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"Send everyone!"

Elsa knew she might only have minutes to escape now. While the redhead was distracted with her radio, Elsa lunged forward. The speed and ferocity of her attack stunned Elsa even more than it stunned the other girl. Elsa's body seemed to be on autopilot, moving with some muscle memory that Elsa herself did not possess. The next thing Elsa knew was the girl was lying on the ground, clutching her wrist, while Elsa now had the handgun and the radio was sliding to a stop at the far side of the room. The redhead pushed herself away from Elsa, her eyes still wide with terror and pain.

"No, please! Please don't kill me! I just work in the office! I swear to God I had nothing to do with it!" she whimpered frantically while attempting to distance herself from the blond. Elsa suddenly felt the urge to just pull the trigger and put the little creature out of her misery.

Wait, what?

Now where did that thought come from? Elsa didn't have time to figure that out before a third party entered the mix. The sound of heavy boots running down the hall caught her full attention. Elsa deftly reached down and grabbed the redhead off the ground and spun toward the door in one swift motion. Seconds later, two men clad in head-to-toe desert camouflage burst through the door. Both men carried heavy assault rifles that were now pointed directly at Elsa's head. Elsa held her struggling hostage in front of her with her left arm and pointed the handgun at the soldiers with her right.

The next few seconds ticked by silently as both sides waited for the other to make the first move. Elsa heard the faint sound of more soldiers running down the hall toward the office. Even with her human shield, she would be vastly outnumbered. She glanced to her right. Her eyes locked on the breaker box mounted to the wall. She could kill the lights, but that wouldn't get her past the heavily armed guards.

Hesitantly, Elsa let the handgun drop to the floor while she loosened her grip on her hostage. The girl ran into the arms of one of the soldiers while the second soldier began to bark instructions at Elsa.

"On your knees! Hands over your head!" He shouted as he slowly approached. Elsa complied. The second soldier escorted redhead out of the room leaving Elsa alone with his partner. There were other soldiers just outside the door now. Elsa looked to her left and eyed a ventilation vent near the floor. It wasn't big, but Elsa wasn't big either. The soldier moved forward to kick the pistol out of Elsa's reach and inadvertently moved himself into her reach. In the blink of an eye, Elsa grabbed his rifle, twisted it out of hands, and used it as a bat to hit him across the face, knocking him out cold. Elsa dropped the gun and pried the vent off the air duct.

Once inside, she replaced the vent as best she could. It might only buy her a minute or so, but a minute might be all she needed. She slowly crawled through the air duct system, careful not to make a sound. Less than a minute after entering the maze of ducts, an alarm echoed through the steel walls around her.

"Attention, all units. A113 is alive and has escaped containment. Keep an eye out for any sign of her and report any and all suspicious activity immediately to your unit supervisor."

So, "A113" is my name. "Elsa" is better anyway.

Elsa continued her crawl. Every inch was agonizingly slow. Eventually there would have to be an outflow vent. She just had to find it. Her sluggish search continued. After what felt like hours, she came across another vent into another room. She could her voices coming from inside.

"…everywhere and there's no sign of her, sir," Elsa heard a man say. She put her face up to the vent and peered into the room. It was a lavish office with two men inside. One man in an expense suit sat behind the large mahogany desk. The second man was older with gray hair and mustache. He stood in front of the desk and wore a military general's uniform.

"Well, she couldn't have just disappeared. You yourself said that she was probably in the air duct system. Why can't you find her?" The man at the desk responded. He was a younger man with dark red hair and sideburns.

"The duct system consists of nearly fifty miles of pipes. It will take days to search it all," the general replied flatly.

"Put every available man on the search. If she gets out, everything we've done here so far… everything E.L.S.A. has done for this country… is forfeit." The younger man sighed and put his face in his hands.

"I understand, sir. I've already lost three good men to this monster. I will not lose another." The military man saluted and left the room. Before the door shut behind him, another figure entered the room. Elsa had to stifle a gasp when she recognized the girl as her unwilling human shield. The man stood at the sight her and ran over to her with open arms.

"Oh, Anna, I heard what happened. Are you ok?" he asked in a calming voice.

"I am now. I was just making those copies Kai asked for on C-Level. I just turned around and there she was! She took the gun you gave me and I swear she looked like she was going to kill me." Anna began to break into tears. "Oh, Hans…" she sobbed. "It was terrifying."

"Sssh, sssh," Hans did his best to calm her. "Don't worry. We'll get her." Elsa had heard enough and began to inch forward yet again. Several more hours of searching and several close calls later, Elsa finally found the exit. She kicked the grate off of vent opening and stumbled into the light. Once her eyes adjusted to the bright noonday sun, Elsa looked around her. Nothing but desert for as far as the eye could see in all directions. The ventilation system was nothing more than an island of technology in a sea of sand.

The whole compound is underground.

Elsa now had more questions than she could count and no answers. Only one path was open to her now.

She started walking.