When I finally awoke from my daze, I was a dark blue room with no type of furniture. Very dungeon like. I groan, for I had a major headache. I slowly got up, but the door finally opens, revealing Eric, the Rottweiler bastard, Jeanine, the uptight bitch of my nightmares, Kylie, Jeanine's bitch daughter, and, strangely, a caramel lady with a long flowy blue dress and matching high heels. Her hair in a braided halo. I wonder who this woman was until another woman came in, a tall slender pale woman with an angelic face and platinum hair with a flowy white dress with small red polka dots and white flat shoes. I look at the five adults, my head throbbing in pain, as I try to talk.

"My friends. My...where are they?"

I was still sitting on the floor, rubbing my aching head. Eric, however, was smiling at me. "Your scumbag friends are in a different room, awaiting for their doom."

"What...doom?"

"Possibly extinction."

"You're gonna KILL them?!"

I jump at Eric, but my head was hurting so bad that I had to sit back down again. I hate Eric. I hate Jeanine. I hate Kylie. I hate the damn Erudite. I look at the two women and the caramel woman said, "Can we just let him go? We took down the factions for a reason. Eric, sweetie-"

"Baby, I'm the boss now! Along with Jeanine. We're doing this OUR way."

"But-"

Jeanine's look cuts through the lady like a butcher knife. "Joselyn, we're in charge now. You're the one who disobeyed us. Now, we're fixing your mistakes."

The angelic lady said, "We don't need this war, Jeanine. Father, please reconsider!"

"Anna, listen to Daddy, and BACK off.", sneers Eric, glaring at me. Me, in particular.

Anna, however, shakes her head and comes towards me as she said, "He's only a young boy. He doesn't need to get caught up in your idiocy."

"Who's the parent here: Me or You?"

Anna rolls her eyes and rubs the bruise on my head. "I'm not gonna stand for it; I'm telling his mom...whoever she is."

Eric stood in front of the doorway so Anna wouldn't leave. "If you do that, I'll have to take care of your Amity part of town."

"Blow us up, Dad, and I'll get Liz to shoot you again."

I look up when she said my mother's name.

"You'll never get away with this, Dad.", she growls.

Eric grins. "Oh, but I have."

Joselyn crosses her arms and pouted. "You're the worst."

I get up. "Where are my friends? Where's Ashlyn? Where's..."

I sigh. I'm in a deep hole now. Unable to dig myself out. I breathe as I await my punishment. But, amazingly, Anna drags me out, telling her father that she'll deal with me herself. At first, I didn't trust her, for she was Eric's daughter, but we were inside of a separate room, she whispers, "Listen, kid. I don't know how you got yourself into this mess or where my dad put your friends at, but let me tell you something. Get. Out. Now. While you still have the chance. My father is nuts while Jeanie is powerful. Trust me. Don't do it."

"Why do you and Joselyn care about me anyway? Aren't you guys...Erudite...?"

"Originally, I'm from Amity. Joselyn's the one from Erudite. Don't worry. We're great friends with your parents.", says anna with a smile. I gape at her.

"H-how'd you know my parents?"

"Dauntless initiation. Your mother was...something.", she chuckles.

Great way to describe my mother.

I smile as I hug her. I turn my head and said, "I'd should get goin'."

"Better hurry. My dad can be reckless when he's stupid."

I smile and nod when I ran out of the Erudite dungeon but I stop when I hear a girl's screams. Ashlyn. I ran towards the voice. As I open the door, I saw Ashlyn tied to a chair, her mouth taped, and a girl with long blue hair in a ponytail, a blue bandana covering her mouth, and with a gun pointed towards Ashlyn, willing to shoot. I look at the conflict in front and yelled, "Don't shoot her."

The girl looks at me and laughs. "Look at Tobias Marshall, trying to save the day. Being the boss ass hero as usual."

I look at her, the voice sounding familiar. I couldn't wrap my head around it, though. I come closer to Ashlyn, who was shaking her head vigorously and was trying to tell me something, but I could tell she was telling me to run. I shook my head. "Let 'er go, whoever you are."

"You don't know me, do you...? Hmm. You were always an idiot."

I look at her, trying to-

I know who it is.

"Typical. If I'm the idiot...what does that make you...Alyssa?"

Alyssa staggers back, but later laughs. "Took you long enough. Four Jr."

I growl. "Why are you working with the dumb ass Erudite? And where's Drew and Noah?"

"Bobby's taking care of them."

"Bobby...YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE! Let us go! Now!"

Alyssa laughs and shakes her head. "No. I've been waiting for this moment, Tobias. Where your little girlfriend dies...and I'm a witness."

"Don't you mean the one responsible!"

Alyssa comes over to kick me in the gut, making me fall to my knees. Alyssa goes back and aims at Ashlyn, making her cry, but as she was about to shoot, which she did, I ran in front and got hit in the arm. Ashlyn screams and Alyssa groans. I take Ashlyn by the hand and glared at Alyssa, who was swearing. "What's going on with you? You HATE the Erudite, remember? WE hate them."

"Bobby loves me..."

"He's using you to GET to me, Al."

"Yea, right."

"Hmmph."

I come close to Ashlyn, untying her. "You're a nuisance. Bobby don't love you. He's using you."

"Like Ashlyn here?"

"No. I'm not dumb enough to date a rapist..!"

Alyssa looks up. "No way Bobby's a rapist."

"He didn't tell you what he did to Ashlyn...?"

"He...HA! If he did...she deserved it."

I came close to her. As I was about to seriously hurt her, I thought to myself. What am I doing? It was Alyssa I am about to hurt. My grandma taught me to never put my hands on a girl, even scumbags like her. I sigh. "How can you SAY that? True Dauntless protect the ones that have fallen."

"We're not kids anymore, Tobias."

Alyssa turns to leave, then I blurt out something that Drew's going to hate me for.

"Drew almost killed himself because of you..."

Alyssa stops in her tracks and turns around, a concerned expression upon her face. "What...? You're lying."

"Drew almost killed himself because you're dating Bobby. He likes you..."

She looks at me and shakes her head. "He likes Opal."

"He used to. Before he liked you. He tried to like someone else...but it wasn't cuttin' out for him."

Aly kept shaking her head before we heard gunshots. We ran to the sound, me hoping that no one was hurt, but when we got there, my arm was bleeding and I see Drew holding to his abdomen. Bobby was hovering Drew like a hawk and I lunge for him. Though, it hurts to move, I needed to get rid of my anger somehow. Bobby grins at me as he sees all of us, including Alyssa, who was coming towards Drew with sympathy.

"Drew...I'm sorry."

"Alyssa..."

Drew smiles as he touches her face. "I'm glad you're okay..."

"Is it true? Do you...like me?"

Drew looks at her then smiles thinly. "You had to find out sooner or later, right? Sorry I didn't say anything earlier."

Alyssa touches his face but stopped when she saw Bobby's gun aimed at the both of them.