Mᴜᴛᴀɴᴛ Aᴘᴏᴄᴀʟʏᴘsᴇ 5: Bʟᴀᴄᴋ Mᴀsᴋs ❪✓❫

04 || 𝐕𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐑

𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝗼𝐫'𝐬 𝐏𝐎𝐕

In the morning, April had her workers make breakfast for the community. On the menu, this morning; chicken eggs and deer meat were mixed in with sauces and seasonings. All eight hundred people surround the long tables to get breakfast on real kitchen plates with some watery juice.

April felt uncomfortable with this because there is a chance people will sneak second helpings and cause a ruckus. She held her gun close by, in case anything happened during the breakfast hour.

Then she heard a plate break on the ground just a little ways away. April and her guards ran toward the issue and found a man and Casey arguing about the portions on each other's plates. The young man who was arguing with Casey was jealous about the serving size Casey got on his plate. "What is your problem, man?!" Casey pushed the man's shoulders.

Eventually, the boys broke into a fight, creating immense amounts of noise and crowds began to holler and chant. "Hey!" April shouted at them. "That's enough!"

Leonardo was nearby and placed himself in the middle, pulling Casey off of the man on the ground with a bloody nose. "Casey, get off!!" Leo called out. Raphael grabbed the lost opponent and both angry men were reaching out for one another to continue the bawl. April had had enough and she aimed her handgun in the air, firing once to let it ring and startle multiple people. Then the whole community was silent.

"I said that's enough! When I say to end something, I mean it!" She bellowed at Casey and the young man, and the rest of the crowd.

Immediately, the fight stopped and everyone stood tall and still for April. After the fracas had died down, Leonardo glances at the large pans on the long tables and noticed that there were no more scrambled eggs. None at all. "April, there are no more eggs." Leo pointed out. There are nearly two hundred more people who haven't been fed.

The leader of the community sighed and she shook her head. "EdgePort is gonna starve..."

"We need to ration." Said Leo. "There isn't enough food for everyone here."

Whoever was in the breakfast line, people exchange glances at each other, unsure how to feel about this. Vincent and Duke, who were in line as well see a child without a plate. Out of generosity, she gave the child her plate. The little girl smiled and ran off with her breakfast for the morning. Duke grinned at his girlfriend's choice in giving up her food. The girl looks at April. "Rations is one thing." Vv stepped out of the line to talk to April. "Let me go out and search for food."

April disagreed. "No. Vincent, I can't let you do that. You just got back from saving Criss."

Duke got out of line, too. "Yeah, Vv, we need to stay here and help with the community's problems."

"I am helping with the problems," Vincent said loud, making sure that other people would hear her, too. "If EdgePort can ration here then Duke and I can go outside to find more food." She says.

Leo adds, "For 800 people, Vincent? Don't go through all this trouble for everyone."

"As of right now, all this community has is each other. When we start fighting among ourselves we might as well just surrender to Sam. I'm willing to help by using my strengths to get some food that is desperately needed. I don't want their deaths on my conscience." Vincent said.

At this point, April is growing desperate and needed all the help she could get. She's already lost people because Sam took them, he is harassing the community, and he delivered a message that he will kill if he doesn't get his way. She'll take anything now...even if that means people risking their lives for 800 souls. April gave in, thinking it was a good idea for her benefit. "Okay. I'll send some groups out there with you."