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Defection

Chapter I Nuclear Winter

Chicago, October 5, 1999: Sergi woke up feeling like a tank ran over him. He looked around and saw that he was in some sort of a bunker. "What the heck am I doing here" he thought. Then he remembered. He and his army unit overran Chicago about two weeks ago. The U.S. sent a special forces unit to try to liberate Chicago, and they destroyed some sort of super weapon that the commander was deploying there. He remembered hearing sirens and the commanders voice booming over the cities alarm speakers. "You ignorant Americans, you may have destroyed the dominator, but you will not have Chicago." "Die in the fires of hell." Then the bomb went off. The commander had planted a nuke deep underground, in the event that the U.S. would succeed in taking Chicago, it would automatically detonate.

Why am I still alive he thought the Soviet infantry man. He was flooded with another memory. He was stationed inside something called the Hancock Tower and as soon as the sirens went off he dashed to a old bomb shelter beneath the building build in the 50's. He recalled closing the door just as the bomb exploded. "Well that explains why I was knocked out" he thought. He looked at a dial beside the door. According to the dial the radiation outside was twice the normal level. He searched the bunker for something he could use to protect himself while trying to escape the city. He pried open a locker using his combat knife. Inside he found an old radiation suit, probably as old as the bunker itself, for it was covered with cobwebs and dust. A Geiger counter was below the suit. On the top self of the locker was an old Colt 45 and a box of Ammunition and Sergi instantly said "looks like I won't have to die down here after all."

He took out the radiation suit and tried it on. It was a bit loose and he hoped that it would still protect him. He checked the Geiger counter to see if it still worked, but when he flipped the switch nothing happened. "Well comrade you should have expected it not to work its been sitting here since the 50's." Checking the pistol, it was in surprisingly good condition despite the dust. It was fully loaded and there were two full clips of ammunition as well. "This is a lot better than my TT-33, and probably ten times more reliable.

He then went to the blast door, the Colt safely in a zipper pocket in his radiation suit. He began to turn the wheel locking him in. The door was firmly jammed, but finally the wheel began to turn and the door opened causing a blinding light to flood the bunker.

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