Reliving The Past - Chapter 2 – Echo
AN - So i think that this will be 5-6 chapter story. Please R&R, i always appreciate feedback!
Echo opened her eyes. She was lying on the ground, wait, no - she was lying in a cage. She knew this cage. She tried to not ever think about this cage, this was where her nightmares would go, being trapped in this cage. Yet here she was, in this cage again. How was this possible?
She didn't have too much time to think, as the door opened. It wasn't a Mount Weather person, it was Clarke. The other prisoners made loud noises. Echo called out to her "Clarke?"
"Echo? You know me?" asked Clarke, know her? Of course she knew her. "How the hell are we in Mount Weather again? Of course I know you" asked Echo.
"No time, we have to leave now" said Clarke. And she broke the lock with a metal tray.
"We have to take the tracer out" Clarke said rapidly. As she found it, an alarm went off. "They know I'm rogue, we have to go, now!" Crake took out a knife, and took the tracker out of her arm.
"You have some sort of plan?" Echo asked as Clarke led them through a metal opening. Another alarm sounded, and Clarke said "Brace yourself". The doorway closed, and the floor opened up. Down they both went into cart full of dead bodies.
"Echo, take my hand" Clarke yelled at her. So Echo took her hand, and they got out of the cart with dead people. "What the hell is going on?" asked Echo.
"Come here, we have to hide, the reapers are through there" Clarke said without explaining anything. Taking some clothes off the ground, and handing her some.
It was as if Clarke knew exactly where she was going, like she knew these tunnels, somehow. So she followed her. She stopped, as reapers seem to be blocking their exit. However they became the last of their worries as they heard a high frequency noise go "beeeeep". The reapers went down to the floor. Clarke jumped into action. Mountain men were behind them. "Go for their masks" she yelled. Between the both of them they were able to incapacitate the 3 mountain men pretty easily.
"Run!" yelled Clarke, "more will be on their way". Before running away, Clarke took a weapon. Echo went to do the same, but took a radio instead. She kept following Clarke until they got to their exit. It was a drop off into the river, one hundred feet up. "We have to jump!" she said, as she ran out and jumped off the concrete cliff. She looked behind her and she heard more mountain men on their way, so she jumped after Clarke without any more hesitation.
They got to the river bank. Clarke was already there, coughing, and breathing hard. "Common, it's an eight hour walk to Arkadia" Clarke said as she reached out to her, giving her a hand as they got up.
"Before I take another step, you're gonna tell me what the hell is going on, how is Mount Weather still around? Did we travel through time? And space? How are we on Earth? How do you know what's going on?" Echo asked her questions.
"I am as clueless as you as to what is going on, but if you're here, and I'm here, and Miller looked like the Miller from Mount Weather, not the Miller from Wonkru, that means that only a select few of us are here, whatever here is, my plan is to get to Raven, and right now she's in Arkadia. Raven can help us figure this out. Now we have to keep moving, Mount Weather is gonna send others after us, so we have to move" Clarke took a few steps, but Echo did not move. Clarke looked back, "Look, I know I haven't made the best of decisions lately, but Madi's in trouble. The last thing I remember was looking for Madi. Right now we need to work together to get to Arkadia. We have enemies on all sides, and even if Raven is not our Raven, she can help us figure this out."
"Okay, okay" It was the fact that Madi was in trouble that her to agree. She had made an oath to protect her commander at any cost, and she begrudgingly admitted that her commander would want her to protect Clarke.
So they kept moving. Finally, in a covered location, Echo said "We need to rest, there's a cave nearby, I hid some supplies there a long time ago, but I guess in this timeline it was a few days ago"
"I know, this is so confusing" Clarke smiled.
They got to the cave, and Echo found her supplies, that she hid over one hundred years ago. There was a stream that went through the cave. "It's getting dark, should we hide here for the night?" Echo asked the other woman.
Clarke was looking around "We are still five hours from Arkadia, this location is actually pretty well covered, we should wait here, that way Kane would have already left, and my mom would be the one in charge"
"Why does that matter?" asked Echo.
