Chapter 4: Resistance Prison Island

While Finn and Flow were rowing through the sea, they could see the island from the distance with a huge building on it, and as he recalled, it was the prison island of the resistance that was also used as a second base the whole time. Finn had been telling Flow about his past and his home so he could try to get to know her better and to gain her trust more. "So your 'friends' did all that to you?" Flow asked after hearing the scary birthday pranks and the tough pasts. "Well yeah, I guess it was all out of fun though," Finn responded and chuckled. He saw her look towards the island. "I would have left my home even after one bad birthday," Flow told him as they docked on part of the island that was heavily covered in brush.

Finn looked around confusedly. "Hey, why didn't we dock at… well you know… the docks?" he asked seeing the heavy forest all around them but saw Flow pull out a red patchy leather armor outfit. "Because I'm going to sneak in and do our mission objective; get in, take blueprints, and as for you, just stay here out of the way," Flow told him while putting on the red leather outfit, not seeming to want him to come with her. "Why can't I follow? It's dangerous in their alone!" Finn protested about her going in alone, thinking that was the whole part of being a team, but she just growled while putting her machete on her side and putting a helmet on to cover her face so no one would recognize her inside.

"Wait, I got an idea!" Finn stopped her having a grin. "Why don't you take me in as a prisoner? I could help from the inside," he insisted. Flow just groaned in irritation. "You can question the people in the prison area. There's to many guards for you to come with me," Flow replied as she gripped a zip tie from her bag and put it on Finn's hands, tying them together a little tighter then needed and digging into his wrists. She glared into his eyes. "If you screw up, I'll make sure they know who you are in a second," Flow warned him. Finn nodded and gulped and he then followed her through the brush and forest.

They arrived to the entrance of the prison base. Flow was walking ahead of Finn dragging him by the zip tie on his wrists. Suddenly the two guards stopped them. "Halt! Who are you two?" the first guard asked. "I am Rose, transfer from the other base. I found this security rat hiding in the woods," Flow explained. Finn just glared at her not liking being called a rat. The guards nodded falling for it. "Alright, take him to the prison chamber with the rest of the rats, and then get to the base of operations room for a meeting," the guard told them. Flow nodded and dragging Finn behind her, they both heading into the base.

After a while, Flow and Finn had arrived to a prison area. It was too dark to see inside from the stairway the guard opened the door for them. "I would say I'm sorry about this, but I'm not," Flow whispered to Finn and shoved him down into the prison. He landed face first onto the ground as he groaned in pain, seeing the cell bars close and lock shut while Flow walked away.

Finn got up and slipped out of the zip tie in irritation. "Some leader…" he told himself before turning around seeing a group of other people in ragged clothing that were imprisoned here as well. "Who are you?" an older person asked him, looking to have been imprisoned for quite a while. "I'm Finn. Who are you guys?" Finn replied, confusedly wondering if they were security soldiers too. "We were the inhabitants of this island. We didn't want anything to do in the war but the resistance came and captured us a long time ago," the old man explained that they used to be simple villagers with a king until the resistance showed up.

Finn nodded understanding, but noticed the old man looking at something. He looked over the old man's shoulder and noticed a young girl sitting against the wall alone and scribbling in the dirt with a stick. She barely looked five years old. "Who's she?" Finn asked confusedly, the old man looking back to him. "She's Ana, the granddaughter of the deceased king of the island. He has been dead for a while now, but she still believes he'll save us," he explained.

Finn sadly looked at the many people, wishing he could help them escape their prison but knew that they had no way of doing that right now. "I'm sorry, but my friend and I are just on a simple mission, but I promise one day you'll get out," Finn told them before seeing everyone not seeming to be talking as the old man just walked away from him, appearing to have lost hope a long time ago.

After a few hours, Finn had grown bored and wished he had not left his sword back on the boat. He wondered if Flow had been captured or killed. He just sighed now asking in his own mind if he had become captured himself. Soon he saw the cell bars open and someone throw down a small bucket full of meat. Finn approached it confusedly but the cell bars closed again, though when he turned around, everyone in the prison was swarming the food like they hadn't eaten in months. Finn panted and barely got out of the crowd, picking himself up off the ground.

"What the glob is wrong with you people?" Finn yelled confused of why they were acting like this, but suddenly felt a tug on his hand, looking down and seeing Ana beside him. "Don't be mad. Everyone's acting crazy. Uncle told me," she said. Finn just sighed while trying to calm down, knowing they had all been imprisoned for a while and probably weren't getting fed much. "May we ask of a favor?" the old man asked coming over to them. "Uh, sure man," Finn answered, seeing Ana walk back to the same place she usually stayed in.

"We know you came by a boat. If you do get out, can you please take her with you?" the old man pleaded pointing to Ana. Finn didn't know how to respond since he worried that it may make Flow mad if he did something without her, though he knew she was irate a lot either way. "Won't her parents be mad if I took her away from them?" Finn asked, presuming that her parents were also locked away but the old man chuckled.

"They were taken away a year ago and didn't come back, and I can safely say they would have wished for her to at least escape safely," the old man responded. Finn looked at Ana trying to think it over, knowing he probably had a lot of time to think with how long Flow was taking. "I'll think about it, alright?" he claimed. The old man nodded and walked away. Finn sighed and sat down, leaning up against the wall and seeing the dark prison. It didn't have anything in it aside from the cell bars, but he spent most of the time pondering the old man's request.

End of Chapter 4