Sammie and her parents have always lived in the shadow of nuclear attacks for years but never did she think she would ever be faced with the worst disaster of her life. Her family, much like all other families in her hometown. Had several bunkers in there backyard, close enough to the house to escape if needed, but deep enough underground to protect them, or so they thought. The night of the blast Sammie and her friend Elizabeth were playing down in there families private bunker. As most kids normally did in that area. The door was shut behind them keeping out the cool fall air. Suddenly Sammie sat up from her doll house adventure and sounded something all too familiar, The sirens. The sirens were installed at least 2 a block. As if it was needed, you could hear those things 80 miles away while wearing earmuffs. She shot up fast dropping her collection of favorite dolls and there personal belongings on the floor. She bolted to the main entrance of the bunker and opened it. She looked outside very worried at the situation. As her parents were out on errands. Most families never strayed to far from there own bunker but today was special, as Sammie`s birthday was tomorrow and they had to travel more than across town to get to the bakery. She stood outside in the deafing scream of the sirens, the wind almost at a stand-still. She didn't know what to do at this point but what she was taught in school. Lock the door and get cover in the bunker. She locked it and checked it 4 more times for saftey. Huddled up in the corner with her dolls and every they had cramped tight into there bright pink camper. She looked on to Elizabeth who was trying on the oppisite end of the wall to use the ground-satilite phone system. Sammie begged over 4 times for Elizabeth to come back to the corner of the bunker where they were always instructed to stay, but for some reason she kept in place at the phone. With no signal she dropped to her knees in the center of the bunker and starting crying frantically. Just at that moment a large explosion hit and Sammie was rocked from the fetal position to the floor. The roof of the bunker toppled in on itself and the walls knocked over faster than a set of dominos in a tornado. The blast only lasted around 10 seconds and then it was over, but thats all the time it needed to clear the land anywhere within 100 miles of the orginal blast. Sammie was able to pull off what little rubble actually fell on her and she stood up. Sunken in the ground she stood in her own backyard. Which at that point was no longer a backyard, it was a wasteland. She stepped out of the hole to see that her backyard wasnt the only thing that had become a wasteland, her home, where her school, her friends, her family, everything she had ever known or loved, was now flat. Now a barren desert. She turned back to where Elizabeth was and there was no one to be seen. She kept her hopes high and prayed that Elizabeth was still okay, but she still knew that she couldn't do it herself. So she went off to go find help, any help, anywhere she could, and this begins the story of Sammies first true adventure in the wasteland.