[ WP ] A tattoo of earth suddenly appears on every living thing on earth . A rival planet declares war on earth and a voice is heard from the ground `` you have lived on me for a long time , now fight for your home '' .

It started with a little bit of pain. 
 
 All at once, on every living thing on the planet felt that same little bit of pain. A sudden prick of a needle, just enough to draw their attention to an uninvited houseguest - a tattoo, a rough and crude recreation of the big gal herself, Mother Earth. The murmurs of confusion spread through crowds like a disease, more so when they saw their new tattoo on other people. And after that? The chaos. Emotions running just a little too high, causing the tattoos on some people to start to glow. Planes were torn asunder in the skies, boats practically dropping to the bottom of the water in an instant... superpowers gained from the blue, and humanity still managed to mess it up. 
 
 At first, anyway. 
 
 A day later was when the visions started coming. Everyone saw them when they slept, like bad dreams. Mother Earth Herself, showing human beings the what, the how, the when, and most importantly, the who. Extraterrestrial life. A group of space marauders, intending to ransack Her. That's why She gave us these - because She loved us, no matter how we had abused Her in the past. They were n't tattoos, but runes. Symbols of incredible power that allowed their receivers to inherit magic. 
 
 We were ready for them in a matter of days. It did n't matter who you were - white, black, man, woman, adult, child... you were a person who was just as afraid for the future as the person standing next to you. And now they arrive as I write, descending onto the world like a vicious storm. We are ready to fight with everything and everyone we have at our disposal to drive these creatures to Hell and back. We have the wolves howling at our sides. We have the birds flying high in the sky, ready to divebomb the first sign of the enemy. Insects beneath the rocks and stones to deliver fangfuls of a potent toxin. Apes organizing their own fight back from the jungles. 
 
 Divided we fall. Together we stand. And today, for the first time in human history, we all stand together in the face of the common enemy. 
 
 It is a moment that, even if we fail at our objective, all of humankind will never forget. 
 
 - J. Smith
