Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy this short but eventful chapter.

I needed out of there, now.

I looked back to the wall with the door I had entered through, and was surprised to see two more doors on either side, one red and one blue. I slowly made my way to the new blue door, keeping my gaze locked on the flock above as they circled some unseen prey. As I finally came up to the door, I felt a sharp thud as the room shifted, throwing me off balance. I hit my shoulder on the wall, crying out in pain. The room shook again, and I averted my gaze from the flock to look below me.

There, one of the space dragons flew, keeping itself aloft with its great leathery wings. It's blood red eyes locked onto mine, and he slammed his full body into the floor of the room. The glass floor cracked, a seam beginning to show in the far side of the room. I turned back to the wall, finding myself on the opposite end from the new door. I began to run, stumbling as the beast below continued his assault. The cracks were wider now, showing throughout the entire floor. I finally made it to the door, and giving it a sharp kick, it began to open.

That's when the floor gave out. I felt the glass shatter as the monster threw itself into the room, then fell once more as the breaking glass crashed against its wings. It gave a great screeching cry, and pulled out from under the collapsing room. I leapt through the door, just as the piece of glass I'd been standing on only moments before broke free, falling for thousands of feet to shatter in the forest below. I hit the ground running, and as the door slid shut, I heard the creature roar with fury.

I found myself running down a long hallway. The lighting system seemed to be damaged, and almost all of the overhead lights were out or flickering. As I continued, wondering when the end of the hall would appear, the lighting only grew worse. Finally, I reached a crossroads. Three hallways seemed to stretch on forever. I decided to keep heading straight, ignoring the other two passages for the time being. I passed two more intersections before coming to a small room at the end of the hallway. On the far wall was yet another blue door, and a window a few feet off the ground that looked into the next room. I began a dash for the door, but a shadow passing over the window stopped me. I threw myself onto the ground right beneath the window, trying to avoid being seen by whomever was on the other side. I felt the hairs on the back of my neck rise as the shadow grew larger, covering a large portion of the room I was in. Whatever was there was standing mere inches from my hiding place, just out of view. I hoped that the angle of the window prevented them from seeing me, or I was screwed. After a few moments that dragged on for what felt like hours, the shadow receded, once again providing the room with a steady light. I waited maybe five minutes before I moved, trying my best to slow my racing heart. I slowly inched upwards, the top of my head visible to anyone looking my way, until finally I could see inside the room. What I saw was confusing: a stark white power suit floated in a tube in the center of the next room, I recognized it immediately as mine. Next to that tube were two figures, one a man in a lab coat, who seemed to be in charge, as he rapidly punched in those strange characters into a terminal that looked like it held statistics on my suit. The other, a woman, was also dressed in a lab coat, and she was turned to face me. She tapped and swiped furiously at a tablet in her hands, but I couldn't see anything more than her bleach - blond hair covering her face. Suddenly, she reached up to sweep the hair out from in front of her left eye, and I felt my heart plummet as I noticed a pale scar from the top of her left ear down to her chin.

Sal looked up at me as if she had known I were there the whole time, smiled, waved, and pulled a Federation issue laser pistol out of her coat. She tossed the tablet over her shoulder, hitting the man. Without hesitation, she pointed the gun at the door, fired, and I heard the familiar sound of the door opening. She then pointed it at me, and, walking towards the door, made a motion like the gun had fired.

Sal was coming to kill me.

I hesitated, wondering how this situation had happened, before finally realizing that it didn't matter right now. I had nothing to protect myself with, and there was no way I would be able to fight her hand to hand, not as long as she had that pistol. I was flat out of luck, and this was the end. There was no way to escape, if I ran down the narrow hallway, it would be easy for her to put a charge in the back of my skull, killing me instantly. I ran over possibility after possibility in the few seconds it took her to reach the door. There was nothing I could do, so I decided that if I were to die right now, I would try as hard as possible to take her with me. She finally entered the doorway, and I launched myself at her, trying to get close before she could pull the trigger. She nimbly dodged, turned, and pointed the gun at me as I lay prone on the ground.

"Checkmate Sis." She looked happy with herself as she pulled the trigger, and I screamed as the white-hot energy pierced my chest, welcoming the darkness as I began to pass out from the pain.

I thought I could hear the words 'This is not the end' as the blackness enveloped me.

Well darn, that was more than I intended to accomplish. Leave a review if you feel like it, next chapter will be up whenever I have free time!

CM out.