THEY CAME Part 2

 I knew terrible things. When they came and took my sister, everything got worse. Sure, the aliens taking over Earth was bad enough, but at least they put my family together. Now it was not. She and my brother-in-law were somewhere in the night sky aboard a flying machine forced to work alongside the creatures that conquered us.

The things I knew were not pleasant. I knew they would dispose of them after their use was all dried up. I knew I had to get them back. I also knew that I would have to kill in order to do that. The rest of my family couldn’t be involved, though. They had been through too much. A resistance had to be out there somewhere, and I was determined to find them and join, but only if it got my sister and brother back. Otherwise, I would do it alone.

I adjusted my backpack after one last look at the prison my family called home, the house that was forced upon us in order to best utilize our skills for those bastards’ purpose. Below me ran a wide river where forced labor took place during the day. That, apparently, was my skill, but not anymore. My new skill would be to take them down and return the two people that meant more to me than my own life.

With a heavy sigh, I took the next step away from everything I knew and one more towards the unknown.