Full Summary:

A handful of people have been fighting to stay one step ahead of those that want them dead. What happens when the 15th gets dragged into the middle of the war? Will they choose the right side or the wrong side? And what happens when one of those being hunted is captured and brought into the 15th to be forced to lead the Men to the rest of her people? Will some of the officers realize that the Men that asked them to help aren't that into keeping any of the people they capture alive? And why do the Men want the Others dead? Will questions be answered as to who the Others are and how they came to be fighting for there lives?

Always Running:

Australia: Year 2000:

Mei Revak was living in Australia with her family when the Men showed up. Her parents didn't know who they were nor why they were on their property. They sent Mei and her sisters to the barn, where underneath the floor was a secret passage that led to another farm near them in which was enough food to stay safe for as long as necessary. Mei grabbed her sisters and was the first into the passage when shots rang out in the house. Her older sister pushed there sister Enola into the passage, threw the door shut and grabbed a pitchfork and piled hay on top of the door. She made it look like all she was doing was chores. Her bag had been in Enola's arms as she knew she wouldn't be going with them.

Mei made Enola crawl in front of her until they were out from under the barn and a ways away from the homestead. Distant shots could be heard through the passage as they crawled to the other side. No sounds followed them and they knew that there sister Billie was dead where she lay, on top of the hay which lay over the secret passage. When Mei and Enola got to the farm, which had been set up as a safe place for anyone fleeing the Men, they found other kids who had been sent there by there parents and knew that they were all that was left of there kind.

They stayed in the underground safe place for nearly two weeks before crawling up out of the floor and back into the world. What they found was something they wished they never ever saw. Mei, being one of the older kids in the group at the age of fourteen, went first so as not to frighten the younger kids. She pushed up out of the ground and noticed fire almost immediatley, or what was left of it. The Men had burned whatever they deemed necessary to make sure nobody really survived there destruction. But what they didn't destroy is what they had never seen. Mei helped the others up out of the safe place and then the real fight for there survival began.

The kids collected whatever kind of bags that they could find to put clothes, books, writing materials, food, weapons and anything else they could think of in. Mei made sure Enola was safe back in the safe passage before she grabbed a horse in the barn and headed back to there home. She wasn't alone. Mei, two of the boys and another girl all went together. It was safer in numbers and they knew it. When they got to the farm, they immediatley went to the barn where they found Billie's body where it had fallen, though it had been burned by the Men shortly after everyone was killed that could be found. They gathered all that they could from the house and then headed back to the safe place.

Once everyone was in the vehicles that they found and made sure no one was watching, they hooked up trailers and put the rest of the belongings in it. We knew that we had to get to the water and we had to get there fast. As we drove, we passed towns and cities that had been burned to the ground. At every town and city, we stopped and looked for survivors. We picked up at least thirty survivors before we reached the coast. We found the military base completely abandoned. The ships were left sitting in the water and we knew that those would become our new homes.

With everyone in the cars getting a little worried about the Men coming back, we hurriedly packed everything onto the ships and the main Carrier and headed out to sea. We knew that as the only survivors from our side of Australia, we would probably find more, and that we needed to check else where as well. We started with New Zealand, and then worked our way around the world, stopping in Africa, China, Russia, France, Yemen, Brazil, Greenland, Norway, Antarctica, Chile, Mexico and finally Canada. The Men had been all over the world, killing those they believed didn't deserve to live and not caring if they were innocent or not.

Canada: Year 2010:

Gail was the first to join us from Toronto, Canada. The Men had murdered her parents while she was at work one day. She had gone home and found them dead, with bullets in there heads. She sought us out after gathering all of her belongings and telling her friends nothing, not knowing if they would join or not. She asked that we go back for her friends for she feared that something bad was going to happen to them as well.

We got there a week after she joined us, too little too late. Two officers had been killed by the Men and the rest of the officers she'd worked with and there families were willing to join us to finally put an end to what the Men were doing all around the world. We gathered everything they owned plus all the weapon in the 15th and headed back to the Coast where the ships were still anchored. For some reason, the Men didn't like water and could never go near it. They were always in planes, traveling back and forth over continents and ocean alike. In all, we had managed to find abandoned military bases all over the world where the ships had just been left to sit in the water. Our fleet had grown to nearly twenty air-craft carriers, ten battle ships with guns included, and five submarines.

We were safe on the ocean and with the advantage of always being able to move without the need for gasoline thanks to the fact that some of the people that we rescued were scientists and mechanics, we were able to make solar powered ships. We drifted during the night, and sailed through the day (if the weather held out). We were all wondering when the next land expedition was going to come along, but we also knew that we needed to keep the populations of the planet in check.

With the Men controlling the land, we knew that there was never going to be an end to this War unless we did something about it. We needed to start fighting back and we needed to start now. There was no need to wait around and wait for them to leave. They were never going to leave unless we made them leave. Among our fleets, we did have military personnel and there families. In fact, one whole air-craft carrier was full of military personnel and there families. We had come upon them adrift in the ocean, too afraid to journey to land just in case the Men were there and waiting.

The real fight for our survival was about to begin and we needed to know how many people on land were our allies and if we could still manage to live on land once the War was over. Would we be able to rebuild our lives? And where did the Men even come from?