text: Little intro: I saw a post with a screenshot of a tweet saying something along the lines of, "the scariest alien invasion scenario would be if they just showed up, talked to something in the ocean for a few days and then left," and Idk, I felt the need to write something using that as my prompt. Here it is. Give feedback please. =) When the Others came to Earth we were unprepared. There were no procedures for first contact, no contingencies in place, no plans whatsoever. They came, and we were simply not ready. The militaries of all the world's major powers scrambled to form some sort of defense, provide some semblance of security to the panicking masses that took to the streets to see the object commonly called the 'mothership'. In truth, the object, whose length was estimated at the time to be roughly fifty miles, or, more exactly, eighty-two thousand meters, was little more than a landing shuttle. The Others' real mothership, a vessel larger than the Earth's moon, remained safely hidden in the darkness of space. Out of sight, out of mind, for most anyway. The Others made no attempt to contact humanity. No little green men demanded to be taken to our leaders. No invaders threatened our cities. No one was abducted, or killed, or experimented on. That was the most frightening part of the experience. The mothership entered our atmosphere silently and settled into perfect stillness over the Atlantic. Then... then it just floated there. People panicked. There was rioting, looting. Many people tried to flee the cities and hide out in the countryside. Others just sat in their homes, their eyes glued to the news, watching as the Others seemed to do nothing at all, day after day. The first communication attempt was made by a joint mission by the United Nations, headed by a science and linguistics staff assembled from the world's best and brightest minds. A ship was launched from New York city and set sail toward the mothership's location. It did not make it. It simply disappeared without any trace a short while after its last transmission, which stated that the Others seemed to be trying to communicate with something below the ocean's surface. The next mission was led by the Americans. A group of helicopters was meant to attempt a landing aboard the Others' vessel and establish contact. This mission too, simply vanished from radar after reporting strange radio signals. There was nothing else that could be done. A military assault seemed futile at best, and self-destructive at worst. The Others were making no threats, no demands, and, from a distance at least, seemed to be doing nothing at all. After three weeks, the mothership moved. A deep rumble emanated from it, or as some speculate, from below it. The sound was so powerful that it was heard around the world and generated tsunami sized waves that traveled to all coasts around the Atlantic. Then, the vessel floated up and out of the Earth's atmosphere as silently as it had come. The true mothership remained in orbit for a few days, but it too vanished shortly after these events. The lost teams were found, some time later, back aboard the ship that had sailed from New York with no memory of ever having left their homes. No recordings or data seem to have ever been collected. To this day, the xeno-scientific community is unsure of what the purpose of the Others' visit was. Some say that they were here to determine whether earth was viable for colonization. Others think that they were simply prospecting for valuable resources. Still others believe that they had taken the vanished mission teams as test subjects for some sick experiments before wiping their minds and returning them. There are a few that have another theory, though. They think that the Others were here to wake something... something that had been lying dormant beneath the sea. The area where the mothership had parked itself has been searched time, and time again, but some are not convinced. Some believe that something is down there. Something big. Watching.