SHOCKED UNCONSCIOUS

I walked backwards, looking at the door I jumped out through until I got close to the elevator and then I turned around and faced it. I went to the side and pressed the down button once but after waiting nothing happened, there was no indication of it coming down.

I was putting all my hope that they hadn't rebooted the system and were still on looped camera feed so they wouldn't see me even if I got into the elevator because as for me, that was my only way of escape.

"What's going on? Was this also shut down?"

*TAP* *TAP* *TAP*.

After a couple tries of pressing the button but still getting nothing to happen I decided to change tactics and started to rapidly press the down button for the elevator to come down to the sub level but it still wasn't working. This was the "if being gentle doesn't work then adding more force into it would most likely do the job tactic" but that wasn't going to cut it here either. The alarm had shut off all elevator activity on my end and in essence leaving me trapped.

"Of course it isn't working, what was I expecting? Looks like I'm totally screwed" I balled my hands and dropped my face into them in regrets, contemplating on my options which weren't favorable ones.

'If I leave Amanda's body right now and jump back to my time that would automatically mean that she would get caught which in on itself isn't that big a deal because she's a kid and they would most likely let her go being how she's Brian's kid, however, that would also mean me returning to an entirely new time line different from the one I left from where she wasn't and that might be bad in ways I can't calculate yet. But now that I think of it, there wasn't that much information on Brian and Amanda so maybe getting caught wouldn't affect my timeline at all. I can't return to this same body after jumping back and I can't get Brian as a host because of his Dot Log Chip situation and this time period is the only one in which getting the Black box code is remotely possible because after now the security here will become so tight that there's no way I can achieve it, more so if I jump out of Amanda and she gets caught. Hmmm, what should I do?' I was seriously perplexed on what course of action I should be taking now and the fact that I also needed to make a decision very soon and under these circumstances didn't help at all.

That was why I jumped back to this time and didn't return even after I entered the wrong host and now my chances of accomplishing my mission were getting slimmer by the second.

*DING*

Suddenly, the sound of the elevator descending from one floor to the next.

"Huh?" I took my face out of my hands and squinted at the lights above the elevator door due to vision adjustment.

"Hmm? The elevator, it's coming down?" I said with a little smile and got back the hope that I had lost but hope is ever rarely something that lasts long.

"Wait a minute, I didn't press the button so who— The GHA security!" My eyes shone wide open as I let out a heavy *GASP*

*ZIP*

I panicked and grabbed the multipurpose screwdriver from my backpack and threw the backpack on the floor again, then I rushed to the panel next to the elevator door and opened it as fast as I could.

I reached for the door command circuit which was behind a small opening and the opening was too small that I could barely pass my hand through but when it did after applying more force I had received multiple cuts from the sides of the opening. My need to succeed in what I was doing right now was more important to me that the pain I was feeling all over my body so the moment my hand made it through I fished out the wires and ripped them out.

*SPARK* *ZAP*

"Ahhh!" The current from the circuit ran through my body pushing me away and it threw me to the floor

"What?" My voice and vision faded as I lost consciousness. 

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*MUFFLED SOUNDS*

Everything became muffled and then quiet as I had my eyes closed while I laid flat on the floor unconscious for a whole two minutes. Two minutes which I got to think and process things properly and then...

*Gasp* I got back my consciousness as I sat up and faced the elevator door again. Looking at the elevator I could hear almost inaudible and muffled banging noise and voices coming from it and with the more time that passed the more audible the sound became.

"Must be those security bastards, well the door won't be able to open on its own so if you want access you would have to pry it open yourself" I said to myself but my words echoed in my ears. I was experiencing a sensation that gave me so much focus, which could have been due to the adrenaline pumping through me, that it felt like everything slowed down a bit and I was gifted with more time to think.

What I did was only a temporary fix because with no way to also use the elevator I needed another way out. Luckily, my mind was now in overdrive, searching for exactly that.

I got back on my feet and started to move my head around the room from left to right, up to down for a way out. My skin at the moment was also feeling extra sensitive so I felt a mild breeze brush against my face which got me thinking so I took a couple deep breaths to observe that the air in the room didn't feel stuffy and now coming to the conclusion there should be an air purification system somewhere. I searched some more and by luck I saw an air vent at the top of one of the boxes.

"What is this!?" It was dark enough that I didn't see it at first when I had entered the room for the first time but now I did.

I could feel myself slowly pulling out of the sensation and I knew that that would come with some physical drawback afterwards so I needed to use that to my advantage now before it wears off. With that in mind I hurriedly went back to close the elevator panel that I had opened, then I grabbed my backpack and went Tarzan on the boxes, heading straight for the air vent.

While on my George of the jungle solo mission up the boxes, I could still hear banging against the door and as I got to the air vent, about to open it up with the multipurpose screwdriver, the end of a crowbar poked out of the elevator and the doors started to be opened up, slowly but surely.

*DAB*

I opened the vent, threw my backpack in and got inside then I closed it back behind me and just as I did, in a matter of seven seconds later the security bursted in grabbing their black flash lights from their waist with their similarly coloured batons already in hand and started to check the place.