Hey everybody. Episode 2 is here and it will hopefully be better than Episode 1. This one is after the nuclear attack on Australia. Zofia will be in this chapter and a secret person that you won't whom until later.

Episode 2: Chapter 1: If You Die, who will remember you?

A little girl looked out the window and saw a small light shooting through the air. It was coming down fast and was heading towards Sydney.

"Muuuum," she yelled to her mother, "there's a light going that way." She pointed towards Sydney as her mother came into the room. Her mother looked at the light and saw smoke coming out of it. Her mother bowed her head as tears rolled down her eyes. She knew what it was; it was nuclear missile, a large one and was heading for Sydney. Their house was only a couple of kilometres away from Sydney and would surely be hit by the blast.

"Come on," the mother said, "let's go out into our old bunker for some fun, okay!"

"O.K. mummy," the little girl said innocently. "Mummy, why are you crying?"

brThe mother's pretty face crumpled up and she knelt down with her head in her hands. She sobbed for herself, for her daughter. The nuclear missile would hit Sydney and wipe out everything around it.

"Mummy, are you gonna come and play in the bunker?" The girl's voice was soft, nagging her mum to come and play. Her mother stood up and walked towards the bunker, hands shaking. They reached the bunker and closed the door. The girl sat down and started playing with her dolls while the mother stood stone still. She sat down and looked at her daughter, innocent and soft, not knowing what's going to happen. The mother closed her eyes and started to doze off. In her head, or in real life she wasn't sure, she heard a soft whine and her daughter say "Sphinx!" The mother opened her eyes and saw her daughter standing at the open doorway, ready to run out and grab her dog.

"No!" the mother screamed but it was too late. Her daughter ran out of the bunker to grab her dog as her mother tried to stop her. The girl ran out, picked up her dog and that was the last thing she did. Her mother took in that last happy moment of her daughter with her dog, smiling with glee, as the nuclear flash and explosion took her daughter away. The woman slammed the door shut as the strike happened and her daughter was killed, gone, lost forever, incinerated with the dog and Sydney, taken from her mother's life but not from her heart.

At Allied HQ, everything was going haywire. The nuclear strike had taken out Sydney, everything inside it was wiped out. The surrounding areas were taken out with it and the radiation dust was only just starting to fall. Few survivors were found but died soon after. Only one person was found in good health though she was heavily depressed. Her daughter was killed in front of her eyes by the nuclear strike, along with her dog. She was transported to the HQ in America and was sitting down in a white room with a shrink who was trying to calm her down.

"O.K, slow down." the shrink said softly to the woman. "Now tell me what happened and how you survived."

The woman took a deep breath and slowly spoke in a shaky voice. "My daughter saw light in the sky and wanted to show me. I watched it blow smoke an-and I knew it was a missile. I ask-asked her to come into the old bun-bunker to play." Tears were rolling down the woman's cheeks now and she was trembling horribly. "We got in, and I-I think I dozed off. Our dog barked and she went out t-to get it and the m-missile hit and she was gone." She put her shaking hand to her mouth and bowed her head. The shrink placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder and said "it's O.K to-"

"No it's not O.K" She screamed, staring the shrink in the eyes. "My daughter was killed because you can't keep those fiends behind their lines! Because you let them build that bloody nuke my daughter is gone! You killed her and I won't forget it. You killed my daughter!"

The shrink took his hand off the woman's shoulder and exited the room. He started talking to General Dugan as the woman grieved for her daughter. A Russian, female voice filled the room.

"Allied HQ, this is Lieutenant Zofia of the Soviet Union. I see that you have suffered a nuclear attack by one of our missiles. This missile was controlled by Yuri, not by us, and has taken out one of your main cities. Russia has also suffered a nuclear attack by Yuri and is getting ready to retaliate. We are asking for your help to find and capture Yuri, or at least diminish his forces. I await your reply."

The transmission was cut off and left the room in silence. Dugan looked at the blank screen for a while longer and slowly nodded his head. One of the Comm. Experts called him over and he started to send a message to Zofia. The woman that was in the white room was now standing at the door, staring at the screen where Zofia's face was earlier. The shrink tried to beckon her in with his hand but she just stood stone still. The shrink stood next to her and asked her "Did you know her?" The woman nodded her head and turned back into the room. She walked in and sat on the chair with her head on her knees.

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Zofia strode down the roads of Moscow, looking at the destruction of the Nuclear missile. It had destroyed the repaired Kremlin and the surrounding area on the other side of Moscow. Zofia had just sent a message to Allied Headquarters and was waiting for their reply. To pass the time, she was walking the streets of Moscow. The radiation had died down in this section of Moscow as the Nuclear missile had hit the other side. Something was nagging her at the back of her mind. When she had sent the message to Allied HQ, she had swept their equipment to see what they were capable of. She had seen someone in a white room at the back that looked familiar. She couldn't place her finger on it. It annoyed her that an Ally caused her to be so uncomfortable. The lady was just smaller than Zofia herself and paler skin, she had been crying a lot so her eyes were red. She had brown hair down to her waist and was wearing brown pants with a purple top. Zofia closed her eyes as she remembered the woman, staring at Zofia with the same look that Zofia gave her. A bullet shot passed Zofia's ear as she shot open her eyes. She turned her head to see who was shooting at her; it was a group of British Snipers who had infiltrated Moscow. The only thing was their eyes were blank...Yuri! These were controlled Snipers who had survived the Nuclear strike. The shot was only a warning, so Zofia turned around fully and raised her hands. The Snipers started to walk towards her slowly, fanning out to circle around her.

"Drop your weapon!" the first one yelled.

Zofia slowly pulled her pistol from its holster hand held it at her side, tapping her leg.

"Drop it now!" ordered the second.

"She's not cooperating, move in and capture." The third Sniper said, waving his hand at Zofia. They all moved in as Zofia threw her gun at the first Sniper. He caught it but was thrown off balance.

Excellent!

Zofia kicked the first Sniper in the head and wheeled around to kick the second in the stomach. She punched him in the nose and kicked him in the head. She kicked back at the fourth, hitting him in the groin, he bent down in pain as Zofia elbowed him in the back. She drove her knee into his face and spun around to backhand the last one. Her nails scratched his cheek and drew blood. The sniper swung his gun and hit Zofia in the face. A red mark appeared on her cheek as she drove the palm of her hand upwards, into his nose. The bone penetrated his brain and killed him.

"Men," Zofia commented, "so incompetent."

She walked off, trying to remember the person at Allied HQ as her radio buzzed.

"Zofia here." She said into the radio as a face appeared, it was General Dugan. "Ah, General, how nice it is to see you out of the White House again."

"Enough, Zofia," General Dugan said calmly. "We have accepted your offer and are preparing to help you, Yuri must be stopped. But why did you think we would trust you?"

"Because, General, the Soviet Union does whatever it takes to bring down its enemies." Zofia said softly as she shut off the communication. So the Allies agreed to help her take down Yuri. She was an exceptional field agent with knowledge of nearly all weaponry and the skill to use them. She was also a great technologist, being able to understand many complex machines. Yuri will be finished once and for all.

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The depressed mother was sleeping, dreaming about her daughter. How she played with even the dirtiest animals, loved to go for walks, loved to be read stories and wanted to help with most things. She was the best daughter a mother could ask for and was now gone, taken because some man couldn't decide whether to kill thousands of people, cause millions of people heartache, or sit down and be like everyone else. The mother shot up as she remembered the lady on screen.

"Zofia," she whispered.

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Sorry about the opening, bit dramatic, but I couldn't think of a better way to open the story.