of dust being kicked up stopped the mist from adopting the gory pink color, it was mostly just grey. He was pushed up by the displaced land, and quickly tried to find new footing in his confused position, falling on his face and twisting his wrist. He looked up slightly, only to feel a piece of concrete strike him in the back of his head, leaving him on his hands and knees, unconscious.

When he woke up the skyline was completely altered. There really wasn't one, to speak of, anymore. The city's buildings were all knocked down, great puffs of smoke and dust over everywhere, and the occasional fire burned in the distance. He got up, crawling to discover that people were dead all around him. Some were partially squished, their arms or legs completely flattened while their faces remain animated with life. He saw some uninjured people, like himself, tending to the wounded and dying.

Alex saw a girl next to a dead woman, her mother? Maybe a grandmother or aunt, even a nanny, just going by the age. He felt his heart drop and for once in his life he was glad to be an orphan, he would never have to worry about his loved ones dying. It Was just him against the world. Or rather him against invaders from beyond his world.

He ran from between the craters of her boot, looking around them. Some of the craters in the distance looked like boot prints, a few even looked like the telltale spikes of heels. Was that from the strange feet of the big woman, gleefully stomping her fancy feet all over his city? He felt himself begin to weep, running faster. He saw the world zipping past him, felt tears form on his cheeks, and suddenly fell on the ground.

Alex looked back, seeing an injured man, his lower body stomped beyond any chance of healing, his hand wrapped around Alex's leg. "Help me" the man demanded, and Alex felt himself crying. He was being held by someone even more helpless than he was, a man who was begging for anything

"I can't" he said, praying at the fingers they released surprisingly easily, and he found himself facing the man again "I'm sorry" he said, starting to plead, perhaps with himself more than anyone else, "I can't do anything, I'm just a kid!" he said, turning around and crying. He heard some helicopters in the distance. Would they even be able to help him? He was just one of millions of lost and damned souls stuck in the city. How could they ever find time for him?

He thought of things for a bit and ran into a subway station, finding the entrance easily enough, going down the stairs as fast as he could, and finally confronting a policeman he saw inside. The guy looked absolutely exhausted, almost dead. He blankly looked at Alex. "Sorry" he said, pointing to a pile of rubble in the distance with his flashlight (or "torch" as either of them would have called it "No power. Even if there was, half the underground's been collapsed. No trains could get anywhere"

Alex found himself starting to cry "Where can I go?" he said, running to the man and grabbing his leg, feeling terror build inside of his body. He got a pat on the head from the policeman

"I hear they have some trains for survivors, evacuating them a few miles North of the city. Some of the proper tracks, the outdoor ones, have been left untouched for whatever queer reason. Try and get out there?"

"What about you!?" he shouted, but the man just shook his head and peeled Alex off of him, wordlessly sending him to go up the stairs? Alex suddenly felt an intense empathy for all the other survivors. That guy was going to die to help others, while he had essentially killed the first guy just by refusing to help him. He was going to kill more by being near them, wasn't he?

Alex clasped his eyes and started crying wordlessly as he considered his options, but he really only had one. He could pursue the trains at the other side of town and hope that things would go well for him.

He thought of where the nearest train station was. He felt his head heat up, and start to cool down. Suddenly there was a spark of euphoria within the kid. He had lasted this long. That was impressive. He thought of the old codgers he'd sometimes see telling people about how they had barely survived the blitz. He would do that someday, after this entire mess was sorted out and he had grandkids of his own. He would be able to tell his own grandkids about how he had survived the big stomping bitches of the world. He laughed, running toward the end of the city.

There were more of these giantesses in the distance, looking like they were doing something else entirely. No, they had nothing to see in a boy like him. They'd have to focus their efforts on something bigger than him, wouldn't they? Of course they would. Simple as

He found a few other coherent survivors, all looking rather shabby and disheveled. He looked at his own hands, they were red and black with blood and dust he couldn't exactly say that any of this was going too well for him, but he was at least alive. And he was injured, that meant that he had something to say to the others about if he had paid his dues

He ran with the others, smiling and laughing as he found his little caravan grouping quite loosely. Were they trying to get big enough to avoid a giant's footsteps? Did everyone remember how brutally the giant women would stamp out resistance? He just smiled and tried not to think of that, finding them slowing down as they silently walked from the ruins to the train station that they said was still running

Going through the city through the night was harsh. The death and destruction was largely ignored. It was just too big for him to really consider any of it. He'd find himself acting like an ostrich, just putting things out of his sight so he could put them out of his mind. He'd forget about the old stomped man, and a police officer, and Billy. He'd just breathe harshly into his chest and keep walking.

