“So what exactly is this ‘Fermi Paradox’ you mentioned? Is it like some kind of sci-fi thing?” Josh asked, leaning up against the corner of the wall next to the coffee machine. Nikita, donned in a typical dress that puffed slightly from his fur while spewing awkwardly out of the collar, raised a hand and shook his head, chuckling at his much shorter friend’s incorrect assumption.

“More like a theory, a set of logic.” Nikita said, washing out his cup with one pair of hands. The mug was completely cleaned fairly quickly, and Josh blinked for a moment, wondering if the twelve-foot spider even actually cleaned it. Nikita continued. “Basically, the Fermi Paradox states that if aliens exist out in the universe, then why hasn’t humanity encountered them yet? Not even any evidence of them! It was named after a human Dr. Enrico Fermi, this guy pondered that during his lunch with various other scientists.”

“Okay, so the ‘Great Filter’ you mentioned is just the explanation for that, right?” Josh replied, struggling to keep up. “All these species across the galaxy are wiped out one way or another eventually.”

“Exactly. Only the most intelligent, capable, and well-defined species can overcome this, and solidify their place out in the stars.” Nikita gestured out towards the sky in a grandiose manner, smugly grinning to himself as he was clearly thinking about something else. He chuckled softly and shook his head.
“Huh, I guess we don’t really have too much to worry about.” Josh tried to respond with his own smug grin. That made all of Nikita’s eyes shift to a confused, and almost insulted expression. Josh reached over, pouring himself a coffee into a mug filled with small amounts of cream and sugar. “We humans and Earthlings in general are pretty smart after all. Maybe we’re the first to make it past the great filters, someone must be.”

“Hmph, I would hardly call poisoning your own planet, and losing yourselves to nuclear war intelligent. A great filter can take many shapes, some your kind have yet to even see.” Nikita scoffed, pouring his own cup of coffee, carefully adding his own mixture of sweetener into it and daintily stirring it with a small straw. “Honestly it’s a wonder that you guys have even made it this far.”

“What do you mean ‘you guys?’” Josh asked, cocking a brow. He then felt a little chill as Nikita raised his brow, and then grew a toothy grin, smiling as if he knew something Josh didn’t. Something painfully obvious…

“Socio-political collapse, overpopulation, perhaps stagnation of scientific studies.” Nikita took a soft sip of his beverage, humming happily at its flavor. Josh felt another chill as Nikita loomed high over him. It seemed like the lights of the room were dimming with every word the spider said. “Hell, it could be something that isn’t even your fault. Rogue black hole, critical planetary structural failure, or maybe those aliens you meet are your last…”

Nikita’s voice growled as he spoke. Josh took a step back, chuckling nervously as the spider’s voice began to shift into an ethereal tone, echoing in the room. There was no light there now, just Nikita Josh. Nikita gave a knowing smile to Josh, turning around and walking into that darkness, leaving Josh alone there. The human looked around, panic filling him for a moment until he blinked again.
When his eyes opened once more, he was standing at his desk, everyone was going about their day. Josh turned around, looking for his large spider friend, more unsettled at how he vanished than from his creepy demeanor.
Something compelled Josh to look outside the window, and he stepped over to it, glancing out at the sky, and gasping in shock.
Six glowing eyes penetrated the sky, while the gray face barely made itself visible through the clouds. It was Nikita, slowly moving out in the distance. Josh knew it was anything but slow though, like watching a plane move out in the distance. Easily, Nikita eclipsed the sun, casting a vast shadow ahead, and shrouding the planet for a moment. Those on the other side of the world would wonder why the moon suddenly went dark.
“Ahh there we go. I suppose now is as good of a time as any to get on with it. Here is a single example of how humanity can go from an intelligent species, to dead matter to be forgotten by the stars…” Nikita seemed to grow closer to the planet, until Josh looked out to the horizion, and saw a vast, towering wall that stretched high into the sky. Nikita’s fingers hovered miles above, as if pressing on a glass dome that surrounded the world. Indeed, he was holding the Earth, gently by its atmosphere, so that he wouldn’t harm anyone on the surface just yet. Though the quick motion of transporting the planet so quickly was enough to make everyone feel a little sick.
The spider’s jaws opened, and he exhaled a thick breath, sending a vast fog to settle over the surface of the planet. Screaming cities were suddenly quieted, and the humans below seemed to relax at the colossal threat that loomed high above. The cloud seemed to thicken for a moment, before dispersing in a purple, glittering mist. It all smelled thick, strong of the spider’s breath… with a hint of coffee? “Ahh, there we go, that should help you little things relax, while I move Earth into its rightful place in the universe.”

