Hellooo, how you doin? Back with a new chapter. : )
Warning: This chapter contains violence, death and blood but also some spoilers for some well known movies. If you haven't been living under a rock for the last few years then you'll probably be fine.
Enjoy the story :P
Cass and Anna walked up the dark stairs, ducking at every creek. The darkness didn't help Anna's search for the right key when they finally got to the door.
"Who has so many keys, I mean really." Anna complained after the fifth key didn't work.
"There's a lot of cells down there. Can't you go any faster?" Cass asked impatiently.
"Well I'm sorry, do you want to have a go with this golden clump of impossibly?" Anna groaned when the seventh key didn't work. "And who's smart idea was it to hold prisoners in cells in a research facility? Doesn't that put everything more at risk with the chance of someone escaping?"
"Here give it to me." Anna handed the keys over to Cass. She took one of the keys and it still didn't work.
"Hey, I heard something." Anna whispered. She put her ear to the door. "Someone's coming." She exclaimed in a hush tone.
They crouched down on the stairs and heard what sounded like keys being put in a lock. The door opened and light flooded in to the darkness. The soldier took one look at the two women before a force made contact with his face. He fell backwards, out cold.
"Well that's going to leave a mark." Cass commented as she walked through the door and took his gun, Anna following behind her. Anna gave the man one look and winced.
"Wow, you really pack a punch. That had to hurt." She looked up at Cass. "How's your hand?"
"Oh I wouldn't worry about it."
"Well I think it's going to leave a nasty bruise. After I knocked my ex out I had bruises on my hand for a week. Totally worth it." Anna grinned with pride.
"I don't think it will bruise." Cass removed her glove revealing a hand made out of metal. "I lost it a couple of years ago. Snowman wiped this up in his lab."
"Wow that's so cool!! I mean you losing your hand isn't cool but you having a robot arm is cool. It's like Anakin Skywalker. Wait you're not going to turn to the dark side are you?" Anna asked.
"I have no idea what you're talking about but come on let's get out of here."
"And then he was like, 'It's over Anakin! I have the high ground!' and Anakin was like, 'You underestimate my power.' and..."
"Look Winters, I don't know how many missions you've been on but moving around on an enemy base usually has to be quiet." Cass said as they came to a corner.
"It's Arendelle, actually." Anna corrected.
"What?"
"It's Arendelle, not Winters. That's just a name Elsa made up when she came to the Resistance." Cass paused. She looked back at Anna and blinked.
"Your last name is Arendelle?"
"Yeah?" Anna looked confused.
"And Elsa's last name is Arendelle too?"
"Yeah? What's your point?"
"You mean to tell me that both daughters of one of most powerful families in The Order are serving under our military?" Cass looked stunned.
"Well uhm.. served."
"What do you mean?"
"Well Elsa kind of..." Tears were stinging her eyes. "Elsa died in an ambush a few days ago." Cass looked at the young girl in front of her. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. The great general Winters was dead?
"I'm... I'm sorry for your loss." Cass didn't know how to comfort the girl. She's never really been good with the feelings. "But look on the bright side, the exit is a few halls down. We can just slip out unnoticed and..."
"No, I can't leave. I came here to do something and I'm going to finish what Elsa started." Anna started walking in front of Cass when the heard voices coming from around the corner.
"I'm telling you the exit is that way."
"And I'm telling you, that's the way back to the prison. I say we go that way."
"I said I'll get us out of here and that's exactly what I'll do. I've gotten out of places a lot worse than this."
"Oh please, you have the sense of direction of a bar of soap. You couldn't even find yourself out of an empty with one door."
"I'll have you know I served ten years in the navy and worked as a navigator on the biggest navy ship The Order has to offer."
"And how you never got lost at sea is beyond me.
"Gentlemen please, can we have this argument when we're not running from people who would most possibly kill us if we're found here?" A female voice said. Anna looked confused. 'I know these voices.' She walked around the corner.
"Anna, what do you think your..." Cass didn't get a chance to finish her sentence because Anna disappeared around the corner. "These girls will be the reason I die. First Elsa now this one." She shook her head and followed Anna around the corner.
"Gerda's right this is no place to start an argument. We have to get out of here." Iduna walked in between the arguing men. "The girls need our help and we're no help to them here arguing or worse dead. Now shut up and keep moving." She rounded the corner and walked into someone. Both people fell on their butts.
