Alien Gods Returned to Rule We Returned fire Pt 2

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The stasis pods hummed softly as they powered on one by one. Their once dormant occupants stirred, their long-forgotten bodies slowly coming to life after millennia of frozen silence. The gods had returned. But the world they once ruled was no longer theirs to claim.

Arathak, the eldest of the alien gods, opened his eyes. The pale blue glow of the chamber bathed his ancient face as he rose from his pod, stretching limbs that had not moved in over a thousand years. His senses, dulled by the deep sleep, flared back to life, absorbing the alien atmosphere around him. His mind went to work immediately. He was the leader of his kind, and if there was one thing he knew, it was the thirst for power.

The war is over, he muttered under his breath. His voice, now felt strange in the stillness of the chamber.

His eyes flicked to the holographic display that flickered on in front of him. It was a report, something his people had always left behind to track the galaxy’s movements while they slumbered. The text flickered, distorted from the time they had been in stasis.

Humans were alive. The humans had survived. And worse, they were thriving.