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Billions of years ago on a remote alien planet, life flourishes. Large roaming beasts of every color and shape down to small crawling insects. Plant life beyond the imagination tangled and wove all across in a peaceful harmony with the closest starlight and plentiful rainfall. An Eden of unbound possibilities but no "intelligent" life to take advantage of the bounty. From the largest six legged long necked scaled beast to the smallest single celled organisms, the planet had no warning.
Born of explosive cataclysm in a space impossibly far from the planet of Eden, a large rock the size of a small planet was sent hurling through the cosmos half the speed of light. Thrown by forces of universal creation itself, the fireball of mostly heavy metals and hardest rock had no plan. It had no thought. It was an unconscious doom headed in an unrequested course of peril. It zoomed past stars and planets alike across the galaxy moving at such a great speed and with so much mass that no gravitational pull changed its course. The inevitable endgame on Eden.
A new day on Eden dawned like any other. Peaceful sounds of waterfalls intermingled with the various sounds of life erupted all around. In the sky a single bright speck in the daylight was visible but paid no attention to. By mid day it had grown to the size of a second dull star, a moon maybe. As soon as it was perceived to be such a size, the speed overcame the ability to understand the danger at hand. The great speed seemed to exponentially grow as in a moment it grew in size to dominate the sky and crash through the atmosphere with a fiery explosion of light. As the hell sent a chunk of doom hitting the planet, in a matter of seconds the ground was on fire and shockwaves fueled with immense heat had created a glass surface on the planet only to then be shattered in a sound too loud to comprehend as the planet disintegrated.
In every direction large pieces of Eden flew away with great speed. One of them contained a passenger, somehow surviving the impossible. A single celled resilient life form on a new journey into the dark beyond.
The vessel containing this space explorer was smaller than the doom bringer but still of immense size and traveled with good speed. It flew through the galaxy with a cruising speed much slower than the metal laden rock that caused the disaster.
The journey past blue white and orange red stars was awe inspiring. Planets of every color of the spectrum and size along with various other masses of space made up a universe of unpredictability and variation. The little being was near the center of its ship of stone and did not see any of it.
Stars all around shifted slowly, more slowly the further away they were from the ship as the voyage onward continued. In its path a blue and green planet. So far off that it wasn't seen, but the system of planets and the single star molded into a single dot of light.
A million years passed and the spec grew and spread. Speeding past a planet of blue and white gas the ship started to plan its landing. It had been so long alone in the vast nothing of space. The blue and green planet with white clouds looked cozy, almost like home.
The ship narrowly avoided crashing into a red colored rock of a planet before pelting towards the blue glow of the destination chosen long ago. It wouldn't be long now.
On the surface, life hustled and bustled on. A few members of its population were gaining knowledge of this visitor from space far too late. Calculations were made and double checked. The probability of complete annihilation was unlikely. Unavoidable loss of life however confirmed. The asteroid would crash land in an ocean causing tidal waves to wash out countless cities with no hope of preventing it. The crater would force into creation a half moon island and a quake would be felt around the globe. In the nearest land mass a tectonic plate shift would cause a volcanic eruption and alongside the superheated water from impact in the sea, weather patterns would be thrown off for years as a perpetual winter fell.
The ship knew nothing of its destiny. The single cell organism slept in a frozen slumber. It was preserved in ice and had not aged. The ship entered the early outskirts of the planet's atmosphere and started to glow. From the ground the glow of the ship was seen, blending into the web of stars above. A visit from the ether. One star shot from beyond to land with terrible purpose. The white glow of the moon on the waves set a scene of tranquility, calm before the storm.
The ship grew hot on the outside and started to thaw through. As it proceeded through the layers of atmosphere it grew smaller and pieces broke off and evaporated. The middle started to melt and the organism became aware of life. The ship with a final look backwards at the dark sky it had known for so long crashed into the sea. The devastation was accurately predicted.
For years the world felt the effects of the visit, but was not destroyed. Eventually all settled back into the rhythm it had known before. The single cell lay in rest, awake and waiting.
It was visited by an exploration party long after, the beings did not know what had caused the strange half moon island thousands of years before. To the organism, hardly any time had passed. It was taken to the center of "intelligent" life and found.
The organism was older than the surrounding material it was now poked and prodded by. It was older than the planet it was on and made up of matter unknown by the solar system it found itself on. With a poke, the fluid within was coaxed out. With its death a new horror began. The liquid was not meant to be exposed to such elements on the planet, to disastrous results. Each oxygen atom in turn was ignited like a domino effect and split exposing energy that had not been seen since the dawn of creation. The explosion chain reaction vaporized the planet and sent the molten core of the neighboring planets out into the cosmos at half the speed of light.
Balanced chaos in a vast universe never ends.