Chapter 1 - Just a normal Friday night
"And then the vicar said I'm sorry I thought you meant organIST!" Anna said as she poured her best friend, Rapunzel, a drink. The blond on the other side of the counter gave a girl-giggle as Anna gave her the coffee. "I didn't put as much sugar cause I'm running out."
"It's fine, Anna," Rapunzel replied before taking a sip of her drink. "Besides I'm trying to cut down on sugar anyway." It was Friday night at Anna's little coffee shop, a time where the place was quiet and peaceful. Anna had been running the shop for about a year now, having been given the place by Rapunzel's father. She had lost her parents in a house fire when she was young and was taken in by her best friend's family until she and Rapunzel had moved out on their own.
"I'm thinking of doing some redecorating," Anna stated as she polished a cup with her white towel. "Maybe add some cute wallpaper around the place." Rapunzel gave a little giggle again, "just don't tell my daddy, he'll kill you."
"Nah, I'm sure he'd love to see his old place get some new life." Anna turned on the TV to see what was on the news.
"It's probably the same thing as the last three days Anna," Rapunzel commented as Anna turned up the volume. On the screen was the usual newscaster in the blue suit, along with the familiar Arendelle news logo, and the headline displayed for all to see. "Search continues for missing queen," the text read as the newsreader cleared his throat.
"The search continues for our beloved queen Elsa," the newsreader repeated from the paper in front of him. "She was last seen at a royal party last weekend and has not been spotted since."
"Maybe she thought everyone was a party pooper," Anna joked as she continued drying the dishes.
The scene on the tv screen changed to footage of the queen, on the day of her coronation. "Ever since she came on the throne, Queen Elsa has been regarded as one of the best political leaders of our time, at only the young age of twenty-two."
"Only twenty two," Anna said curiously. "She's the same age as you Punz."
"But she's like a million times more awesome than me," Rapunzel replied as the tv screen changed again.
"In other news," the newsreader continued, "suspicious sightings of strange grey creatures have been reported by citizens. What these creatures are, we do not know but we assure our viewers that it is probably just a poor soul lost in the night."
"Or the jersey devil," Anna jested, "I mean considering the drunken ass-heads around here, people will believe anything."
Rapunzel yawned. "Well this poor lost soul is gonna head home," She said getting off her bar stool. "You'll be ok till closing time?"
"Sure Punz," Anna replied. Her best friend smiled as she left the shop, closing the door behind her. Anna yawned loudly. "Dammed contagious yawns."
About quarter of an hour after Rapunzel left, the door to Anna's coffee shop opened. Anna popped her head from under the counter to examine her late night arrival. The person who entered the coffee shop was a tall woman, with pale skin. She wore a large dark blue coat, with white gloves on her hands. She also was wearing a pair of dark sunglasses and her platinum blond hair was in a long braid draped over one shoulder. In one of her gloved hands, she held a large silver briefcase. The unusual woman examined her surroundings before taking a seat at the counter.
"It's a bit dark for shades isn't it?" Anna thought to herself as the woman placed her briefcase on the stool next to her. She carefully looked at the woman's gloves, wondering why someone would wear gloves in the middle of summer. "Maybe she just has a thing about dirt."
Anna cautiously made her way to where the visitor was, taking out her notebook and pencil to write down the order. It wasn't uncommon for her to get customers this later. After all, who didn't like a good cup of coffee.
"May I get you something miss?" Anna asked the woman,who seemed to have a lot on her mind.
"Just a simple latte, nothing fancy," her customer replied in a very polite tone, not really seeming in touch with reality.
"Sure thing Hun," Anna chirped as she walked over to the coffee machine. A few minutes later, Anna brought the latte over to her customer. She was about to charge her the price when the woman put out her money. Anna was a bit puzzled but then she remembered that the menu was right above her head. "Man I must be tired," she thought to herself. She gave the woman her change and resumed cleaning up.
"So what brings a pretty girl like you out so late?" Anna said, trying to strike up a conversation, "you out partying or something?"
