### Chapter 148
Summary: Ensemble, opening Part 6 from inside the same battle, not after clearing. Lexa is badly injured again in the old area, Clarke does not move from her, and the base is still full of dead corners, bodies, and unchecked doors.
### Chapter 149
Summary: Battle for the base, continuation, Summer dies first through a heroic action of her own, saving the future life area, animals, Princess, children, seeds, or farm equipment.
### Chapter 150
Summary: Battle for the base, decision point, Seth does not die from revenge but decides the battle through water / drainage / gate / trench / dock, and the base finally passes from the hands of the dead to the living at an unbearable cost.
### Chapter 151
Summary: Ensemble, counting the dead, Shelby and Toni in strong focus because they knew Seth and Summer closest, Robin breaks over Summer's death, and Nancy and Steve do not leave her for a second.
### Chapter 152
Summary: Ensemble, Regina hears the weeks of Nate, Seth, and Summer and turns them into the root of the future remembrance day, and Shelby begins to understand the city still has no place to lay grief down.
### Chapter 153
Summary: Clexa, Clarke holds Lexa through recovery and then tells her she cannot live like this. The crisis is not solved in one chapter, it begins here.
### Chapter 154
Summary: Ensemble, the first ten days of building begin, bodies, gates, water, warehouses, sleeping areas, medicine, children, and animals, without a large intake wave before there is a minimal base.
### Chapter 155
Summary: Ensemble, the first founding council takes shape, Regina as civic leader, Lexa as defense, Raven as infrastructure, Clarke as medicine, Alex and Ava as logistics, Nancy as maps and observation.
### Chapter 156
Summary: Ensemble, the city divides housing, children's rooms, animal area, kitchen, medical space, and first isolation rules, and logistics must pass through hands, doors, crates, and babies.
### Chapter 157
Summary: Ensemble, the first moment when the base begins to feel like a city and not an occupied camp, but the wounded, graves, and Summer's farm still sit inside every decision.
### Chapter 158
Summary: Ensemble, Karen, Holly, Joyce, Lucas's mother, and Dustin's grandmother return with a small base-survivor / military group. Their return reopens Nancy, Mike, Dustin, Will, Lucas, Erica, and the young group, and gives the city additional watch / gate / patrol support without turning the part int
### Chapter 159
Summary: Ensemble, after the return, Will moves more toward Joyce's protection while remaining close to Ava; Dustin receives his grandmother; Lucas and Erica receive their mother. Ava again feels the emptiness her children line opened in Part 4 without jealousy or petty competition.
### Chapter 160
Summary: Avalance, a rescue convoy finds signs of two children who survived alone after their parents died two weeks earlier, and Ava and Sara enter it not as a cute twist but as dangerous action.
### Chapter 161
Summary: Avalance, the seven-year-old sister and three-year-old brother enter their home in practice, the older girl resembles a combination of Sara and Ava, and chosen parenting begins through body, bed, food, and fear.
### Chapter 162
Summary: Sarah Walker / Chuck, Chapter 1, ensemble opening just before or at the beginning of meeting them, then back to the beginning of the end of the world from their point of view.
### Chapter 163
Summary: Sarah Walker / Chuck, Chapter 2, their road with two children of their own and two they adopted on the way continues until the meeting with the city.
### Chapter 164
Summary: Long ensemble, the actual meeting with Sarah Walker / Chuck, the joining, and the way they strengthen field work, intelligence, children, and heart.
### Chapter 165
Summary: Long ensemble, absorbing Sarah Walker / Chuck into the city, Sarah Walker in the field, Chuck with children and soft technology, and the community begins connecting to him before the part where it will hurt.
### Chapter 166
Summary: Joey / Pacey, Chapter 1, ensemble opening just before or at the beginning of the meeting with them, then back to the beginning of the end of the world from their point of view.