I and Zion grab food rations from the Food butler 5k machine and go to take a seat.
We are good friends, he's known me since I was 7, and I'm 23 now, He's been with me for almost everything and he's one of the few people who "Put up" with me. Not being all doom and gloom makes me childish, well about as childish as I can be since my job is to make sure people don't make it home at night. My childhood was taken away when the world went to... well what it is now, I think it's my way of coping... Don't quote me on that though, Central doesn't provide us with free therapists.
"We will be raiding The Wones for more ammo and some gun parts such as silencers and some scopes and of course for their 'explicit crimes against Central'" Zion drawls out as he focuses on taking another scoop of the watery mashed potatoes, stuffing his mouth he starts "I can't believe they tried to defect when they are so close to a central base."
"I know right, what did they expect to happen really." Taking my small tube of pepper I sprinkle it everywhere trying to get a hint of spice in the world's blandest overprocessed food. "Mac is letting you head out with us?" Shoveling soggy eggs and cheese in my mouth as Zion cuts into the questionable bacon. "Wait doesn't your gun use 5.56m ammo anyways?" I inquire.
"It does," he admits
"Then why are you coming along? Almost all of The Wones use 7.62m and 1.45cp ammo, why'd Mac put you on with us.''
"You're right but like you say I am a "Commander", Zion claims emphasizing his voice on the last word and grins. "Mac wants me to take my job more seriously, apparently helping direct a sniper's ops isn't good enough"
"Mac is a piece of work," I say getting back to eating.
"Yeah, he's something," Zion agrees as he gets back to shoveling food with me the comfortable peace only lasts 5 minutes before we have to head to the courtyard for daily duties.
I, Zion, and a few other 30 people start regular daily training which consists of 10 rounds of 20 push-ups then weight lifting, 120 sit-ups, gun training with handguns, and specialty training. I specialize in sniping so I train with using different types of scopes, Ranges, wind changes bullet drops and what scopes to use and the advantages they might have over others, especially the newer developed ones that came from the Central industrial district, and to top it off 4 rounds of running around the base.
When I first came here I thought these exercises were torture, I was seven and a bit malnutritioned so when I heard we had to do this daily I seriously thought about defecting from Central, but now its easy work I've been doing these exercises for so long that it's almost impossible to say these workouts are too hard.
Back to the present, Me and Zion start to head to the weaponry for our vest and close combat knives as we are required to have our guns on us, we don't need to get a gun out of the weaponry as we only get the ammo for our guns and some extra mags just in case, we pick up all the things we need and head out to patrol the base...