Bucket List: Earth

Chapter 1: Departure

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At first the world reacted in all the ways in which we always knew we would. We rejoiced, we pleaded, we attacked, we hid, we drank the Kool-Aid. None of it mattered at all to the aliens besides maybe providing them some slight amusement. It reminded me of the articles I used to see about people visiting the “untouched” tribes of the Amazon or wherever they were. I wonder if there were articles like that about our planet before they came here. I bet they laughed at us seeing UFOs and flying jets around the same way we would at those tribes throwing spears at our helicopters.

All things considered, it was a fairly harmless first contact besides what we inflicted upon ourselves. There wasn’t any fanfare or announcement, there were just suddenly a handful of massive structures in the sky around our planet. They didn’t look like what I expected a spaceship to look like but hey I guess that’s why I’m a…