A/N: so I got a few things wrong…. That last scene of 6x10 was amazing. It doesn't look like Clarke will attempt to fool Sanctum in the 15 sec preview we got, so there goes this whole story. So here's the end to this story, which is now full AU…
Please Read and Review, let me know your thoughts
When Emori and Ryker opened the door, it was chaos, Jackson was working on Simone, with Niylah assisting. Abbey was sulking in a corner, not willing to help with anything. Miller was screaming that they should all be killed, and Indra was restraining him. Russell and Priya had been gagged, with Russell was bawling silently. Then Jackson sad "she's dead, I can't do anything". Emori and Ryker came out of the room, followed by Madi.
Abbey saw Madi, and she got up. The one thing Clarke kept asking her over and over was to protect Madi, and that's what she's going to do now.
"You're here?" she said as she got close to the girl.
Gaia asked "Heda? Is sheiheda gone?"
"I am okay, Sheideda is in check for now." Madi said. Abbey nodded as she took the child away from the Primes, and away from Gaia.
Meanwhile when Russell saw Riker, he shot him a glare. Then Riker went to untie Russell when Jordan intervened and asked "What are you doing?"
"Ending it" Ryker said.
"It's okay, there's a plan" said Emori as she had gone to check on Murphy. Jordan stepped aside. Ryker continued to untie Russell, and took him to the other room. Through the lab, into the hidden room. He immediately shut every door behind him.
Emori said to Murphy, "you're going to be okay, we all are" as she swept his hair out of his eyes.
"If we somehow end up winning this, how long do you think they'll let me live?" he asked dejectedly, looking over at Abbey warily. "Don't give up hope, not yet" Emori said.
Jordan came up to them, "We're not killing them, if Clarke could be brought back, then maybe all the hosts can."
Emori ignored the question and said "You need to go help Raven, find the video you saw, and transmit it to every screen in this compound." Priya seemed alarmed at this, but didn't say anything.
"Why?" asked Jordan.
Emori answered "Raven will explain." Jordan nodded, and went towards the lab.
As he entered the lab, Raven said "Hey Jordan, according to Bellamy, he said you can find the files we need to transmit. I am just re-coding the signal so that we can transmit from here."
"Bellamy?" asked Jordan.
"He's not dead. Look." Raven pointed towards a screen.
Jordan nodded, and he looked at the screen, on that screen was surveillance of the hidden room. There was video but no audio.
"Wait, is that Clarke? What are they talking about?" asked Jordan
"I don't know, let's see." After a few clever clicks, Raven had audio. What she didn't realize is that her rigging was almost done, and when she pressed enter, every screen in the compound was now playing the scene in front of them.
The group was surprised when the screen came to life in the main hall, seeing Russell, Ryker, and 'Josephine talking to each other.
"You'll let us live?" asked Russell. As everyone in the compound looked around to see the screen. Even Bellamy and Octavia had it playing on their screen in the transport.
"If you cooperate, and help convince your people the truth about your so call 'divinity', then then it will be up to the new leaders." Clarke said to the man.
To say that Earthkru was confused was an understatement. So Emori put them out of their misery. "It was Clarke, she was pretending to be a Prime".
From the screen they heard: "I should have killed you when I had the chance" Russell said. "I should have kicked you out."
"No, you shouldn't have tried to kill me, better men than you have tried, and failed" Clarke said. When she finished this, everyone in the main room gasped, realizing that it wasn't Josephine, but Clarke Russell was talking to. They all finally understood what Emori had said.
"That's really her" said Madi to Abbey, who now had tears in her eyes. Murphy just shook his head and whispered "unbelievable".
"In this new world order, we'd answer to you then?" asked Russell
"No, like I said, we'd create a council, my people and your 'Nulls'. We teach everyone to be doctors, engineers, pilots, fighters, how to survive on this moon. No more naming days, no more hosts, no more royal blood, no more sacrificing babies as an offering." Clarke said to the man.
"What about your mind drive, I know about the girl" Russell spit out.
"The flame is not a mind drive, it's an upgrade, it is not about hanging on to life, but passing the knowledge to the next generation, to pass the wisdom, it doesn't erase the host, and it enhances the host" as Clarke finished.
"If you think my people will go along with this, you are very naïve. I wouldn't have taken the commander of death to be this naïve." said Russell.
"I am not naïve, I just have an army, they'll help keep the peace" retorted Clarke. "As long as you cooperate, this transition can be bloodless"
"It's not bloodless, your people drew first blood, they killed my people first, hell your people killed three primes long before you ever set foot in Sanctum." Russell argued.
"You're right, three of your Primes stole our transport, went up to our ship, and you know what I found out? Why they did that. They were planning to take that ship back to Earth. Granted they didn't know that Earth is basically a nuclear wasteland, but something tells me that it wouldn't have mattered to them. That how badly they wanted to get away from here, from you."
"Those are lies" spat Russell.
"Lies? Who am I lying to? It's just the three of us in this room. How about you explain this to our pal here. Why did Simone and Josephine erase an entire family of Primes? Four mind drives were erased in that room by Simone. It's how you gave two mind drives to Murphy, and my mom. How divine can you be? If the person on the mind drive can be deleted at the push of a button? Do they even know about the mind wipe? Essentially murdering the host so that you can add a mind drive into blank brain. So your precious Primes can now live forever?"
