War Cry

2. The ARC

"It will be a 3-year plan, the SOW is ready to make the world a better place. People will have their houses back, those households who are in need of money to rebuilt their houses will get $5,000."

"It will be awhile before jobs go back to normal, we will putting staffs back into hospitals, police stations and fire stations first."

"That's a lie." Noah murmurs.

Jake walks into the gym and I immediately got up and switch off the radio. "There will be a meeting at 4pm later, be at the conference room." Jake says.

Noah and I nod our head in response.

"C'mon, I fixed your bike. Let's go riding for a short while before we wash up." Noah suggest.

He stands up, ready to leave.

I look up at the clock, people are out and about at this timing. I guess it will be okay and we won't be spotted.

"Okay." I agreed.

We got to the garage and went to our motorcycle. Mine is a black sports bike and Noah's has his in royal blue.

It's so nice to feel the wind blowing in my face before pulling my visor down.

"Bye Noah!" I laughed as I accelerate and take over him.

"You're going to get hurt!" Noah yells, trying to catch up with me.

We got back in one-piece.

I went to wash up and changed to jeans and an oversized tee shirt. I walk up to the conference room and took my seat.

Shane stood in front of everyone and held his hands together, "because of this morning's news by SOW, we will be exposing Collins' identity to The ARC. The ARC is an organisation where they're working against SOW. The ARC have tried to negotiate with SOW, if we joined The Arc, SOW might actually changed their minds."

Brandon Russo raise his hand to speak, "but SOW are doing good things."

Shane nods his head, "what they did not mention is that, soldiers will be injected with the X-Virus. Since we do not know the side effects of X-Virus, it could cost incredible danger to the world. Other than that, the new United States President will be a man called Zachariah Morgan, obviously from SOW."

"Isn't he our Uncle?" Jace furrows his eyebrows.

"Yes, he worked with Dad closely." Maria answers.

"We will be moving tomorrow morning." Shane stated.

"SOW's intentions are pure evil, I hope you guys understand. We will become test subjects again, this is good for everyone. Start packing, goodnight." Shane exits the conference room.

I look over at Kai who's room is opposite of mine, our things are all over our rooms. "Let's go, Chels." Kai says, walking out first.

"I hope your brother is right about The ARC." Kai says as we take the elevator down to our floor.

"It's Shane, he always want us safe." I look up at Kai and look into his beautiful green eyes, "plus we have been training for years, nothing is going to get in our way." I said confidently.

Kai chuckles lightly, "whatever you say." I look away from him, "we will be okay." I assured him.

At 5 in the morning, we had our things moved into The ARC ship.

"You guys have a lot of vehicles." I turn my head to see who's talking to me.

"Hello." A tall man smiles at me.

"Theo James." He introduces himself.

"Uh Chelsea Collins."

Theo nods his head, "see you around." He turns away and walks till I can't see him anymore.

"He's a hot one." Diane whispers into my ear as she walks by, "maybe we can meet new guys there and actually get a boyfriend." Layla says with excitement.

"The boys here are attractive." Kayla added quickly after Layla's statement.

Kayla and Layla are twins, they're 20 years old. Their mother died during labour and their father never really existed in their lives so here they are.

"Okay people who are 18 years old and above, come up to the meeting room please. Gabe, take care of the kids." Shane says into the speakerphone.

I walk up the steps and enter the room filled with unfamiliar faces.

I sat beside Shane, opposite was Theo.

Was that his name?

He have dark brown hair and light greyish eyes. Honestly, he is handsome.

"Hi everyone, I am the man in-charge of the ARC. My name is Elise Kyle, call me Elise." An older woman stood up from her chair, she has her hair in a tight bun and also a bright red lipstick on her.

"The moment you settle down at The ARC, you guys will be assigned your own rooms. Each floor has two rooms and a bathroom. You get to roam around freely without the fear of having to avoid SOW."

"But, you guys will be given a schedule from Monday to Friday. We will be assessing how the X-Virus works in your body so expect a lot of sparring and lab tests."

"Papers will sent out to you in this two days meanwhile, have fun on the ship. We have everything here." Elise says with a smile and walks out of the meeting room.

Noah stands up first, "Chelsea, there's a zip line right above the pool, want to go?" I stood up immediately and follow closely behind.

When we reach the top, Noah kept his hand on my waist. I chuckles lightly, he is terrified of heights.

"Want to go first? I will meet you on the other side." I say to him with a small smile on my face.

Noah stares at me for awhile, "okay." He release his grip on my waist and put on the harness.

Noah and I share similar interests such as motorcycles. I think I am the closest to him out of the others.

Noah got to the other side with no screaming at all, I am pretty sure he have his eyes closed the whole time.

"You stupid," I say the moment I got to the other side. Noah laughs, "why you ask me to come here if you're so scared, Noah?" I ask as we walk down the steps.

Noah shrugs, "because you like it."

I shake my head at his reply, "stupid."