Predator Gone Prey

Almost Free

[-Trikru "Grounder" Base-]

"Heda." Echo said as she walked up to were Lexa was standing, watching over her teammates work.

"Report." Lexa growled out.

"The main security detail that was on duty tonight was Ontari, Wes, Jinx, and Roan." Echo said, looking up from the paperwork in her hands. "Other than that, the only other people were some guards. But none of them would have had access to the cameras or larger passcodes." Lexa pursed her lips as she thought it over. A thought ran through her mind.

"You were close to Nia when you first came here, correct?" Lexa asked.

"Yes, at first." Echo said with a nod. "But after seeing her methods and her leaving, I chose not to follow." Lexa nodded at this.

"Who was in Nia's inner circle when she was here?" The brunette asked, not needing to clarify on what she meant.

"I would say..Quint, Noah, Roan, and me." Echo said with a frown. She looked up and her breath hitched slightly as she saw Lexa's murderous gaze.

"Bring me Roan."

[-Mt. Weather Facility-]

"So how do we get out?" Bellamy asked after things were explained to him.

"We don't." Spike said, his back still turned towards the rest of them.

"There has to be a way out." Clarke argued.

"Don't you think we've tried?" Spike growled slightly.

"Spike." Caleb said, both in warning and calmingly. The boy just grunted back.

"Hate to be a bummer," Max said after a few tense moments. "But..Spike's right.. there is no way out. We've tried so many times. And..we've already lost a lot."

"What do you mean?" Clarke asked after a moment, mentally preparing herself for the answer.

"There were three more of us." Falcon said, looking at the wall. "Talon, my brother, AJ, and Blaze."

"What happened?" Clarke asked softly.

"We were almost free." Falcon shrugged.

"Almost?" Spike piped up again. "Almost is the term you use if we had stood a chance. We never did." Octavia, Bellamy, and Clarke looked at him with confused faces.

"When Heidi and I first came here," Jax started to explain. "Spike, Talon, AJ, Blaze, Caleb, Max, and Spike were already here. They had made a plan to escape and told us soon after we got here. The plan was a good one. Like all plans, we calculated. We made sure the plan was flawless."

"It was." Max interrupted. "Until we realised we were duped."

"Turned out the people here, the ones who had captured us, had been watching us the entire time. They knew about the plan. They let us believe we were going to escape.." Jax continued, he paused for a moment, collecting his thoughts. "We had almost made it to the door when...they shot at us. At first, they seemed like normal bullets. So we continued. But it wasn't but a few moments later when two of our own dropped dead that we found out they weren't."

"What were they?" Octavia asked.

"I have no idea..." Jax said with a frown. "Caleb?"

"The inside of the bullets were a type of acid based liquid. The liquid was encased in pure silver." Caleb said.

"How are they able to that?" Bellamy asked.

"Not to sure." Caleb answered. "I'd have to get out and study it back at my lab. But they would have had to create their own acid or silver so that the acid, whatever acid they used, wouldn't melt through the casing to easily."