Malevolent

Chapter 22

"So yeah, that's how things have been down here for the past few weeks. It's going downhill fast." Trinity says

"So how was it up there?" Michael asks me

"Well, it was colder, a lot colder. I felt really isolated, cause we were. No one was around us, except us." I say

"How was the prison 'raid?'" Michael asks

"It went well, we got my mom. The invisi-suits kinda worked, we're working on those though. We did good until we had to get back out, we tripped the alarm. We had a firefight with the guards, I was shot in the leg. I was hurt pretty bad." I say

"Did you make it out fine?" Trinity asks

"Yeah, they rushed me to an abandoned hospital and treated me and a few others." I say

"Then, it went downhill from there. They found us, and launched rockets at us. We lost one person, we fled towards the mountains." I say

"And is that where you guys called me?" She asks

"Yep. We were in there for majority of the time, we were allowed to go outside, until they found us. They eventually pushed us into our bunker. A lot of the things outside of the bunker were destroyed by rockets." I say

"Wow. How'd you guys end up making the decision to come back down here?" Trinity asks

"I think we were tired of sitting and waiting, we needed to speed up the process. We needed to train you guys, so we could be ready." I say

I look out of the corner of my we, someone waves at me.

"James! We need you over here!" It's Chloe

"Probably a team meeting, good catching up with you guys." I say

"See you around."

"See ya James."

I jog to the round table, where they are.

"What's up guys?" I ask

"Watch this James." Chloe says

"...To the rebellion in Charter 14, we know where you are, we know what you're doing. Don't expect to be safe in there for much longer. To all the rebellion groups, we know where you are. We will destroy you." It was President Aleman

"What do you propose?" I ask

"I don't know, we need your input." Chloe says

"Well, I'd immediately put all the training groups indoors, we have enough space." I say

"Okay, anything else?" Chloe asks

I think for a moment. What do we do?

"Could we rig the parameter with bombs?" I ask

"No, too dangerous." Hudson says, our explosives expert

"Okay, well, I guess the only other option I can think of is having a few groups secure the warehouse at night, switching shifts." I say

"That may work." Chloe says

"Doesn't anyone else have any input?" I ask

"I was thinking along the same lines as James." Noah says, he's stayed quiet until this point, a very rare situation

"Anyone else?" Chloe asks, "Cause if not, we're doing that plan."

The roundtable remains silent.

"No one? C'mon there's gotta be a better idea than mine!" I jokingly say

It still stays dead silent.