Space Queen [1]

1.12

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Once again, I find myself stuck in a tent with Lexa and Clarke but this time, most of sky crew and tree crews field commanders had joined us.

Lexa stands next to me, in front of everyone as she addresses "welcome sky crew, join us"

Guards from the ark, along with some of my very own warrior, like Monroe, slowly pile through the door.

The head guard, Miller's father, makes his way up to us as he hands me a container full of Hydrazine.

"Package from Raven, Hydrazine, she said it would do the job" I take it out if his hands as I silently thank my sister for always having a solution.

The guard backs away from me before turning to face Clarke "your mother wanted to be here too"

"I know, but the wounded in Tondc need her more" Clarke states as the guards gathers around the table with a 3D map of the area.

"Field commanders, today's the day we get our people back" Lexa addresses everyone as we all are gathered around the table "the enemy thinks it's safe behind its doors, but it's not. When it realizes that, it will fight back, hard, we need to be ready"

"This is a rescue mission, we are not here to wipe them out. There are people inside that mountain, innocent people that have nothing to do with this war. That's why when we go in there, you kill the ones responsible for this, the ones fighting us against it but at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is that our people get out of there safe, is that clear?" I look around the room to see everyone nodding along with me.

I make eye contact with Cassius as send him a small smile before turning back to the task at hand "then let's begin. There are four teams, two of them at the dam and in the mine are moving into position already. The third, inside the mountain is freeing the grounder prisoners as we speak. It is our job as the fourth team to keep the eyes of the enemy off of them for as long as possible"

My hand travels around the map, pointing at different places to show where the teams are at before i point at the front door of the mountain "to do that, we have to be in position here at the main door with our entire army. The mountain men believe the door can't be opened from the outside so they leave it unguarded" I continue as I'm about to speak again before Clarke comes and interrupts.

"Only it can be and thanks to our source inside, now we know how" Clarke takes over while I glare daggers at her, not doing anything seeing as I don't want to disturb everyone "according to Maya, the electromagnetic locking system has one flaw. When the power goes out, it disengages"

"And that's where Raven's team comes in" I take back charge as I point to the dam "the mountains electricity is generated at philpott dam. By now, they've taken the turbine room"

"It's their job to blow the power. Once they do, we blow the lock" I continue as I ignore the worry building up in the pit of my stomach for Raven "there is a catch, a backup generator inside the mountain. If the lock is still functioning when that backup power kicks in, we'll never get that door open, we'll never get out people back"

"How much time do we have until the backup power kicks in?" Miller's father questions.

A frown covers my face as i think of the short period of time we have "one minute, that's the window"