"Who'll be the team captain?" asks Grace, as they walk towards the train.
"Obviously me!" says Uriah.
"And me!" ads Zeke. He runs towards the train and jumps onto it. Uriah's next.
Soon, they're all on the train.
"Who'll pick first?" Zeke asks his brother.
"Again, obviously me."
"Why?"
"I'm younger, ya-huh!"
"Fine. Choose wisely!"
"Marlene, darling!"
Shauna waits for Zeke to call out her name.
"Four!" he says instead.
"Waka-waka-what?" Shauna asks.
"Are you kidding me? He ranked much higher than you in initiation!" Zeke doesn't seem to get Shauna's problem.
"Fine! Pick Four!" she says and shrugs. "I'll be on Uri's team then!"
"I don't think so, missy!" Uriah says. "You suck at this game!"
Shauna looks very offended and sits on the floor with her arms crossed.
Uriah shrugs and picks Eric.
Zeke takes Edward.
Uriah chooses Tris.
"Lynn!"
"Tori!"
"Lauren!"
"Grace!"
"Martine!"
"Christina!"
"Will-" Zeke says, but Will protests.
"Why can't Christina and I be on the same team?"
"Because I picked you and Uri picked Christina. Man up!"
Will crosses his arms and shakes his head. "What a sick, cruel world we're living in! You MONSTER!"
Zeke ignores him and Uriah picks Al. Zeke has to pick Caleb. But nobody wants Shauna.
"Has it really come to this, people?" she says with disgust.
"I'm so sorry, Shauna, but… you're out!" Zeke says sympathetically and puts his hand on her shoulder.
"Wh- What? How?"
"Well we have eight members on both teams and you're the only one left. We wouldn't want to be unfair, you know."
"Hey, hey, hey! What about me?!" says Peter.
"I didn't see you!" says Zeke.
"Dibs on him!" yells Uriah.
"Oh… too bad!" says Zeke.
Zeke has to let Shauna play the game.
As they pass the Erudite compound, two silhouettes jump onto the train clumsily.
"Cara?" Will asks looking at one of the silhouettes.
"And me!" Fernando says.
"Who are you?" Tris asks.
"Are you kidding? I was just at that party of yours!" Fernando looks both offended and disappointed.
"Yeah, I remember. What's your name though?" she asks.
"There are some who call me… Fernando!"
Tris looks puzzled.
"This is because Fernando is my name," he explains.
"So… What up you guys?" asks Edward.
"Well, after Fernando and I returned I realized I forgot my hair band at the party so we took the train to the Dauntless compound," Cara explains.
"But… this is not the train that'll get you to the compound," says Four.
Cara and Fernando's eyes widen and they look at each other.
"Dang it!" says Cara.
"So close tho…" sighs Fernando.
Nobody speaks then.
Cara sighs.
Fernando scratches his ear.
"Well, we better skedaddle!" Cara says and turns around.
"NO! Stop!" Zeke grabs her hand and pulls her back. Unfortunately, for Fernando it's too late.
"Nando!" Cara yells.
"I'm fiiineeeeee!" a weak voice says from the ground. They pass by him in a second and he is lost.
"You can't just jump off a train whenever you like! Sheesh!" Uriah says.
"But you guys do it all the time and it looks so cool!" Cara says.
"But we KNOW what we're doing, you see," explains Edward.
Cara sighs even more miserably.
"Look, I know you just lost a friend and stuff… But we're going to play Capture the Flag, so…?" starts Zeke.
"Isn't one Erudite too much already, Zeke?" Uriah says.
"I'd love to come play Capture the Flag with you!" Cara exclaims.
"Too late."
"It'll be fine, Uri!" Zeke tells him.
Cara decides to go chat with Caleb, while the Pedrad brothers have an argument about the newcomer.
"I'll take her! I have SHAUNA on my team already!" Zeke decides.
"I hate you…" Uriah mutters.
"Time to jump!" Four announces.
Graciously, the Dauntless people jump off the train. Caleb twists his ankle, on the other hand and Cara hits a tree while jumping.
"This is harder than it looks! The tree AND the jumping!" she says, rubbing her bleeding nose with her hand.
"So, Cara… Uriah and I have decided-"
"But mostly Zeke!" says Uriah.
"We have decided that it would be best if you joined my team. I'm guessing you don't know the rules, right?"
"Pffft! I do!" she says.
"You don't."
"Not a clue," she admits.
"And I'm thinking, since Uri so selflessly let you be on MY team, he should get the honor of explaining you the game!" Zeke smiles at his grumpy brother.
It takes 20 questions for Cara to understand the game. Uriah needs Marlene's help eventually. The teams split then.
Zeke's team decides to go with the violent strategy. They decide to shoot at the other team as rapidly as possible.
Uriah's team decides to find the best hiding spot for the flag they can think of and then wait in unexpected hiding spots to shoot at the other team.
Eventually they meet somewhere near Uriah's team's flag. There, a fight emerges. Uri gets angry at Christina who is slacking off and apparently talking to Will who is on their opponent's team.
"Get away from him! He is not our kind!" Uriah yells.
