Life in the Penthouse
Prompt #25: Soup
Bree eyed the various vegetables and various other ingredients as she got a large pot out and dumped some chicken broth with some water into the pot.
"I feel like I'm forgetting something." Bree murmured as she got a wooden spoon out and began to stir the broth.
It was a cold, fall day in Centium City. The leaves were beginning to fall, Kaz and Oliver were yelling about football, Chase was hiding in Mission Command even more, and Bree and Skylar were planning out where to go on Black Friday.
Everyone was out getting stuff for the "snowstorm of the century." Chase decided that it would be a good idea to make a huge batch of chicken noodle soup and stick it in some thermal device that Mr. Davenport created (It blew up in testing, but apparently, the kinks had been worked out).
Chase had led the thing like a drastic mission. It started to seem like the snowstorm was gonna happen as the day of the predicted disaster approached.
A Day Earlier...
"Okay, welcome to the sixth official Elite Force team meeting. I'm happy to see that everyone made it, thank you for attending." Chase welcomed as he walked out of the hyperlift and put his phone on the table that was in between the three cyberdesks in the entrance to the base.
"You're welcome, but can you just text this out to everyone on the emergency group chat or do you really have to put four of these into an envelope, then slide them under our doors at night and write our names on them?" Bree asked as she held up a white envelope with her name on it.
"Well, you showed up and I'm still trying to figure out how to effectively communicate team meetings. Anyway, Mr. Davenport has informed me of a massive snowstorm that is supposed to hit Centium City on Monday, and-"
"Yes! No school!" Kaz and Bree high fived as Oliver sighed and looked at Skylar. "Well, I guess some snuggles on the couch are in order."
"Yeah, um you'd better cancel that, then." Skylar said.
"Anyway, Mr. Davenport doesn't want us leaving the penthouse if this happens, not even for missions. The mission alerts will be turned off Monday morning at twelve A.M. to Saturday evening at ten P.M. Of course, this will only happen if the snowstorm actually occurs. If it doesn't, then the alerts will not be turned off and we will be able to leave the penthouse.
"With that being said, we need stuff to make sure we are ready for the storm. So, tomorrow, the evening before the storm, myself and Oliver are going to the grocery store to get milk and bread, along with canned and boxed food. Skylar and Kaz are going to Haley's department store to get heavy coats, snow pants, gloves, hats and scarves, so please give them your color preferences and size. They will also pick up blankets. This is just a precaution in the event that we lose power.
"And, Bree, can you make a large batch of chicken soup? I'm going to get the ingredients and we can eat on this for hopefully a few weeks if anything crazy happens."
Everyone nodded, seemingly happy with their assignments.
"Any questions?" Chase asked after taking a quick drink of water from a bottle he had brought with him.
"Yeah, um, can I go with Skylar to Haley's?" Oliver asked.
"No." Chase said. "Meeting adjourned."
Bree didn't complain, especially since she had the penthouse to herself so she could cook in peace.
She really didn't enjoy cooking, but this didn't seem hard. She just had to throw some stuff in a pot and let it heat up.
After throwing some pepper in, she yawned and decided that the soup was done. She put away everything that she hadn't used and went to catnap on the couch.
Sunday evening...
"It's only been snowing for five minutes and we already lost power!" Kaz shouted as he threw his game controller on the ground.
Oliver rolled his eyes. "It's a snowstorm. Power is either going to go out or maybe you'll be lucky and you'll still have power. We are on the other end of the stick."
"You know, it's almost dinner time. We'd better go get some of that soup that Bree made." Kaz said, hoping to avoid an argument.
Bree was already dishing out soup to herself, Skylar and Chase. She of the motioned for the two boys to come join them at a lantern-lit portion of the kitchen.
She handed the boys some soup and they all sat at the table. They took one bite of the soup and quickly found themselves dumping it outside.
Turns out, Bree had forgotten most of the ingredients, yet over salted the base of broth and water.
So, the Elite Force waited for a few days for power to return and ate cold grilled cheeses and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that Chase had made earlier.
A/N: I apologize for posting this so late! I've had quite the week...
First thing, I fell off a treadmill. I got scraped up pretty bad and ended up staying home from school the next day because the burns were so painful.
I hurt my knee, ankle and right arm, so it's pretty hard to do much of anything without painful consequences.
I was also traveling a bit today and yesterday, so I just didn't write.
Have a good week!
I'm running out of catchy things to say,
~Alto
