Different Choices- The Invasion Begins

"Trudy, you have to stop this." Tai-san advised as the pair walked down the street and towards the old airport that laid on the outskirts of the city.

"What?" Trudy asked confused.

"This trying to make amends. You have already done that by helping to overthrow the Guardian. If the others have a problem with that then that is there burden to carry."

"I betrayed my tribe."

"Something that is in the past. You need to stop living in the past and look to the future. We are all human, we make mistakes and all we can do is learn from them." Tai-san explained as she turned her head towards the sky as a rumbling echoed.

"What is that?" Trudy asked as she looked up as both came to stop.

"A plane." Tai-san answered, "There are people jumping out of it."

"How is that even possible?"

"I'm not sure." Tai-san frowned as she moved her gaze from the sky.

"It keeps circling…."Trudy trailed off as she wrapped her arms around herself.

"We should find cover." The taller women declared as she grabbed Trudy's arm and pulled her the small patch of woods that bordered the road that lead to the airport.

"What about May?"

"I am sure that she can handle herself." Tai-san assured as she walked further into the woods and stopped at the sound of a roaring of a truck coming somewhere over the hill. The pair crouched down as they watched a group of trucks that raced down the road and towards the city.

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"KC, I want you to go grab some jugs of water." Amber directed as the three hurried into the café, after they had shut the gate to the entrance "Cloe, I want you to go to Trudy's room and gather some of Brady's diapers." She added as she placed Brady into her highchair.

"Amber?" Cloe questioned as she watched the older teen open the food cabinet.

"We need to get things together just in case we need to leave." Amber explained, "Just as a backup plan." She cautioned as she saw the look on Cloe's face.

"Okay." Cloe nodded as she took off down the stairs and towards Trudy's room.

"We are going to be okay." Amber repeated to herself and Brady as she began to pack some food in a backpack, "The gate is shut and the sewer entrance is locked." Amber continued in an effort to calm herself, ever since the ordeal with the Guardian, Amber had been more on edge.

"Amber." KC yelled just as loud booms began to echo outside of the Mall, the boy ran up the stairs to the café with a bat in his hand.

"They're invading." Amber answered, "They are trying to scare us with all the noise." She added as she moved to pick up a now crying Brady.

"Well, it's working." Cloe shuddered as she came into the room with a bag on her shoulder, "Do you think this is retaliation because of what we did to the Guardian?"

"I don't think it's the Chosen." Amber spoke as she swayed Brady back and forth in an attempt to sooth her, "If they had this type technology, they would have used it when they first took over the city."

"So, just another crazy trying to take over the city." KC scoffed just as the sound of footsteps echoed through the entrance of the Mall. Amber handed Brady to Cloe before she moved to stand at the top of the stairs with KC at her side.

"It looks empty." A voice remarked, "Do you think that they were already here?"

"No." A feminine voice answered, "The gate would be raised in those people were already here."

"Ebony?" Amber called out as she recognized the voice.

"Amber." The braided women greeted as she placed her hand on the grate, "You're alright." She added.

"I never thought that I would be so glad to see you." Amber sighed as she nodded towards the KC to lift the gate and to let Ebony and the small group of militia she had with her in.

"Who is here?" Ebony asked once she entered the Mall.

"KC, Cloe, Brady and I."

"Bray thought it would be a good idea, to leave you and the kids alone here?" Ebony scoffed.

"As soon as we heard the plane, Bray went to find Trudy and Tai-san. Jack and Ellie went to the farm to get Alice." Amber explained as KC shut the gate before he and Cloe made their way down to the small group.

"Lex and Pride left the hotel right before the plane appeared." Ebony sighed as she ran a hand through her braids, "Whoever these people are, they're starting to round up people. On the way over here, I saw them gathering a bunch of Mozz's crew into a truck."

"Did you get a good look at any of them?" Cloe asked as she handed Brady over to Amber.

"They were all dressed in black; they had their backs to us." One of the men that had come with Ebony answered.

"So, most of our people are out there and could be getting captured and taking who knows where." Ebony summed put, "I am really getting tired of people coming into our city. We just defeated the Chosen and here we go again." Ebony rambled.

"What are we going to do?" KC asked as he placed the bat down and sat on the fountain.

"We are going to stay put." Amber answered as she glanced at Ebony waiting for the women to disagree.

"If the others to manage to not get captured, they are going to make their way back here." Ebony agreed, Don't look at me like that. I just know that I don't want to wonder around the city with a crying baby that will give our location away and two kids and a pregnant woman that will just slow me down."

"There is our caring city leader." Amber replied sarcastically as she shifted Brady to her other side, "We should move away from the entrance, to make it seem like no one is here." She suggested as started up the stairs.

A few minutes later, the group found themselves in the old furniture store. Ebony had send some of her men, there were five in total to watch from the roof and to guard the sewer. That left Ebony and Amber with the kids. "The first thing we are going to needed to do is to gather Intel." Ebony suggested, "Then we need to gather the tribes together."

"I don't know if it's going to be that easy. They were flying a plane Ebony, and not only that they have cars and access to who knows what else." Amber signed as she placed Brady into the nearby pack and play.

"They are probably going to start rounding up the city leaders that is the first thing the Chosen did. It left the tribes weak and easy to take down." KC added.

"Making sure our people are safe and getting intel should e our top priorities." Ebony repeated.

"There are two people making their way towards the entrance." One of the militia men interrupted as he stood in the doorway, "I don't see any of the men in black in the area, they seem to be heading towards the old stadium."