The Greatest Lie

The Protector of Life

  Natural disasters formed the geography of the planet from its infancy. A tumultuous rock spinning wildly through space eventually produced the building blocks for life, as earthquakes, asteroid impacts, hurricanes, and volcanoes existed in a mutual harmony of destruction and evolution. As far back as ancient myths can take us, there have always been stories of cataclysmic events ravaging the landscape of Earth. Species came and went as natural selection weeded out those that were no longer fit to keep their place in the pecking order. Throughout the industrial and technological revolutions, humans had found very efficient ways to protect, survive and rebuild during some of the worst natural disasters known to man. There was no other option but for humanity to endure and innovate, as there was nothing we as a species were going to do to stop mother nature. As hard as some people fought to blame humans for these things occurring, nature was unpredictable and the stability that Earth and humans had seen for so many years was nothing more than luck. This luck had begun to wear off around the time that M Corp took control. The major difference now was that there was no longer any support or aid that was offered to countries devastated by these events. Crews were no longer dispatched to repair the impassable roads, or restore the fallen power lines. National guard members were not sent to help with the cleanup efforts and look for abandoned and injured people in the aftermath. Money and supplies never came from the neighboring states and countries, as there was nothing left to go around. Humans tried to stop the climate from a chance that was unstoppable, as people forgot that we were just along for the ride on this rock hurtling through time and space.

Marilyn's body hurt and she was exhausted from everything that had happened to her since she left the remains of London. She had been walking alongside the creature for a couple hours and it provided some commentary of mental image for every thought that passed through her head. It was as if the silent dialogue in her head had been replaced by the creature's thoughts. It felt empowering to have something constantly validating and offering some sort of hope for the future. She was still a little worried about being brought back to a dark cave underground, but she hoped that the other creatures would bring more people back as well. It was one of the first times in her life where she felt like she no longer had to worry. This creature could protect her from any harm that might come her way, and for the first time in a long time she was no longer alone. She tried to hide how much her body hurt and how badly she needed to rest, but there was no hiding anything from the creature. Without even telling her he was doing so, the creature crashed to the ground as it made one of its legs bend into a seat shape for her to sit on. The orb continued onward as it scouted out the path ahead to make sure the coast was still clear.

She was curious as to what the creature's planet was like and it didn't hesitate to show Marilyn the water like world that it came from. It had tall crystal-like clear towers that jutted out of the water and looked to Marilyn in her mind like they touched the sky. Lush rolling hills of all green were shown to her on the backdrop of the vast oceans that covered most of the planet. Flying vehicles buzzed around, emitting the same glow that the orbs here did as well. After thousands of years, the creatures had evolved into creating the biological technology that they used to build automated equipment they could control with their minds. They hardly had to manually intervene in anything that they did, and with the amount of time they were able to stay alive, they had been capable of exponentially increasing their technological abilities over the centuries. Their spaceships were now capable of reaching any star in the universe, and just like past explorers on Earth, had dedicated their time to mapping and exploring the galaxies. They had encountered enough other species to know the inevitable progression that every warring society experienced. If a species could not come together as one to survive as a whole, then they eventually killed each other off. Planets had been around for billions of years and life had restarted more than once on many of them. The same little pieces that were needed to start life were still there and over time the same random but miraculous chance would occur again. The creatures knew better than anything that had ever lived before that this miracle should not be taken for granted. Consciousness, to the extent that humans possessed, was even more rare than life itself. Not every species would evolve past their primal instincts, and human's had been the lucky ones to do so on Earth. Even though it was by unfortunate chance that the creatures had crashed here of all planet's, they were the protectors of life that human's needed more than ever.