Ok! Again, long delay from my last update. I finally re-read my story start to finish and ready to move it forward. When will Season 5 start!?
Comments, feedback, etc, is welcome.
Echo in front, Raven in the middle, and Murphy behind made for clean and compliant kills. No questions were asked by Echo or Murphy. Every person who was conscious was incapacitated with a swift cut by Echo. Usually just a hand but occasionally an arm. Murphy took up the back with his gun, not at all needed.
Raven chose to ignore what was happening. They had to get their friends out of the bunker, and they had to save Bellamy. She didn't have time to feel bad for the people who had kept them from earth for longer than they had to. When she thought about what it would have meant to them to know Clarke was alive and that they knew the whole time... it tore Raven up. She had to focus on the mission. It was nice to have something productive to do instead of the four years she spent on the Ring wondering how she could tell the group it was impossible, it couldn't be done. Now they had a mission, and not only that, a means. The only thing standing in their way was a few pesky survivors.
Once at security, they stood outside the doorway quietly, unsure of the next step. Murphy smiled his stupid grin and tossed a gobi nut in... followed by one, two three more. There were scraping noises as the people got up from their chairs to investigate. Echo smiled at her chance and threw herself through the door, Murphy close behind her. No gunfire was needed - Echo swiftly took down the three men and the straggler Murphy took out with the butt of the rifle.
"Alright Raven, let's make this happen."
Raven immediately went to work while Murphy and Echo watched the door. About ten minutes into her work, she felt herself begin to sweat unnaturally, and her breathing became labored. She ignored it for a while, then she heard Echo fall to the floor and the panic in Murphy's eye as his breathing became heavier and more harsh.
"Oxygen. They... are cutting our oxygen to this deck." Raven choked out.
"Let's go!" Murphy said, grabbing Raven's arm.
"No. I need to finish this."
Just like six years ago, she could feel herself nearly struggling hard to breathe as the oxygen was slowly vented out of the deck. Murphy looked at her with pleading eyes from his hands and knees as he was breathing more easily on the floor and had managed to get Echo to wake up. "Raven we need to get out of here."
"Done".
Raven hit the last lever, and pulled herself and her bad leg to the ground. Echo had already started to crawl to the lift. "No. The vents." Murphy pointed.
He used the rifle to smash through the vent, and hauled Raven over to put her through it heading down to a lower deck. Echo followed. Murphy took one last gulp of the nearly dead air, and followed suit.
Meanwhile, Monty and his team rushed to the command center, it was deserted.
"No need to command this if you aren't planning on leaving" he said aloud, only to discover when he got to the console that three officers were dead at the helm. "Ugh." He said as he hauled their bodies off the grid.
"Do you know how to fly this thing?" Emori asked.
"No... but the concepts are relatively straight forward, I think. It won't be that different from the Ark."
Monty began to track life signs in the ship. There were three in an air vent - he assumed that was Raven, Echo and Murphy, and a few others around the ship including one in the storage room that was quickly retreating. 'Alloy must have found what he came for.' Monty thought.
"Alright, let me see the fuel cells... Raven has thankfully managed to do what we needed her to do and the security flight protocols are lifted... but what I can't figure out is navigation. We don't have any information about Polis, do we?"
Emori looked quizzically at him. "Well... I remember when we were being interrogated, Sykes kept asking me again and again about Ton DC and Polis. He kept saying "it must be Washington DC and Anapolis" because of the statues I had seen there as a child, but the main building in Polis he didn't remember from when he was on Earth.
Monty looked quizzically at her, then realized what she was trying to say. "Thank you Emori! Ok we need to search the system for Anapolis to see if it will put in that location."
Monty typed furiously into the computer.
It made a quick three toned beep and the computer image zoomed in on what was, presumably, an old map of Anapolis.
Monty typed in further coordinates. Raven, Murphy and Echo came into the room, sweating profusely and breathing heavily. Monty just stated "Raven we need you to help me move this thing. I have found the coordinates and you got the security offline so we can move. Let's get going."
"Wait, aren't we going to get Bellamy, Harper and Clarke?" Murphy asked?
"No time. The fuel cells don't seem to be reacting well with the atmosphere and if we want this thing to get to Polis and be useful, we need to leave now. I am going to close the doors. I think Alloy already left the ship based on the lifesigns. We have to stand guard in case anybody else tries to attack but I expect they are too weak to do so."
"Maybe we should turn of the oxygen on their levels." Murphy grumbled.
"Great idea Murphy. That's actually quite practical. I will reduce oxygen levels on the other levels to make it nearly impossible for them to function, but not to kill them. We may need them later."
Raven announced "60 seconds to lift off. We will not be leaving the atmosphere this time so no need for seats, but be prepared in case there are any bumps in the atmosphere along the way."
Echo and Emori looked at each other, in a way that only two people who had just survived 6 years in space when they didn't want to leave earth at all could understand.
Emori shrugged. Echo moved towards the door to stand guard.
Thirty minutes later, Monty announced - "I think we've found Polis."
On the screen in front of them showing them the ground below... was rubble.