Chapter 12
October, 3, 2045
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Location Nebraska, US
Last night we had arrived at St. Joseph's the priest had let us spend the night while and this morning we meet up with a forger who sold us the necesites to blend in. These necesites included ordinadinary clothes, IDs, passports, social security numbers, and birth certificates. The forger charged three thousand dollars for each of us luckily Miss Leta's sapphire necklace covered the expense and before you judge she gave me that necklace as a present. At one point the forger asked what names he should put down as our new ones Bethany Chaney Griffith (mine), Oberon Willam Plaisaint (-OXY16-8), and Jezebel just changed her last name from Iscariot to Bowen. Speaking of Jezebel I forgot to mention in my last entry that the two of us became friends probably forgot because I was so busy ranting. Anyway while we were in that box me and Jezebel would talk too pass the time during these conversations I learn a couple things about her.
Jezebel Iscariot was born and raised in Buffalo, New York along with her seven brothers. She was only starting highschool when the bombs dropped in 2020. Her three older brothers joined the US navy and were killed in the Battle of Labrador, her parents died of neropoxs, and her three younger brothers died of starvation and radiation. When the war finally ended Jezebel was the sole survivor of the Iscariot family she spent the following years finishing high school, going to community college, working as a bank security guard, and applying to be a guard for the North America Fertility Center. After hearing Jezebel's story I saw her in a new light but I'm still sleeping with one eye open!
As we make our way to the CDC militia recruitment building I noticed a crowd of people dressed in yellow and chained by the feet heading towards the radiative zone. Most of them were going bald while some look like their skin was melting they must be prisoners whose sentences involve cleaning up radioactive waste. "You think this is bad?" Jezebel asked me while me and Oberon were staring "If we get caught we'll get a life sentence and be lucky to live past ten years" said Jezebel in a serious tone. I know this will be our consequence if we are capture undergo a rigged justice system and serve a brutal sentence +ABXX23-3 told me about her trail.
When we finally got to the recruitment building I'm not gonna lie I almost had a heart attack when the recruiter examined my identification papers. Lucky all of our documents looked convincing enough so that was a big relief. Next was the shooting in order to pass we each needed to shoot ten bullets and eight out of those ten bullets must hit the target all of us passed with flying colors. Then there was the melee test where we each had to pick up a 20 pound and crush a coconut in less than three swings. I struggled in that one a little but we all ended up passing. Finally we got our uniforms and were put on the next plane to Albany.
The plane was fairly small other than us they were twelve other people on board. We kept to ourselves until one of the other soldiers started talking to us. Throughout the flight we just talked and I ended up falling asleep. When we finally landed in Albany a commander greeted us and had us escorted to cabins. Forget what I said earlier this is gonna be easy!