HEY HERE IS CHAPTER 2! ANOTHER SHOUT OUT TO DARKANGEL1858 FOR GIVING ME THE SUGGESTIONS ON THE STORY! SO HERE IT IS...
Chapter Two:
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Eli's POV
5 weeks. 5 endless weeks. Was this how it really ends? Just me, Clare, and Adam. TCA barely put up a fight. The Xs test was poor. I was expecting much more to it. Dont get me wrong, the deaths were horrible, but it seemed as if the deaths of the others were just bad timing. Like they were at the wrong place. Its just that the technology and what they are capable of, wouldnt they be smarter? Something wasnt right. But life wasnt right. The world was no longer paused. It was ending as... WE KNOW IT. Wait that was it!
I quickly woke up Clare and Adam who werent very happy to be awoken. "I figured something you might want to know!" Clare sighed and sat up, "Guys, I dont think I was at the Xs." I looked at Clare. What did she mean? "What?" She looked around then set her eyes on me. "I wasnt at the Xs. I remeber waking up from dreams of the Xs but I was never there." What? "Clare what? You arent making any sense. We saw you in the Xs." Adam said looking at her. Clare sighed and looked up. "That wasnt me. It might have some kind of clone or something, because I remeber seeing images or dreams from the Xs but I wasnt in control. Like Jake, I never really kissed him, or whatever and when I had that dream... I thought exactly what was on the note." Adam's face turned red with fury. "What! So you were automatically chosen for the 'army'? Thats not fair!" Adam was right, it wasnt fair. She didnt even try. We couldnt blame her though; just TCA. "What did you need to tell us, Eli?" Whispered Clare quickly changing the subject.
"The world was never in peril." Clare and Adam's heads shot up to look at me in awe. "Huh?" Adam said putting aside his anger for awhile. "It was all a trick to get us to put up with it. The world is fine. They were lieing to us and the Main. They just wanted the super kids to participate." Clare looked around as if she were trying to remeber something. "That leaves alot of unexplained things, Eli. Your saying the orginal TCA-WIDA were lieing to us? They are good! If that is the case, that means the Main is bad also!" Clare had a point. Maybe the Main wanted to delete this whole fake purpose of TCA or WIDA just wanting to rule the world. The world was fine. Thats why the population fought back. Maybe.
But then it hit me. "Eli, TCA is really powerful. They couldnt just end it like this." Adam said messing with a loose string. "Thats because it hasnt ended." I mumbled not knowing where that came from. "What do you mean?" asked Clare staring off in the distance. "Dont you see? This is just another test! The Xs, the pause bomb story, it was just to stall time! This is bigger than we thought! Who knows what they want in the end. The world ending was just a story to throw us off. It has nothing to do with ruling the world." Adam looked at me again, "Then why are they putting us through this then?" I shrugged, "Thats what we need to know."
"Eli this is really confusing." Clare said still looking at the horizen. I nodded in agreement. It was. It was so hard to explain.
They gave us fake memories to think the whole world ending and the pause bomb were real. That explains why the Xs werent as challenging. "Guys, this is the REAL Xs." I said looking up at Adam. Then Clare broke her gaze, "For this to be the ACTUAL Xs, we would need everyone else. For the evaluation they would need every one to go through it. To make it to the evalutaion. So that means..." I finished it for her, "The others are still alive."