THE CONTRACTOR: CHAPTER I

Earth, one of the most beautiful green balls of three. At least in the last billion years but before that, when I come to be, it was just a ball of chaos, a black hole. Unstable and eating everything in its path.

I observed it for so long from when it was formed beside a red giant until it starts eating its star like a parasite sucking its host's blood. Not really doing much damage.

After 100 million years it became much more of a dog eating an ostrich; then another hundred million to become a big predator eating small prey. That's the time when I decided that it's time for me to consume it. It was sort of a pleasant re-experience of the sense of taste. The last time I tasted something was almost several billion years ago.

It took me almost a million human years to absorb the energy in the dense ball of chaos and uniformity. For mortals, it might be hard to comprehend living in such a long time. But for us, a million years is just like a second, a billion years is a minute, and so on until we finish perfecting our mission.

After consuming the black orb, a chunk of the old earth was left and continued to orbit the dying sun and collecting dust from the remains of its neighboring planets. Collecting dust, dirt, and gas for millennia I flicked the dwarf planet towards its new system solaris. The new system was a perfect copy of the first blueprint I made back when I was still in the testing phase.

The dwarf planet impacted the fourth planet from the sun which was still a ravaging volcanic hell. The impact took out a large chunk of the planet that will eventually mature into a moon.

With the planet, I regained a more mature form, better tools, and better authority.