Alexis understood what was going on. Izzy didn't. Her sobs bounced off the walls and the noise seemed louder than it was. Tia, Krista and Anna were knelt next to Izzy trying to soothe her, and it was starting to work. If Alexis was going to go, it was now or never.
She wanted to find the adults and her parents.
Slipping out the doorway, she walked quickly down the hall with her little feet padding along the shiny floor. She didn't have any shoes on so her feet skidded from time to time. Now and then she fell down, but she always got straight back up. No tears.
As she walked down the long hallway she heard a commotion in one of the rooms to her left. Tiptoeing towards it, she peeked her head around the door and watched the scene in front of her. One of the ARC soldiers was fighting against a lone man dressed in black.
The man in black knocked the soldier to the floor, his mask was scattered on the floor beside them from where it had been torn off. The man straddled the soldier's chest and began swinging punches at him. Most of the hits were full-on and the soldiers head snapped from side to side as the hits flowed. Neither of the two men had seen the little girl in the doorway.
Alexis stood rooted to the spot. Then she saw the gun.
It lay on the floor, knocked out of reach of the soldier as the struggle continued. The soldier had one hand trying to loosen the man's grip from his neck as he reached for the gun with the other. He couldn't reach it.
The man in black had his back to Alexis as she moved silently further into the room, towards the gun. As she drew closer and the gun was within her reach, the soldier finally looked up and saw her. She kicked the gun across the room towards the soldier's outstretched hand; the soldier's eyes widened as he took in what he was seeing.
The gun spun across the floor and the soldier thrust it up into the man's face, forcing him to back off. He knelt with his hands behind his head as the gun dug into his neck, but the soldier couldn't bring himself to murder this man with a child in such close range. Instead he smashed the stock into his temple, rendering him unconscious.
Taking advantage of the little time they had to escape, the soldier ran forwards and scooped Alexis into his arms as he ran down the hallways.
"My name is Michael Forn. What's your name?" He smiled down at her. He'd never met this child but he guessed it was one of the main team's kids.
She looked up at him, her eyes full of fear softened slightly and she smiled.
"Alexis."
Connor/Abby- Nick,10 - Tyson and Finn,6 - Izzy,3
Becker/Sarah- Tia,10 - Hayden,6 - Alexis,4
Danny/Jenny- Patrick and Anna,11 - Chloe,8 - Dominic,5