Hey there guys, how's it going, welcome to my newest and first ever fanfiction story. I have been thinking about writing this kind of story for a while now, but haven't had the chance to actually write it on paper or what, but none the less, on with the story. This is the Divergent world as we somewhat know it, with a few exceptions. The first is that Four did become a leader of Dauntless, but when the Initiation comes around, he volunteers to train the transfer initiates while Eric takes over for that small amount of time. So what that means is that the whole concept of the lowest ranking initiates will become factionless is not in this story, and there is a reason for that, trust me, you'll see it along the way of this first chapter. Anyways, that's the main piece that I wanted to tell you, anyways, on with the story right?
All I saw as I woke up was bright lights. Like when your parents turn on the lights in your room in the morning, yeah, like that. But this time, it wasn't your parents that turned on the lights, because they were already on. As my eyes adjusted to it all, I looked around the room I was in, which was actually a corridor. I noticed these capsule looking things all along the side of the walls to each end of the corridor. As the light finally grew bearable, I noticed something, each capsule was occupied by another person, most of whom I know. Then, I hear this hissing sound coming from each and everyone of them, and the doors pull forward and then upwards. One by one teenagers, all of them, started to fall face first towards the ground before they caught themselves. Most started to cough up a storm, while the rest either were breathing hard, or threw up whatever they had in their stomachs. As I looked at everyone, I noticed that we all had plain white shirts and pants, with a few exceptions of shorts. As they all got their senses back, the door to my right made a sound as if a lock door was being, well, unlocked.
The door opened up to another hallway with three more doors, each having a sign above them. i took a somewhat leadership role and was the first one through the door into the hallway. I took a closer look at the signs, the one to my left read 'Boys Locker Room' the one to my right read 'Girls locker Room' and directly in front of me was the final door that ha d a sign that said 'Exit' and underneath that worlds flashed across the bottom that read 'Will open when all have changed' I turned around to look at all those that were behind me, each and every person there was a teenager maybe no more than 16 years old. I put on an almost neutral face as to address them all.
"Okay people listen up. I don't have a clue what is going on at this moment in time, but I can say that I want to get out of here. So, all the guys will go and change, same with the girls. I don't know how the inside of the locker rooms looking like, but just adjust to it all. Once everyone is finished changing we will all meet back right here in the hallway. Go on." and with that, each went their own way, and I made my way into the Locker room.
Once I was inside, I could see that there were lockers along the sides of the room, and a row down the middle of the room. Upon closer inspection, I saw that each and everyone had a name on the front, all in alphabetical order. I looked down the isle for my name and found it. 'Jeremy M.' I could see that it had a thumb print identification lock on it, so I placed my thumb on it, left it there for a second or two, then the locker hissed, and cracked open. I pulled the locker door open, to find a black and grey camo long sleeve shirt, with solid black pants. I then noticed a duffel bag behind the clothing, so I reached for it and unzipped the bag. I looked inside to see 2 more sets of cloths, same style, but I also say 2 canteens for water, about 10 MRE's, and finally, a Colt Model 1921 Thomas Sub-machine gun, with 5 magazines. The M1921 looked factory new, never tested before. Before I could grab it, I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned around to see my best friend, Jason. He gave me a smirk and brought me into a hug, which of course I returned.
"Hey man, how's it going?" Jason had asked me. I knew he was joking, so I humored him for a bit.
"Nothing much, just waking up, what about you?" he gave me another smile, one that showed he liked times like this. "Same as well.
"You have any idea where the hell we are at this moment in time?" Jason had asked me, but like him, i had no fucking clue, so I gave an honest answer.
"I got no fucking clue right now. If I had to guess, and this is just from all the games and movies that I've seen before, maybe underground? It's the best guess that I got for you right now, but let's just wait for the rest of the people to get dressed and then we'll head into that room, maybe see if we can get any answers." After I said that, Jason had just looked at me, smirked, and shook his head, and I had a feeling I knew what he was about to say to me.
"Can I ask, when the hell did you start to become all bossy and a person to take charge of situations? Most of the time you left that to me, or the others in PSA when it came to the whole leadership tests and whatnot, but hey whatever, it's a nice change for once. I always thought you fit the role better, you being all charismatic and whatnot." I knew what he was talking about. From the last that I remember of the time where I wasn't in a God forsaken tube, I was in a school program called Public Service Academy. In the program, we learned everything that had to do with Public Service. That also included military, as technically it was public service. So when the opportunity to take a course that had to deal with the military, well, we took it. I felt most of the leading to others that were in our squad, so now that I'm taking a leadership role in all of this, is just ironic in a way, to me at least, I don't know about to you that are reading this.
