I just finished telling my plan to Gale and Rue. Gale looks impressed that both I and Rue have 'grown some balls' (his words, not mine), while Rue looks like she wants to kick ass now.

"So," I begin, "How do you guys like the plan?"

My question is followed by silence before Rue interjects.

"I like it, but I have a couple questions. First, I think we need someone higher up to back us. That way, Snow can't just toss us for giving him slight headaches. Who do you have in mind for that?"

Before I can answer, Gale responds, "Leave that to me. I can most definitely get the Dean on board. She hates Snow's guts and has been chomping at the bit to replace the bastard!"

Rue looks surprised at what Gale just said. Hell, I am surprised at what Gale just said. I never realized that he knew so much about the politics of this school.

But I soon nod in agreement and say, "I agree. Although Coin is not the most preferable person to trust, we don't have much of a choice. An enemy of my enemy is my friend in this case. We can definitely deal with her once we get Snow out of the way."

Both Gale and Rue nod in agreement with my multilayer plot.

"Which actually leads to my next questions Kat. Are you sure that we can trust you know who? How can you be so certain that they won't betray you in the process? Hell, how will Snow not try and intervene by pitting the two of you together?"

I reply, "To answer your first question, I don't know if we can trust them. But I do know that they hate that asshole Snow as much, if not more, than I do. We just have to capitalize on that hatred in order to get a temporary alliance in order. To answer your second, I kind of factored that into the plan. It kind of helps initiate stage three. Granted, the plan will have to be tweaked as we go along, since nothing ever seems to go to plan for us."

Gale chuckles, "That is so true Everdeen. Remember in first grade when we…"

"Gale?" I ask.

"Yeah Katnip?"

"Please shut up."

"Sorry."

I sigh at my friend's short attention span before I continue.

"Anyway, the answer to the last question is this. Snow will be caught flatfooted once he sees that the two of us are working together. And yes, I am sure that he will be able to deduce that we are working together after a while. Although, if things work out as planned, it might take some time for him to figure it out. He will see that our alliance is a fragile one. One that can be easily broken if one thing goes wrong. He will make sure that something does go wrong. We need to anticipate that. But I need to know exactly what is going on in that twisted mind of his…"

An unknown voice softly says, "We can help with some of that…"

I jump at the intrusion before turning to see who it is.

To my surprise, it is the nerdy Beetee and his posse from AV Club.

I soon overcome my surprise and ask him, "Why do you want to help us? You never seemed the type to cause trouble or rebel against Snow."

Beetee pushes his thick framed glasses up the bridge of his nose before answering, "It is because he hasn't only screwed you over. He has been trying to cut funding for our club for the longest time. He wants the funding to go to our football program. The only person stopping him is the Superintendent. But he is set to retire soon and Snow seems like the obvious replacement. We will be totally screwed if that happens. So we will definitely do whatever it takes to bring that tyrant down. Right Wiress?"

His friend Wiress nods in agreement while mumbling something that I can only assume to be her agreement as well.

"Okay, good. The AV club will handle hacking into the school security system. We need to use his eyes in the sky against him. You guys know how to do that right?"

Beetee nods eagerly before responding, "Oh most definitely. Even though Snow seems to delude himself into thinking that his system is unhackable, there is always a glitch in the system. We already know what it is and have already triggered a backdoor just for a time like this. We can easily get the eyes on our side. Just say when."

I smile at his eagerness before answering, "Just do it as soon as possible. We need to get all the intel and damning evidence that we can before Snow even knows what hit him."

Beetee's smile widens to the point of mere giddiness before he answers, "Glad we are on the same page Ms. Everdeen. We will start right away. So please excuse us, we have a tyrant to take down."

With that, he and his AV club members disperse to their multiple laptops at their lunch table.

I am surprised at his willingness. I had no idea that other people were getting burned by that bastard Snow. This plan just might work.

"Okay. We got that taken care of. Now we just need a couple moles to help us out. You guys got anyone in mind?" I ask on the second part of the question that I am stumped on.

Rue nods eagerly before answering, "I have a couple of people in mind. Both of these people are members of the school staff who have been scorned by Snow. We can definitely use this to our advantage. Just let me talk to them beforehand, then I will let you know."

"Alright," I respond, "It looks like we have a little homework to do. Gale, you will try and get Coin on board. Rue, you will get your moles in place."

Rue interrupts, "What about you Kat?"

"I will get some unlikely allies. Keep your heads up. I'll email you guys tonight to see where we stand." I answer before the lunch bell rings.

Once the ring finishes, we go in our own separate directions. Each with our own motive, each with our own purpose. But we know that we share one common goal: To bring Snow down.