"Mama?"
Iduna looked up and came face to face with sparkling blue eyes she has not seen in many years.
"Iduna what hap.." The voice around the corner went quite when his eyes fell upon the young woman on the floor. He first couldn't believe his eyes until the girl said, "Papa?"
Once Iduna finally snapped out of her daze did she realized who was sitting across from her. Her baby girl, who isn't a baby anymore. Her child she hasn't seen since she was twelve years old.
"Anna?" Iduna gasped, tears filled her eyes.
"Mama!" Anna exclaimed and tackled her mother to the ground, sobbing. They held each other crying on the floor.
Agnarr moved closer and slowly went down, wrapping his wife and daughter in a big overdue embrace. "Anna.." He breathed through the overflowing tears.
"Papa." She lifted her head and stared into her father's green eyes.
"Uh Anna, not to break up this extremely touching and emotional moment but we're still kind of in an base full of people who want us dead." Cass said looking around gun at the ready.
"Right." Agnarr said standing up offering his hands to help the women up from the ground. "Let's get out here."
"Actually about that dad, I kind of came here on a mission and I can't leave without completing it." Anna admitted.
"We'll come with you then."
"Agnarr, what about Edward?" Iduna reminded him.
"Uncle Edward? What about him?" Anna looked over at the other two people in the hall seeing a limp, beaten man in Kai's arms. "Uncle Edward!" Anna shrieked. "What happened?"
"The Order happened. Iduna's right he won't be able to make it." Kai said.
"Alright, Cass, can you lead them out and then take them to the Town?"
"And what about you? I can't just leave you here. I'm staying to make sure you don't get yourself killed."
"Cass please, I have to stay behind and finish this mission. My uncle might not make if he stays. I need you to take back to Town. Please just get them out and get him to the medical center."
"Alright." She agreed reluctantly. "Just be safe. I don't want Elsa haunting me because I got her baby sister killed." She walked over to the group. "The exit is this way."
"I told you it's this way!" Kai followed Cass and Gerda reluctantly followed.
"Alright, let's get a move on." Agnarr said.
"Wait dad, where are you going? The exit is that way."
"I know. That's why I'm going that way."
"No dad. Go with Cass, I can do this on my own. Mom back me up here. "
"Not a chance honey." Iduna stepped in. "We just got you back and we're not losing you again."
"Mom please, you're supposed to be the voice of reason here.
"I am. I'm telling you that it will take death itself to separate us again."
"There's no arguing with you, is there? " Anna asked defeated.
"You had to get your stubbornness from somewhere, dear." Iduna laughed. "Shall we go?"
"Fine."
The trio walked through the halls looking for any indication of where the weapon may be hidden. Truth be told Anna had no idea what she was looking for.
"Honey, what exactly are we looking for?" Iduna asked.
"A weapon that can end the war and bring The Resistance to it's knees." Anna replied looking inside of a door.
"I see and what exactly does this weapon look like?"
"Probably looks evil and menacing. Elsa had more details than I do. "
"Anna, you do know what we're looking for right?" Agnarr asked.
"Of course." She lied.
"Anna."
"Okay no, I have no idea what it looks like or where to find it or even how it works. Elsa had all the details. I just came here on a whim without actually finding out more about this thing other than it's dangerous and needed to be destroyed."
"Speaking of where is Elsa? Was it only you and the other girl who came?"
"Well actually, originally it was only me but I found Cass along the way. She's an old friend of Elsa's."
"Where is Elsa?"
"Maybe if we go down this hall we would end up in a lab of some sort..."
"Anna."
"Dad don't you know something about this base? I mean you did manage to get Jason on the guard here, maybe you know something about it."
"Anna."
"What's down that hall?"
"Anna stop changing the subject." Anna kept on walking down the hall until her mother called out.
"Where is your sister? Is she alright?"
"Well yes and no." She could feel the tears threatening to spill over. She couldn't tell them. She didn't even want to believe it. How do you tell parents that their child has died?
"What exactly is that supposed to mean?"
"Yes she's okay, in some ways yes but.."
"But what?"
"I'm so sorry mom and dad..." She couldn't bring herself to finish the sentence or to look at her parents. Their faces shifted into complete horror and sorrow.
"Elsa's gone?" Iduna asked. Her legs felt weak and gave out underneath her. Agnarr caught her just in time. "How...?" Iduna's voice was shaking and tears were streaming down her face.
