Full Summary:
A girl that came on the tenth pilgrimage with the Shannon's has been secretly keeping something from them and the rest of the community. What happens when Maddy is taken hostage by the Sixers? Will the girl show her true colors? And are there more people just like her? How will Commander Taylor, Lt. Washington, Jim and the rest of the settlement feel about her and the others? Will they be banned from Terra Nova? Or will they stay and help with the fight that is coming?
The Tenth Pilgrimage:
Powis Household:
Anna-Beth Powis was the youngest daughter of twenty-four kids. Her parents had been thrown into the jail because they had decided that they weren't going to stop at two kids. She was sixteen-years-old, the rest of her siblings were older than her and they were all just as powerful. There families had been picked for the lottery and they were all headed for Terra Nova. There parents were staying behind in the prison, where they would be for the next twenty or so years, one year for every child they'd had after two. Anna-Beth might have been the youngest, but she was the most powerful of her family. Because she was the youngest, her older sister Marie, had taken her in when there parents had been thrown in jail.
It was all of her sisters and brothers that were headed to Terra Nova, and because she couldn't get left behind, she was going as well. She was packing everything that she had ever held dear to her and taking it with her. She knew that they probably wouldn't be liked where they were going but maybe if they could keep there powers secret, nobody would ever figure it out. She had always been good at sports and even though the air was bad, she still was able to play. The Powis' were all living under one roof. They had built the house big enough for the whole family and extended members to live comfortably together. They had built an indoor basketball court and indoor pool which was used to house the family's main water supply.
The pool was regular water that tasted better than anything in the year they lived in because they had used there powers to purify the water. Anna-Beth had the powers to control water and the ground they walked on. She had always been able to control both of those powers. Her siblings were able to control different elements of the planet and even though only one could open portals, they were never determined to use that power. They knew that if one of the family was to be sent to Terra Nova, then the others would have to follow suit. They just didn't figure that they would be told that the trip would be one way and only one way and that anything that got left behind would go to other people staying behind. They deeded there home to there neighbors who weren't going with them and anyone they wanted to bring into the house.
The Portal:
Anna-Beth was with her sister and brother-in-law as they headed for the portal. The rest of there family was behind them. With the other twenty-two siblings behind them and there families, this was going to be one long trek through the portal. They had just made it to the front of the line when a man came running through the line and through the portal. As Anna-Beth and her sisters and brothers and family members went through the portal, they saw the man lying on the ground, gasping for breath. They knew that whatever this man had done, nothing could be as bad as charging into the portal unannounced. He probably wasn't supposed to even be here.
She and her family gathered together as the soldiers' yelled gun, the man dropped the gun, the soldiers went to cut open a backpack and the family ran to the pack, unzipping it and pulling out a little girl in the process with an oxygen mask over her mouth and nose. They were allowed to stay together. When everyone was through the portal, the all picked up our belongings and bags and headed out, towards Terra Nova. Because the family was so big and because the builders of Terra Nova had been told that such a large family was coming through the portal, they were told that there house was by far one of the bigger living units, though most people would be jealous.
They all knew that for the first few days they would be drinking some kind of blue disgusting drink that would get them used to eating and drinking food from eighty-millions years in the past. The Powis children and there families already knew what it felt like to drink and eat something you were not familiar with. But they said nothing and followed the others towards Terra Nova.
Most of the people around them were looking at them as if they were some kind of giant or something. Their family was bigger than most families, but it all seemed irrelevant to what was going on at the precise moment. They just hoped people would treat them like they were people and not freaks, like the people back in 2149 did almost all the time.
Terra Nova:
Anna-Beth and her siblings and there families were all standing in the quad when the Commander started speaking. They were all paying attention and even managed to know what was expected of them. The commander seemed to be very pleased with who was now in front of them. After the speech, Anna-Beth and her family were shown to there new home where they would be staying for the remainder of there lives. Anna-Beth made a beeline for the room at the very top of the building. She claimed it as hers and told the rest of her siblings and cousins that they weren't allowed in. The house was nearly seven stories tall, three under ground and four above ground.
Her sister Marie would be working in the clinic where Doctor Elizabeth Shannon had said she would. Marie had worked under Dr. Shannon when they were in 2149 and now would be doing so again. The rest of her family also had different important jobs in the community and she knew that she and her cousins would be expected to go to school now that they were here. They would first have to be tested to see what classes they would get, but then they would be expected to go to school afterwards. They had orientation in the morning for the whole day and were being expected to go. Then the next day they had survival training and the day after that was school testing.
Life was definitely turning around for the Powis family now that they had left 2149 behind and were starting there lives over.