The train station came into their view, the people around him started lightly cheering and the men there loaded them all in rather quickly. Alex had hardly ever seen the countryside, but he would tonight. He'd see all of the farms, and forests, and cows. There would still be cows, wouldn't there?

He was loaded in with everyone else, looking out the windows, he found his vista quite ruined. There were giantesses all over the horizon, all over the country no doubt. A few were probably in Ireland too, making sure that everything they could possibly find would be so smashed that nobody would ever recognize it. He sighed to himself, clasping his hands.

"Hey there" an older woman said, placing her hand on his head. He looked up, seeing her smiling face "No need to be so stressed," she said, suddenly all of her fears were disappearing as she comforted him "It's just a quick ride out to somewhere better"

"How do you know?" he asked, finding himself sniffling. All of that compassion was just unfair at an emotionally vulnerable time like this. His eyes should be dried up by now, shouldn't they? When was he ever going to stop freaking out.

"It always does. My boy" she said, leaning in and hugging him. He closed his eyes even tighter, finding the tears would only flow with more force as he did so, his nose and cheeks were a complete mess as he just reached around and hugged her back, finding himself leaning into her chest and sharing warmth. "I lost my baby girl to them. She was running home from school"

He looked up and sniffled "I lost my best friend. Maybe my only friend" he said, wiping a tear from his eyes. This would be the great myth of his generation, wouldn't it? "We're both going to have a lot of fun telling our grandkids about this"

And the two of them laughed, sitting near each other and lightly snuggling. They fell into a sleep, dreaming sweetly before there was a sudden crash outside. He woke up to find her grabbing him for dear life,and placed a hand on the woman's arm. He realized he had absolutely no idea what her actual name was, he was just thinking of her as a sort of surrogate mom up to this point. "Shhh" she said in a panicked voice. "Everything will be OK" and then suddenly the train was wrenched from its location

Nobody could quite say what exactly was going on, but the lean of the hill became exaggerated as the train started pulling people toward one end. A few people fell into the door, sounding like they injured themselves. Others got up to help them, but the train wrenched again, much more severely this time, and everybody who was up fell right into the back with them.

Alex closed his eyes and tried to imagine he was somewhere else, then suddenly the power went out he opened them and grasped the woman's hand, hearing a laugh in the distance. He recognized that laugh from earlier, it was the one who had squished Billy. The one would would have squished him if she was just feeling slightly less playful on that particular day. He started lightly sobbing, trying to get up and do something, but he felt her hand wrapped around him and pull him in, she was going to keep him safe whether he liked it or not.

He heard another great metallic wrenching noise, and then a hundred people screaming for dear life. What was going on out there? He hugged her even more tightly, and then suddenly their own car started moving like crazy, throwing around all of the passengers and then suddenly shaking all about.

The people in the back were forced up by the first shake, and then toward the front when she turned the thing around. He could vaguely see her moonlit fingers around one side of the car, it was absolutely minuscule to her. Then suddenly she shook it up and everyone who had been seated was thrown out, strewn about the place in a massive mess as she looked in again and began laughing her enormous, terrible laugh.

Alex was tossed into the back, feeling himself getting piled up with everyone else, somehow lucky enough to be on the top. The train suddenly burst open, he looked back and saw the mouth of that great, Blue, feminine creature who had killed his best friend. He shrieked but the woman from earlier comforted him, still just barley together enough to be strong for him, reading a hand out to grab his.

The blue thing shook the car again, bouncing everyone about and laughing. She then angled it upward, shaking it like a pepper shaker before her mouth. Perhaps half of everyone fell inside, her mouth catching the people, small as salt grains compared to her, and she swished them around in her mouth. She shook again, harder this time, and he had to hold onto a chair with all four limbs to stop himself from falling into her

The woman reached over, trying to grab him, but they heard they woman laugh and then start tearing the car apart again, causing everyone to fall from their warping holdings. The way down was painful, but Alex managed to catch his legs around a specific leg of some chairs and grab the woman who had helped him he was holding her by the hand while barley supporting himself on his leg, grunting with everything he had. "It's alright " the woman sobbed, looking up at him with a terribly dark expression

The train car shook again, and she bounced nearly all the way up, letting go of his hands and slipping out when she lost slack. He reached out for her and shouted "Nooo!" at the events he saw unfolding, but she fell into the mouth. The woman looked at the last person in there, her eyes focusing. And then she laughed again. It was really the same one, she never forgot a face!

