I promised you something better

Well, today I thought I would share with you the first part of my upcoming book, Blackened Skies, this is a narrative description of what has happened to the world in the future. So, sit back, sook some popcorn and enjoy.


Prologue

The year is 2015, Earth, a world after change, changes that have altered the face of our world. Every portion of our world has been changed. The global map has changed. The world is different, and altered from as we know it in our year. It is a world that can be. A world and reality that is just on the other side of the door, just waiting to be opened. Join with me as I, your literary master share with you this vision, whether it is evil or good, that could be.

The Black War
In 2010, something occurred that changed the world forever, this great event is known as the Black War. It occurred in today’s powder keg, the Middle East, after years of occupation and oppression, the Arab world finally rose up in defiance of the West. In a stunning move, the Arab world united under one banner, the banner of a man known as the Deathstrike, his name was Abdul Jazar Al’Zuman, and he was from Saudi Arabia.
Abdul Jazar Al’Zuman was born in 1984, in the Riyadh, the present-day capital of Saudi Arabia, throughout his life he was introduced to the West. His family was wealthy, they were the owners of a powerful Saudi oil company and Al’Zuman had everything in the world. Or so the world thought.

Al’Zuman began his rise to power in 2008, when he ran to become Saudi Arabia’s first democratically elected leader after the Monarch died mysteriously. Al’Zuman was the Saudi gift to the West, he gave off all the air of a willingness to be friendly to the west, he increased oil exports, decreased the price of oil, and denounced Islamic Extremists. Saudi Arabia was quickly becoming a powerful nation. Al’Zuman, however funneled all of the vast amount of money into the military of Saudi Arabia. He turned the Saudi armed forces into a formidable, modern fighting force, all with the approval of the West.

No one knew that Al’Zuman hated the West, and he dreamed of one day when he would rise up to ultimate power, and become the greatest force the world had ever known in the world. And Al’Zuman knew how to defeat the West, as well. He was young, charismatic and brilliant, the perfect entity to rise up against the enemies of Saudi Arabia.

In 2009, Saudi Arabia tested its first nuclear bomb in secrecy at a facility deep in the Saudi desert. Al’Zuman now had the power to face his enemies. In a stunning announcement to the world, Al’Zuman declared that all Sunni Muslim countries were to unite under his banner, in a new Islamic nation. Soon thereafter, with great alarm and surprise, the Sunni nations of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait all declared their allegiance to the young Arab leader. Al’Zuman was now the most powerful man in the Middle East. Alarm arose in Iraq, where American troops were still stationed, but rapidly withdrawing, and in Israel, fearing that Al’Zuman intended to invade. But, Al’Zuman did not seem to be making any movements towards invasion.

However, in the east, Tehran was stirring. The Shi’ite sect had long been uniting under Tehran, and Iran had tested its first nuclear weapon in 2008. The Iranian leader, Imran Mustafar, began to mobilize Iran’s military against Al’Zuman.

During this entire course of events, Pakistan continued to destabilize and outside officials began to become concerned about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. In the early months of 2009, Iranian armed forces invaded Pakistan in an effort to secure the nuclear arsenal for themselves. This alarmed India, who then invaded, and also Chinese forces became involved in the Pakistan Crisis. Pakistani forces, already weakened by the loss of strong centralized government was easily overwhelmed by the invading forces, despite having been one of the more formidable militaries in the region.

Iran was the first to reach Islamabad, and Mustafar was quick to announce that Pakistan was now under the jurisdiction of the Iranian government, and that the Nuclear Arsenal of Pakistan was to be turned over to Iranian officials for safeguarding. Not wanting to allow the nuclear weapons of Pakistan to fall into Iranian hands, both Chinese and Indian forces moved rapidly to secure Pakistani military installations. Soon after the Iranian takeover of Islamabad, many Pakistani divisions surrendered to the Iranian forces, and Pakistan ceased to exist. The Pakistani forces that did not return to there homes were quickly conscripted by the new Iranian regime, and sent to fight the Chinese and Indian forces.

Alarmed by the fall of Islamabad, the United States and its allies in Europe ordered battle groups to be sent immediately to the region to support an allied effort to free Pakistan from Iranian hands. The Western Allies initiated bombing campaigns against Iranian military forces in Pakistan. The conflict was beginning to spread at a rapid pace. With Western bombing support and combined Chinese and Indian forces on the ground, the Allied forces were able to drive the Iranian military back, but not out of Islamabad. Mustafar declared that the Allied forces were invaders seeking to disrupt Pakistan’s national identity and strip them of their right as a world power, and that the only way to preserve their Islamic heritage was to join with the Iranian “Liberators.” Pakistanis, more fearful of the Chinese and Indian troops, because of their alienation from being Muslim, were surprisingly quick to align with the Iranian forces.

Mustafar then went on the offensive. He launched a brutal campaign to seize lost Pakistani installations and secure as many of the nuclear weapons in Pakistan as he could. As well as gain control of valuable Pakistani weapons. The Allies continued to struggle, and many of the Western nations failed to devote large amounts of troops to stabilize the region, in fact, Western ground forces never actually landed in Pakistan. As the conflict continued to spur out of control. Chinese and Indian forces began to suffer defeats, but their forces were vastly superior in both number and technology than the Iranian forces and their Pakistani rabble allies.
Combined Indian and Chinese troops soon won a tremendous victory just thirty miles from Islamabad over the Iranian forces, and now Mustafar was on the run back to Islamabad.

