The Phoenix


Holotape begins to play:

" USMC recording, Pvt. Johnson"

" Station of operations, the southern coast of China. Today we were headed towards a village to conduct a raid on a munitions cache the Chinese , Sgt. Benson was on point. We didn't see'em coming till we were hit. Sgt. Benson shot the civies right in-front of our eyes ,, tens of rural chinese farmers just wasted right in front of me. God, all the blood. So much blood....... We were in squad 2b when the Sarge told us to head out to the village and secure it. We arrived at 0900 hours and walked in to the cinder houses. Davis took point and knocked down a door, there was a lot of static, and we knew what it was. I came downstairs and looked into the basemant, a radio set was there, with a terminal next to it. I decided to use our encryption keys to bypass the password on the terminal and language setting. We checked on the files inside, and, and....., they nuked us, the [censored]ers nuked us. Davis told me to shut the hell up, and I kept on crying. Mom, pops, everyone was probally gone. We ran outside and turned to look at our men outside. We saw about ten arrow shaped projectiles heading for the Chinese mainland. It was our leftover nukes, but why ten? I thought we had an entire arsenal. Davis looked real tense, and he looked back at the forest, where all the Chinese farmers were tossed. Then out of nowhere Sgt. Benson runs toward us and screams out that the chinese military isn't here. Too angry to realise what was happening, we all looked at Davis in time to watch him blow his brains out with his pistol. Everyone started running in and out of the area, screaming in anger at the politicians who ordered us into hell."

" USMC recording holo-log 2, Pvt. Johnson"

" Sarge was leading us into a trail, far away from the village, we were walking across this valley, when a bear of sorts, can't tell which kind, ripped the sarges head off. We were using combat armor at the time, so we had a few exposed parts of our skin easily targetable. Everyone shot it repeatedly until there was nothing but the headless corpse of sarge and the bloody body of some sort of bear. At 1200 hourse we reached a city, well, a city on our map. We found nothing, just a bunch of weird looking silo's in the ground with a v-shaped door. This was supposed to be Shanghai, and the map said it would be right here. The only thing here was a bunch of silo's. We had figured that it was just the wrong map and that were in in a nuclear launch site. But no-one would want to close the silo if the payload was launched. There were too many questions we all asked. We proceeded towards what was supposedly the Chinese gate to Shangai. Nothing. Just a river and another strech of endless land. But that all changed. We heard a deep rumbling in the ground, and we all jumped down to the ground, thinking it was an earthquake. Oh, were we wrong. I turned around to see that the silo's had opened, and were strechting out this weird kind of metallic walkway. Then, we saw people in Chinese military uniform, with the casual attire, but they had laser weapons, I think the CW-113 Zhong guo laser rifle. Eitherway, we all sat there, silent, and dumbfounded. The last thing I remember is them punching us in the face and dragging us off.


"USMC recording holo-log 3, Pvt.Johnson"

" [censored], were we amazed at what we saw. An underground city. Who would have thought that the Chinese would become cave-men. Buildings, cars, telephones, hell even the radios were broadcasting. All the men started to get an angry look on their face, as if they fought for nothing. An hour ahead, we were thrown into jail cells with a bunch of other survivors. They were all in bunk beds with a bare matress. Decent conditions for a horse. But they did give us food. We started asking for reports about what happenend. It was what we all never wanted to hear. The European union and China decided to copy our idea of the Vaults and made their own underground metropolises, the middle east , well, and Africa, never got the warning. Even Australia has no progress reports. The whole situation was [censored] up, the United states was the sole target of the Chinese attack , and the United states launched nuclear bombs into Africa, China, Mongolia, Most of southwestern Asia, and even into Australia. We never believed them. China above ground was a nuclear infested hellhole, but they laughed at us and told us that would all change. I was in a trance like state, pissed, depressed, and virtually homeless. "

" End of holo-log"


Johnson sat, in his cell, with another soldier, his name was Richard, and he was the squads heavy machinegunner.

"Hey John, do you think that maybe they will let us go?"

