i apologize if this idea is a little jumbled, but it's mostly just a ramble from a thought I had where I wondered: what if clouds were alien ships in disguise?
I am not confident in my ability to write something like this by myself and thus I throw this idea to the brainstorming forums to see if anyone else likes this idea and would like to help me work on it.
The idea is as follows:
The rain is actually an alien species trying to launch an invasion on Earth with little success. The smell that happens before it rains is the use of their chemical weapons. Floods are their most successful attacks. The water cycle is them moving troops. As a consequence of their nature as sentient water droplets, a Large number of them have ended up in Earth's natural water and in the bodies of humans.
Despite all my rage… I am still a bacteriophage.