Unfortunately, the vegetation sprouted from spores off the alien spaceship and the new growth looked very suspicious.

((We did have an alien spaceship pages back, right? Or was it just a spaceship? Does anyone care about continuity? ))

Fortunately, with so much happening lately, no one remembered the spaceship, so the vegetation didn’t cause a panic.

Unfortunately not only did the sprouting vegetation look weird, but the "aliens" in the spaceship seemed suspiciously familiar....

Fortunately the "Aliens" just came, harvested the vegetation, and left.

Unfortunately, even though the aliens were benevolent, their spaceship engines emitted a high pitch whine that drove all the dogs in the neighborhood into a frenzy of barking.

Fortunately the so-called aliens, themselves, were so frightened of dogs barking at them, that they crashed the space craft before they got too far.

Unfortunately, the electrical unit of their spacecraft exploded into a giant, semi-sentient ball of flame upon impact.

Fortunately, when the mess was cleared up & the remains of the occupants of the spacecraft recovered, the so-called "aliens" were found to be the missing astronauts & prisoners who went missing some tens of pages back.

Unfortunately, they'd all lost their memories.

Fortunately, it was just as well their memories were lost, so that they could not spoil the ending of the story.

Unfortunately, the authors of this thread didn’t know what the end of the story was either.

Fortunately, the aforementioned authors contained enough creativity collectively to come up with the beginning of a new one.

Unfortunately at least one of the authors was distracted by other pressing matters such as droughts, koala habitats & dwindling cattle stock.

Fortunately, koalas sounded interesting to the next contributor.

Unfortunately chewing eucalyptus leaves, so beloved of koala diets & sniffing eucalyptus oil infused steam, is savoured only by those with heavy colds.