A Soldiers Life For Me

It’s been 80 years since we were forced to flee out home world, earth. We’ve rebuild on the moon, mars and colonies that orbit the planets. None orbit earth for security reasons. The surviving human population knows almost nothing about what’s going on, on earth. That’s because only high level military and science officers know, it’s classified for the rest of us.

The modern military is far different from the one my great grandfather talked about. That’s because the police patrol the ground while the military is in the sky’s and space in warships and fighters. I joined the military 5 years ago. Since then I’ve been climbing the ranks and 1 month ago I was “offered” a position on a secret team that goes to earth to rescue people, capture resources and kill infected.

Just as everyone who had been “offered” a position on this team I had to go threw training missions using R.I.K. They didn’t tell what R.I.K stood for till after I was done. So, I went into it and immediately noticed I had weapons, 2 mains assault rifles, 2 SMG’s, 2 pistols and 1 sword. “Whoa I’m tricked out with weapons” I said.

After looking threw my weapons I saw that their were many infected coming down on me saw I aimed and shot for the head as we’d been told to a million time before, and before they could reach me in their sprint they were all down. But I could hear thunder, that’s when I realised there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I looked around and could see small outlines of buildings toward the north. Then I could see them, there were far too many, I would run out of bullets before I could kill them all. But I had to try. I kept on shooting every gun till I ran out of ammo. Then I took out my sword and started cutting them down 1 by 1. But there was soon too many and I went down for the count.

I got out of the R.I.K simulator and then Harvey, my mentor, told me “R.I.K stands for Robotic Infected Killer”.

I look up at Harvey and ask “so that was all real? It was actually happening on earth? Where on earth? Do you believe that by using R.I.K’s we can defeat the infected menace and return to earth?”

Harvey quickly responds with a smile on his face “yes, yes, the Nevada desert and yes.”

I start running and running, looking for my best friend Alison. When I finally find her, she runs up to me and at the same time we say “guess what? I joined the force of the fabled R.I.K program. What? Really? When? I joined the R.I.K program, yes really and I joined today!”

The very next day, Alison and I found out that we were in the same team, along with Harvey and another newbie named Alexandra. We used the R.I.K to practise for a test that Harvey told us we would have to pass or we’d have our memory erased and our promotion taken away. We practised all day long and before we knew it we had to go to out quarters’. After a week of the same routine we were given the test. As soon as everyone was finished we were told if we passed. Alison and I passed but Alexandra failed. She begged the supervisor Rachel to allow her to repeat the test and eventually Rachel cracked. The next day Alexandra redid the test and passed.

A month of training and using armour specially designed to prevent being bitten or pummelled to death; we were given a medical test to prove that we were all indeed immune to the virus. After a week more of learning the changes the virus causes upon living creature we were finally told the status of planet earth.

In truth the planet was dying and if we could kill the infection within 3 years the planet would be rid of all living creature and would have to be terraformed. This would take about 50 years at least and then it would take millions of years to bring back the diversity of species that once lived there. It was our mission and the mission of every other soldier in the R.I.K program. For with every squad that went to earth it dropped of 100 R.I.K robots effectively annihilating every zombie within a 50 mile radius of the drop zone. The majority of R.I.K robots weren’t controlled by people but had AI that had to follow any order brought down by the brass.

A month more of training and we were on a ship bound for earth. Our objective was to capture a cloning factory in Alaska. If we completed this mission we could rid the entire North America of infected within a weak. We launched down in pods because it was too dangerous to land the ship. I was disoriented and realised my pod had been dropped in the wrong place. I checked the computer on my wrist and it said I’d been dropped from low atmosphere and landed within 10 miles of were I had first used the R.I.K simulator. I looked around and saw the small eerie town in the distance.

It seemed the R.I.K’s had done a good job in clearing the area of infected because, well I wasn’t being attacked. I started thinking about what to do. I tried my comm. but they were to far away. So I decided to head to the town. I was a clear and sunny day, I was sneaking up on the town avoiding being in the open. After an hour or two I reached the town and broke into an electronics store only to find about 6 bodies on the floor each of them with about 2 bullets to the head.

I proceeded to check every nook and cranny in the town. All I found were more bodies and a few weapons. I found an old solar power car and decided that it was my only chance of reaching Alaska. I got in and drove all the way to British Columbia barely able to survive of what I found. I had been a long and hard trip but it was nearing its end.

I slept in till noon the next day and got up, checked the satellite positioned over my position. I saw that I was surrounded. I check my comm. in a desperate attempt to save myself and I got the automatic response that a squad was over my position. I sent my desperate message “Please help me, I’m starving and trapped. I’m from R.I.K program part of B Company Squad 59. Please save me. Over”

I prayed and after what seemed to be a lifetime I got a response “this is earth defence team 01. We copy you and are sending down units. Over”

I thought to myself, theirs no earth defence teams or is there and we never bothered checking. All I heard for the next 20 minutes was gun fire, screams and yells. The gun fire slowed down and eventually stopped. That’s when I opened my door to see craters and dead bodies everywhere. Then a helicopter landed and soldiers came out and took up positions as the person who I guess was in charge ran up to me and yelled “common we have to get out of here before more show up.”

I did as he said and we both ran into the helicopter as the troops did the same. We were soon in the air and I told them all about where I was from. They asked a multitude of question which I was happy to answer. We were flying for a few hours when we started to land inside what looked like an old castle that been militarized. They even had a moat around the walls, except it didn’t have water it had 5 foot long spike and there were many bodies inside it.

Since then I’ve been living with them, they are very advance and most of their society lives underground and they say there are at least a hundred more under and above ground cities like this one. Well this is my report of what happened to me on earth and I’m trying to stop the cover up our government started about what’s happening on earth. Please whoever receives this message transmit it on and on and make sure those ******** don’t get away with it.

End of Transmission.

You should DEFINITELY work on the grammar mistakes there. other than that I think the story line was abit underdeveloped and seemed rushed. Good concept though.

Thank and Ill try to work on that if i write another story.

there were a couple things i noticed like "I was a clear and sunny day"
but other than that it was pretty good, but you could have said what had happened in the car ride that made it so hard and long

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take THAT canada