Prologue:
It was dinnertime. Evan sat at the table. His mom gave him his plate. It was pizza, his favorite. “Evan,” she said, “are you sure you want to join the army?”
“Yup,” Evan said, “I need to do what’s right.”
“Fine but be careful okay? I don’t know what I would do if you got killed.”
“I get it, I get it I’m going and that’s it,” Evan said.
On the day that he left his whole family was there. They wished him good-bye and good luck. “Good luck, you’re gonna need it,” said his uncle.
It was a long journey to the base. First a two hour plane trip that was searched twice for any problems and then a four hour bus trip with flak jackets and several stops for the bomb squad to search for any bombs and then they stopped in the middle of nowhere and set up tents for the night, most of which were holey not to mention it rained! Then the next day after two bus rides, a train ride and a around a billion pat downs at check points they finally drove past a sign with barbed wire all around it.
It said: No trespassers. This is a military base. Military personnel only!!! Intruders will be shot!!! Once they passed the sign they caught sight of a concrete wall with barbed wire on top. Behind that watch towers shown powerful beams of light down on them as they drove by into a pair of metal gates guarded by five soldiers and an officer.
“New recruits huh?” said the officer.
“Yup,” said the commander that had been with them.
Chapter 1:
It was dark. Suddenly an explosion pierced the night. Then screams. It was midnight in New York when a rebel car bomb exploded near the Empire State Building. Evan, a grunt in the army, and his team moved out. When they got to the sight of the bomb blast, rebels and army troops were fighting against each other with guns. Meanwhile firemen and paramedics were pulling people out of the rubble.
Evan’s team had their objective, to distract the rebels from the paramedics and firefighters. Evan pulled out a clip for his M16. He fired a burst at a nearby rebel. The rebel went flying.
Later that morning he went out on one of the most hated tasks of the day, patrol. The patrols were ridiculous. They barely accomplished anything!
Later after the battle Evan was lying in his bunk. Why exactly am I doing this? He thought. He had been thinking about deserting these past couple days since he saw his commanding officer order the execution of two people who were out past curfew. Evan had been on call for a while since a rebel fighter plane going 350Mph hit the Pentagon. It had been like 911 all over again. Hundreds of people had been killed and the President of the U.S. declared war on the rebels. So now he was here.
Ever since that time the laws that were destroying so many of the normal citizens rights were being strengthened. The laws were getting out of hand.
Chapter Two:
The next night Evan decided to desert. He snuck out of the camp and met with a rebel spy who would get him to the rebel headquarters. “Welcome!” said the rebel officer who gave him a rebel camo suit. As soon as he could Evan e-mailed his parents to tell them about him joining the rebels.
Their reaction surprised Evan. He had expected them to be mad. Instead they said they had been hoping he would desert for a while.
In the rebel camp life was good. The food was way better then the MREs-Meals Ready to Eat that Evan was used to eating. That night he slept in a real bed and ate real food for the first time since he was assigned to the frontline.
The next day they went out to raid an U.S. supply center while some troops detonated explosives to distract the guards Evan and other rebels snuck in got the food and planted explosives. At the base they feasted on the food they had stolen.
The next day Evan and his team ran into a U.S patrol. Gunfire rang out. Then Evan saw the bodies. The rebel heading the team had shot both of the two U.S. patrolmen. What he saw shocked him. One of the patrolmen was his old friend in the army! His name was Eric. “Eric? Eric? Are you okay?”
“Ohh. Evan?! What are you doing here? Where have you bin”
Evan hesitated. “Well I hate to tell you this but I deserted.”
“WHAT!!!!!!!!!! Why did you desert?”
“The U.S. army is bad, don’t you see? Normal citizens have become more like hostages! This isn’t right Eric. It’s just not right.”
“O. I see then. I want to join the rebels. Now that I think about it your right.”
Epilogue
20 years later. The rebels have won. A new, fair government has been created. The world is peaceful again
May the chopsticks be with you!!!!!
