A/N: I'M BBBAAAAACCCCCKKKKK. Yeah, that's right. I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me. Anyway, one thing lead to another and those things caused this to get pushed to the back burner. But I'm back with this one. Enjoy.
No one's P.O.V.
"How many did we get?" Janson asks the soldier taking a head count and checking them off a list.
"All of them, give or take." The soldier responds.
"Give or take?" Janson asks as he glares at each individual glader. Each of them returning the glare with just as much hate, if not more.
"Well the lost some." The soldier says not lifting his head.
"Where's Amanda?" Janson calls to some of the other soldiers holding others at launcher point.
"Right here." A voice says, causing everyone to turn and look for the source of the voice. When everyone looks around, everyone's eyes land on Amanda who is walking slowly toward the mass of people. Two guards rush toward her, roughly grab her arms, and drag her over to where Janson is standing. Janson has the biggest smile on his face as Amanda is forcibly dragged in front of him. Everything is completely silent as Amanda and Janson engage in a battle of wills, daring the other one to back down. Then out of nowhere, Janson slaps Amanda and pushes her back into the waiting arms of the guards.
Amanda's P.O.V.
'Ok, that stung a little.' I think to myself as Janson pushes me back to the guards. I can hear Newt fighting against the other guards to get to me.
"Put her with the others." Janson orders the guards. They drag me over to where Newt, Thomas, and Minho are and push me down next to Newt.
"You ok?" Newt asks as he helps me up.
"Yeah. I've taken worse hits." I say. I can hear Janson whisper something to a soldier and the soldier nods.
"Why didn't you run?" Minho asks me in a quiet voice.
"If I'm leaving, I'm taking you guys with me. If you get caught, so do I." I explain to them, without looking at them. Suddenly there is a loud whirring sound coming from the plane as the hanger opens and Dr. Ava Paige steps out in her normal wardrobe of all white. She struts down the ramp toward Janson.
"Is this all of them?" She asks, hopeful.
"Most of them. It'll be enough." Janson reassures her.
"Alright. Start loading them in." Ava orders. Janson nods and starts yelling at people to do what she said. "Hello Amanda. I'm glad to see you're safe." Ava says as two soldiers grab me and drag me to her. Teresa walks up next to Ava with a guilty look on her face.
"This is low even for you." I say to Teresa. All she does is give me a smirk.
"What the hell?" Minho says as he and the others come to stand next to and behind me.
"She's with them." I explain. "She always has been."
"Teresa has always had an evolved appreciation for the greater good. Once we restored her memories, it was only a matter of time." Ava says almost as if she's bragging about it.
"You know those are fake memories, Teresa. They planted fake memories in your mind so that way you would betray us. Nothing they tell you is real." I say, trying to get it through to her.
"This is all a means to an end." Ava sounds like she's a god trying to justify the murders she has committed.
"Drop dead." I spat back at her. I shook the guards off of me. "Is this really what you wanted? All of this chaos, all of this fear." I yell back at her.
"I am not a monster. I'm a doctor. I swore an oath to find a cure. No matter the costs!" Ava yells back. This surprises Janson and the soldiers because Ava is usually very calm and not one to yell or scream at someone. She got a hold of herself. "I just need more time."
"More blood." Mary says as she stands up and takes a step forward, as if to challenge Ava. I can't help but smile. Mary has always been the mother figure for me. She has taught me a lot over the years. I was terrified when they sent her away, because I knew that meant I was never going to see her again.
"Hello, Mary." Ava says in a hushed tone. "I was hoping we would meet again. I'm sorry it had to be under these circumstances." Ava actually sounded like she cared for a split second.
"I'm sorry about a lot of things, too. But not this. At least my conscience is clear." Mary says back. At first I couldn't understand what she meant, but then realization hit me like a ton of bricks.
"So is mine." Is all Ava says before a shot rings out and echoes off of the mountains. Everyone except Ava, Janson, Mary and myself, duck at the sound. I look toward Mary and see her shirt starting to turn red. I turn back to see Janson holding a gun and a thin wisp of smoke. Oh My God. Vince runs forward and catches Mary before she hit the ground. He starts calling her name, then he looks at Ava and Janson with a fury and screams at the top of his lungs. I want to save her but I can't move. What a time to chicken out. "Start loading them in." Ava gives the order and suddenly guards start taking people and putting them on the jet. I can see a guard drag Sonya and Aris toward the jet.
"Sonya! Aria!" Harriet screams over the noises of the guards.
"Let's go." A guard says as he grabs my arm. I let my supernatural instincts kick in and I hit the guard in the stomach with so much force that he goes flying.
"Let them all go, Ava." I say as I begin to let my supernatural energy charge within myself and I know Ava can see it.
"You know I can't do that." Ava yells as she tries to stop me.
"Ava, let them all go or I will blow every person that is involved with WICKED into oblivion." I threaten as I feel my eyes change.
"Do you really want all of them to die? Because that is what will happen if you do this. They have all been involved with us." Ava tries to use reasoning, when she doesn't know what she's talking about.
"Stop trying to talk about things you don't know anything about. Magic has it's own rules. Plus, before the boys went into the maze, I put a protection charm on them to guarantee that nothing would happen to them. If I release this energy they'll live, but you not so much." I explain as I feel more of my humanity slip away.
"Do you really want to leave the love of your life?" Ava says as she looks at Newt.
"If it means that he'll be safe. The one thing I know you don't understand, is how powerful emotions are. It's the emotions I feel that give me my power and that's something that won't ever change." I explain as I'm about to let everything go.
"We're with you, Amanda." Minho says.
"No…" I can hear Teresa say.
"Do it." Thomas says as he stands next to Minho. I feel something wrap around my hand.
"We're ready." Newt says as he looks at me.
"We aren't going back. This ends right here, right now." I say as I finally let the energy go. Everything turns bright white.