Episode 3: Aboard the Boat

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"Okay, we're in here. Where do they keep the prisoners?" I asked.
"Second dock. I'll scout ahead and signal when its clear." Clem said. She checked two doors and signaled it was clear. We followed behind her. One of the raiders came around and saw Clem as she hid. "Who's there?!" He called. Clem stayed silent. "Mhm." He murmured. I jumped out and knocked him out with his rifle. "Hey, i think this is the boiler." Violet said.
"And its blocked. There's gotta be another way." I said. Clem used Marlon's bow to knock out a guy who was down the hall. We found a smaller door to the boiler. Clementine placed Mitch's Masterpiece inside.
"We all love and support you." Louis said.
"Bury this thing in the bottom of the river." Violet added.
"Now we have to find our friends. Come on." I said. We made it to deck 2 and we saw Minerva talking to a taller woman. They were speaking about Tenn. "Of course she had to be the cell guard. We can't sneak past her." Violet said. We all rose up as soon as the other woman. "Get. Out." Minerva demanded. "Just... just tell me that Tenn's safe." She begged.
"Tenn told us to tell you he forgives you." Clem said. Minerva shook her head. She lowered the crossbow. "I'll help get everyone out. Then you take my brother, and run. Get him back where its safe." She told us. I couldn't believe she was helping us. We saw Aasim and Omar. "Are you okay?" I asked them.
"Yeah. We're fine." Aasim confirmed. Minerva opened a cell. If anyone sees us, run in here. Minerva said. Y/n stood there at the cell. Clem came behind him. Then he saw his sister get hit to the ground, courtesy of Minerva. I knew we couldn't trust her. She forced me into it, then she forced AJ, Louis, and Violet into the cell at the opposite wall.

I stood still at the cell door and waited for Clementine to wake up. I already spoke to Louis, Violet, AJ, Aasim, and Omar. Clementine woke up and saw me at the door. "Y/n!" She exclaimed as she saw me. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm okay." I went to hug my sister. "I already checked on everyone. They're okay, too." I told her.
"Is there a way out?"
"Yeah, through this door. And it looks like the welded bolts are loose, so we could escape." I said. Clem went to check her pockets. "That figures, they took my knife." Clem said. "AJ, do you have your knife?" She asked. AJ pulled out a little shiv. "Yeah, they didn't find it. Only the big one." AJ said. He pushed his shiv under the doors. "Get us outta here." I said. Clem started chipping at the bolt, but was stopped when that woman that was with Minvera came back. "Ay!" She shouted as she punched the door. "Whatever you're doing. Don't. I promise you, it ain't worth it. Step back."
"She awake, Dorian?" We heard.
"Yes, ma'am." She stepped aside. We saw Lilly come to the door with Minerva. "Where's Abel?" She asked.
"We spared him from turning. Put a knife in his head." I told her. "He's better off." Lilly pointed a pistol at us. "Back up." She said. Me and Clem took a few steps back. I kicked the shiv under the bed. Minerva opened the cell door. "Normally the trouble you caused, i shoot you and toss you overboard. But I'm pretty impressed." Lilly told us. "I bring a prize like you back to the Delta, it might make this whole clusterfuck of a mission worth it."
"Look, if I'm the one you want, let the others go." Clem said.
"This isn't a negotiation. This is me telling you how things are going to be." She told us. "You know my father, Larry, was a military man--"
"Don't try to teach us some lesson about him. All I know is he was an asshole. Seeing how you turned out, i'd say asshole runs in the family." I told her. "Cut to the chase."
"He believed actions have illustrations." She sighed, pissed that I interrupted her. She then told us a story called the parable of the twins. It was about Minerva and Sophie. Which is when the truth came out from Minerva. "I killed Sophie." She said.
"Minnie, no... tell me she's lying." Violet said.
"Why? Your own sister?" Lilly asked.
"I needed to show my loyalty to the Delta." She said.
"Like it or not, you're both one of my people now. The question is which twin are you gonna be?" Lilly asked us.
"What have you done to her head? You fucking psychotic bitch!" Violet shouted at Lilly.
"They brainwashed her! You people are fucking sick!" Louis shouted on top of Violet.
"I'll be the one to stick a knife in your leg handle-deep, and chop your leg clean off with the knife." I said.
"Kind of what I expected one of you to say." She said. "Pull the mouthy one out of the cell." She said. Dorian pulled Louis out. She put him to the ground and was about to chop his finger off. AJ was gonna attack Dorian. We let him take the risk, and he bit Dorian on the ear. He was thrown off of her and he spit out part of her ear. Dorian went to kick AJ, but Violet stopped her by tripping her. "Thats enough."
"They attacked me--"
"That's enough!" Lilly told Dorian. She put Louis back in the cell. "You deserve to die." AJ told Lilly.
"You think you can kill me?" She asked.
"I know I can." He said. "I killed Marlon. He wasn't a monster. But you are." He then put his hands in a gun-hold and aimed at Lilly. "Bang."
"So YOU killed Marlon. Huh."
"Hey! HEY!! Leave him alone!" I shouted at Lilly. "You lay a finger on him, I'll make my threat a promise!"
"Clem and Y/n really care about you, huh?" She asked AJ. "Come on lets to have a chat. Just us." Lilly grabbed AJ and took him with her.
"No!" We shouted. Minerva closed the cell. Clementine glared at her. "Don't look at me. This is how we survive." Minerva said.
"Who are you?!" Violet shouted at Minerva. "Fuck survival! Look at what you've done!"
"After everything she's done, you're just gonna help her? Fuck you!" Louis shouted. While Louis and Violet shouted at Minerva, Clem broke the bolts on the cell door and pulled up the bar in the ground. Clementine rammed the door and pulled up the bar to the other. Minerva kicked Clementine down and tried stabbing her. She did get the knife in Clem's chest a little. "Minerva!" Louis shouted. That woman, Dorian, came back and Louis shot her in the head with the crossbow. "Wait! Thats now what I..."
"You fucking bitch!" I shouted. I grabbed Minerva's hair and pulled her off of Clem. I punched her once in the face, giving her a black eye and knocking her out. Violet went to check on her former girlfriend. "I...I'll see you on land."
Violet said. Aasim helped Omar and Louis went with them.
"We gotta find AJ." Clem said. "Come on, Y/n!" I followed Clementine.