"Well, desperate times call for desperate measures, and right now, I don't see you taking the lead right now, nor did I see others wanting to take charge, so I felt that it was a choice I had to make. Anyways, it seems like the others are ready, so let's get this show on the road." Sure enough, the others were just waiting, most were in the same kind of getup that the guys were in, just that the shirts were of course for girls, and the pants were a bit baggy because I can only guess that it was to make it easier for them to move around. Anyways, we waited another minute or so, and when the rest came back out of the lockers, we made our way through the exit.
As we walked through, we entered into a garage of sorts, only instead of seeing your normal van, or trucks and whatnot, we say military vehicles such as heavily armored trucks, Humvees, and I even saw 2 tanks, both old school, like World War 2 era, only extremely retro fitted with modern day tech and more than likely, much more fuel efficient than they were back during the 40's. I took a closer look, and say that the controls of it all were severely dumbed down for even me to drive, and let me say that I will. One of the tanks was a Sherman, and the other was only the best of all tanks, the Panzer VI Tiger, so I am excited to say, I will ride that sucker into battle any day, but as me and Jason say, we are Infantry first.
As I am looking at the tanks, I noticed out of the corner of my eye, that I see the others looking at a big screen against the wall. I moved away from the tanks, and joined the others, with me pushing my way to the front. When I did get to the front, the screen had a women just patiently waiting, as if she knew I would take the longest to arrive.
"Okay, now that everyone is here, we can begin. Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Dr. Ackles, but refer to me as Sharon. You may have some questions that you want answered, or are wondering where you are at this time. You are all in an underground bunker that was designed to keep 50 to 100 people in a cryogenic tube and keep them under for 100 years, maybe more. You were all chosen to be in here, not because of who your families are or your accomplishments in life, but because of your genes. You see, you may not remember what has happened 100 years ago, so let me explain. The World had went through a major food drought that was world wide. Plants died and the animals were starting to die off as well. A natural response to such a situation would be to self preserve. The United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Russia were the last major powers in the world to still have order. Other nations fell into chaos. But, this meant that the reaming powers were going to face off one another for the worlds remaining resources. The end had come, when the powers waged war, and destroyed the rest of the planet, but the ones with the strongest genes survived. You all had some of the best genes a person could ask for, and so your families, before the end had come, brought you all here, and said goodbyes, but they perished in the fires. Now, it is up to you all to help replenish this once beautiful Earth to its former glory. You have been given these vehicles along with tons of supplies to support all of you for years to come. You also have what we call a "Garden of Eden" plant reserve kit. In this kit, you have the remaining seeds of all the fruits and vegetables that have been destroyed. Fear not, for you are not the only survivors that made it through. you are all currently 50 miles outside of Chicago, one of the last few cities that were left in better conditions than most. You will travel to Chicago, and make contact with the survivors. You will all be kept together and you will thrive with these people. The people of Chicago, have decided that they would all be divided into factions, Dauntless the Brave, Candor the Honest, Abnegation the Selfless, Erudite the Smart, and finally, Amity the Kind. All of you will be sent into Dauntless, and you will train with them, learn their ways, and help them expand back into the unknown regions of the world. I pray that you will succeed. God bless."
At that moment, an explosion flashed in the background, and the screen cut to black. I stood there, just trying to make sense of what Sharon had said to us. As I turned around, I could see some people were crying, or just plain old spaced out, and I couldn't blame them. To hear that we are all 100 years into the future is insane, but I had to face the facts, suck it up, put on a brave face, and help out those that need it right now. I went back to the tanks, got up onto the Panzer, and decided that I would try and give a speech to those that desperately needed it right now.
"Everyone, listen to me right now. I know that what we have been just told, seems very far fetched, but we must also see that this is what our lives have come to, and that we need to move on. I know that we want to grieve for our families that we will never see again, believe me I do. I had a sister and a brother, younger than 10, and I was supposed to protect them, but I failed, and I will never forget them. But that does not mean that we just give up. We will survive this, we will thrive, and we will live on so that our families are never forgotten, or that their sacrifices were in-vain. I saw we fight, we fight for what we believe is right, we fight for our families, our friends, and those that are standing right next to us, at this moment in time. I won't give up, as long as I have your support. WHO'S WITH ME?" Everyone gave a cheer, most were still crying, hell, I know I was, but we still were going to make the best of it all. We had started to load up into the trucks, made sure all of the supplies were there, made sure we weren't forgetting anything or anyone, I had Jason drive the Sherman, where as my friend Joseph would drive the Tiger and I would be the operator of the tank and tell everyone what to do over the radio.
