Timeline

Small twigs scratched my legs leaving small ribbons of blood. Nowhere was safe to hide except home. I had to reach the tunnel. I could hear the screams of troops in front of me, shouts of leaders telling the youngest to go down first. I knew if I didn't make it in time I would stuck for the night. People make it through the night with the right weapons, with the right troops, but I would b stuck alone, my only weapon my gun, my chance of survival almost none. I could hear the leaders calling off missing numbers. We still hadn't done a field damage count, and if I didn't yell back they would leave me. I opened my mouth trying to call back my number but couldn't manage to take in enough air. I listened, they were telling them to go down. I could see the end of the clearing almost to the tunnel. I heard someone faintly calling "H-23! H-23!" I could see a blonde running through the woods next to me, his head turned to the left and he held up two fingers int he shape of a 'v' with one finger crossing over. He was asking for my number. I made a sign language 'r' and then held up a 4 and a 1. He nodded and continued yelling. "H-23! R-41! H-23! R-41!" I could hear the leaders yelling " wait" as I stumbled out into the clearing. I saw the boy burst through the trees right behind me, the opening of the tunnel a mere 50 feet away. I could see three leaders standing next to a slide, beckoning us. I could see the infected approaching the tunnel and I ran as hard as I could. As I reached the tunnel I swung myself into the slide and pushed myself down, surrounding myself with brief darkness before emerging into a cavern. I fell to the ground and cleared the way meeting with the rest of the troops, our numbers had been severely decreased. I saw two more leaders fall through, then the boy, and finally the last leader. Anyone who hadn't come through by now was most likely dead. "LINE UP!" shouted the final leader. "Letter-number!" He said, referring to the order to be lined up in. I stood at the end of the R's waiting for them to come a record my number and log how many we had lost today.

Notes

Okay hey guys!! So this was just a little intro chapter just to give an idea of what life is like in 3015. I want to explain a few things, read if you want but you don't have to.

So first off... everyone has a real name, for example, this story is about Niall Horan so his name is obviously Niall, but officials refer to him as the first letter of his last name and then a randomly assigned number 1-100, therefore, he is H-23. The tunnel is built in a clearing and it stretches almost a mile long, there are many tunnels throughout the United States and all other continents in the world with slides at varying intervals. The slides take you to the underground network of the resistance, each leading to a cavern. It is in that cavern that you count how many people you lost that day then you take an underground train that will take you to your launch site. So for example I may have launched from CT-7 which means that I launched from the 7th sector if underground Connecticut. But maybe during the day the troop I am in may have ended up in New Hampshire and when I take the slide down to the cavern I would get accounted for then my entire troop would go on the train and input CT-7 and it would take me there. This may be really confusing so if you have any questions about this just comment.

Now second. The way society works now is that basically there are 'zombies'... not really but they act like zombies and they will kill living humans. Then there is also the terrorist group the Tachribin (I suck at coming up with names so it's kind of a play off the Taliban). They all live above ground. Then there is the resistance which lives in a network of tunnels spanning across oceans underground. People take on certain roles. When you are born you are taken into a room for a week and scientists will test you during that week and from that week on you are assigned a job. Some people are in the field, some become scientists, some government, chefs, cleaners, you get the idea. If you are in the field you don't always go above ground, you spend a lot of time in training and then once you are ready you go above ground 1-3 times every two weeks trying to fight off the 'zombies' or the infected and the Tachribin. I know this sounds kind of complicated and I am rushing to type this so if you are still confused just comment I will answer every question.