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Nuclear Escape #3 ~~~~ NUCLEAR ESCAPE ~~~~ ======================== ~~~~ PART 3 ~~~~ ================ Well, I wasn't going to do this but because it is so bad, I am going to finish the whole story in this issue. If you can remember, I wrote this story back in Junior school and that's why it's so cr*p. Nothing has been given proper thought to so after this issue, we can say goodbye to this piece of shit. Please send in your stories, no matter how long or short otherwise we're going to have an empty story corner again and I hate that. Send 'em in to the normal address. CHAPTER 4 - EXPLORING "Right, this is what we are going to do, first two of us are going to take the two bombers, go back and look for survivors to pick up and bring here to live. Now whowants to do that; you don't have to be able to fly and we'll keep in touch with you on the planes radio." James proposed, Alex, Sandy and Nigel all put there hands up, "Excellent, now are you sure?", they all nodded slowly. "Alright, Sandy you go in the bomber, Alex, you go in the bomber too and Nigel, you can take the Jet Fighter, now always leave your radios on, I'll take you through the problems step by step." The three friends agreed and then got in their planes, "GOOD LUCK!!!" everyone shouted as they waved and shouted. There were only four people left on the island now, they were Bill Scarlet, Joe Harris, Philip Vaudrey and James Musgrave, "O.k, let's tune in to our brave friends to see what they're doing." They turned on the radio only to hear non-stop shouting saying that they were out of fuel, "Oh no, we forgot about that, we were low on fuel coming here, the fuel tanks must be empty by now, what...What..." James started to panic, "Wh...What can we do, we can't afford to lose anymore people, they'd only be four of us left, we...we..." "Calm down," said Philip, "Look, you've got to understand, it wasn't your fault!" continued Philip, suddenly the radio went fuzzy and voices ceased to make themselves heard. Had the planes crashed? "Oh no, it's all my fault, I just...I just can't..." James collapsed onto the floor virtually in tears but with a bit of urging from his three friends, he decided to go exploring with them. They walked around, through forests and past lakes, through the snow and ice. It was freezing on the island so when they found a cave they were glad to go inside. It was nice and warm in the cave, but they were quite amazed to see a big network of tunnels and passages leading this way and that all over the place. They decided that because this was probably going to be their new home that they had better explore, so they followed the passages left and right, through clearings and over icy bridges. What they seemed to notice was that nearly all the time they had a fresh water stream following the passages which they were very grateful for. They gave everything names, for instance the fresh water stream was called 'The Life Saver Stream'. There were two other streams to the Norht West of the island which was called 'The Solo Stream' which was sea water and the other was in the South East and was called 'The Needless Stream'. They found a deep hole which was teeming with life; they called this 'The Fresh Collect'. They explored the underground world for a number of days while feeding on fresh fish from 'The Fresh Collect' and drinking water from 'The Life Saver Stream'. As they started to go deeper and deeper into the caves, they started finding new and amazing things. For instance, the amazingly strange clearing full of stalactites and stalagmites, that also had a forest of around one thousand trees in it, it was at least one mile in length! They called it 'The Vaudrey Clearing', they named it after Philip. There was another clearing that they called the 'T.V Time' because it was a T.V shape. The undeground world was full of strange things like 'The Dragon' which was the name they had given to the volcano. Yes! There was an actual volcano down there. It seemd very unlikely that it would errupt; it was about two thousand feet high but most of it was emmbedded in what seemed like a bottomless dip in the ground. After around five days of exploring the undeground world, they decided to see what this island was like on top. They explored only to find a dangerously high cliff of around a mile high which was named (and quite rightly), 'The Death Drop'. There was a mountain that stood at at least one and a half miles high, towering above the whole of the island. There were many long streams, groups of hills and forests, there was even a tiny island just off the coast of the island by about two hundred metres. Night came quickly and it was their thirteenth night when a few things went horribly wrong... CHAPTER 5 - THE THIRTEENTH DAY The group of friends had decided to go for a walk around their island so they could have a proper look at their new home. First, they went down into the warm aired caves which were now used as their home quite often, although the previous night they had slept in the forest. They headed to the 'Fresh Collect' to get some food stocked up. As soon as they got there, they wished they hadn't. An enormus polar bear lay in front of them eating a dead fish. As they entered, it got up and started to roar loudly, straight away, they all ran for it. They got out safely but what about their food? The only place where they knew where food was was 'The Fresh Collect'! "We'll go back in an hour or so!" James said, they did, but the bear was still there only this time it had made a hole in the wall and was sleeping in it. This was its new home! Not knowing what to do, they immediately went to look for another source of food. They headed in a Southern direction as they had not explored those parts much. Eventually they got to the 'Death Drop', "Look, what's that?" James said pointing to the edge of the cliff, "I think it's another water hole!" "What, one and a half miles up?!" said Bill "It was probably...Well, I don't know but let's have a closer look anyway!" continued James. So they ran over to the edge of the cliff. It WAS a water hole and it DID have life!!! There was water splashed all over the sides making it very slippery and with the speed James was running at, it had to end up with him sliding off the edge, and it did!!! There James hung, over a mile up in the air, Bill, Philip and Joe all ran over to help him, they didn't know what to do. It was too slippery to pull him up by hand, they'd probably fall over with him! Time was running out - James's hands started to bleed as the sharp rocks he was clinging to started to peirce his skin, "Ahhh, help me!!!" James shouted, gritting his teeth. Then Joe suddenly had a great idea, he grabbed a small tree that was next to him and bent it down to James, "Hold this!" he shouted. He then grabbed some fish from the water hole and ran back to the cave as fast as he could. He grabbed some rope that they had made from branches and vines for occasions like this and then ran to the polar bear. Straight away, he started luring him to the cliff with the fish, he tied the rope around the bears neck and threw the other end down to James which he grabbed. Then the polar bear saw the fish hole with all the fish and started running towards it while pulling up James at the same time. James collapsed into a heap on the ground and soothed his bleeding hands by rubbing it on the snow, "That was one hell of a day!" James sighed. CHAPTER 6 - STRANDED It was the 42nd day on the island when the group of scientists got stranded on 'Coast Isle'. 