The Insurrection

Chapter Seven

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." ~ Henry Ford

The building on the inside is just as big as it looks on the outside. If there was one word to describe the place, it would be organized. Everything was in an orderly fashion and well regulated. It was like a huge house fit to protect hundreds of people. Which, I guess is what it did. Three hundred and fifty-three Liberators, three hundred and twenty-nine dead, twenty-four alive. I wonder if all the remaining Liberators live here now in this invisible building. I guess we will find out soon enough.

The Liberator to my left turns to us and says, "Tau is going to our president and call for a meeting, so I advise you not to try anything," he warns and walks off with the rest of them.

Taika looks at us and says, "At least now we know his name."

"Yeah," Leon for once agrees with her.

"Wow, look at you guys making progress," I say sarcastically.

Alex digs his face into me, I bend down to his height and say, "Hey, it is going to be okay; this is going to be our new house and we are going to be living here with Taika and Leon. Didn't you want that?"

"Taika and Leon are my brother and sister now?" He looks up at me and asks.

"Uh, yeah buddy, sure," I say and make eye contact with both to play along.

Taika and Leon look at each other, Leon smiles and says, "I guess we are all siblings now."

Alex starts saying something when we hear a clear voice speaking above us as if through a speaker system, "Everyone, please proceed in an orderly manner towards the meeting room, again please proceed in an orderly manner towards the meeting room."

We look at each other and wonder what we should do. Are we included in this meeting or?

"I think we should follow everyone else," Alex says.

We look at him and Leon says, "Alright, let's go."

Taika and I look at each other in confusion, "Did you just-"

"Yeah yeah, I might as well be as much involved in this as I can if we are going to die in the end." He says.

"Alan says we are not going to die, so we are not going to die, Leon. Everything is going to be okay." Alex says with a seriousness that is almost comical if the gravity of his words did not gut me.

All four of us start walking with the few people who are still within our eyesight. Before we know it, a glazed dark oak wood door meets us and before we head inside, I say, "If this meeting goes bad, because I am sure it is going to be about us, if it goes bad look for any signs from me and we will figure a way out of here before they catch on."

"You do realize the amount of crazy security they have in here, right? There is no way we are getting out of here unless we do something crazier and try to disable their security system." Leon says.

Before I can answer, Tau stomps over to us, "Are you all done with your chit-chatting," he says.

I give him a tight smile, nod, and we follow him inside the large room. Its largeness makes the emptiness in it that much more profound. In the center of the room, there are six rows of chairs and each row has four seats. All six rows are occupied. They are all Liberators. They have to be. At the head of the room sits a podium and four other chairs beside the podium, but that is not where Tau leads us; he takes us to a door at the side of the room with a sign that says 'President'.