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Sentences like this in quotations are grounders, or anyone, speaking in Trigedasleng. Other sentences in the same form are thoughts.

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NINE: Battle For Mount Weather pt 1

"Welcome, Sky Crew."

Rory's head pops up from behind some of the warriors in the Commander's tent as people from the Ark start to fill in, her mother being one of them.

They walk over to each other while the meeting goes on, "Mom, what're you doing here?" Rory asks Eloise.

Eloise sighs, "Making sure you don't get killed." She notices her daughter's odd behavior, "Why are you so tense?"

"We're about to go to war, mom." Rory lies before turning her attention back to Lexa.

"-today's the day we get our people back. The enemy thinks it's safe behind its doors, but it's not. When it realizes that, it will fight back." Lexa looks around at everyone, "Hard. We need to be ready."

She looks to Clarke and nods, "This is a rescue mission. We are not here to wipe them out. There are people inside that mountain that have helped us. Children who have nothing to do with this war. We kill their soldiers. Their leadership if we have to. But we are there to rescue our people. Is that clear?" A few Ark soldiers whisper a 'yes ma'am' while the grounders all nod at the blonde, "Then let's begin."

She looks over to Rory who steps up to the table with everyone else, "Four teams. Two at the dam and in the mine, which are moving into position already. The third, inside the mountain, is freeing the Grounder prisoners as we speak. It is our job as the fourth team to keep the eyes of the enemy off them for as long as possible. To do that, we have to be in position here at the front door with our entire army." Clarke places her hand on the entrance of the diagram they had built, "The Mountain Men believe the door can't be opened from the outside so they leave it unguarded. Only, it can be. And thanks to our source on the inside, now we know how. According to Maya, the electromagnetic locking system has one flaw. When the power goes out, it disengages."

"And that's where Raven's team comes in." Rory states.

The blonde turns and points at her, "Exactly. The mountain's electricity is generated at Philpott Dam. By now, they've taken the turbine room. It's their job to blow the power. Once they do, we blow the lock." Clarke pauses as she looks around, "There is a catch. A backup generator inside the mountain. If the lock is still functioning when that backup power kicks in...we'll never get that door open. We'll never get our people back." She says.

"How much time do we have until the backup power kicks in?" Sergeant Miller asks.

"One minute." Clarke then looks to Rory, "But that's where Rory's team comes in." Lexa looks over to the blonde in shock and wonder when she speaks of there being a fifth team, "If she and a few others can distract the soldiers trying to get the backup generator working then we'll have more time. But they will be far back shooting arrows." She nods at the dark-haired girl, "Our window depends on them."

"Small window, think you can do it?" Sergeant Miller asks Rory.

Rory turns to him and smiles, "My dad didn't steal the Ark's only bow to have me fail at archery now." She looks back at Clarke, "We can do it."

"As the commander said, once the door is open, shooting will start. And they'll throw everything they have at us. But that's what we want. We want them looking at us because while we're fighting at the front door...Indra's team will be escorting the prisoners out the back, right through the Reaper tunnels. Once all our people are free, they'll sound the retreat. We'll be back home before Mount Weather even knows they're gone." She looks back to Lexa, "And that's it. That's the plan."

Lexa steps forward into the middle of the tent, "The mountain has cast a show over these woods for too long. They've hunted us, controlled us...turned us into monsters. That ends today. Thanks to our alliance with the Sky People, the mountain will fall. As Clark said, we spare the innocent. As for the guilty...jus drein jus daun…"

The grounders all start to chant it and everyone joins in, even the warriors outside. They leave for the entrance while Rory moves away with four warriors, Zorea among them, and prepare to shoot whoever tries to enter the door to the backup generator. Rory hides among the bushes above the door while the others wait down below. A better bow had been given to her than the makeshift one she made and she had to admit she liked it better.

Before they knew it, night had fallen and Clarke was pacing.

"It's taking too long." She stops beside Lexa.

"It takes as long as it takes." Lexa says before she looks at the ground, "What will you do when it's over?" She asks the blonde.

"I...have no idea." Clarke says.

"Well, what do you want?" Lexa asks her.

Clarke stays quiet as she thinks, "Nothing...I don't know...my people back? Maybe Rory back to the way she was before all this." She turns to Lexa, "Before you."

Lexa keeps her eyes trained on the ground as she pushes down her feelings of hurt and thinks back, "I wanted to bring her to our capital. I still do...but she made her choice." The Commander looks back up at the door.

"What choice?" The blonde questions.

"She's going to return to the Ark with you and your people...her people." Lexa says, swallowing a lump in her throat.

Clarke furrows her brows in confusion, "She told me she was leaving altogether. Going somewhere far away from everyone." The blonde glances back to where Rory and her team had gone.

