War

Date: 9/18/2017

By babyj

Starts with my family In a car driving. We're all talking and know we mutually have gotten into an argument with another family that has placed a bomb at a college and told us that it has a strike radius of 1000 miles and we need to diffuse it if we want to live. We're on our way to diffuse a bomb that only we know about and I'm cracking jokes like "well in an hour or so well have to worry about catching the other family or we won't cause well be dead" Get to the college campus and we start to ask around about anything weird. We get a few different leads like this door that's always closed is open so I go in and find a guy and I punch him right in the face. He's an older man but very weak and is not fighting back which I find weird especially if he placed the bomb. Turns out he didn't and I punched the wrong person. So we only have 90 minutes but the drive took some so there was only an hour left based on the time the crazy family told us we had when we got there. Finally I ask these girls sitting on the porch and they are really weirded out by what they have seen but didn't report it for some reason. People point us into the direction of a cooler filled with red paint that's been dragged across the lawn leavin a trail of something resembling blood and in the middle is a small spot of turned over dirt surrounded by untouched grass. I find the rest of my family to help me uncover the bomb. We dig up the first piece and it's a big clear bubble in the middle we keep digging and they're are four lines of three clear bubbles getting slightly smaller as the come away from the middle. Next to the big bubble coming off of it a black lever. Since the balls are clear, you can see wires inside. My dad is working to deactivate it but there is constant foot traffic so the rest of us are trying to shop them away. These two older women come over wanting to pass through the lawn and I start yelling because I told them to turn around or don't but if the wanna walk through my they will probably die and as I'm doing that some kid gets past behind me and knocks over the big bubble causing it to bump the lever! The bubbles slowly fill with a yellow liquid there's no timer or anything so we all start to run in different directions because this bomb can reach up to 1000 miles. As we're running away a gas fills the air behind us and we're trying not to breath it in. I run into the building and find the most sealed space I can that happens to be a small ice cream chest. The room that the chest is in is almost like a larger common room filled with bathrooms and a couple bedrooms with connecting doors. I hide in there for what seems like hours and finally I get out when I notice more people still breathing in the rooms outside of the chest. I start talking to everyone trying to find out what's going on officially and if anyone knew where my family was. My phone has no service and I pace trying to figure out who and how to contact family. Finally get two bars and I call uncle mark. He happens to be in the building next door and comes to talk to me and I have a breakdown and cry hysterically about my dad. So he brings me to see them in a common room that is connected to the room I was in through a series of bedroom connected by other doors and rooms and when I get there my mom brother and sister are sitting at the table talking and my dad is in a make shift hospital bed in serious condition coughing and throwing up blood because he was the closest to the bomb when it went off. I'm crying like a maniac and make my way to the room my family has claimed to try to take a nap. I try to call he news and the operator tells me no one wants to hear what we have to say because they have already been notified so I turn on the tv and this has bomb has caused natural disasters of poisonous hurricanes that are going to wipe out mass amounts of wild life and consume a lot of our food so it's basically the start of the apocalypse. I plug my phone into a charger and then I woke up.