*Beep-beep-beep*

  " Cmon man we have to go."

  "Yeah, just give me a second to haul this thing."

  "Here let me help you."

  1 years ago NASA discovered that a bunch of space rocks is coming towards the earth, not enough to cause an extinction like the one that ends the dinosaurs but they seem to be carrying some sort of living organism that may or may not be the demise of our species. The scientist that discover it speculated that the rocks may be a fragment of a destroyed planet, a planet that can support life. Because of that, the government all across the earth start making an underground shelter for their own citizen. Because I live in a shitty country where the government do not have enough money to shelter all of its citizens or they don't want to, they try to suppress the media inside the country and cut off our access to the outside world but that doesn't work like they want to, so the whole country fell into chaos. I'm sure that we are not the only country in the world to become like this since there is a more unfortunate country out there. But don't you worry me and my friend have a plan.

  "Are you sure this is going to work?"

  "I don't, but how else are we going to survive?"

  "How about going to a proper underground shelter and not just some over glorified cave."

  "And tell me where exactly are we going to find one."

  "Yeah yeah, I'm just saying."

  "Anyway, are you sure there is enough provision for the whole year?"

  "Just relax man, we have a natural spring inside the cave, a whole room full of canned food I stole straight from the factory, a generator and the fuel for the generator. I even create a room for farming inside if you know how to."

  "How about first aid kit or general medicine?"

  "Oh shit, I forgot that thing."

  "Don't tell me you forgot to bring a cooking equipment?"

  "Bah, if I have the brain to prepare a room full of food, of course, I must have the equipment to prepare that."

  "Just asking since you don't have the brain to prepare first aid kit or medicine that we will need at the end of the world."

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  "Enough about me, how about you, what do you bring in those big bags of yours?"

  "Books mostly, some electronic parts and my computer."

  "What!? Why in the name of Beelzebub do you bring such a burden with you."

  "Because we need a thing to divert our mind if will be locked up in this cave or else we will go crazy."

  When we were talking all of the sudden *BOOM* and the earth shake. Even though we are inside a mountain we can fell the impact of the meteor so strong, like it was dropped on top of us.

  "Are you sure the cave will hold out."

  "I already reinforced it with some wooden beam and concrete but I'm not 100% sure."

  "Let just hope for the best."

  It continued for god know how long, when we think it was over the shake again like it was making fun of us, it continues for about 2 or 3 days before it finally stops.

  Two weeks after the sound stop we notice that the water in the spring is turning to green like a lime water, so we decided to stop drinking from it but after a couple of days without liquid, we decided to try our luck.

  A month after the water turned green, we notice that our body seem to change. Joel seems to become stronger than the past, and he says that his sense of smell and hearing are sharper than before. I seem to be quicker and my mind is working a lot faster than before. And our eyes can see better in the dark so we start to use the light less and less to minimalize the use of fuel for the generator.

  I stop counting our days inside the cave after our improvement or mutation. It looks like we can fully control our new power, that what Joel called our mutation. Our food supply is dwindling so we are forced to go out from our little sanctuary in search for food before we starve to death.

  Slowly with cautious, we approach the door and open it. We see the remnant of the city far away below the mountain, half of it is gone. The area around the cave has started to grow some plants. It seems like no matter bad the situation is life finds a way.

  "What are you looking at?"

  "You see that jungle over there."

  "Yeah, so?"

  "How about we go hunting instead of scavenging in the city?"

  "With what?"

  "Wait here."

  I go fetch some stick and start to sharpen it with my pocket knife since my body starts to change, I can sharpen a stick with no trouble at all and it looks like the tip of my makeshift spear are sharp enough.

  "Here use this."

  "Okay, cmon then."

  We go down to the forest which strangely enough not destroyed in the catastrophe. When we go hunting I work as a spotter while Joel does the heavy work of throwing the spear, because of his strength he only needs to throw one time and the poor creature unlucky enough to meet the spear is instantly dead.

  "Hey, I just remember, that you once said your smell and hearing are sharper than a normal human."

  "Yeah so?"

  "So why the fuck do you need me to spot an animal when you can smell them a mile away."

  "I just think that you might feel useless if I do all the work."

  "Fuck you."

  The laugh stop when we notice the mountain.

  "Arent that mountain a little higher?"

  "You're right, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

  "We should check on top of that."

  "Bingo."

  *growl*

  "But after we eat and sleep."

  We proceed to enter our little sanctuary (cave), neither of us knows how to cook so we just stick a wood from the mouth of the deer straight up to it ass and roast it whole while hoping for the best.