𝐢𝐢: seek higher things

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3rd Person POV

"Okay, so are we going to keep staring at the woman, or are we gonna try and wake her up or break her out," Murphy questions

Raven replies, "I'm gonna wake her up, this is a cryosleep pod, I think I can open it."

"Guys, are we sure about this we don't know who she is and we have to make nightblood quickly," Emori adds

"We have to wake her up, whoever she is, maybe she can help us, I mean she's in Becca's lab, the person who made nightblood," Raven replies

"Okay, let's take a vote, all in favour of waking mystery platinum blonde woman up," Murphy asks

Everyone raises their hand except Emori and Luna, they never encountered technology before having lived on the ground and were unsure what it could do.

"Looks like I'm waking her up," Raven mutters intrigued

She looks at the cryopod seeing Madison asleep peacefully and trails its cords to a computer by its side, everyone surrounds her to try and figure out what's going to happen except the two grounders who stay looking at the pod in shock and amazement.

She opens the computer, lighting up the screens wallpaper, an infinity sign, which was Becca's corporate logo. Raven starts going to work trying to read information about the pod and open it, 

"I was right, it's cryosleep, it's why she didn't age," Raven says

"Wow" Jackson says in amazement

Raven found the button that would open up the pod but was met with a password blank she had to enter, 

"Shit," she mutters

"What's wrong?" Abby asks

"It's shut by a password, clearly whoever put her to sleep was trying to protect her," Raven replies

"Okay, let's think, what could the password be?" Jackson questions

"Assuming she's in Becca's lab, maybe it has something to do with her," Murphy states unsure of his statement

"Could it be the Flames passphrase?" Miller asks

"Let's see," Raven says as she types in 'seek higher things' but the computer tells her its wrong

"Try it in Latin, Raven" Abby says

Raven types in the words they had used to activate the flame before, 'ascende superius', and to everyones shock the computer starts a countdown of 10 seconds before the pod would open. They all were bewildered and stood in front of the sideways pod to watch it open.

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1st Person POV [Madison]

Light. 

It's the first thing I see as I slowly flutter my eyes open, I feel like my brain isn't functioning as all I'm feeling right now is numbness. 

I hear something opening up right by my ear and look to the side, but my vision is hazy and blurred that I can't make out whats in front of me. I close my eyes for a second to try and recenter my brain when suddenly I can hear whispers. I surge forward so I'm in an L-sitting position and realize I'm in a cryo pod. 

All of a sudden all the memories come back and I take a sharp inhale, and start to panic, I still don't realize anyone is in the room with me, and start whispering, "no, no, no" getting louder and louder. 

All of a sudden, a middle aged woman appears at my side and asks "Hey, are you okay? You're safe,"

I can't think straight right now, the only thing racking through my brain is 'where is she?'

"Where is she?" I ask the woman

I repeat the question multiple times and slowly feel tears threatening to fall.

I look to my side and find more people standing behind the woman but I don't bother caring or feeling embarrassed, I just need to find her. I have to find my sister. I need to find Becca.

Suddenly, I remember ALIE. I gasp and take more sharp inhales of breath and start to free myself out of this suffocating pod. 

"I need to stop her," I mutter as I stand up and take a step, but it's as if I haven't stretched in ages as all of a sudden I can feel myself falling to the ground.

Luckily, a guy with blue eyes and slim build catches me and asks "Whoa, whoa, whoa, where are you going?"

I grab ahold of his elbows looking deep into his eyes, "I have to stop her" I say frantically looking all around.

"Stop who?" he asks

"I have to kill her, I have to kill ALIE," I scream

Everyone standing there suddenly widens their eyes as if they've seen a ghost. A girl with brown hair, eyes, and a leg brace comes up to support me and asks, "you know who ALIE is?"

"Of course, how do YOU know who she is," I retort back

"We killed her," she replies

My jaw drops, how did they kill her, yet I'm relieved, maybe this means everyone is safe, "Oh thank god," I say, "so she didn't kill the human population right" I ask slightly smiling and feeling thankful

They all look to each other and then to me as I lean my back on the now closed sleeping pod, and I can suspect that there's something going on.

"What? Why are you all looking at me like that?" I ask 

"Hi, I'm Jackson, Do you know what year it is?" a guy with a slightly shaved beard steps forwards towards me

"Uh no, but there's no way it has been too long, what is it like 2055," I chuckle

They all look pale faced and afraid to reveal anything to me

"Okay, clearly it has been a little longer, 2060?" I retort

The same girl with the leg brace steps forward towards me, and carefully says, "My name is Raven, and I'm sorry to tell you this but it's 2150"

My eyes widen and I can feel tears gathering up almost about to fall, I know she's dead, if it wasn't ALIE, or radiation, or even sickness, she has to be dead just because of old age.

"No" I whisper, "no, no, no" I say as I fall to the ground and bend my knees to my chest 

"Is she dead?" I ask urging for someone to answer

No one does and so I shout, "I said IS SHE DEAD?!" needing someone to give me closure

"Okay, whoa, are you talking about ALIE?" the blue eyed boy asks

"No, my sister" I reply

"Can I just ask who are you?" a girl with a tattoo on her face steps forward, pushing everyone else back and asks.

I slowly stand back up realizing the reality of the situation, I needed to introduce myself to these odd people. Most of them were wearing normal clothes, skinny jeans and shirts, but two girls stuck out like sore thumbs wearing all dark clothes that almost looked like skirts, one of them being the one who asked who I am.

"I'm Madison," I say when I'm fully standing up straight and tall, "Madison Franko" I add on, and suddenly the two girls who were stuck out like sore thumbs both get on one knee almost as if they were bowing down to me, I furrow my brows in confusion while looking at everyone else who was standing straight seeing them all clearly shocked and baffled by this information. 

What has been happening for the last 99 years?



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