Desolated Earth

Chapter 1

Nukes and War

It has been 10 years since the last nuke was launched. The war has been going on since time and when they brought the nukes in the fight, no one had a chance. Humanities last option was to retreat underground from the horrors on the surface, sadly few succeeded.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. My name is Jimmy, Jimmy Henderson and I was one of the lucky few to escape underground. Here in Alitania is where I have survived on the bare minimum. Although you probably know it by another name, Alitania is what has become of the flattened Australia. No one called it Australia because we were the last to stand down to the others. And some how that makes us "Alitanians " so afraid of the above world.

I live here with my mates Jozh, Dan, Khris, Terry and Lachie. We all have come from different parts of Alitania, along The Great Underground Plain to the safehouse in Old Melbourne. We became buddies when we were forced to live in the same bunker house by sharing the horrific stories of the war that had been upon us. Jozh and Lachie had come from the Northern Territory so the both experienced somewhat the same things, however, Dan, Khris and Terry had never met before so at first they were a bit uncomfortable with the situation at hand.

During the early day of the war, Jozh had been a Air Force commander for Australia. He lead all the ZXY900s' into battle to fight against the invading countries. Although he was so well respected, he didn't treat us like dirt under his shoe as you may have thought, no, he treated us with honour and gratefulness. Dan, Khris, Lachie and Terry were all in the navy, who were captained by me. I was the commander of the navy. Just like Jozh flew the ZXY900s', I drove the SS Falcons in by the sea to assist him in battle.

"Anyway kids, story times over, those day have are long gone, now go brush your pearly whites and jump into bed" I said as I saw the time on the mantle piece. I walked over to the mantle to put my pipe back in it's holder. I walked down the corridor to the bathroom to make sure the kids were doing there teeth, and sure enough, just as I asked them to they were standing there at the sink scrubbing away. I smiled and went to bed.

Chapter 2

Friends and Family

The next day was normal as it always is, just the plain old wooden planks lining the house from floor to roof, where they met there was a time line of dirt that had escaped through the grooves between the planks.