That's when gunshots sound and Grounders yell in the distance. At the backup generator, Rory was shooting arrows at Mountain Men that had come out of the woodworks. The rest of her team were charging to them, either not making it and dying before they do or reaching the soldiers and killing some of them until arrows would kill the soldiers for them. Most of the soldiers they sent out were dead when more enter the area.

"Shit…" Rory curses as she concentrates firing on the new soldiers.

They manage to kill them all, Rory taking most of those kills before she jumps down off the ledge above the door just as more gunfire is heard ahead, "That's near the front door." Zorea states as Rory notices the power was now out.

"They're trying to prevent them from exploding the lock." Rory says as she runs towards the gunshots.

Zorea groans in annoyance, "Stay here. Make sure no one gets to the generator." She orders the others and follows after the Natblida.

An explosion goes off soon after that told them the lock of the front door had been destroyed but Rory kept moving towards the ridge until she was behind them and stops by some rocks with Zorea and looks to her, "Let's do this." Rory says.

"Right behind you, SkaiNatblida." Zorea grips her sword tighter as she prepares to fight.

Rory climbs up onto the rock before she kneels down behind the one atop it as she starts to provide Zorea with cover fire. The Mountain Men all turn their attention to Rory and Zorea when the first three arrows make their way into soldiers. They start to shoot her way, making her duck down behind the rock as she hears Zorea's cry of pain. She appears on the other side of the rock as she hits the ground with a bullet wound in her head. Rory sneers before leaning over the rock and shooting more arrows. Only five Mountain Men were left when Rory runs out of arrows. She curses and ducks down as they start to advance on her.

But it stops when Grounders surround them and Lexa appears, "Who killed all your men?" She asks one of them.

He looks over to the rock that Rory was now stood up from, "She did." The Grounders bind him with rope, "She's a natural born angel of death." He spats before they take him away.

Lexa watches as Rory climbs down from the rock before kneeling next to Zorea, "Your fight is over, Zorea of the Ice Nation." Rory speaks softly, having learned those words from Zorea herself after the acid fog had been disabled, and closes her eyelids.

"Mourn her after we win." Lexa says as she holds out her hand to Rory, ignoring the fact that she just learned Zorea was Ice Nation.

She takes the Commander's hand, "I know." Rory states before leaving to join the others at the front.

She gets there just as they open the front door but she stops when Lexa yells, "Stand down!" Everyone looks at the Commander.

Rory furrows her brow when Lexa brings the tied up man with her to the door, "Lexa, what're you doing?" The dark-haired girl asks.

"What is this?" Clarke soon asks after Rory when she comes to stand beside her.

Lexa doesn't answer as someone says people were starting to come out and the Grounders within Mount Weather all file out with blankets covering them, "You didn't…" Rory looks back to the Commander.

"They're surrendering?" Clarke asks, not quite understanding what Rory does.

"Not quite." The tied up man says.

Clarke looks from him to Lexa, "What did you do?" The blonde asks.

"What you would have done." Lexa says, not caring for the blood still on her face.

"She made a deal." Rory looks to the man, "With the Mountain Men."

"What deal?" Clarke asks.

"A deal to save my people without more bloodshed." Lexa states as she looks between the two.

"Where are my people?" Clarke asks, not seeing any of them coming out.

Lexa sighs, "I'm sorry, Clarke." She glances over to Rory, "They weren't part of the deal."

Lexa turns to the man and cuts his bindings, "You made the right choice, Commander." He moves to leave before he looks at Rory who returns his gaze with a stern glare, "See you around, killer."

Rory keeps watching the man leave even as Lincoln comes up, "What is this?" He asks while Rory's eyes meet that of one of the prisoners.

They stare at each other for a moment, "Your Commander's made a deal." Clarke answers him.

"What about the prisoners from the Ark?" Lincoln questions, no one noticing that Rory had disappeared.

"They'll all be killed." Clarke states, "But you don't care about that, do you?" The blonde asks.

"I do care, Clarke. They're Rory's people too, but I made this choice with my head, not my heart. The duty to protect my people comes first." Lexa says with guilt filling her veins, but she pushes it down.

"Please, don't do this." Clarke steps forward.

"I'm sorry, Clarke." The Commander says.

"Commander, not like this. We can fight." Lincoln states.

"No, the deal is done." Lexa says.

The door closes and that's when they notice that Rory is nowhere to be seen, "She went in.." The prisoner who had been staring at Rory states to the three.

"No…" Clarke whispers as she turns to the door.

At this, Lexa felt rage fill her veins, "Warriors, with me!" She starts to leave and grabs a warrior with a horn, "Tell those in the mines that we are coming."

The warrior nods and blows his horn, "What are you doing?" Clarke asks Lexa as she leaves towards the mines with Lincoln trailing behind them.

"I'm breaking the deal." Lexa says and looks to Clarke, "I'm not letting them kill her."

A small part of the army then marches to the mines behind the Commander and Skaikru's leader.

To Be Continued…

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