"What do you want from me?" I could see her kicking and screaming as she was dragged into the cell. The black masks just flung her in and slammed the door with a clang.

I could see the fear in her eyes as she looked at us, trying to adjust the sight of six more humans.

"I thought no one was alive!"

"Seems like the extraterrestrials kept the seven of us at least," retorted Adelaide.

"But why?" the new captive's voice quivered.

"Don't know," I shrugged, extending my hand to her. "Shreya from India."

"Mioko, Japan," she shook my hands. "Guess we stay here, then."

Sighs filled the room.

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"What the hell!"
"No!"
"Holy Shit!"
"Get your hands off us!"

Shouts rang out as the black masks herded us at the point of weird looking guns and led us out in a file.

They turned to each other and let out the weird squeaking which actually acted as a language around here.

We were shoved into a room which showed an array of endless switches, panels and hi-tech monitors...

We had been drugged while they abducted us so we never knew where we were. It could be a building or a spaceship for all we cared.

Survival and escape were the priority on our mind.

They caught my hand and flung me on a chair which immediately strapped me. Out of the corner of our eyes I could see the others being treated the same.

Fear filled their features as none of us knew what our fate would be.

The chairs slid in front of individual computers and I saw numbers displayed on it — lots of zeroes and ones.

It was binary code I realized...

The others looked equally flummoxed.

And then I saw the pattern. They were in groups of eights and each actually coded for a single letter according to ASCI.

I touched the screen on an instinct and the numbers moved under my fingers...

The idea struck. I immediately dragged them, arranging the zeroes and ones. Immediately they turned to letters.

HELLO

I heard clicking sounds from the other end as they placed a headphone over my ears. With the clicking binary sequences were forming on my screen.

I started decoding it and it said...

HI

WHO ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU WANT?

EXPLORE EARTH
CONQUER
DESTROY
WE AHOR-567
PLANET EXOR-89 HOME

I translated.

I glanced at my companions and saw awe in their expression. I'm a computer programmer.

WHY ARE WE HERE?

DECODE
YOU TEACH HUMANIAN
WE LEARN

It took me a while to realize that for them our language is humanian.

Pedro and Jace shook their heads, frustrated.

ARE THERE MORE HUMANS?

REBEL

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

SLAVE
EXPERIMENT
OURS

The broken sentences were short and deadly and we knew there were humans but we were at their mercy.

IF WE DON'T AGREE?

DIE

I gulped.

WE'LL HELP.

I finished typing with shaking fingers. Louise sighed.

We're unstrapped and dragged back in.

500 words completed

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