Cage

Cage's alliance tag

### Early years

Cage got his gang name because he would Cage or imprison hostels. (Need to review the info from that passage in the book)

When Cage was 16, Manhattan gang was negotiating an alliance with the Earth Resistance and Wall brought him along as he didn't trust Cage enough to be left out of his sight. Wall used the underground subway tunnels to get to and from the alliance meetings, so Cage became familiar with them.

When Blaze was 11 and had first arrived in New York after the London firestorm, she was terrorized by Cage, when he held her over the cooking fire, upside down and her hair caught on fire. She bit him on his arm which left a lasting imprint.

## Summary

### Scavenger Alliance

On Blaze's eighteenth birthday, Cage suggested that they get married on the condition that her father Donnell gives him the open alliance officer position. She response with a NO!

Later, Donnell decides that Blaze and Tad need to get out of Cage's sight for a while while he tries to find away to deal with him. He sends them on a scavenger run.

When Blaze and Tad go to the boat house to start on their run, Cage and Hannah are waiting to ambush them. Cage grabs Blaze and breaks the bones in her arm and shoulder. He said that when she gets back if she doesn't agree to his plan, he would call general justice on her for hiding a useless arm and making Hannah do all of her work. He will also accuse Donnell of knowing about it and helping her to hide what she was doing. He plans on taking the leadership of the alliance away from Donnell.

When Blaze and Tad return from their scavenger run, Cage ask Blaze if she is going to do what he wants and when she tells him no, he calls general justice on her. But Blaze retaliates by showing everyone that both of her arms work perfectly. She then accuses him of having Hannah steal medicine for him and hiding it. She then calls general justice on him. With the support of Rogue and Raeni, the required number of alliance representatives seconded Blaze's call and Cage was taken prisoner by Wall in the Manhattan Division.

By this time all of the off-worlders are sick with the winter fever and are in Sanctuary where Blaze is staying to help care for them and to guard them from anyone that wants to harm them because they are off-worlders. Wall is keeping an eye on where Cage is prisoner and when one of his supporters lets him out overnight, Wall goes after him to protect Blaze. When both Cage and then Wall shows up it confuses Balze for a little bit, enough time for her to miss her chance of killing Cage. Cage sets off an anesthesia grenade and runs out of the area, blocking the doors off so Wall can't get out.

By the time that Blaze shoots out the glass window and they unbar the doors, the gas has filled the hall. Blaze sets off the alarm for Donnell and the other officers. The Alliance officers then search for Cage but Donnell and Blaze both know from their armed agent Weapons that Cage has left Parliament house. Before he left, he kills Marcia mostly because of the tag she had given him years before and never changing it.

### Scavenger Blood

At the beginning of the book, Cage had shot one of his distinctive arrows in a tree next to where Natsumi and Himeko Fish. Then later the same day, using a precision sniper riffle, he shoots at Aaron's hunting party, killing Rogue. By the time that Donnel brings a group of the alliance to where Aaron's group was supposed to be hunting, Cage had moved on to another hiding spot.

Tad identifies from power usage when Cage has used the old subway routes, Donnell decides that Blaze need to take a small group and check out the area's that Tad had identified. While Blaze and group are checking the subways out, her armed agent Weapon alerts her that Cage is in the area. They all hop on to an old subway train and Tad turns on the power to the third rail. When they get near to where Cage is at, he sees the train coming and fires a shot with his rifle, breaking the glass but no one is injured. The train hits Cage a glancing blow, but enough for him to drop the rifle and for it to land on the third rail. Tad stops the train and Blaze chases after Cage, but doesn't get near enough to shoot him with her weapon. Cage escapes.

Later, Tad discovers that Cage is holed up at the top of the Wallam-Crane Citadel in the residence mansion, so they put together a plan to flush him out or to capture him. Part of the plan was for Tad to get access to the Citadel's security system via the cameras at the Wallam-Crane Monument so they head there. Once Tad makes the adjustments to the camera, Donnell and Blaze taunt Cage using a megaphone, until he activates the broadcast system so that Tad can use it to get into the security system. Cage gloats about the luxuries that he has and proclaims himself king of Manhattan. Donnell happily granted him the Manhattan territory, all of the ruined buildings and falling-stars. Cage then sends 80 anti-terrorist, seek and destroy drones after them at the monument, but Donnell's group destroys them all. Cage next sends 120 drones, which Tad is able to issue a self-destruct command to them.

As they leave the monument, Tad activates, Bunk mode at the Citadel, which causes huge steel plates to cover all of the windows, doors, outer walls and even a steel dorm covers the rooftop. Cage is finally imprisoned.

## Notes

*Further information: Ghost Train, Bronx Division, and Battle at the Wallam-Crane Monument*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edwards, Janet. Scavenger Alliance (Scavenger Exodus Book 1) (p. 10). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.