The Psychic Scream

Writing prompt: Galactic Turning Point: The will of humans when presented a common foe. A sight to behold. A sneak attack wipes out Earth, the remaining humans are not happy.

The news of the sneak attack stunned the galaxy. A whole planet, a home world no less, burned to cinders with no warning, no declaration of war, nothing.

The galaxy watched as 15.83 billion humans was wiped out in a matter of hours as a large asteroid was thrown at their home world and when it hit, it burned it to the ground. There were no survivors possible. Even any deep bunkers were destroyed as the very ground in which they were built heaved and churned from the category 12 earthquakes created by the impact of the world killer.

But that wasn’t the worst part. The psychic scream of all those humans as they died was bad enough to all the psychic receivers or sensitives across the galaxy.

But It was the noise that they heard after that scream faded away that scared the listeners. It started as a small rumble, then built fast to a roar and then into a scream of hatred.

This psychic scream was larger than the death scream of their home world and it didn’t die away. It just kept growing day by day.

“Sir the asteroid has successfully impacted their largest body of water. It has vaporing close to 7.47% of the water available in liquid form. The ocean floor has been impacted and has been torn apart. Calculation are that this will wipe clean the complete surface within hours. The destruction will continue for years as the planet continues to burn. There will be no survivors.”

“Good. This will deal with these humans for daring to cross our borders. Everyone knows that our borders are inviolate and this punishment will send a message to the galaxy. How many humans are there anyway? Do we have a count of how many colonies they have?”

“No sir. We know there were over 15 billion on their home planet, so that should be the majority of them They might have one or two colonies in close...”

“SIR. The psychic listeners are reporting a problem. They say they can hear a scream coming from outside the system”

“What do you mean? There isn’t enough humans left to generate any noise anymore. Get them to check with the mechanical psychic receivers. Confirm the humans are dead.”

“Sir, they say that they have confirmed it mechanically. The psychic noise is still building. It has outstripped the death scream and is still building.”

“what? Comms, redirect the receivers to the bridge and let me hear this scream.”

“Yes sir. Here it is.”

‘‘HATE HATE KILL HATE RIP TEAR KILL KILL HATE ... YOU CAN HEAR US CAN’T YOU? We can sense you. We know where you are. We know who you are. We are coming for you. We are all coming for you.’

‘Where is this coming from?”

“Everywhere sir. Everywhere.”