Hello fellow nerdlings, so sorry for the drop off. I had lost some chapters somehow and had to rewrite them. I lost some hope and for a bit didn't think I was going to come back but I couldn't stay away; I enjoy writing too much. While my schedule is a bit busy, I will do my best to post at least once a weak. Anyway, as yall know I don't own anything except new characters and ideas, I make no money from writing, and all rights go to the rightful owners. Thank you for being patient, thank you for reading.

I grimaced as Eric sunk the needle into my tender flesh, the simulation serum bitterly cold as it flooded my veins. It kicked in faster than the other two variations. My head swimming as I fell under.

The dizzy spell lifted as fast as it came on. I opened my eyes as I felt air whipping my skin, I was falling through an endless sky. I looked down and didn't see an end, I narrowed my eyes unsure of what this was or how I could manipulate it without giving myself away. Before I could think my body slammed into a freezing red sea, this was not here before. I kicked, panicking, this wasn't something I had seen before.

Screams pounded against my ear drums, frantically I turned to see my brother. He was much younger looking, fear and anguish clouding his small elfish features.

"Alessa! Please!" he begged, frantically I kicked forward trying to reach him but it was hopeless. The red water was thick like jelly, I was making no headway no matter how hard I kicked.

I searched my mind for something, some way out of this. I stopped kicking, steadying my breathing. I was not helpless. My brother was not a small child. He was not helpless. I repeated to myself as I closed my eyes, sinking into the gelatinous red sea. My brother stopped screaming.

I opened my eyes, Eric and Tobias stood before me. I waited as they circled me. "This is your last test, your last chance to stay in dauntless. If you fail—" there it was, failure, I can't…I was terrified I would. My lip involuntarily trembled. "You lose them." Suddenly, where there was nothing before, a gaping hole with thick metal spikes protruding from the bottom appeared. My friends dangling by thin ropes just above it.

Eric spoke now, "Beat us." I wasn't the most confident in my fighting skills. I wasn't horrible but I wasn't like my brother, I wasn't like Lynn.

I hesitated but drove forward, it was merciless. No matter how hard I fought, no matter what I did they knew everything. They shifted, taking on the forms of monsters like the ones I feared were beyond the gate.

In the end, I managed it but was barely able to stand, blood and sweat dripped down my battered body. As I fell onto the cold concrete everything changed again. This time I stood in what appeared to be a waste land, the only person there was my brother and myself. But he didn't look like himself, his eyes rimmed with dark bags, his hair a ragged mess, his clothes torn and bloody yet there was not a single scratch on him. As he moved he revealed the countless number of bodies that lay behind him. Among those were Chris, Will, Lynn, Marlene, Uriah, Tris, Tobias, Eric, Avalon, Al, Edward, Zeke, and Myra.

This fear was losing him to the serum they pumped into him. I scowled, lunging forward without thought, this fear now brought so much anger. I brought my fist down as he taunted me, blamed me for what I let him become. Only when his head was caved in and I was covered in blood and brain matter did it stop.

I shot up in the metal chair, Tobias and Eric stood back as they waited for what was to come. They had a trashcan waiting. Violently I vomited, my body shaking as I was in a cold sweat.

"Does this happen every time you inject her with a serum?" someone questioned.

"Yes, her stomach is weak to something in the serum." Tobias said, his voice stony. He came and helped me up, taking off the electrodes he stuck to me.

"Water?" Eric produced a bottle as he leads me out. "What was my time?" I questioned as I gained my footing.

"3 minutes and thirty seconds, you only had three fears. That's crazy." I shrugged, I didn't fear much, I could have told him that from the beginning.

I stood with the other initiates in a glass paneled room, none of us looking at each other, each of us still recovering from what we were forced to see. I doubt it looked good that I was pounding someone unforeseen to them.

Tris had told me that Tobias goes into his fear landscape to try to conquer them, find new ways to fight them. I think I might start that once everything is settled. It seemed smart, a tad masochistic but he chose dauntless after all; we all did.

Max, Eric, and Tobias walk into the room with a group of unfamiliar people following closely. Each holding a thin black case. "There is one more thing before you can go and get ready for the welcoming banquet." he says.

He beckons to one of the unfamiliar people behind him. A woman with blue hair hands him the thin black case she had been holding. He opens it and takes out a syringe and a long needle. Inside is an orangey brown serum, it looks similar to what they inject us with for the simulations but the color is wrong.

"This will inject you with a tracking device that will be activated only if you are reported missing. Just a precaution." Max added quickly, noting our disturbed expressions. We all knew it was a lie. Everyone in this room knew, even the dauntless-born we hadn't befriended. Everyone here deserved to know.

Screams filled the room as both Eric and Tobias pulled out guns, a woman dressed in black and dark blue came crashing through the glass ceiling. Everyone was braced, we all knew she was coming. Avalon; leader of the resistance.

Guns were thrown to each of us, it wasn't hard to take down the few here. They didn't see it coming, Max and his team were all too focused on their own corruption.

Peter was by my side as we ran through the halls of dauntless, taking down those who were corrupted by either Jeanine or Max. Avalon knew more than any of us thought she did, she knew who was a traitor and who was innocent here. Corruption thankfully hadn't spread to any of the other factions. Avalon stepped in before Erudite moved on to Candor.

One final sweep of the compound left us sure there were no surviving traitors, all of the cameras were destroyed. Erudite could not see or hear us now. They didn't have enough power to act but I didn't give it long before they found a way.

Avalon gathered us in the cafeteria. We all ate as she talked.

"By now you should all know my name; Avalon. I was raised in Erudite under the corruption of their leader; Jeanine." Anger grunts and scowls echoed on the concrete walls as she smirked, "I was taught how to fight by a divergent dauntless named Amar, he taught me of the corruption. My mother too knew of it, helped me to learn of it and become smarter and stronger than Jeanine and Max. I myself am a divergent." She explained to everyone what a divergent was, what it meant for us. "Amar went beyond the wall, learned what he could and brought it back to me. But still there was corruption even out there. The people out there are the ones who made some of you the way you are, instituted this system, and watched as like lab experiments. They kill as they like, they change our lives, wipe our memories as they please. Amar left along with a man named George Wu, together along with several other divergents they took out the people who did this to us, they went to other cities like ours. There were others who went through what we did. They helped him to continue to destroy those who put us here. Some societies were different, the ones like ours functioning the best. But there was always corruption until a council was formed."

She paused, taking a swig of water and walking closer to the center. "We are going to destroy the destroy the corruption here, we will no longer abide by the lies Jeanine has spread. Together we mark the end of this life, together we shall venture into a brighter future."