“You little shits! That stung!” Olivia spoke for the first time, swatting away the little ships, breaking them on her palm. The explosions released from them didn’t hurt her, but they were powerful enough to feel a bit like a mosquito bite. And clearly they were smarter than Olivia gave them credit for, as they were attempting to hit her knees to knock her over. Still stupid to even try that, though. You want to play, little fleas, fine. My turn! Using the absolute control she had in this universe, she pointed a finger at the nearest city, and make a click sound. Instantly, the city was vaporized in a massive nuclear explosion. She had split 1000 atoms at random points in the city, producing an explosion of greater yield than any weapon the humans ever made, according to their own brains. The city did look cool, but there were a ton of them around, so she didn’t mind wasting this one to teach the bugs a lesson.

“You know what? Fuck it. I’ll check each city here. If I like it, I take it. If I don’t, I smash it. Sound good, little worms?” She could make the humans understand her, but she felt it would be more amusing if her motives weren’t known to them. Maybe they’ll start worshiping me. That’d be hilarious! Olivia took off her wet socks as she took her first step onto this other continent, her soaked foot flattening the city on the other side of the bay, this one half-destroyed already by the explosion she caused. The last survivors, most of whom were blind or deaf from the atom-splitting, experienced a brief flash of pain as her smooth sole compressed them into the ground. The soil here felt nice on Olivia’s feet, and she wiggled her toes, glancing down at her freshly painted hot pink toenails. If these bugs make me chip a nail, I swear… Willing her feet to become instantly dry, she surveyed the cities in her view. Nah, all these are boring. First, she took two steps to the South, grunting as she felt the entire city pop under her right foot. She focused on the humans in the city, feeling their confusion, fear, and searing pain as she killed all of them. Mmhh… feels nice. Little things get put in their place! She stepped around to the East, flattening more cities under her soles, occasionally stopping to pop smaller towns and cities under just her toe. The force as she jammed a digit into a human settlement was a different kind of satisfying from feeling a big city groan and crumble under the whole foot. Man, so many cities! I should speed this up… She walked off to the East, spying lots of humans on the other side of the continent.

Every city she saw on her walk over to the Eastern half of this continent left her wanting, and all met their end under her soft feet. By now, her soles were dirty, having accumulated the remains of hundreds of settlements and millions of little human bodies. She could will them clean again, but she decided to subject the rest of the bugs to some humiliation if she didn’t like their city. Coming to a large city by a few little mounds that snaked down South to a little peninsula, she hovered a foot overtop, wiggling her toes. Debris, metal and concrete as well as parts of people, rained from the sky. The entire region was coated with dust, burying countless lives. She didn’t even stomp the city, she just let it sit in the detritus of the others. She then arrived at a corridor of cities. Is this a megacity? That’s cool. But kinda ugly. And it looks like there’s lots of good land, water, lakes around. I mean, if you couldn’t make a megacity here, you really can’t call yourselves ecosystem engineers, right? She crouched at the edge of the cluster of humans. Holding out her hand, she slammed it down onto one of the really dense areas. The slam created flames that sprang out past her impact point. She could see the humans’ perspective as fire rolled over them, scorching them instantly. Poor little bugs! A lot of you are scared of me, aren’t you? Digging her fingers into another part, she scooped up a handful of buildings. Glancing around, she saw a separate city a few feet away from the megacity. Grinning, she threw the buildings at the city on the ground, watching as the two collided. Survivors on her hand cried in terror as they approached the grey stubs at neck-breaking speeds, their bodies mixed with a sea of broken steel and concrete rubble.

Olivia was enjoying herself, but was also getting worried. I’m running out of time. I need a city picked, soon. Hmm… I wonder if I can survey all the cities at the same time. She sat down, her ass smashing into and obliterating a row of cities lining a big lake to her backside, closed her eyes, and focused hard on the entire planet, all the humans at once and where they nested. After about a minute of this, she opened her eyes and made a wide smile. Standing up, wiping the dirt and leftover city from her leggings, she speed walked over to the Southwestern part of this region of Earth. She stopped in a desert, her toes digging into the sandy soil, and glanced down at the greatest city in the world. It’s perfect. The bugs call it “Las Vegas.”