He felt a great rush of speed as she placed his car down in the middle of the woods, leaving him safe and sound once again as everyone else faced suffering and death. Why was he chosen to survive? Just to suffer?

Alex stood in the remains of London, having no step forward, nor any step backward, to take as he simply stood where the sun shone brightest and held his hands into one another. He had no idea hwy he had been spared, but he could clearly see the reptillian giantesses walking away from his location, seemingly looking for other places to plunder and loot as they stomped away from him, their footsteps sounding like thunderclaps or carpet bombings as they went away from him.

They were visible for quite some time, taking more than a mountain's worth of distance to truly become invisible to the naked eye. They walked across the English channel easily enough. It ever really even got their knees wet when they walked through, such was their ridiculous height and powerful bodies. Their only real problem was finding that they had a lot of mud on their shoes when they got to the other side, but they found plenty of French cities to scrape that mud against.

Alex found a radio in the street, walking to it and listening intently as news reports came in of the giantesses from outer space. The newsman sounded rather terrified of everything, just like every other human being on the planet was. Military actions were being organized, apparently, by every government in the world, but he had no reason to believe anything had been successful against these creatures. Why would they be, he knew for a fact that they were too large and too powerful for anybody to ever effectively fight against. He sighed again, fatalistically viewing his future from his seat on a load of rubble.

"What fun this city is to break" Ahkna said as she walked into Paris, finding it so small she could easily flick over the Eiffel tower, before going around to other parts of the city and stomping on cars and humans alike with her mighty built-in heels of doom.

Ahkna saw the actions of the woman and just sort of rolled her eyes. She knew that Natira was someone very interested in herself, and in her own little fantasies of power and sex, buts he found the bug's actual strategy rather inefficient as a manner to lay waste to an entire city. Akha still stomped, of course, and occasionally at the busload of trainload of people sadly evacuated city, but she made more of an effort at doing so in an expedient manner.

"Where do you think they hide everybody?"asked the insectoid, crossing her arms and looking over the empty buildings 'I don't think the countryside exactly shs the carrying capacity for what exists on this planet" mused the blue woman as the other alien female began to consider things from her own perspective, rubbing her chin and trilling her facial limbs against her carapace as she tried to listen in on radio signals for any sort of clue.

Ahkna simply walked across the city and started sending out waves of heat, melting everything and seeing if she could get any sort of reaction, before she found Natira yelping out in joyous surprise as she felt her heel starting to sink into something, lifting it up. Crichton remembered something about greta catacombs existing in this particular city" the empress pointed out rather harshly.

"Ohh my" said the insectoid with a mighty grin on her face. ``do you know what that means, my great empress?" said the blue one as she sauntered right up to Ahkna, holding herself as a great prize as she got in close and hugged the woman softly. Ahkna had to admit on some level she did sort of enjoy the physical contact, in some ways.

Ahkna held her hand up to the hole that Natira's heel had penetrated into the catacombs, the swirling and rippling of air signifying that he was singing in a powerful gust of heat to smoke out the human population hidden within. "Smoked meat" she said, smirking at her companion in crime as she killed thousands if not millions.

"Frog's legs" Natira countered, vaguely remembering a stereotype she had heard about the people of this land in her research of the planet. It just seemed appropriate to make fun of them like that in their darkest hour, Natira had never been one for punching up. The two waited around the hole until the screaming stopped, and then tore open the ground to look for the humans underneath.

Sure enough, millions of corpses were piled up, some charred to the bone while others weren't even properly burnt to death just asphyxiated from lack of oxygen. The two ladies had fun picking the bodies up and dropping them in their mouths. "Tell me" said the blue Saltici, slurping up a human family and enjoying rolling her tongue around them "You're the alpha female of your entire nation, and as such of your entire race, are you not?"

"As empress of the Scarrans, no female may challenge me" nor, in her opinion, could any male. Certainly she had a position of power over her husband now that she possessed wormhole weapons and a method to turn herself and her weaponry so colossal that she could annihilate anything that currently existed.

"Why, then, are you considering yourself to simply leading a vanguard of giant Scarran women? Wouldn't it make more sense if rather that attacking with them, you ensured that none of them could ever stand up to you again, securing your position as queen by annihilating any in the armed forces who could possibly stand against you?"

Ahkna dropped her humans into her mouth and pondered this. She knew quite well what voiced of coup sounded like,and began scratching her chin. She planned on keeping her husband as mostly a political role after this, but perhaps seeing fi the wormhole couldn't grant her immortality the same way they had granted her her colossal size. She was not sure if she had any interest in reproducing if she could truly make herself empress for all eternity.

