"STATUS," MARY MURMURED INTO HER COMMS. SURE SHE WAS JUST FIFTEEN BUT THE WORLD WASN'T GOING TO WAIT FOR THEM TO GROW UP.

"Reckon this place will be safe Mary," Jake stated on the other side. Their scouting mission to expand the small survival place they had was going well. Not too great, since they'd almost got attacked by cranks at a place when they were coming from their safe house, but this place was safer. Way safer.

"Any cranks were there," Mary questioned. "If so, there will still be more scouting as you know." They had to be extra cautious since the cranks rate was increasing. "Blasted cranks and the flare," She murmured.

"Killed the few cranks at this base," Jake answered, drawing her from her thoughts, "scouting may be necessary. Take George with you, he's an excellent tracker and fighter." George was like an older brother to Mary. He'd gotten separated from his sister ages back and he'd taken her in.

"Obviously," Mary said and shouted, "George we got a mission." it turned out that George wasn't nearby so she walked towards the huts in search of him. She found him near the supervisor of the whole place and nodded at the man. He was grafting something out on a piece of paper, so Mary took George and they went.

"What is it?" He asked. He furrowed his eyebrows and said, "scouting mission? They went looking for some more safe settlements."

"They found a few cranks," Mary said, "Killed them. Need to see if the location has more crank gatherings surrounding it."

George crossed his arms as the walked towards the old and rusty vans. "There might be many cranks. We could just be walking into dangerous territory."

Mary huffed. Jake had told her it was a really good place, and if it was then the overpopulation problem in this settlement would be cured. She hated living with so many people. "It's the middle of the day," Mary said, "and they didn't see any cranks when going through the area." She climbed into a van.

George said, "Fine, but be careful." His hand curled around the wheel.

"I was born careful." Mary said and received raised eyebrows. "Shush, start the van." The car roared before they set off at top speed, hoping to finish their scouting before the night began.

Mary cursed under her breath. She hated dosing off when she had boring work (she hated sleeping generally). Memories clouded her head but she shut them off. Jake would worry too much if he felt her emotions and she had to focus on the task at hand. She typed one last word in and got up with a huge yawn. Then shook her head.

She ripped off her ring. It always blocked the flow of telepathy she had with Jake. They weren't weak (theirs was stronger, due to improvements made by WICKED. Too strong though. If she had the ring on she could hear his thoughts at all times.

Jake, She screamed in her head.

What the hell Mary? He demanded back.

Are you ready for it? Mary could feel his excitement as she thought of that sentence. Mary could feel his nod all the way into her room. Time to find out all the information. Come with me to the surveillance room.

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So too many cliffhangers? The next chapter will have all the information :)
And after that.... Well we'll see. Short chapters make it so easy to update. It doesn't really pressure me to write so I'm able to write quite easily. Hope you like this chapter