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Danger Zone
The year was 2065, it was hot outside, the sun was beaming down, sweat dripping from my face. I was exhausted, hungry, tired, then again everyone was at the time, left in the dirt fending for themselves. Murder, drugs, gangs, and trash filled the streets that smelled of feces. Homes stripped down for wood to burn to keep people warm during the cold nights. The government collapsed after the riots years ago, only the rich and the poor were left divided by a large wall. A wall that many of the poor attempted to get through but only to found captured or killed. I was on the poor side of the wall it was known as the Danger Zone which it was for the most part a hot desert in the day and a chilly night that follows, with murder happening daily, and diseases that were incurable without medicine.
The Danger Zone was filled with gangs and only the strong survived.I Ray however was a lone-wolf never had anyone to watch my back and no one to worry about, I believe that's why I've lived so long.I was sick of the world we lived in with the rich feasting well the others starved. Apparently I wasn’t the only one after awhile groups would chat to overthrow the Rich but nothing ever happened. However I was going to change that, I’ve been spreading the word around for weeks of a rally and it was finally happening today.10 representatives from every gang in the city meeting with just to hear me speak everything was going to change. I was changing history, joining every gang and person that lived in the Danger Zone to overthrow the rich. The rich lived on the other side of the guarded by a wall.
The Rally was about to begin, the sun was setting and everyone was called to the center of the city and was asked for no weapons whatsoever.I walked into the city to see thousand of people circled around a large platform.I made my way to the top of the stand and stood at the very top.I stood tall and 10 minutes went by then 30 minutes the city was crowded with people. Then I cleared his throat and began to talk I began by saying “What do you see before you”, the crowd went silent, “What do you see before you, look around” Ray said, “I see before us 10,000 soldiers, from 100 different gangs and there are even 100 more. That's 20,000 hardcore members. Now there are 20,000 more counting the afillites and 60,000 of you that simply got stuck in the Danger Zone, That makes up 100,000 of us left to die in this hell hole.We as a group can be one gang, one gang can run this city, and one gang can take down that wall.”The crowd cheered with excitement. Ray said, “Tomorrow morning be ready to fight grab any weapon you have and attack the wall together we can take down the rich.
That morning I had woke up grabbed my Axe and began jogging to the wall, as I was jogging I notice others joining behind me. For the next 5 miles more and more people joined along. As I approached the last 3 miles it went from a jog to a march with people of different shapes and sizes carrying different weapons.There was Baseball Bats, small knifes, Machetes, Snipers, Assault rifles,One man was carrying a wooden stick with barbed wire fence. Many people brought large dogs and birds.As I past cities more people joined along meanwhile most women and children stayed behind.I was 2 miles out the boy next to me got sick but this was usuaI had seen others with weak stomachs got sick along the way. Others held in tears well others bursted with anger some groups sang a song. A mile out the march came to halt and I moved past several people to approach the front. I stood at the front and pointed at the wall and yelled “FREEDOM!”
This caused everyone to charge to the wall in a matter of seconds people began smashing the wall and created small cracks in the wall. The wall began breaking a loud alarm rang throughout the plains. The alarms came from the city, The Rich gathered at the top of the wall dropping grenades, molotovs, and tear gas. Several people dived on the grenades,others caught on fire well people patted them down, well the rest were on the floor trying to breath and closing their eyes screaming in pain. The wall was breaking, The Rich fell from the wall and splatted to the floor.The wall came down and a group of 30 men and I were the first in, A man that ran ahead of me got shot, his head bursted into a hundreds of small bits with no-one in sight. “Snipers”yelled a skinny man behind me, the snipers that picked one person off at a time. After seeing the head blown of with his brains covering my jeans I colapsed to the floor, I couldn’t move. A large man covered in mud grabbed me by my shirt and laid me behind a tree. Then the man ran away.I passed out after seeing the brains on my jeans. As I woke up a man with a flamethrower in a juggernaut suit had been burning every building in the The Rich Neighborhood.
I stood up and seen several bodies on the floor we had won the battle. Although we had of injured people and captured a lot of the Rich.I decide their punishment should be to starve to death. Five years later the world was normal, Everyone was no longer hungry .In the end, I ruled over everyone and realized the only reason we won was because of teamwork.I looked everywhere for the large man that saved my life. It turns out that he had died, he left behind his wife and three children.A year later, I met his widowed wife and ended up marrying her.I raised the three kids and they became the leader of the new world.They based the education system on working as a team because of the battle that brought down the rich that mistreated them.

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