"That would be an interesting thought. Of course, why would I not also annihilate my Saltici allies who know as much of the technology, if not more so?" she asked with venom in her voice and a bright smile on her face.

"You could find a few reasons for that, my empress" Natira said as she started rolling together a huge pile of humans, creating a ball that was, proportionately, about the size of a marble between her fingertips as she talked idly with her new empress "For one, I cannot challenge you for the throne of your empire, an empire which is now sure to become the supreme power in the galaxy, if not expand beyond the Milky way. Additionally, I think it is fair to say that you and I have something of a special friendship" Natira gave a big goofy smile and Ahkna found a laugh coming through her lips.

"You have always been rather skilled at making me reconsider myself" said the empress, getting up and stretching her legs as she blasted fire at the pit again, ensuring that he was able to properly kill off anything that may have remained beneath the catacombs. 'What are we to do with everyone else, then? I as empress could easily destroy any, but that seems perhaps below me" Ahkna said, unable to admit to any weakness.

"O we have plenty of strategies at our disposal, sweetheart. I myself was considering one of simply stealing the power from the other Scarran females, giving you their great stature while reducing them to bite-sized morsels" the former banker was betting very excited and slightly heated at the idea of committing so much assault and betrayal, imagining the pain and haoc she could create by annihilating so many of the servants of the empress.

"You are a bad female" Ahkna said as she stretched her legs, each of which was knocking over mass amounts of infrastructure every time she lifted it "I, of course, am to understand that you have already developed a proper method for capturing and ensuring the destruction of ever one of them, while ensuring Earth is left uninhabitable and we become the new rules of this entire galaxy?" said the queen, feeling herself grow more affectionate toward her sidekick by the minute

"Of of course, great one" said the woman as she bowed to her queen and set her teeth, imaging the looks on all of their faces 'i can make sure that we are completely free from their resistance"

The busty one was enjoying herself in Berlin, kicking over building after building as he occasionally picked up some rubble and threw it into some other part of the city. She had some interest in eating the inhabitants, if anything is measure of terror, and she was quickly finding that the fear she had had in the militaries of this world was complete unfounded. Every time they lead a strike against her, they send in puny planes that could barleys trike from outside visual range, and she had no problem frying whatever got near her, if not straight up eating the damned fool for daring to challenge her as well as her species. As she was destroying things, she saw a pair of figure in the distance

"Empress!" she said, taking a knee onto a row of skyscrapers as she bent her head for the oncoming dignitary, proud of her destruction and sure that Ahan would be as well. Natira looked beside herself and the forward at the little loyal reptile, licking her lips she saw the empress do her thing.

"You've served me well' Ahkna began, not having bothered to have so much learned the name of this subject "But I have no plans on keeping you as a permanent subject. Surrender yourself to me so that I may use your body and the general aspects you carry to the greatest extent of our military cause, rather than letting them go to waste in your less than capable hands" ordered the queen.

The soldier froze in place. She had always been loyal to the crown, but this command was a bit beyond what he had expected. "Your honor, you must be joking the Scarran said as she looked at the Saltici. Did that being use some form of technology to mind control the empress? She was certainly standing there like she had done something she was too guilty over to ever speak of. And as the female Scarran considered her impending death, anything that allowed her to fight for life without betraying the throne seemed like a reasonable solution to her predicament.

"You!" shouted the Scarran as she approached Natira "you have undermined our entire operation!" shouted the woman, even as the Scarran empire grew impatient and approached the underline from behind, taking a few short moments to consider how to deal with the rude, unruly crew woman as Natira simply took out a control pad and started pressing the soft buttons, smiling widely.

Suddenly the woman was altered, her body floating into the air as she was sucked upward into a wormhole. Ahna looked at what was occurring, stroking her china's she suddenly found herself sprouting up again, her body pressing upward and forward as she grew to two mikes tall, suddenly holding a captures woman in her palm as she looked down.

"You ought to betray me" she said to her insubordinate underline, her eyes demonstrated tremendous anger as he opened her mouth and lifted her hand up, the gaping maw allowing the busty Scarran to cry out in fear as she suddenly fell from the palm, directly into the mouth of her empress.

"A delicious feat, your majesty' announced her underling, crossing her legs and looking a woman before her, feeling like she had just witnessed one of the most wonderful thing in the universe "You are truly showing your underlings where they belong" said Natira as she started licking her lips, imagining how horrifying it must have been for the crew-woman to experience that.

