A spaceship orbited Earth and made first contact.


    "Earthlings, we''ve come to warn you. You must flee your planet!"


    "Nonsense …" answered One Earth HQ.


    The government of One Earth concluded that ''the aliens were deceptively trying to occupy Earth.''


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    Groups of rebel humans joined the rescue aliens and fled.


    Countless spaceships arrived in the solar system.


    "What will they do?" asked a rebel leader.


    "It''s a tug of war for them,” answered a rescuing alien. “Immortals fighting other immortals. All planets and their species are mere pawns in a game."


    "What''ll happen to Earth?"


    "You don''t want to know."