21/11/2025
The Electro Scavengers: Alien Grillz
The Electro Scavengers drifted silently through Space, their cruiser humming with borrowed energy from a dozen stolen civilizations. The Captain stood at the viewport, watching the derelict vessel they had been chasing for hours—a massive, jagged shape of an electro alien ship, pulsing with a dim cobalt glow like a dying heartbeat.
“Power signature is faint,” muttered Karr, the crew's engineer. “But whatever’s inside… It’s awake.”
The Scavengers bridged across, their boots clamping onto alien metal as the airlock hissed open. Inside, the corridors flickered with electrical veins that crawled along the walls like living nerves. The crew moved cautiously, weapons primed, following the shifting blue glow deeper into the ship.
At the core chamber, the lights surged.
And then they saw them.
A mass of alien forms, crouched, layered, and coiled upon each other—like a hive of skeletal silhouettes. Their eyes shimmered like molten circuits, but it was their teeth that stole the breath from the room.
Rows and rows of pure gold teeth, gleaming as though freshly polished, reflecting the blue lightning of the chamber.
The Captain whispered, “Why would an alien species need gold… for teeth?”
A voice crackled through the chamber speakers—ancient, distorted, almost human.
“Gold does not tarnish. Gold does not break. Gold endures… through flesh.”
The aliens stirred, rising as a single living wave. Their golden teeth clacked together with a metallic rhythm, like knives sharpening on stone.
Karr stepped back. “Captain… these things… they’re designed to feed.”
The speaker crackled again.
“Human flesh is soft. Gold is eternal. You are fuel.”
The aliens surged forward, electricity sparking from their limbs as they advanced. But the Electro Scavengers weren’t amateurs—they ignited their plasma coils, blasting the chamber with a surge of counter-energy.
The scavengers retreated towards the corridor, fighting through crackling arcs of alien lightning. Behind them, the gold-toothed swarm screamed in metallic fury.
Rhea slammed the emergency beacon.
“Fall back to the cruiser! Move!”
As they leapt back through the docking tunnel, the alien ship shuddered, its core glowing brighter and brighter—like an awakening sun.
The crew sealed the hatch and blasted away just as the derelict pulsed with a final, ominous flash.
Silence returned to the void.
But the Captain knew the truth as he stared at the lingering blue spark in the distance:
They hadn’t escaped the aliens. They had only survived the introduction.