What is going on all my fellow fanfiction readers, my name is the501stclonetroops and today, I have the second chapter for my story Divergent: An Unforeseen Event and today is all about introducing the characters to the way of life of the people of Detroit and then making a small time skip just to get to the whole choosing ceremony, honestly it's almost like they are signing a contract with the devil himself when they decide that they should leave their old faction to go to another one. I for one would support whatever my child/children chose, but hey, that is just me. I want to see my children happy. Anyways, I'm just typing away for no real reason apparently so I'll just start with the story.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own the divergent series or the brand of Dr. Pepper, but I wish I did, it's so good.
Inside the main building...
As I was walking in, I had my friend Jason to my right, my other friend Rogelio to my left, and finally, my final friend Katie right behind me. As we were leaving the bunker, they elected themselves as my personal body guards in the future, but I insisted that it really wasn't necessary, but they are almost as stubborn as I am. Almost, they will never make my love for Dr. Pepper forfeit. Each of them had their own respective weapons, Jason with his Browning Automatic Rifle, or B.A.R. for short, Rogelio had his MP40, and Katie with her Type 100. As I took notice of their guns, I realized that everything had the same designs of guns from World War 2, just with a bit of modern looks to them all, which I didn't mind. I loved learning about WW2, and I knew almost everything that other people didn't.
Anyways, I had on me my Thomson, with my M1911 in its holster, so in total, we had 4 people that were armed, and were capable in all aspects in case of talks going south, not to mention the tanks parked right outside. We made our way through the lobby to a set of doors behind the front desk, which lead into a hallway, with more doors on either side of the hallway. We passed a few dozen till we turned to a set of doors to our right, the doors had a sign on it that said "Interrogation" and all I could think about was 'Way to keep it subtle.' and we were pushed into the room.
The room itself had almost a Greek amphitheater look to it all, with rows of seats going in a half circle, and with a center circle in the middle of the room. I also took notice that the room was occupied with a lot of men and women dressed in black and white clothing, even a few with blue or just black. I came to realize that 3 factions were present at this time in this room. I then noticed that 2 men were pushing a tray into the room that had 4 viles filled with liquid and 4 syringes. If my thought process was correct, then I believe that those are maybe some kind of truth serums? Back 100 years prior, truth serums were all a bunch of fakes, well, at least most of them, but I swear that one had a taste of alcohol to it, I swear.
Before I could think any longer, I noticed that a man in a black suit was walking forward.
"Hello, my name is Jack Kang, I represent the Candor faction. Candor values the truth above all else, and so it is only right that we be the ones to judge whether or not you are telling the truth of what you say, or you are lying and are a danger to us. Let us begin." He then motions for one of his colleges to bring a syringe, which is then injected into my neck. Let the record show that I never licked having shots in my arms, but to the neck, well, I was more than freaked out by this. It was a small pinch,but still, he injects the liquid into my body, removes the syringe quickly, and applies a small bandage to stop the bleed.
"Now, can you tell us your name, date of birth, where you come from, and what is your purpose of being here?" Kang asked, and I could feel this slight tug at the back of my head to tell the truth, all of it, but I just easily ignored it, and answered to the best of my abilities.
"My name is Jeremy, I would like to keep my last name confidential. My date of birth is December 21, of the year 2000. I come from a small town called Thousand Palms Indio. My purpose is to help my friends and myself survive this apocalypse and to start anew in a new area." I could tell right away that people were being skeptical of may answers, especially about my birth date, but I did tell them the truth, except where I come from. I mashed to city names together real quick from a place I visited one summer just to not give everything about myself away.
"How was it that you were able to last for 100 years after the end of the world. Surely you should have died in the end." Kang points out, which is a 'Not shit Sherlock' situation, but I let that comment slide.
"A woman by the name of Sharon explained to us that our families before the end of the war and the world came about, had let people take us away to be put into cryogenic tubes and survive the nuclear blasts, to restart, or in this case, help civilization take back what is lost. The lands have been reduced to almost deserts, but we were given the tools to help replenish the earth with its lost greenery." I finished my explanation, and Kang nodded that we were finished, and said really quick "Thank you for your Candor." and sent me back to the others, calling Jason to come up.
