Zara sat on a table with eight other rebels. They had been sitting there for a long time discussing ways to break into a prison and free the prisoners that resided there.

“The prison should be weak.” Benjamin yelled.

“If the prison is weak, then the prisoners will be weak, too.” Madison countered. “On the other hand, a well protected prison will have stronger prisoners.”

Benjamin growled. “But if it's well protected, it will be harder to break into. And if you’re forgetting, a girl called Nova helped me break out of a prison and her motto was, ‘Always take the easiest way’!”

“Yeah, well I don’t see Nova here!”

Zara rolled her eyes. “You can both shut up, now. Y'all aren’t the only ones in this room, you know? How about you ask one of the other rebels what they think.”

“Fiiiiiine.” Madison snarled. “What do you think, Zara?”

“Benjamin’s right, we should start from the bottom, with a prison that isn’t as protected.” Madison opened her mouth to argue but Zara continued before she could. “If we can save those prisoners, most of them will feel like they owe us something, which we can use to break into better prisons. The more jails we bust into, the more rebels we have.”

Benjamin nodded. “Thanks, Zara.”

Zara glared at him. “Don’t thank me, thank common sense and logic, because this is the most logical way.”

Aiden, who was sitting across from her, smiled. “Your right, Zara, that is very sensical, but let’s hear Madison’s argument.”

“It’s been almost a century since the Dark Forces took over the world, the more we wait, the more they stay in power.” Madison raised her voice. “And the more time they stay in power, the more people get hurt.”

“We can’t rush things though.” Another rebel called Parker decided to butt in. “One mistake can end this entire mission.”

Sage shook his head. “We should do as Madison says. We could use strong warriors.”

“Are you suggesting we aren’t strong enough?” Zara asked, standing up. “You underestimate how strong we already are.” She let vines shoot out of her back, if just to show Sage her power. She felt her vines shoot through the air at an alarming speed and sat back down.

“But I guess you're right,” Zara said, calming down “We could use more strong warriors, but the only way to reach them is by breaking into a well protected prison, which is too risky.”

Madison laughed. “Are you scared? I thought you, of all people, wouldn’t be.”

“I’m not scared! I’m smart, unlike you!” Zara stood up again letting her vines go wild.

“Ha!” Madison snorted. “I’m not scared of anything.”

“Oh yeah?” She let one of her vines encircle Madison slowly.

“Hey!” Madison screamed. “Get that off me.”

“Make me!”

“STOP!” Luna, who was the wisest of the group, yelled out. “Zara, retract your vines and Madison, stop being stupid!”

Zara growled as she removed the vines encircling Madison. “We’re not done here.” She said.

“Yes you are, Ms. Zara!” Luna said strictly. “There is no reason to fight amongst ourselves, we all have the same enemy.”

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“Yeah,” Benjamin smirked. “Madison.”

“Mr. Ben, I am not joking!” Luna stared straight into his eyes with a glare that could make anyone run away in terror. “We are a team, and we need to work together. We need to love each other as our ancestors did before us. We are to respect everyone’s opinion.”

“What?” Parker countered. “But Madison’s ar-”

“Did I stutter, Mr. Parker?” Luna asked. “I never said we had to agree with each other's opinion, I said respect and that is what we shall do.” She looked around the table inspecting each of their faces. “Ms. Zara, would you care to tell us your opinion one more time?”

“I think that the best way to do this is by breaking into a less guarded prison, to where we have more people helping us. After that we can break into a more secure one.”

Luna nodded. “I do see what you mean, Ms. Zara.” She then turned to Madison. “And you?”

Madison took a deep breath. “I think we should infiltrate one of the most protected prisons to where we have more powerful rebels, who can actually help us fight.”

Benjamin growled. “The others can fight too! Nova started off on a sma-”

“I don’t care about Nova! Nobody does except for you!” Madison interrupted. “The only thing I care about is winning this war.”

“I never said I didn’t care about the war!” Benjamin slammed his fist on the table.

Madison snorted “You pretty much did.”

“Shut up! You all act like children!” Luna said in a stern voice. “But we are not children, we are soldiers that are fighting a war and we need to decide what we’ll do,” She turned to Madison. “And we never insult someone’s friend.”

Madison blushed. “I’m sorry, ma’am.”

“You always say that! All of you do, but are you really sorry?” Luna stared deep into Madison’s eyes.

“Yes ma’am.” Madison whispered.

“I wish you wouldn’t lie to me, Ms. Madison.” Luna sighed in frustration. “Now it seems we disagree on what prison we should infiltrate and each side has a good argument.”

“Though some may not be logical.” Zara whispered to Benjamin, making them both chuckle.

“Ms. Zara, I can hear you. Please be quiet and listen.” Madison chuckled at this and Luna stared at her. “The same goes for you, Ms. Madison. We are not playing a game.”

“Now,” Luna continued. “What do we do with two good ideas?” Her eyes gazed around the room daring someone to answer.

“We pick the better one?” An introverted rebel, named John, said.

“No, Mr. John, in this case there is no better one. Does anyone else want to answer?”

Benjamin looked confused. “Do we make up a whole new idea?”

“That is one of the most idiotic ideas I have ever heard, Mr. Ben. Why would we make another one if we already have two perfectly good ones right in front of us.” Luna shook her head. “A whole new idea, I’ve never heard that one before.”

Benjamin’s cheeks reddened. “Sorry.”

Luna patted his shoulder. “There is no need to be embarrassed for a simple mistake. Ms. Zara by your focused face it seems as if you know the answer, would you care to tell us?”

Zara nodded. “Do we…Do we meet in the middle and use both ideas? We could infiltrate a pretty well built prison, with pretty strong rebels.”

“Exactly, Ms. Zara! Precisely what I was thinking!” Luna smiled proudly. “If we break into a prison that isn’t too easy or too hard to bust into then we get both advantages.”

For a while everything was silent and then everyone fell into chaos.

“That doesn’t make sense!”

“They won’t be strong enough!”

“What if there are too many overseers!”

“I think my idea was better!”

“Shut up, Ben, no one asked you.”

Zara and Luna sighed. “Won’t ya’ll just listen to what Luna has to say?” Zara yelled in the loudest voice she could muster. The rebels went quiet, all of them breathing hard.

“Thank you, Ms. Zara.” Luna smiled. “Now to the rest of you, if we can not agree on one idea, why not use both? Instead of arguing without meaning we should examine each opinion and decide what the best advantages are in each one.”

All the rebels nodded in understanding, except for Madison and Benjamin who stared at each other.

“But there were absolutely no advantages in Madison’s argument!”

“And Ben never has good arguments!”

Luna closed her eyes and rubbed her temple. “Are you two done? We have an idea everyone agrees on except for ya’ll and the only reason you don’t agree with it is because you don’t want to admit that both of you had good arguments. So are you going to stop acting like kids or what?”

Ben and Madison looked at each other filled with rage. They took deep breaths calming themselves and both of them sighed.

“Fine. When do we start?”