"Whenever I consider how people paid so much attention to stuff like cellphones and new brands but so little to what is actually important like how clear the sky was once compared to what we have now I realize that maybe it wasn't all bad, the price was so high though" Mia smiled by her silly thought
"You know this is not fair, right?" a voice appeared and Mia's silly smile changed to an actual one as she could easily determine it's Ben
"What is?"she asked and Ben sat next to her on a building's roof
"You, coming to MY secret place that I CLAIMED" the teenage replied with a proud tune
"Well apologies Christopher Columbus" she teased him back
"So What is it? Matt said you were searching for me" Ben shifted his funny attitude to a serious one
"Well yeah, the thing is you haven't had any partner since Jimmy's death upon your request, sometimes you team up with Hal, Denny and random people but ..."
"No Mia"Ben interrupted "You're not going to leave the berserkers and team up with me, you're the last person I would like to endanger"he explained
"I will feel way better this way, knowing that we both have each other's back, beside can you hear yourself Ben? endanger yourself and leave the beserekers! seriously Pope is my leader, you're literally saving me from Bazinga train here"the girl mocked but Ben remained silent "Pweez?" she made a puppy face in an attempt to convince him
"Fine, you may join me" he added with a proud tune again
"Hey guys!" Matt called, standing by the staircase
"So much for a secret place" Ben complained
"What is it Matty?" the girl walked to the youngest Mason
"Captain Weaver and Dad are having a meeting with all the militia and they asked me to tell you" Matt informed
"Come here" Ben grabbed Matt and carried him on his back till they reached the meeting room " Thank you for informing us officer Matt" he gave him an army salute then entered the room with Mia "I am sorry" Ben apologized for being late and Captain Weaver nodded
"Uhm, as we were saying, we are shorten on weapons especially that the berserkers's failed yesterday to bring anything, but that's not the only danger we 're facing according to Anthony there's a Harnessing facility 5 km to the west" Tom drew a circle on the map to point out the Harnessing facility's location
"I think we should start by the weapon factory tonight then we can easily take down the facility" Hal suggested and Weaver placed his hand on his chin and started to consider Hal's words
"More kids will be harnessed by then, beside it will be impossible take down the factory with their presence" Tom spoke up
"Your father is right Hal, we will be fighting two enemies at the same time if they decide to show up, espacially that we lack weapons too" Weaver added
"I think we should take both of them by tonight" Maggie started to explain and everyone paid attention "We have enough weapons to take down the facility and keep the harnessed kids busy, yes we might need more weapons which can be provided by the other team in the factory to back us up, beside they don't have to take the whole place down just some weapons to back us up for now"
"What about Charleston? someone has to be here in case someone attacks" Hal wandered "We can't afford to divide our forces or the weapons into three teams"
"We don't have to, I know it's risky but what we faced yesterday at the weapon factory was a trap, I am sure it wasn't set by the espheni or the harnessed kids" Mia explained
"You mean they were humans?" the leader asked
"I believe so, there's no need for a team I think me and Ben can take them with some rebellion skitters and the rest of the skitters can stay here with Denny and some forces to protect the town, they wouldn't need any weapons and there will be enough forces to take down the facility" Mia explained further
"What do you think Pope?" Weaver turned to the berserekers's leader
"I agree with prom queen here, we haven't seen any esphenis yesterday or any harnessed kids" he replied
"Well Denny and I can't go anyway because they will sense our presence and we will ruin the element of surprise however after you attack we can join you and back you up with the weapons" Ben turned his sight to his dad
"It's risky, if anything goes wrong it might kill us all" Weaver clearly was against the whole idea
"Well we don't have many options here, I believe it depends on your opinion guys" Tom asked the militia members and most of them nodded "Ben, Shooter can you do it?"
Ben turned his sight to Mia who nodded and smiled "Yeah, sure we will bring as many weapons as we can to back you up"Ben answered confidently
"Fine, team Alpha will be under Tom's leadership, as for team Beta Ben you're in charge, and I will stay here with Denny and some men in the addition to the rebellion skitters to protect the town" Weaver ordered which indicated that the meeting is over so they all walked out of the room
"I should be going now, to inform the Skitter rebellion leader with our plan" Ben explained to his girlfriend
"Yeah I figured, see you at six?" she asked referring to the timing of the plan
"It's a date" he smiled then left
"Mia?" the girl turned around and it was Anne calling out for her but she simply ignored her and continued walking
"Mia, I am talking to you" Anne shouted and grabbed her arm trying to stop her "You didn't come for an examination after your incident"
"Anne, Doctor Glass you have nothing to do with me or my health, honestly I only spoke to you yesterday because I had to check on Ben and this is probably the only reason we will ever talk, now excuse me cause I have loads of stuff to attend to" she moved her arm then walked away "And my name is Shooter" she added the resumed walking
Author's Note: Please tell me what do you think of the story so far or add any suggestions, whether it's good or bad I want nothing more than to improve my skills ^_^