A darkness covered the whole of the Earth’s land, and the last of the survivors huddled in the air-tight bunker. Jeremiah was handing out dried food whilst Karen cried, holding her baby girl close to her chest.

Two days ago, a spacecraft came to Earth carrying samples of all known alien life. Only one of these escaped. The Vashta Nerada had been taken from the trees of Klom in their millions. On the journey they multiplied to have numbers in their trillions.

First they ate the nature, and the humans allowed it for they no longer needed green lands.
Next they came for the animals, and the humans allowed it for they no longer lived on the flesh of creatures.
Then they came for the humans, and there was nothing else left to save them.

And so there were fourteen left on Planet Earth.