World Under Fire Chapter 1 My World is Burning, The Flames touch the sky, people cry out in pain, as blood spills and my mind gets lost. My heart rate gets quicker as the soldiers walk over the corpses, Bullets and Carnage, is that all this is? Or is there some higher reason I Squeeze this Trigger? Two “Asteroids”come burning down in the atmosphere they break off departing in different directions they crash in unknown areas. A tank is rolling through what looks to be a 3rd world City. It stops in the middle of the street and fires upon a building blowing the side out causing it to lean and almost falls. A blue lightning like wall flowing very fast hits and passes the tank not causing any damage. Soldiers come running out to fire on the remaining enemy units. But when they go to fire their guns do not work. They are quickly shot and killed by men dressed in Robes and cloth. A field comes into view it looks like peaceful everyday field nothing special just then a plane is starting to lose altitude, It falls and crashes into the field with parts flying this way and that as fire starts to erupt a World Under Fire title rises out of the smoke. (Blank Black screen.) Narrator: You see some people have this life figured out they may not know everything but they know the right way to react to situations they know the trick and moves on how to talk and react to women with out it feeling awkward. They can bullshit there way out of any situation and some can even get a select few to follow their every word. Now I’m no dumbass but I don’t always say the right things and usually ends me up in some sort of trouble I couldn’t even count the number of fights I have been in on my hands. the blank black screen ends and A guy with Black hair, white skin, average height, a white hoody coat, some torn jeans, and red eyes sitting is in a classroom doing classwork. But I’m not some tough guy bully type I’m actually quite opposite some would call me a geek because I’m in the computer networking working class at my high school but I learned how to fight because of my dad he was part of some government organization and he taught me how to fight until I was 13 then something happened and I haven’t heard from my father since then. So at the start of my freshmen year I was put into an orphanage, and have been there ever since, It's not something I like to talk about either, getting back to my main point though. This world is unfair now I’m not saying its unfair because I lost my parents no I'm saying this because this world is evil. This world, Hell! This country prides it self by saying it is a free country yet there are still laws, regulations and orders to follow and it attacks other country’s under false pretenses and even gets the people to stand and cheer it on. Sometimes I begin to think that anarchy is the only true form of freedom because with anarchy you have no laws or regulation or even orders you do what you want to do and no one tells you other wise that is true freedom but the problem with that is anarchy is chaos and with chaos there is death destruction and murder and you know what? That is why I think this world is unfair. My name is well I don’t really remember my name so people just call me X and someone once asked me if I believe in God and I don’t. Because if there is a God, he has abandoned us. No God especially the one that is mentioned in the Holy Bible would allow this much hate and cruelty to go on. This world has so much evil in it there is no way he exists. And its not like I’m some atheist preaching lunatic, Cause you know what sometimes I wish there was a god that away he could save us from the hell we call life. But he doesn’t exist so we have to suffer here till we die and hope and pray its is more than just an eternal sleep. Well that is what I believe like I said I'm no genius, but even geniuses struggle in this world so I can’t be completely wrong? Or maybe I ‘am who knows. After being lost in my own thoughts for a while I don’t even notice the cute girl walk right by until I smell the sweet scent of perfume and shampoo I look in the direction of the scent and I see her, she wore short shorts today and showing off her perfectly tanned legs, My eyes follow to the rest of her body She is slim with all right curves...wait what am’I thinking I should get back to my work but not many girls come around the Computer Tech area...ahh whatever. I take one more glance then turn back to my work. Class ends and I head out for my car twirling my keys. I see the Girl heading the same way I’am. It wouldn’t be weird to see her walking the same way but I park my car in the old section of the parking lot and no one parks back here. I follow behind her not too close but not too far away. She doesn’t seem to notice me. I park here because it is closer to my last class of the day and its not that the parking lot is in bad shape its just inconvenient to get out of for most people. While thinking to myself again I have not noticed the Girl has disappeared from my view I head to my car and hear two people arguing I decide to ignore it till I hear... “you bitch don’t talk back to me!” I stop and look I see him raise his arm like he going to strike her I’m not going to give him the chance my mind goes blank just seeing the position that this jerk is in has enraged me and I move before I realize it and before I notice anything. I’m taking the full force of his punch I absorb the impact my right cheek swells with pain as I look at him with all this rage built up in me and almost out of instinct I stare him down spit the blood forming in my mouth and he punches me again this time my legs give away. I fall headfirst the taste of tarmac and blood reaches my tongue I look up and