Kennis smiled broadly as she turned into the car park and pulled up in front of those that were coming on the so called round up with her. Today was one of the few days when she actually got to drive and nothing made Kennis feel so good as being behind the wheel, she loved the feeling of control, the danger and the thrill as she sped along the open road.
She looked though the windscreen at the others standing around like a bunch of overexcited school kids waiting for the bus to take them home on the last day of term. They piled eagerly into the van as Kennis quickly glanced down at the list of instructions Robin had given her earlier that morning.
"Ok guys here's what's going down were gonna start off with the main square then move onto the leisure complex and finally the waterfront. Travis, Dayne, Livia and Brie you'll make up one group. Jeremy, Layth, Hobson and Ish you'll be the second group". Kennis glanced up from her list and frowned.
"Where's Ish and what are you doing here?" She said noticing Choy for the first time.
"Little Miss Thang was busy so the boss-man told me to come along instead". Choy sneered in response.
Kennis cringed in disgust, what on earth had Ed been thinking of when he made that decision? Choy was sure to put off any potential's they might have recruited.
"As soon as we're through the barriers please turn on your wrist cams". She informed them as she turned the key in the ignition and pulled away from the kerb.
The roads they travelled down were just like any other on the Island and Kennis imagined that it must have been very picturesque before the virus. The pavements were now broken up in places and strew with garbage, many of the trees that had lined the verges had been cut down, the houses were often in needed of repair, their overgrown front lawns glittering with glass where all the windows had been smashed. The town itself was derelict every restaurant and shop had been looted and smashed up and yet this was where the majority of those who had survived the virus chose to make there homes.
Kennis pulled up next to the electric fence that protected the huge plasma screen the Elites used to transmit their broadcasts from being vandalised. She pulled on the handbrake and switched off the engine. Jeremy opened the door and he and the other got out and made off in their respective groups to pick up anyone who had decided to join the Elite.
Kennis held up her the tiny camera strapped to the front of her arm to ensure that she got some good footage for Dan of the two teams making their way around the town centre. They looked startlingly out of place all clean and neat in their strikingly simple black uniforms. In contrast, they made the inhabitants of the ghostlike war-torn town centre look even more scruffy, malnourished and depraved than they usually did.
Kennis turned and closed the sliding door behind them, as she did so she smiled at the signage printed across the side of the van in Travis's graffiti like scrawl.
"The Elite" was all it said but it made Kennis proud to be one of them, a member of the group who would ultimately make the world a better place to live in for those who had survived the virus and it's aftermath an electro-magnetic pulse.
Kennis climbed back into the van, opened the glove compartment and extracted the handgun that Robin had given her in case she needed to protect herself, the van or her companions on her travels in the 'big, bad world' outside of the Elite's campus.
She settled herself comfortably into her seat behind the steering wheel and waited for the others to return.
