Radioactive and The Decay Dystopian Super Boxset- A Dirty Bomb and Nuclear Blast Prepper Tale of Survival by Roger Hayden, James Hunt Page B
Authors: Roger Hayden, James Hunt
happened? Why are you here?” Samantha asked.
“Okay, time’s up,” Hult said.
“No!” Annie screamed.
“It’s okay, baby. It’s okay. Daddy will see you soon,” Matt said.
Matt kissed Samantha goodbye. Samantha had to drag her daughter out of the cell. Her screams of ‘daddy’ echoed down the hall.
Hult motioned for Jim to enter and then slammed the door shut behind him. Matt sat motionless on the ground except for the light shaking of his shoulder.
They’d broken him, Jim thought. The wounds on his face were over a week old. They had let him heal because they knew that they’d bring his family in to see them. Jim felt sick. The military was using his family as bait.
“I knew you’d go and find them when all of this shit started to happen,” Matt said.
Jim helped Matt off the ground and onto the cot, gently. “Matt, what happened?”
“Did they tell you what they want?”
“Some kind of security data. They think it’s on a hard drive and that you know where it is.”
“They’re not as dumb as they look then.”
“Matt, if you know where it is, then just tell them. If you don’t tell them, they’re going to hurt Sam and Annie.”
“You don’t understand, Jim. The project I was working on handled all of the security codes, clearances, and firewalls for all classified military documents. Those documents had intelligence information on terrorist groups, covert agents, missions, and nukes. It had fucking everything. I was meeting with a group of military personnel every week for status updates on the project and any updates they needed to add. The week before the attacks in San Diego, I found a hole in the firewall where documents of classified information were being sent from secure servers to ghost files with no known source. When I approached my superiors about it, they said that it would be handled internally by the military. The morning before the attacks, I was at the office and saw that the hole was still open, so I checked to see what had been sent, and there was an encrypted order with a list of times and locations all around the country. I think there’s a high level security leak in the military that caused these attacks.”
“Did you tell them that?”
“No, I don’t know who’s involved, but I figured if they tried to go after Sam and Annie, they’d eventually run into you. And I was right.”
Jim thought for a moment. If there really was a high level mole in the military ranks, then whatever information was on that drive would be toxic. It’d destroy anyone who touched it, but Jim didn’t see any other way to get his family out of here safely. “If I get you that drive, can you track down the source of the orders that were sent?”
“Yes, but I’ll need enough processing power to do it.”
“Where is it?”
“There’s a safe in the basement of my office building. You can only get to it through the vault behind the guard station. The code to get in is 4-2-8-5 and you’ll need to use a guard key. They keep spare ones in a lock box in the bottom left drawer of the desk. That’ll be locked too, but it should be easy enough to get inside. Once you’re inside the vault, there’s a red filing cabinet. Pull the cabinet out and open the panel in the wall. The combination for the safe is 12-1-22-58. The hard drive is inside.”
“So once you have it, you’ll be able to figure out who’s been behind all of this?”
Matt nodded his head. Jim paused for a moment and weighed his options. Could he pull this off? Could he get into the city and back without them knowing? Would it be safe to leave the girls here while he was gone? He wasn’t sure who he could trust.
“I’m going to take the girls with me,” Jim said.
“What? Half of Phoenix could still be rigged to blow. Whoever did this just might be waiting for more people to come back into the cities to
“Okay, time’s up,” Hult said.
“No!” Annie screamed.
“It’s okay, baby. It’s okay. Daddy will see you soon,” Matt said.
Matt kissed Samantha goodbye. Samantha had to drag her daughter out of the cell. Her screams of ‘daddy’ echoed down the hall.
Hult motioned for Jim to enter and then slammed the door shut behind him. Matt sat motionless on the ground except for the light shaking of his shoulder.
They’d broken him, Jim thought. The wounds on his face were over a week old. They had let him heal because they knew that they’d bring his family in to see them. Jim felt sick. The military was using his family as bait.
“I knew you’d go and find them when all of this shit started to happen,” Matt said.
Jim helped Matt off the ground and onto the cot, gently. “Matt, what happened?”
“Did they tell you what they want?”
“Some kind of security data. They think it’s on a hard drive and that you know where it is.”
“They’re not as dumb as they look then.”
“Matt, if you know where it is, then just tell them. If you don’t tell them, they’re going to hurt Sam and Annie.”
“You don’t understand, Jim. The project I was working on handled all of the security codes, clearances, and firewalls for all classified military documents. Those documents had intelligence information on terrorist groups, covert agents, missions, and nukes. It had fucking everything. I was meeting with a group of military personnel every week for status updates on the project and any updates they needed to add. The week before the attacks in San Diego, I found a hole in the firewall where documents of classified information were being sent from secure servers to ghost files with no known source. When I approached my superiors about it, they said that it would be handled internally by the military. The morning before the attacks, I was at the office and saw that the hole was still open, so I checked to see what had been sent, and there was an encrypted order with a list of times and locations all around the country. I think there’s a high level security leak in the military that caused these attacks.”
“Did you tell them that?”
“No, I don’t know who’s involved, but I figured if they tried to go after Sam and Annie, they’d eventually run into you. And I was right.”
Jim thought for a moment. If there really was a high level mole in the military ranks, then whatever information was on that drive would be toxic. It’d destroy anyone who touched it, but Jim didn’t see any other way to get his family out of here safely. “If I get you that drive, can you track down the source of the orders that were sent?”
“Yes, but I’ll need enough processing power to do it.”
“Where is it?”
“There’s a safe in the basement of my office building. You can only get to it through the vault behind the guard station. The code to get in is 4-2-8-5 and you’ll need to use a guard key. They keep spare ones in a lock box in the bottom left drawer of the desk. That’ll be locked too, but it should be easy enough to get inside. Once you’re inside the vault, there’s a red filing cabinet. Pull the cabinet out and open the panel in the wall. The combination for the safe is 12-1-22-58. The hard drive is inside.”
“So once you have it, you’ll be able to figure out who’s been behind all of this?”
Matt nodded his head. Jim paused for a moment and weighed his options. Could he pull this off? Could he get into the city and back without them knowing? Would it be safe to leave the girls here while he was gone? He wasn’t sure who he could trust.
“I’m going to take the girls with me,” Jim said.
“What? Half of Phoenix could still be rigged to blow. Whoever did this just might be waiting for more people to come back into the cities to
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