As we were doing this, the floor shook, and we started to rise up, like an elevator. Most of us were done getting in the vehicles, when the top opened up and sunlight came down on us. Once we reached the top, I gave a look around, and saw just red desert all around me. For a moment, all I could think of was 'Great, I can never get enough of God damn deserts!' then I gave the signal for the trucks and humvees to start up. Once they were, I look at teh map that was provided to us, and we moved North to one of the last cities in the United States.
Time Skip 2 hours
As we were moving along the desert, I could see the city, and I noticed that there was a huge fence that was surrounding the city, well, if you can call that a fence, it was all pillars that just had parts sticking out at intervals, no real connection. Anyways, we got closer and closer, till I noticed something weird, I could see greenery in front of the city, and I could see that it was life. I became excited as this meant that the people here could grow their own foods, and that we could save the "Garden of Eden" kit for later uses. Once we made it to the grassy area, we all had slowed down to take in what may possibly be all the greenery left in the world. I then noticed a truck heading towards us, and I took it as a sign that we may be seen as hostile. I told all the vehicles to come to a complete stop, and that we would wait right here for them. As they came closer and closer, I could make out other trucks right behind it, and I had a feeling that these were maybe the Dauntless, as they are the brave.
Finally, they stopped a good 50 yards away from us, and what I assume was their leader, stepping forward with a futuristic looking weapon down by his side. I had figured that he would want to talk first, so I had stepped out of the Tiger, and gave everyone behind me a stand down order, then I made my way towards him.
He stood there, waiting for me, and I could tell that he was tense, but he made a damn good job of hiding it from others. He then decided to call out to us.
"Who are you people, what do you want?" He yelled out to me, as I stood 10 yards away. I could now definitely tell that he was the leader.
"My name is Jeremy. We are survivors of the war from 100 years ago. We were told that One of the last cities was Chicago, and that you were maybe the last humans on earth besides us. We seek asylum, if you would permit this request. I promise you that we mean you or your people no harm in any way, shape, or form." I told him as steadily as possible, I mean, I was damn nervous. He gave me this look of unbelief and I don't blame him in the slightest. He had every right to be suspicious.
"How did you live for so long, you should be long dead." All I could think was, 'Yeah no shit we should be dead.' but i didn't want to give him the wrong impression, so I gave him a better answer.
"We were left in cryogenic tubes that preserved our bodies from all outside dangers. We were told that we were chosen due to our genes. Please, if you would let us in, we could give you a better explanation of it all. I give you my world, and a promise from my family is very important, and will be kept, or may God smite me down now." He gave me another look, and I could tell that he was trying to find any deceit in what I was saying. He finally made his conclusion.
"I will allow you to come into the city, but you must follow the rules, and do what I tell you all. If you make one mistake, I will have my men put you down. Do you understand? Good. My name is Four, I am one of the leaders of the Dauntless faction. You will follow my truck into the city." With that he went back into his truck, and I went back into the Tiger. I gave the order to stand down, again, and to follow the trucks and do as they say.
We were allowed into the city, and let me say, it seemed nice to be able to live in a secured city. The scenery was one that you can tell, was nature taking back what was rightfully given to it by God. We followed the trucks into the middle of the city, and I could see different people all along the streets, either wearing black, black and white, blue, grey, or yellow and red. I could only guess that the colors went with their faction. We finally made it to the center of the city, and we all dismounted. I could hear the whispers all around me, from the people of Chicago, and I could tell, that this has never happened before in the city. Four came by me, and told me to follow him into the building, and so I did, but told some of the others to stay with the vehicles, I didn't want them to be taken for their personal use. I hardly knew these Chicago people after all, better safe than sorry.
And I am done with this chapter, let me say, that this took a lot of thinking to come up with, and to make it still come together just right. I feel like I did a good job, but I will leave that for you to decide. Please leave a comment/review, whatever you want to call it, and let me know what I can improve on, and what you will think will happen in the next chapter. I love to see if people can guess what authors have in mind for their stories, and I want to see if anyone can guess on what I am thinking of doing for this story. Anyways, for the timeline of all of this, this is taking place about 1 week before the tests will begin, and people are choosing their factions, but I decided to keep all the teens in Dauntless, just to make it simpler. Also, this will be a pairing between my character, and Tris. I know people like the whole Tris/Tobias pairing, and I do too, but I want to make it different. Anyways, it's pretty late for me, so I just want to say good night, have a good day, and I will see you guys in the next chapter. JA NE!