The aliens didn't invade us, they evicted us.
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Humans were so focused on trying to communicate with the alien races that we didn't even notice when the warning signs were posted. <br><br>Instead of an invasion force, they had sent a lawyer. They posted the notices on the moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Earth. The asteroid belt. The sun. Literally anything humanity could conceivably claim as its own, the aliens had posted on it, in not one, not two, but *five* different languages. <br><br>English, Mandarin, Arabic, Spanish and French. <br><br>The aliens had done their research, and they had come to the inescapable conclusion that humans were tenants who refused to pay rent. <br><br>And rent was due, in full, twenty years ago. <br><br>There was a grace period, and a rather...generous offer to let us stay on as tenants if we were willing to pay our rent in full, but it was too late. We'd already spent the money on pointless wars and consumer goods. We'd already blown our last chance. <br><br>So they came, to evict us. To take back the solar system they had, in their eyes, so generously granted us when our ancestors were still scratching in the dirt for grubs. <br><br>They didn't want to hurt us.<br><br>But they did want us gone. <br><br>Humans have one year to leave the solar system. <br><br>If we're still here after that...the aliens will consider us trespassers. <br><br>And they will treat us as such. <br><br>What happens next? <br><br>**TL;DR:** A broke humanity gets evicted from the solar system by some very patient landlords.
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