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Author's Notes: This is even shorter then yesterdays upload but I just finished this section and decided to upload it. I'll upload another chapter tomorrow.

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Chapter Three

[Day 2 – The Forest – Near Mount Weather]

It was mid morning when Indra and her crew approached Mount Weather's main door.

"Eyes open." She ordered as they moved through for forest. They were only a couple hundred meters away and they didn't want to be seen by anyone. The deal with the Mountain Men didn't specify that the grounders couldn't be here but it was better to stay out of sight. It was a small crew of four people. Indra lead them through the forest, Fio was behind her followed by Nyko and Penn. It was a perfect group for a recon mission; the leader, the muscle, the healer, and the archer. They were ready for anything they would encounter.

They walked slowly scanning the area around them. As the clearing in front of the main door became visible Indra stopped and took position behind a tree and a bush. Everyone grouped up behind her and put their hands on the weapons. They were ready for anything but were suddenly confused as they noticed the main door to the underground complex was wide open. The forest was quiet and Indra thought about what to do next.

"We're going in." she stated as she rose.

Fio and Penn were just soldiers and followed orders without question but Nyko was their healer and held a higher rank so spoke up, "We aren't to interact with the Mountain Men." He wasn't questioning orders; he just felt it was his job to point out the facts. Indra started moving towards the door as the others followed.

"If that door is open we shouldn't run into anyone." She replied as she drew her sword and the others did the same. The Mountain Men couldn't survive on the ground and if the main door was open something had happened. As they stepped inside to find an empty hallway she began to feel a little optimistic that somehow against all odds the Sky people had defeated Mount Weather.

Knowing she didn't have to explain to her crew the decisions she made Indra lead them to the stairwell that lead down to all levels of the base. She knew all the inhabitants of Mount Weather were stuck on level five due to the power station being destroyed. The generators could only keep the air safe on one level and investigating that level would give Indra the answers she needed.

Making their way down the long set of stairs they moved slowly keeping as quiet as they could. Penn at the back with an arrow already loaded kept an eye out behind them. "I smell smoke." He commented yet no smoke could be seen in the stairwell. Pushing forward they were almost at the door to level five and the smell of death became apparent.

"Be ready for anything." Indra reminded them as they stepped foot into level five. The first room of interest they came to was the dorm room. Several guards were dead on the floor with radiation burns all over their body. Empty handcuffs lined the walls and a medical bed was in the center of the large room. On the table next to the bed were syringes filled with the blood taken from the Sky people. This sight helped remind them that a few of the Mountain Men could still be alive if they had received the bone marrow treatment. Everyone now knew for sure that Clarke and her people had beaten the mountain.

As they moved further into the level the smell began to get stronger until they came upon the mess hall. Being hardened warriors they didn't' physically react to the sight but mentally they were amazed. Hundreds of dead bodies filled the room. It was clear they had no warning based on their positions. Hunched over full plates of food or fallen to the ground where they stood. These people didn't know they were going to die.

Indra was impressed that Clarke was successful in her mission. When the grounders were ordered to retreat she assumed Clarke and Octavia would give up their mission to rescue their friends. What could two people do against an impenetrable mountain she thought.

Standing in the large archway taking in the sight before them three gun shots rang out in quick succession from down the hallway on their right. Nyko's upper arm was grazed by a bullet and Fio took bullets to the bicep and the shoulder.

"Cover!" Indra yelled as she grabbed Fio and pulled him inside the mess hall before he even had time to react. At the same time Penn quickly turned and fired an arrow in the direction of the gun shots. Nyko easily ignored the pain in this arm which was no more then a cut and moved to Fio to check his wounds. He took Fio's left hand and put it to his shoulder. "Pressure here." He commanded as he began to tie off the arm to prevent blood loss from the secondary wound while he worked on the shoulder.

Indra stuck her out the door to see who was shooting at them as Penn fired another arrow down the hall. A few seconds went by as nothing happened and everyone waited to see what was coming next. Penn had his bow drawn as he and Indra watched the now empty hallway. A hand with a gun pointed towards them was first thing they saw and Penn released his arrow. The gun started to fire as Emerson ran across the hallway. He was wearing a large backpack and carried a bag in his free hand. Penn and Indra ducked back into the mess hall to avoid the bullets. The arrow that Penn fired just missed Emerson and stuck itself in the backpack he was wearing.