"You have made me larger. I will not forget that the empress said, observing her body and playing around with it slightly, barley listening to what the shadow banker was telling her as she flexed and looked forward, imagining what sort of destruction he could cause if she devoured her entire crew "and you can make me an even bigger?' she asked as she took a step, creating a massive creature with her footfall.

"Oh yes, my empress" the shadow banker said, licking her lips as she admired the fine, fine giantess in front of her 'I can make you so enormous that none in this world will even see the top of you, let alone challenge your divine greatness!" shouted the woman loud enough that most of Europe could hear the sounds she was making (although nobody really knew what she was actually saying with them

"Good" the empress said, smiling at her companion 'let it be done in a timely fashion, then" and with that they ran away from Paris, going next to Moscow. There, one of the smaller Scarran females and desolated not only the city itself, but was currently tearing apart a nearby mountain range simply to test her power. When she saw the others approach, she took a knee herself in an obedient bow 'Oh mistress of all might, I Have destroyed this city for the glory of the Eternal Scarran empire!"

"A nice gesture" said the queen in her regality, walking haughtily past her subject as she observed the destroyed city and then looked back at her obedient servant, scratching her chin as she lowered her hand, considering sending out a blast of heat but deciding against it, much preferring to simply look down at the woman for now "You Are to enter a wormhole of my choosing" the queen said, feeling like a deception this time around 'beyond which shall be your next mission. Can you handle this?"

"Of course, my empress!" shout the underling. Akhma smiled widely, showing off her sharp teeth as she took a look back at her assistance, who gave her a thumbs up. The woman could not remember feeling this powerful or in control for a long time, and she was going to savor every second of her complete dominance over the world.

"I need you to go through the portal our assistant is about to create" Ahkna said in her most serious, imposing voice. The woman before her straightened up, saluted, and took a few steps forward, awkwardly looking back afterward "Uhh, I am ready whenever you are" she said, almost like it was a question.

The portal opened up when Natira pushed the buttons, and suddenly the cadet of the crew of the empress of the Scarrans had to walk right through the big, golden circle into the great unknown.

She found herself falling, figuring that her predicament was probably very similar to that which had been experienced by many of her victims before her. It was no great consolation or anything, just interesting to note that she was suffering from the same sort of fall that she had given to so many others. Then she noticed she was falling

"AAAAAAH!" the young Scarran shouted, seeing the clouds pass by her from her great height in the air. She couldn't see the horizon yet, but she knew that at a mile tall she would definitely cause some significant damage when she finally made contact with the world below her,. She covered her face with her forearms, trying to think her way out of it, but suddenly she was caught by a great hand.

The woman looked up from her perch, finding herself no bigger than a doll relative to the giant that was holding her. She had seen that her empress was taller than her, but never by this much. Who could it be who was holding her up like this, keeping her a prisoner of the tower as she looked forward and tried to focus on the face of her current captor. "No" she whispered to herself as much as it was to anyone else, finally discovering who it was on the other side of that hand. The face had the most euphoric expression of hatred the youngster had ever seen in her entire life.

"Seems we have reached ourselves a little impasse" declared the queen with pride, looking pitifully at the young person in her hand, slowly tightening her grip around the doll "You will make such an excellent morsel like this, I should be able to taste you, even" said the Scarran as she brought her female victim up to her big, poofy, thick lips. Her tongue traveled around the rim of her mouth in a very strange way as she prepared to feast upon the flesh of her underling.

"Yes, great job mistress!" came the voice from behind her. Natira was delighted to see so many Scarrans die. She didn;t even hate Scarrnas, really, it was just always great to see a slaughter, especially if it was a slaughter between groups of people who had been friends beforehand.

"Yess" shouted the queen as she felt herself grow once again, her body expanding, digging into the ground, and pressing outward as she held her hands out. The energies given by the wormhole had altered the shape of the Scarrans who had passed through, and once she had swallowed them those energies became free food, for her that meant an enormous boost is strength simply by means of devouring an enemy, her face smacked loudly as she rubbed her belly. 'Goodnight, sweet princess" the enormous woman said

"You truly are cruel" Natira showed up at her mistress, who simply let her hand down and picked up the comparatively tiny woman, holding the person who was like an infant for her on her back

"You complain too much, survival" Ahkna found herself saying playfully. She really did like the blue bug woman, she liked her enough to maybe possibly consider that woman to be her only real friend in the world, at least for the time being. Not that she couldn't find others if the need were ever to arise, just that he had a special relationship with this woman who she had just met.

