My name is Jake.
You might think my friends and I are a couple of stupid teenagers with shitty attitudes. You have no idea how much I wish that was true. Man, I'd love to go back to that. My biggest problems in life, back then, were how to tell my brother I didn't make the basketball team and how to ask Cassie on a date.
That was three years ago.
We were 13. A group of five 13 year olds walking through a stupid abandoned construction site when an alien dropped out of the sky and told us about an invasion on earth. Parasitic head slugs that take control of their hosts, turning them into living, breathing meat sacks. They could be anyone. Your brother, your mother, your school principal, the police. If they find out you know about them, you get turned into one of them. You become a slave. You die. Your family dies.
We were the only ones that knew. Five stupid kids whose biggest problems in those days were wondering if that stupid boy or girl liked us enough. We were humanity's only chance.
That's what we've been fighting. I've died on the Delaware, I've seen all my friends holding their guts inside their bodies as we stumbled away broken. I've seen Marco's heart stop beating.
So excuse me if I, and Marco since he's a lot better at this than I am, don't have the patience to be happy or to be polite. This dome isn't the worst thing that's ever happened to us. It's actually been a nice break. If I didn't have a war to win it'd be a nice place to stay.