Humanoids were fast.

Humanoids were forever hungry.

Humanoids hide patiently in the shadows and wait until we are weak.

Then they strike.

Disgustingly pale, black eyes impossibly huge, and no hair to speak of, just a slimy bald scalp. Humanoids were nothing more than a husk, an empty shell of something that used to resemble life.

But they were strong enough to kill.

Taylor Davis was hiding in the bedroom with her ailing mother when they found her. One of them materialized into the room, making the awful trademark sound of the Humanoids: a wet, guttural clicking noise deep within their throats. Taylor leapt up and threw a chair at it. The Humanoid hissed and teleported so that it was standing right in front of her. Taylor screamed and banged it over the head with a flashlight. The Humanoid fell and crumpled into a pile of ash. Panting, Taylor returned to her seat beside her sick mother and checked her radar.

Taylor and her mother were living through the Humanoid outbreak. Taylor’s father used to stand strong beside them, as well as Taylor’s little brother, Eddie.

But that was before the Humanoids got them.

Taylor had rigged up a radar using scraps from the tool drawer and an engineering book. Lights blinked on and off, alerting her if they got too close with a low buzzing. If only she could―

“Taylor…”

She snapped to attention. “Yes, mom?”

“I need… sandwich.”

Taylor groaned. “Now you need a sandwich?”

But she got up anyway.

Carefully easing the door open, Taylor kept one eye on the radar and one eye on the hallway. Suddenly, the radar exploded into loud beeps and a red dot appeared in front of her. Taylor didn’t even look up as she punched the Humanoid in front of her and it dissolved into ashes.

Down in the kitchen, she quickly gathered sandwich supplies and headed back upstairs.

She was about to enter the bedroom when she stopped. Something was wrong. The Humanoid clicking sound was coming from the room.

Dropping everything, Taylor burst into the room. Her blood ran cold.

Her mother had been turned into one of them. She gracefully glided out of her bed, and, quick as a flash, touched Taylor’s face. Everything went black.