Ahkna began running again, every step of hers literally causing an Earthquake somewhere as she shot the Earth down hundreds of feet if not, on occasion, thousands each time her stride hit land. The two of them ricked, hitting the ground and kicking up dust like atom bombs, creating a storm of dust and indeed clouds behind her that was so intense that she was turning the world behind her into a maelstrom of death.

Natira pulled tightly against the back of the empress's neck, smiling at the world that was passing her bye at many times the speed of sound air throttled past them and began to heat up in front of them from the enormous pressure, the air forced to compress when such a large body moved forward through it, like a spaceship returning to Earth would create a need to shield from heat. The occasional passenger jet would pass by Ahkna's face as he ran, she made sure to destroy them whenever she saw one, however. They would be lost in her storm either way.

In Beijing, another Scarran was terrorizing the remains of the military force sent in to stop her, spitting on and vaporizing tanks, stomping on the ruins of buildings until they had been compressed into solid states, and laughing at how quickly and easily she was taking out the forced of the allegedly most powerful army of this planet's many nations states. She looked around and raised both of her hands, calling to the sky, before she saw a storm approaching from the West. she lowered her eyes, having to really check on what it could be.

Suddenly the muscular Scarran saw it and seized up. She had never seen destruction like that, at least not from this angle, and the head was the empress of her race. It filled the young Scarran with pride and had her kneeling before she even knew what she was doing, suddenly devoting herself to her queen's unknown desires since she knew that her queen was in every way that mattered a perfect being and the supreme ruler of all rulers who could possibly be.

Ahkna's deceleration was rather difficult, but she found that if she gave herself a few hundred miles o slide she could arrive at what was a reasonable speed for the enormous giant. Her legs were strong enough to take the stress, too.

The younger Scarran looked on with complete awe as she saw her empress slide in. Ahkna came with such a ferocious speed and power that the Scarran on the other side felt like she was going to wet herself. She avoided actually doing it, but she definitely felt like she was about to as her enormous empress slide inn. 'Hello, my empress" said the Scarran slowly, staring at the ground.

Ahkna was proud of her subjects had learned true humility, the kind where one acknowledged that some were so vastly superior that you could not even look at them and remain your sane self the woman laughed uproariously before walking straight to the other woman and placing a hand on her shoulder, feeling just how much bigger she was than the comparatively minuscule Scarran soldier. "Do you feel like you have done a good job in the service of your empire, servile one?"

She looked up, clearing her throat "I have destroyed vast amounts of infrastructure and life alike in service of you, great Ahkna, I am but a humble servant, one who would do whatever may be required to eliminate all that is between you and your final goals!" the woman started believing it as she said it with more gusto

"Even surrender your very life without so much as a start of a fight? Even giving freely of yourself that I may take from you? How devoted is your devotion, truly, my little one?" the queen said, getting in closer

The muscular mile-tall reptilian looked up at her mistress and wanted to start a dispute, but found she had nothing to say. She was, she supposed, completely right to assume that she would not be ordered to simply die by a good commander, but on the other hand she had pledged loyalty. Besides, the power on display was so great that it would almost seem counter to the laws of nature to resist it

"Oh great mistress, I will do whatever is required in order for me to allow you to succeed where others have failed. Take from me whatever it is you want, and I will gladly part with it so that you may have what you ned" and with that she was lifted off the ground in a hand she easily fit completely inside of.

Ahkna was slow and cruel again when she placed her new charge in her mouth, sucking on the woman's head she felt the heat from the particular Scarran grow and fester. The screams against her tongue and writhing against her entire mouth. Her face curled into a cruel smile that she shared with Natira before closing her eyes and placing her head back, swallowing the great load of sentient being she had filled her mouth with a few moments earlier.

It went down as smooth as a milkshake, traveling through her gullet with a pronounced bulge before falling into her aggressive digestive system and making her take a step backward while holding her belly, feeling her entire being light up once again as she roared to the heavens and felt herself let g of everything she was concerned about earlier.

Suddenly he was starting to surpass the heavens, too. She was ten miles tall after her newest growth spurt had ended, and had to lift up Natira and place her on her shoulder. "You have given me quite the gift" the giantess said, laughing as she kissed her buglike companion, whose new relative size only reinforced that similarity in the mind of the Scarran empress.

"No problem" said the Saltici, feel herself somewhat objectified but also incredibly empowered, trying to think of what life would be very soon instead of focusing on how things could also just go bad in the immediate future. She placed her hand on her thighs and found that she could picture herself as second in command of the entire universe.

