Amanda looked around… and found herself in a room she didn't know as familiar before hearing someone saying "This is for your own good, they know what's best." before seeing the Aperture logo.
Unlike her surroundings, she recognised that voice and walked to the door, finding it locked.
"Ha ha, funny. Unlock this fucking door, Rollins! This is kidnapping!" Amanda responded, mixed of sarcasm and anger as she hit her right hand against the door.
"Nope, this is me fixing what's wrong!" Seth replied.
"Where's Finn?! Because when he finds you, he's gonna rip your fucking throat out!" Amanda yelled as she continued to try to bust the door open. "What did you do to him, you fucking asshole?! If he's hurt or dead, I'm gonna kill you!" She screamed.
"No one's gonna come looking for either of you… why would they? They didn't go looking for the others that were trapped here." Seth responded.
"What others, you psycho bastard?! Open! This! Door!" Amanda shouted, attempting to use her combat boots to bust it open… before she found something and picked it up. "Jonathan K…" She muttered, realising it was a employee badge.
Finding a crowbar, Amanda wedged it in between the door and the frame and pried it open before whacking Seth in the face and knocking him down.
"Where is he?! And what others were trapped here?!" Amanda growled as Seth pulled himself up, nose bent out of shape and bleeding.
"More than you can even count… thousands of them in… cryogenic storage." Seth answered as he stood up.
Amanda whacked Seth again, this time in between his legs. Seth groaned in pain before Amanda pressed the crowbar to his throat and causing him to become frantic in trying to get her off of him.
"Where! Is! Finn?!" Amanda asked menacingly, stepping back when Seth's face started to turn blue and Seth coughed before taking deep breaths and pulling himself up to his knees. "The chambers…" She responded before hitting Seth hard enough to render him unconscious.
Amanda continued down the hallways and staircases of the building before she found the room… she managed to unlock the one Finn was trapped in before opening it and immediately grabbing Finn and getting him out of there before lying him on the ground and checking him for a pulse.
Finding what she needed, Amanda turned the defibrillator on before frantically rubbing the paddles together and then pressing them to Finn… she did so a second time when he was unresponsive and was about to try again when his eyes snapped open and she tucked the blankets over him to warm him up before lying down next to him and pressing her tiny body to his after wrapping her arms around him, tears streaming down her face.
"Mandy…" Finn whispered, resting his right hand on her face.
"You need to stay warm… I don't know how long we've been trapped here…" Amanda responded as they looked at each other and he brushed her tears away as he started to feel the numbness and cold fade away.
It all started to hit her… the reason Abby wouldn't talk.
"This building… it's where she was…" Amanda said quietly. "What monster… builds a place like this and traps people? People who have lives to get back to, families that were left behind..." She whispered as they held each other.
"They were… all killed… it wasn't what they wanted, it was… her… their computer…" Finn managed to reply.
"She's got to be here somewhere…" Amanda responded before she helped him up once he was warmer… and both saw Seth with a weapon aimed at them that neither were familiar with. "Put it down…" She growled.
"No… I'll put you down." Seth responded before he used the gun and fired at the ceiling above them… a circle of blue formed above Amanda and Finn, then he fired again beneath them. The orange circle opened a doorway to the blue one, and between the two, Amanda and Finn found themselves falling in an infinite loop, no end ever to come… that is, until Seth fired the blue portal again elsewhere in the room, and the gained momentum sent the two flying out of it at a speed beyond what their eyes could keep up with. So to say they hit the wall with 'crushing' force was almost an understatement.
As Seth turned and left, he saw another weapon aimed and could barely yell before it was fired at him…
Amanda's eyes snapped open, the brunette catching her breath as Finn pulled her into his arms and she clung onto him.
"We're alive…" Amanda responded quietly as Finn lightly stroked her hair before they noticed Abby walk back in with Dianne and Enzo.
"This place is insanely loud, are all cities… like this…" Abby replied, trailing off when she and the others saw how frightened Amanda was.
"I don't even need to ask, do I?"
"We were right there… no damage to it at all." Amanda responded, Finn helping her sit up as Abby sat down.
"I watched that facility burn to the ground… and I wasn't the only one. Trust me, Mandy, it's gone… no one's ever gonna bring it back." Abby replied as Finn lightly rubbed his right hand up and down Amanda's back.
He wasn't going to scare either of them, but he'd put it through his head… Abby saw a building burning. One building. As part of a facility, now powered by a supercomputer, that spanned half a state beneath the ground.
Some part of it survived. And it would quickly repair itself too.
Down in the lobby, Seth looked up and saw Kevin Owens.
"You look like you ain't slept at all…" Kevin responded as he sat down.
"Everyone's gotten pissed at me about last night's incident. Why aren't you going off about it?" Seth explained.
"Why are you feeling guilty? She fell off the damn cage by herself." Kevin replied.
"What makes you assume that I'm feeling guilty?!" Seth asked.
"Something else happened, didn't it?" Kevin responded.
"Yeah… I had a dream where I killed them both, and then something else killed me." Seth answered.
"Any idea who?" Kevin asked.
"All I saw was the weapon." Seth replied before he left.
Back in the room, Amanda was watching Tv when her phone rang and she picked it up… seeing that it was a video call from AJ, she answered it.
"Hey…" Amanda responded, AJ's blue eyes narrowing in concern for his friend's health before he opened them fully. "I guess you were watching last night…" She said.
"Damn right I was, did you hurt your spine or your head? What caused the fall?" AJ asked.
"I'm not hurt but… what started out as hardly a cold turned into a fully blown one." Amanda explained.
"Tends to happen, especially when your immune system is a bit overwhelmed" AJ responded.
"Once I kick this damn cold, I'll be back in that ring… Anney's been biting your shoulder, hasn't she?" Amanda replied, seeing small teeth marks that she knew belonged to AJ's one year old daughter.
"Yeah, it's that time of her growing up that her little slicers are coming through. She already bit off the gummy bit of her pacifier." AJ answered, laughing a bit at the end.
"When their teeth hurt, they'll try anything. I remember when Cheyenne was about 11 months old and bit Shawn's thumb." Amanda replied before covering her mouth as another cough rattled her upper body and AJ saw Finn sit down next to Amanda and lightly rub his hand up and down her back.
"You take care of that little lady, okay?" AJ replied.
"Yeah, you know I will. That's what I'm here for." Finn answered.
The video call ended and Amanda set the phone down, leaning against Finn as he held her.
Amanda let out a slight yawn, the drowsiness a result of the medicine but she was fighting sleep and Finn knew why.
But eventually, her eyes closed and Finn carefully stretched himself out onto the bed while holding her and pulling the covers over Amanda as John walked in.
"Enzo and Dianne convinced Abby to rest… but she still won't talk much." John responded quietly after closing the door.
"I'm not surprised…" Finn replied, having gathered a bit of information on Aperture Science and more or less the cliffnotes on what happened before Abby escaped.
But he also knew that Abby would talk when she was ready.