"It's just a game, for God's sake!" Will complains and holds Christina's hand.
"Stop it! Cut it out!"
"Or what? Huh?" Will hugs Christina. "Look, she's not gonna shoot me!"
"But I will!" Uriah exclaims and shoots Will right in the stomach. "You are dead to me! DEAD TO MEEEE!"
Will doesn't seem to care. "Do I look dead?"
"No, but you should. Those are the rules! Roll on the floor in pretend pain and then fake die!" Uriah demands. In the meanwhile, Shauna creeps up behind him with an evil grin and shoots him.
"HA! Who sucks at this game NOW, HA?" she exclaims and laughs like a maniac.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Uriah collapses to the ground. "The pain!"
Christina tries to hide from revenge-seeking Shauna behind Will.
"I see you!" Shauna laughs and aims at Christina.
She doesn't seem nearly as amused. "Can you not?"
"No can do!" Shauna shakes her head.
"Please, just… just go shoot someone else? I don't even feel like playing this game now!"
"Really, Shauna! Stop it!" Will says, lifting his head up from the floor.
"Shut up, you're dead!" Shauna yells.
After Shauna almost shoots, she falls to the ground.
"BOOSH!" Grace says and walks away.
"You hurt me!" Shauna squeals.
"That's how it's done, son!" Grace turns around one more time to say that and then she really walks away.
Soon, everyone but Zeke and Christina is 'dead'. First, he doesn't even realize she hasn't been shot, so he victoriously strolls to the other team's hiding spot.
But 'dead' Uri crawls to Christina.
"Hello there."
"What do you want, Uriah?"
"I don't want anything. I NEED you to shoot Zeke!" he says in a weak voice and coughs.
"YOU ARE NOT DEAD, SO STOP ACTING LIKE YOU ARE!" she says, annoyed.
"Ah, if you knew what it's like to die…" he says melodramatically.
"No. I already told Shauna I'm not playing this game."
"My good, brave child- listen to me!" Uriah raises his index finger. "You have the power to win! So you gotta go out there and shine!"
"I don't wanna shine!"
"But it's not a choice!"
"But it is!"
"But it-"
He is interrupted by the sound of Zeke's team cheering.
"They found the flag?"
"Affirmative."
"This is all your fault Christina!" Uriah now feels free to stand up and stop acting dead.
Will stands up as well. "You watch who you're talking to like that!"
"She abandoned us when we needed her!" Uriah doesn't care about Will's warning.
"You've been warned!" Will says darkly and shoots Uriah in the forehead. There is now blue paint splattered all over it.
"This isn't over!" he warns them, pointing a shaking finger at the couple. He walks away, trying to flip his hair as he does.
Zeke calls for them to gather by the train, because it is zip-lining time. The group is mostly very cheerful after the game and they chat happily on the train, but Uriah is in a bad mood.
"Zeke. I need to talk to you!"
Zeke is far too busy telling a joke to Edward and Tori to talk to his brother.
Uriah decides to talk to Four instead.
"Hey. Four."
"What, Uri?"
"We got a situation here!" Uriah whispers in a secret agent voice.
"Yeah?"
"Yeah."
"So… what is it?"
"It's Christina and Will. They won't participate in my rockin' party activities!"
"How?"
"They're acting like before when you asked that Never Have I Ever question!"
"Damn… They're still mad at me. You better not tell Tris!"
"But they are not only mad at you, my friend. They also have something against ME! You think I have this blue forehead for fun?"
"Yeah, I was just gonna ask why…" Four starts giggling. "Listen to this- I was gonna ask…" his laughter gets the best of him.
Uriah patiently waits for his 5-minute laugh-attack to be over.
"I was gonna ask- and get this- Why… Why so blue!" Four laughs again.
"That's not… not even that funny…" Uriah says more to himself then to Four.
"Anyways, since Will did this to me," Uriah says pointing at his blue forehead. "I shall seek revenge!" he continues.
"Well what are you gonna do?"
"I say we…" Uriah crosses his neck with his finger and does a sound effect.
"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!" Four jumps as he realizes he is talking to a potential murderer.
"What?"
"WHAT? YOU ASK WHAT? YOU'RE CRAZY!" Four says. Suddenly, all eyes are on him.
"Four, it's only his favorite plushie!"
"Uhm… Excuse me?" Four is confused.
"I wanna get rid of Will's favourite plush animal!"
"Will has plush animals?"
"Oh, yeah! Tons of them!"
"Uriah, I just got an idea on how to seek revenge!"
Four whispers the simple but powerful plan to Uriah and they both giggle.
Uriah clears his throat.
"Alright, LISTEN UP, EVERYBODY!" Uriah exclaims loudly and everybody stares at him. "I've got something to say." He starts and everybody smiles since they're expecting another love song for Marlene. "I want to share some very important information about a certain person with you today. You may not know this but…" he takes a deep breath and giggles "Will, a trusted member of Dauntless, has a collection of plushies."
The crowd bursts into laughter while Will's face turns red both with embarrassment and anger.
"I told you that in confidence!" he snaps.
