Feeling like she woke from a long nap, she opens her eyes, expecting to see the white ceiling of her apartment. Instead she is standing in the middle of the remains of a building. She looks around frantically, not knowing what is going on. She hears people sobbing, screaming. The smell of various things burning assaults her nose. She looks at her hands to see a large red button attached to a small silver handle. She again looks around her, remembering she had seen this scene before in her dreams. She looks back down at the button to see her arm bleeding from a small cut. I'm not dreaming, this cut hurts. Slowly she puts the pieces together in her mind. I did this. Horror begins to fill her very soul as she throws the button to to the ground and looks around her again to see dead bodies strewn every where. Oh my God! She falls to her knees, her body going numb with shock. She puts her hands in her hair, noticing how short it is and she begins to pull at it roughly.
Seemingly out of no where, a black figure falls from the now visible sky where there once was a ceiling. The figure looks around at the damage before turning toward her. His eyes wide with terror. Taking quick, deliberate steps he grabs her by the hair and lifts her up. The pain snaps her out of her shock and she begins to struggle.
"Why?!" The only word that comes from the man's mouth.
"I...I," Why does my voice sound like a man's? Before she can finish, he punches her in the right cheek, sending her flying into a pile of rubble.
Pain fills every cell in her body as she tries to escape, but the cloaked man grabs her by the hair again and punches her in the stomach, causing her lungs to push every bit of air she has out. Spit follows suit right before her teeth clash together, causing her to bit her tongue, drawing blood that dribbles out of her mouth. She begins coughing as her lungs spasm.
Her chest burns as he drops her to the ground watching her struggle to gasp for breath through the coughing. She lands on her hands and knees, and as quickly as she can she tries in vain to crawl away, only to have him kick her in the ribs, causing her to scream and be thrown into another rubble pile.
She hits her head against a large cement fragment, causing her to black out. Her body falls limp as her eyes flutter shut.