Trust

"Allison! Where are the files? "Odillia yelled from another room. Allison didn't reply."The 4793N,"Odillia asked while she flipped through the files. "Cabinet 8."Allison answered in a monotone voice trying to focus on her work.

Grabbing the files, Odillia ran over to Allison.

"Listen, if the kids really can go back down to earth we have to get them to do a bone marrow transplant...but only with their consent of course. Also-"Odillia talked quickly. Though the speed may be abnormal to many, for someone who is as busy, it was entirely normal.

"Quiet!"Allison grabbed her sister's mouth pulling her head to a direction where she could see her computer screen. Before letting go, she looked at her sister to make sure she knew to keep silent.

On her screen was Ferrah listening to them through a computer screen. However she couldn't access the camera, only the microphone of the camera, Allison's security was better than Ferrah's for sure. Allison snatched a post-it note of a brown holder. On it she wrote: " We are being listened to '' Odillia' s eyes widened and she slapped her hand over her mouth. Removing her hand, she mouthed a sorry before taking the piece of post-it away from Allison along with the pen and wrote: " What do we do?"

Silently, Allison stood up and grabbed her sister's hand. It was so tight yet so gentle. She pulled her sister along with her, dragging her to a confined area with no modernised technology or advanced technology in there.

"Really? The ice age room?" Odillia sighed.

"It's not that useless."She sighed as she sat down in a chair and started typing on an old computer older than an Apple III. I coded this computer into something that can access our modern technology. I need to talk to the kids. I have to warn them."Allison panicked.

"Ice age technology in an ice age room...It fits."Odillia shrugged.

Allison typed onto the computer quickly, quicker than usual.

"Come on please....load will you?"She begged.

"This is an ice age computer sis do you also want to try a hey google to see if it responds."Odillia teased.

"Children! Listen to me please!"Allison screamed in a whisper.

"Yes?"Daniel peeked over at the side of the computer to take a look at what was going on.

"Listen we are in hiding right now and-" Allison spoke fast however she was still cut in between.

" She is in a room with no advanced technology, only an ice-age computer and we came here because we are being listened to by Ferrah." Odillia smiled before turning towards Allison and dropping a smile in a split second, " your story would have been longer. You're welcome."

The children stood up immediately, afraid.

"Why in the hell's pit would you call us?"Daniel freaked out,"you really had to call us, you couldn't text us or tell us this information by writing it on a piece of paper and showing it to us?"

Luna sighed,"Dan...what's wrong?"she asked while tilting her head in fear.

"How sure are you that she isn't listening to us right now?" He looked at each of them one by one.

Allison laughed,"she can't...she doesn't know about this place." Her heart beat sped up realising that Daniel might actually be right.

"You don't know how capable she is…"Amil added.

They all stood in silence. Fear, anxiety, and anger swallowed them. An argument was brewing among them in their heads. Allison tried to calm herself down."They are just kids...it's not their fault they're just scared."She whispered in her head.

"You are all mad, angry and you wanna scream at each other."Odillia sighed before grabbing a chair to sit on,"it's exactly what she wants."

"She wants to murder and kill, she absolutely enjoys chaos so if any of u are planning on murdering each other then I will agree with you."Leo agression slowly grew by the second, he was losing his calm posture.

"She planned this. She knew Allison was watching her so she made the effort to show her that she was listening in to us to brew fear."Odillia sighed,"She wants to corrupt you so that you will lose all trust in us. That way she would have won half the battle."

"Corrupt us? How?"Leah still did not trust the sisters.

"Fear corrupts people…"Amil frowned before looking up, "my dad used to tell me that constantly. Hated it."He tried to clear things up since the fear in them seemed to be starting to corrupt them.

Odillia smiled. Maybe these kids still had some hope. Though they were dragged into this situation without asking for it, they were still doing better than expected. Wesley took the opportunity to wander off since everyone was distracted with the 'Ferrah is watching us' situation.

All of a sudden, Odillia knew she had no choice but to bid goodbye. Her office wasn't safe anymore, " I've got to go."

The kids nodded and knew her reason. She had no choice. It was not her fault.

"Where's Wes?"Leo was the first to notice which caught their attention.

"Stabbed."Wesley groaned in pain. Blood covered the floor like a carpet.

Leo stared in shock and so did everyone except for Leo.

"Ok. It's alright. You're going to be fine."Leo acted quickly. He trained for these kinds of situations. He pulled out a long cloth out of his uniform and tied around the wound.

"Now run."Wesley warned in pain, "forget about me. I'm fine."He gasped for air, "run."

The teens looked at him confused.

"They're coming,"Wesley urged.

"Not without you."Daniel said while panting in fear and panic."Not without you."He repeated.

Daniel threw guns at everyone,"protect yourselves."he spoke while he walked around, hands stretched out with a loaded gun.

While everyone else was tensed up not knowing where Ferrah's minions might come from, Wesley slowly crawled to the armory cabinet with a hand on his wound.

"Why hello…"A man with brunette hair and brown eyes that resembled the soil of the earth.

"What do you want?"Leah circled him with the gun pointing straight at him.

"Oh darling…"he mocked, laughing at her."Well, before I say anything, you must know I'm not alone." He smiled, "I only want Ferrah dead okay sweetheart? Now why don't you tell me where your boss, Ferrah, is?"

"Hold on. Who are you working for?" Leah asked, lowering her gun down in order to reduce the threat they posed towards the other man.

"Who do you think?" The man laughed, "Your. Boss. Sister."Enunciating every word as clearly as he could.

"You work for Ferrah?" Luna asked lowering her gun to reduce the threat she posed, the exact same thing Leah did.

"Is she for real?" The boy did not understand Luna.

