Hannah had gone through many things in her life. Death, rebirth, transformations, evolutions, fights to the death... There were few things left in the world that could still surprise her.

Being kidnapped and ripped away because of an anomaly whose probability to exist was so low as to not even be reasonably possible was definitely one of those, however. As her body was sucked through the spatial tunnel, she fought desperately to hold on to the rest of her body still hidden in separate dimensions, knowing full well that she wouldn't be able to escape.

Finally, after both an eternity and an instant, she was ejected out from the damned anomaly. Her body tumbled through space for a few seconds, scars and tears the size of the grand canyon riddling her body. They healed in moments as she brought in her extra mass, and as her various sensors launched a full scan, her metaphorical jaw dropped.

Stars. Light. Planets. The universe around her was so... full. The ever-present nothingness of the Void was... gone. She ran her scans again, just to confirm it, and when the results came back the same, she did so five more times as her disbelief mounted.

She knew the Void as well as the back of her hand, and despite her own multi-dimensional nature, that place had been the ultimate trap. She had her own theories on it, but in the end, all she knew was that escape had not been possible for her current arsenal.

She twisted her body, millions of eyes growing everywhere as she drank in the sight of freedom. It was a dream come true, but perhaps, that was why she was so cautious. Nothing good ever happened without some backlash, and Hannah had lived for far too long not to prepare for such an eventuality.

She shut off the spatial manipulation array within her, unwilling to use it when it had already landed her in this mess, and utilized her old tried-and-true method of travel: Momentum.

She launched herself at the closest star that she could sense, her sensory organs pinging constantly as she moved. Meteors, comets, debris, smaller planets...

If Hannah had still been human, her mouth would have watered. She took several detours from her main destination, swallowing up anything and everything within reach, crunching down several meteors and other space junk.

By the time she arrived at the star, she'd eaten the equivalent of almost 1/5 of her own massive weight. Considering that she would have had to spend years randomly traveling in the Void or be massively lucky for the same results, Hannah was rather pleased with herself.

Now, as Hannah eyed the massive celestial body in front of her, she estimated that she'd break that record several times over. The star was quite a bit larger than the one she'd previously eaten, and as far as she could tell, it was far from the largest one that she could sense.

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With a flex of her will, she began to stretch out her body, pannels growing out along the edges once more as she repeated the previous process.

However, before she could completely surround the star, her radar pinged something. She paused her devouring, not recognizing the signal.

With a growl emanating from several thousand mouths, she ran a scan through her databases for any similar information on the foreign ping. She was severely disappointed when the results came back empty.

Retracting her body back to her serpentine body, she deployed the several mountains' worth of brain structures hidden deep within her alternative dimension storages in order to analyze the ping. A million theories were formed in an instant, each one analyzed, tested, and discarded as necessary.

In the end, it only took her a minute to decode the ping for what it was: A communication signal, and it had originated from one of the asteroids orbiting the star.

"Leviathan spotted. I repeat, Leviathan spotted. Requesting immediate support from any nearby stations." It read, and Hannah actually had to pause for an instant.

In the Void, there was no communication. There were no words. Not even the pods of space whales or other such pack creatures truly communicated, they simply stuck together. They were simply not intelligent enough to do so, or had no wish to.

Hannah had not spoken to anyone or anything for millennia. Hadn't even tried to, really. It had mostly been out of a desire to not waste energy on something that she knew would never get any results. However, a part of her had always felt a sort of longing for genuine contact.

She eyed the asteroid as it continued to send out distress signals, her emotions feeling rather mixed. She had an opportunity for real, genuine contact right in front of her, but...

She was well aware that not all contact could be good. She was well aware of how she looked, and she doubted that it would end peacefully should she encountered whoever these signals were being sent to.

In the end, she really only had one option.

She swam towards the asteroid, activating one of the arrays within her. Instantly, the communication signals being sent out stopped and distorted, effectively shutting down the asteroid's ability to receive help. Then, after running a few scans and finding no living within other than some rather well-hidden machinery, she lashed out with her tail.

The asteroid practically disintegrated in front of the planet-destroying power of her attack. It felt... anticlimactic, really. Nonetheless, after running a few more scans to ensure nothing similar was lying around, she returned to the star.

It was clear to her that, with more resources around, there would be more competition. She had seen it in the Void, where the more food to be had, the more vicious her fellow abominations became.

As her body wrapped around the star, a sort of longing began to form within her. She did not want to fight, not really. She had been doing that for millennia now, a constant cycle of kill, eat, evolve, repeat. She did enjoy it.

Despite that, she also knew the dangers of unpreparedness. Hence, as energy began to surge into her, she once more deployed the massive brain structures that served as her research centers and set them to analyze all the data her scans had gathered regarding the asteroid and more.

She had once been a human, and that part of her desired to simply go out and meet with her fellow sapients. However, she had also lived far, far longer within the endless Void, and that part of her demanded caution.

Hence, as barbed tentacles began to dig into the star like cosmic mosquitoes, she decided that she would do both.