Chapter 23: Getting into the Mountain!

'Thinking'

"Talking"

[System]

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- Near the Entrance to the Reaper Tunnels | The Ground -

- 3rd Person -

From behind the brush Bellamy watched as Lincoln in one swift motion launched the spear towards the innocent deer. The deer yelped and crumbled to the ground as the spear impacted the side of its body, implanting itself halfway through the animal's chest.

Bellamy and Lincoln slid down the small hill they were on top of in their grounder gear and crouched down next to the lifeless deer. Lincoln pulled the spear out of the animal before planting it into the ground, pulling out a small knife and opening the deer's stomach.

He grabbed a handful or two of blood and rubbed it on his face and armor.

"Okay. So, we make it to the intake door without any of the real Reapers seeing us. What happens then?" Bellamy asked.

"I kill everyone, and you slip inside." Lincoln said, still rubbing blood all over himself. "Limestone."

Bellamy reached into his back pocket and handed Lincoln a small brown leather pouch.

Lincoln opened and dabbed his fingers inside the pouch, covering his fingers in white limestone powder, he smeared the three fingers that were covered in limestone over the side of his face.

"Let's go. We have a lot of ground to cover before dark." Lincoln said, handing back the bag and standing up, pulling the spear out the ground and walking off with Bellamy behind him.

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"The mountain has many eyes between here and the tunnels. It's why their acid fog is so efficient." Lincoln tells Bellamy as he walks back over from the cliff edge after examining the map Clarke had given him.

"What if we run into real Reapers? Wouldn't they realize you're not one of them?" Bellamy asked.

"That's why from now on, details must be exact. Turn around." Lincolns says lifting a thick log branch.

He places the branch behind Bellamy's head and then ties Bellamy's hands to the branch.

"Alright, let's go." Lincoln says as he ties a rope around Bellamy's neck and leads him towards the tunnel's entrance.

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"As soon as they open the intake doors, we attack. Once they're all dead, you go in. I'll make it look like you escaped. Once you're inside-..." Lincoln began explaining to Bellamy as they neared the end of the tunnel.

"I know." Bellamy answered as they continued walking down the tunnel.

At the end of the tunnel was a solid steel door with a small circular window at the top of the door, a small keypad was on the wall next to the door.

Lincoln forced Bellamy onto his knees and they both waited for the doors to open.

A few minutes later they did, three men and one woman in hazmat suits came out. One man had a high-pitch noise emitter in his hand, the next one had a small police baton and a syringe with red liquid inside of it, another man had a submachine gun in his hand guarding the door, and lastly the woman had a pen and clipboard.

The man with the noise emitter activated it, causing Lincoln to at first just stare at him in confusion. After the man gave orders to get back and back up did Lincoln take a few steps back.

"Only one it seems." The woman said as she studied Bellamy. "Harvest." she said, marking down something on her clipboard before walking back towards the door.

"Alright, come get your dose." the man said walking towards Lincoln with the syringe in hand.

Meanwhile the guard with the gun smacked Bellamy in the back of the head and him and the man with the noise emitter dragged him back towards the door.

"Come get your fucking dose, you dog!" The man with the syringe yelled after seeing Lincoln not move to get his fix.

The men dragging Bellamy turned and looked back in confusion, that's when the somewhat conscious Bellamy acted.

Bellamy tore his right arm free and punched the man with the submachine gun in the stomach causing him to crumble to the ground.

"What the fuck!" the other man that was dragging Bellamy yelled as he began punching Bellamy in the head. Bellamy was quickly knocked back unconscious, but the distraction had already worked.

The guard turned back around to check on the other man only to find him rolling on the ground holding his throat, with a slight gurgling noise being heard.

"Oh shit, Patrick!" The man ran dropping Bellamy onto the ground and going to help his friend.

"Fucking piece of shit." the guard with the gun muttered as he picked Bellamy up by one arm and dragged him through the doorway.

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After going through the quarantine process and blacking out again, Bellamy found himself inside a small cage connected to tens if not hundreds of other cages.

Bellamy looked to his left horrified as two people, a man and a woman were hung upside down by chains having their blood drained out of them.

Bellamy attempted to break out of the cage, attracting attention and causing some of the other captives to get riled up.

"Shof op. Emo hon daun mou yujon." The woman in the cage to his right told him. (Quiet. They take the strongest.)