"Something like that," the woman replied, her hand firmly placed on her briefcase. "I was out with a friend for the day and I lost track of time, now all I need to do is go home and get some sleep."
"I know how you feel sister," Anna commented, "as soon as you're gone I'm hitting the hay myself."
"Then I should go soon, I'd rather not keep you up any longer," the woman advised as she took a sip of her drink.
"No, no take your time, trust me you need that drink more than I need sleep," Anna joked.
Her customer smiled as she sipped down her coffee, the brown liquid trickling down her throat. "So you run this place by yourself?"
"Yeah," Anna replied. "Used to belong to my best friend's dad but its all mine now."
"Seems a good job for a girl your age," the customer complimented.
"Yea, but I wish I could turn this dreary old joint into one of those fancy restaurants you see in the movies," Anna sighed dreamily, "you know the ones, where the couple has a first date, an awkward conversation and eventually a big smooch." Anna danced around as she reveled in her romantic fantasy.
"Yeah I know," the woman responded. "But in reality, a girl would probably try and avoid a kiss on the first date."
Anna smirked. Whoever this customer was, she seemed kinda cool. "So you got a boy or girl on the go?" she asked.
"I've not been in a relationship for a while, but i do find that it does have benefits," the woman answered, smiling.
"So single then?" Anna assumed as she kept polishing her dishes.
"And what about you," her customer asked, "you seeing anyone right now?"
"Not really... " Anna replied sheepishly. "But everyone at my high school used to think I was in a lesbian thing with my best bud."
"That must have been bit awkward for you," her customer stated.
"It kinda was because I had just found out I was bisexual," Anna joked, "from kissing her."There was a momentary silence before the two girls started laughing their heads off.
The two could have been chatting for hours, but the woman, however, noticed something from the corner of her eye. In the darkness, from behind the large shop window, she could see three figures, who appeared to be dressed in black. Her heart began to beat faster as she saw one of the figures wielding a large weapon slung over his shoulder.
"GET DOWN!" the woman cried out as she leapt on top of Anna.
"Wait what?" Anna said as her customer fell on top of her.
The silence was pierced as a rocket whooshed towards the coffee shop.
KABOOM!
The rocket smashed through the glass window and exploded, causing the shop to erupt in flames. Luckily, Anna and her new companion were not too badly hurt.
"What the fuck was that?!" Anna coughed as the smoke began to fill her lungs.
"A rocket launcher," her companion stated as she grabbed her silver briefcase, which was remarkably intact. "Someone just tried to blow us to kingdom come."
"Well they made an epic fail there," Anna spluttered as she tried to stand up, "we're not in kingdom come." She looked around the destroyed remains of her little coffee shop. Sadness filled her heart deeply as she watched her livelihood for the past year burn to a crisp.
"We have to get out of here!" the woman exclaimed, grabbing Anna's hand. "Does this place have a backdoor?"
"Yeah, if it's not molten slag by now," Anna replied as she led the woman into the back room. Thankfully for them, the backdoor was not destroyed by the flames. However, it was a struggle for the woman to open.
"Damn this thing wont open," she cried out.
"Stand back," Anna told the woman. The woman took a step back as Anna leapt into the air, kicking the door down. She grabbed her companion.
"Nice legs," the woman coughed as she felt the fresh air enter her lungs.
"I did a lot of gym when I was at school," Anna replied, slightly blushing at the compliment. The blush faded when Anna turned around to see her coffee shop, which now was the sight of a raging inferno. "I don't think my insurance is gonna cover that."
The woman looked around and saw the three figures walking towards could Clearly see that the men were covered from head to toe in battle armour, which looked very militaristic. It had a sort of insect like motif to it, and was black and bronze in colour with silver circular visors. Aside from the figure in the middle of them wielding the rocket launcher, the other two appeared to be wielding some kind of futuristic laser weapons.
"RUN!" the woman cried out as she began to run away from them.
