"There can be no good without evil." - Old Russian Proverb.
"Hello," I mumbled.
"Hey," Cara said, stepping forward.
"So…Mallory is going to inject people with a new serum. Probably right now. And then, they will be under his control," I said.
"What do we do?" Christina asked.
"Fight. As in, now. We can't let this happen again. However, people don't want to be in a war again. No one will fight. We are going to have to do this the political way."
"Political way?" A girl said with disdain.
"Yeah. We don't have an army and I would prefer that no one dies."
"Whatever."
"That will mean proving that he is corrupt to the people. We don't want them to side with him either. I found footage of his meeting with David."
"David?!"
"Yeah, we need to make it impossible for him to do anything. We need to learn this time and have the other guy as president. We can't just run in there with guns blazing. I am sure warriors for him are being made right now."
"What will happen when they realize some of us didn't show and get the serum?" A boy asked.
"They will probably poison our food supplies. We will have to find a way to sneak out some and not eat the infected. Our objective right now are…1, get food and water without the serum. 2, find others that we can trust and ones that didn't go today. The Allegiant is going to get a lot bigger. 3, prove he is corrupt. 4, get the other guy to help and make him a war hero. 5, destroy the government again."
"Well…when you say it like that it sounds easy," Christina said, rolling her eyes.
"Maybe it can be. We have been through an entire way. Now we are just doing a coup."
"What about the people supporting him?" An older man asked.
"After we everyone on our side, we will try to neutralize him ourselves and the people working for or with him. Hopefully when he is dead, people will be released from the serum and some government officials will come to our sides."
"Some will be left alive? Even after working with him?"
"Yes. Some might not want to, but feel like they have to. They might even be under a serum. Trusting people might be the hardest part of this, but we have to."
"I don't like this," Cara said.
"No one does, but apparently the world hates us. We can't just sit around and do nothing. Let's go. We need to start talking to people and gathering people. Christina and I will go to Amity. They are probably busy and will go the center in the evening. Everyone else search for people that the serum didn't work on or didn't go."
"How will know if it doesn't?"
"I have a theory. It might go into effect immediately, meaning people who otherwise hated him and complain will suddenly start praising him. Avoid those."
"Alright."
"Let's go," I grabbed Christina's arm.
The two of us quickly made our way over to Amity. People nodded at us as we walked back. We passed a building when we felt arms around us. As I felt their hold loosen, I jerked them and shoved them in the wall. My gun was pointing at their back.
"Hey, wait!" Someone yelled. "We are the good guys."
"Then, why did you grab us?" I growled.
"We want to talk," the other said, with his face on the wall also.
Christina and I let them up.
"Go on," Christina said.
"We heard the message. Only a handful went, because they weren't working. We are hoping we won't have to, but…"
"It is impossible." Christina started.
"Well, of course, they are going to poison the food. I suggest you started to split the food. Put some aside for others."
"Great idea!" The one Christina shoved in the wall said.
"What do you want from us?" The other asked.
"To avoid getting the serum. Talk to others and have them not go also. Spread the news around that we are rationing food for people that aren't getting the 'vaccine'. Lie if you have to. Just say it is for health. People want to feel safe."
"Alright. What do we after that?"
"Meant us back here in a few days."
"Okay."
They left.
"Nice," Christina said.
I looked over at her, not sure what was nice or if it was sarcasm. I just shrugged. After that, we decided to go to our old factions and see if we can't gather people. We had to do this swiftly before we were found and a war started. I didn't want people to die. I was doing this to save everyone, not to get them killed.
