Ruins
A spaceship styled with the wild brutality of steel floated silently in Earth's orbit.
It was the Predators' ship!
This time, it had brought three warriors who needed to undergo trials and complete their coming-of-age rites, activating the trial grounds arranged on this planet.
Although the Predator race was already capable of interstellar travel, and their minds were filled with thoughts of dueling powerful monsters to prove their valor—
Their technological development had also led them to set up trial grounds for overcoming challenges on many planets.
The Earth before them was one of the planets where they had set up trials, though it had been abandoned for many years.
Only recently, due to other trial grounds becoming overcrowded or damaged, had the trial on this planet been activated once more.
The Alien Queen was a prized specimen that the Predator race had gone to great lengths to capture. It had remained frozen in Antarctica all this time.
Moreover, enough living hosts were needed for the Aliens to hatch, so they had activated the base's energy system early on, drawing the attention of the human civilization on this planet, which already possessed rudimentary technological capabilities.
Letting them deliver themselves right to the doorstep!
After waiting long enough, they used their imaging systems to detect sufficient sacrifices approaching.
The three warriors who needed to undergo the trial nodded to one another and pressed the launch button.
A scorching laser blasted precisely toward its target, instantly piercing through the thick ice sheet and creating a passage that led straight to the pyramid-like ruins!
Once the passage had been opened, the three Predators boarded a landing craft and flew invisibly toward their destination...
"Uh, didn't you say the ice layer was thicker than you expected and that you hadn't broken through