The War Journals: Resistance
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"This is insanity. The entire country is under attack! The Chinese army has somehow disabled most of the military and are slaughtering anyone who gets close to them. Mayor Adams has ordered an evacuation of the entire metro area."
Here's what we know so far; Some kind of chemical agent was released at military bases all over the country. The Marine Corps have engaged in a fierce battle to keep control of the San Diego airport. It's almost entirely recruits from the boot camp fighting at this point.
D.C. is believed to have been completely destroyed. First reports indicated that the White House, The Capitol building with all of congress in session, and the Pentagon were all attacked almost simultaneously. We have no information on the President or his Cabinet at this time. Air force 1 and marine 1 were both shot down earlier today
Communication is sporadic at best, internet service is almost non existent. The AP tells us that virtually every major city within 300 miles of either coast are under siege. Mexico and Canada have been attacked as well. It seems we are on our own now."
"This is Big John with KUFO, we will attempt to continue updates as long as we safely can."
Panic was beginning to set in, even if we made it out of here alive our chances for survival were slim at best. No one had to say it, but we knew we didn't have much time before the Chinese outside decided to move in.
"We're going to have to get out of here," I said after pulling all of the adults to the side. "There are 60 of us trapped in here, maybe 15 of you can handle a weapon. When we make our move, we need to be lightning quick. No hesitation or we're all dead. I would guess we have maybe an hour and thirty, forty five minutes before reinforcements arrive if we move on these guys."
"We're never going to get out of here alive" said a sobbing woman, "they’ll probably just kill us as soon as they're done with the cops"
"You're right," I replied "they are going to kill us soon. If we don’t try to make our way out of here they're going to kill every single one of us, including your children. So need you all to do the impossible and pull yourselves together, we need to act fast”
“How are we going to make it past them?” Omar asked
“There is an RV about 20 yards from the front of the store, once we get a chance we need to get everyone who can't fight into it. We'll have to drop the trailer with the dirtbikes, hopefully the keys will be in the RV. The others will move to military vehicles if any are left. Does anyone have a four wheel drive vehicle?"
"My mom's car," said Jesse nearly breaking down, as the realization that she was gone hit him "It's a Subaru rally edition, ill go get the keys"
"I’m gonna go with you sweety" said Liz and they walked off to find the keys.
She was a strong woman, that's what attracted me to her initially. The first thing she ever said to me was "move dummy" because I was blocking her way out of the class we were in. My reaction was to give her the stink eye, but when i turned around it was like staring into the eyes of Aphrodite herself.
"Are you going to move me?" I asked cockily
"I could take you," she said. "You aren't that big" She was stunning, five foot six, big green eyes, and a beautiful smile. You could tell by looking at her that she could handle herself.
"Yeah, I’ve only got half a foot and a hundred pounds of muscle on you" I said
"Don't make me take you to the mat G.I. Joe" she said and shoved me playfully.
The next day I asked her out, but she said no. So I asked again the next day and every day after that for three weeks before she finally said yes. The thought of losing her was more than i could bear. I would fight the entire Chinese army to keep her safe. She knew I would move the heavens to keep her safe and happy.
As we waited for Jesse and Liz to return, I went over our plan to escape with the others. It was risky, McDonnell wasn't sure if it would work. I wasn't either, but there was no room for errors. If we didn't move fast enough everyone on the roof would be dead and the people inside left defenseless.