"Yu gonplei ste odon...Tarik kom Louwoda Kliron kru." Indra said. "Let's get this over with." She walked past them and out of the sanitation zone.
Cooper walked through the door and stopped when she saw the three.
"What the hell are they doing here, Indra?" Cooper asked as Octavia walked past her.
"You wanted to see me?" Octavia asked Faye and Bellamy.
"You knew about this." Indra accused.
"Of course I knew about this." Octavia confirmed. "It was my idea. We're up against an army with superior firepower and every geographic advantage. This is how we overcome that." She explained.
"What happens when your secret weapon destroys the valley you're fighting for?" Faye questioned.
"I ran some tests." Cooper spoke up. "The worms can't survive in a green environment for more than a few days, long enough to kill everyone they come in contact with before we get there."
"Are we really having this conversation?" Bellamy asked. "Our friends are there, people we love."
"Acceptable losses." Octavia said. "Cooper, check on the worms. Come on, big brother. How many innocent lives have you sacrificed, or you, Worheda? This is no different. You were just trying to save your people. So am I."
"You killed him." Cooper said.
"No. You did." Indra said.
"Cooper?" Octavia asked.
"One of the defectors survived." Cooper said.
"Looks like we found something that's not acceptable." Bellamy said.
"Blodreina...I'm sorry I didn't tell you, but the results were remarkable. The worms reproduced 3 times faster in a live body, and we need quantity as well as control."
"Octavia, you don't want to do this." Faye said.
"Spare me, your hypocrisy, Faye. You killed your own friend to take that bunker..." Octavia said, bringing back Luna's death. "And just how long did your test subject survive?"
"Long enough for a defector to board their ship and fly to the valley."
"Octavia, please, don't do this." Bellamy begged his sister.
"I don't want anything to happen to your friends, Bellamy, not even Echo--please believe that--but this is war. Once we control the eye in the sky, we send the worms. Cooper, choose one of the Elite guards to deliver it. It's time for Wonkru to go home."
- - -
"Let's go over this again. As soon as Echo and Raven get the eye down, we take the rover. We drive across the wasteland. We break out our people before Wonkru attacks with the worms." Bellamy said.
"Octavia will expect us to do something like that. She'll post sentries." Clarke said.
"That's too bad for the sentries." Bellamy shrugged.
They all stopped when Monty banged his hand on the table. "This, this was supposed to be Jasper's suicide note after we pulled him out of the City of Light. He was gonna put a gun in his mouth and pull the trigger."
"Monty, now's not the time." Clarke said.
"Now is the perfect time. "Monty, I know you're an optimist. You think better days are ahead, but that's not true. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. Only the tunnel, another enemy to fight, another war. I've come to the conclusion that we're the problem--human beings, all of us. The cycle can't be broken as long as we're here. That's why I won't be here. That's why--" Monty's voice broke and he stopped.
"Monty..." Harper walked over to him. "It's okay."
"Yeah. Jasper was smarter than all of us. It doesn't matter what we do. Coming back to teh ground, opening the bunker, all we've done is made things worse. If a war is the only way to have the last survivable land on Earth, then maybe we don't deserve it."
Monty walked out. They all looked at each other, seeing the tears in Harper's eyes.
They all sat in silence till Clarke spoke up. "Something's happening." She called everyone over. "We're in. Echo did it."
"Okay."
"Wait, Bellamy." Faye stopped him. "As soon as we tell her, she marches to war and unleashes those worms."
"That's why we got to get there first." Bellamy nodded. "We take the rover. We get our people out. Then we worry about stopping the war, okay?"
Faye nodded.
"Good. I'll get Monty and Harper. You guys get Madi. We leave tonight." Bellamy left.
"What does this button do?" Faye asked Clarke for assurance, still not confident with computers.
"That's the power button." Clarke watched Faye press it.
- - -
Faye explained her plan to Clarke as they returned to one of the lower rooms where everyone was waiting.
"What if she kills you to give the Flame to Madi?" Clarke asked.
"Let her try." Faye said. She stopped when Clarke grabbed her arm.
"Please tell me this is the Commanders and not you." Clarke said.
"I am the Commander." Faye opened the door.
"Where's Madi?" Bellamy asked.
"With your sister." Clarke said, sounding just as surprised as everyone else looked.
"We don't have time for this. We have to leave now. As soon as Diyoza realizes what Echo did, she's dead. We have no choice." Bellamy said.
"You're wrong. We have one." Faye went to the radio and Monty grabbed her hand to stop her.
"Wait. What are you doing?" Harper asked.
"Stopping the cycle." Faye told them, looking at Monty. He let her hand go and she disconnected the radio. "This is Faye kom Trikru. I have a question for Colonel Diyoza."
She was quick to answer. "Hello, Faye. It's been too long. What the hell do you want?"
"What would it take for you to share the valley?"
"Share it? Well, let me see. Short of an unconditional surrender, nothing." She told her.
"Octavia would never surrender." Monty said.
"That's why we're gonna take her out." Faye looked at Bellamy, who had his back turned to her.
When he wanted her to take back her people, he didn't know she would go this far.
He didn't want the Commanders, he wanted his Commander... Faye.
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Fanfiction"I'm sorry, I just can't pretend to be something like that." "But you are something. You are Worheda." Faye kom Trikru will have to put her past behind her to save her future and people.
