Chapter 1

"Mum? What's going on? Why am I wearing this blind fold? I asked," i feel confused.

"There is no need to ask so many questions! You just follow what your parents tell you!"

I was blindfolded and last night we went to a place that is said to be the last refuge of mankind. For 70 years the world has been experiencing a global crisis and mass extermination carried out by alien nations we call the Deliminators. During this time we have experienced starvation and also fear due to the alien attacks, the choice for the human race was to become Mutiliners or continue to hide and beg for food from the Mutiliners.

All I know is that the Mutiiner are rebels fighting the aliens. They are armed with biological weapons that they have developed to fight the aliens, but most of them are also extorting their fellow humans, for from their booty from the aliens, humans who are not Mutiiner are sold to humans at very high prices. For humans who cannot become Mutiiners and cannot buy the goods sold by Mutiiners, they will end up as Mutiiner slaves or die in the harshness of the alien-controlled realm.

My name is Alice Shoine, lived with my family and tried to live with the second option of working as hard as possible to buy food from the Mutiiner. But with the destruction of the world, we don't have much left. And what's even sadder is that I'm the only one working to support my family of three, consisting of my father, stepmother and stepbrother.

Tonight, I was suddenly put into a face cloth that covered my face and head, my hands were tied and I was led to a place. When I asked my father and stepmother, they just said that I had to be covered like this so that I wouldn't see the terrible things that were happening outside the house.

"You sit here, don't argue or try to leave," My father said.

"Where are you going? I asked innocently. Why am I being left here?"

"Calm down, you'll be fine. We want to find something," my stepmother said.

I sat on the ruins of the destroyed house, from where I sat I could hear my parents talking to someone else, I don't know who they were because I couldn't see them now.

Then I was picked up and carried away, I didn't know where I was being taken and when I asked my father and stepmother they gave me no answers. I wondered why they were being so strange today.

"Mum and Dad, where are we going? Why is it so cold here?" I asked.

I walked along a harder path than before, and behind my blindfold there was a glimmer of light, showing that the place I was coming to was well lit. This made me even more suspicious.

"Dad, why are you so quiet? Where are you taking me? You're confusing me..."

"Shut up! You were sold by your parents and now you're in our base!"

My heart seemed to stop for a moment, I swallowed hard, suddenly my body was shaking, who is taking me now? Where are Mum and Dad?

"Stop! Where are you taking me? I don't want to go with you! Let me go now!"

My head and face coverings were forcibly removed, revealing an inner room full of sophisticated equipment made of strong steel and metal. I don't know where I am, but I'm definitely in the headquarters of an organisation. Is this one of the Mutiiner's base?

I rebelled, I tried to free myself from these unknown people who treated me like a hostage. They stared at me with cold eyes, and I panicked because I was trapped in a situation from which I could hardly escape.

"Do you want to escape?"

A man came out of the crowd surrounding me, he looked confident and haughty, he was probably the leader of this group of people.

"Let me go!" I shouted at him.

"All right, open the door and drag the woman out," the man said.

I looked at him doubtfully, my guts suddenly shrinking as I heard his order. It turned out that he was a person with no sense of empathy, but I still didn't want to be put into an organisation where I didn't even know what I would become once I joined.

The people beside me nodded in agreement with the man's order, they immediately dragged me to the front door, as the steel door opened, there was a very horrific scene outside. There was a swarm of aliens firing lasers from their eyes, in an instant hundreds of metres of land was on fire and exploding. There were screams from the people in the area where the lasers hit, I could only stare at it with my eyes wide open, my eyes were watering and my legs felt weak.

A high powered gun was pointed at my head, the man who was the leader of the group did not hesitate to point the gun the more he urged me to move closer to the exit. He didn't hesitate to shove me away.

"Mr Michael, are you sure? But you..."

"Shut up, it's my decision, you'll just have to wait and see what happens next," the man called Michael interrupted his colleague.

Then Michael looked at me again and said. "Last choice, Miss. Do you want to continue living here, or do you want to end your life out there?"

I turned my head towards the giant aliens invading the earth, then I looked at Michael and the people with him. I closed my eyes tightly and looked away.

"Okay, so that's your decision. Well, enjoy your free life out there," Michael said as he pushed me with his gun.

I was blown away, my body now falling from the airborne base to the alien-infested earth below. I closed my eyes and resigned myself to my miserable end.