The App: App-ocalypse (1)

Day 52 - Waiting for their plane

We were waiting impatiently for their plane because we thought they were about to save us. It looks like we were wrong. I'm scared to see them coming now. Nathan, Sebastian and Will have already loaded the machine guns we took to the dead military guys. We discovered the worst thing possible about them.

Actually, we didn't. Georges did. We talked to the group and revealed what I learnt from Steven yesterday afternoon. We didn't panick that much about it. Of course they were all pissed off about Steven dying without saying where were the children. It's something I asked him about and he told me all the children were raised by his superiors, which is a start. Basically, I hadn't learnt anything specific since he was "not allowed to discuss it".

Except Georges woke up in the evening and he wasn't feeling that great. We told him the French team was about to arrive, that there was a surgeon with Suzanne and that she will take care of him. Since he was awake and dealing with a lot of pain, he asked us to distract him with anything which wasn't an easy task since we were all so worried about him.

Michael tried to tell him some jokes and even talked a bit in French with the words he learnt from Georges (things like "Bonjour" and "ça va ?"). It worked for a few moments but then his stomach ache started again. Anna was with us and she took Michael away. She didn't want him to see Georges suffers. She acts like her mother again. This is ridiculous when you know she was OK to abandoned him just a few days ago. But Michael doesn't know that of course, and I don't want to tell him about it. We didn't tell him everything that happened to us. We summed it up. His reaction when he first saw Anna after everything was the best. He ran in her arms and she would have carry him if she wasn't suffering from her shoulder. She kissed him on the cheeks and they hugged. It was really a beautiful moment.

I talked about that to Georges who missed it, being unconscious as he was. Anton and I then decided to talk to him about what I learned from Steven. It was basically the topic of the day anyway. When I said the complete name of the App, he frowned and froze for a moment. He asked me to repeat again "ultimate neutral destruction application", then one more time, slower. He told me it couldn't be. I was wrong, he was sure I was wrong.

I asked him why and he took some time to answer. He hesitated. Then he told me Suzanne was working for a French organization named U.N.D.A. I didn't understand at first, but Anton did and said it was obviously a coincidence. Except it is too big a coincidence to be one : Ultimate Neutral Destruction Application.

Steven told me his superiors had created the App. Apparently, our French allies hide a lot from us if they're working for them. If it's not a coincidence, then we are waiting for our main enemy to come get Michael and I. It would also explain why the army guys were in the airport. They were probably waiting for the same plane than we were hoping to catch.

Georges told us he couldn't believe his brother would work for such an organization. The problem is his brother is dead. Sure they said it was because of radiations, but what if it was something else entirely? What if he had discovered the truth and confronted his superiors about it? Clearly, if his superiors were OK to destroy the planet, they would not hesitate to kill him.

Maybe they don't know who they're working for. Except Karine did ask a lot of questions about who was on our group and who could help her. She and Suzanne sounded surprised to know we had Michael back with us. What if ?

Georges never met Suzanne after all. And his brother met her after the App-ocalypse. Maybe she's an evil bitch. Maybe they just want to take me and Michael and let the rest of the group in the airport. They are working for the same enemy we fought for days. They are probably working for the people who kidnapped me.

Georges didn't want us to say anything to the others. As always, he was creating a secret. I didn't talk about it, even to Anna. But Anton did. He talked about it to Xia, who then talked to Edmund. As always, the truth emerged from there and Sebastian was freaking out about it. Nathan and Will were revolted, their wives were crying, because they had just gained a new hope to see their children with this plane.

Of course they were also thinking at once: "Maybe if we tortured them, we would learn where our children are". Then again, Anton recalled them they tortured him for nothing just because they assumed he may be one of their enemy. He doesn't want us to make the same mistake as they did.

I don't know what to think about that and it is a big problem, because I can see their plane in the sky right now. They're late compared to what they said, but they're finally arriving. We were waiting for them for so long and now I just hope they would have crashed. I don't want to discover they were bad guys after all.

We've been through enough. We need allies not enemies.

Anna feels the same thing as me on that topic, and so does Edmund. We can't know if they're really our enemies as long as they're not here with us though. But it would be easier to avoid the problem. If it wasn't for Georges, we would have left the airport. We have Michael. We have no strings attached to those French or even to Sebastian and his group - I mean they only saved our life because they thought we could help them.

This is an awful thing to say. I was against it of course when it was about leaving Michael behind us, but now...

Then again, we don't want to leave without Georges. Xia wants to stay and figure out the truth, because to her it's not just about some kids she doesn't know but about what destroyed her life. She's curious about who they are, what they might know and what they want to do with us. I must say I'm also curious about it. But I'm also terrified. I am not sure I want to know. Of course, Anton wants to stay with his girlfriend.

Furthermore, we don't have any bottle of oxygen left so leaving the airport would mean exposing ourselves to radiations – if we admit the airport really is safe. About that, Steven told me the airport was secured days ago by using a new technology invented by his superiors. A device against radiations ? It doesn't make much sense. Then again, the U.N.D.A – an application seeking to destroy the entire world – doesn't make any sense at all either.

Their plane is landing.

In a few moments, we will meet them. They are five and we are eleven. At least, we think they are five. If they're our enemies, the plane could be full of military men... Anyway, in a few moments now, we will know what their true intentions are. Ours are more than clear to me. Our guns are loaded. The guys will be their welcome committee.

We have decided to divide them as soon as they arrived and to torture them if necessary. We have an entire airport to dispose of them. If they're five.

We are waiting for them. We all want answers and we're all watching their plane landing. Believe me when I write that, future Eliza reading this lines :

We will have our answers. No matter what.

TO BE CONTINUED...
...IN JULY WITH A 2ND BOOK CALLED "U.N.D.A".

Thank you for your reading so far :)