twenty three - You're Fight Is Over

The brunette gasp into a weak smile as Brandi and Octavia stand only a few feet apart.

''Awe. Lincoln finally converted you'' She greets sarcastically once noticing the heavy clothing covering her body and the dry black design across her eyelids.

She lets out a soft chuckle ''God, I missed you're sarcastic ass.''

The two gulf each other into an embrace Brandi's never felt or done before. But it felt nice, knowing she had others who had missed her.

As the two pull apart, Brandi looks back at Clarke who was already looking at her with a small smile.

Brandi mirrors her smile and nods, messaging that she's been missed as well as Octavia.

''Where's you're army?'' Bellamy asks Clarke shortly after the reunion.

''Gone. Just like yours.''

Bellamy looks away in defeat, contemplating on they're next step that needs to be desperately pushed forward.

''Say you have a plan?''

''Not really. But we need to talk to Dante'' Clarke nods at this. ''Maya says he's in quarantine.''

Jasper and Monty run up to Clark, engulfing her into a group hug.

Brandi giggles at how oddly it looked but admired it any other way.

That was probably the start of this entire mission. To get them and they're people back home and with Clarke.

A beeping noise that came from Maya's hazmat suit turned lots of heads.

Jasper detaches himself from the hug to go behind Maya's figure, inspecting the contraption that still had Maya breathing.

''Thirty minutes'' He stands up while shaking his head. ''We just changed it, that can't be right.''

He turns back to the group extremely worried. ''This is her last tank.''

''Okay, we'll find you another one'' Clarke says, as if it was as simple as it sounded. But it wasn't.

''We can't. The rest of the supplemental oxygen is on level five which is highly restricted after what we did'' Brandi informs.

''Then we'll take the trash chute again, it'll work'' Jasper quickly concludes but every plan seems to have a flaw.

''To get in, maybe. But Brandi's right, every soldier in this mountain is there'' Bellamy intervenes. ''We'll never make it out.''

''We can do this. We'll split up.''

Brandi and Bellamy stood on the sidelines, very doubtful of this plan.

''Okay, you guys go for Dante. We'll help Maya.''

× × ×

The group of four enter the neatly white room that was bombarded with frames of handmade art, created by Dante Wallace himself.

He stands from his bed while whispering ''Hello, Clarke.''

''Sir, we need you're help again'' Bellamy informs.

''I took out the camera from the junction box in the hall. We can talk freely'' Monty includes in case he feels any cautions.

''No one's watching anyway. Thanks to you, they're all on level five.''

Brandi tilts her head. ''You're not.''

''No'' He shakes his head. ''I'm not.''

''Please'' Bellamy chimes in. ''We don't have much time and we need a way to get out people out of this mountain without killing everyone.''

The answer of silence Dante was giving them showed the shadow of the doubt of they're plan sinking down the drain.

''He's not gonna help us.''

Dante locks eye's with Clarke's challenging one's and says ''You cut the power, risking the lives of everyone in this mountain like my people, even the ones who helped you.''

Clarke removes her presence beside her apprentices before approaching the older man. ''We knew they'd be safer on level five. We made sure not to destroy the turbines so you could repair them. We're the good guys here, not you.''

''Tell me, if we released you're people and theirs, what would have happened to mine?''

Clarke remains silent, knowing well enough that she would have killed every adult living in Mount Weather.

So she turns to Monty, refusing to answer his question. ''Can you get us into the command center? We need to see what's happening on level five.''

''No problem'' He simply says.

''Lets go'' Bellamy instructs, grabbing him by the arm and pushing him out of the room. ''You're gonna help us whether you like it or not.''

× × ×

''I told you there's no one here'' Dante proves, noticing the same vacant hall as Clarke, Bellamy, Brandi and Monty.

''Sorry if we don't take you're word for it.''

Monty rushed up ahead to hack to the card scanner that allows access into the command center.

''Why aren't you with you're people on level five?'' Clarke ask.

''He was overthrown, Clarke. Because he didn't want any experiments done on the new incomes, Cage gotten the people to degrade his power for one common goal'' Brandi explains.

With personal meetings Jasper discussed with Brandi, it was clear that him and son did not see eye to eye.

''Which is?''

''Being on the ground'' Dante answers. ''Because of that, they can be free but I can't. Deliverance comes at a cost. I bear it so they don't have to.''

Bellamy furrows his eyebrows. ''It wasn't Cage. It was you're idea to make the deal with the grounders.''

Dante nods at this.

The alliance Clarke had with the grounders grew an army together for the common enemy of Mount Weather.

Holding captive of both of they're people. Unfortunately, the grounders were the only one's who got they're end of the bargain.

''We're in'' Monty informs when a beeping sound erupts.

Bellamy is the first to enter with his gun ready and raised.

''It's clear'' He says astonished. ''He was telling the truth.''

''Let's get the monitors up'' Clarke instructs to Monty as he rushes over to the isle of computers for his desire.

Brandi closes the door behind her as she walks further into the room.

''I need to talk to you-''

Brandi cocks a brow. ''Yeah, well now exactly isn't the best time for what you had in store.''

Bellamy lets out a breath. ''You're mad at me.''

Her arch brow stays in place as she clenches her jaw, watching Monty get the computers on that also allows the monitors on the wall to turn on.

''The commands center's live.''

On the screen showed every security camera displayed all throughout Mount Weather.

The show was mainly settled on camera sixty of level five.

''Oh my god'' Clarke gasps at the sight.

''Is that Raven?'' Bellamy questions beside the girl whose temper with him was already fairly short.

''Oh god'' She scoffs in disgust, thinking back to the night she almost walked in on the two.

