Relic of the old world...

You awoke to flashing lights and warning klaxons blaring, slowly you push the lid of your cryo pod open. Climbing out you rub your eyes, looking at the small room your pod was in. The place was a shambles, a plainly recorded voice was instructing you to get out of the bunker. Slowly you look over at the pod across the room, shocked to see that he had been cracked open sometime before. Inside was the skeleton of your fellow scientist, this had been a government bunker set up to preserve the best minds. Your name is professor Anton T. Blake DSc, PhD, EngD, D.Chem, D.Sc. and so before the bombs dropped you were flash frozen. The plan was you would be awoke 25 years after the war, the fall out would be gone by then and you could begin to rebuild the world. Looking at the state of the bunker however, things had not gone as planned.

Overcoming nausea, you sadly think: “I can assume that, as usually happens, circumstances unforeseen by plan arose... And how much arrogance and bravura reports there were from representatives of the Ministry of Defense regarding the reliability and safety of the newest government bunkers... Well, it’s obvious to me , that the condition of our bunker No. 78-PHE-S, to put it mildly, is far from ideal..."

Memories of the last days that you spent on the surface of the earth emerge in your memory, before bunker No. 78-PHE-S became your “home”... November 2049... Interstate contradictions are extremely close to the outbreak of a global armed conflict... You, how Consulting scientists participated in several urgent meetings held by government commissions in Washington. Heated debates on increasing arms production and creating new types of weapons of mass destruction... You raised reasonable objections, which probably displeased senior officials... Then you were summoned to the Pentagon... In the office, in addition to senior military officials, there were representatives of the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency... Raised conversation... Threats... Threats to you personally and your family members... You were **** to agree to something extraordinary - to participate in a program of the highest degree of secrecy... In the US Government's "Heirs of the Earth" program, which was based on the latest cryostasis technologies. .. Probably, those who **** you to participate in this program hoped in this way to eliminate the inconvenient scientist-specialist who dared to object to the demands of representatives of the military-industrial complex. Do you remember the arrogant speeches that you heard at government meetings: the main leitmotif of these speeches was the idea of ​​the inevitability of victory for the United States of America in the coming global military conflict...

However, this is all in the past...

What is much more important is what will happen to you in the future...

Looking around at what surrounds you now, you think bitterly: “So, these arrogant idiots have finally brought matters to a new world war...”

As quickly as you can you make your way out into the hall, the decay and damage here is even worse than in your pod chamber. The round tunnel like hallway is half flooded with nasty looking water, you are **** to wade through it as you go along. Looking around you see more pods, but the lights show that the power going to them had failed. You couldn't save the men and woman frozen inside, and the warning voice on the decaying speakers is growing more urgent. It seems the bunkers atomic power plant is failing, soon the whole bunker will be flooded with radiation.

Making your way up towards the surface entrance, you stumble across the body of the overseer. Taking his key card and a automatic pistol from his long dead body, as you near the gate room leading out you encounter. A number of giant bugs, you vaguely place them as a common household insect from your day. Only they are over a foot long now, and as you approach they prove to be very aggressive.

Forcing you to shoot them one by one, although you are slightly injured by one of them.

Fear creeps into your mind, but you manage to keep your emotions under control.

You think: “Judging by their appearance, these insects are descendants of ordinary cockroaches... Blattodea, Dictyoptera... But the size of these insects is simply colossal... These are probably the consequences of accelerated mutation processes. Which arose due to exposure to radiation. And, perhaps, not only radiation... But such processes would clearly require much more time than a period of 25 years..."

On a bit farther you discover the security office, gathering some food water and body armor as well and a box of bullet for the pistol.

You put a bulletproof vest on your body.

You also find a small shoulder bag. Unfortunately this bag is empty. However, you pack your useful supplies in the bag and you take the bag with you.

The huge metal blast doors are slowly opening as you enter the gate room, the power gives out before it fully opens. But you manage to squeeze out the crack, beyond is the old concrete tunnel leading to the surface. Quickly you follow it up, behind you hear a muffled 'Boom' as the plant power explodes. You know there is no going back in there now, you hope you found everything you that was there before you left. Slowly you look around at the wreckage of what had been your world, around you the land looks stunted and barren save to the wreckage of building and roads. despair sweeps over you then, it is only when you see distant lights on the horizon that you feel a bit of hope. Someone is alive out there... someone has power... lights... slowly you stumble off in that direction curious as to what you'll find.