The Bunker: A Short Story

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Recently. The Mayor came up with the idea, to send an armed party out into the woods to investigate the attacks. She would send 50 guards to find and kill, whoever was attacking the People of Bunker Level F. This mission was not only to kill the Mulish men, but to battle train the new Recruits. There was a total of 35 recruit and 15 hardened soldiers, who were sent to do the mission. (I was one of them that had to stay behind and guard the city, along with Katie Frost, and Harry Gifford and Mary Cadence.) The mission was supposed to take a total of 5 hour, but no one came back or signaled any messages to us , then we decide we would waited another five hour( not that we had a choice, our shift is 12 hours from 6 AM - 6 PM. ) and finally …show more content…

And according to section 3 article 5 of the Bunker code, we could not tell what we saw outside to anyone, except the Bunker overseer. (Lily Cadence)If we did tell what we saw or heard outside the Bunker, you could face imprisonment, because if anyone knew that there was possibly life out there, they might try to leave. And probably die outside the Bunker, and the overseer did not want that to happen to the people of the Bunker. So she had decided that this was the best course of action in the case of one of the guard blabbing to a friend or family member about something they might have heard or saw which could cause a person leaving the …show more content…

Well I hope you will be patience, and let me start at where I left off, after we enter the Dome the sergeant told us to wait while she went to inform the Overseer about what had transpired outside in the desolate no man’s land called the wasteland also the urgent message. We were of course free to talk among ourselves, Mary being the Chief speaker began to speak “Jack why didn 't you shoot your Gun out there. You know that if they had been rebels they would have killed us?" I stood there thinking of what to say, after a couple of seconds of awkward silence, I began to speak and say " I.... uh" Then Harry began to defend me but really he was not much of a talker so he just said " leave him alone Mary, if they were not rebel we would of had innocent blood on our hands." Mary said nothing for the space of 20 seconds. I assumed she had been silent while she thought about how that the matter had been handled, as well as where they had begun firing for the fear of who they might been, before they knew who or what they actually we. Or she was just thinking of a rebuttal for Harry 's very reasonable observation of the situation, and how it