[ WP ] Aliens visit earth , but they find round things scary

The news spread far and wide very quickly as a cosmic rift appeared not too far outside of Earth ’ s orbit. It pulsated and glowed of an unnatural hue of bright purple that lit up the night skies like an evening sun. Everyone looked up to the skies in fear, from political figures, military heads, religious cults, and averages Joe's all looked to the skies all at once to take a look at this rift that had ruptured the fabric of space and time. Mass hysteria broke out as people panicked and fled for the countryside, throwing away all their life's work to hide in bunkers, loot and pillage their local communities, or bunch up in masses and pray to their own divinities. 
 
 
 After several hours had passed since its inception, the portal gave off a bright pulse of energy that fluttered away like ripples in a pond. Looking up into the sky, everyone saw the portals expand to great lengths; even larger than the moon's diameter itself! The rift morphed and transformed itself as the circular edges bent in odd ways before forming perfect angles, with the rift itself now formed into a gigantic cubical rift in space and time, hovering above the earth and looking down upon its meek inhabitants. 
 
 
 Those brave enough to look down the pulsating portal saw a large object coming through. And before anyone knew what was happening, a large jet black cube slipped through the rift. It was about the size of Mars, and it was heading straight for the planet Earth to do god knows what. People held their breath as the giant monolith crept upon the blue marble like out of a sci-fi movie, awaiting their inevitable demise to come at a grisly end to these inter-dimensional beings. The purple pulsating quadrilateral portal behind them closed with a pop as the denizens from another world descended downwards onto the planet. 
 
 
 However, death never came upon the people. The gigantic cube suddenly came to a grinding halt in the vacuum of space and stood there stationary in the night sky. Without warning, a bright purple rectangular beam of light shot out of the cube and hit the earth... but nothing happened. Nothing blew up, no one had died, and everyone just sat in puzzled bewilderment as this purple laser moved all up and down the face of the earth. The laser then moved onto scan the nearby moon, as well as the nearby planets of Venus and Mars, and even went onto shine its bright laser directly into the sun. 
 
 
 Just as soon as it started, a loud klaxon horn sounded off as darkened windows dotted along the cube's surface flashed purple in alarm, and the spaceship started to move swiftly into space; the completely opposite direction of the planet Earth. Another bright rectangular laser shot out from the cube in front of them and opened up another dimensional rift. A spherical hole expanded once again to great lengths, but something was n't right this time. The ship came to a sudden halt in the middle of the sky, and began to reverse before shooting forwards again. It repeated this over and over, but something was obviously blocking it. The horn sounded off louder and louder and the lights flickered brighter and faster, but the cube was still ramming into the same thing in its escape. 
 
 
 Apparently the alien's square ship could n't fit through our dimension's round hole.
