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Into The Wild: A Short Story

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you choose to join duke and the resistance and fight the rebels and find your family. You get special gear and an exo suits, duke presses a button on this old crate and a giant wall of guns ammo and nuclear warfare that you have never seen before your eyes glow in amazement and you have a smirk of evil stricken upon your face. Duke tells you not to touch any of the nuc grenades or other nuclear things like that you nod but right when duke walks away you here him talking to wolf about how they need to terminate you, you panic and grab as much weapons as you can and supplies and leave out the back door to find your family . As soon as you get out the door you start to run and you hear a whistle sound in the air , Boom a bomb hit the compound …show more content…

You see a lockheed sr-17 blackbird, it's your only way out to save your family ut there are 2 mounted mini guns and 19 guys guarding it. You look down at your backpack to find something to help you get to the plane, you only find 2 desert eagles and 4 grenades you think and start to look around for some cover you find some bushes and to your amazement there was a long black hard case lying among the bushes you open it and discover a Barrett m99 and 10 rounds of ammo, you hear voices behind you and jump into the brush next to you. 2 people walk by in black and red gear you wonder who they are fighting for since you haven't seen those colors on gear for the rebels or the resistance, one of the voices were a woman's voice they stop talking and one lays down next to the rifle picks it up the other goes and runs off behind some trees u lose sight of them but still can see the one laying down. The one laying loads the rifle and aims it toward the compound, you begin to sneak up behind the man with your desert eagle you quickly attach a silencer and creep closer and closer until a twig snaps and the man turns around you jump into the bushes so he doesn't see

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