"The mind wipe is painless, and our people chose this" argued Russell.
"Because you brain washed them into believing that they've got no choice. You raise them like royalty if they are nightbloods, and then you kill them. So because you gave them a good twenty ones years that means that their life is worthless? No their life would otherwise be 'Null', is that it?" Clarke shook her head in disgust.
"Let me not even get started as to why the mind drives became necessary, it was you who went crazy, you killed everyone, 'Sanctum is mine' is what you kept repeating" Clarke continued to drive the point. Russell looked panicked at all the information that Clarke knew.
"How could you possibly…?" asked Russell.
"I didn't have much to do when someone else stole my body against my will." Clarke said.
"It was the eclipse, we didn't know about it, I went crazy, I hated myself for it, I had to bring them back." Russell admitted. "I had to" he kept repeating.
"But then they kept dying, and for twenty five years you kept trying to bring them back. How many dead bodies?" asked Clarke. Russell just shook his head "I had to bring them back" he kept repeating.
"Let's end it, once and for all, you Primes have had two hundred years, it time for the next generation to do their part. Maybe to find a planet where we don't have chain ourselves up every three months, but you have to help me, you have to end reign of the Primes. We are already destroying the backup files, and we have control of the transport. You have already lost" Clarke said.
"We lost the moment I let you stay." Said Russell.
"No, we lost the moment they got here, we had our time Russell, it's their time now. We can make peace with the CoG, bring the families back together" Ryker finally talked.
"There is just the three of us left, and you expect me to what, leave my home, without my wife? My daughter? I have been leading here for over two hundred years, am I supposed to live in a hut? Outside the compound?" asked an incredulous Russell.
"The other option is war, and my guess is that my people are lot more capable in that arena. I know I am tired of war, I am tired of just surviving. But if you force our hand, we will destroy this compound, just like we destroyed Earth. Then what happens to the human race? We are it, we are all that's left. What happens to you, that'll be up to your own people, so long as they know the truth" Clarke answered Russell.
"What truth is that? We have been living here happily for over two hundred years, we defeated the greatest foe life has, we defeated death, and now what, am I supposed to bury my wife and child, and not bring them back? When I have the technology to do bring them back to life. No deal, my guards will be waiting for you outside. You tell Bellamy to bring me my daughter" Russell kept shaking his head.
"We can't kill him, not if we want a peaceful resolution to this" said Ryker
"If we leave, you'll go back to purifying the blood lines, killing null babies, waiting for hosts to be borne so that you can kill them?" asked Clarke.
"Josephine was right, cleaning up the bloodlines is the only way to ensure we survive" spat Russell.
"Life should be more than just surviving, I learned that lesson the hard way, I really hope it's not too late for you" Clarke then moved towards the door.
When she opened the door, Raven and Jordan were waiting for her. Clarke could see Ryker tying Russell up. Jordan went to Clarke "If you're back, then we can get them all back?!" he looked at Clarke.
"I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way, the mind wipe worked for all other hosts, what saved me is that the mind wipe failed" Clarke said in a comforting voice as she could.
"You don't know that, you're just guessing that" Jordan argued. Ryker was taking Russerll back to the main room. When they heard Jordan Russell exhaled in disgust, and Ryker shook his head sadly.
"ALIE saved me, do you know the ALIE story? Her key created a neural mesh network in my brain, saved my consciousness there. The network created a mind's space for me. Delilah is gone, take Priya out, and she will not have a memory, personality, drive, she'll be a shell, a fate worse than death" Clarke paused, trying to give him time to understand this.
"We have to try, we can't just give up on them, I can't give up on her" Jordan said desperately, almost trying to convince himself.
"Is that feed live?" asked Clarke, see in the room now empty.
"Yes, don't you think we should have talked about it, what we are going to do?" asked Raven.
Clarke didn't know how to answer, so she asked "When was I supposed to do that? Bellamy, Octavia and I made a deal with Gabriel. This is just me holding up my end of the bargain."
"What exactly is that?" asked Raven. Before Clarke could answer, Abbey and Madi came through the door. Abbey went straight to her daughter and hugged her fiercely.
"I'm so sorry, I can't believe I could ever let her fool me." Abbey cried into Clarke.
Clarke for her part just hugged her back, and whispered "It's ok." Then she said loudly. "We're okay."
Raven let them sit a minute, and then said "I asked a question."
Clarke turned around and said "to end the reign of the Primes".
The End.
A/N: thank you everyone. I can't believe that this was ever a oneshot… How this thing grew from a plot bunny to 8K words it's insane to me… Please stop reading if you're not up to date with season 6
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Still here? I think Sheiheda is going to turn into the big bad of season 6, as ALIE turned into the big bad in season 3… Raven will somehow use Clarke's neural network to either isolate the file that is Sheiheda, or get through to Madi, or get the other commanders to come back… Another guess is that Russell will somehow load Sheiheda into a mind drive, and they will use a host to bring him to back, and lead them in a war against Earthkru…