"Keep doing as you were" came the booming voice of Ahkna, a bit distorted by the thinenr atmosphere and increase in wind speed, but still recognizable as ever as the voice from the woman who would rule the galaxy once her thumb as big enough to literally place over every sentient being who ever existed or ever would exist and at this rate her thumb would get that big before too long.

"You look magnificent" the mile-tall insectoid announced into the empress's ear. It was strange how relative size was becoming for her, she would have been so colossal for most beings that had ever or would ever exist in this galaxy, but she was still so small by some of the other standard one could conceivably think of. It was a very strange galaxy indeed where one could simply run headlong into these seeming contradictions, but it was a galaxy she would be excited about living in. especially since, by all means, she was not in possession of a rather significant portion of the power that existed in the single owner of this new world.

"Thank you, my underling" Ahna said, rubbing her new pet slightly. She enjoyed how Natira would give her power so selfishly. She would not soon forget how she was going to make everybody except Natira pay for even momentarily doubting her true and earned status as the only omnipotent being in the universe and dread sovereign of all that ever was, would be, or had been in the past.

She walked through the world of fire, looking down at war her feet landed, easily able to see the curvature of the earth for as long as it went. She smiled, taking an aggressive step into the ocean, which barely started wetting her heels. She was going to destroy this planet,and she was going to have a lot of fun doing it.

Ahkna crossed the pacific and landed in Los Angeles, looking down at the woman in charge before picking the Scarran up and feeding her to herself, loving the taste and the growth as well, marching straight from there to the other great cities in California, finding a few more individuals to stomp under heel.

That became more literal than most had expected as Ahkna began to quite literally storm on several more Scarrnas. Standing nearly twenty miles tall at this point, her head was far above the clouds and her feet were sinking so far into the ground they created bedrock. She was no longer someone who needed to look out for smaller foes, she could just run right over them like they were nothing.

It was in Las Vegas that she encountered the truly pious woman. One that not only took a knee, but kowtowed before the incoming Goddess of light, her head repeatedly slamming into the dessert 'Oh great woman of the world, please be merciful unto me" she announced, her head deeper and deeper, but it was no good. She stomped as nothing but an afterthought.

"You think she would have been tasty?" asked Ahkna as she started scraping her shoe off against a mountain, creating several rockslides and deeply scarring the land as her enormous muscles pressed against the stone, chipping at the craggy cliffs and breaking them down like they were nothing at all

"I'd say probably not, she just didn;t look tasty. Besides, the way you are working right now means that someone like her would probably be little more than a snack for you. Your body runs on some of the most powerful things in the universe, you gotta be selective"

The queen listened, making her way across the desert at a pre measured pace now that she was able to walk casually. She felt like nothing in the entire universe posed a threat against her. When nuclear bombs started going off against her skin she discovered she was completely right, nothing in the world could ever hurt her and she should start acting like that before she became as boring as every previous Empress had been.

New York city was a bit more entertaining. She picked up a Screen and directly ate her. By this point she had eaten or stoned on most of them, but the increase in size gave her enough of a high that's he turned toward her partner in conquest 'hey, do you think if I went and got some more from South America, I could finally finish them off and get so much bigger?" asked the Scarran, quickly gaining a casualness that Natira didn't quite understand but completely loved.

"Yes, definitely" the Shadow Banker said, nodding her head at the enormous woman by her side "I have no doubt that you could give yourself all the boost you need. And I am sure that I can create some gathering down there make sure everybody eats in the same city and gets what's coming to them?"

"That is exactly the sort of plan I was looking for" said the empress, feeling almost as if her mind had just been read. And so that plan was taken, and so the two of them enjoyed some rather unwholesome but completely wholesale destruction across the world to the South, easily creating some utter chaos as they partook.

Three Scarran females were eaten, only the most beautiful. The rest were stomped underfoot, save for one who Natira sent to the sun with her portal technology. She got a real hoot out of that little joke.

Alex was huddled into a corner in London. The destruction, as far as anyone could tell, had decided. Firefighters and construction workers had been scrambled in some capacity, mostly right now they were just digging up rubble and finding dead bodies to throw in a pile that would hopefully reach a graveyard or cemetery someday.

Alex sighed. He was going to be the last of his friends to ever live. He was going to be among the last human to ever live, in all likelihood. He remembered how terrible it was to lose his new foster mother on the train, how much he had to deal with to find his way back to London, how terrifying everything was too look through. He sighed din his eternal frustration at the city.