"She was killed in an ambush."
Agnarr held his sobbing wife in his arms as she mourned the loss of their. He wanted to cry but only anger and grief boiled within him. No tears dared to flow.
The Order had done enough to his family. They threatened him and his family. Almost took Anna away and was the reason Elsa and then later Anna ran away. Held him and others captive and now they took away his daughter. His baby girl. He had enough. His body started to shake with anger.
"The Order will pay for this." He said through his teeth. "Anna, you said we're in the Northern base?" She nodded.
"There's a weapons research lab on the second floor. That's probably where the weapon is held. Take your mother and return to your base."
"Wait what? No dad this is my mission and I'm going to leave you alone here. We're doing this together. "
"Anna I wasn't asking."
"Neither was I."
"Anna." He said sternly.
"Dad."
During their argument multiple footsteps could be heard heading towards them
"Someone's coming. We better move."
"Anna."
"Dad, I'm not leaving."
Agnarr just sighed but nodded his head. They started running away from the oncoming footsteps.
On the second floor they walked from one door to another looking for the weapons lab.
"You know for a top secret research base, the security sucks."
"I have to agree the security isn't up to standard."
"Hey, over here." Iduna called from a door. Anna and Agnarr raced to door. It was a big metal door with a keypad denying them access.
"How are we going to get in?"
"I got this." Anna said reaching into her pocket taking out a small black device with a wire coming out of it. She attached the wire to keypad and started typing on the device in her hand.
After a minute the doors started to open. With a satisfied grin Anna detached the device from the keypad.
"How did you..?"
"A little thing I whipped up back at the base. Elsa didn't get all the brains."
They entered the room. On the walls hung guns, grenades and other weapons. Anna took a gun off the wall.
"This could come in handy."
"Anna, honey, put that down before someone gets hurt."
"That's kind of the point mom."
She then walked over to her dad working on one of computers. The look on his face was a mix of concern and amazement.
"What ya got dad?"
"This weapon is one of the most
sophisticated pieces of weaponry I've ever seen. It can do a lot more than just bring the Resistance to it's knees. It's enough to wipe it out with one pull of the trigger."
"What like the death star?"
"You watch too much TV but yes it has that capability. Only difference is it can fit in your hand like any normal gun. If they can mass-produced this and every soldier has this, they would be unstoppable. It's an amazing piece of machinery." Agnarr stared at the screen with awe.
"Dad can you not stare at the weapon of mass destruction as if it Captain American."
"Sorry. With the power it has, it can disintegrate anything it hits."
"We have to destroy these plans before they can be made."
"Just destroying these plans aren't going to help. They probably have copies everywhere. Only idiots wouldn't have a backup for something like this."
"So we're screwed? There's nothing we can do? "
"Not exactly. There's one flaw in it's design. You see here? The power chamber is to small."
"What does that mean?"
"It means it's unstable. The chamber won't be able to hold that amount of energy. After it's fired a few times, the core could become too compressed and overheat and then..."
"And then?"
"Boom."
"Okay but if they have the weapons fully operational to be able to fire it a few times, we would already be dead before it can go boom."
"We can destroy it."
"But dad you just said..."
"Not the plans. The base."
"How exactly do you plan to do that dad?"
"Anna, you are aware we're standing in the middle of a weapons lab? Blowing up is what untested, unstable weapons do best. Now grab as many of those explosives as you can. We're going to plant them all over the base and boom."
Footsteps were heard running towards the room. They ducked underneath the desk. Pairs of legs pasted them.
"No one's here sir."
"Six criminals are missing and our weapons lab has been breached. Their here somewhere. Put the base on lockdown. Fine them. I have to go deal with that disgrace of a brother of mine."
The soldiers exited the room locking the door. They were stuck.
"That was close." Anna came up from under the desk. "Was that Samuel Westergaard?"
"What's he doing outside his little office?"
"Better question, how do we get out of here? Their probably guarding the door." Iduna looked around the room. A small air vent could be seen. "That can work." She started walking to the vent.
"Mom what are you doing?"
"Anna honey would you give your mother a hand here?" Anna came over and helped her mother remove the vent grate. She was about to climb in when Anna stopped her.
"Mom wait. We don't even know were it leads."
"It leads out that's the most important thing right now." Agnarr moved up behind and climbed in the vent." A bit of a tight fit but we can manage."