" Where do we go Richard, our homes are as good as nuclear waste"

" But maybe we can rebuild, I mean, with the techs know-how, our strength, we could remake some form of system"

" Maybe, but I doubt the Chinese will let go of military prisoners that are partially responsible for the destruction of their homeland"

" You said it, MAYBE, but there is a small chance"

Johnson and Richard laughed for a moment and decided to listen to the Chinese Radio station, Gong xi, happy new years.

Johnson thought to himself christ, what are we gonna do. Maybe we can escape or maybe leave.hmmm. Forget it, I can think tommorow.

And both troopers decided to turn off the radio and go back to sleep.






So, how do you guys like it, Critisism is always welcome.

It's really nice, I'd like to see more of this fanfic. :tops:

Some of the detail felt a bit stiff, as well as some of the other writing. I'd probably give it 6/10 because there were a couple of errors, and the stiff writing was sort of a drag to read.

I will revise my stuff in the next chapter.

Loved it man, can;t wait for next chapter!

Papa, its december in october


Johnson was looking at the bars on his cell. He felt like they judged him and condemed him for each time he looked at his squad-mates. He looked over to Richard, still asleep.

"Richard, wake up,"

Richard, in deep sleep, turned and tossed until he heard a voice calling his name, it was Johnson yelling at him.

" What the hell man, I was getting some nice beauty sleep. What is it?"

" Well for your information, the guards are coming, and they have someone else with them."

"What?"

As soon as they stoped, footsteps along the concrete corridors of the prison could be heard. Voices were heard and the iron door opened. A figure in a grey suit walked over to Johnsons and Richards jail-cell.

" How have you been enjoying your stay here in the Peoples Republic of China?"

Johnson grinned and replied

" Who the [censored] are you"

" I am Liu Peng, here to get you boys back home."

Johnson was mad this time, considering it some sick joke by the jail guards

" Where the hell are we gonna go [censored], the only place I can think of is the land where my rifle meets your ass"

" No need to argue and presume. See, we had a special deal with central and latin America, so we kept our nuclear stockpiles focused on the Northwest and the Northeast, along with most of the Midwest. The south was spared our judgement, and so you now have a place to go. By our radio records, the city of Houston has agreed to make an exchange, they give us back our spies in captivity, and you are returned, without your military gear."

"What! How the hell am I gonna deal with the psychos and freaks roaming the streets!"

"As I said, we found an untouched area. I suggest you pack anything you have. You can keep your combat armor, we need no use of it."

" Like hell you don't"

" The ship arrives at 2:00, don't be late."

" Whatever"
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Several hours later, Johnson and the rest of his squad are loaded onto a small yacht. Everyone goes to their corresponding rooms and are confined with no weapons. Just a T.V and a radio.
Johnson eventually found his room, a 3d.

" Well, I guess going home isn't so bad"

The squad began to bunk down and everyone switched on the T.V. A news reporter of chinese descent spoke in english.

" Two days ago, the United States declared their aggression by arming their nuclear stockpile. Before they could respond, the PRC high council decided to launch an all out nuclear exchange against the U.S. Hundreds of Nuclear arms were fired. The PLA has provided the following reports on the status of the world.

China- partial fallout
U.S- 3/4 irradiated or fallout
Europe- No known bomb has entered Europe. The European Commonwealth, as we used to know it, has begun reconstruction without the threat of global retaliation. Soviet Russia was not affected as well. Only a small region in Siberia recieved the radiation emitting from China.
Africa- The entire east coast area is covered in radiation
Australia- partial radiation in area near Tanzania
Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand- devastated by fallout. No known survivors

" Glad to report, this is Zui Ban, reporting for you"

Johnson thought about how bad it was along the East coast where his parents lived. He had a home, a family, and even a damn dog.

" Hey Richardson, what do you think about the news!"

Richard replied

" Either its complete bias or I am not in the U.S army"

The boat began to shake as it left port from a secluded locale, making loud rocking sounds as it departed towards a fragmented society.

Johnson began to sing

" row row row your boat, gently down the stream,merrily merrily, life is but a dream.........."