GUN PART 4

 

They call me Quick!

I am a Zone Ranger living in the year 2027 the world full of cutthroat killers and all sorts of crazed out people who prey on the weak!

The biggest entertainment around is the Zone Ranger government-sponsored Smoke Wagon Gunfights.

In the old days, people worshiped their sports stars and movie stars.

All those things like Television sports and movies are now gone.

After the wars started and drug on and on then the great economic collapse of 2024.

The world just went mad from riots to food raids.

Jobs and just normal life stopped people lost everything and could not get it back. THEN THE VIRUS CAME

Cars homes every bit of money. Gas stations were a thing of the past as well.

So many closed cities became ghost towns.

Then the fresh water and food crises came to top it all off.

Then there was horrible weather from freak storms that killed whole populations.

There is hardly any food left in the United States.

There is little work most of the young people are sent off to war.

Those left faced gangs who took up residence in the empty cities there was no law anymore.

Then what was left of the government decided something had to be done so the Zone Ranger games began.

Implemented to stop the pure lawlessness.

In a few years, things started to come back a bit at a time.

The Zone Rangers became not only the only law in the world.

However the greatest show on earth. Tricked out Smoke Wagon guns!

Colorful characters with fancy names arose out of the dust of the Apocalypse to take up the name of Zone Ranger.

The more popular the government Zone Ranger program became.

The bigger the explosions the more death and people getting killed the better the world's people liked it!

It was a mad insane system for a mad insane world but it worked.

What food that was left was dolled out to people in monthly portions.

However many people felt it was not enough to get by on.

So they started betting it on the Zone Ranger battles.

The idea caught on like wildfire.

The Zone Ranger fights gave power back to the people.

The government implemented the policy anything goes in Zone Ranger fights. 

The one world leader saw a food horse so they opened up government offices.

Betting sights to keep track of who won Zone ranger battles. Who lost Zone Ranger battles.

The new Zone Rangers would pick up the Smoke Wagon guns.

The Zone Rangers made up laws at the drop of a hat and there was the thing that the new Zone Ranger instantly became a superstar who got anything he or she wanted free.

This was the best deal anyone could ask for in a world where no one had anything unless they stole it or killed for it.

The government capitalized on the idea and decided if these crazies were killing each other anyway why not let it happen but in a way that the good people left could get something out of it.

Great way to keep the world population downsized yet keep it going as well.

The United States was divided into state zones.

Of which some state zones were better than others.

The better zones had more food more freshwater.

Only allowed the best of the best Zone Rangers to walk their streets low numbered Zone Rangers.

That is why the Zone Rangers battled each other they in many cases wanted that low number to get out of the bad zones.

Zones where life expectancy for anyone living in them was only a few days months year at most.

In good zones, the only weapons allowed were the Zone Ranger Smoke Wagon guns. In Good Zones 

huge walls stood high built with all kinds of protection to keep out gangs, 

Drifters, Sick people, and basically any undesirable that tried to get in.

The good zones were always under attack by those who wanted in but could not get in.

The good zones were much like the world of the past used to be. 

People had barbeques went to work and lived under the protection of Homeland security which meant the best of the best Zone Rangers.

In the good zones, the Zone rangers only battled each other once in a while to make room for the new Zone Rangers that made it to number one static.

The Zone Rangers in those good zones had to prove they were worthy of staying in the Zones. If they lost well they were dead.

The highest rank a Zone Ranger hoped to achieve was one thousand kills and then he or she could go after the one true world leader if they killed the leader's armies and him the Zone Ranger would become legion and the new one world leader.

In my lifetime I have never heard of any Zone Ranger achieving that position of honor.

Not to say some didn’t get close.

However, were killed in the process.

In bad zones there usually were about One thousand Zone Rangers running around at any given time.

The population of gangs and their weapons is around sixty-five thousand.

Drifters and just plain killers are Uncountable.

Makes for a lot of betting and Smoke Wagon gun battles not to mention side fights.

People always picking up dead Zone Ranger Smoke Wagon guns for their chance to get out or just get food or in some cases revenge.