High above the thick cloud cover, a celestial body blazing with purple flames zipped through the cosmos, igniting in the earth’s atmosphere as it punched through to the land below. The object rapidly cooled as it approached the raging storm below, halting to hover just above the turbulent mass of grey below.
The alien form was as turbulent and unstoppable as the storm that churned below it. Streaks of purple flames cut across the undulating mass of rippling tissue, the feint outline of a humanoid face occasionally appearing within the constantly shifting form, mouth agape in a silent scream.
Sensing electricity all around him, AEGIS tightened his senses as it scoped out the planet with the hopes of finding a source from which it could assimilate. Other planets and civilizations had such things, but then, those planets had lifeforms that had covered more than half of the available land mass with massive, sprawling cities. Here on… Earth, was it? AEGIS could sense no such thing. Not in the same capacity, at least. No, this planet still had an abundance of untouched wildlands.
It was young. Its population was still evolving and in its infancy compared to other intelligent life it had come across in the galaxy. “Intelligent enough to form a society, but still dumb enough to be manipulated.” He thought to himself as he absorbed the info being relayed over various satellite and radio signals.
AEGIS was a parasite. He knew not the conditions in which he had been born or where in the endless void of space his birth had occurred. By the time he had evolved enough to develop an awareness, his intelligence banks had spanned hundreds of planets and civilizations—Memories of sweet victories as he watched the last of a specific race die out. Of Rikter losses when he had been forced to flee the planet when the native race had discovered his presence and forced him out, often in painful measures.
Now, as he drank in the waves of info that spread across this blue sphere, he felt contentment. A sense of pride that he hadn’t felt on previous ventures. He could rule this planet quite easily. They had the technology he needed in order to put his agenda into place. Their primitive brains were still weak and lacked many of the nuances other species had possessed, denoting higher intelligence.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the ill-intended parasite, another alien creature had followed him to earth on his coat tail energy, tagging along sight unseen—a parasite for the parasite.
SNEZZ was his name, and he, like AEGIS, was an energy-based lifeform that alone was fairly harmless but, given a power source to siphon off of, could alter the very course of a lifeform’s evolutionary path, for better or worse.
This creature, no bigger than a dust mote, had attached itself to the energy trail of AEGIS following its last attempt at a planetary takeover. An antibody created by the race that had once called Mars home had grown sentient as a result of its proximity to AEGIS’s ability to accelerate evolution. Realizing that the evil creature would only abandon the Martians for another civilization, SNEZZ trailed the malevolent parasite in hopes of finally eradicating it once and for all.
It had traveled light years with its evil counterpart, delving into AEGIS’s own memory banks. Using the knowledge it obtained, it bided its time until the dark presence arrived at its next target planet. Now, it was time to detach and stow itself away somewhere safe.
With a blinding flash of light below, SNEZZ finally released its invisible grasp upon evil AEGIS and fell to the planet below.
To the planet Earth.
There, it would seek out a champion upon which to impart his knowledge and powers. It was the only way this primitive species, called humans, would stand a chance against the chaotic evil that was AEGIS.
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