A blinding flash lit the sky. In a moment a pitch-black morning at 0300 became day. Sorin Ekart or Sorin as his soldiers know him as, hit the ground knowing full well that the world as he knew it had been changed forever. "Get down and brace for impact!" Sorin screamed at the soldiers who were in complete shock that something like this could happen on US soil.

The shockwave hit, ripping soldiers who didn't listen or react fast enough completely off their feet and carried them off.

Sorin's mind was split in multiple different directions as he was in the prone in the Tennessee soil in the middle of the Fort Campbell training area. First of those thoughts of Brittanie and Kyrain at home. Then as the real blast hit, his mind went blank.

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Gale force winds ripped over the top of Sorin grabbing tents, vehicles, equipment and people throwing them all as if they weighed nothing. Not but ten feet away from him, a humvee slammed into the ground crumpling like a soda can as it was ripped along the ground and thrown further.

As quickly as the wind came, it stopped for the briefest of moments, then the wind reversed and everything began rushing right back filling the vacuum created by the nuclear blast. Objects slammed down all around Sorin, but he didn't dare get up. After what seemed like an eternity, Sorin heard nothing but silence and debris falling in the distance.

Slowly and shakily, he got to his feet looking in the distance at the mushroom cloud and that's when everything in an instant went white and then black....