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I wasn't in the city when the bomb went off. I was far enough away not to be effected by it's force. But I was certainly close enough to watch the flash that lit up the horizon like a sunrise on a warm spring morning. It looked beautiful. I felt the ground shake. It was like a very weak earthquake, it would have gone unnoticed if it weren't for the flash of light and the boom of what sounded like thunder in the distance. People all around me then began to show concern, almost panic.
At the time I was on my way to meet with my employer. I stopped near the city center market in Moscow. I had to stop there. Had to calm my nerves. A few minuted before I stopped I got into it a brief argument with the local police over a pocket knife I had that was a little longer than legally allowed in Russia. The police confiscated my knife and let me go with only a verbal warning, I was fine with that. After the day I just had they could do whatever they wanted as long as it meant that I could walk away from it free and clear. I got plenty of knives anyway.
Ever since most governments on Earth declared any firearms illegal in the hands of citizens security has been tight everywhere, even a small knife caused a stir. Only the military and police were allowed to carry a gun, or a blade longer than four inches. The Americans fell into another civil war as a result of this golbal aggreement to banish all guns. The abolishment of their second amendment came as a shock, especially to the gun-carrying public in the southern and midwestern states. When the law was put into effect, the Enforcers went door to door to collect any illegal weapons. The people who had weapons were fined $100 for the first three months, after that grace period the penalty went up to a $500 fine and a year or more in prison. Some people who owned guns gave them up peacefully. Others opened fire against the Enforcers, eventually banded together, and have become the main government resistance movement in America and had declared independence as The People's Republic of American Arms.
It was just minutes after the explosion that every television set in every window was showing news reports of an explosion in St. Petersburg. I stood and watched one such television. It was in front of a small cafe with a candy shop next door. The children were still playing and laughing because they didn't know, didn't understande what was happening. A small crowd began to gather around me, around the T.V. Some women began to weap and sob. Some men began to discuss who could've been responsible and what should be done about it. Others imediately turned away and left running, probably to their homes. I could have watched all day long to see the chaos unfolding throughout the world, but I had a metting to get to...and I was running late.
Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress. I have yet to decide a number of things regarding the storyline and any possible plot twists. For now, it's starting off as just narration. I mention some countries' names that are different from what they are now. In some cases, the country does not even exist today. At this point, I imagine that sometime in the not too distant future society will one way or another come undone. Please enjoy, and comment.
The bomb went off in St. Petersburg , Russia just after dusk. The flash of light and the resulting mushroom cloud were visible in Tallinn , Helsinki , Stockholm , Vilnius , Riga , Minsk , and Moscow. Seismographs from around the world twitched about and scribbled their own tale of what happened at that very second. The explosion was felt throughout Europe and western Asia, as far away as London and Istanbul. Just over a million people were incinerated instantly, and another million would die in the following months and years from injuries, starvation, radiation poisoning, or the rioting and military suppression of the riots afterwards.
Most nations condemned the incident as deplorable, heinous, and evil. The only countries not to share their sympathies were the Federal Republic of Chechnya (because they just don’t like the Russians), and the Anarchist State of Somalia (the former Somali government along with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United Nations, the European Union, and the African Union (all of which are now dissolved) had abandoned any and all efforts to restore order and peace to that country in 2012. In the years since then, Somalia has been a safe haven and the main intersection of terrorists as well as a training ground for rebel sparatist armies from around the world. It has become a primary exchange of black market sellers and buyers and recently added weapons of an atomic nature to its list of available items). Tensions were running high in the world because no one knew what (if any) retaliation would come from the Russian leadership. Because of the situation in Somalia , many were turning a suspicious eye toward it, blaming it for the most horrific event in human history. Not blaming them directly for planting the bomb and detonating it, but blaming them for supplying the materials that were used to build it. No one yet knew who to blame for the actual planting of and detonation of the weapon. Since The Anarchist State has no representatives or elected leaders of any kind, no one could find out the truth.
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