Empyrean Iris Story Collection

First Contact pt. 2

Interview # 122234451

Cycle. 4,013 after Assembly Establishment

First contact w/ death-worlders

Species: Homo sapiens sapiens

Subject: Ket

Species Bran hexanim

The unknown vessel tore through the cosmos with a terrible roll of energy that warped the universal plane for a horrible moment. The Bran felt it in their bodies, rattling their skeletal structures as proximity alerts waved on deck and scouts were assembled.

"What is that?" They wondered as the strange craft limped through the universe spitting fire and jutting metal in all directions strange archaic symbols carved onto its sides in splashes of red and black. Dark energy pulsed from its center projecting outward onto the warped plane. It glowed with firelight from dark interior propelling itself through the universe with predatory ease. They had no time to prep their ship for exit, so they had no other choice but to allow a detachment to land aboard their asteroid.

Ket was sent forward as a scout deep within the bowls of the ship watching from the atmospheric bubble as the strange fire breathing craft landed. His body shook as the silence ushered the creatures form the ship. They scuttled down the ramp horribly quick with fluid strides balancing incredibly on only two limbs. Limbs that were too long and too thin terminating at spidery, twitching appendages at their ends. The exo-skeletons moved seamlessly around them as they panned their heads through the darkness. A large glittering eye peered from the darkness revealing a fleshy expanse of inner meat.

Ghastly white orbs glittered in the light dripping in slime. Red slits in this fleshy expanse opened and closed exposing a dark gooey interior and jagged white points. Pink muscle churned inwards poking out to taste at the air.

Ket felt like fleeing, but his horror kept him grounded as the creatures moved seamlessly muscles churning with a terrible power and grace below their bodies. They moved together with horrible ease...

"A predator species" This knowledge rolled through the link to his brethren, and he felt their collective horror.

Predator species were rare, sentient predator species were nonexistent.

This spelled death to them all.

Flaps of flesh passed over the white, and chromatic orbs, leaving a layer of wetness behind them.

They passed through the atmospheric bubble without so much as a flinch as if they didn't notice the change. Their skeletons glinted with the glittering of precious metals. Tubes and gears churned with them..... as if they had fused themselves to the metals.

Ket backed into the darkness as the alien creatures made entry to his ship. He kept high to the walls keeping silent behind the organic structure that served as the structure for their ship.

In the atmosphere he could hear them now. They communicated through a measure of guttural clicks, hisses and grunts aggressively using body posture to indicate their displeasure dominating each other with every step and gesture.... A clear hierarchy.

The group moved themselves towards one of the structural columns leaving one of the lone monsters to explore the chamber. When he looked up, his slimy orbs glowed with the color of a reactor core. A single hole of darkness cut through the color, a deep void of nothingness, predatory hunting instinct.

Red flesh parted showing glittering slime on the white protrusions. Muscles churned.

Light glittered from the creature's luminescent skin, and it lowered its head to contemplate the colors shoulders hunching.