[ WP ] Earth becomes the battleground for two warring alien races , both of which claim to be humanity 's `` protectors ''

I was careful, you know. I looked both ways before running out into the street, I grabbed the loot as fast as I could, and I ran back with all the speed my legs were capable of. But I guess they must have spotted me anyway. 
 
 We call them Monks. I have no idea what they call themselves, but their armoured suits look like cowls, so... Monks. I have no idea what they want with us. There was never an official broadcast, they just arrived and started to round up people and put them in... well, pens, I guess. Some tried to fight back, but it takes something like an RPG to kill a single Monk, and no-one who's tried it and fails lives to try again. 
 
 I run. I can hear them, crashing through the ruined door frame that I'd slipped through moments before. I turn a corner and I'm brought up short. Birds. They're even worse than the Monks. Nobody knows what they want either, except it seems they're not about to let the Monks have their way, and they do n't particularly care how many humans die to prevent it. Or how many of themselves, for that matter. There seems to be millions of them. One dies easily enough, but they never travel alone, so that hardly matters. I can still hear the Monks coming up behind me, and now the Birds have seen me, too. 
 
 I am not having a good day. I run across the street, jump through a broken window, and land on the concrete floor of what must have been a parking garage. The cars seem to be all bombed out wrecks, now, but at least it will give me a chance to hide, if... I look outside. Well, never mind hiding, then. It seems both the Birds and the Monks are going to be busy for a while. 
 
 Now I just have to find my way back to the sewers, and I can share this tin of... well, hopefully it's not dog food this time... with the others.