"You got the wrong people my man."Daniel sighed, "we work for Odillia and Allison." Daniel was shocked. He trusted Allison and Odillia deep down but on the surface he showed only coldness and caution. It was the same for everyone else. The kids all knew that deep down, the sisters could be trusted, however fear only made a wall in between everyone they met. Fear taught them caution.

"Oh really?" The boy laughed again,"then how about project 4793N? Why are you here instead of protecting them?"

"We are project 4793N."Amil glared at the boy who was still pointing a gun at them.

Taken aback, the boy slowly put down his gun, signing everyone on his team to do so as well.

"Not us though, we are just accomplices...in a way,"Leo explained.

"No. Though you weren't expected or foreseen in a way, you are now part of it." The boy sighed,"and um...Scott by the way."

"Um-"Leah tried to introduce herself.

"No need for any introduction. We know everything about you."Scott placed his gun back into his belt.

"May I ask what you meant by foreseen?"Leah asked while taking a seat again getting ready to read the files.

"While I know that you have a train of questions that I would absolutely love to answer but-"Scott spoke again.

"But here, it isn't safe and nowhere is."Daniel sighed, cutting into Scott's sentence.

"There is a room actually. Follow me." Scott hurried.

Daniel wrapped a cloth around Wesley wound t stop the bleeding. He was lucky that it was not too deep.

They walked quickly, even project 4793N had a hard time keeping up, especially Wesley who was limping with every step he took. Scott looked around, making sure no one was around before pushing a wall open. Entering a newly found hidden room, Amil sighed.

"This is the reason why we do not have enough space for our citizens. You shady ass people keep taking up the spaces for your shady ass laboratorys."

"Quiet. Follow me,"Scott urged them to quicken their pace up.

They followed, but their trust did not.

"Get in,"Scott opened a trap door.

They followed once more but Daniel was still not convinced. Though it was normal that trust was hard to come by, it seemed as if they expected to be trusted immediately. When everyone was finally in the room that was the safest, Scott got drinks for them signalling them to have a sit.

"Uhm...Could you give us some time to talk?"Daniel spoke, causing tension to build up quicker.

"Sure."Scott nodded firmly before leaving with the others.

"What in the hell's pit do you think we are doing?"Daniel scolded,"we just met them and we trust them?"

"We?"Leo laughed,"I didn't even want to follow them, I followed you guys not them."

"Can we take a second to realise that we are in a bunker?" Amil chimed in," a few days ago we were 6 happy teenagers that didn't know all this existed."

"So what?" Leah added on, "we aren't going to be upset over this and cry are we?"

"Could we at least get me a first aid?" Wesley groaned.

Scott came running over.

"So sorry about your stab wound, here are some bandages and here is a remote for a sound proof wall to descend."

The bunker was amazingly huge. It was all brand new, the quartz table was well polished with not even a single drip of water stain. everything was in perfect condition. It was not just a room. It was like an apartment, there was a table with a kitchen just next to it with rooms separated by glass walls. Everything was so new it was difficult to believe that this room has existed for so long. The kids were sat around the table next to the kitchen. Leah took the controller from Wesley and pressed a button. Walls on all four sides descended down.

"You sure this isn't a trap?" Leo asked.

"If it is, then we are fucked." Leah answered.

Leo looked at her, slightly offended and hurt.

"She is basically saying that risks must be taken." Amil added on while watching Leo's expressions.

Leo sighed before turning over to Wesley and attended to his wounds as a distraction. Wesley smiled as he leaned towards Leo's ears, "You sure have very questionable taste."

Leo gave no response.

"Look, we need to obtain all the help we can get." Leah defended herself.

"Awhile ago I remember us saying that we did no want to trust anyone." Daniel unimpressed expression showed complete disagreement.

His arm was resting on Luna's sit. Luna could not stop looking everywhere. She was on full alert.

"How confident are you that we can trust them?" Luna asked Leah.

All eyes turned to her. Waiting for her response. She surely could not say no now. They were in a bunker that was not theirs.

"Ninety five percent." Leah sighed, "The other five percent is just." She paused with a sigh.

"Sheer bad luck?" Amil asked.

She nodded.

"So you're saying you're relying on luck now?" Leo looked at her with absolute disappointment.

Leah stayed silent. She did not know how to fight back. She followed her gut feeling. And that gut feeling was trust Scott.

"Leah?" Amil sighed.

Leah turned to look at him with guilt. She knew that she should not allow their life to be based on luck.

"Leah? Are you saying that you are willing to trust Scott?" Ami questioned, even though he knew her answer, he had to try his luck too. He desperately wanted to hear a 'no' from her.

"Look, I don't want to put your lives at risk either. It's okay if you do not want to trust him and it's okay if you want to leave." Leah gave her answer.

Indirectly, her answer was clear. "Yes" was what she wanted to say but confidence was not her strongest point.

"So Leah. Answer me. Very very clearly. Do you want to trust Scott? Yes or no?" Leo asked.

Leah was stunned for a moment. What if she made the wrong choice? What if she causes them to split?

"Yes." She finally admitted.

"I'm in then." Amil immediately followed Leah.

"Well, I trust Leah a lot..." Luna accepted too.

Leah stared at her two friends who gave her their trust. She was scared. What if she made the wrong choice?

"Well, if anything goes wrong, I won't let you die alone." Daniel followed suit.

Now all eyes were fixated on Leo and Wesley.

"Look, I'm following Leo." Wesley groaned.

"Oh for the love of god." Leo complained, "Leah are you really sure?"

Leah gave no response. It was tiring for her to speak. Especially since she knew now that she just place her friends in potential danger that was based on sheer luck.

"Well, one for all, all for one innit?" Leo sighed before announcing.

"I'm in."