I wake up to a ship-wide alarm.
It's two fifteen AM.
I groan and rub my eyes.
"Can't an invasion wait till six?" I mutter and stand up to slip into my boots.
Grabbing my knife and my phone from under my pillow, I cut a slit in my mattress and slip my phone inside.
I creep to the door and press the intercom.
"Any word on the intruder?"
"Intruder is confirmed to be male, in his late twenties to early thirties.."
From there, the intercom fades into white noise and I turn it off.
The door is jammed and I need to leave my room.
Using my knife to pry open the door, I squeeze through it.
Crap.
The intruder is right down the hall.
He sees me and comes running.
I pry the elevator door open and jump into the shaft.
Pain shoots through my hands as I grab the cords to slow my descent.
He's right behind me.
Landing in an open doorway, I tumble into a roll and stand.
He's right there.
He swings at me with his stick and I block it with my arms.
I kick him in the groin and he kicks me in the shin.
As he tries to hit my stomach, I use his momentum to jump into the air and grab his head and flip onto his back.
He tries to hit me and misses.
I hang on for dear life.
He stumbles so I decide to do something really risky.
As he stumbles again, I move my legs so that they are wrapped around his neck and I am facing backwards, swing down, grab his legs and pull them out of under him.
He falls and hits his head on the floor.
Something breaks under me and I feel liquid oozing out of my t-shirt.
Blood.
Suddenly the alarm stops and the lights turn on, blinding me.
Director Fury walks up, grabs my hand and pulls me to standing.
"Good job, Agent Sutton. You managed to take down the enemy agent when no one else could. Go ahead and take his mask off." He says.
I pull off his mask and gasp.
"Will he be okay?" I whisper and promptly bite my lip.
"He will be fine. It's you I'm worried about. You're bleeding from multiple locations and have burns across your hands. Go see the medical techs."
I open my mouth to protest that I'm fine.
Fury puts a hand up to silence me.
"It's not a suggestion." He says.
I trudge off towards the medical technicians.