"I can't... I don't understand you."

"Sky person?" she asked angrily.

"I take it no one has told you we're not enemies anymore." He informs her, she sits back and leans up against her cage. "I need to get out of this cage." He says more to himself than her.

"And then what?" she asked.

"And then I'll kill everyone in this mountain." He says causing her to show a slight grin before looking away.

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- Mount Weather | Presidential Office | The Ground -

"President Wallace?" Jasper asked as he walked by the guard and into the president's office. "Can we talk?"

"What's on your mind, son?" President Wallace asked turning around to face Jasper.

"My friends."

"What about them?" Wallace asked confused.

"Two of them are missing. One of them is Monty. Tell me where they are." Jasper says holding back his tears.

"Jasper, I don't know what you're-..."

"Stop lying." Jasper said firmly.

"Excuse me?" Wallace asked slightly agitated.

"You lied about there not being any survivors from the Ark. You lied about Maya's accident. I don't even know how many lies you told about Clarke." Jasper says, becoming emotional.

"Please, sit down and we-..."

"NO!" Jasper yells as he reaches over and unsheathes an old revolutionary war sword that was on display. "You're going to tell me the truth." Jasper says holding Wallace at sword point.

"Jasper. Please. Put down the sword." Wallace pleads.

"Why should I? So, can I disappear next? Where are they?" Jasper asked frantically.

"I told you; I don't know what happened to your friends."

"Do I look desperate to you?" Jasper asked, stepping closer towards Wallace. "Because I'm feeling pretty desperate. This wonderful place that you promised us would feel like home, has only lied and tried to trap us."

"You're right. I did lie to you about Clarke. About the survivors from the Ark. And about what happened to Maya. I'm trying to protect you, Jasper. All of you."

"Where are they? And where the hell is Monty?" Jasper asked, taking another step closer.

Suddenly, the sword is pushed to the side and taken out of Jaspers hand. Jasper is then pushed back into the wall with the sword pressed to his throat.

"This is not a toy." Wallace says before removing the sword from Jasper's throat and placing it back in its sheath.

Wallace walks over to a small device and presses a button. Instantly the guard out in the hall opens the office door and walks in, he sees Jasper crying up against the far wall but chooses to ignore it for now.

"Yes, sir."

"Could you please find out where Dr. Tsing and my son are at the moment?"

The guard looks unsure for a second before responding, "Anything else, sir?"

"Not presently."

The guard nods and makes his way out of the office, while simultaneously pressing a finger to his ear and speaking into his com link.

"Let's take a walk." Wallace says to Jasper after the guard leaves.

"Where?" Jasper asked defeated.

"To find your friends." Wallace replies.

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- Mount Weather | The Ground -

*BANG!*

*BANG!*

*BANG!*

Bellamy continuously slammed up against his cage door and attempted to fiddle with the lock, but nothing was working.

*DING*

*CLICK*

"They're coming. Quiet." the woman said as Bellamy continued to try and break out of his cage.

Bellamy stopped and sat back in his cage.

"Yep. This one'll do." one of the two mountain guards said as they began to unlock the woman's cage.

Bellamy seeing this gripped his fingers onto the top of his cage and began to frantically kick at his cage door.

"Ahh!"

The guards stopped unlocking her cage and turned to Bellamy. "We got us a live one." one of the guards seeing Bellamy's continued resistance shocked him with a cattle prod.

"Guh!" The air in Bellamy's lungs was immediately knocked out of him.

After they opened the cage, Bellamy attempted to fight back but was shocked again and then sedated.

They then dragged Bellamy out of the cage and over to the chains and connected his feet to it. They then raised Bellamy and began to extract blood from him.

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Bellamy awoke with a start and struggled to breathe; he looked around frantically hanging upside down.

"Who are you?" A girl asked crouched down in front of him. "You're from the Ark, aren't you?" she continued after seeing him not respond.

"Yeah." he said barely coherent.

"Do you know Jasper?" she asked.

"Yeah, what's your name?"

"Maya. I'm a friend of Jasper." she responded.

"Great, how about getting me down, Maya?" Bellamy asked.

As Maya began to help Bellamy get down, a guard entered.

"Lovejoy. Hey." she greeted shakily.

"What are you doing here? You're not cleared for this facility."

