- blast from the past. aka, first version of RiE
- >War has besieged your country.
- >The enemy has started a full scale invasion into your lands.
- >They have always been allies, but the recent energy crisis has driven them to the breaking point.
- >The world has always been dependent on fossil fuels
- >And your home nation sits on top of a virtually untapped pocket of fossil fuel.
- >Since they have exhausted their own supply, their economy has since failed, and their people grow impatient.
- >It’s been about 2 months since they have first set foot on your lands.
- >Little by little they have been pushing forward into the country.
- >Taking city by city and placing them under their command.
- >They moved as a whole.
- >In all honesty, your puny country didn’t stand much of a chance against this super power.
- >IT was only a matter of time before shit would hit the fan.
- >You are anonymous.
- >You’ve always been that quite, level headed guy everyone knew.
- >You were above average intellectually, but you always were a lazy shit throughout your school years.
- >You were just an average university student with a shelf full of football trophies and a rent bill that arrives every month.
- >You were working on getting a degree in engineering.
- >You had several hobbies: Music, Video Games, Electronics, Computers, and Cartoons.
- >You have always lived in a neighborhood where running wasn’t something that was done for exercise. And
- >You can’t really complain though.
- >To you, it was home.
- >You had been reading in the papers how the enemy war machine had been inching closer to your city.
- >There weren’t many reports and they weren’t very detailed.
- >Most of them seemed to contradict each other.
- >You didn’t pay much attention to it.
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- >In the back of your mind you hope that if you ignore it they will go away.
- >But a few weeks ago everything changed.
- >You were chilling in your apartment lazing around on the computer.
- >Just as you had begun to reassure yourself that there was no danger of an invasion a huge explosion goes off somewhere outside.
- >The sound so loud that your ears where ringing.
- “Huu..what?” You mumble to yourself.
- >Scared shitless you huddle in the corner of your loving room.
- “....No….This can’t be possible….no….they wouldn’t bother with this shit hole. The capital is just 40 miles from here…no….” You mumble to yourself in disbelief.
- >As you finally regain your hearing you can only hear muffled gunshots and the sound people screaming.
- >You finally muster up the courage to look out your window.
- >You lived on the 6th floor of an old apartment building.
- >As you looked down, your expression changed from one of doubt, to one of pure horror.
- >The streets were overrun with enemy invaders and their engines of war.
- >People were running from every direction.
- >That explosion you heard?
- >That was the sound of a tank blowing up friendly police blockades on the street.
- >Their flags were rising up all over the city
- >The city street were filled with gunfire and chaos.
- >Tanks were rolling in from every direction and soldiers were barking orders at civilians in a language you did not understand.
- >Those who did not comply with their orders were killed on the spot.
- >Those that stood in their way were shot.
- >The soldiers of the enemy forces showed no remorse for their actions.
- >As if everything they were doing was justified.
- >Up above in the skies you hear the distinct sound of jet engines.
- >3 MIG Fighters zoomed over head in a perfect “V” formation
- >They were headed for downtown.
- >You watched in horror as one of them launched rockets at several public buildings.
- >Churches, hospitals and police stations…
- >In a matter of moments, they were completely leveled.
- “…shit..”
- >The slaughter in the street continued for days.
- >Mass rioting and looting had taken place.
- >Fortunately for you, you had been able to hunker down in your apartment.
- >The soldiers were raiding every building.
- >Looking for anything of interest or value.
- >Should there be a raid in your apartment you knew this perfect hiding spot.
- >Your building had a HVAC system.
- >You figured, should shit ever hit the fan, you’d hide out in one of those vents.
- >If it worked for the spies in the movies, it should work for you
- >You were able to hide from the raids that took place in the buildings.
- >You watched from your windows at those who were found in the raids.
- >They were executed in the parking lots.
- >After a while the main fronts of the war machine moved to the opposite side of the city.
- >The soldiers soon stopped coming into your building, probably assuming it was vacant.
- >By now, friendly military forces have arrived to counter attack.
- >The southern side of the city had become a warzone, almost every building was leveled.
- >A constant barrage of gun fire could be heard there from any given moment.
- >You would later learn that your city housed several small airports and train stations.
- >Something the enemy would be using to their advantage.
- >The enemy had taken the liberty to establish a new government.
- >All communications to the outside had been blocked.
- >The TV was dead, phone lines were killed and cell towers destroyed.
- >Your ISP was shut down after the CEO of the company refused to follow new censorship procedure.
- >In order to calm the citizens, they had set up several “support stations” around the city.
- >Most of them gave out food rations and gave “news updates” on their crusade for justice.
- >Propaganda at its finest.
- >After telling your some of your friends it was safe in your building, some of them came to you looking for a place to stay.
- >You did not deny them, especially now in your times of need.
- >Most of their homes were destroyed in the firefights.
- >Some of them came armed, mostly with small guns and such.
- >When you asked what the weaponry was for, you were told
- >”Just in case shit gets real.”
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- >Word got out that you had some sort of safe haven in the midst of this living hell.
- >Before you knew it, you had at least a dozen people coming and going from your apartment.
- >Some of them were familiar faces, but most were people you had never met.
- >As time gradually passed more and more people came into the building taking up the emptied out apartments.
- >More of them came armed with more weapons.
- >Assault Rifles, Side arms, Explosives among other goodies stolen from enemy troops.
- >it didn’t take long for you to realize you were harboring the resistance movement in your building.
- >It didn’t take long for you to join them.
- >Stubborn misfits.
- > Ragtag ne’er do wells.
- >Sore losers who can’t accept defeat.
- >These are the people who made up the resistance movement.
- >Their goals unrealistic.
- >Their supplies pathetic.
- >But their resolve was absolute.
- >In other words, they are heroes.
- >You joined the resistance on various “missions” taking on the roles of a freedom fighter
- >However, you mostly took on the small jobs being the pussy you were.
- >Burning down enemy occupied buildings.
- >Beating down enemy patrols.
- >Sabotaging enemy vehicles.
- >And scavenging for supplies.
- >You worked under the cover of the night.
- >This took course for a few weeks.
- >By now, you had learned your way around a rifle.
- >Supplies were scarce, so you didn’t get to use it much.
- >The first time you had shot someone else, you had broken down in hysterics.
- >The idea that you had taken the life of someone else was too much for you.
- >Eventually with time, you had desensitized yourself.
- > And you very well knew the consequences of victory and defeat.
- >Should you be successful in your rag tag, you would slow down the enemy war machine.
- >You didn’t take on the enemy full force, no. That would be suicide.
- >Instead you all weakened it.
- >Essentially slowing down their progress.
- >Giving other cities and the rest of your country a bit more time to prepare.
- >You’d be giving their citizens just a few more days of peace.
- >However, should you fail or become compromised….
- >There is no doubt you would be executed on the spot.
- >By day you all hid from sight, blending in with the other refugees looking to get rations from the support stations.
- >By night, you took place in a rag tag team hindering the enemy forces.
- >Eventually you became audacious enough to take on more high risk operations.
- >You weren’t much of a fighter.
- >And you would probably shit yourself if you came face to face with an enemy soldier.
- >But you were good at something.
- >Electronic Engineering…
- >To the eyes of the Resistance, that meant only one thing.
- >…Explosives and demolitions.