(Throughout the story there shall be references to movies and games. Can you spot them all?)
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-History of the Zargul-
They say that in the beginning there was nothing... they were wrong. In the beginning there was darkness.... Born from this darkness were the infamous Zargul, a war mongering race of aliens that sought the one thing that was sought after by all races of the universe. Why were they here? They were going to stop at nothing to achieve their goal even if it meant destroying galaxies. Of which they eventually did once they had accumulated enough power and spaceships larger than the sun. They were feared by all and any who stood in their way were quickly dispatched. They were already quite powerful, but when they staggered upon a blue world filled with creatures known as humans, their hate had boiled over the top. In the homeworld of the Zargul there were many ruins of past civilizations scattered along the surface. And the people who built these ruins looked strikingly similar to humans. The Zargul had been looking for these creatures for a very long time. They thought that it would be easy to destory them but these dark aliens soon found out that the humans were not going to give up without a fight...
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-Aboard the Leviathon-
The ship shook with each photon blast it took, and the blaring of the alarm was causing mass hysteria. The Zargul had found earth and were hell bent on destroying it. The bridge of the Leviathon was teeming with crew members trying to keep the ship intact while they tried to escape. A man sat in the corner crying and telling himself it was all a bad dream. And the man who commanded this seemingly doomed spaceship had was standing in the General's chair barking out orders to all who was not screaming ad losing it.
"Sir! The Zargul have disabled all of our weapons! I recommend we take the jump now while we still can!" Screamed the lead engineer through comms. The captain looked around the bridge of the leviathon and hung his head. The odds of escaping unscathed or ripped apart by doing a jump to lightspeed without the hour needed to calculate their trajectory, velocity, and speed were pretty bad. They could rip right through a planet or hit a comet if they jumped randomly. He looked back up to the screen and sighed.
"Are you sure there is no other way? You know what could happen." The captain said, unsure of what to do.
"No sir. It's either we take the jump now or end up like the other arks." The engineer said, with a look of absolute terror stamped upon his face. The captain looked at the wounded lined up against the wall screaming and then to the others who had no idea what to do except keep the ship intact as long as they could.
"Very well. MAKE IT SO!" The captain gave the command to commence the jump to lightspeed. The engineer nodded and cut off comms.
A few moments later a computerized voice started a countdown, "We shall make the jump to lightspped in 10...9...8...6...5..." The crew members had strapped themselves in and got ready for their possible imminent death. Normally they would be appalled by what the captain whas doing but they really did not have a choice. This was a lot better than taking their chances with the Zargul, "4...3..." The captain closed his eyes and whispered a silent prayer. This was not going to end well and they all knew it.
The computer continued the countdown, "2...1... now commencing the jump to lightspeed." The massive ship jolted and everyone who wasn't strapped down in a chair or secured by something flew to the wall and smacked against it. The ship flew to speeds the Zargul could not keep up with them and were soon left behind by the Leviathon... and into the darkness they went....
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-The Invasion-
dead bodies float by slowly and the blood floats with them ever so slowly drifting off into the great unknown. Thirty arks had been sent out by the UPGF and only three had made it past the Zargul's vigorous extermination campaign. The people who had been left on earth still suffered as the strange-looking aliens ripped children from the arms of their mothers and vaporised countless millions. A little boy stood in the middle of his father's corn field, awed by the massive alien spaceships raining fire and death upon all that humanity held to their hearts. The little boy's mother ran up to him, grabbed him, and dashed for the storm cellar and was met by the father of they boy and his big sister. They shut the trapdoor and backed off from it, never once taking their eyes off of it for one second. Everything around them shook and shuddered as explosions ripped the earth apart. The little boy was crying softly to himself and his big sister was comforting him, telling him it was going to be okay. Then as quickly as it had started it seemed to end. No more explosions... everything went quiet. The mother and father looked up when they heard strange footsteps bang throughout the house.
"Oh no... quick get your little brother in the crawl space and wait for us there. I love you with all of my heart little ones." the mother quickly said. By the look on her mother's face, the big sister knew that they weren't going to get out of this alive. The two children opened the small door to the emergency crawl space and waited for the inevitable...
It was too quiet... what had happened to the footsteps? The father kept his 12 gauge focused on the trapdoor, waiting for something to happen. All of a sudden the trapdoor blew off of it's hinges and smacked into the father causing him to discharge the shotgun and die instantly. Shocked by the turn of events she crouched down to her dead husband and screamed and cried hysterically, begging him to wake up. As quickly as this happened a big hulking figure grabed the terrified woman by the throat and squeezed.
The big sister held her brother's mouth, making sure he didn't make a sound. They had silently cried out when they heard the trapdoor make an odd sound like it had blown off of its hinges or something, followed by a gunshot and their mother crying out and screaming, begging him to get up. The big sister knew what had happened by then and the tears streamed down her face as she lost her father. Their mother's cries for help were cut off by a gasping sound and a spinetingling snap like someone had broken something very important. She knew by then that their mother had perished as well. Everything was quiet then... they tried not to make any sound so their position was not given away. They heard the figure walking around the room and suddenly stop when the sister sniffed as she cried. The big sister's eyes widened and she looked through the crack in between the crawl space doors. She couldn't see anything... why had he stopped? As if on cue the doors were ripped away and the big sister was dragged, screaming into the dark part of the cellar, calling out to her brother to run.
"RUN!!!! RUN JOSH!!!!! ahhh.. what are you? AHHHGH....!!! Gah....hel-p... aghhhh..." Ths sister said, shouting out her last words to her little brother as she was cut off and her spine was snapped causing immense pain. She was unable to scream further because she was held by her throat. Josh ran out crying and running up the stairs hoping to get out before that thing caught him. Another hulking figure blocked his escape and formed what he could only guess was a grin. He turned around to run the other way and was blocked by the original alien. The little boy screamed as he was torn limb by limb by these threatening creatures. The little boy and his family had been brutally murdered and sent into the darkness never to return...
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-Equestria-
Luna and Celestia had been talking about what they were going to do the next day, since they were both known for being rather tidy and organized. Luna stopped talking and looked sharply to the night sky. She shuddered and her eyes widened.
"What is it my sister? Is something wrong?" Celestia aksed with concern in her voice. Luna did not respond for a couple minutes, casuing Celestia to repeat herself. Luna looked at Celestia as if she had just gotten there and seemed troubled by something.
"It was as if a billion souls had the same nightmere and all of a sudden... it became a reality... " Luna said to her sister, fear evident in her voice, " I think something terrible has happened... something unspeakable." They both looked up to the night sky again and they both shuddered.
"For once... I'm afraid of the darkness." Luna said with fear yet again. Celestia looked at her sister and smiled assuringly.
"Don't worry my sister. It is nothing... let us go down and take a walk to calm nerves. Will that be alright with you?" Celestia said, trying to calm her sister down. They both went downstairs and took that walk, forgetting about the sudden darkness. It was nothing... or was it?