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40: The Spotter

A/N: Sorry, I'm a little late. I was on vacation and had to find new resources for Trigedasleng after trigedasleng.net went down, but now here it is, the new chapter.

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On the way to the army Clarke took her radio and asked Raven how long until their part of the plan was done.
"I'm already done with the bombs, but to make a failsafe plan we still need a few hours. Tomorrow we will probably finish our plans and have one or two aces up our sleeves," Raven estimated.
"Very good. Keep in contact with Bellamy, we have to be ready to march the second it goes downhill in there. Now that we evacuated TonDC he will be discovered soon," Clarke conjectured.
"Will be done, Clarke. Over," Raven finished their conversation. In Camp Jaha she turned from her radio station to Sinclair and Wayne, "Okay, let's get over the variables again..."

When Lexa and Clarke arrived at the camp of the army, Lexa let her voice carry, "Ge jok au en redop kom wor (Move out and prepare for war)!" Then she turned to Indra, Octavia and Anya how came closer, "You three come with us. We have to find a mountain man out here."
"A spotter," Clarke added, "they will probably have one out here to get a better aim with their missile."
Indra just nodded, but anya asked, "But isn't the missile in the mountain?"
Clarke answered, "In short, yes, but they can't take aim from there. I'll explain it later."
Anya nodded and they all started to search TonDC's surroundings. Indra and Octavia split off and went in the opposite direction from Anya, Clarke and Lexa.
It didn't take long and they heard shots in the distance. Immediately they ran towards them and soon Indra and Octavia joined them. On an open field they saw the group of five villagers and behind a rock was the dark figure of a mountain man. Two from the group were on the ground and blood soaked the earth around them.
Just when Lexa and the others arrived in the shadow of another boulder, the spotter came out from behind his rock and shot again, hitting a third villager. Immediately the spotter retreated and an arrow missed him by an inch. The fourth villager reloaded and moved a few steps to the side and crept closer to the rock. His companion tried to go around from the other side, a dagger in his hand. But before he could come close enough, the spotter shot him down and the dagger hit the ground before his wielder landed next to it with a thump. But this little distraction was enough for the last villager to shoot another arrow that burried deep into the spotters shoulder. Lexa's group used this to get even closer to the spotter's rock, while the spotter shot down the last villager in his next heartbeat. Now the spotter frantically searched in his pocket for something. Indra wanted to charge forward, but Clarke stopped her and after a look from Lexa she backed down.
"I want to know, what he's doing," Clarke explained.
They all looked as the spotter put his rifle down and got some kind of take out of his pocket.
The spotters breaths were frantic. He knew, if he didn't patch the hole in his suit, he'd die. So he got tape out of his pocket and tried to pull out the arrow. Due to the angle it had, however, he pulled it up a bit and ripped open his suit a little more. He cursed and fumbled to get some tape off the role. After a few moments he put the first stripe over the hole. And then another. And another. And just to be sure a forth and a fifth. He sighed and sank to the ground to collect himself. After three breaths he took his rifle again and got up, looking around. Then all went black.
When Clarke saw him patch up his suit, she mumbled, "Interesting." And when the spotter sank to the ground to catch his breath, Lexa, Anya and Indra charged forward, Octavia followed just a step behind. But the spotter already got back to his feet and suddenly fell. The four warriors stopped dead in their tracks and Clarke caught up to them. Then a person stepped out from behind the rock, a tree brach in hand.
"Linkon," Octavia screamed and ran towards him. They hugged each other. "You made it," Octavia smiled into his neck. "You brought Bell n and now you're back safe."
"So I am," Linkon confirmed. "Did your brother contact you?"
"Yes. He warned us about the missile. That's why we're here," Clarke answered instead of Octavia and went over to the now unconscious spotter with Anya. Clarke took the guys' radio and Anya pulled out her sword.
"No," Lexa's voice came from behind them. We will question him. He might give us an advantage in this war.
Anya nodded and switched her sword for rope and tied him up instead.
Meanwhile Indra went over to Linkon and grabbed his forearm. "I'm glad, you're back."
Linkon just nodded in response.
"Okay. How do we question him?" Clarke questioned, "This air is toxic to him and he has a hole in his suit. And..." she checked how much oxygen he had left, "...not so much oxygen left."
"We could bring him to the ark," Octavia suggested.
"And put him in an air lock," Clarke though out loud. "Good idea." She grabbed her radio, "Raven? Raven, do you copy?"
"Hello Clarke, here is Sinclair. What do you need?" came the answer.
"Hi, is Raven there? We need her to convert an air lock into a radiation free cell," Clarke wanted to know.
"Raven is working on the plan, but I can do that. How long until you are here?" Sinclair explained.
"Riding it'll take a few hours," Lexa answered.
"In a few hours," Clarke relayed this information to Sinclair.
"Copy that. I will see to it as soon as I find someone to man the radio," Sinclair sounded thoughtful and the radio went silent.
With that Indra picked up the spotter and Anya, Octavia and Linkon flanked her while Lexa went in front and Clarke walked behind the group.
On the walk he slowly regained consciousness, but he could do nothing against Indra's iron grip and near TonDC a group of hunters joined them. After they were told what happened five people split of from the group to retrieve the dead, the others helped to keep an eye on the prisoner and when they reached the stables the hunters helped to get the horses ready and tie the spotter to one of the horses.  And soon after, Clarke, Indra, Linkon and Octavia left with to additional guards by their side. Anya and Lexa, on the other hand, stayed behind with the army.