The beginning

I am Major Holt Lee a Super soldier made for a war no side won to any real degree and all anybody accomplished is that the United States is now an irradiated wasteland where normal people struggle to feed themselves and things like bandits, War Droids, and vicious mutants almost constantly attacking towns and people on the road so people are no longer able to travel to the next town without staying in groups of at least ten people with heavy firepower which leads to my current dilemma.

About two hundred yards South of me on a parallel road to my position I see a group of twenty people on foot with light weapons fighting against an equal number of Bandits who are riding dirt bikes and dune buggies that have mounted light machine guns.

The civilians are fighting hard but they are armed mostly with bolt-action rifles and pump-action shotguns whereas the bandits have assault rifles which appear to be ak12s and the light machine guns are belt fed pkms and have home made metal armor which makes me think should I get involved or just continue on my way but as I start to put my foot on the gas peddle of my spec ops mobile command center I look up and see the picture of my old unit and hear my commander saying "Goddamit private these are thugs beating on people weaker than them and as soldiers it's our duty to kick these fuckers teeth in understood" so I hop out of the top hatch of my Mobile Command Center after grabbing my M82 Barrett and load a full magazine of 10 50 bmg high explosive shells and get ready.

As I sight in I see what must be the leader of the Bandits readying an rpg to fire at the civilians so fire a shell right into the gas tank of his dune buggy blowing it to pieces with a satisfying "BOOM" after which I switch targets and take out the other dune buggy by shooting the driver in the chest causing it to flip after they hit a rock and flip over.

After taking out the buggies I switch to regular full metal jacket shells and take out two of the Bandits on dirt bikes the shell going through two people with one shot after which they finally notice that more than half of them are dead because there was four people in each buggy and two bikers splattered on the road which leaves an even ten to fight five of which are riding towards me and the other five have just been captured by the civilians

The final five bandits are shooting at me with a ratatatatatatat while I calmly shoot two of the in the chest cutting them in half and by the time I get my sights on the other three they are too close to use the rifle on so I let them get closer while I jump from the top of my command center and wait for them

the first of the three looks at me and says " You bastard you're going to pay for what you've done"

I laugh and say " what protecting a group of civilians from some filthy bandits"

While the bandits draw machetes made of scrap metal I crack my neck and knuckles while taking a boxing stance and say "Are you boys sure you want to do this because you could run if you like"

"To hell with you asshole we're gonna kill you take your weird vehicle and then we're gonna kill those civilians do you got that" the leader of the three bandits says before swinging at me

I duck his swing before it connects and knee him in the gut before shattering the knee of the one to the leaders left after which I roundhouse kick the Bandit to the leaders right snapping his neck instantly

As I look at the two remaining bandits I see three things 1 five of the civilians are heading towards me as if they're going to help 2 the leader has a sharp sound in his breathing which tells me his ribs are broken and 3 the guy with the shattered knee is reaching for his rifle so I stab the guy with the broken knee in the heart with a kabar knife and then I snap the leaders neck and wait for the civilians to show up

The leader of the five civilians runs up to me armed with a shotgun runs up to me and says" hey we're here to OH MY GOD they are all in pieces well it seems you don't need help but I have two questions 1 do you want any of the scrap or the bikes and 2 do you wanna come with us to our town we could pay you for your efforts in helping us"

"What town are you from and I'm good on scrap and I have a vehicle you guys can take them"

"We are from Driftwood 6 miles north of here and thanks we could sure use the bikes and the buggy"

After shaking hands we drive up the six miles to Driftwood where they pay me 40 .308 shell casings which is the currency of the Wasteland and head towards the local Cathouse a place called The Pretty Kitty and head in for a room and a girl