Rubout ====== A rumbling went across the entire breadth of the empire. From the furthest colonies out at the fringes of the galaxial supercluster, tiny planets at the edge of the void of space only inhabited by several hundred billion people or so each, all the way into its bustling core of artificially constructed megaspheres, interconnected with countless instantaneous transportation conduits and containing whole star systems within them. Their power sourced directly from the solar fusion reactions with heat-shielded and protected promenades only a few thousand miles away, beyond which densely populated, stacked cities spread through what millions of years ago was only empty space. Layers upon layers of interlocked structures, living quarter towers built so close to each other that not even a finger could fit between them, rising higher than mere eyes could see, chock-full of pod-like bedding units, every single one of them taken up by at least three people at different times of the day, sleeping in shifts to simply manage enough capacity for them all. Cities so advanced and ancient that they grew past the worlds they originated on, reaching into the heavens and far beyond, their buildings long having spread out to not only bridge across them, but totally fill every nook and cranny of available room amidst them with their winding constructions, all at their absolute limit of occupancy. And yet just about every single person living within and without the confines of their ultra-evolved civilization felt the sudden vibrations, a wave of unease washing over them. They couldn't help but stop and look for the source, countless eyes staring up, either at twisting city structures as far as they could see, the ceilings of their little personal drawer they slept in, at the inky blackness of space or something in-between. Yet none of them could recognize what it was, no matter how they squinted and furrowed their brows. A pair of brows raised up and the eyes below them relaxed their vision, taking the intense focus away from all those glowing streaks and pulsing baubles, seemingly holding the normally twisting and spinning mass of galaxies in place. It was almost impressive at how far their civilization managed to spread, how sprawling and vast they had become, achieving mastery over cosmic forces, crossing unfathomable distances and inhabiting every last corner of their realm. Good on them! Had their structures been any less magnificent, he'd simply have missed out on their presence outright, leaving them lost beneath his notice like many other a lesser empire before. And good for him! He couldn't have wished for a better opportunity to come along, just what he needed right now and more. With a smirk drawing on his face, he began to shift his position, his paw renewing its grip. Within seconds, the vibrations had ascended to total chaos. It was as if space was stretching and compressing on an all-encompassing scale, an extracosmic force twisting the entire empire apart. At the very edges, planets were pulled out of their orbits and sent hurtling through the depths of nothingness, completely disappearing from tracking grids as they were lost in darkness. Moons broke from their locked locations and enter a meteoric dive toward their host, growing larger in the sky above the terrified masses, crashing the tides unto the land as the atmospheric friction made them glow alight. Dust and debris whirling up before the devastating impact split tectonic plates into pieces, a fiery cataclysm of molten planet cores spewing high and being carried further by the shockwaves spreading across the surface, turning stone to rubble, rubble to sand and sand to dust. The screeching populace that hadn't yet succumbed to the heat or been crushed by the waves were simply disintegrating with the ground around them as their ascending worlds were transformed into deformed, broken, ruined chunks of rock in mere seconds. Other planets were sent twisting off their axis, entering into a new orbit around a neighboring world doing much the same, a vortex of two globes spinning toward each other, drawing closer and closer. Their skies replaced with one another's ground, cities, rivers and forests stretching across the heavens, terrified crowds staring at panicked mobs. Some simply standing there helplessly, others screaming, yet others trying to run despite knowing that it's utterly futile, still thrashing their legs as they lose the floor under their feet, lifted up into the air by gravity unraveling itself right before impact. Getting one last look at two horizons closing in on each other, towers and spires snapping against their new ceiling and their inhabitants spilling out into the suspension of the gravitational centers nearing, buildings tearing from their foundation, darkness falling as the worlds collide. Smashing into each other with cataclysmic force, their surfaces turning liquid as they violently merged together into one, solid ground washed over by lava, sinking deep into the depths of molten rock, noth blossoming planets reduced to a giant, warping, lifeless ball of fire and flames. And even the massive spheres at the center couldn't hold against the sheer power pushing into them. Their conduits and connections between each other stretching, straining and finally snapping, streaks of bright shining light spewing out at the severed ends as enormous amounts of energy were still pumping through those strands. While the stars inside these megastructures were still resisting being moved out of their natural location, the man-made constructions around them weren't. Even tiny shifts being enough to disturb the delicate balance of the towering structures as they were squeezed into each other, immediately