Chapter 6:
Author notes: I am seriously making this up as I go along, I don't even know how this chapter is gonna end so enjoy
Clarke's POV:
Not even a month on the ground and this was what we had become; I looked at the corpse of the man we had murdered. We may have killed others but this had been cold blooded murder, I wasn't sure who killed him but there were plenty of possibilities. We truly had become the council, we had the life and death of a man in our hands and we chose to kill him, no Bellamy chose most likely as revenge for Roma than for any practical reason.
I heard a voice behind me "where are we going?"
I turned to see Charlotte standing in front of me "back to our dropship hopefully."
"Why what's there?
"Shelter, Raven and it's where the people from the Ark will find us."
I could see the look of fear on her face and instinctively hugged her "we'll be okay."
"I hate to break up this touching scene but Clarke your next." It was Murphy.
"I'm coming." I looked at Charlotte "See you on the surface."
I walked over to the lifts and nodded to Fox who was making sure the doors didn't close, we could open them but it would be a waste of time.
I found the ladder in near total darkness and climbed up to meet the group on the surface. It only took a few minutes and I knew that the next person, Pascal, had started the climb.
I saw Bellamy's handiwork as soon as I reached decontamination, the glass window had been broken off and the door taken off its hinges, I walked straight out to join the 15 odd who had already made the climb.
"Pascal's next" I announced to whoever was listening.
It was Finn who responded "we have a problem, Princess."
"What is it?"
"Look for yourself."
I looked down the mountain and saw the issue, a team of Mountain Men stood near the main entrance; there was no way past them.
"What do we do about them?"
"Bellamy suggested dropping rocks on them, damage the radiation suits."
I didn't want to kill them, the 3 deaths that had already happened were 3 too many, but weighted against our own lives what did it matter?
Bellamy joined us "if we shoot do you think they will return fire?"
"Our bodies are worth too much, they won't risk it but they may have tranquilisers."
Finn laughed at this idea "our bodies will be more broken by the fall then by bullets, the only way to reach us is through level 5 and we boarded that up pretty well."
"Well enough is the question?"
Pascal had completed the climb "Trina next" was all he said before lying down.
Monroe's POV:
I adjusted my gun strap as I studied the barricade; it worked being the primary concern and that hadn't been tested yet. I had done the maths and I wasn't due to leave for another 395 minutes so I may as well get comfy.
I sat next to Sterling who was going to keep me sane for the next 6 hours, we sat backwards on chairs; his logic "if they come and throw anything it will bounce right off" I wasn't sure if we needed this precaution but better safe than sorry.
"Is anyone going to take over, I'm going nuts here." Sterling grunted in agreement and I turned to shout at the crowd "anyone fancy taking over here?"
After a moment we got a response from Jasper "if you need a break sure" Mbege came over too and they took over.
I stretched against a wall to get the cramp out of my leg while they got comfy.
This lasted about 2 minutes before the barricade started to shake; hooks had been thrown over from the other side and were being used to pull it down.
I pulled out a knife and prepared to a fight. Sterling on the other hand ran over to the barricade and very casually removed the hook, he was joined by Murphy and soon they were gone, someone shouted out "not today thank you".
We could hear voices on the other side and I decided to be blunt about things "come in here and we will kill you, we will kill you slow" The voices stopped after that, that will show them, then a single metal container was thrown over the wall.
Jasper picked it and red mist came out, he fell down straight away, Murphy pulled his shirt over his mouth and nose, picked it up and threw it straight back. I thought that had worked until we heard them laughing. I guessed they were wearing hazmat suits, after all the entire place would be filled with radiation.
I scowled, getting out was going to be harder than I thought.
Octavia's POV:
Bell and I held rocks the size of our heads, people said family members should bond but I didn't think this was what they had in mind, Finn counted down from 10 and we dropped them onto the heads of the Mountain Men below. The result was pretty funny, the vision out of the suits can't have been too good as they didn't see that coming.
Once the humour of the situation had passed I realised what had happened, I had just killed someone.
I stared at the remaining Mountain Men as they moved but didn't leave, this could be harder than we planned.
Clarke and Finn hadn't wanted to do this but we didn't seem to have much choice; it was kill or be killed and that was one question I already had the answer to.
Trina had told us what had happened in the room; the attack and the realisation they would not let us go without a fight.
Clarke and Bell were trying to make a plan but as Clarke put it "if we leave one at a time we leave the last of us weak and easy to take, they can than follow us with their bone marrow. If we don't leave they will get us sooner or later."
"If we could get up here quicker than one at a time we might be in luck but we can only use one lift shaft." I stated the obvious; I wasn't good with people.
Than Finn also stated the obvious "but there are 3 lift shafts, why not use all 3?"
I had to stop myself from laughing at the looks on their faces, our genius princess hadn't thought of that.
"That could work" and then that was the plan.
Maya's POV:
I sat in my cell, I wasn't sure how long I had been sat here for but it had been a while, how many are dead? I asked myself, part of me wanted to know, another bit didn't.
If I had been quicker or had fought harder things may have turned out differently.
Was I going to be allowed to live? Could I tell anyone where this "cure" can from? Would we live with ourselves afterwards? I didn't know and right now didn't want to know.
The door of my cell opened and Cage Wallace, AKA the new president, entered "Miss Vie, how unfortunate it is that you are willing to work against us, your brothers and sisters, to try to allow us to lose our birth right of the ground. All for what? To help some outsiders, criminals at that."
"The ground is our birth right but the right to life is even bigger, and one you are taking from the 100." Let's see him argue that.
"I am not here for a debate but to offer you a choice, and a gift" he removed a syringe from his inside pocket and placed it on the table "take the bone marrow and your place on the ground or in 3 days we will allow radiation in here and you can die for your beliefs. It takes 48 hours to kick in so you have 24 hours to make your choice." With that he left.
I stared at the needle and all it contained and I saw 3 choices.
1, abandon my principals and take it.
2, refuse it and give it back to Cage.
3, Empty it down the toilet.
I sat with my head in my hands, what should I do?
End of chapter 6.
Author's notes; sorry this is getting increasingly shorter and is so late, any feedback would be pretty useful. And we have also passed 10,000 words yay.