It was now January, 2010, the conflict had been going on since July of the previous year, and Iranian forces were beginning to lose. Mustafar was running out of options, and he was unwilling to lose the war in Pakistan. And the Black Wednesday occurred, January 6, 2010. Mustafar detonated three nuclear weapons against the Chinese and Indian forces just thirty miles out from Islamabad. The devastating blast from the nukes was felt the world over, and Chinese and Indian military forces were devastated. Around Thirty Thousand people were killed by the initial blast. The Western World was in awe at what Mustafar had done. It was exactly what Abdul Jazar Al’Zuman had been waiting for.

Al’Zuman declared that Mustafar had committed crimes against humanity and especially the Pakistani people. He declared war on Iran and invited all Islamic nations to fight to bring down this scar upon all of Islam. The Black War had begun. Following suit with the Arab nation, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan all declared war upon Iran and joined the Arab union under Al’Zuman. Chinese and Indian forces began to withdraw from northern Pakistan, and most of the fighting between them and the Iranian forces ceased. However, the small military forces of the Central Asian nations mobilized to attack the Iranians. Mustafar countered by launching a massive attack from Iran into Central Asia with a massive army that had not participated in the Pakistan conflict.

Meanwhile, Al’Zuman was struggling with the predominantly Shi’ite Iraq and their pro-Iran government, as well as the few remnants of American forces in Iraq that had not quite yet withdrawn (At the time roughly 5,000 American troops were still stationed in Iraq). Not wanting to risk confrontation with the West yet, Al’Zuman prolonged his entrance into Iraq. Meanwhile, his superior naval forces and air force continued to gain dominance over the Persian Gulf.

Iran, however, was quickly winning the war in Central Asia, and the Central Asian nations were pleading for assistance from Al’Zuman. China and India were both licking there wounds from the Islamabad disaster and the Western nations were remaining quite on the matter. Mustafar was on top of the world, at least he thought so. On January 25th, 2010 Iranian forces seized control of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, and Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan. The Central Asian nations began peace negotiations on February 1st. Al’Zuman never had enough time to assist his allies.

On February 2nd, 2010 Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan signed a armistice with Iran after less than a month of fighting. Afghanistan and Turkmenistan were not so lucky, they were forced into an unconditional surrender and their forces were to fight alongside the Iranian forces.
Al’Zuman however had gotten the distraction he needed. On February 7th, he launched an amphibious invasion of Iran, catching Mustafar off guard and setting the Iranian Army on a dash to counter the Invasion that had met little resistance since landing in Iran. He quickly made a rush for Tehran, hoping to catch the Iranians unprepared for his forces.

Mustafar, however, was not prepared to allow the fast moving and technologically superior Arab forces defeat him. On February 17th, Mustafar launched two more nuclear weapons which were detonated just short of the advancing Arab army. Although, they did not impact upon Al’Zuman’s forces, he called his advancing army to a halt. It was now clear to him that he could not defeat Mustafar using conventional means. He prepared to do the most damage he could to the Iranian army.

March 1st, 2010, The Deathstrike, Abdul Jazar Al’Zuman ordered the launch of six nuclear missiles. Two of which went to Tehran, three to Iranian military positions and one to an Iraqi military base on the border of Iraq and the Saudi Arabia. The nuclear missiles hit home and Tehran was destroyed. Over 250,000 people were killed in the blast alone in Tehran. Another 50,000 were killed in the Iranian forces heading to back up Tehran. And 10,000 were killed in the Iraqi blast. Imran Mustafar was dead. The world lay in total shock.
Three days later, American officials ordered the immediate evacuation of all military and civilian personnel in the entire Middle East. The evacuation was completed the same day. The United Nations, by now extremely week, condemned the actions of Al’Zuman. Arab forces then blitzed into Iraq and Iran and devastated the shock militaries of both countries. Chinese and Indian forces took advantage of the confusion in the Iranian ranks to push Iranian forces completely out of Pakistan. Iran was no more, the country had no central government and its primary city was in ruins.

The Black War was coming to an end. Al’Zuman sent a declaration to the defeated Iranian forces that he was willing to accept their surrender and incorporate them in his new Islamic Nation. The few remaining Iranian officials surrendered to Al’Zuman the next day.

Soon thereafter, without warning, Muslim Clergy all over the Middle East began to proclaim that the nuclear disaster was the wrath of Allah and that Abdul Jazar Al’Zuman was the new heir to Mohammed. This sudden and alarming reaction to Al’Zuman’s victory was told from Islamabad to Casablanca as all of the Islamic world began to unite under Al’Zuman.

On April 13th, Abdul Jazar Al’Zuman was made the first Caliph in centuries and he declared the formation of the Islamic Nation, which included the former nations of: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The powerful new state stood out among the world. In under two years, Abdul Jazar Al’Zuman had risen from an oil broker to the leader of the entire Middle East.

With his new power, Al’Zuman requested that Chinese and Indian forces leave Pakistan, so that the Pakistani people may be able to join with their Muslim brothers in a new era of peace. The Chinese and Indians, wanting to avoid confrontation with the powerful and young nation acquiesced to Al’Zuman, but with their withdrawal they took all of Pakistan’s remaining nuclear arsenal and most of the country’s weaponry. Al’Zuman did not retaliate.

On May 1st, the United Nations officially recognized the formation of the Islamic Nation and Al’Zuman as Caliph. Al’Zuman would withdraw from the United Nations three days later. Abdul Jazar Al’Zuman was only Twenty-six years old at the time.


“Our great leaders have prostituted us to the West. They have led us into their way of thinking and have ruined our identity. The West must pay for its sins against our great nation, one day we will take our revenge against those that have oppressed us for centuries, we will rise anew, and more powerful than before. We are strong, and we have shown that we are as great as they. Now, they must atone.”

-Abdul Jazar Al’Zuman to his closest advisors following the Black War