Invaded

Chapter One

The air was cold in the concrete bunker, the large room is home to me. I'd grown accustomed to the piles of materials, and the cabinets filled with weapon cartridges. The only color is on the walls was a series of targets on the far wall. The wall is coated in burns and bullet holes, from all of the weapons I've experimented with and designed. I've been in here six months, six months of sweet solitude of no one to bother me and my work, the only thing I miss are my books. My routine is comfortable and I've crafted almost a hundred weapons by hand. Though sometimes I forget I'm not here for my own leisure, I'm here for a purpose.

Everything was normal in my life just six months ago. It all changed when Earth was invaded. The boring life of experimenting with weaponry was over. A group of scientists at a company names Expansion were experimenting a month prior to the invasion. They were sending signals into space, in hopes of receiving a response from extra-terrestrials. They got more than they bargained for, three weeks after the experiment unidentified space craft showed up outside our atmosphere. Two days later the seventeen scientists at Expansion were found dead, and hours after that the city of Tokyo was wiped off the face of this Earth. That was a declaration, no a promise of destruction for our planet, and I didn't like that.

So here I am in a government made bunker, one created in case of a nuclear war. Weapons were scattered over dozens of work tables, these were only my current projects, layer out on the counters that lined the walls were my finished weapons, polished and ready to destroy.

Currently I'm crafting a small bomb, a really destructive grenade really. The explosive appears to be a silver orb, but upon impact, after pressing a button, this little ball obliterates anything within thirty feet of the impact. I have the explosives all made out and fitted to the container, all that's left is the impact mechanism. I've been tinkering with it for a few hours now, every test before this has failed.

"Oh god please work" I muttered and pulled back my arm and threw the empty silver ball. The ball bounced off the wall and clattered to the floor. Please have worked. I stride over to the ball on the floor and pick it up, the mechanism is extended. I breathe a sigh of relief, it worked. My stomach let out a growl, I dropped the orb on the table and walked over to the food cabinet.

I reached my hand inside, only to come up empty. "No, no, no, no" I looked into the cabinet to find only a few cans remaining. I pressed my back to the counter "I have to go outside" I breathed
I haven't been outside in months. I've grown comfortable in the sports bras I work in, and the grimy skin that comes with working all day. Soap was scarce in the bunker. I could get soap while I'm out. What if there are invaders waiting for me? Oh god, what if they find the bunker while I'm out? I slid down to the floor in distress. "Come on Lev" I slapped my cheeks trying to pump myself up "you can do this, it's not like you haven't done this before" I hung my head in shame "Who am I kidding? I haven't even seen the light of day in six months! I had everything I needed here."

Minutes later I was curled up on my cot with a can of spaghetti o's. My favorite when I was a kid. The first bite made me moan at the familiar taste. I savored every bite after that. I grabbed one of my ray gun pistols and set it next to my cot. I lay down and turned off the lights.

It was hours later when a crash startled me from my sleep. A large thump followed after. I held my breath and slipped my hand around the handle of my pistol. Whatever just entered the bunker was huge. A light flicked on in the corner under the bunker entrance hatch. I raised into a crouch, holding my gun up slowly not to alert the invader. I aimed my gun at the intruder and flicked the lights on.