Why was it that he had to live with the fact that he was small and nobody cared for him when so many others had such rich social networks? He sighed again, wishing he could connect to people, but the inevitability of death seems too real to him. The fact that he lived in a world where dead bodies were literally the only smell beside fire probably didn;t help with that

He had to walk across his corner a few times before he could gain the courage to turn on the radio. The power grid was busted beyond any hope of repair, possibly ever. So they used radios that ran on batteries, and that was that. The radios weren't even always coherent, but right then he could get a message out of one.

"We have reports in the united states of one of these creatures so big that it dwarfs the rest, literally eating them. The size is seemingly exaggerated every time she appears, although there are some concerning photographs from both survivors and satellites of what this creature may look like. We have also, allegedly, lost a few to her face.

A few satellites? Is that how things were, then? The invaders had become so large that satellites simply flew into them and they didn;t even care? Eh thought once more about how dreadfully unfair all of this was. Why could he not be a normal boy who loved a few decades ago and never had to deal with the world ending?

He ran back to his corner and hit, grabbing a blanket he had found and hugging it. If other humans could be lost at the drop of a hat, perhaps inanimate object would be a better fit for the sort of therapy he needed. Hugging it made him feel slightly better and more secure, although he still understood that he lived in a world that possessed nobody truly interested in helping him out, just a bunch of phonies and soon to be dead sociopaths who wanted to bond with him just so he could watch them die horrible deaths.

He tossed and turned, not sleepy at all but seeing sleep as something that could take his mind off of his problems. It didn;t come to him, of course, but that did not stop him from tossing and turning some more, listening to the radio upstairs as he settled down into his little hole. The city outside has grown very quiet

"The Atlantic ocean is apparently no break of any sort for this mega-beast,a s some have dubbed her. She is easily walk thing through the waters, her legs getting wet but her body casually driving through them as a colossus of unstoppable might!" shouted the newsman, laughing hysterically. This was a joke, then? Alex was miffed that anyone would so casually make light of the entire situation, he walked up to turn the radio off.

He made a mistake when he looked out the window. He saw quite clearly that everybody was looking in the same direction, due West. head to open the door and look the way, surprised by what he saw in several ways. It was mostly the lower body visible, but he could kind of make out the upper body if he squinted and angled his head. There was no question at all as to who it was. He knew that face and body anywhere. It was the one who had mocked him with death so many times before that he had become stone-faced against the idea. But now...not so much.

Natira was listening to the radio reports, laughing at how much she and her mistress had terrified the population. She had always felt proud when she could lead something against somebody, but truly creating a coup that destroyed everyone except the leader and an assault that would wipe the infrastructure and population away from an entire planet...well between the two of those she was having a very good day indeed. She had to it down on the shoulder to get a better view of what she was looking at, finding that they were finally retracing their steps and returning to where they were.

Ahkna slammed herself into satellites as she kept walking, feeling them bounce harmlessly off for her clothing is she went with and against the, spinning great waves with her steps and casually tearing fishing vessels from the sea simply by picking up her feet. She barely even noticed they existed anymore.

Ahkna had won, by any means she could measure victory. All now knew her name and all now knew her immense power, the power that creates a true worship for a being such as herself among all creatures in the galaxy.

Alex stood in the middle of the city, shaking in fear as he saw the colossal humanoid beast come forward. She smiled at the world as she got on one knee, so far above everybody else that she was still a complete giant. Then she let her hand down, her harsh nails slipping under the water and then under the ground, suddenly Alex knew what this multi-hundred-mile tall woman was going to do. He looked around himself for any hope of escape. He found none.

Rogers in the city ranged from frozen solid to actively running through the streets, but all could be said to be panicking, and with good reason. The city was doomed, damned to death in a few short moments. Daniel found himself falling to the ground, crying uncontrollably even as he tried to be stoic. It really was not fair that he was going to die in a few minutes. He deserved a longer life. He deserved a chance at happiness. "Fuck" he mumbled to himself.

The city cracked from the ground, the colossal woman carrying it form the Earth and licking her lips as she pressed it toward her mouth. She lied to devour civilizations, but this was an entirely new sensation for her. She saw it crack around, shattering into dust as the people on it ran around. She had wished she could have been a bit gentler with it, but she decided it was better than just letting them die some other way for no reason but to make things more efficient. She licked her lips.

Alex saw the change in position, the buildings falling around him, cars start to slide around. He wept as he saw the death around him. Of course he would be the last to die probably the last person in the entire city to die. He would have to live with that, or rather die with it.

She ate the city, swallowing it in one gulp before looking down at the world. It was hers to destroy.