"We're going after him." Indra said to Nyko as she removed a knife from her belt and held it by the blade. Grounders had to use arrows or throwing knifes to combat guns. "We'll be with you shortly." Nyko replied almost finished patching up Fio. Fio looked more angry then in pain because unlike an injury from a bladed weapon a bullet wound need to be looked at right away for fear of bleeding to death.

Indra and Penn made their way down the hallway that Emerson disappeared in and carefully looked around the corner. Through the open door of the stairwell they could hear foot step quickly descending and they ran to the door. Stepping into the stairwell they could now see Emerson about 3 flights down. Penn fired an arrow but missed. Having to aim for the head or legs because of the backpack it reduced the chance of the arrow hitting its target. Indra ran down the stairs staying to the left hand side so Penn could shoot arrows from behind her.

Having successfully avoided being hit by arrows Emerson made it to the bottom of the stair and continued to escape through the lowest floor of the base. Moving cautiously but quickly through the corridors Indra and Penn came to a dead end with two doors. Nyko and Fio had caught up now and had their weapons ready. Fio's left arm was bloody and tied to his torso to prevent further injury but his weapon hand was ready for revenge. Looking in the first door revealed the medical bay but it seemed totally empty. Indra motioned for everyone to final set of doors at the end of the hall assuming Emerson could have only gone that way.

Suddenly explosions could be heard somewhere in the base above them. Numerous blasts could be heard one after another while dust and pieces of cement began to fall from the ceiling. Only seconds passed between explosions while the four of them were unsure of what was happening or what to do. Then five meters down the hall behind them the doors to the medical bay blew open with a ball of fire. Everyone quickly dropped to the floor to avoid the flames rising to cover the ceiling. The fire in the hall quickly burnt itself out as the four tried to recover from the shock wave. Their ears were ringing and the air was filling with smoke rather quickly.

"Come on!" Indra yelled over the sound of the inferno raging in medical bay just down hall as she pushed her way into the final set of doors. Everyone followed and were taken aback by what was in this room. Medical equipment was set up in the first few meters of the room followed by two rows of cages stacked double high. This lead into a larger circular room that was higher and filled with more cages around the perimeter. They understood that this was where the grounder prisoners had been held.

Knowing there had to be an escape from this place Indra lead her men forward in pursuit of Emerson. They heard the clear sound of a tone generator come from a pair of open doors at the side of the circular room. Indra realized those doors must lead to the tunnels under Mount Weather and Emerson was using the tone generator to subdue the reapers. By the volume of the sound they knew Emerson was quite a ways a head of them so they ran forward without fear of being ambushed.

They passed through a final heavy door as the brick walls stopped and the tunnels began. The tunnel was dimly lit with lights in the ceiling spread far apart. The low light and the lack of cover made the group slow down and proceed with caution. They couldn't hear much aside from their own foot steps on the gravel as they approached an intersection.

What sounded like growling could be heard until it turned into an attack yell as a reaper rounded the corner of the intersection. To Indra's amazement it was one of the reapers they had tranquilized days earlier when they were attacking Mount Weather. Even with his blood stained clothes and white paint smeared across his face she knew this man; it was her brother-in-law. Years ago her husband and his brother were taken by the reapers and assumed dead. That assumption was clearly wrong and she wanted answers. Before Penn could nock an arrow Indra ran towards the reaper, side stepped him and brought her knee up to his stomach. Clearly recovering from the effects of the tone generator he was too slow to react to Indra's attack. Falling to his knees with the wind knocked out of him she hit him in the back of the head with the hilt of her sword.

"Tie him up. We're taking him back to camp." She ordered the others. Nyko and Penn moved to bind the reaper while Indra looked on with concern. She knew what had to be done to get answers on the whereabouts of her husband but she wasn't happy about it. The sound of the tone generator was heard again in the distance. Indra and Fio stepped in front of the other three men to prepare for any attack. Luckily the direction the sound came from wasn't the way out of the tunnels to the outside. Indra remembered the path they took days ago.

"Lets go." She commanded.

Nyko and Penn picked up the unconscious reaper and followed Indra back towards the grounder camp.


Author's Notes: I have some OCs coming up and I'm terrible with naming. So if you have any Grounder or Arker names you'd like to suggest I'm all ears.

Also the same question I'd like input on if you have any:

Murphy and Jaha's story. Any Ideas? I don't really know what to do with them. So I need some input because if I can't come up with anything soon I'm going to have to use another enemy to bring into the story.