trapping centillions in their already tight quarters, their walls bending, their ceilings closing in, not even giving them room to struggle as they were relentlessly scrunched up into the crumpling mess of metal that used to be their home. Entire post-ecumenopolises plummeting into their suns, heat shielding bursting and turning whole quadrants of the stacked cities into searing plasma with every passing moment. The waves of red hot mass blasting through the walls of the traffic passages and pipes, blinding the stumbling and staggering crowds, the scorching heat turning their bodies to ash before even getting within a hundred miles of them. The stars only able to take so much matter crashing into them before simply swelling beyond their capacities and blowing apart at the seams, streaks of ultra-hot plasma spewing out and cracking open the seams of the outer shell, or outright turning supernova, collapsing in onto themselves, imploding and forming black holes, their immense density only causing more gravitational chaos as hundreds of them spawned in just the first blink of an eye, with more rapidly cropping up. Entire swaths of civilization were swallowed up, dragged beyond the event horizon, tearing apart the molecular structure of all matter and being within them, reducing them all down to a single, infinitesimal point. The entirety of the massive empire - or what was left of it anyway - was in a panicked state of emergency. Communications were totally cut off, with satellites and relay stations hopelessly torn from where they were supposed to be wholly interrupting intergalactic energy and matter transfer, while power fluctuations and chaotic atmospheric conditions were collapsing even terrestrial networks and leaving the inhabitants virtually stranded, alone with their opponent the unseen force. Defense systems were activated and space fleets dispatched, but were simply unable to act at all, incapable of even grasping what the immense threat was that they found themselves up against. Ships flying out into space looking for anything to target, anything to fight, any sign of an aggressor at all - in vain. A small reconnaissance station clinging to the side of an asteroid, flung out into the void and watching the light of their many home galaxies fade in the distance, set their sights in the other direction. Turning their machinery around, putting their last charges of energy into powering their conduit telescope and desperately peering out into space to find an answer to their predicament. Worried, tense faces staring at the unchanging wall of screens, eyes wide and dilated, darting back and forth. Blackness. Just the endless blackness of the void. The hope fading as their power reserves dwindled. The sudden appearance of a white screen made them cover their eyes against the light, scrambling to focus in on it. White spires, coming to a point at the top and widening further as they went down, their bases disappearing behind the tips of more of their kind. Zooming out, the field of those spears only kept taking up more and more of their view. Swaying back and forth, soft and malleable, pushing into each other to form a dense sheet. As their view kept drawing back they could see it glistening as it moved, smooth and cushy, like... like... *Fur.* As their view reeled back further, they started to see bluish patches at the edges, expanding inwards as they went on, forming a frame around the white center. A long, dark, almost black streak appeared behind it all soon after, barely visible against the dark void behind it. And with a final focus adjustment, they could see what they were up against. A rodent, so massive that it defied measurement, as one look at the distance indicators proved. The claws on its curling toes pressing against the vast paw pads alone easily several million light-millenia wide, its entire body further than any distance fitting within the confines of the empire, the big, bushy tale clearly that of a squirrel, despite the unusual coloring and more than unusual, ungodly size. The pit in their stomachs grew deeper as they looked on, one thing becoming obvious very quickly: it was still growing. And that wasn't even the worst of it. No, that's what it was doing. A grin drawing upon its face, eyes fluttering open and rolling upwards, its legs pulling back and toes splaying out. Its forepaw squeezing tight around its engorged shaft, glistening wet with semi-translucent precum flowing down the pulsing underside. The paw moved forward, pressing the cone-shaped pillar of flesh down further, its contractions pushing back up against it, becoming more and more rapid, its urethra swelling up with each one - until it was pointing right at them. A collective gasp ran through the group of onlookers as they saw the lips of the tip spread apart. They didn't make it for another breath. Zeem huffed, his tail swishing eagerly behind him and his back arching in pleasure. He gave himself one more squeeze, feeling a veritable rope of precum splurch forth from his shaft. His ears twitched as he heard the innumerable screams swell in volume, cooing at the realization of just how many individuals were at his lack of mercy that he could pick up on their cry of hopelessness, clenching his eyes shut for a moment to focus them back on the heap of dwindling, burning lights before him. Just in time to watch his spurt impact with the edges of the crumbling collective, plowing through to the outer galaxy's center totally unhindered, the space fleets opposing it getting only a moment of despair before being wiped away. The shot pulverized thousands of planets in its wake like they were nothing, the rocks bursting apart against its surface. It enveloped the black hole at the center, letting