OverconfidentMagi
Laugh Like You've Won Always
It was a perfectly average morning. People went about their day, beginning work or heading to school. As always, he appeared without warning.
A black form, a vaguely human silhouette that seemed to reject the very concept of light or color. The closest structures collapsed from the initial shockwave his appearance brought with it. When his form came into contact it was as if the planet itself was trying to pull away from him. The earth collapsed into a crater around the being, a howling filled the air as calm winds were whipped into deadly twisters that touched down all around the being. The human audience to this unnatural spectacle were too slow to react to the sudden ending of their lives, the closest to the being simply being blown apart, or thrown away to be splattered against more solid things, or crushed by the structures they sheltered inside. A pipe exploded, spraying water at the being. It moved its arm, tearing hundreds of feet of metal pipes from the ground and throwing them aside. The being vanished and reappeared a mile away where the piping he had tossed had torn a path of destruction through the downtown area. Again destruction pulsed outward from where it came into existence. A sound drew its attention, a girl - somehow not dead despite being surrounded by the rubble of her surroundings - screaming. The being took a few steps closer, then with a wave of its arm her and the entire section of the city behind her was crushed beneath immense pressure. The being looked around then seemed to blink out of existence. Only then did the constant waves of passive destruction stop, and the few scattered sounds of debris settling and fires burning and the odd survivor screaming was not enough to chase away the oppressive silence left in Omega's wake.
Another form coalesced where Omega had first appeared, this one brilliant and white. There was no second devastation caused by its appearance, it simply surveyed the aftermath from above and then dropped down to the ground, rubble and dust moving itself to clear a circle for the being to drop down into. The ground rippled outward from where the being touched down as if momentarily turned from solid to liquid. The wave found and pulsed through survivors as it came across them, altering them. The being stepped away from the ground to travel through the city. It found the jumbled mess of water pipes where they'd finally come to rest and with a touch turned them from metal to crystal then gold before something brown and brittle that collapsed under its own weight. If found the remains of the girl Omega had crushed and knelt down over her corpse for a few minutes. It eventually turned its head towards where it was being watched by far-off eyes. The white being stood and jumped through the air, its form breaking apart and vanishing as it moved.
"No eyes on Subject Alpha," a man called into a walkie talkie. "Check."
"Looks all clear," another voice responded over the line. Others said similar reports.
"They're both gone," a girl spoke up from beside the man. She wore a baggy black sweatshirt and short shorts with heavy combat boots, her fingers absently playing with her long blonde braid as it tried to blow about in the wind. Her pale eyes were open wide as she looked out over the destroyed city below. Of course she wouldn't be looking at the rubble, she would be seeing the ones who had somehow survived. The man grunted and pulled the girl back from the side of the helicopter, but nonetheless relayed her message to the men on the ground for them to go in.
They descended into the inner part of the city. The girl slipped past the man and jumped down onto the ground first, scraping her knees against the stones but not caring. The others aboard the helicopter, all but the pilot, jumped off after her and began to spread out to search the area. She ignored the man who was supposed to be her guard and skipped away to explore the destroyed city that until a short while ago had been Philadelphia.
A black form, a vaguely human silhouette that seemed to reject the very concept of light or color. The closest structures collapsed from the initial shockwave his appearance brought with it. When his form came into contact it was as if the planet itself was trying to pull away from him. The earth collapsed into a crater around the being, a howling filled the air as calm winds were whipped into deadly twisters that touched down all around the being. The human audience to this unnatural spectacle were too slow to react to the sudden ending of their lives, the closest to the being simply being blown apart, or thrown away to be splattered against more solid things, or crushed by the structures they sheltered inside. A pipe exploded, spraying water at the being. It moved its arm, tearing hundreds of feet of metal pipes from the ground and throwing them aside. The being vanished and reappeared a mile away where the piping he had tossed had torn a path of destruction through the downtown area. Again destruction pulsed outward from where it came into existence. A sound drew its attention, a girl - somehow not dead despite being surrounded by the rubble of her surroundings - screaming. The being took a few steps closer, then with a wave of its arm her and the entire section of the city behind her was crushed beneath immense pressure. The being looked around then seemed to blink out of existence. Only then did the constant waves of passive destruction stop, and the few scattered sounds of debris settling and fires burning and the odd survivor screaming was not enough to chase away the oppressive silence left in Omega's wake.
Another form coalesced where Omega had first appeared, this one brilliant and white. There was no second devastation caused by its appearance, it simply surveyed the aftermath from above and then dropped down to the ground, rubble and dust moving itself to clear a circle for the being to drop down into. The ground rippled outward from where the being touched down as if momentarily turned from solid to liquid. The wave found and pulsed through survivors as it came across them, altering them. The being stepped away from the ground to travel through the city. It found the jumbled mess of water pipes where they'd finally come to rest and with a touch turned them from metal to crystal then gold before something brown and brittle that collapsed under its own weight. If found the remains of the girl Omega had crushed and knelt down over her corpse for a few minutes. It eventually turned its head towards where it was being watched by far-off eyes. The white being stood and jumped through the air, its form breaking apart and vanishing as it moved.
"No eyes on Subject Alpha," a man called into a walkie talkie. "Check."
"Looks all clear," another voice responded over the line. Others said similar reports.
"They're both gone," a girl spoke up from beside the man. She wore a baggy black sweatshirt and short shorts with heavy combat boots, her fingers absently playing with her long blonde braid as it tried to blow about in the wind. Her pale eyes were open wide as she looked out over the destroyed city below. Of course she wouldn't be looking at the rubble, she would be seeing the ones who had somehow survived. The man grunted and pulled the girl back from the side of the helicopter, but nonetheless relayed her message to the men on the ground for them to go in.
They descended into the inner part of the city. The girl slipped past the man and jumped down onto the ground first, scraping her knees against the stones but not caring. The others aboard the helicopter, all but the pilot, jumped off after her and began to spread out to search the area. She ignored the man who was supposed to be her guard and skipped away to explore the destroyed city that until a short while ago had been Philadelphia.
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