"DON'T NEED TO TELL ME TWICE!" Anna exclaimed running alongside her. The three armoured goons began to charge after them, the two with the laser guns shooting at them. Laser bolts filled the back alley as the two of them ran for their lives.
"I'M GONNA TRY SOMETHING TO GET THEM OFF OUR TAIL!" the woman decided.
"DO WHATEVER YOU NEED TO DO LADY, I'LL JUST TRY AND NOT GET MY ASS VAPORISED" Anna replied back.
The woman turned around and removed one of her gloves. She held out her hand as a blue glow emanated from it. Suddenly, a large blue beam of ice fired from it, creating an icy wall to block off their pursuers.
"Whoa, cool," Anna cried out in astonishment, "how did you do that?"
"Never mind that," the woman stated, taking Anna's hand. "That wall won't last forever, we need a place to hide".
"THE DOCKS!" Anna declared. "They aren't too far from here, we could hide out there."
Her companion nodded in agreement as they made their way towards the docks. The two of them hid in what appeared to be an empty warehouse. As the woman put her briefcase down on the ground, Anna made checks to see that they weren't followed
"Looks like the stormtrooper rejects are gone," Anna commented as she moved over to the woman. "Now I think I deserve an explanation."
"I can't explain this to you, my dear," the woman cautiously said. "I don't want you getting more involved with this."
"Bullshit lady," Anna told her sternly. "I give you one damn latte and now I'm being hunted down by Halo spartans with Star trek phasers, so i think I'm pretty fucking involved right now."
"Please understand i didn't mean for any of this to happen" the woman pleaded.
"Oh sure you didn't lady," Anna replied, "hell I don't even know your name"
"That isn't important right now, your safety is" the woman stated.
"Oh sure, my safety!" Anna sarcastically retorted.
"But I don't wanna see you get hurt." The woman tried to calm her down.
"Oh sure you don't. How do I know you aren't some secret double agent with mutant ice X-men powers." Anna continued her interrogation. "For all I know you could be best buddies with the guy who fired that bazooka."
"Does it look like I'm working for those guys?!" The woman responded.
Anna was through with this shit. She arched her hand back and slapped the woman in the face. "That was for my coffee shop and my past year of hard work."
The woman's sunglasses fell to the floor. She looked up at Anna with her icy blue eyes- the mystery of her identity fully revealed.
"No way….." Anna said shocked. That face from the news. The woman who went missing. "Queen Elsa?"
"Yes, thats me," Elsa said helping herself up. "Now if you would be so kind as to not hit me again."
"Oh I won't my queen," Anna said, a bit nervous. "I'm so sorry, I was angry and mad and-."
"It's fine," Elsa replied, cutting Anna off. "I'm sorry you got dragged into this mess."
"To be honest it's usually me who drags people into messes," Anna stated, her lips now in a smile. "And by the way, my name's Anna."
Before Elsa could say anything, another whooshing sound broke through the night air.
KABOOM!
A large explosion knocked Anna and Elsa to the ground. Anna coughed as she helped herself up.
"Well I think I just broke the world record for number of explosions survived in one night," She joked as she and Elsa got to their feet. As they made their way out of the warehouse, they saw the armoured figure with the rocket launcher from before.
"Thought you could get away from us that easy?" The figured asked rhetorically, giving a slight evil chuckle. "You must be slowing down in your old age , queen Elsa."
"At least she was able to slow your buddies down," Anna called out sarcastically.
"I don't need my partners to take out two whiny girls," the armoured figure stated. "Now, hand over the driver".
"The what?" Anna asked, very confused.
"You and your boss aren't getting it," Elsa declared. "I won't allow your kind to ruin my country."
"The country was already ruined your majesty," the figure replied. "We just wanna make it great again."
"Arendelle has always been great, you fiend," Elsa declared. "It's because of people like me that it's stayed that way." She removed her other glove and fired an Ice blast at her foe. The armoured figure didn't even flinch.
"Was that supposed to hurt me? Because it didn't do jack shit." The figure smirked. "If you wanna do this the hard way, I'll happily oblige." His hands clenched into fists as he began to cry out in what sounded like pain. His body began to be enveloped in blue flame as his shape began to change.
