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The truck stops suddenly and Charlie switches of the engine.
"Let's go." He says remorselessly.
Zeke opens the shutter wide enough for us to get out and motions me to go ahead of him. I jump onto the desert ground and wait for the others to come out. They walk through a small passage way between the seats and I help them jump down. Dale wakes Alaska up gently and her eyes squint and flutter with pain but she's wearing a huge to cover it. I don't think anyone else noticed but I always pay too much attention to every detail.
"Time to go, Alaska."
"We here already?" She gets up and brushes down her clothes.
"Yep." He holds her arm and they step of the truck. Alaska loses her footing and Dale helps me stabilize her.
"Where's the headquarters?"
"It's over here. It's about a quarter of a mile away." I can see it from here, it's a huge building with four smaller buildings around it.
I turn around and see several Dauntless trucks speeding towards us. They are all going so fast that I don't think they will be able to stop in time. They slam the breaks and the tires squeak. The trucks managed to slow down a park a few meters ahead off our truck. I can hear the driver cheering and the passengers shouting abuse at them but they are laughing at the same time which makes the insults almost harmless.
"We have allocated gas masks to who we think needs it the most. We don't like playing god but we didn't have enough for everyone. I want all those without one to be brave and I promise you will be cured as soon as we find the cure."
The masks get distributed around the crowd and they are doing what I suggested, first they give to the youngest and the weakest and with the rest they give out to the best fighters to make sure they are alive to protect everyone else.
The supplies are thin now and none of my group have had any. I start to worry but they I see a man walking straight towards us with a handful of gas masks in his hands. He passes Christina one. Then Alaska. Then Tom. Then Shauna. And finally me.
"Don't even think about it." Zoe shouts at Tom.
"Take mine." Shauna stares at Zeke.
"You know I can't do that." He tells her.
Colin looks scared. "It's okay. We can share it." Christina shares.
Everyone knows they won't be able to share it but it calms Colin down a little.
Me and Alaska look at Dale with despair festering in our face.
"I'm not taking anyone's, okay?"
I wish we had enough for all of us. I barely have enough time to encourage them before the commander shouts for Christina as it's time to her to ask for surrender.
"You're not going." Colin says sternly.
"What?" Christina yells.
"I couldn't let you ask for surrender, it's too dangerous." Colin says sadly.
"I'm going." She turns her back and Colin jumps on top of her and attaches a handcuff to her right arm and puts the other onto his left hand. They are chained together.
"What are you doing?" She shouts angrily.
"Keeping you out of danger."
"We agreed that I would go for you." I say.
"I volunteered."
"So did I."
"I'll be back soon. It'll be fine."
I walk off and I hear Colin apologizing and Christina saying that she will blame him if I die.
I try to ignore the looks from the crowd and walk to the commander.
"I'm going in her place."
He gives me a speaking device and I look at it confused.
"Tell me if we need to fight or not as soon as you know."
"Okay."
"We will find him." He says, obviously talking about Tobias.
I smile at him weakly and head towards The Smokers headquarters.
I arrive at the building, I make sure I don't stand too close just in case someone tries to kidnap me.
"Chloe!" I shout as loud as I can.
There isn't a reply, just an eerie silence.
"Chloe! I need to speak to you."
A young soldiers, about 13 years old appears from behind the door. He looks scared and worried.
"I'm here to speak with you. Chloe is going to talk into my earpiece and you're going to speak back. Okay?"
"Yeah."
"She wants to know why you are here."
"I have army of Dauntless and Erudite waiting to attack. If you surrender and give me Tobias and enough medicine to cure two people we will leave you and there will be peace between us both."
"She says that she's keeping Tobias."
"We will burn this place to the ground if she doesn't agree to my terms."
"She says that you are ruining her date."
It takes all my strength not to march in there and kill her myself.
"I don't think she's taking this seriously."
I can hear her laughing through his headpiece.
"She says that she's not scared of you."
"She should be." I spit.
I rip the speaking device and shout, "We have to kill her."
I felt horrible for saying that but I meant every word I said.