mixture of fear and awe. How could that situation have looked to
him? He suddenly was saved by three people who were strange looking and all had
illegal abilities.
He stuttered and asked, “Who are you?”
Without thinking, I answered, “We are the Insurgency.
Spread the word.”
Frost looked over at me with wide eyes. Before I
could realize what I had said, I took off running the opposite direction. I
didn’t stop until I reached my house. I sat on my old bed and put my hood down.
A few minutes later, the other two arrived. “Twice in one day? Is there just
something in your brain that makes you do stupid things?” asked Frost.
“I don’t know what happened. It just came out,” I
said putting my head in my hands.
“Lay off him Frost. He was just caught up in the
moment,” said Flare.
“Frost, you know I have wanted to start the
Insurgency again. I think seeing Pipes today just made me snap. We have the
resources in The Sanctum. We all have power. I won’t make you guys join, but I
am going to start trying to make a difference,” I said.
“You think I don’t want to make a difference? Of
course I’m going to help. Besides, I feel responsible for you. You do some dumb
things. Who else will keep you in check?” asked Frost.
“I’m in too. I’m tired of living under Hades’ boot,”
said Flare.
“I have nothing better to do anyway. I’m a wanted man,
too, remember?” said Frost.
“Let’s get these footlockers back to The Sanctum
then,” I said. We gathered the footlockers and a few of my belongings and we
set off back to our hideout. We moved quietly through the streets and made it
through the gate where we had incapacitated the guards earlier. After a short
walk, we made it back to the entrance to The Sanctum. We crossed through the
tunnel and into the main area. Flare looked around impressed at our hideout.
“Not too bad. This is a nice place, kind of like a
lair,” she said.
“Thanks. I’ll show you the living area,” Frost said.
“I’ll be sure to move my bed. I can sleep in the
armory,” I chimed in.
“We can work to build some separate rooms tomorrow,”
Flare said to me, “Oh by the way. You may want to try to pop back into town to
see Jet. I know she will want to see you. She was worried after the outburst at
the square.”
“I’ll be sure to go visit her. It will have to be at
night though. I don’t think that going into the city during the daytime is very
smart right now,” I said dragging my bed across the room to the armory.
“I’ll see you in the morning. We need to sort through
this equipment and paperwork to see what we have to work with for our
rebellion. We also need to see about setting up a supply chain for food and
supplies,” said Frost.
“We’ll meet tomorrow. I need to sleep. It has been a…
busy day,” I said.
Flare laughed and said, “We’ll see you tomorrow.”
I waved and walked into my new room. I sat down on my
bed which was surprisingly comfortable. I took off my new armor and changed
into my old clothes. I laid back and stared at the ceiling. I started wondering
if my parents would be proud of what I was doing. Sleep slowly crept up on me.
The Insurgency was finally reborn.
Chapter 2: The Science of Rebellion
The next morning we gathered around a small table and
ate a breakfast of dehydrated foods that the scientists left in case of
emergency. It tasted so horrible but we had nothing else so it had to do. “So
what are we going to do about food?” asked Flare.
“That’s a good question. We need to figure out how to
acquire real food. This dehydrated food can’t sustain us forever,” I replied.
“I was thinking about something last night. When you
told that guy we saved about us starting the rebellion again, do you think he
actually went and told people what happened?” asked Frost.
“I hope he did. We will need support. It can’t be
just us, otherwise it will just be like hitting our head against a wall.
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