"What the fuck is he doing?" Anna asked.
"Something that isn't good," Elsa replied.
The armoured figure cried out in pain for one final time as the blue flames that covered him faded. The man now resembled a grey armoured, anthropomorphic bull, with large fists and horns. His "mouth" seemed unable to move and he had no eyes, yet he still snarled angrily.
"Holy shit, he's some kinda monster!" Anna exclaimed.
Elsa realised she had no choice but to use what she stole against this monster. She knew she was taking a great risk but she had to protect Anna just like any citizen of her country. "Anna, throw me that briefcase."
Anna was about to say something, but she quickly grabbed the briefcase and threw it to Elsa just as the creature charged through the wall next to her.
"I hope you know what you're doing your majesty," she said as Elsa opened up the briefcase. Inside was a silver belt with a slot in its buckle. Other things in the case appeared to resemble a cell phone, a flashlight, a camera and what looked like the handle from a motorbike.
"What is this junk?" Anna stated as Elsa put the belt on and attached the gadgets to it.
"It's what's gonna help me stop that thing from hurting you," Elsa stated. "Now get back, things could get a bit messy." Elsa stood in front of the creature who was preparing to charge at her. "If you want the driver, you're gonna have to pry it from my cold icy body."
The creature snarled and growled, its feet scraping the ground like the animal it resembled.
Elsa opened up the cellphone device and typed the code 5-5-5 on its keyboard. The phone itself made an announcement of "standing by" before Elsa closed and held it up to the sky. She cried out "Henshin" and slotted the phone in the slot on her belt. The phone announced "complete" and streaks of red energy circled her body, forming armour around her. The resulting armour resembled the thugs who had been chasing them, but looked more advanced and resembled a firefly. Unlike the thugs armour, it had a black and silver colour scheme with the energy streaks flowing red. Its visor glowed a bright yellow like a flashlight.
The monster charged at Elsa and threw a punch at her, only for Elsa to block the giant fist with her own. The monster tried to press its fist towards her, only to be met with Elsa's other fist striking it's mutant face. The creature flinched as Elsa used the might of her armour to pummel it with her metal fists.
"Atta girl, queenie," Anna cheered from behind some crates she was using as cover. "Give that bastard what's coming to him."
Elsa kept punching the creature before using a roundhouse kick to knock it into a wall.
"Wow, looks like I'm not the only one who went to a lot of gym," Anna commented.
The creature recovered from the kick and charged at Elsa only for her to dodge out of the way and punch the creature in the back, staggering it. The creature growled and tried to punch her back, only for Elsa to pummel it once again.
Elsa noticed how close the creature was to the water and this gave her the opportunity to finish it off. She disconnected the flashlight gadget from her belt and connected it to the side of her greave. She opened the phone gadget and pressed the button labelled "ENTER" on it. An announcement of "exceed charge" was made as a flow of energy travelled from the belt along the red streams of the armour to her leg. Elsa jumped into the air and leapt towards the bull creature, the flashlight gadget emitting a drill shape from it. Elsa's foot connected to it and drove the energy drill into the bull creature, wounding it and knocking it into the water. The water erupted into a large explosion and the remains of the creature floated to the surface.
"Well that's the end of him," Anna said rushing to Elsa's side. Suddenly the belt de-powered and the armour faded from Elsa as she collapsed into Anna's arms. Anna shook her, trying to revive her. "Come on your majesty, wake up you've got a country to run."
Elsa was unresponsive and remained in a deep sleep.
"I've gotta get you someplace safe for now," Anna said picking the queen up, "you just hang in there." She knew she couldn't manage carrying Elsa to her apartment and so found a nearby car. Luckily, it was unlocked, and the key was in the ignition. Anna put Elsa in the passenger seat and started the engine.
"You rest now queenie," Anna said smiling as she started the engine and drove off. This was gonna be the start of one wild adventure for her.