Consider with me, if you will, a Short fictional(?) story…

by Steven C. Luebbert

A group of aliens decide to take-over the earth. As a part of their scheme they release an unknown disease that leaves Most people unaffected, but kills enough that the earthlings become frightened… frightened enough to obey the seeming ridiculous orders given them by the human leaders, who, unknown to the populace, are being controlled by the aliens…

With help from the aliens a ‘preparation’ is developed (In Record time!) that is supposed to ‘cure’ the alien’s disease, but Actually contains a very-slow-acting compound designed to debilitate human life as it is currently known!

To ensure the success of their plan, the aliens arrange to first give their ‘cure’ to healthcare workers and first-responders of all kind. In that way, when the effects are first discovered, the only ones who Could possibly find a cure and take care of the affected populace are Themselves eliminated and unable to intervene. So it is that as the later people who accepted the ‘cure’ are affected by it, there is no one to help!

Any who had Refused the ‘cure’ are well aware, by now, as to what has happened, but the aliens hunt them down and either ‘absorb’ them in some other fashion, or just eliminate them outright!

And the world, as humans have known it, no longer exists.

The End