I hope you like this fic.! I got permission from foreverVam to write this story. It is all in Maddys point of view, except for a few exceptions in later chapters. Enjoy!

I woke up that morning with a cramp in my back, my whole body covered in dirt, and an infected cut right below my right eye. These were just the minor effects of the war. The fact that us Terra Novians lost our homes and were dying because of starvation and fighting were the more general problems.

All of us had injuries in one way or another. Out of my whole family, my dad was the worst. He had lost his arm in battle and he twisted his ankle when running away from sixers.

Recently, Commander Taylor died. His own son shot him and stabbed him about a million times for his revenge. Will he do that to all of us? That is what I was always afraid of. All of us dying.

"Hey Maddy? Are you up?" my older brother Josh called me. He was leaning on the tree next to me.

"Yeah. I'm up." I responded back. "How's your head?" Josh's head had a huge bruise on it from a sixes beating him on the head.

"It's okay, I guess." he moaned a little so I knew it hurt. "Hey, I think the cut under your eye is bleeding again."

"Oh no." I sighed. I hot my old torn up bloody jacket and dabbed on my cut.

"When will this all end!" I heard my boyfriend Mark yell. He sat down next to me and put his arm around my shoulder. "How's your eye?"

"It's been better." I answered back. My jacket was all muddy and putting it on the cut probably made it worse.

"Here," Mark took off his shirt and gave it to me. "use this instead."

"Thanks, Mark." I took his shirt and dabbed it on my cut.

"How are you guys holding up?" my mom said in her British accent. She came up holding Zoe in her arms. Zoo had also twisted her ankle, so it was hard for her to walk.

"We're okay, I guess." Josh answered rubbing his head.

She looked over at the rest of us to see Mark shirtless and is shirt on my bloody eye.

"Maddy, where's your jacket?" she asked. I pointed to a pile next to a tree a little ways away. From where we were, it looked like a pile of dirt.

"Oh." she sighed. "Well, can you guys take care of Zoe for a while? I'll try to get Mark a new shirt and Maddy a sanitary towel." With that, she left and put Zoe on the floor near us.

"Wait! Mrs. Shannon!" Mark shouted.

"Yes Mark?" she answered back.

"Will you please get me a rebreather? My chest is hurting." Mark had a lung disorder because of all the bombing.

"Sure, I'll do my best" then she left, again.

The bombing really affected us. That's what got us here in the first place. The sixes found a way to get supplies from the future and now they make nuclear bombs, with the help of Lucas Taylor of course. My mom and Malcolm found a way to protect us from the bombs my making a force field. Unfortunately, the battery is dying, so we can only use it at certain times. They put it in a more cleared out area so we wouldn't get trapped underneath trees.

Everything seemed peaceful for a couple minutes. But the suddenly, we all heard a strange aircraft noise.

"Code red! Code red!" a few soldiers yelled.

Code red meant that they were going to bomb us, again.

"Come on, let's get put of here." Mark pulled me and Josh up and we all ran to the force field. We were earlier than most people, so we went to the back of it.

"Closing in two minutes!" a different soldier that was working the controls yelled.

Another whole bunch of people came and we almost couldn't see the front.

My mom found where we were standing but had a surprised look on her face.

"Where's Zoe?" she asked in concern.

"Oh my god! We left Zoe!" I yelled and all of my family, including Mark, ran over to the front of the force field.

Then, we heard it. And saw it. Zoe came running out of the tree line and almost right behind her a mushroom cloud appeared following the big explosion. Zoe was running for her life on her twisted ankle, in lots of pain.

"30 seconds until closing!" the same soldier yelled.

"I have to go get her!" I shouted and started to run after Zoe. Smoke, debris, and nuclear power were heading towards us quicker than I expected. I ran as fast as I could and picked up Zoe. Then, I sprinted back to the force field.

"10 seconds!" I ran even faster to get to that force field alive, with Zoe.

"5""4""3""2"

I was about 15 feet away from the force field. I would never make it in time. Then in that split second, I saw Mark holding up his hands as if he were to catch something. I got his message. I threw Zoe like a baseball while I was running.

"1"

Mark caught her just as the force field closed. She was safe.

"Wait," I thought. "What about me?"

At that moment, my momentum crashed me right into the force field. Excruciating pain rushed into my left arm and elbow that hit it. I fell to the floor, and cradled my arm as I did.

The last thing I remembered was my dad yelling at the soldier to open the force field, my mom hugging Zoe, them both crying, and Mark and Josh watching in horror.

After that, the nuclear wave crashed over me and all I saw was black.