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Notes By Me: New chapter! For those of you that don't like dialogue then don't bother reading.
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand." Abraham Lincoln June 16, 1856.
January 8, 2014. 1350 hours. Military HQ in Wisconsin
"Sir!" A young Lieutenant walked into the state Commander's office carrying a small data pad. "There is an important message from the General in California."
The Commander's face paled, for he feared the fate of a nuclear strike was in store for Wisconsin.
"Y-yes, yes… Well? Let's hear it!" He stormed.
The officer pushed a button on a data pad, and a throaty voice reverberated inside the small room.
"State Commander in Wisconsin. This is the General of the Coalition of Independent States. I give you a proposition. You may either join us in our campaign, or you will be ruthlessly destroyed. I will give you two days to decide, I hope you will make the right decision."
Then the speaker snapped off, leaving the officer and the Commander in a state of shock.
"What should we do sir?" asked the Lieutenant.
"Do? We do what is necessary Lieutenant." He paused as he thought out his next decision. "Get me through to the rest of the forces in Wisconsin, I have to make an announcement."
January 9, 2014. 1900 hours. 1st Hospital of Livonia
As I came too, I realized that I wasn't out by my house anymore. I was in some hospital.
"Where am I?" I groaned.
Some doctor there spoke, "You are in the 1st Hospital of Livonia, quite a ways away from were you were found. And don't worry, you'll be all right, you didn't sustain any serious injuries from the blast. Just a concussion that knocked you into unconsciousness a few days ago."
"What about my family?" I was worried that they didn't survive.
However, he said "They are fine and at the moment are being held at a different hospital across town since we ran out of room here. Like you, they were knocked out cold form the force of the shockwave, but suffered nothing serious like broken bones, or otherwise."
I breathed a sigh of relief after hearing that they were alright.
"And you should be out of here by tomorrow morning."
"Well that's good and all but…"
The doctor left the room just as I was about to finish.
As I laid there in the hospital bed watching the news for any info about why this happened. "You know, a motive or something." A thought occurred to me. "What about my friends? Were they alright? Did anyone die during the attack?" I had to know.
Oddly enough, a few of them were already there. I was so happy to see them. Drew Burnham and Justin Popovski. Both were relatively tall and had some athletic qualities to them. Drew had short, dirty blonde hair, and aqua eyes. He was a very quiet individual and would more often then not be seen quietly working away on some project. Justin was more talkative, he had brownish-black hair with a unique streak of blonde mixed in, brownish eyes, and a nose that resembled a crows beak. They were close friends of mine ever since high school.
They were still a little shaken from the incident, I didn't blame them. After all, a nuke was just dropped in a city near our town!
It was Justin that began the conversation. "Are you alright?" He sounded genuinely concerned for once.
"Yeah I'm fine." I was just glad to see them. "So do you know what's up with the renegade military officers and why they did this?" I was hoping to get an answer, and I did, but not an answer that I wanted to hear.
"Yeah, we know about them. Some generals were working with those conspirators and used the armed forces under their command in the West to take California, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon, and well… just about every other western state, calling themselves the Coalition. Then they threatened to nuke any one that wouldn't join them, we were used as an example. Now the West has declared war on the East, and they plan to take the whole country by force."
I stared at him in disbelief. "Why?" I said to them.
This time Drew answered, "We don't know much, something about restoring the economy and fixing what they think to be a defective government system." We all knew that couldn't be it.
"That's a load of bull shit!" I said, "And what's the president doing about this."
Drew stared at me like I was a clueless child… well I was pretty clueless. "There is no more president. They hit Washington D.C. just after Detroit was nuked, and then they also destroyed Chicago."
"You have got to be fucking kidding me! There is no way that that could have happened!"
"Well it did, and now you have to live with it no matter how bad it is!" Justin shot.
"Great!" I said sarcastically, "Now we practically have another civil war starting up. Damn this sucks!"
"You got that right. I just hope that nothing else happens here in Michigan." Justin said.
"Alright! You two have to leave now. Visiting hours are over." A nurse called from the hallway.
"Right, well we better get going."
"I'll see you two later."
It turned out to be five days of shit before those words came true, because the Coalition was not yet done with Michigan yet… there was much more to come.
More Notes From Me: Yeah I know. It's just dialogue. But it gets better!
And I can't respond to reviewers in my story because that's the way it is.