Bang bang bang!
The vent grate flow off.
"See I told you. Popped right off." Agnarr said while climbed out of the vent.
"Where exactly are we?"
"I'd say somewhere near the center of the first floor. Let's start planting these bombs."
The three of them split up planting the bombs on various spots.
"Uh dad I forgot to ask, how do you plan to let these bombs go off remotely?"
"Well that's quite simple... I didn't think of that." Agnarr realized.
"Well that's not the only thing you didn't think of Arendelle." They turned around and came face to face with four soldiers. "The weapons lab has cameras."
Anna aimed her gun at one of the soldiers.
"I'd put that thing down before you hurt someone sweetheart." The soldier mocked.
"Yeah that's the point." She shot him and yelled "Run!"
The trio took off with a storm of bullets flying behind them. They ducked bullets and ran down the halls.
"I think we lost them." Anna said out of breath. She looked around and saw no sign of her parents. "Mom? Dad?"
She walked down the hall looking for her parents. A guard came into view with his gun already aimed at her. "Drop the gun!" He ordered. Anna sat the gun down. "Hands in the air!"
Dong!
The guard fell forward, unconscious. Behind him stood Iduna with a fire extinguisher in her hand.
"Way to go Mom!"
"No one points a gun at my baby." She dropped the fire extinguisher and ran to Anna. "We had to go." She grabbed Anna's hand and they ran.
"Wait where's dad?"
"I'm right here." Agnarr said as he approached them. More troops were coming. "You have to go. I'll take care of them."
"What?"
"You two have to run. Go plant as many of these bombs as you can and then get out of here."
"Dad, they'll kill you."
"It's a chance I'm willing to take."
"No I'm not leaving without you."
"Anna, I can't lose you too. Just go with your mother and get out of here."
"Dad just come with us."
"I have to lead them away from you."
"Papa please, don't do this."
"I have no choice. I've failed Elsa, I'm not failing you too. Be safe." He kissed her head and ran toward the footsteps. They could hear him yelling to get their attention.
"Papa please!" Anna pleaded.
He gave her one last look and mouthed the words 'I love you.' before running out of sight.
Anna wanted to run towards him but Iduna held her back. Then they heard a shot and a thud. "No..." was all Anna could
say.
"We have to go honey." Iduna tried to get Anna to move. "Anna their coming, I have to get you out of here." She grabbed Anna arm and started dragging her.
Agnarr's distraction didn't last long because troops began to follow them again. They ran and ran.
They got to a big room. Almost like a great hall. They found a crate to hide behind.
Iduna saw steppes a few feat ahead of them leading to a walk way above them. 'I have to get Anna up there.'
"Anna look, there's a ladder over there leading to a walkway up there. If we can get up there we might be able to escape these guys." Anna only nodded. Iduna took Anna's face into her hands. "You've grown into such a beautiful young woman. I'm so proud of you." She placed a small kiss on her head. "I love you, my baby girl."
"I love you to mom."
They jumped out from behind the crate and Anna ran towards the ladder. The soldiers stormed into the room and released a storm of bullets onto the room.
Anna ran to the ladder but she couldn't see her mother anymore. She looked around to she her mom lying on the ground, blood pooling around her leg.
"Go!" She yelled.
"No not with out you!" Anna turned around to get to her mother but the soldier's bullets made it impossible to get to her.
"Just go Anna!" Iduna yelled again. Anna looked at her with tears streaming down her face.
"I don't want to leave you. You're all I have left."
"It will be alright." Iduna said. Anna looked at her mother one last time before running towards the ladder.
As she was climbing she couldn't hear gun shots anymore but the soldiers were still advancing.
"Don't shoot her! Westergaard what's her alive!" A soldier shouted. Anna began to climb faster. She could hear footsteps getting closer.
A soldier started climbing the ladder and grabbed Anna's leg. She struggled to get him off. She kick and struggle and finally got lose when she felt a sharp pain in her up leg.
She looked down to see a the soldiers knife embedded in her leg. In her moment of shock, the soldier grabbed her leg again and yanked her of the ladder.
For a moment Anna felt weightless until the heaviness of gravity too over again and she slammed into the ground. Everything went dark.
Yeah this chapter kind of got a bit darker than usual, sorry about that. I hope it's enjoyable.
Please leave me a review.
Until next time :)