see this jerk swings and punches the Girl in the chest. Then he grabs her by the hair and goes to slam her face on the ground. I snap up quicker than I have ever moved in my life I swing striking this bastard with everything my right arm has. Knocking him back I kick him he stumbles some more I punch him a couple more times. He’s ready to fall I’m about to finish him when the Girl cross-kicks his knee he stumbles it looks like she broke his knee cap as he falls to the ground. Screaming in pain. I kick him in the face knocking him out. She turns to me “thank you But why did you take the punches he threw at you the first time?” X “Oh well he really didn’t give me a reason to fight back I thought if he let off some steam he would leave and go on his own... I just wasn’t in the mood for a fight today” Girl “Oh I see well thank you anyway” X “no problem I just cant let a guy hit a girl. Anyone who hits a female is the worst I don’t care if it sounds discriminative its just the way I feel” Girl “well mister hero you just punched out my ride so can you find me a new one?” X “yeah I can do that. By the way why was he bothering you?” Girl “Because I broke up with him and talked back to him and he is the type that can’t stand to have a girl stand up to him. BTW I never got your name mister hero?”~ "Oh I’m sorry my name is X.“ Girl “X? ...Such an odd name… I mean your named after a letter.”~ X “Well Everyone I have ever known has called me that even my parents. So I’ve forgotten my real name” Girl “I’m sorry didn’t mean to offend.” X “No it’s alright so where do you live?”~ They get into the car and drive off Girl “Thanks again for saving me back there I don’t know what would have happened if you weren’t there.” X "..." Girl “My name is Sara by the Way” X “...” Sara “Not much of a talker are you?” X “...” Sara “your cute how come I just now meeting you?” X “well we don’t have any classes together and I mostly work in the I.T. department of the school instead of having regular classes” Sara “why is that?” X “that is just how it is “ Sara “Laughs” X “what the hell is that?” a bluish lighting wave flows toward X and Sara. The car shutters and dies. Sara “what’s wrong with the car?” X “I don’t know the engine just died right after the weird light did you see that?” Sara “yeah what the fuck was that?”a plane losing altitude then crashes away from the teens view. 15 minutes before A busy city comes into view with packed highways and people working in office buildings. The NYSE is busy with everyone trading and buying/selling stocks. A military looking room with some foreign dressed uniforms a weird looking symbol is in the background some words are said in Chinese One of the technicians’pushes a button a missile is fired the missile splits. View of earth and you see a giant blue electrified Orbs form all over the place. Back to the military room the general dressed solider speaks some more Chinese. A satellite its bottom opens up and its shoots a massive blue electrified wave it hits earth, Electronic equipment starts dying and peoples calls getting dropped as the blue electrified wave hits them. Back to the shot of the NYSE people are still trading when the wave hits and you see the screen go blank the traders start yelling shouting and getting angry some become violent. The other side of the world and you see the lights on the cities die as the wave hits them. American base where the general is trying to get a hold of his superiors …. No answer. Gen “what do you mean no answer? Try the hard lines!” Tech “They are also dead” Gen “how the hell are the hard lines dead”what kind of attack is this” Tech “General were not sure its an attack just yet” Gen “Then what the fuck is it?” “Sir”~ (another technician shows up) Gen “What is it Smalls?”line Smalls “its seems to be some sort of Electromagnetic pulse” Gen “huh... wha.. an electronic magnet pulse? The hell is that?” Smalls “No sir a electromagnetic pulse or EMP for Short” Gen “Oh an EMP why didn’t you so sooner?”“So what’s the situation that we are in right now?” Smalls “Well sir as you know the communication system is down and from what I cant tell its not only here its everywhere the world seems to have been sent back to the stone age!” Gen “And where did you get this information son?” Smalls "Well just before the system shut down I caught a strange reading and well I copied it down to my computer.” Gen “wait a minute how is your computer still working? Even the ones in here have fried?” Smalls “Because I’am using a prototype EMP shield that I developed myself.” Tech “its true he has been telling the officials of this building that our EMP shields had a weakness and been trying to get them to finance his prototype but they didn’t listen and they just said, Like someone could make a EMP strong enough wipe us out.” Gen “Hmmph I see very well so what readings did you get?” Smalls “well if you look here you see that origin of the EMP is some where along here and it wasn’t a regular EMP its has way more power than an ordinary EMP”“and there is a good chance it had the power to take out every Communication line that we have.” Gen “Ok so what your telling me is we have no way to organize an attack or a defense and that we no way to maintain control of the people if they are to get out hand?” Smalls “Yes Sir there is no way we can communicate with anyone and my computer is not strong enough for that. Everything is down not a single electronic device works right now. Also most vehicles will be fried too unless it was made before the ECU age the car wont run with out a new ECU or if someone can fix it” Gen “I’m Sorry son you lost me on that one.” Smalls “ECU is a computer chip inside car engines which regulates speed control and