"I know. I'm sorry. I just wanted to see what was so special about him. But..." she briefly glanced at his vital sign monitor and saw that in the process of helping him get down, she must have removed whatever helped monitor his vital signs, as it shows that he flatlined. "-He's dead."

"So, he is." the guard said while walking past Maya and pressing a button causing the chains to lower Bellamy to the ground.

He walked back over to Bellamy and began to uncuff his feet.

"You're a brave girl, coming in here alone-..."

The guard was quickly interrupted as Bellamy's foot flew up and kicked the guard in the jaw sending him flying back onto the concrete floor.

Bellamy reached down and attempted to take off the other cuff on his right foot, but the guard pulled his gun and sat back up.

"Don't move! Don't move! On your feet. On your feet!" The guard yelled as Bellamy scrambled back.

"AHH!" The guard yelled as Maya stuck a needle in the back of the guard's neck, the guard dropped his gun in shock.

Bellmay reached over for the gun but drew his arm back as the guard attempted to slash at it with the needle. Bellamy stood and went to punch the guard, but the guard was faster, Bellamy was punched in the jaw and sent stumbling a few steps back and up against the woman's cage.

"Stop!" Maya yelled as she pointed the gun at the guard's back.

"No, don't! They'll hear." Bellamy said as the guard attempted to strangle him.

Bellamy sent an uppercut to the guard's unprotected abdomen, forcing the guard to take a step back, while lowering his body. Bellamy took advantage and elbowed the guard in the head causing the guard to fall to the floor.

Bellamy went to finish him off but was tackled to the floor and then spun around so that the guard was backed up against the cage. The guard took out a small knife from his back pocket and went to stab Bellamy but was held back by the woman in the cage.

Bellamy once again took advantage and wrapped his hands around the man's throat and began to squeeze as hard as he could. The guard's eyes bulged out of their sockets, and the guard soon dropped the knife and fell to the ground dead. All the while Maya just watched with a shocked expression on her face.

"Thank you." Bellamy said looking up into the woman's eyes.

"Echo. My name is Echo." she said nodding in return.

"Are you all, right?" Bellamy asked, turning back towards Maya.

Bellamy walked over to her and once again asked if she was okay, after seeing the shocked state she was in.

"I'm fine." she replied.

"Help me get him undressed. We need to get rid of the body." Bellamy told her as he walked over and grabbed hold of the guard's body.

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After removing the guards' clothes and putting them on, Bellamy dumped the guard down the trash shoot.

The grounders near Bellamy sat and stared in shock at how easily he was able to break free from his cage and kill the guard. They all wanted to be set free, as well.

"You've done enough. You should walk away." Bellamy told Maya.

"You don't know where you're going."

"So, draw me a map."

Maya shook her head in denial and told Bellamy that she was too far in already. She handed Bellamy the guards keycard and gun.

"Okay. I need to get to a radio so I can contact Arthur."

"I know where one is, but... Bellamy... your people are disappearing. Two so far. Monty and Harper. I thought they'd be in here, but-..."

"I wanna see the others, now." Bellamy ordered her.

"The dorm's on the way to the radio."

"Yeah." He replied.

"Wait." Maya said as he began walking away. Maya reached up and removed the nametag from Bellamy's tan ballistic vest. "Everyone here knows everyone. Put this on and roll up your sleeve." she said, handing him a tan ball cap.

Bellamy rolled up his sleeve and saw a white bandage placed over it. "The tracking chip." he said in realization.

"It'll trip the alarms once we start moving. We need to take it out."

"Do it." He said ripping off the bandage.

Maya then took a scalpel and made a small incision in Bellamy's forearm. After removing the chip Maya handed Bellamy a new clean bandage, which he reapplied onto his forearm.

"Put this in your cage." she told him, handing him the tracking chip.

Bellamy walked over, opened his cage and placed the small chip inside. After closing the cage he came to find himself staring eye to eye with Echo.

"I'll come back for you. All of you. I promise." He said with a small smile.

Bellamy turned back around and started heading towards the door. "Take me to my friends." he said as Maya walked up next to him.

Both then walked out of there and into the medical ward in search of a radio, and his friends.

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{P.S: I know this is pretty much an episode from the show with only some minor changes, but I can't just have Arthur's POV all the time. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, thanks for reading!}