You are the sole survivor of an alien attack that killed everyone else on the planet. The aliens consider you theirs to kill or not kill as they see fit. How do you survive?

They came in early 2053. They destroyed all of our military bases and military equipment before we even had time to respond. Then they began eradicating all of our cities. <br><br>I was only ten and I was with my mother when it happened. She had a cabin up in the mountains with a hidden bunker underneath that my father had built. My father had died when I was a baby so I didn’t even remember him. I had always assumed he had been killed in some kind of accident but now I wonder. <br><br>My mother was sitting in the hole in the ground staring at the screen on a satellite radio she had, crying. She had always told me that I was never allowed in the hole, that the hole was for her, an emergency shelter if she was ever in danger. I had always wondered what was so special about her, why I wasn’t allowed in the hole, but now she didn’t care.<br><br>The radio had stopped working. The aliens had killed all of our satellites. I asked her why she was still looking at it, why she even had it turned on - the batteries would eventually die and we might need them later. She just glared at me and told me she was busy - I shouldn’t bother her.<br><br>I went up into the cabin and locked myself in my room. I didn’t want to talk to her. It was her fault I didn’t have a father. She had been so strange and distant for so long but I had always thought she was okay deep down. Now I wasn’t so sure. I heard the news on my phone. The aliens were killing everyone, no one had survived, the country was gone. <br><br>Eventually I came back down and found her passed out. I shook her. I was hungry and I wanted food. She didn’t wake up but she did moan. I shook her harder. She was so heavy, I couldn’t drag her anywhere. And I didn’t know where to take her anyway. I was only ten. <br><br>She didn’t wake up for a week. I had eaten almost all of her food by then. She groggily sat up and rubbed her head. She was hungover. She sat up straight when she saw me. She had totally forgotten about me. Her eyes were wide and she looked horrified. She tried to hug me. I backed away from her. “You fucking bitch,” I spat. “I lost my father because of you! I don’t want you! You’re useless!” She began to cry and I knew she hadn’t heard a word I had said. She just thought I was upset because of the aliens. And maybe I was. But I also hated her. <br><br>She could barely walk. She needed to get out of her bed and move her legs but she could barely stand. It took her a few days to be able to walk properly. She went straight to her computer and pressed a few buttons. The lights and the running water shut off and then all of the furniture began to move. The couch moved to cover up the hole, a secret door opened to reveal the generator, and a big metal plate slid over the windows. The cabin shook. <br><br>“What the fuck is this?” I yelled. <br><br>Finally she looked at me. “This is your father’s cabin,” she said. “There is no one else left. We are the last people on this planet. The aliens will never find us.”<br><br>I shook my head. “Why did he build this place?”<br><br>“He knew it was coming,” she said. “Alien invasions happen all the time. He was either very lucky or very unlucky that he got to see the attack coming but didn’t live to see it happen.” <br><br>I scowled at her. “He got lucky? He died young because he was lucky?”<br><br>She shrugged. “I said he was lucky or unlucky. I didn’t say which one.” She stared off into space. I didn’t want to talk anymore. I just walked away. <br><br>I made myself food and went to my room and watched TV on my phone. It wasn’t real TV, it was just whatever had been recorded on it, but I had downloaded a lot of movies and shows onto it. And it had games. It was enough to entertain me. <br><br>I was bored to death but I was also terrified to leave the cabin. There were monsters out there and I knew it. They were too strong, too smart - we had no way of beating them. We had to hide. And I had to rely on my bitch mother.<br><br>I didn’t care about her, she didn’t care about me, we were both trapped together in this hell of boredom and loneliness.<br><br>Our lives dragged on, the days blending together in an endless stream of nothingness. And then one day an alien showed up.<br><br>It’s been ten years now and it took me a whole decade of living in the wilderness - and two years of becoming an alien prisoner - to learn how to fight.