atomic man, john murphy.

Perverse Instantiation

Clove, Murphy, Pike, and Indra cautiously continued through the tunnels. It was dark with only a few small lights every so often. Murphy kept looking to his right where Clove was, but everybody remained silent. Pike suddenly stopped and held up his hand, signaling for the others to stop as well. They all remained still and waited to find out why Pike stopped them. It was faint, but there were voices and grunts further down the hallway. 

"Let's go," Somebody said. "She wants Bellamy."

"Where are you taking him?" Octavia asked, only to be punched in the face.

Clove's eyes widened and Pike slowly led them further down the hallway, stopping in a patch of complete darkness. "Leave her alone. O. O, it's okay."

Murphy took a few steps further than the others. "You know, if I were you, I'd hit the deck." One of the men turned their flashlight towards Murphy. Bellamy noticed who it was and told the others to hit the ground. Clove, Indra, and Pike stepped out of the darkness and killed the guards. "Fancy meeting you here," Murphy said. 

Pike and Indra cut the wrist bindings off of the rest of them as Clove and Murphy approached Miller, who seemed pretty banged up. "Nathan," Murphy began as he knelt down to Miller's level. "You've looked better."

Nathan shrugged, "You haven't." Clove laughed as Murphy pulled Miller up. Miller gave Clove a quick hug. "I see you found him."

"Yep," Clove responded. Everybody began walking towards the exit as the spoke. "Totally did it on my own. I definitely didn't get captured or anything... Where's my brother?" 

"Stayed back at Arkadia to help Raven and Monty." Clove raised an eyebrow at Miller's response. "Harper stayed to protect them. Jasper too." 

"Oh," Clove nodded. "Okay, that's good." 

"We're going up that tower," Bellamy informed them. "Clarke and the Flame are there. Everything we need to stop ALIE is in one place."

"If we go up that tower, we won't be able to fight our way out again," Octavia pointed out. 

"Up the tower. Great," Murphy sighed. "You know, after this, doing the right thing can kiss my ass." 

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As they neared the elevator shaft, the group stopped and allowed Bellamy to peer around the corner. Bellamy only saw two people and signaled for the others to proceed. Pike raised his gun and killed both people. "Hey! I told you that is not how we're doing this," Bellamy scolded as everybody ran towards the elevator. 

"They were in our way." Pike defended himself. 

"These people are not our enemy! They're being controlled by ALIE and we can save them."  

They secured the rest of the hallway and got to the entrance of the elevator. Miller interrupted the two men, "There's gonna be a lot more of these people if we don't move. Let's do this."

"I'll bring it down," Indra said, pulling a lever to bring the elevator to them. 

"Once we're up, you blow the elevator and then climb. Destroy the ladder behind us," Bellamy instructed. 

Bryan nodded, "On it."

"You do realize we don't have a way down, right?" 

Indra looked to Murphy and responded, "That's a problem for another day."