1 Year Later after her arrest…
"Prisoner 230, face the wall."
"What's going on?" I asked in a panic, as 5 guards swarmed into my small jail cell.
"Quiet" The guard ordered. "Put out your right arm"
"No, no it's not my time. I don't turn 18 for another month." My eyes widened. Did they find out my secret? My mother took that secret to the grave… I wasn't really 18–
"Hold out your arm." The man repeated. Another soldier pulled out his weapon. He would hurt me if I didn't comply to their orders.
I reluctantly gave him my pale arm and he grabbed it firmly. The man injected a needle with some sort of serum into my arm. Wait... My eyes began to flutter shut "But we get reviewed at 18…"
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My eyes opened slowly, blinking to adjust to the lights and assess where I was. I looked down at my body to see myself in black jeans, black combat boots, a white shirt and a large green utility jacket. I was strapped into a seat and saw many other teenagers tied down, waking up and talking to one another.
These must be the other prisoners of the Ark. I turned to my right to see who else was here and saw the Chancellors son. What the hell was he doing here?
The girl besides Wells slowly stirred and Wells waited expectantly at her. The blonde looked around, just like I had, until her gaze landed on Wells.
"Welcome back. Look-"
"Wells, why the hell are you here?" The girl spat out. I guess she didn't like him either, Chancellor's son and all.
"When I found out they were sending prisoners to the ground I got myself arrested."
The girl was about to make a comment but then the shuttle shook, making me bang my head against the hard metal behind me. Screams were heard from all over the space shuttle.
"What was that?"
"That was the atmosphere." As if on queue, the TVs around us turned on to show us President Jaha's face.
"Prisoners of the Ark. Hear me now. You've been given a second chance. And I hope you see it not just as a chance for you but for all of us. Indeed, for mankind itself. We have no idea what is waiting for you down there. If the odds of survival were better we would have sent others. Frankly, we're sending you because your crimes have made you expendable." Chancellor Jaha announced to the room of teenagers.
"Your dad's a dick Wells!" Someone shouted out.
I tuned out as I thought what would happen to me, to us, but listened to Jaha on the screen.
"Your records wiped clean."
That is, if we survive.
"Your drop ship has been chosen carefully. Before the last war, Mount Weather was a military base built within a mountain, stocked with nonperishable and sustain 300 people..."
I smiled lightly as a boy unbuckled his seatbelt from across from me, a smirk on his face as his body began to float above us.
"Spacewalker strikes again..." Girls cheered on the boy.
"Check it out, your dad floated me after all." The boy turned to me, smiling wolfishly as I rolled my eyes at his crazy antics.
"Strap in before the parachutes deploy." Wells ordered the boy. A girl laughed as two boys nearby began to undo their seat belts as well. I wanted them to stay seated, what if it wasn't safe? "You two, stay put if you want to live!" Wells friend yelled at the boys. They didn't, however.
"Hey you're the traitor who's been in solitary for a year." Spacewalker told the blonde girl, recognizing her. I bit my lip harshly. I recognized her too, her mother was my nurse.
"You're the idiot who wasted a months oxygen on an illegal spacewalk."
"But it was fun..."
My mind clicked. That was the famous Finn.
Jaha's face on the screen began to blur. The last thing I heard from Chancellor Jaha was:
"Stay alive."
