Decentria

Chapter 3

I have been sitting in President M's office for the past three hours going over my script

for the broadcast. I still can't get the broadcast from yesterday out of my head. All the people of Decentria think that I killed President Gold, the most loved man in Decentria. This broadcast will be my chance to prove my innocense.

My name has just been called over the intercom. I was requested to go to the common

area. I made my way down. When I arrived everyone from Sector 8 was there. They were all going to be looking at me as I do my broadcast. I was expecting it to be in President M's office. President M made her way into the centre of the room and said to the crowd. 'People of Sector 8, we have prepared for something like this for a long time. Now that it is finally happening we notice what we overlooked the whole time, a face of Sector 8. Commander Talbert has granted us one by targeting Victoria Henderson as the killer of President Gold, Victoria please join me'. As I walked towards President M I could see everyone looking at me with joy in their eyes. Are these people depending on me now? I know I can't do anything to save them, I am nothing more than one of them, I'm not some kind of angel. When I was standing beside President M she explained to me how everything will go. I will face the camera, say my lines and then we wait for a response from a news corespondent. President M shouted out that we will break for ten minutes.

When we came back, I stood where I was ment to stand. A big bright light was shining

in my face. Everyone was in the room and the doors shut. The screen above my head began to count down from ten. Every second that passed made me want to run out of the room and go back to my life. But this couldn't happen, Commander Talbert took that from me. The screen reaced zero and a red light above the camera came on. I began to speak 'People of Decentria, today I am here to tell you a truth. I did not kill President Gold, nor did I kidnap Madame Sky. The truth is that Commander Talbert ordered the death of President Gold.

The red light went off and everyone in the common area began to clap. President M

came up beside me and began to speak again. 'There you have it, the face of Sector 8. In the coming hours we hope to hear back from a news correspondent in Decentria, if this does happen, you will all be informed'.

A couple of hours have passed and still nothing. I am currently in the command room

on floor 13. The rebels have been looking through all stations waiting for a response but they seem to be going on as normal. Mike entered the room and asked one of the rebels for a report. The rebel replied saying all residents in Decentria exept the ones in the surrounding areas of the palace received the broadcast. Just as we were about to give up, a tiny news stations in the South of North Decentria came on with a broadcast with a large group of supporters behind him. President M came into the room with a big smile on her face. The broadcaster bascially repeated what I said. A few moments later, the station shut down. We were all silent for a

couple of seconds and then Mike told the rebels to reload the channel, still, nothing. At that moment, I remembered President Gold telling me to tell Sector 8 to turn off all communications with Decentria. When I told President M this, she told me turning off communications would mean we wouldn't be able to listen into calls, look at security footage or do anything in relation to Decentria. I thought for a minute why President Gold would want us to do that, before I could reply Mike told one of the rebels to check the security footage near the broadcasters loaction. When we pulled up the location we seen the broadcaster being shot by one of the rebels and the large group of supporters being arrested. President M said very quickly 'zooom into the left'. When the rebel zoomed in we saw a woman running away from the rebels without them noticing, she seemed to run into a pubic park. President M began walking out of the room and requested Mike to follow her. I sat down and continued to look at the screen.

Over the intercom, I heard a voice that sounded a lot like President M requesting

certain rebels to the hangar. Even though I was not called, I made my way up to the top floor where the hangar is located. When I arrived I walked over to President M and asked her what she was doing. She told me she was planning a rescue mission for the girl we seen run into the park. I asked President M if I could go, I was homesick by this point and I really wanted to go back, even if it was for a few hours. Just as President M was about to go over how dangerous It could be, Mike told her he would look after me. Mike then pointed his head at the left of the hangar and I followed him.

We are about to board one of the biggest ships you can get, a Jetstar-400. This ship

could fit five Battlestar-300's into it, which was huge. When I got in I sat beside Mike. As much as I was looking forward to being on this ship, the thought of this being a rescue mission and the chance we could be blown out of the sky or much worse, captured by rebels in Decentria. I felt calm around Mike, mainly because he was always being sarcastic, it just lightended the mood. The group above us began to open and we had taken off. As we began to leave the end of the island I grabbed Mikes hand, why did I grab his hand? I turned my head towards him and he was looking at me with a confused and horrified face. I quickly let go. As we left Sector 8 airspace we blasted off at 800 miles an hour.