Geologists have discovered that old continents are not dissolved, but sink down to near the center of the earth. And now a dead continent is rising back to the surface, sending up alarming signals, as though something trapped for a billion years is stirring. -- Deathshead419
[AN: The mixture of science and unadulterated bullhockey in this prompt is going to be fun to balance]
Geology doesn't usually happen quickly. Sure, there's volcanic events, but those are, in geological terms, freak occurrences. Continental drift is meant to take thousands, if not millions of years.
Not this time.
This time, after some interesting undersea earthquakes and the seemingly mandatory tsunamis, an entire continent rose from the depths. Almost overnight. In geological terms, practically instantly. In more human terms - it took a week. Of course there was the usual palaver on the news and in certain circles about gloom, doom, and climactic upset.
Scientists swarmed, as scientists do, to discover what they could about the rising land mass. From a safe distance, because a lot of eruptions and quakes were still happening.
One of them opened a rift to a sea that had been sunless since the entire continent sank. That was when the true trouble started.
There was life down there. Life that had been existing in darkness, sealed in its own habitat in the very depths of the earth. It had had all the time in the world to evolve... almost literally. They had been living there since before the time of the dinosaurs. Growing a strength separate from that which humanity had known.
They were far more advanced than the human race. Immune to the weapons of mankind. Crueller, harsher, and more avaricious than humanity, they had piloted their continent to the surface to take over the world. The scientists fell to their telepathic prowess first, then the search parties sent to rescue them, then they took command of the armies.
It was only natural. They were very evidently superior life forms, as evidenced by evolution creating similar body types over, and over, and over again.
All hail our new lords and masters, the crab kings of the universe.
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