monitors everything going on in an engine.” Gen “Oh I see so what do we do now” Smalls “I don’t Know I mean really right now nothing is working everything since the turn of the century is run by some sort of computer system I’m talking shipments, travel, communication, Electricity, Water all of it run by computers." "The people will grow tiresome and bored with nothing do then the food supply will start getting low since no one will be able to ship and exchange anything” Gen “wait so this isn’t temporary?” Smalls “No this is forever mean look at the computer chips they are fried there is no way to repair them.” Gen “So we are just going to sit here?” Smalls “No General go home check on your family and be careful some people may have gone crazy already. Also if you knew anyone with a pacemaker there is a good chance they have died from the EMP.”line Gen “Ok I understand I will go home.” Smalls “General where are you going?” General gets into his Black with Red pin stripes 1969 Chevy Camaro Smalls “oh I see (lucky Bastard)” X “what the hell is that?” a bluish lighting wave flows toward X and Sara. The car shutters and dies. Sara “what’s wrong with the car?” X “I don’t know the engine just died right after the weird light did you see that?” Sara “yeah what the fuck was that?”a plane losing altitude then crashes away from the teens view. 15 minutes before A busy city comes into view with packed highways and people working in office buildings. The NYSE is busy with everyone trading and buying/selling stocks. A military looking room with some foreign dressed uniforms a weird looking symbol is in the background some words are said in Chinese One of the technicians’pushes a button a missile is fired the missile splits. View of earth and you see a giant blue electrified Orbs form all over the place. Back to the military room the general dressed solider speaks some more Chinese. A satellite its bottom opens up and its shoots a massive blue electrified wave it hits earth, Electronic equipment starts dying and peoples calls getting dropped as the blue electrified wave hits them. Back to the shot of the NYSE people are still trading when the wave hits and you see the screen go blank the traders start yelling shouting and getting angry some become violent. The other side of the world and you see the lights on the cities die as the wave hits them. American base where the general is trying to get a hold of his superiors …. No answer. Gen “what do you mean no answer? Try the hard lines!” Tech “They are also dead” Gen “how the hell are the hard lines dead”what kind of attack is this” Tech “General were not sure its an attack just yet” Gen “Then what the fuck is it?” “Sir”~ (another technician shows up) Gen “What is it Smalls?”line Smalls “its seems to be some sort of Electromagnetic pulse” Gen “huh... wha.. an electronic magnet pulse? The hell is that?” Smalls “No sir a electromagnetic pulse or EMP for Short” Gen “Oh an EMP why didn’t you so sooner?”“So what’s the situation that we are in right now?” Smalls “Well sir as you know the communication system is down and from what I cant tell its not only here its everywhere the world seems to have been sent back to the stone age!” Gen “And where did you get this information son?” Smalls "Well just before the system shut down I caught a strange reading and well I copied it down to my computer.” Gen “wait a minute how is your computer still working? Even the ones in here have fried?” Smalls “Because I’am using a prototype EMP shield that I developed myself.” Tech “its true he has been telling the officials of this building that our EMP shields had a weakness and been trying to get them to finance his prototype but they didn’t listen and they just said, Like someone could make a EMP strong enough wipe us out.” Gen “Hmmph I see very well so what readings did you get?” Smalls “well if you look here you see that origin of the EMP is some where along here and it wasn’t a regular EMP its has way more power than an ordinary EMP”“and there is a good chance it had the power to take out every Communication line that we have.” Gen “Ok so what your telling me is we have no way to organize an attack or a defense and that we no way to maintain control of the people if they are to get out hand?” Smalls “Yes Sir there is no way we can communicate with anyone and my computer is not strong enough for that. Everything is down not a single electronic device works right now. Also most vehicles will be fried too unless it was made before the ECU age the car wont run with out a new ECU or if someone can fix it” Gen “I’m Sorry son you lost me on that one.” Smalls “ECU is a computer chip inside car engines which regulates speed control and monitors everything going on in an engine.” Gen “Oh I see so what do we do now” Smalls “I don’t Know I mean really right now nothing is working everything since the turn of the century is run by some sort of computer system I’m talking shipments, travel, communication, Electricity, Water all of it run by computers." "The people will grow tiresome and bored with nothing do then the food supply will start getting low since no one will be able to ship and exchange anything” Gen “wait so this isn’t temporary?” Smalls “No this is forever mean look at the computer chips they are fried there is no way to repair them.” Gen “So we are just going to sit here?” Smalls “No General go home check on your family and be careful some people may have gone crazy already. Also if you knew anyone with a pacemaker there is a good chance they have died from the EMP.”line Gen “Ok I understand I will go home.” Smalls “General where are you going?” General gets into his Black with Red pin stripes 1969 Chevy Camaro Smalls “oh I see (lucky Bastard)”