After Allegiant

Chapter 14

Tobias

"It's been four hours. We should go check on them," Ray says looking down at his watch.

"Caleb and I will stay with Tobias. Everyone else go," Tris says.

"Why me?" Caleb asks.

"Because you have terrible aim with a gun," I answer for Tris.

"No I don't," Caleb insists.

"Yeah, you do," Tris agrees.

Uriah, Christina, Peter, and Ray walk towards the building.

"How are you feeling?" Tris asks.

"Hard to walk, but I'll manage. I've had worse."

"Is it okay if I check your bandages?" Caleb asks timidly.

"Fine," I answer.

He removes the belt gently and uncovers his shirt that is now stained with blood.

"The blood is turning into a scab, which is good. You'll probably need crutches or a wheelchair for a couple weeks."

"How long is a couple?" Tris asked harshly.

"It depends on if you can handle the pain or if the pain is decreasing."

"I can handle the pain."

"I just don't suggest it. To test your theory, try to sit up normally."

I moved my leg that wasn't injured to the floor without problems. I grabbed the sides of the bench and turned my body to the side.

I lifted the injured leg and placed it on the ground. The pain was overwhelming. None of my bullet injuries had never been this severe.

The pain aftermath is worse than the pain itself.

"Hurts doesn't it? Told ya so."

"Shut up Caleb!"

He didn't say another word. I looked out the window and saw Christina, Peter, Uriah, and Ray walking out of the building. They slowly approached the truck.

"Nobody understands a thing!" Uriah said as he smiled. Christina grinned too.

"Tobias, you need to get in there and swipe the memory on the system. Access all the files and keep them safe."

"Well, I can't really get up with out the help of two burly men and one scrawny kid."

"I think I saw a wheelchair in the lobby. Let me go check," Uriah says quickly. He walks out the truck and into the building. Christina sits down next to me. She doesn't pay any attention to me. Her mind is elsewhere, probably thinking about Uriah's safety. She sits blankly, not talking, which is unusual for her, and glances at the door every five seconds.

Uriah walks back with a wheel chair in hand. Ray, Peter, and Uriah pick me up enough for me to be off of my injured foot. They gently place me in the wheelchair. I don't like how I'm being refrained to stay in the wheelchair especially since Tris is watching me. I feel helpless. I can't protect her and using a gun in a wheelchair is different then standing up.

Tris pushes me wheel chair towards the building. As we enter the building, I notice most are unconscious. A few stand up looking around. It is palpable that the serum worked according to their confused faces and several questions.

Tris and I head upstairs along with Caleb, who has some experience with computers.

Everyone else stays behind to help the confused.

As we enter the small room, I notice a main computer. Tris wheels me over and moves the other chair out of the way. Caleb takes that chair and sits next to me.

I hack into the system easily. All of the data is backed up on this computer. We know that we can't shut down the other experiments, but we can stop surveying them.

Two other experiments, besides our's, pops up on the screen. I click on the first one. It is called a "community," designed to have nothing bad but that also means there are good things taken away too, like love and holidays.

I turn the cameras off for this particular experiment and click on the next experiment.

In the information box, it says, "A country known as Panem that will survive and create its own government. Under no circumstances will the Bureau be involved with this experiment besides surveillance."

I take a look at the surveillance to see what the system looks like.

There are too many camera angles to count so I choose one marked "District 12." A girl in a blue dress with brunette hair woven into a braid stands terrified but brave in front of a large crowd along with a lady who has several bright colors all across her clothing and body. A man, who looks to be drunk, stands behind the brunette. The colorful woman pulls a slip of paper out of a huge bowl and reads, "Peeta Mellark," in an ecstatic accented voice. "Happy Hunger Games!" she says after the boy makes his way to the stage.

"This looks cool. Maybe we should keep watching," Caleb comments. Tris and I agree, so we set up a security code to get in to this file with the experiments.

We head back downstairs through the elevator.

Everyone is crowding around Christina. Christina gives simple directions. Half of the men go into the hallway following Peter. The other half of the men and the women head towards the cafeteria following Uriah. We decide to follow Uriah towards the cafeteria.

The large group sits down at the empty tables. Everyone is silent. No one knows what to say.

I whisper to Christina, "Where did the men go?"

"Peter took them to the basement to test their knowledge of what they remember."

I nod and turn my head back towards the crowd. They all look at us.

"Everyone," Tris shouts. "I'm Tris."

"I'm Four."

"I'm Uriah."

"I'm Caleb."

"I'm Ray."

"And I'm Christina."

Christina motions for us to follow her. We follow her into the kitchen to see food laying out on the tables already prepared.

"What do we tell them? That we are their leaders?"

"I'm not sure," I say blankly.

"What if Ray and Caleb are the leaders?" Tris says instead of asks.

"That's a good idea!" Uriah exclaims.

"Why us?" Caleb asks.

"You guys are smart. And you don't have girlfriends," Christina says.

"Fine," Caleb agrees.

"We want to leave," Tris says as she looks around at us.

"Here. Caleb and Ray will become the new leaders. We find a place to live. Peter can decide which one. We will come back and check up on everything. Help anyone that comes from our society. They aren't the Allegiant with secrets and easy ways to get here. They're after the Allegiant. It'll be harder for them. Not many resources to come back and no way of knowing where we are or how to get here."

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