Radioactive

Chapter 12

**Alice’s POV**

　

The distant sound of Mech fire jolted me from my thoughts as I walked though the camp. People started panicking and running around. I headed toward the Captains tent to see what was going on. I caught him and Tom at the end of their conversation.

“If its another resistance group we need to send help,” Tom said.

“Agreed, get your beserkers together and take a group in to check it out. Alice, good can you go with Tom?” He asked.

“Yes sir,” I replied.

“Have you seen Ben?” Tom asked me.

“I haven’t seen him this morning I was looking for him, I thought he was with you,” I told Tom.

He shook his head and we went to get the beserkers together to go and scout out what was going on.

I was worried, we still haven’t found Ben yet. And in the city we found a ton of dead skitters.

“These are some messed up aliens,” Boone pointed out.

“These wounds, Tom these skitters where killed by Mech fire,” I said to Tom

“This doesn’t make any sense,” Tom was confused. Of course it wouldn’t make sense to him, He doesn’t know about the rebels. I still don’t know a lot but I know this had to do with them. They were making a move on the Espheni, someone was going to have to tell the 2nd mass about the rebels. I turned to tell Tom I knew what this was about when I saw a glow coming from underneath one of the dead skitters.

“Ben..” I said my voice barely coming out as a whisper.

I ran to where he was and Tom was right beside me. We rolled the skitter over only to reveal that Ben wasn’t underneath.

“Rick?” Tom said. I had heard about Rick, the boy who had his harness removed the same time as Ben. He had disappeared a week before I came to the 2nd mass. It made sense tho, he must have been working with the rebels. I felt for the boys pulse, it was kind of faint but he was alive.

“We need to get him to Anne,” I told Tom. He nodded picking the limp boy up and carrying him to the truck.

　

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Anne got the boy stable. Weaver made me stay with them incase the boy woke up, he didn’t trust Rick. I need to tell them about the rebels, but Im not sure I know how to do so. I sighed, we still haven’t found Ben yet. I tried to think positive, hopefully when Rick woke up he could tell me where Ben was.

Suddenly the boy jerked and sat up with wild eyes, “Danger! Where all in danger!” he said.

“Go get Weaver,” I said to the man beside me, he ran out of the bus. I went over to Rick and helped Anne hold him down.

“Rick calm down, its ok, your safe now,” she kept trying to calm him but he wouldn’t stop. Even with Weaver he wouldn’t tell us anything. But when Tom walked in Rick turned all his attention to him, “Tom you have to help, hes in danger, we’re all in danger!”

“Whose in danger? Ben?” Tom said his eyes filled with worry.

“Yes, we have to help him!” He said. My heart was racing. Ben, My Ben was hurt.

“You think hes ok to move?” Tom asked Anne.

She looked unsure but answered, “He seems fine but Im not sure.”

“Take us to Ben,” Tom said to Rick.

　

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