The Wasteland Chronicles

Prologue

1st of April, 2025, Camp Elysium, Texas, America, 9:00 hours EST 

The Diary of Lieutenant  Brooks 

We have just Landed in Camp Elysium from London, we have been doing regular fire drills and just patrols, I don't know why we're out here no one will tell me anything about it only that were in the middle of a Texan desert, Alec is on guard duty so he has a slight idea but he won't tell me, I have to go on another boring patrol now. Brooks out

After finishing writing in my diary, I grabbed my standard issue L85 and met Alec up so we could patrol together after I went to the kennels and got Axel, my German shepherd. the rest of my section showed up I was trained as a dog handler, Alec was trained as a Special Observer, and the other two Nick White was trained as a combat medic and Vienna Nyx was trained as an Infantry Soldier, we were making the way out the camp entrance when we heard shots, we each dropped to our knees and aimed through our sights we couldn't see any enemy forces so we went to investigate what the shots were. 

"Keep a tight formation" I ordered and each of us tightened up so we could see what was going on. We made it n into the base when we saw what was happening, a soldier with bullet holes leaking blood staggered into view he was carrying a pistol and was aiming it wildly around. "SOLIDER!, Drop the gun and put your hands in the air" 

The soldier turned around and looked at me, half his face was missing and tentacles grew from them that flailed around and on the normal side of his face I could see black veins protruding through his skin. As he looked he smiled and lunged at me, we had no choice but to fire, we shot at his knees to stop him from charging. 

After he went down I heard Alec mutter under his breath "Shit It was just like the first time" then he seemed to recover and said, "We need to check for survivors and see what the hell happened".  With that, we kept our guard up and walked around the camp looking for survivors of the attack. As we moved around the camp we saw bodies scattered around some people missing limbs, others with what looked like their faces or body bits eaten off. 

We made it to the mess hall but the door was locked so what we each did was stacked up by the door to kick it in. "On three," Vienna said since she was an expert on breaching we let her take point. She held up three fingers, then two, finally one and Alec kicked the door in and we charged in guns drawn. I went in first so I saw three soldiers huddled in a corner holding Glock 17's at the door "PUT YOUR GUNS DOWN!" I bellowed but the bravest of the soldiers, a girl said "You first"

I waited for a beat then said"Alright, we both put them down at the same time, NOW" Everyone put the guns down and the tension in the room dropped immediately "Nick, watch the door" he immediately went to the door to guard it and another soldier followed. 

"Who are you, I've never seen you before" Just like Alec, always wanting to cut to the chase "We are the private security detail assigned to Camp Elysium, I'm Captain Elena Rodriguez," The girl said "This is Private Jack Dawson" she gestured to the man next to her, "the man outside is Thomas White, the brother of Nicholas White, the man he is with I assume, they look almost alike and this here is our cook, Jason Sharp, were all thats left after Subject 626 escaped. I was about to tell her our side of the story when we heard shots outside, Nick and Thomas charged in and said "We gotta go, now"