𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠︱monty green

vii. traitor

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AFTER USHERING MAYA AWAY, WARNING HER OF THE DANGER OF RADIATION IN LEVEL FIVE, RILEY RETURNED TO THE BUNK ROOM WHERE JASPER WAS STILL ORDERING THE DELINQUENTS. They were moving furniture, going through weapons Bellamy sent them, and preparing themselves for any next attack. Riley had chosen to stay with them, and help defend their lives.

A sudden idea hit Riley and she picked out some type of black metal weapon that resembled a bat out of the pile. "Watch it," she warned Jasper and Monty who were in the way of her target before swinging it back and bringing it forward to hit the against something sticking out of the stone wall and making it shatter. "Camera," Riley explained, kicking over a glass shard with the toe of her sneaker and blowing a tuft of her blonde hair from her face.

"Leave the hallway cameras," Monty instructed, holding up a glass panel of an electronic that he's been working on. "We need eyes out there," he added in explanation, pointing behind him towards the doors.

"Where are you on the doors?" Riley asked when Jasper walked off, instructing more delinquents on how to move the furniture. Monty was probably the smartest of them all, and was working on the electronic parts of the room they were stuck in. Riley could respect, and admire, that.

Monty nodded, motioning for Riley to follow him. "Meters are all disabled and short of the stairway locks," he explained as he walked, coming to a short stop in front of a silver panel that kept the doors locked or unlocked. He bent down to look at it, studying the buttons before stepping back. "This one's tricky, though - "

Riley repeated her earlier action, slamming the metal bat on the panel twice until it gave in and practically exploded tiny sparks with wires sticking out. Monty, not expecting it, ducked and covered his head quickly in surprise before peeking back up. A smile spread across Monty's face when he saw it broken and nodded at Riley. "Yeah, that works too. Thanks."

Nodding back, Riley turned around and looked at all the delinquents all at work. She shook her head slowly, and tightened her grip on the metal bat. She knew why she was here; and how she got here. The rest of Mount Weather, including Maya, weren't there because they couldn't be on Level Five from the radiation breach. But Riley could, and that was Dr. Tsing's mistake.

Who knew she'd turn against her own people?

-x-

The wait was long. Riley wasn't counting, but instead leaning against the stone wall with the same weapon bat clutched tightly in her hands. Her eyes would move from the door they covered with piled furniture then back to Monty's screen. Riley already told them everything she knew, which wasn't much, but could be helpful. Everyone was on their own edge, waiting for the attack, that they all knew was coming. The rumors of bone marrow transplants were true, which meant they would never stop.

Riley moved to where Monty was studying the screen, waiting too. Before she could speak and break the silence, there was suddenly a loud explosion. Everyone jumped in surprise, Riley too, but forced herself to look back on the screen where Jasper looked too. "No guns," Monty noted aloud as they watched a trail of guards race down the hall. "You were right," he said to Riley.