Of Sentience and Predator

A1: And Then There Were 20

Any art related to this will be posted on BuzzlyArt or Tumblr, but I'm not revealing where until A5.

Also, it might seem as if I'm going to post these quickly, but I won't. I'm simply doing this to allow the Wattpad version to catch up to the Ao3 and FanFic versions.

When on it's own line ... means a time jump

-()- means scene change

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Two spaceships, one a teal color and the other a deep purple flew, clearly hostile to each other while they fled from a much, much larger red ship. A laser shot came from the large red ship, crashing into the side of the smaller purple one. A second soon followed, doing the same to the teal ship.

"Both crafts's propulsion systems have been destroyed, sir," a humanoid drone said, looking towards a large, humanoid kraken.

"Prepare for boarding! Get those two devices!" Vilgax yelled.

Both ships, at the same time, fired a beam- the teal ship's being green while the purple's one was red- towards the larger ship. Both shots landed at the same spot, the following explosion covering that part of the larger vessel. The red ship quickly retaliated, releasing two energy beams at the ships, destroying them within that shot.

From the wreckage, four pods were seen flying towards Earth. Two of the pods, the smallest two, seemed to fly down towards a forest while the other two pods, the larger ones, went more north to a snow covered land.

-()-

"I can't believe this!" Gwen yelled in anger, raising her hands into the air and stopping in a small clearing in the forest. "I had everything planned but now I have to go on some roadtrip with doofus!" In anger, kicked a nearby rock away, causing it to casually roll into a thicket of leaves.

She looked into the sky and saw two streaks of light. Looking at them, they were probably shooting stars.

Gwen smiled at the two streaks before saying, "At least something nice happened today."

The universe seemed willing to prove her wrong before both shooting stars seemed to change direction at random, now dashing towards the forest. She let out a scream before running in the direction she came, just before one of the stars came crashing down were she once stood. The following shockwave pushed her further away and off of her feet.

-()-

Ben growled and kicked another rock towards a tree, it thumping against the bark before joining the other kicked rock at the base of the trunk. "It's not fair!" Ben hissed at nothing, noticing another loose rock and kicking it at the tree. He growled before picking up a slightly larger rock and throwing it at the tree, but it just thunked against it and fell down to the other rocks.

He then sighed and leaned his head back to look at the sky. Oh, shooting stars, cool.

Then they changed directions, one of them seemingly aiming for him. Ben froze up slightly before managing to jump out of the way of the asteroid. The shockwave forced him to crash into a tree before letting him fall to the ground.

-()-

Gwen got up, chirping, "What the heck?!"

Once she did so, she promptly went over to the crash site, looking at it. In the crater was an odd metal orb. She wandered up to the edge of the crater, but she quickly found that the ground was unstable and she tumbled down. Gwen caught herself on the orb, but it then made an odd noise. She backed away from it, but the orb just seemingly opened up in a puff of smoke.