What Comes Around Goes Around

Imagine if the United States consisted of cities that looked identical to one another from the east coast to the west coast. The same amount of skyscrapers, the same companies that take ups space in those skyscrapers and every city had the same amount of neighborhoods constructed in the same format. Every house looked the same. A two story house with two first floor windows and and two upstairs windows. All these houses had red doors and the same amount of yard space. Every family consisted of one father, a mother and a brother and sister. Every sibling separated by three years.

There is no government to run the nation, only city councils that meet twice a year to discuss population size and power control. If an outbreak of a deadly disease occurred, the city council would quarantine that city and once the outbreak reached the entire population of the city, the city council burned everything there, no questions asked.

The city councils disbanded any kind of news medium. There's no newspapers, television, or social media. No one knows how the other cities are doing unless they have friends or family members within those cities to communicate with.

So when the city of Detroit faced a record amount of homeless people, 5 million to be exact, the city council became nervous. The homeless began causing sanitary problems around the city and began using resources to the maximum, the council knew it had to act quickly. They pondered and argued for hours about what step should be taken to control Detroit and contain the unsanitary conditions that were growing by the day. Portable bathrooms were backing up causing them to tip over spilling waste into the grass. People were using rivers and the sewage system to directly deposit their waste. The Council sent over a toxicity team to measure the toxic levels of the water in Detroit. They discovered that water toxicity in Detroit was 100 times higher than any other city. Outraged by this finding, the Council immediately ordered Detroit closed off from the rest of the nation.

In Detroit, citizens were becoming sicker by the day as the rotting corpses of the diseased homeless people spread germs and bacteria through the air. A bug undetected found it's way through the population wreaking havoc on the nervous system. People were vomiting in the streets and coughing up blood on each other. The Council took notice and declared Detroit too at risk to help any further.

In a last ditch effort, the remaining few from Detroit took it upon themselves to try and overrun the soldiers sent by the Council. Unarmed civilians going up against heavily armed soldiers proved more of a suicide than a heroic effort.

However, as a future generation would soon discover, the civilians did have a heroic plan. A creature from a future generation discovered a piece of writing on an old billboard. It said, "You left us to die in our pain, now everyone will fill our pain." Unbeknownst to the soldiers, they had become infected by the viral disease and spread it back to the capitol. And as the saying goes, what comes around goes around.