The interrogations lasted all of 30 minutes, with each of us giving similar answers, except for of course birth dates and where we came from. When Katie, who was the last one called up, was dismissed, Kang had left the center to go and talk to a group of other Candor people who I guess made up the jury in this case, I have no clue how it works. they talked for a good 10 minutes, before Kang walked back into the center and grabbed everyone's attention.
"My colleges and I have come to a decision. We believe that these people are not threats to us and that they speak the truth, nothing they have told us was a lie." The whole crowd began to murmur to themselves, discussing the verdict and either giving their own opinions, or just agreed with what Kang had said.
"Now comes the harder part of this whole ordeal, where to keep them. They obviously can't stay out in the fields or go back out to the wastelands, we must decide where they should go." Kang had told the entire audience, and again, murmuring started up, and almost died just as quickly. A man wearing all black came forward and said his peace.
"The Dauntless Faction shall host these young people till the time comes for the initiations. They will then choose where they want to go, and they will make their own choices." He gave a valid point. It looked to me that this initiation process is what determined what you would be in the future, and where you will live, plus everything in between. If all the information that we were told back at the bunker was true, the best place for us to hold out would be at the Dauntless Faction, HQ is guess? I have no clue what they call their areas.
"Then it's settled, these people shall now be apart of the Chicago population, and hopefully, in years to come, we start to restore the earth to its former glory." The leader to the Abnegation faction had told the rest of the audience, and with that, I was set free to go and follow the leaders of the Dauntless faction, and to find a place for us to call home.
We walked back outside to meet with the rest of our group, when we noticed a person in a suit trying to start a fight with one of my friends. He was asking if we truly were from the old world 100 years ago, and when my friend Moises had said yes, he lied saying we were lying. I walked right behind him, and draped my arm over his shoulders as to seem friendly.
"Hey now, come on. I'm sure that there is no reason to fight, what seems to be the problem here?" I sounded as friendly as possible, just to give him this false sense of security. He took the bait as he stopped being so ruff with my friend and tried to explain the situation.
"You see, I was asking this guy right here if he really was from 100 years ago, and when he said he was, I could tell he was lying, you all are lying." He exclaimed the last part louder as to get the most amount of people to hear him. Immediately, I knew his game. He was trying to make us seem like we are a threat to everyone around here, and to make himself more powerful with the amount of publicity he would gain from it all.
"what's your name man? Surely, you have a name correct? Also, what is your faction?" I said still in my 'friendly guy' voice.
"Yeah, I do. It's Peter. Hayes, and my faction is Candor, we can tell if a person is lying or not." He said very confidently. I just nodded, then gave a very had slap to the back. I went from friendly to very serious in the time it takes to say damn.
"Now listen here Peter from Candor. My people and I are telling the truth. We don't lie, and we are looking for a new place to call home. 3 others and I just went through an interrogation where we were proven to be saying the truth. Now, how about you quit with the BS'ing and do something productive with your miserable life. I think scrubbing toilets best suites you character and what you deserve." I said and walked back to my tank, head held high. Out of pure instinct, I reacted. I turned around, grabbed his arm, and did another turn, while throwing him over my shoulder down onto the concrete. He gives out a moan of pain, while I release his arm, and continue to walk away. I get back into my Panzer, have Rogelio start it up, and we follow the vans containing the Dauntless leaders back to their HQ. I can finally relax for a bit, and have, without a doubt in my mind, believe that we are finally where we belong, and can actually help society to head into a brighter future.
And that is the cut. I am really happy of how this turned out. I obviously could have continued on with the chapter and have them get situated in Dauntless, but I am getting lazy, and so I will just cut that whole thing out with a timeskip and start it back up to where the initiations are done and over with, and the same people go to the same factions, just with these guys thrown into the mix. I'll be trying to write longer chapters from now on, so you guys have more to read in the future, and not these short chapters. Next chapter will be from the start of the initiation program to the end of the first faze of training, so all the way to the fighting your fears part. Anyways, i'll be going now, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I will be catching you in the next one. Bye Bye!
'Write On!' -DaisyFan5534 (Go check her fanfics out, they are really good!)