CHAPTER 16 - All. Over. Again.

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Elizabeth: [Thirty minutes left.]

Elizabeth kicked hard on the ventilation cover, forcing the metal piece to drop down on to the floor with a thud. Elizabeth drew out the pistol, and dropped down into the room. Before her were three men and a woman in white coveralls talking about smuggling slaves while cooking. The group turned around, and faced Elizabeth. Elizabeth fired the pistol at one of the men's head, and his lifeless body descended onto the ground in vertical fashion, blood spurting at the walls behind. The other three remaining people were shocked. The woman screamed. A bullet went through her skull, ricocheting off the fridge behind her.

Two men left. Elizabeth threw her pistol on the floor, while walking towards one of the men who was still frozen in shock. The other man grabbed a knife from the kitchen rack and rushed at her. He swung his left arm at Elizabeth, only for her to step backwards in quick action. The man's attack missed, while both combatants' eyes were locked in intense focus.

Recovering from the momentum, the man was not fast enough. Elizabeth grabbed his lunging arm, and forced it back behind him, cracking his wrists and forcing him to drop his weapon. Elizabeth caught the falling weapon with her free hand, and used the blade to slit his throat.

The carnage was far from over. The shocked man ran out of the kitchen, shouting and alerting everyone in the restaurant. The restaurant staff immediately activated the emergency alarm. Armed guards rushed into the restaurant from a nearby post. All five guards aimed their sights on the kitchen's entry, and walked forward slowly.

Elizabeth: [Twenty-five minutes left.]

The kitchen doors swung open, the kitchen was empty. Nothing living. The kitchen lights went out.

Elizabeth: [Twenty minutes left.]

A woman tried to ambush Elizabeth from a corner, swinging a holo-axe at her. The holo-axe swung into a plasma rifle. The holo blade clashed with the rifle's metal body, slicing the gun into half. With the heavy axe now in a hard position, Elizabeth lunged at the attacker, stabbing the attacker with the remnants of the plasma rifle. The oozing plasma leaking from the opening in the gun chamber melted the ambusher's internals. The woman screamed silently in pain. Alarms went off all over the ship. Lockdown shutters were rolled.

Elizabeth: [Fifteen minutes left.]

Two guards appeared in front of Elizabeth on the other end of the corridor. They immediately opened fire. Elizabeth rolled into a wall. The streams of plasma and bullets tore up the corridor in destructive symphony. The firing stopped for a brief moment. A ball rolled towards them. It had blinking lights and a low beeping sound. The two guards ran back immediately. The ball opened itself, shooting hundreds of tiny shards all over the room for a period of time. After the onslaught of shards had stopped, the guards recovered their stances and moved back into the corridor. Upon turning into the corridor, a holo axe swung in a perpendicular motion, slicing the victims.

Elizabeth: [Ten minutes left.]

A group of four men and three women were in the control room. Another man was gagged and tied up. He had an officer's uniform. The men took turns at beating and maiming the victim.

"Hold up!" one of the women shouted.

The men stopped the onslaught, leaving the lifeless corpse of their target to tumble onto the floor. "What's wrong cupcakes?"

"Someone's here." the woman said.

The group looked towards the door.

One. Two. Three. Four. Five shots pierced the door, and breached the room in deafening fashion. Three men got hit by the shots, and fell to the ground dead. Several consoles in the room were hit, and sparks flew out.

The remaining survivors immediately opened fire back at the door. A volley of gunfire was returned, an unending stream of death that lasted a minute. The firing stopped.

"Check it out."

"Why me?"

"Check it out or I shoot you."

The man advanced on the door. As he was nearing it, a loud sound and an explosion blinded the man. The door was sent flying towards him at a rapid speed. Weakened by the door, the man lay under the door groaning.

The two women reloaded their weapons, and spread out in the room, taking cover. With shaky hands, their main target was the open doorway covered in smoke and rubble.

The ventilation cover from above dropped down, and in a flash, the two women's bodies laid still on the covers, bleeding from a headshot each from the back.

Elizabeth: [Now.]

The lights in the auditorium went out. The crowd was shocked. Plasma streams lit up the dark hall, crossing the upper floors into the chandeliers, and reflected all over the hall through the chandelier balls. Because the entire ship was in lockdown, the main auditorium was locked by shutters. Nobody could enter or escape.

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