"I don't know why I know this, but I think we have to duplicate what happened before, as much as possible. I got to the camp with Anya, and we beat ourselves up on the way" Clarke said, as she raised both her hands in surrendered.
"I think we can skip that part" Clarke smiled. "Yea, I don't think my commander would like it if I beat you up" Echo replied.
"Thanks" said Clarke. "Beating ourselves up took some time, we are a day ahead of where we should be, but I couldn't stay in that mountain any longer."
"So what happens when we reach Raven, and she doesn't know who I am" asked Echo.
"You won't be going with me to Arkadia, if you go with me, you will die. I am going to go in, and sneak Raven out. And I'll meet you at the dropship. There were can discuss out situation to our heart's content"
"Won't the ruin the duplicating of what happened the first time?" asked Echo.
"Yes, but I don't think we have traveled through time and space, I think…" Clarke didn't finish.
"What? What's your theory" asked Echo. "I don't want say, not just yet. I think Raven is the only that can confirm it" Clarke said.
Echo let it lie. Clarke would share when she was ready. They took turns keeping watch.
The next morning they started their five hour trek. "Do you think Mount Weather is still looking for us?" asked Echo. "Probably" answer Clarke.
When they were about a mile from the camp, Clarke stopped, and took cover. Echo filled in behind her. "The dropship is due west of here, follow the path, and you should get there, can't miss it" she said.
"Are you sure we can just use this?" Echo took out a radio she had taken from the mountain men.
"You took a radio? Why didn't you tell me?" asked Clarke, taking the radio from Echo's hand. "Not that it would have mattered. Mt Weather is jamming all the frequencies. We need to get closer to camp, this way."
She started to move closer to camp. It wasn't until the camp was in visual range that she stopped. "Let's try it here". Clarke started playing with the different setting until they heard a man "Ark Station, this is Alpha station, anyone out there?"
"If I remember correctly, Raven was tasked with trying to create a beacon. She could be listening too" Clarke was thinking about what she could say.
"Why not say we are here, come meet us" asked Echo.
"Because no one is allowed to leave camp without permission from the chancellor, and I doubt my mom made it back too, so the Abbey we'll see will not really help us" said Clarke.
Echo did not want to just wait around so she took the radio and spoke in Trig "Wanheda and the Azgeda spy are here for our pilot" she said into the radio.
"Okay, that's actually pretty good. No one there other than Raven should understand that." Clarke said surprised. Echo just rolled her eyes.
"We are in the trees to the east of your camp, come meet us as soon as you can". Echo again spoke in Trig as she told Raven where to meet them.
"So how long do you propose we wait?" asked Clarke.
"I don't know, this is your plan" responded Echo.
"My plan takes us as far as Raven, after that, I have no idea what to do, the only thing I know is that I am not going to live through all of that again, I just can't". Clarke said this with an anguish Echo never heard the other speak with before. Echo never stopped to think what Mount Weather had cost Skykru, and in particularly Clarke. "I guess even Wanheda struggles with her demons" said Echo.
"I think we have been in survivor mode for so long, I haven't really stopped to processes it. It took Madi reminding me of what I long believed, life should be more than just surviving, to break me out of my survive at all costs mentality" Clarke stopped looking toward the camp, and finally looked at Echo "There are many demons I have struggled reining in"
"Could have fooled me" Said Echo. Clarke has looked away, but looked as soon as she responded. "I don't mean it in a callous way, I mean that, every time I encountered you, you seemed at peace with your decisions"
Clarke just laughed. "I wish" she said, turning back towards the camp. They settled in and kept a vigil on the camp.
"If you had a choice, would you do anything differently?" she asked Clarke. Echo was honestly curious as to what the answer would be.
"I honestly don't even know where to begin, but if I could go back and do one thing differently, I wouldn't leave Bellamy behind, that's the one thing I could change, that I would change. I wouldn't betray spacekru the first chance I got."
Clarke said all of this without looking away from her camp. Being a spy, Echo knew that there was more to the story, but she let it lie.
It took a few hours, but their patience paid off, they saw Raven coming toward them in the distance.
AN - Can you guess who wills tar in the next chapter? This has forced me to rewatch season 2. I think season 2 might be my fave...