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Creative Writing 1/3/22

3rd April 2022

On this day in 2345 Scotland took over the world. It started off with Scotland taking over England and taking control of the rest of Britain. This is about a soldier who helped Scotland with taking over the world.

I woke up on the 29th of July 2341 in Azerbaijan. We marched through desolate towns looking for food and ammo. We were now only 119 miles away from another group of soldiers in Iran. We were onto the last three countries in Asia which were Iran, Siberia and China. Today was supposed to be another simple day of getting closer to civilization but then we ran into trouble. There was a group of Iranian rebels waiting for us over a hill. Even though we were outnumbered we still had the upper hand on weapons. We tried to make a deal with them but they decided to fight. We killed 3 of them and they quickly surrendered. Even though this wasn’t a major problem we had still lost precious ammunition.

It was now the 12th of August and we had just met up with the other battalion in the North-East of Iran. It was definitely more lively. People were coming in and out of the town with ammo and guns etc. We had been given 4 days to assassinate the Iranian military leader. We set off to his hideout that someone had discovered only 7 hours earlier. It was only 15 miles away from our base spo we would get there in no time.

We were now approaching the secret base but if you didn’t know it was here you wouldn’t spot it.

 

Aedan Mcgonigle

Scotland's Stories Now

This story was submitted as part of Scotland's Stories Now, a mass participatory project that sees people of all ages and from all backgrounds creating and telling stories about Scotland today. #YS2022 #TalesOfScotland

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