The Annunaki War

Lilith

Enki awoke, alone, trapped in a prison cell. He saw a vast nothingness extending in every direction. Even the ground on which the cell supposedly stood was absent. Truly, he was suspended in an empty void.. The bars, he noticed next, were not cold iron, or any other metal, but were instead made of pure energy. Upon touching them, Enki felt a very mild electric shock. It was, in fact, so mild that continuous contact actually provided a very therapeutic sensation in his battle hardened body. Around his neck, he wore some sort of collar, which he eventually determined was a dampening device meant to absorb his multi-wavelength screech, and prevent what would otherwise be an easy escape. It was obvious: he was trapped here, with no way back to the material plane, just as Anubis had wanted.

Enki lay in the cell for what seemed like ages. He had no method of keeping time, and was sure that time would pass differently here anyway, if at all. He couldn't help but chuckle to himself at the fact that, as his grand plan was finally coming to fruition on yet another world, he was stuck here, helpless. He would occasionally see balls of energy, usually in groups of four or five, drift by while flitting around each other, in what he only assumed was the 'social behavior' of these beings. He had nothing to do but wallow in his own boredom. Eventually, he reasoned, he would go mad.

It was as Enki was resigning himself to his own fate that a small cluster of energy balls drifted to within five feet of his cage. They hovered there momentarily, then merged together to form a shape. It was Anubis! Enki rose quickly, grasping his prison bars, soothed by the rhythmic pulse of energy coarsing through him. "Have you come to mock me?" he demanded. "I'd rather you just kill me!"

Anubis extended his hands out to his sides. "I'm sure you would, but, you see, I cannot. There is no death here," he grinned. "Congratulations! You have achieved true immortality!"

"This is a cruel joke!" Enki snarled. "To grant someone immortality by taking away everything they live for... It's..." Enki's eyes snapped back and forth while he searched for the words. "It's... just... wrong!"

"A fitting punishment, don't you think?" Anubis said with a chuckle. "And I'll do you one better." He spun around and used two of his hands to form the shape of a window with his fingers. The square inside his fingers began to glimmer, then let in images from the material plane. He expanded the window with his arms, then widened it so it surrounded Enki's cell. He could not escape the sights now.

"What is this?" Enki demanded.

"Surely, you recognize your own handiwork?"

It was true. Upon studying the images flashing through the window, Enki recognized the cities of Sodom and Gommorah, his duel with Annu, his nuclear destruction of the cities, his great flood - everything he had been responsible for since beginning his campaign on Earth. He then saw his great automatons, which he'd left under Jerusalem as a git for his chosen king, being used to construct a grand temple. He saw a wise man being thrown into a den of lions, and a fisherman being eaten by a whale. The images persisted. Next came visions of a man claiming to be his son, sent to lift the burden of sin from all mankind. He saw the rise of the prophet Muhammed, followed by the crusades of the competing Christian and Muslim faiths', destroying each other over different versions of the same concept.  In what was obviously a more advanced period of human history, he saw twin glass towers bellowing with smoke, then collapsing, and burying those still trapped inside. This last image hit even Enki hard, and he turned his eyes away.

"I recognize... some.... of this," Enki admitted. "Some of this hasn't happened. What are you showing me?"

"It hasn't happened YET!" Anubis revealed. 

"You're showing me things that have not yet come to pass? How is this possible?"

Anubis simply stared at Enki for ten seconds in amazement at his complete ignorance, before finally answering. "I told you, time passes differently here. What you and all other physical beings perceive as a linear progression of events, the beings here perceive as happening all at once. To them... and me... it is as if the entire history of the material plane has already passed, and is simply being viewed in whatever order we choose to see it in. This is how I know what you're doing won't end well."

"But, don't you see?" Enki argued. "It won't end at all! The planet will destroy itself, and I'll simply move to the next planet, as all the Annunaki must."

"Shortsighted, as always," Anubis scoffed. He closed his eyes and willed the screen to show different images, ones which looked completely foreign to Enki. "Let me show you the fate of Nibiru, and see if you still feel so omnipotent." Enki's eyes shifted upward, and his mouth dropped into a frown of horror as he processed these new images. 

He saw Nibiru, atmosphere restored, and re-inhabited by its' natives, who had also managed to force the planet into a regular orbit around Beetlegeuse by using massive fusion rockets and anti-gravity technology. However, all was not well. All the major population centers on the planet were decimated, with plumes of smoke rising all over the planet. Huge piles of Annunaki corpses littered the streets, and the crust of the planet itself had begun to crack open. Expanding the window image, he saw the entire planet surrounded by warships, of several different makes, bombarding the surface with nuclear fire. He was bearing witness to the utter destruction of his race, and his home.

The tears were visible in Enki's eyes now. Clearly, this prophetic vision of the distant future had upset him deeply. "How? How am I responsible for this?" he demanded.

Anubis clapped his hands and the window vanished, then reappeared, filled with images of every planet the Annunaki had colonized, or would colonize later. "It is because of the pattern you perpetuate," he explained. "With every world, you foment unrest, violence, dis-satisfaction, all to one end: that the populace will follow you out of fear and despair. Ultimately, the planet collapses into tribal warfare, on different scales. The Annunaki take what they need, then leave. But you underestimate the drones you create. You assume they will die without you, but they don't. Invariably, they survive, advancing down much the same path as their creators, but driven by the mad rage that consumes you. Eventually, they master space travel, and rediscover their Annunaki roots. Ultimately, the Annunaki will create a galaxy filled with sentient hominids, predictably like-minded, who all eventually band together, creating an alliance to root out and destroy their common enemy: Nibiru. The alliance will cause Nibiru to fall, just as Leviathia fell to the Annunaki."

The look of horror on Enki's face was inescapable now. "But, how? Who could've united these planets? Who among them knows of the others' existence?"

Anubis slowly spun to face Enki, and his form slowly changed into that of a woman, with long, flowing black hair, a conical head, and piercing, red eyes. Enki immediately recognized this woman: A.D.A.M.s' mate on Kessler IV. Her eyes burned into Enki's soul as she slowly grinned. "Hi!"