He turns to see the scowl on her face as Clarke steps closer to the screen that was now being viewed at a different angle.

''Mom?''

Bellamy reaches for a walkie-talkie that was aligned in a whole set and hands it to Dante. ''Tell them to stop. Now!''

Dante looks down at him calmly before speaking ''I won't do that.''

Clarke looks over at a different screen related to level five and mutters ''Emerson.''

She walks over to Bellamy and grabs for the walkie-talkie. She presses against the button that reaches further communications. ''Carl Emerson, Mount Weather security detail. Come in.''

''Who is this?''

''You know who it is. Give the radio to the president.''

''They're moving'' Bellamy warns out to Monty, letting him no to switch to a different camera.

''Not a problem. I'll bring it on the main monitor.''

The three turn around and Brandi practically jumped out of her own skin.

Bellamy looks down at her oddly as Cage was on screen with walki-talkie closely by his mouth. ''This is President Wallace.''

''I have you're father. If you don't let my people go, I'll kill him.''

''How do I know you have him?''

Clarke hands over the walkie-talkie to Dante. ''Stay the course, Cage.''

''You won't do it.''

''You don't know me very well. This ends now. Release my people.''

''I can't do that.''

''It would mean the end of our people, Clarke'' Dante adds on.

She turns around and pulls out a gun, pointed directly at Dante.

Bellamy, Brandi and Monty take steps back. ''Clarke, we need him.''

''And I need his son to believe me.''

She lifts the contraption back towards her lips. ''Don't make me do this.''

There was a brief moment of silence before Cage was back on. ''Dad, I'll take good care of our people.''

Dante's features fall at the fact that his own son is betraying him in the worst life or death situation possible.

''None of us has a choice here, Clarke.''

The blonde shakes her head. ''I didn't want this.''

''Neither did I.''

The sound of the bullet rang in everyone's ears as she pulls the trigger.

Dante lets out a gasp, groaning at the seconds of his life be suck away from him before falling to the ground.

''Listen to me very carefully'' She starts again on the walkie-talkie. ''I will not stop until my people are free. If you don't let them go, I will radiate level five.''

Cage wasn't responding. He was leaning against the wall that lead down into corridor from the dining hall.

''Cage, listen to me. I don't want anyone else to die. Stop the drilling and we can talk, there has to be a way to get us all out of this.''

Emerson takes a step closer to Cage for a brief conversation that couldn't be heard through the monitor or walkie-talkies.

Emerson then nods before dashing down the hall. The group knew well enough that Cage sent him to the command center.

''Emerson's coming for us.''

''They deactivated my key card, can you do that to his?'' Bellamy asks when facing Monty.

He nods. ''That ones easy.''

''Where's he going?''

Clarke and Brandi at sight of Cage returning his presence of the dining hall, but he was only making his way into the other room.

By the looks of it, he was angry. That same angry look that she knew from imprinted memory that he was gonna do some serious hell.

''Oh my god, Clarke. You're mom's in that room. If they know he's gonna give you what you did him'' Brandi predicted, knowing well enough that her mother would have asked for her daughters presence.

She whips to Monty. ''Monty, can you do it? Can you irradiate the level?''

''I can do it.''

''Wait a second, Clarke. We need to think about this. There kids in there.''

She nods. ''I know.''

''And people who helped us.''

''Well, then please, give me a better idea'' She pleads.

Not uttering another word, they turn to the screen that provided surveillance in the dorm. Raven was suddenly taken off the examined chair and Clarke's mother was in seconds forced onto it.

''Oh my god, no'' She cries. ''What have I done?''

Brandi whips back to the blonde who was shrivelling at the sight of a drill being poked into her body.

''We can't always be the good guy, Clarke. Sometimes we turn a little bad for what we thought was good, that's just how it is'' Brandi tells her,knowing that death could be the only to handle the situation.

''No, Clarke. If we do this, there is no going back'' Bellamy intervene. He was desperate for another way but he knew that was there only option of getting with what they want.

Monty looks up at Clarke for a sign, letting him know whether or not to supply oxygen course in level five.

She nods. ''Figure it out.''

× × ×

''Now what?''

Clarke and Brandi turn to a different screen Bellamy was watching to see two mountain civilians run down hall, Octavia and Maya following shortly after.

''My bitch got moves'' Brandi compliments as she started attacking the guards who in her case, came in at the wrong time.

While her sword was in one's chest, she slid to the ground and kicked the other guard hard enough in the leg to make him fall.

When he does, she quickly retrieves her sword and spins with it, cutting him from the neck up.

More guards started to appear from the upper screen of the monitor.

Bellamy shakes his head. ''They gotta get out of there.''

Brandi whips around when the door starts to bang. ''He's here.'

''Jasper, they caught him'' Monty chimes in, the dorm room distracting him from his job.

Brandi tightens her jaw when Maya and Octavia get caught up in the dining hall,surrounded by guards and or the mountain people.

''Why are you stopping?'' Clarke asks when Monty abruptly ceased his movements after a click of a key.

''Because I did it. All we have to do is pull this'' He informs, pointing to a lever that was right next to his keyboard. ''Hatches and vent will open and the scrubbers reverse, pulling in the outside air.''

''He's gonna blow the door'' Bellamy intervenes, pulling out his gun while directly facing the door.

''Clarke we're out of time'' Brandi says. ''We need to do this, now.''

She puts her hand on the lever but she was hesitant. Very hesitant. This type of decision could stain her decision making as a leader. She'd be killing innocent lives to save her own.

Bellamy puts his hands over Clarke's. ''My sister, my responsibility.''