[ WP ] Well , that 's one way to end a war .

Well, that ’ s one way to end a war. I thought to myself as I remembered the old TV footage. I had seen the odd young child pull out an old tome from its backpack. The child wasn ’ t disfigured so to speak, but you couldn ’ t tell if it was a he or a she. Its hair was average length. It was a little chubby making it look like it could be developing, or it could just be the swollen fat tissue. But that wasn ’ t that unusual, there are more and more kids with in attentive parents letting their kids over indulge themselves. This child on the news in front of the president just seemed off. You could even see the secret service in the background fidgeting. It was like they were deciding if shooting it because of what they felt from it, or not, I know most of us now wish they had shot it and made it as dead as it could be. The Child opened the tome and handed it to the president. A look of horror and curiosity crossed the president ’ s face, and he read silently, mouthing some of the words. Off to the side, in the side window that showed the sign language translator their face went pale as they were obviously reading the presidents lips. I had turned off my TV just after that point when the signer tried to kill herself on live TV. I didn ’ t know it then, but that was the end of the current war. 
 We had been in a three way war, The middle east was both allied and against everyone else, doing suicide bombings of opportunity while everyone else attentions were elsewhere. The Western societies, European Union and North American federation along with their ally Japan were focused on the new Chinese People ’ s Republic, and the rebirth of Soviet Union. The Reformed Soviet Union reforming had been a massive blow to western society. What the spies figured out was the leaders of the Soviet Union had faked their fall to destabilize the United States of America, with seeded agent planting socialistic ideas and pushing for social instability by pushing an us versus them mentality inside the country. As America began to falter Russia started her reunification push. There was token resistance and sanctions from the west. These sanctions did more to hurt the western society because the Russians had been slowly making themselves more reliant on supplies only with in their own boarders. 
 The war was started by the American leaders. In a last ditch attempt to stabilize after the Middle-East and the new CPC dumped all the American currency they had into the market America. It all happened just before the scheduled presidential election, which was then canceled. The fighting broke out all over the world. The sleeper agents from the RSU caused havoc all over in western culture. The American Seal times were dropped off either by the Air Force, or by Navy subs. The Middle-East was actually really quite at the start of the war, almost as if startled into inaction. It was about six months before the Middle-East joined into the fray. 
 So in the beginning everything was chaotic. The western countries started faltering early on as their infrastructure was the primary targets of the bombings. In fact it was the Middle-Easts first attacks that stalled the socialistic countries. This allowed the western countries to shift from big industry to personal fabrication units. The 3D printers set the stage for every unit to be partially self-sustaining. While the opponents could and would often run out of required war supplies like bullets. That advance brought the war back to a stale mate. That lasted until the cursed child and its tome. It was after that that a new faction came in. The war between the East, the Middle-East and the West ended. It was a new war that ended it, humans versus monsters and cultist. 
 Even with all our technologies when we saw them for the first time a lot of us would go crazy. I know I did a few times. I would see them and next thing I know I ’ m somewhere else, with no recollection of how I got there or what I did in those missing time periods. Those periods of insanity were like a buffer and after I had seen one of those things and gone insane I could look at them and fight them, even if looking made me feel uncomfortable. Well the same thing that happened to the president had also happened to the other world leaders, the only one who did not crack and go insane was the Russian Csar. 
 We are still at war, the only leadership on our side is the Soviet leadership, and the rest have cracked and are trying to helping the monsters kill us all. My unit was assigned to try and take out the summoning that is being attempted in Washington DC. I hope we can stop it before it ’ s complete, I don ’ t want to come to with no knowledge of where I am again, but better that then some of the alternatives I guess.
