When the Bombs Fell

James was wandering on the dead surface of the former United States, also known as the Great American Wasteland, when he found the diary of a long-forgotten soldier in the corner of a demolished apartment complex, recounting his experiences during the Great War. James finds the diary in The Dark Future: Ruins of America.
=== A Diary of Soldier ===
Years later, I still remember when the bombs fell on the day the whole world was destroyed. It was horrible to see whole cities explode and be destroyed, nations destroyed one by one, and whole continents burned in endless waves of nuclear fire. I was just a kid, playing on the field, going to school and living my daily life, calling those who lived in the bomb shelter crazy, and then suddenly BOOM! The whole world exploded and I looked up and saw the damn cloud over the city miles away. I also saw the buildings on fire and ran with my parents to my brothers and my dog Chester to meet them at the shelter. I made it down safely but unfortunately my father and sister didn't. A few years later I picked up some biohazard equipment and set off through the once prosperous, beautiful, peaceful, now dead, ash-filled, disturbingly dark, scary town of Graymills. It was then I realised I had found my father, Matthew, and my sister, Grace. I watched with tears in my eyes as the shadows of their bodies burned into the shelter walls, still burning. I didn't know what to do, I was completely devastated.
Weeks after the city was hit, and for three hours I heard nothing but constant alarms and the endless bombardment of nuclear warheads. It still gives me chills when I think back to those days. I still have nightmares, and it's as if I can still hear the sound of the alarm. When this tragic event occurred, I knew what had happened. It was the Russians and the Chinese. They had announced that the war had begun and were ready to launch as soon as their armed troops and tanks had conquered Warsaw and occupied Japan and South Korea. After the bombs fell and the radioactive dark storm cloud began to subside, I found some equipment and set off again to see the surface, but not for the last time I said goodbye to my dog Chester, when I arrived back I stroked him and took him in my lap. I went to my home and saw that he was completely burnt and gone, just gone. The whole town was gone, and there was nothing left but death and silence. And the invisible enemy that had wiped out billions of people.
I eventually became the family breadwinner after my mother died, and after being rescued from a pack of abomination mutants by then-unknown-to-me strangers in gas masks, I joined a colony rising from the ashes of the American wasteland. This reborn nation is called the Confederacy. Now I must fight mutation in my old home and do all I can for my family. I would sacrifice myself for them if necessary. I am a member of the best trained Confederate military, armed with a top of the line assault rifle, a G36. The best part of it all is that I've got my dog Chester with me, who lives a lot longer than the average dog.
Category:The Dark Future
Category:Nuclear Holocaust
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