The Rebels: ErinPrologue: 3001-3012 A.D.

It was a normal day for Americans on the day this mess started, March eighth, 3001. Mandi Cross was at home cleaning house and organizing the room for the baby girl on the way; James Cross was at the office filling out paper work. At exactly 3:12pm on this perfectly normal day a group known as the Armstrongs rose up and attacked. By Christmas that year the Armstrongs had taken over the area spanning from the Rocky Mountains to the eastern edge of Missouri, North to the top of Nebraska and South to the pan handle of Oklahoma. The Crosses were residents of Lansing, Michigan at the time. In 3006, on August twenty-fifth Erin Cross was born in the same place her family had lived since the beginning of the Armstrongs. By then the Armstrongs had control over the entire Central Time zone and the eastern side of the Mountain Time zone. By Halloween of the year 3012 the entire US was under the control of the Armstrongs. Walls were built and guarded to keep former Americans in and everyone else out. Freedom was at all costs prohibited. The constitution had been shredded and the flag replaced by one that was all black with the words "Rebel not against those who cannot be beat" written in red banning the top and the bottom and a red castle in the center. The old ways of America were forgotten and people learned to fear the Armstrongs, the new rulers of the new Strong Nation.