New World Order - Chapter One (593 hits)
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Submitted by gain (View user info) at 2004-10-17 19:18:39 EDT
Authors note: Nihilism is getting shelved for a bit. It's driving me nuts because i'm identifying with the ideals to much, and also having to hard of a time pinning down characters, and exactly what the group stands for. So here's something else that I've been working on, in ordered chapters.
'Alright, what should we do now?'
I mulled over the question as we walked around. Without really noticing it, we were heading downtown.
'I don't know. We should check for other survivors.'
'How do we even know there will be any?'
Good question.
'Let's think. We were in a school of... two thousand people?'
'Right.'
'So two out of two thousand... that's one in a thousand of us who are still around.'
'Keep going.'
'So in Hamilton, there's five hundred thousand people?'
'Around there.'
'So there's probably five hundred people in the city. We need to find them.'
'How?'
Another good question. She was asking too bloody many of them.
'Don't know. Let's go downtown. That's where people would gather.'
We walked in silence after that. Both of our minds were weighted down with what had happened. An entire school of people... just gone. No more. No bodies, no screams, no signs that they had ever been there. Open books at desks, backpacks occasionally in the middle of halls, some tools still running in the tech rooms. Everyone had literally vanished.
Outside was a lot worse. When people vanish, their cars don't suddenly brake. They slow down gradually. Often into each other. The roads were a wreckage choked morass. A few fires here and there sent smoke into the air. Apart from that, disturbing silence.
I guess that we were both remembering how it happened. Have you ever seen the trick with some pencils where you can wave them really fast and they look like they're bending? Imagine that happening to everything that you can see. It's like being completely drunk and then some. The waving lasted about three seconds. During those three seconds, everything was transparent. I could see through the walls, through myself, and through everyone else. Then, there was a blinding flash. When I could see again, probably five seconds later, everyone was gone.
The auditorium, previously full with half the school, was deserted.
Some things aren't meant to be taken in by humans. They go past basic comprehension and tolerance. The things that make you go insane with the sheer enormity of what they are. This was one of them. Another famous one is the theory that you will die if you hear God speak. There's a nice comparison to dwell on.
While I was still looking around, I heard crashes from the outside. Every car driving had probably hit another.
After what seemed like a minute but was probably closer to an hour, I got out of my seat and walked around. The school was empty. Except for Katie. I saw her turning around a corner when I came up to the third floor. It was like the oasis in the desert.
When I yelled, there was silence for a couple of seconds. Then she tore around the corner and came running at me.
How can I describe Katie? She was that kind of weird that you can't help but like. She'd been wearing all black from the first time I'd ever seen her. Long hair, color never the same. Medium height, fairly skinny. She was a member of the school's drama department, and was simply one of the nicest people I knew. There were definitely worst people that I could've ended up with.
It was hard to tell who was happier to see who. It's impossible to describe the dread panic that hits you when you realize that there's a chance that you are completely alone. It's impossible to describe the feeling of relief that hits you when you realize that you're not.
Those thoughts were going through both our heads as we slowly walked down. At one point, we thought we saw someone running down the street way ahead of us, but we weren't sure.
As we were walking, something important happened. A number of planes flew overhead. I suddenly realized where I'd heard the sound of them before. Right before everyone disappeared. As they were flying over, thousands of tiny pieces of paper were flying out of them. One landed near us, and Katie ran over to it. She picked it up and began to read.
'Citizens of America and Canada. If you are reading this, you are one of the few who are still alive. You are to gather at your local place of gathering (Copps Coliseum) and wait three days there. In three days time, troops will arrive to gather you up and bring you to internment camps. There, you will be processed and tried for your crimes.'
She looked at me with an expression of horror.
'This sounds like something that Hitler thought up!'
My head was spinning. I had no doubt that the internment camps of whoever had seemingly deleted so many people wouldn't be pretty. Especially since troops were being gathered.
'We have to go to Copps and get people out of there.'
I looked at her in surprise.
'What?'
'They'll probably kill the people there!'
The options ran through my head.
'We at least need to go to Copps, you're right about that. But what do we do when we get there?'
'I don't know, I was hoping you would.'
Fuck. Another weight of responsibility placed on my shoulder. An idea hit me. I was nearly floored by how drastic it was. And by what it could mean. I spoke quietly.
'We need to start an army.'
Katie's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.
'An army?'
'If these pamphlets are true, then we have to fight or die. And I don't want to die.'
A pause.
'We have to fight a war.'
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Submitted by Supreme_Overlord (user info) at 2004-10-18 09:36:01 EDT (#)
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If these pamphlets are true, then we have to fight or die. And I don't want to die.'
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But won't fighting probably get you killed? I'm just saying this might be better like "We are going to die one way or the other, so we might as well fight."
It's not like fighting guarantees you victory, only the chance for it.
Submitted by gain (user info) at 2004-10-17 22:20:32 EDT (#)
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Thanks. I've got a big vision for this. A BIG vision
Submitted by Davok (user info) at 2004-10-17 22:15:57 EDT (#)
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Impressive considering the time you completed it in. Sounds like Red Dawn without all that campy bullshit.
-Thank You
Submitted by gain (user info) at 2004-10-17 20:00:19 EDT (#)
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nope. I realize that there are a number of flaws. I wrote this in twenty minutes, read it over, fixed a spelling mistake and posted it. Nobody was online that I could send it to to get them to read it, so it got posted right away.
Who is that guy?
Submitted by Timmah (user info) at 2004-10-17 19:58:50 EDT (#)
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Original idea but a few flaws. I look forward to part two.
As a side note. You wouldn't have happened to have read "I am legend" by Richard Matheson would you?
Submitted by lokimustdie (user info) at 2004-10-17 19:49:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
pretty good. Needs some improvements on the last half