There is a terrifying hidden history of the Earth that almost no one knows.
What Gunz, Lucky, and Dr. Priss eventually uncovered was that the aliens now threatening humanity were not the first to conquer this world.
Long before them, another alien civilization had already claimed Earth as its own.
Gunz eventually took to calling them "the good aliens."
She didn't mean it as a compliment.
The nickname was born of pure cynicism.
If these monsters were the "good" aliens...
what did that say about the ones who had defeated them?
The first invaders came to Earth for the same reason every conqueror comes: wealth, power, and possession. Humanity was little more than an inconvenience, a primitive species to be tolerated until it became useful as a labor force. Earth's mineral wealth, biological diversity, and strategic position mattered far more than the people who happened to live here.
Keeping humanity away from their operations required remarkably little effort.
Using reconstituted Tyrannosaur DNA, the invaders bred enormous predators and raised them as pets. Like the fiercest pit bulls or Rottweilers, the creatures guarded alien settlements, mining operations, and restricted territories. Whenever curious humans wandered too close, the beasts were unleashed.
The lesson spread quickly across generations.
Stay away.
Or die.
For centuries the system worked.
The invaders expanded their settlements, harvested Earth's resources, and prepared for the day when humanity itself would become another resource to exploit.
Then everything changed.
The skies opened.
Dimensions were breached.
Another civilization had arrived.
More ruthless.
More powerful.
More relentless.
The conquerors suddenly found themselves conquered.
Most fled toward their own distant worlds.
A handful remained behind.
Their orders were simple.
Watch.
Wait.
Observe the effects of their final desperate gambit.
Help where they could.
If they could.
Never reveal themselves unless absolutely necessary.
They became spies.
Skulkers.
Silent witnesses to a planet they had once ruled.
Occasionally, they nudged humanity in the right direction, passing along fragments of knowledge and technologies that might one day prove useful—not because they loved mankind, but because mankind had become the only force with even the faintest chance of defeating the new masters of Earth.
Gunz never trusted them.
"They're helping us now," she once remarked, "but they're only helping because someone bigger and meaner kicked their teeth in."
Lucky's answer was characteristically brief.
"We'll see."
Whether those whispers, technologies, and mysterious nudges would prove enough...
remained to be seen.
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