Chapter 3

Attack

As Lara walked out she heard a scream, followed by a loud boom-crash. She ran over to the elevator and pressed the down button, but it just flickered and went out.

Lara began to worry. And when Lara worried she thought hard. She looked over to the nearest window.

All she saw was a silver bench, a plant, the blinds, and a thick cord. She thought this over in her head. She heard another cry for help.

She had an idea! She could tie one end to the heavy silver bench and hang on to the rope.

She walked over to the window and picked up the plant. With all her strength, she threw the plant towards the window. It shattered, just what Lara had wanted. Then she tied one end of the cord to the bench and hung on to the other as she jumped out the empty window.

She flew forward for a few seconds before snapping back and bursting through the window of the floor below.

As Lara landed she drew her pistols. When she looked around the room she knew she would be using them.

There were workers dead from bullets lying on the ground. Those that were still alive were huddled under there desks from the gunfire.

Lara rolled behind the nearest desk as the Japcap guards (Lara noticed) approached at the sound of breaking glass. As she glanced over the desk she saw men of all kinds of ethnic groups: African-American, Caucasian, Russian, etc.

"What happened here," bellowed one of the guards who appeared to be Russian.

"I arrived," Lara said, and with that, she jumped up and started blasting away at the men. They hardly had time to think before they were dead, lying on the ground.

Lara hurried to find a hiding place. A closet near the entrance to the office area might be nice. Or behind the statue. Choices, choices. She decided that behind the statue would do nicely, but she needed to hurry before the next round of guards came.

As she ran towards the statue, she saw a grenade on the floor near one of the dead guards. She picked it up and ducked behind the statue.

It was a group of Japcaps followed by a Japanese woman dressed in a beautiful red silk dress.

Lara decided she wouldn't be using the grenade to kill, seeing as to this group could be a helpful source of information.

"Find her," the lady replied. "Now!"

They searched for quite a while before coming back to the woman, telling them that they could not find her anywhere.

"Very well," she replied. "It's off to Greenland we go."

'So that's where we're going,' Lara thought.