Clementine and I made it up to the main deck. We saw Lilly also caught James and Tenn. We snuck around some boxes to get closer. Tenn had grabbed a pistol from a woman Lilly was with. He didn't shoot though because he was afraid. AJ bit Lilly on the arm. James attacked the woman Lilly was with. Clementine jumped out and tackled Lilly. I joined and punched Lilly in the face. "Get the gun!" Clem said. I crawled to the pistol. Lilly pushed Clem onto me. She was gonna stomp Clem, but I stopped her. She got Clem to the ground and started choking her. AJ jumped on Lilly. She punched him away and kicked her off him. "Come on!" I grabbed Clem's hand and helped her up. Clem pushed me outta the way and pulled her knife out. She tried to stab Lilly's neck, but Lilly stopped her. She put her against a railing. I grabbed the knife and stabbed it into Lilly's leg. I then pulled it down to her foot, cutting it open and making Lilly fall to the ground. Clem went down with her and let out a gasp for breath. AJ grabbed the pistol and aimed it at Lilly. "AJ, wait! I give up! I will give up!" She stated. "I'll let everyone leave! My crew and I will leave!" Lilly groaned from the pain. Clementine got up and leaned against the rail. "AJ! She's not a threat." James said.
"You weren't down there. You didn't see what she did! She tried to cut us all up!" AJ told James. He looked at us, waiting for an answer. "Put down the gun." James said.
"You can't let her hurt anyone else!" Tenn told him.
"I don't wanna die!" Lilly begged.
"Do it, AJ!" Clem shouted.
"Shoot her!" I followed. AJ shot Lilly straight in the face, the same place she shot Carley all those years ago. Lilly's body went down. AJ kept shooting and shot her nine more times. "AJ, STOP!" James said.
"Lilly, we couldn't find the other..." One of Lilly's people saw we killed Lilly. The boat had started. "Shit, the bomb! AJ!" Clem got off the rail and ran to AJ. The boat blew up, launching Clem back.
See ya, Lilly!

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