Ground Zero by EndMaster R

No, you better just keep it to yourself. You don’t want Nina getting pissed at you, you know how high strung she’s able to get sometimes. Besides the population isn’t growing that much yet, there are plenty of supplies. If someone gets the idea that going to the surface is necessary, you’re sure that someone else will bring it up. No point in you getting in trouble. You go back to sleep and just hope Charles and Todd keep quiet about your little excursion to the surface.

A few weeks later you find out Nina’s pregnant, now you start to wonder about having enough room in the future. You still don’t bring it up, because you don’t want to upset Nina anymore in her “condition”.

After Jack is born, the surface thing is still in the back of your mind, but now it’s been so long, you just feel it’s easier not to address it to Nina. So you don’t say anything.

Five years pass…

Ten years have gone by and the shelter is starting to get a little crowded. After all there isn’t too much to do in the shelter that hasn’t already been done, so sex is always (as it always has been) a popular way to pass the time. The result of that fun activity is too many babies.

At this point now you say something to Nina about the surface, she’s a little reluctant about the idea, but sees that it might be necessary. Unfortunately the rest of the council doesn’t see it that way. Many of them have been here so long now that going to the surface is almost unthinkable. Despite great protest Nina overrides the council’s advise and goes ahead with the plan anyway. This doesn’t make her too popular.

For one reason there’s the decision of who is suppose to live on the surface, many people have full blown families now, they’re a little unwilling to risk taking them up. So that means the single or childless people get the boot upstairs since they have less to “lose”. That doesn’t go over too well either. People start protesting loudly about being kicked out of their homes since they have as much right to stay too.

One day, you’re in the computer room at the time arguing with Charles who happens to be single, and giving you shit about Nina’s new policy. Todd is pretty much indifferent to the idea since even though he’s single he doesn’t mind the idea of going to the surface, he just thinks you should’ve said something to Nina a long time ago to implement this plan sooner before everyone had a whole mess of babies.

That’s when you get the word.

Kyle comes in to tell you that during one of Nina’s speeches William (Who would’ve been one of those kicked up to the surface along with Ron) attempted to assassinate Nina with a scalpel he stole from the medical supplies. Leon managed to stop him with extreme prejudice by breaking his neck. But its not ending there, people are starting to riot and call for someone new to be the shelter leader.

You’re pissed off now, you storm into the conference room ready to kick everyone’s ass who DARES to try to hurt Nina again. You fire your pistol into the air causing everyone to take notice. When you get over to Nina, she’s pleading for you to not shoot anybody. The assassin was already taken care of; there isn’t any more need for killing.

While that might be the case that still doesn’t solve the problem of everyone hating Nina (And probably you too as well) if she gets thrown out of her position, the next step might be to try to throw you guys out of the shelter.

Part of this you feel is your fault, you could just roll the dice here or you could attempt to take the hard line approach.