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Re: Short story 'bout Fallout

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MrSquer is not online. MrSquer
Joined: 18 Feb 2011
Total Posts: 6103
26 Oct 2015 03:57 PM
In Language Arts, we have a project where we have to write a short story based on any video game of our choice. Naturally, I picked Fallout. This is what I came up with:

The Fallout (World War III)

At the time of the nuclear war, there was a major energy
crisis around the world. We learned in social studies about all of the
wars over oil fought decades ago, and the war that the United States
is on the brink of. It was the year 2063. Oil and gas were extremely
expensive because of the now few refineries around the world. America
had teamed up with Exxon Mobil, the largest and one of the last
American energy companies, to supply the highest class citizens with
the little going around.

Only the rich had cars, with gas and motor oil starting at
$7099 per gallon. Because of this, most of everybody lived in the
cities, where everything was dense very close together, to avoid
walking long distances.

There was extreme tension between the USA, Russia, and
China. Russia, now stronger than ever, due to Vladimir Putin
rebuilding the Soviet Union, had teamed up with China and combined
their nuclear programs. Russia-China surpassed the US in economics,
and America was crumbling from the lack of imports from China. With
almost four-hundred million citizens, it was getting difficult to feed
America.

I’m Seth. I live a pretty average American life in Boston,
wondering if I’ll be able to survive ‘til the next day. We’ve been at
an all-time low for food for the past few years, so my family was
converted into a farming family. Thank God that we’ve had good
conditions for growing crops, or else we would’ve been done for. It’s
been extremely hot for autumn, reaching into the 90’s on average. It
was almost always humid, so it rained a lot. Stargazing is now an old
dream- in the cities, all of the light pollution and smoke added up, I
guess. Also, the Arctic Circle is gone.

We were in homeroom, coloring something meaningless, when
our teacher turned on the radio as usual, to the same old boring news
channel. But recently, it wasn’t so boring. More fights had broken out
between Russia-China and America. Russia-China was running out of food
and energy as well, and blamed America. The nuclear programs were more
active than ever, and nobody could say that they weren’t scared. Just
the press of a button, or a computer malfunction, and the whole world
blows each other up.

Talking about some terrorist group that’s held power for a
few months now, I noticed a bit of panic in Reporter Troy’s voice.
“Umm… We have some breaking news. Nuclear devices have been deployed
in… oh God… Nuclear devices have been deployed in Eastern
Pennsylvania. Report to the nearest Fallout Shelter immediately. I
repeat, please report to the nearest Fallout Shelter immediately. I… I
gotta get out of here.”

There were rapid footsteps, and then silence.

Half of the kids stared at the radio with blank
expressions. The other half were freaking out, pounding on things,
screaming, not knowing what to do.

I had gone through this drill before, as he lived in the
pre-selected population that would fit into the nearest shelter.
Quickly, without a word, he got up, and began running out the door.

I ran out of the school, avoiding the shouts from
teachers, and ran across the near-empty street, some pedestrians still
unaware of the news. The first thing I had to do was find my family,
then I had to get to the shelter before nukes hit.

By now, other countries would have detected our missile,
and they’d have sent more in the direction that the first came from.
There were streaks across the sky, headed across the ocean. The source
of those streaks had enough power to wipe out an entire part of a
continent.

I reached my house well within three minutes to meet
nobody. My mom and dad were at work, at the Nuka Cola factory. My baby
brother was with my babysitter, who was supposed to be here. Perhaps
they’d gone to the ice cream parlor? Who knows. I assumed that they’d
be headed to the same place as well.

I hopped on my bike and began pedaling down Frankfort
Street and onto Porter, heading to the Memorial Park. Right in the
middle of the park, there was an enormous platform that was able to
sink into the ground. That was my designated Fallout Shelter, Vault
111 as the vault-building company called it.

I hurried up to the platform. I wave of relief washed over
me as I stopped on the smooth marble surface of the device that would
lower me to my safety. The operators were there, too, ready to lower
us. I was scanning the crowd, trying to find the rest of my family,
when a loud commotion broke out.

Panicked faces looked up at the sky, staring at a long
cylinder shaped object roaring across the sky like an airplane without
wings. Smoke trailed behind it as it flew inland. A fleet of them
accompanied the introducing missile.

“We have to go now!” the operator yelled. He began
operating levers and buttons. The platform lurched downward as screams
came from the crowd, pleas telling the operator that family members
still had to come, that they were meeting somebody.

Seth began pushing through the crowd, searching
frantically. He reached the edge of the crowd, his head at ground
level. He watched his parents rushing from a block away.

But it was too late.

Tears began streaming out of Seth’s eyes as he was lowered
into the ground, separated from his family. He stared up as the hatch
began closing above the platform. In that last second that he would
never forget, his parents reached the edge of the platform and looked
down, horrified expressions on their faces. For a millisecond, right
before the hatch closed, they made eye contact with Seth.

The Vault members were now in silence for a few minutes.
While the platform lowered even further into the ground, people were
silently sobbing over lost family members. Seth stood in shock as the
ground shook, soil falling from the ceiling of the shaft. Over the
next day, the ground continued to shake as America was bombarded with
nukes. World War III had just begun, and I think it ended just as
quickly.
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smashduck is not online. smashduck
Joined: 15 Nov 2013
Total Posts: 1636
26 Oct 2015 04:07 PM
11/10 wud read again

Dearest Regards, smashduck.
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MrSquer is not online. MrSquer
Joined: 18 Feb 2011
Total Posts: 6103
26 Oct 2015 07:22 PM
ohi this is a bump sry
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LegoDude9630 is not online. LegoDude9630
Joined: 05 May 2011
Total Posts: 7177
26 Oct 2015 07:27 PM
Whoag
that's actually pretty cool
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MrSquer is not online. MrSquer
Joined: 18 Feb 2011
Total Posts: 6103
26 Oct 2015 08:05 PM
thanks, this was written in 1 sitting

this is the rough draft
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jimmysnow02 is not online. jimmysnow02
Joined: 25 Sep 2011
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26 Oct 2015 08:06 PM
but fallout is ww2
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MrSquer is not online. MrSquer
Joined: 18 Feb 2011
Total Posts: 6103
26 Oct 2015 08:11 PM
@jimmysnow02 It doesn't have to be EXACTLY like the actual game lore. In my version, WW2 happened at the original time already, and everything that I write about the future is based off of current events (energy crisis wars, American-Russian tension, global warming, etc.)
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