Mother Earth // Bellamy Blake

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I stood next to Bellamy as we watched Indra suffocate the man that was alive in the capsule so his misery could end quicker. Indra pulled her hand back after the job was finished, the sound of the door opening made her walk over to it. Cooper and Octavia came into the room.

"What the hell are they doing here, Indra?" Cooper fired and received no answer.

Octavia strut in front of her companion and glared at Indra, "you wanted to see me?"

"You knew about this," Indra caught on to how calm she was at the sight of what was going on in this room.

"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."

"Or this is how you destroy the valley you're fighting for," I spat. I learned about invasive species with my mom, they're brutal. It's impossible to control once they are set free, all they want to do is take over.

"I ran some tests. 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," Cooper went to prove me wrong.

"You tested a theory, you can't know exactly what will happen when you release them," I tried my best to keep my voice steady. They really needed to take me seriously or this could turn into something detrimental. Cooper was intelligent, she was a scientist, but when it came down to facts about species and Earth I was the person to listen to.

"Are we really having this conversation?" Bellamy was not happy. "Our friends are there, people we love."

Octavia looked her brother dead in the eyes, "acceptable losses."

I clenched my fists that hung by my side, I wanted to slap her. Her statement made me think she would still release those worms even if Bellamy and I were in the valley.

"Cooper, check on the worms," Octavia ordered and of course her minion did just as she asked. "Come on, big brother. How many innocent lives have you sacrificed? Or you, Wanheda? Even you, Trikova Gon Wamplei? This is no different. You were saving your own people, so am I."

Cooper rushed back out of the containment tent, "you killed him."

"No. You did," Indra said back to her.

"One of the defectors survived," Cooper started to explain to Octavia. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you, but the results were remarkable. The worms reproduced three times faster in a live body, and we need quantity as well as control."

"Octavia, you don't want to do this," Clarke begged.

"Spare me your hypocrisy, Clarke," Octavia shut her down. "Miller told me about the man you irradiated in Becca's lab."

Cooper got back on topic, "they lived long enough to board their ship and fly to the valley."

"Octavia, I'm telling you this is a bad fucking idea," I brought her attention back to me.

"I don't want anything to happen to your friends, not even Echo, please believe that," Octavia tried to be sincere, but I didn't see it that way. "But this is war. Once we control the eye in the sky, we send the worms. It's time for Wonkru to go home."

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"As soon as Echo and Raven get the eye down, we take the rover. We drive across the wasteland and break our people out before Wonkru attacks with the worms," Bellamy offered a solution. I was pacing back and forth in front of the monitor that showed that the eye was still active.

"Octavia will see that coming, she'll post sentries," Clarke replied.

"That's too bad for the sentries," Bellamy responded. Monty slammed his fist into the table with a grunt, it made me stop pacing to look at him. He was reading the letter that Clarke had given to him.