You And Me Against The World | ✅

Chapter 78

Tobias and I get ready in our apartment for the big event tonight. Thanks to some help from Erudite the paintballs also have neuro-stim-darts attached to them. This way, when someone is hit he or she will feel the simulated pain of a real gunshot wound and given the position of the paint splatter it will be determined if the wound is lethal or not. For instance, if someone is hit in the arm or leg the person can still continue to play the game. However, if the person is hit in the torso or head the person will be considered dead. The point of this exercise is to teach the initiates team work, strategic thinking, spatial awareness and it also gives them a clear goal, capturing the flag.

"Nervous?" Tobias asks as he puts his boots on.

"No. Why would I be?" I ask amused.

"I don't know. It's your first year as an instructor and we have changed the rules a little bit," he says getting up and putting his black jacket on.

"More than you think," I say under my breath.

"What?" he asks.

"Uhm, nothing. I can't wait to see the initiates working their asses off," I quickly say, hoping he doesn't pry any further.

"Oh, okay." He holds out his hand and we walk out together. To our surprise (Tobias's actually) Tori joins us together with Dwayne.

"Hi, Tori," I say. "Are you joining us tonight?" I ask, although I already know the answer.

"Yes. I thought now that I'm a leader I might as well do something like this," she says.

"I was a bit surprised to hear her say she wanted to join, but I'm happy she is," Dwayne says smiling at her.

"I think it's great. I suppose you will both join our team?" Tobias asks them.

"Sure," Dwayne answers quickly.

"Uhm, I think I'll just find a place high up and watch the action. I'm not really the commando type," she says somewhat shyly.

"But, babe, it'll be fun. And I will protect you," Dwayne tries to convince her. Tobias and I chuckle at the interaction, but don't say anything.

"Maybe next year. Tonight I'll just watch," she says and he sighs in defeat.

"Alright. Well I guess then you'll have to watch your man kick some initiate ass," Dwayne says with a laugh.

"Hey," I say and they look at me. "You are not supposed to do that," I scold. "We don't want to scare them more than they are. Keep it clean," I say.

"Alright, Tris," he says.

We walk down to the tracks where we meet the initiates and the rest of the people who want to join the game. I look around for Christina and Lynn. They both announced in the cafeteria that they would officially join, but Marlene and Shauna told us they couldn't. Shauna said she didn't want to leave her baby and Marlene had to work. Both big fat lies. Shauna and Marlene are already at the Navy Pier hidden. Christina, Lynn and I will join them together with Tori and Lauren. For the past couple of weeks the girls and I trained a little bit more without the guys to know. We even trained Tori and I'm happy to say she is really good. But for the sake of our little plan we kept everything low-profile and top secret. I even got some super high-tech walkie-talkies from Cara, that are easily concealed by our clothes. Since Tori is wearing her hair down for now she is the only one with the earpiece in and communicates with the girls at the Pier.

The train approaches and Tobias and Uriah gather the initiates in one place. They tell them that if anyone stays behind he or she will be sanctioned. No kick outs, but whoever doesn't make it on the train will lose some points. They start running alongside the train and one by one every Dauntless and initiate here jumps on. Uriah, Tobias and I are the last ones. Uriah jumps on and I follow closely behind him and Tobias is the last one on.