As Nikita dragged out that last word, he sighed, again, parting his jaws wide while he brought the planet to his mouth. Those on the surface would watch as the mouth opened wide, stretching easily across the span of Earth and beyond, a blue pit stretching out deep into the distance, like a vast tunnel. It pulsed ahead, and a soft, thundering moan echoed out over everyone.

Nikita, pushed the planet into his mouth, a single finger shoving against Earth’s atmosphere, and his jaws stretching. Once his tongue was able to stretch across Australia, he allowed it to slide down the rest of the way. His mouth closed shut over the world, and he swallowed, feeling that sphere shift, slithering through his body, sinking into a sea of blue.
Almost everyone on Earth was left completely unharmed by the traversal through Nikita’s body, the flesh softly conveying them down that pulsing canal. Eventually, Earth was shoved down into the alien spider’s stomach. Nikita laughed, giving his abdomen a gentle pat, which was interpreted as an echoing thunder for all of those little Earthlings, all doomed.
Earth’s digestion lasted a few days. First came the acid storms. What seemed to be normal rain turned into green rain droplettes. Any portion of the world submerged in the acid would feel the rain seep through the atmosphere, spilling in and dribbling the outer layer of the planet. Those caught outside when it happened would fall apart in the streets, dribbling into piles of slop on the ground. Those indoors weren’t much luckier, soon perishing in their homes as they melted away with them. Earth was compressed by powerful stomach churns, squeezing on its surface, cracking the planet into pieces. Hunks and chunks of the well worked sphere would fall, sinking into the stomach, oozing magma as it cooled and hardened rapidly in the cold of space, only slightly warmed by Nikita’s incredibly vast stomach.
Eventually, Earth simply turned into a bubbling, molten mess of rock being ground down, all seven billion lives on Earth long gone, and humanity lost among the stars…

…

Josh blinked once more, shocked, disrupted completely by it all. He shook his head, trying to orient himself. A familiar voice grounded him again.
“So yeah, I guess another example of the world ending would be your alien spider god friend eating literally everyone.” Nikita gave the human a coy wink. “Did nobody tell you about me? I’m a god, just enjoying a few millennia here on Earth, seeing what you cute things have going on.”

“I-i… did all of that… was that real?” Josh asked, the color drained from his face, not believing what just happened.

“Yeah of course. Why bullshit yah when I could just do the deed?” Nikita laughed.

“I melted… slowly, just over there on the floor.”

“You and about two thirds of the population. You’re not special Josh.” Nikita took another sip of his coffee, giving a hearty gulp. “Oh by the way did you hear Janice is getting married? I’m so happy for her!”
Josh stared off into the distance, unable to speak.
“…Uhhh okay sorry, I might have gotten carried away with that last one.” Nikita shifted a bit uncomfortably. He gave Josh a pat on the back and started to walk away. He then fired some finger guns at Josh, clicking his tongue. “Yeah why don’t you take the day, I’ll handle the rest of your budget reports.”

Nikita walked off, leaving Josh by the counter. A human woman walked up to Josh, looking back and forth at him and the hulking spider out in the distance. She sighed, looking slightly annoyed. “He do the whole planet eating thing to yah too huh?”

Josh nodded slowly. She reached into her purse, pulling out a large metallic flask. With a quick unscrew, she poured a shot of it into his mug and walked off too, taking a hearty swig of what smelled to be whisky.

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Alternate description for this picture:

"Look at this rock."

"..."

"I'm gonna fuckin' eat it."

"Nikita don't eat the ro-"

"HOMPH"

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So as some of you already know, I've decided to god-mod Nikita, so what better way to show off his divine status than to casually devour a 4 billion year old rock with a cute little civilization of 8 billion people on it, and turning it into an average little bon bon? Despite all this, Nikita is benevolent at best, and mischievous at worst.

He enjoys integrating himself into those societies he meets across the cosmos, getting to know the people, making some cute little mortal friends, the usual kind of thing. He doesn't usually interfere on a large scale, usually only creating reports in an instant, taking friends to vacations to beaches frozen in time, performing the odd miracle here and there. Though, on occasion he does like to enjoy using his higher level of existence to play around with them all. He'd never harm Earthlings as a collective permanently... though if you ask him, he'd be all to willing to show you just how insignificant you are on the cosmic scale.

This is a commission done by the amazing  NovaRaptor who is a fantastic artist that you should definitely commission sometime! And of course, as you can see, the art here is impeccable! Please go check her out :D