it struggle for an instant before totally overfilling it, choking on the sheer amount of liquid and finally detonating so hard that he could feel it rustling through his fur. The surrounding galaxies were immediately atomized by the shockwave, leaving not a single particle on another. His squirt was spread out like a shotgun blast, droplets both large and utterly enormous flying out into the empire at breakneck speeds. The smallest ones raining down as meteoric showers unto unsuspecting planets, each one large enough to shatter and break through the surface, causing craters to spread out for thousands of miles, triggering volcanic eruptions and ravines to tear open upon solid ground. People being reduced to dust from the blast of force, entire countries swallowed up into the depths of their worlds, the last screams lost under the roaring, cacophonic chaos of the detonation. A single dollop an apocalyptic event all on their own, but combined with the hundreds more raining down from the skies, their collective showers simply wiped worlds from existence as a whole, beating down unto their cracking, breaking, crumbling surfaces over and over and over again, each impact only amplifying the devastating effects until not even a single particle of dust remained of them. Bigger drops instead were enough to envelop several star systems each, every thing within them plunging into the raging, distance-defying globs of gooey liquid. Their suns sizzling as soon as they made contact, struggling to even heat up the rushing deluge around them before their light was snuffed out like a match thrown into the ocean. Submerging countless worlds so deep beneath the unyieldingly vast layer of liquid that the pressure quickly rose beyond what even solid rock could take, giving none lost in the depths even a chance to run out of breath before they and everything they'd ever known was crushed from all sides, compressed and ground to a fine powder dissipating into the thunderous floods, lost beyond recognition. The largest streaks of precum were big enough to blast galaxies apart on their own, enveloping them whole once again, descending down to black holes that had banded together those spiralling wonders of stars, planets and other space debris, only to cause yet another cascading detonation, spreading yet another wave of destruction across what was once the known universe of the greatest civilization ever known. However, that was now clearly past its prime and almost past its expiration, sprawling out helplessly before the oversized squirrel looming over them, grinning with wicked glee. He heard the sweet cacophony of horrific, panicked screeches swell to a peak as his little outburst ravaged the entire breadth of the once great empire. The volume rapidly cut to lower amplitudes in several violent surges, each one marking another huge chunk of populace wiped out, their numbers entering into a vertical nosedive as they were massacred by the millinillions. Zeem couldn't contain his depraved excitement any longer. His body curled and convulsed, every muscle within him tensing up. His tongue lolled out of his mouth. Both of his forepaws wrapped around his tight, pulsing shaft, violently throbbing, far past the point of no return, mere manual force unable to hold back the deluge anymore. With each heavy contraction, his entire form surged larger as well, his size doubling, tripling, quintupling in mere moments. His digits dug deep into his flesh, his body wracked by unyielding, building tension, his mind going hazy as his sadistic cravings overtook his entire, and yet he kept himself aiming right on target. The survivors were hit by a sudden wave of humid heat blasting over them, the blackness of space with fiery dots turning into an off shade of fleshy pink stretching across every one of their skies, the very tip of the shaft so unyieldingly gigantic that a single thrust forward would easily cover the entire empire and then some, eradicating everything within it. The air got thicker, a heavy mist forming all around them, so thick that they began to choke and their breaths started to rattle, gasping for air as their atmospheres were filled with musk, the heat only rising, the unyielding humidity condensing liquid onto every surface. A deep, ominous growl resounded all around them. Finally, his muscles went limp. His shoulders relaxed, his form unfurled and his back straightened out. While keeping his hands stead and eyes focused on his target, he let out a deep moan that outright deafened everyone left, their ears ringing incessantly and their bodies being tossed around by the noise alone. People flung into the air like leaves in the wind, desperate grips either torn away from the sheer force or simply ripping what they were holding onto away from whatever formerly solid ground they had been attached to. His balls pulled tight, his urethra bulged out and with a little thrust of his hips, Zeem unleashed extinction upon them all. A flood of thick, white liquid blasting out at physicality-defying speeds. A fountain of such magnitude and force that it didn't merely crush all that still lay in its wake, but outright erased it at a quantum level, leaving not even a single particle of dust as it spread far and beyond what was necessary to wipe the empire from existence for good. He looked down on the devastation and he let out a short chuckle to himself, his eyes narrowing and teeth gritting to a crooked grin. Just what he'd needed. He leaned back, closing his lids and clenching his toes tight, letting the pleasure of the second rope, fueled immeasurably by his ruthless spree, overtake and envelop his senses. Now, without a reason to hold back, with no toys left to play with, he simply let himself grow.