The Rise of Bellum-Pt 2

Chapter 2

In the midst of this chaos a lone wolf stood amongst the crowd. His name was Ross McDonald, only 21 but already claimed his fame as a local journalist. Recently graduating from university, he only wished to become a war correspondent. At the moment he was freelancing for the local rag (The Daily Blog). He, like many other young adults, opposed the war in Europe and the communist regime itself but only a few would know that these poor souls will be soon forced to fight and die for there country.

As events began to unfold, talk of mercenaries being sent behind enemy lines reached the ears of the public. Without hesitation, Ross believed this would be a very good story to write about, after all this would look great in his CV when applying for a job to sky news.

Ross first started his investigation at the library. He began looking into forums and chat rooms, after all, the mercenary story was only rumored by military officials and few members of parliment. Seeing as how the rumor was first discovered on a memo e-mailed to democratic officials by our prime minister saying that...

“My cabinet is in full support over the policy of sending soldiers of fortune behind enemy lines into communist alliance territory...”

During his investigation; he thought it was a good idea to hack into the Democratic Alliance database. Now a day’s, with the right programming, anyone could hack into any government database seeing as how governments tend to put very little effort into anti-hacking programs. Whilst thoroughly looking through government files he discovered a new policy the Democratic alliance had been planning for months. The policy was titled “Conscription”. It was seen as the best option for defense since there is little or no military personal. The policy mentioned that...

“Any man or woman between the ages of 18-45 who has not joined a military service within a period of 30 days will be arrested, fined and forced to join infantry ranks”

“Infantry ranks”? Thought Ross, but this translated as “cannon fodder” to him for he would be one of many to be catapulted out of the cannon. Although this shocked and bemused Ross the worst part of it all was that the new policy had already been accepted behind closed doors of the most powerful governments in the alliance and was to take effect “immediately”.

Quickly, he wrote what he had found. He said to himself “screw the mercenary story this will get me a bloody knight hood and hopefully my own news channel”.

After handing in his story to the daily blog, the public and news media went ballistic. Riots, protests and even death threats to governments sprung up throughout the Democratic alliance. Ross thought “Christ, what an up roar. Have I made the world a better place or have I made a turn for the worst”. Little did Ross realise that it was a turn for the worst, and it was about to send him on a global search for the ‘truth’.

To be continued?....