[world of tanks, 9:26]
The front of the AT 2 touched the barrier and caused a disappearing change reaction. The endless city fell to a new scene, intersections going through the spaces left in-between buildings. But the buildings were not coated in shrapnel, fire or black residue. There was a green wall covering the walls and entering windows, lampposts covered in vines and flowers. Trees grew out of the sidewalks, if you could see it in the thickets. The tank destroyer made tracks in the grass that covered the pavement. They advanced through the city until they reached two buildings, a library and a town hall.
"wolf, halt. We need to get intel, wolf and Michael, you go into the library. I will go into the town hall. You guys should take the Tommys as I will too." Carl ordered, dave didn't express any problems with the idea as he knew someone need to watch the tank.
The driver's hatch and commander's opened to environment, carl and wolf both look 360 degrees before climbing up and out of the tank. Wolf and Michael ran to the door, which was unlocked and opened pretty easy. The library was mostly lit by the sunlight shinning through the windows, Wolf and Michael saw something that somewhat looked like flashlights and turned them on. Oddly enough the flashlights weren't the ones from the 40s, they had a rectangle box look to them. They pressed a button on top that opened a shutter which let a bright blue light shine forward.
"look for the newspapers, they will tell us the time and what happened to the human race." Wolf said, they looked for a backroom, then they found it.
"lets hope this electric door isn't on, I rather not be electrocuted by a steel door." Micheal said.
"I don't think the door is electric that way, I think it is locked because of power. Like a plane elevator on a aircraft carrier, odd." Wolf said, questioning the last bit of knowledge.
Micheal didn't question the last bit and put it aside as 'american training' and kick the door, it swung in so hard it hit the wall and rebound and swung back around hitting Micheal in head. After a brief moment of curses and wolf laughing after saying that the door wouldn't have been locked due to lack of power. They entered the room to see the shelves filled up to one.
"we should start with the one below that one." Wolf said, pointing to the shelf that was empty.
They start from both ends, then it was obvious that these 'newspapers' were actually some sort of electronic book. Soon they found out they had been charged to full percent when place on the shelf. The 'books' powered up and they were only filled with news documents and the ones they grabbed had other data. Secret military and political relations data, they grabbed four in total and then grabbed a box labeled 'chargers'.
After a few minutes of finding their way out they ran to the tank and knocked on the commander's hatch, which open to show a head of carl. After a brief chat it was proven that the town hall only provided a map of the whole planet.
"so we found these flashlights, electric books and a box of 'chargers'." Wolf said as he got in and handed dave one while micheal handed carl one, after showing them how to turn it on.
After a few minutes of reading, dave found something.
"god damn, there is a reason we were there, and it ain't good." He explained that the page he got to told of the destruction of the planet called earth. The planet they were on, world of tanks, had seen the exploding the sun and the earth being ripped apart. A project called 'bigworld' called for the human race to be put into safety from a plague called cheese, the plague killed humans by causing them to go insane and 'infect' others. The project showed that the testing call 'rgn' made the human mind capable of surviving the plague. Cheese wiped out the rest of the humans and all technology went shit as power was being used in project and refused to the public.
"god, that means that we are the only humans, unless there is other planets. Either way, we are the only humans on this planet, except for the other survivors of the bigworld. But how did they stop us from remembering?" Dave asked.
"doesn't mean anything, all that matters is finding the survivors. And that leaves a problem, are the people of bigworld going to come after us?" Carl said, worried of the consequence of leaving the maps.
As if a answer to his prayers, a radio broadcasts reached their radio.
"all bigworld participants, tankers, flyers and sailors. You are now under a bounty, 10,000,000 silver and 1,000,000 gold for each crew brought in. Do not worry, we only will give them a slow way to retirement." It said.
It was immediately realized that retirement was death. With the message broadcasted, a metal shining in the sun could be seen and right then and there carl shouted orders to wolf to put star into max speed to get out of there, dave and micheal were order to look for movements, dave was assigned to back and micheal to front. Carl worked on bringing on remote gun control while looking to the sky for planes. Star pushed on at a speed of 22 kmph while objects appeared, they looked like humans. But they had a look to them that showed they were not humans, but some sort of creature. They were unarmed, but they still ran at star. Then out of the blue a group of three tanks appear from the alleyways. One was on the left of star before it was overrun with these creatures.
The two tanks on the right weren't shooting at each other, so carl reached out to them and got them to not shoot at star. The commanders agreed that they need to fight these creatures if they were to survive. They were a heavy tank T29 and a medium tank T-34. Then the creatures were massing in the intersection coming up. Star and the T-29 load HE rounds while the T-34 locked and loaded the machine guns, star and the T-29 fired at the intersection. After the shells impacted, the remaining creatures were gunned down by the T-34. This repeated over and over until they reached the walls of the city, carl radioed to the other tanks to hold off the creatures outside the gates while carl went in the toll booth to shut the gates. Carl got out and ordered wolf to keep going in a effort to make sure the tank got through. Carl ran in, gunning down a few creatures inside with his tommy and hit the button to close the gate, star cross the barrier while carl ran towards it. The gate was within three feet of closing before carl got through.