Prologue: What's left.
I'm fourteen. I had dreams and goals. I had a family. But in one day they were all ripped away from me. It all happened for one stupid reason. War. As the world realized oil, metal, and even wood was becoming scarce they battled to control the last reserves of them.
As war was waged nukes were launched and bombs dropped, any anti radiation technology we had was not enough to save humanity. Getting your hands on any was a big feat alone but if you could figure it out you must be really lucky. Many people died trying to save themselves with it. Your best bet was to reach a bomb shelter only me, a couple of my friends, and a couple of strangers made it in before we decided it would be unsafe to leave it open. By the time we figured out to work the suits and rebreathers the massacre was for the most part over.
Hours later we received a radio message saying all survivors to make their way to the liberty bell all the way in Pennsylvania for evacuation. As everyone was getting ready for departure I took a look at the ruins of New York City .Fallen civilians and soldiers, not all of them allies, littered the ground. As the group headed out I took another look at my home and realized I could not leave. So I turned around to stay and go it alone only four of my friends joined my journey the rest believed we were crazy and left us behind.
The next day we had taken shelter in a half destroyed building when we heard the news on our radio. The mass amounts of radiation had destabilized the Earth's atmosphere creating dangerous climate changes.
To think this all happened on my birthday.
Now that the facts are stated, the real story begins.