The Years After

Chapter 10

     Buzz, I opened my eyes to the sound of my phone ringing, it was Bryan.

     "What, it's like four in the morning, I'm asleep." I answered to Bryan's phone call.

    "I got a message from Diana, she said that the Rebels are boycotting in front of the Bank of Texas tower." Bryan said in a hurry.

    "At four in the morning, why not at sunrise or something." I told Bryan.

    "Security is higher at daytime. But right now she says that Enforcers are trying to calm the crowd down, they're not doing a great job. Gunshots are taking place." Bryan explained in vivid detail.

    "Well right now we can't go we don't have missions yet." I told Bryan.

     "Sorry for waking you up. See you later" Bryan apologized.

    "Bye." I said and fell back asleep.

    It was nine thirty when I woke up. I checked my phone as if it was the daily newspaper. One new message it read,

    Message: Hulk (1): "Meeting in the abandoned warehouse by the shoreline at eleven thirty. VERY IMPORTANT!" the message read.

   

     At ten forty-five I left in my hover board towards the shore. When I was closer to the warehouse I walked not wanting to raise suspicion just in case anyone was watching me.

    I entered the warehouse and found at least fifty people, including Nikki and her brothers.

    "Hey," I greeted them, they greeted back.

     I sat beside Nikki, "What do you think the meeting is for?" Nikki asked.

    "Probably they bought us food and we're eating together" I answered.

    She laughed "You're cute." She complimented me.

    "Um...thanks." I answered nervously and I could feel my cheeks flooding red. Thank goodness it was dark in here with the only illumination being the dust-smouldered window panes on the sides of the building.

    A guy in his late-thirties entered from the back side, he had short trimmed hair, grayish black, he looked like an Executive.

     "Greetings fellow citizens, I am Mark Whitting, an Executive, and I work for the System of Defense. As you can see Executives are thinking about participating too, because we get treated as badly as you do." The man explained.

    More people entered, a couple thousand, the warehouse was large it could hold the entire worker sector. Hulk, Diana, Julissa, Alex, Bryan and I stood together listening to the man. "We are trying to recruit more people, so we can attack, we will make a battle schedule, and we are trying to find leaders, with the Fire gene, strong, intelligent, and able to make fast decisions." The man explained. I had all those qualities, but I didn't have the Fire gene. " Any volunteers," The man continued. Fifty people stood up, including Hunter, Nikki's brother.  " Okay volunteers you will be assigned a group, the members of the seat of Defense will inspection the Weaponries and count at least, how many workers and guards there are. After that we will form groups, in the meantime we will keep signing up people." The man explained.

    My cousins and I left towards Diana's home, it was the house furthest apart and it was the one facing the Hills so we could work out a plan there.

     "What's our plan?" Julissa asked.

  

    "We only have Alex with the Fire gene but he is too young to join in as a leader." Bryan said.

    "I'm not young I am about to be thirteen." Alex threw at our faces.

  

    "Which is pretty young." Diana mocked.

    "He could still be of much help to us when we're ramming the Weaponries." I proposed.

    "Yeah, without weapons, the Master Town is useless." Hulk added.

    " Do you think they keep some in the Master Town?" Julissa asked.

    "A couple, but nothing big, since the town is pretty safe and because of its size" Bryan explained.

    "So are most weapons are kept in each of the five towns?" Alex asked.

    "Yes, but right now only three towns are planning rebellion, First, Fourth and Us." I explained.

    "I heard Two was thinking about it, Five is afraid since its the smallest one, and it could be easily defeated." Diana added.

    "We could join forces, but who knows if they want to." Bryan proposed.

    "Let's do something else this is boring." Alex complained.