'Coast Isle' is a tiny island (about one mile long and half a mile wide) about two hundred metres away from the coast of the island (which has now been named 'Mystic Isle'). Our friends decided that they wanted to see this tree covered island up close, so they started work on a boat made from the trees from 'Idle Forest'. It took them about three and a half hard working days to create a little boat that was more like a raft with a pair of strong wooden oars. After their creation was finished, they set off to the tiny island. It took them about five minutes of hard rowing to get there as the tides were against them but when they arrived, they just wanted to explore. So they did. After about ten minutes, they found out that there was nothing intresting or of use to them on the island, just trees, trees and more trees. They didn't find a single cave or even a water hole and they felt a little let down. They had taken the liberty to spen over three hard working days on building a boat that wasn't even needed!!! They decided to leave but they couldn't find the boat anywhere, "I sweat like a pig for three days, my muscles hurt and now we can't even find the boat we came in...GREAT!!!" Joe said irritabily. They started walking all around the coast until they found marks in the snow of where the boat had been dragged up. It was quite obvious to them what had happened, they didn't care HOW it had happened, they just knew that they were stranded on a tiny island without any food or fresh water and it was going to take them at least 3 days to build another boat to get home. "GREAT!!!" said James now feeling as annoyed as Joe. They decided after a brief discusion that they would have to make a small raft so they could be back on their good old island in about a day. That's what they did, they worked as hard as possible without any breaks. They chopped down thin trees from the forest with sharp flints, making their own rope out of vines, creepers and then tying the wood together. After a day of very hard work, they had finished and they started rowing back to their island, where they then got a very well deserved rest and were all glad to be back. CHAPTER 7 - LOST It was the 56th day of their stay on the island, and the group had just woken up to see Sandy, Nigel and Alex standing infront of them smiling, "Sandy...Nigel, Alex...Is that you?!" James asked in a slightly worried manner. James woke up the other three and they were all amazed. They all sat down over some fish and Sandy told them what had happened... "Well, as you must know, we went crashing into the sea. Well, the planes were made to float!!! We were alright although bits of the planes were damaged like the radio. Then we found some emergency rations in the back of both bombers so we skimmed across the water for a few days, found survivors and here we are. We arrived about two weeks ago, we've been looking for you all this time!!!" James looked puzzled, "Where are these survivors then?" he asked. As he spoke, four women stepped out from behind a big rock and introduced themselves. They all got to know eachother and then James and co decided to show them around the island. They took them around to the caves, the death drop and then took them to 'Musgrave Plain' to show them the 'Coast Isle' but when they got back to the pplain they lost sence of direction and were suddenly lost! Being lost took them to 'Forest Isle', the biggest forest on the island, now they were completley stuck. They wandered around for hours going this way and that, marking the trees they had gone past with a bit of mud on the trunk, but it was no use. It was starting to get dark and finding their way back was going to be even harder now so they decided that they should get a good nights sleep and sleep in the forest that night. That night was the worst night of their lives. Polar bears were roaming the forest and sniffing about, it seemed that the animals didn't go to sleep at all. When they woke up, they started to try and get back again. There was a strong blizzard starting, so it was quite hard work when Nigel suddenly shouted, "Look, there's our planes!!!" he was pointing towards the three ruined planes, "We landed those opposite the caves so thats the West so we've got to walk East which is this way!" Nigel showed the way and he was right - Soon they were back on known ground and all felt safe and alot happier again. THE EPILOGUE I am telling this story of one of my distant realitives - My great, great, great, great Uncle to be exact in the year 2284. The World now lives as it used to and there are no signs that nuclear war ever happened; the radiation is gone and all the different countries have rebuilt their towns and cities again but we are very far behind in the 'Hi- Tec' world because we had so few people to pass down the information and all records and books of that kind of information were destroyed. It was my distant Uncle and a few of his friends that saved the World. They had babies on the island and as the radiation went, the children spread to other countries. Think of what would have happened if James Musgrave and his friends hadn't have left the research establishment... Would Mankind still exist? THE END (Thank God!!!) Well, that's it. Here is the comment and mark I got when I had had this story marked: "The story started extremley promisingly. You took rather a long time to get to the island and your 'adventures' there were a bit disappointing, but you write well with flair and imagination. I liked the Prolouge and Epilogue." I got 39 out of 50 for that story. I didn't deserve it did I?! Anyway, I hope you can write me a story for publication in POWER. Send it in to the normal address. It doesn't matter what it is about, how long or short it is and it will be widely uncensored so go on, send in a story and give us something to do because there is nothing worse than having an empty story corner!!! Well, there is actually - Imagine a nuclear war and you being one of the few survivors!!! I'll leave you to think over that one.