"Dude, you asked for it!" Uriah laughs.
Christina suddenly looks even worse. She seems almost depressed with anger, if that is somehow possible. Will, who is standing close to her, as always, pulls her into a hug and shakes his head disapprovingly at Uriah.
"See? They're doing that same thing again! They wanna guilt-trip us!" Uriah says to Four.
"It's like they're not even trying to forgive me!"
"Us!" Uriah corrects him.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever…" Four glares at them angrily. Tris leans on the wall next to him and smiles.
"Hi!" she says.
"Hey… did you hear…" Four starts.
Tris nods slowly. "Yeah… Why didn't you want to tell me?"
"I… don't know. I thought I'd just ruin the day for you. Besides, I feel like they're not mad at you at all. It's just me."
"And me!" Uriah ads and nods.
"But did you see what happened during Never Have I Ever? Maybe they don't wanna admit it, but they ARE, for some reason, mad at me!" Tris continues.
"Well they shouldn't be. Oh! We're here, time to jump!" Four says. He takes Tris' hand and they jump off the train together.
Everyone follows Zeke to the top of the building, where the zip line is waiting for them.
"Can I go first?" Edward asks. "I've never zip-lined but it looks awesome!"
"Ok!" Zeke says and prepares Edward for zip-lining. With a little help of Uriah, he pushes him off and there goes Edward. He screams for a while, but soon they here him say whoo, which means he's having a good time.
Uriah turns to Will and Christina with a mischievous smile. "Huh… Maybe one of you would like to go second? You know, since you haven't been doing ANYTHING I put an effort to organize into today?"
Four comes closer to hear their response.
They look confused and pressured.
"Maybe we don't do those things because we just don't like them?" Will asks.
"You joined Dauntless for God's sake! I mean, I can't even recognize you two anymore! Where is your spirit?" Four almost yells.
"How can we have any spirit if you keep acting like an idiot?!" Will raises his voice as well.
Everyone stares. Well, except Edward who is still screaming his lungs out.
"Will… don't be rude…" Christina says quietly.
"Excuse me? Now you finally notice how rude he's been acting?!" Four exclaims. "And you! You too! Both of you have no respect for the effort Uriah has put into this party! And, I mean, first you ignore us all for a week- I understand why you didn't want to talk to ME but it's unfair to the others because they didn't do ANYTHING to you! And then when you finally decide to crawl out of your room you act like some royalty that needs to be treated differently! Like we're all boring to you!" Four gasps for air. "And don't get me started on how worried Tris was! And then you don't even talk to her all day and… and… AND I WANTED TO APOLOGIZE! I SWEAR I WAS GONNA APOLOGIZE FOR THAT DAY! But how can I when you don't even give me a chance! And also, also- you shouldn't be mad at Tris because she's been worried sick! And she even prepared a couples party and made pizza and it tasted like rubber because she can't cook! But she cooked! For you guys!" Four almost bursts into tears, that's how emotional he got.
Tris is, in the meanwhile, looking slightly offended because, DANG IT! She thought she could cook, man!
But Four goes on. "And you know what? I think you are the one we should be mad at, because you're acting like selfish little kids right now! And I've been trying to tell this to Tris- I think she shouldn't worry at all. I think she should be happy that you don't want to talk to her anymore. Because, you know what? If you are really unable to forgive me for those stupid implications I made then YOU ARE NOT FRIENDS OF MINE OR OF TRIS' OR OF ANYONE'S!"
And apparently, he's done. Everyone's eyes shift from Four to Will and Christina.
For a minute, nothing happens. Then, out of nowhere, Christina starts sobbing, then her sobbing turns into a river of tears. She doesn't say anything, she only buries her head in Will's shoulder.
"Shhh, Christina… It's OK… Everything's OK…" Will whispers.
Four stares blankly, with his mouth open.
"I'm sorry!" Christina cries loudly. "Tris, Four, everyone! I'm really…really sorry!" she's crying so hard she can barely speak. "I… I… I'm not mad at you!"
Suddenly, Tris falls into the whirlpool of emotions. Not even a second passes and she's swimming in her own little puddle of tears.
"I can't do this anymore!" Christina says- well, cries- to Will.
"Me neither! I'm not ready for this!" he starts crying too.
"What's going on?" Four is confused. Tris grabs his arm and shakes it in depression.
"Emotions' what's going on!" she cries.
"Tris…" Christina sobs and pulls Tris into a hug. They cry on each other's shoulders.
"By the way, I feel like I should tell you something…" Zeke starts nervously. "Um… Christina and Will originally didn't want to come to the party after I told them you were coming!" he tells Four.
"Why didn't you tell me that?!"
"I'm sorry… I disappointed you!" Zeke starts crying too, and hugs Four.
"Never Have I Ever been so confused in my life!" Four says and taps his best friend on the shoulder.
What do you think is going on? Why all the emotions? WHY?
And also- when Fernando introduces himself there's a Gravity Falls reference somewhere in there. Just so you know I'm not copying something off a show... The part when he says: ''There are some who call me Fernando. This is because Fernando is my name" was based off a dialogue in GF :)
