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Petra's bullets pierced through the windshield of the plane she had been aiming at, and they had filled the pilot's head with lead, killing him. His plane went on and crashed into another Chinese fighter, and they both exploded. But that had drawn some of the Chinese pilots' attention to Petra. One plane, flying only about twenty feet above the ground, seemed ready to crash into Petra. When it got close enough, Petra leapt into the air, and landed on the plane. She activated the strong electro-magnets in the feet of her armor, and she stuck the plane, standing right next to the windshield. In his surprise at Petra's leap, the pilot had inadvertantly pulled away from the suicidal dive. Petra raised both her hands high above her head, holding them together, and brought them down on the windshield of the craft. She didn't quite puncture it, but it was fractured, and barely sticking together. Now, Petra thrust her left hand through the glass, this time going straight through it, and grabbed the pilot by his shirt. She ripped him out of the cockpit through the hole in the glass she made, cutting him a little on the broken glass, and she threw him away from her, and turned her head away as the man was impaled on a stop sign. When the plane was about ten feet above the ground, Petra leapt off it, just before it crashed into the ground.
Petra now reached for her pistol, as the clip that was currently in her assault rifle was nearly out of ammo, and she didn't want to waste the time reloading. Not all of the planes had been fighter planes. Some had been Chinese carrier planes, which had dropped some soldiers onto the ground. Petra grasped her pistol firmly in her right hand, and fired three shots at a Chinese soldier who was dangerously close to Petra. Her bullets soared into the man's head, and left a few exit wounds on the back of his head. The man fell to the ground dead. Petra quickly bent over his corpse, and picked up his pistol. She quickly magnetically attached it to the left thigh of her armor, so after the clip in her pistol ran out of ammo, she would not need to reload it immediately. With that, Petra paused the recording. This video was already taking up a lot of memory, and she didn't want to fill up the memory so fast. Even though her eyes had a tetra bite of storage.
>ENTRY PAUSED: FEBRUARY 17TH, 2795 AD, 4:02 PM, GMT-7 TIME
>ENTRY REVISED: FEBRUARY 17TH, 2795 AD, 5:32 PM, GMT-7 TIME
The fighting was nearly over. The town of Roswell was strewn with bodies and crashed planes, mainly Chinese. However, the Chinese had taken a large portion of Roswell with them. More than half the city was ruined. Now FM&WE soldiers and tracking down and capturing the remainder of Chinese soldiers, unless they were resisted, in which case they were immediately executed.
Petra was drawn away from her recorded surveillance of the city, as she heard footsteps behind her. She whipped around to see a Chinese soldier holding a combat knife, mere feet behind her. Though she could have merely grabbed one of her pistols and shot him in the head, Petra was bored, and confident. She grabbed her knife and pulled it from its sheath. Grasping it tightly in her right hand, Petra rushed at the man, and launched a diagonal slash with her knife. The man quickly countered it by holding his knife up firmly, and Petra's knife merely scraped across the man's, creating a shower of sparks. After blocking Petra's slash, the man lunged at her, stabbing with his knife. Petra leapt to the side, quickly dodging his lunge. The man landed flat on his face on the ground, but he quickly rolled over, and, just as he was about to get, Petra caught him off-guard with a stab, plunging her knife into the man's stomach. The man would not give up so easily, though. He grabbed at Petra's gun, though, due to the magnetic attachment, he could not take it from her armor. Instead, he spun it, pointing the barrel up, towards Petra's head, and pulled the trigger.
The gun did not fire, however. When it was magnetically attached to armor, the safety was automatically turned on. Petra kicked the man in the face, causing him to relinquish his grip on her her, and she stepped back a few feet. She detached her pistol from her right thigh, raised it, turned the safety off, took careful aim at the man's eye, and fired, using the last bullet in that clip. The bullet plunged into Petra's foe's eye, tore through his brain, and came out, anchoring in the floor. Petra reloaded her gun, and then looked around. There wasn't a non-captured Chinese soldier in sight. Petra reattached her gun to her armor, and walked back to the hotel, which was thankfully still standing. She switched off the camera, now.
>ENTRY ENDED: FEBRUARY 17TH, 2795 AD, 6:00 PM, GMT-7 TIME
THE FOLLOWING POST WAS FOUND ON SEVERAL POLITICAL FORUMS, POSTED BY USERNAME: ODEN'S EYES:
"I ask you, my fellow man, do you enjoy seeing the world in the state it is in now? The entire world fighting, the sun gone. Anarchy everywhere. I'm sure if you have a heart, you don't. I will be forming a group, hopefully to help mankind. Do not join if you are afraid of combat. The recruitment meeting will be on February 23rd, 7:00 PM, on a privately owned site, owned by me, which there is a link to at the end of my post. After we have become acquainted over the nets, we will meet in real life, and began planning and bringing those plans to action."
>ENTRY MADE: FEBRUARY 18TH: 9:32 PM, GMT-7 TIME
The camera awoke, now using the camera from the terminal, for it was focused on Petra. "Hello. I have done more research concerning the current state of the world, as I still had many questions that required answering. I wondered why Canada was no longer its own country, as it had been when I had last been on Earth. Apparently, when the sun went out, a deep layer of permafrost began to cover most of the country that was already not covered by it. This resulted in the loss of most of the country's agricultural capability, and thus its ability to support its self. Desperate, the Canadian leaders sought a pact with the United States, which ultimately ended in Canada's joining the USA. When the satellites were activated, at first the Canadians thought they would soon be able to return to self-sufficiency.
However, this was not the case. Canada's soil had not only been frozen, but it had become permafrost; permanently frozen soil. Thus, when the sun was replaced, the soil did not warm. This permanently changed the country's climate, and its politics. The political leaders of Canada simply decided to except their statehood in the US, as they were not being treated unfairly."
>ENTRY ENDED: FEBRUARY 18TH, 9:47 PM, GMT-7 TIME
__________________ "You fight dirty."
"I fight like a girl."
-Petra Arkanian and Julian "Bean" Delphiki from Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card.
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