Trent (Terentius)

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 "Louis this is wrong! I can't do this anymore."

"So I guess you want to end up like them huh?" Louis gestures to Panem's map. "Well it's too late to go back. All I can do know is keep going with the plan, but you're interfering. Peacekeepers, take him away."

The room filled with smoke the moment Louis said that. I quickly retrieved my special laptop and ran for the emergency helicopter and at that moment I knew what I had to do. I had to stop Louis.

***

The helicopter was very high tech and was one of Louis' first inventions that he claimed would "revolutionize" the world. Louis and I met in engineering school at the age of 20. Our first project was to create a hybrid helicopter engine that would work better than a regular one. Louis and I were put as partners. At first we didn't talk much seeing that we didn't know each other, but then in couple days we realized how much things we had in common and were best friends after that until now.

Louis was a good person. He believed that with the right person the world could and would become a better place and when wave one hit he thought that was the time to act. I agreed with him and went along with "bettering" North America. We both moved to the Rockies and set up safe shelters for the people hit by the great flood. A few months later we had as many as half a million people. I really believed we were making a difference, until Louis went crazy.

We gained even more allies which he called Peacekeepers. They were to help us govern this mini society that we had created. But our mini society wasn't perfect and Louis wanted it to be. He soon found a serum that acted like long term anesthesia. He experimented with the newest Peacekeepers telling them that it's part of initiation. The naive people agreed and were soon asleep for three months. Louis then altered their minds and gave them fake memories that had never happened. When they woke up they were the perfect soldier. They obeyed every command and acted like robots. The reason for this was that they still relyed on a computer program to give them orders.

Soon enough Louis had the all the people in the shelters asleep. Each person had implanted momories to help his new society, Panem, get under control. Each person was assigned a district, new jobs, new families, and new latin names. Louis insisted on calling him Luvodicus and he called me Terentius.

***

I arrived in district 13 hours later to find that I wasn't the only one there that did not believe in President Luvodicus' government. We wanted America back. I ended up the head of the secret rebellion in 13 with Camila as my body gaurd and Carter as the main hacker.

Camila had a tanned body that had a strong build. Although she was tough she also had a feminine side that showed in the presentation of herself. She liked to wear her dirty blonde hair in a ponytail and wore nice skirts with flowers on them. Her shirts consisted of bright colors that matched her personality. But for some reason I didn't understand she giggled everytime she saw me.

Carter was the kind of girl that tries to avoid society. She wasn't very good at socializing, but could be if she had applied herself  more. She liked to wear black leggings and floral dresses that matched her big black glasses. I could tell right away that she would take her job seriously and wouldn't do anything to hurt a fly. But whenever I'm around her I tend to get a loss for words around her, but she shrugs it off and just smiles which makes her look even cuter.

***

I decided to apply for a job at the hospital as a brain sugeon that specializes for brain wipes. They reviewed my information on their holographic computer and gave me the job thirty minutes later. I figured that with this occupation I could find other divergents that broke the system and rescue them from becoming slaves of President Luvodicus.

Soon enough a patient entered the hospital for a brain wipe. He was in his teenage years with wispy black hair and almond colored eys that looked at me with sadness. He claimed that his name was Isaac.

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