If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them?

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Nobody asked them anything.

The alien bats came without warning.

No message. No ship hovering over the White House. No delegation asking to be taken to our leader.

They just came.

The Army fought them. The Air Force fought them. Neither could drive them back. Best we managed was containment.

They devastated the middle of America and occupied what was left. Then the climate kept getting hotter, the deserts spread, and the bats took those too.

Eventually somebody drew a line around the territory on a map.

Bat Country.

That’s what we call it now.

So what would I ask an alien?

I guess I’d ask the same thing everybody’s been asking for a hundred years.

What the hell do you want?

-Hunter, Lizard Mechanics in Bat Country