A/N: I own the plot but that's about it

CHAPTER 1: A New Beginning

Once again, I was in a ship hovering over Earth, watching the humans. This time, however, I had an idea of what I was up against.

Also, this time, the humans couldn't see us. We were going to be especially careful of our camouflage now, because of what happened last time.

Suddenly, the Master's voice came over the intercom, paging me. I put another warrior in charge, and went into the Separate Aircraft Hangar of the ship.

There were several small jets in the hangar, each more technologically advanced than the next. But I went straight to the small, shiny ship in which I had descended down to Earth with the last time I was here.

Soon, I was in the indigo Earthian sky, soaring to the Master's ship. I could see about twenty other small ships, all belonging to generals like me. The Master must have summoned all of us to go over our final plans for the invasion.

In a few short minutes, I was standing alongside the twenty other generals that had been called for this mission. We all stood in straight lines, and waited for the Master to appear from his office. In a few seconds, at the end of the hallway, the large metal door slammed and out came the young Master.

We had gotten a new Master right after the last Earth invasion. After hearing about Orion's death, the old Master had gone down to Earth, and was never heard from again. So, his seventeen-year-old son filled his place and became our new Master.

The Master pressed a button on his remote that he always carried and down from the ceiling came a very large writing-board with a flat image of the planet Earth on it. The different Earthian civilizations were all one of twenty of the generals' colors. I looked avidly for a crimson country and found it, in the United States, possible the most coveted civilization to command during an Earthian attack, because of its wealth, intelligence, and size.

The Master reviewed our plan of attack and then pressed another button on his remote. From his office zoomed a medium-sized wheelcart, containing many bottles, filled with whitish medicine capsules. The cart automatically stopped at the Master's feet, and he took a capsule out of a bottle. The Master held up the capsule and said, Everyone will get a daily supply of these for their Clan. It's extremely crucial that every member of your Clan take these twice an Earth day, because they prevent the Chemical from doing any damage to our bodies.

I glanced around at the other generals, who looked as amazed and thrilled as I felt. Without their Chemical, the humans were defenseless against us.

I took a bottle from the cart and returned to the hangar, where all our ships were. I got into the ship, and flew back down to my own ship.

Once I got into the large, circular cockpit, which was bordered by steering devices and piloting machines, I gathered all the soldiers together and told them about their mission and the capsules. Most of them weren't on the last mission, though, so they didn't know the exact damage the Chemical could do to us. I also told them which civilizations within the United States they would be invading. Of course, I reserved the Big Five-five of the strongest and largest cities in the U.S. (Washington D.C., Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia)-for myself, but also a small farm town in a rural area of Pennsylvania…

Until that point, I had forbidden myself to think of what had happened to me the last time I was on Earth, but the past was becoming more and more inevitable. Slowly, I began to remember how I had been against harming the humans, how Orion and myself had struggled, but eventually succeeded, in getting in the house, and also how I had watched Orion take his last breaths.

Overwhelmed by emotion, maybe grief, I sat down in the general's chair and began giving orders, at the same time, surveying the soldiers, seeing who I would take with me…

Each general had been told to pick out the most advanced and skilled warrior, who also showed the most potential, in our Clans. We would take them to the large cities with us, for extensive training. I remembered how Orion had chosen me last time.

I first saw the young soldier I would later take to train, being yelled at for an error by a captain, I think Hesperos. I had seen him when he was a trainee, when I had visited the IW [Intergalactic Warrior] Training Camp, and thought that he displayed signs of a future general. His name was Eunan.

I walked over to the two novice warriors, and told Hesperos to go pilot the ship as he was directed. Hesperos staggered off, muttering something about me being "worse than Orion". I ignored Hesperos (as usual), and instructed one of the most skilled colonels to take my place I then turned to Eunan, who looked just as confused as I had felt when Orion had selected me. Follow me. I told him, and he began striding after me, clearly wondering where I was taking him.

I opened the door in the back of the cockpit, which lead to a long, bare hallway. As we walked down the hallway, I said to Eunan, I'm taking you with me on an exclusive mission; we will be attacking the Big Five cities. We'll start in New York, and work our way to Los Angeles. I expect you to be extremely vigilant and adept when we attack the humans, since they have outsmarted the best of our warriors. Understand? Eunan looked at me and nodded.

We reached the Separate Aircraft Hangar, and I took out the most sophisticated ship in the hangar. I sat in the front, and Eunan tensely took his seat behind me, as I warmed up the ship. The ship took off smoothly, and soon we were in the sky, a million miles above an unsuspecting Earth. I turned around to Eunan and said, Our first stop is New York.

There it is…the first chapter of a brand new Signs story ^_^ let me know if you like it, and if I get 5 reviews, I'll post another chapter!