Fallen America: Arise Great Country (Book 1)

Chapter 34: Thunderstruck

Jonathan's POV

I hummed as I bit down on the last saltine cracker from this box, "Wow... haven't had these in YEARS" I said to myself emphasizing the last part. I leaned back in the driver seat of my fire truck, feeling very tired I closed my eyes to take a quick nap...

"Jonathan wake up!"

Startled I got ready to throw hands with someone, but I saw Timothy with adrenaline running through his veins, behind him and around I noticed soldiers running around and convoy vehicles relocating. "Timothy what's going on?" I asked him, "There's a FOA convoy heading in our direction, Rose and Rachel saw it, get out of the truck" Timothy started tugging on my arm nearly dragging me out of the truck. Stepping out of the truck the adrenaline kicked in, I grabbed my helmet and gun and ran to find my team, but the sound of faint whistling made everyone look up...

BOOM!!

BOOM!!

BOOM!!

The earth around us started exploding, dirt, concrete, supplies, and bodies flew into the air. An explosion close to me sent a shockwave into my body sending to me the ground, covering my head and balling up I laid there on the ground as explosions shook the ground. After a moment the shelling stopped and I scrambled to my feet and looked around for my team, instead I saw death, gore, and destruction from the shelling. "Jonathan over here!" I traced Jose's voice and saw him standing with the rest of the team behind a brick wall, finally reaching my friends I hugged Rose who held me tightly, "Where are they coming from?" Pedro asked but his question was answered instantly when heavy gunfire was aimed at the allied soldiers who quickly returned fire. "Right over there!" Jose said gesturing to FOA soldiers engaging with allied soldiers, "This is a field, we need somewhere less flat" Rafael said, and we all agreed with him. Eyeing my fire truck and Jotchua that weren't far from us and was not caught in the fighting, "Well everyone it looks like were taking our vehicles" I said, and we looked at each other before taking off running towards the vehicles, Timothy with his LMG laid down cover fire for us as we rushed to the vehicles.

Tossing my gun inside the truck I jumped inside and started the engine, the passenger door and cabin doors opened and in hopped my original passengers. "Step on it man!" Nico shouted at me sticking his gun out the window, not wasting any time I stepped on the gas and the truck sped off. Speeding down the road I took a turn and slammed on the brakes when the truck came face to face with a dozen FOA soldiers behind them an armored truck. Throwing the truck into reverse, bullets were fired at us and among the chaos Jotchua was forced to go an opposite direction than us. While still reversing, the armored truck behind those soldiers sped out from around a corner and the driver decided to chase Jotchua.

3rd Person POV

Jose speeding down the wrecked street was alerted by Timothy inside the gun turret, "Enemy vehicle incoming!" from behind the Humvee a Russian GAZ Tigr sped towards them. Timothy rotating the M2 around back, pressed down on the trigger...

*Click*

"Damnit its jammed!" Timothy said trying to pull the cocking mechanism back but to no avail, pulling out his pistol he fired at the armored truck but the bullets merely hit the bulletproof glass doing nothing. "Hey guys I need something to blow that bastard to hell!" Timothy yelled into the Humvee making his sister grab something on the ground of the Humvee, but Jose swerved to avoid a collsion and caused Rachel to hit him in the head with an RPG, "Ow can you not hit me in the head with a rocket launcher I'm trying to drive!" Jose shouted. "Here" the twin sister said handing Timothy the RPG, "Has that been in there this entire time?" Timothy asked and his sister shoved the RPG up into Timothy's face, "No questions, here" Rachel said this time holding up the rocket.