Chapter 1
Five years later
Commander Elsa Arendelle looked at the gold locket in her hand. Inside was a picture of the woman she loved, the woman she hadn't seen for years.
She was sitting at the bar in a federation barracks, alone.
That was, until, her second in command dropped by for a visit.
"Commander," Hans greeted her. "I didn't think you'd still be here."
Elsa sighed. "How late is it?"
"3:30am," Hans told her.
Elsa wiped her brow. "I'm sick of this, Hans. This war should have been over by now."
"You're not the only one who thinks that, Commander," Hans responded.
Elsa groaned. "I suppose our new orders have just come through."
"Yes, we're to raid a militia controlled station in the Nebulous system."
Elsa closed the locket that had the picture of Anna and placed it in her pocket. "Alright, call a briefing first thing in the morning."
"Aye, Ma'am."
xXx
The next morning, Elsa and Hans called a meeting onboard their transport ship with the other members of their squad.
The other members were Kristoff, a blond man with a very kind nature; Olaf, a shorter younger man with a cheerful personality and silver hair; Ariel, a former special forces soldier; and Rapunzel, who served as the teams engineer.
"Alright people, listen up!" Elsa got their attention. "We've got a job to do, so I'm only gonna go through this once."
A hologram of the space station flickered in front of her.
"The Militia are occupying this station, our orders are to draw them off the station by any means necessary," Elsa explained.
"We'll be using the transports stealth drive to get us pass any exterior defences," Hans then added. "We'll dock at a maintenance port on the other side of the station and work our way from there."
"We move out in one hour, team," Elsa finished. "Dismissed."
As her squad dispersed to prepare for the mission, Rapunzel walked over to Elsa. "You okay, Elsa?"
Elsa looked at her with tired eyes. "I'm fine, Punzie."
Rapunzel was the closest person she had these days. She had become the sister Elsa never knew she really wanted, although she always knew that Rapunzel had more intimate feelings for her.
"You look weary. Did you not sleep great last night?"
Elsa chuckled. "I haven't had a good night's sleep in three years."
"Maybe you need some company," Rapunzel said with a wink.
"Maybe I do, but right now, I feel better alone," Elsa responded. She looked away from Rapunzel, spacing out.
xXx
One hour later, the transport ship dropped out of warp near the station.
The station itself was an old mining outpost orbiting the planet Turex, a rocky world plagued by constant thunderstorms.
"Stealth drive is working good, commander," Olaf reported from the cockpit.
"Good," Elsa responded. "Take her in nice and slowly, Private Bjorgman."
"Aye, Ma'am," Kristoff replied.
The ship drifted towards the airlock and docked with it without alerting the Militia of Elsa's team's presence.
Elsa then walked back to the cargo bay of the ship and addressed her squad. "Alright people, we're in. Rapunzel and Ariel, you two take care of the engineering deck, Kristoff and Olaf, the main command center. Hans and I will deal with the communications center. Any questions?"
There was a shaking of heads that implied that no one had any questions to ask.
"Alright, let's go."
The teams split up and Elsa and Hans made their way down a large corridor.
"You think it's wise splitting up?" Hans questioned her.
"No, but it's the more efficient way," Elsa told him.
The two ducked behind cover as two Militia troopers walked past them.
Elsa peeked out from behind their cover and quickly took the two troopers out with her pistol.
Hans scouted around the next corner, seeing a squad of Militia troops guarding the communications center.
He turned his head and nodded to Elsa, silently telling her to hand him a grenade.
Elsa did so and Hans primed it.
Hans chucked the grenade over to the troops and it exploded in a few seconds, taking out half of the squad.
The troops pulled out their guns but Elsa and Hans had already pulled out their assault rifles and opened fire, shredding the troops with bullets until they were all killed.
"That was easy," Hans remarked.
"Too easy," Elsa stated. "The Militia are getting sloppy."
Elsa and Hans were on their way to the communications room, but it was locked.
"Fuck!" Elsa exclaimed. "How do we do this?"
"We can get Kristoff and Olaf to unlock it via the communications room. They both have the skill to hack into any room and tamper with it.
"Good," Elsa said. "Tell them to hurry up."
Kristoff and Olaf were at the command center when Hans checked in. "Hans here. Are you guys okay?"
"Affirmative," Kristoff replied. "We're at the command center. Status shows that there are no more Militia soldiers in the area, so everyone is safe."
"We've killed all of them," Hans said. "Okay now listen, Elsa and I couldn't get to the communications room because it's locked. It requires a passcode but we don't have time to figure it out. Could you please hack it someway so we can get in?"
"Copy that," Kristoff replied. "Olaf, unlock the communications center."
In a matter of seconds, Olaf successfully disabled the passcode.
"It's done," Olaf said.
"Nice work, guys!" Hans replied. He and Elsa opened the door of the communications center without needing a passcode. Much to their surprise, the whole room has completely shut down, with no working machine available.
"Shit." Elsa muttered to herself.
xXx
Meanwhile, Rapunzel and Ariel had just secured the station's reactor.
"Elsa, we've got control of the reactor," Rapunzel reported.
"Good work. See if you can shut down some parts of the station and try and bait the enemy towards our position," Elsa instructed.
"Got it," Rapunzel stated.
"Ummm, Punzie," Ariel called her over. "The reactor doesn't look too great."
Rapunzel then checked her monitor screen. "Oh no. This reactor has a fault in it's core. The Militia mustn't have realized. It's gonna rupture and cause an explosion that's gonna destroy the station."
She tapped her commlink. "Elsa, we've got a problem."
xXx
"It's going to what?!" Elsa exclaimed as she heard what Rapunzel had to say.
"It's gonna blow, I don't know how much time we've got," Rapunzel said.
"Shit," Elsa swore. "Hans, contact Kristoff and Olaf, and tell them to get back to the ship."
"No!" Rapunzel exclaimed. "It's about to-" Suddenly Rapunzel was cut off and all Elsa could hear was the sound of static.
"Punzie! Punzie!" Elsa tried to get her friend back, but there was no reply.
Suddenly she and Hans felt a deep rumbling from the other side of the station.
"We gotta move!" Hans stated.
"What about Kristoff and the others?!"
"We'll give them a burial commander, but we are the senior officers and we have to get to safety."
"But…"
"Elsa, I'm sorry."
Elsa reluctantly nodded in agreement and the two of them ran back down the corridor.
They had almost reached the airlock when a large explosion occurred and caused the ceiling to collapse down in front of them, blocking their path.
"We can't go that way!" Hans observed.
"This station should have escape pods," Elsa assumed.
"This way then!" Hans directed.
The two eventually found the escape pods, but all of them had been destroyed except one.
Elsa walked over to the lone pod and activated it, seeing the one seat inside of it. "It's a single seater."
"Then there's only one person who can go in there," Hans realised.
Hans then pushed Elsa into the pod and closed it behind her.
"Hans!" Elsa exclaimed. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Saving your ass ma'am. Tell my brothers that I'm sorry I could never be the man they wanted me to be," Hans said his final goodbyes.
"Hans no!" Elsa tried to reason with him, but it was too late.
The escape pod was hurtled away from the station and Elsa watched in horror as the station, her squad and the Militia that were still on the station were destroyed in a massive fireball.
"No!" Elsa cried loudly, feeling a sense of regret and sadness as she realised she was alone again.
First Anna, now her team.
Elsa looked around and saw the pod began to glow red.
The pod was going to enter Turex's atmosphere, and Elsa was along for the ride.
xXx
Author's note: And so Elsa's journey continues
