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lashed out, shoving into the man’s pants pocket and retrieving the data pad.  The startled man twirled around, his eyes barely reaching the Sargent’s chin.  The Sargent shoved on meaty paw against the man’s chest, pinning him to the wall of the elevator, and preventing him from retrieving his property.
                  “What the hell?” the middle man snapped.
                  “Sarge?” Janys asked, her eyes becoming uneasy as the three men in suits looked to one another.
                  Bearden didn’t care about their protests, his fingers darted across the screen of the pad, and brought the message back to life.  As he’d suspected, a picture of himself and Janys James filled the screen, the words ‘terminate’ resting in the red block between the profiles.  He didn’t think twice, his training kicking into a place of his mind as his hand clenched the man’s shirt, pulled him forward, and then smashed him against the wall of the elevator.
                  The other two men started to merge on the towering Sargent.  Janys stepped back, then lunged forward, her fist crushing the jaw of the man on the left.  He stumbled to his knees, knocking the man in the middle off balance, bringing him to the ground as well.
                  “What is this?!” Bearden snapped, holding the datapad to the man’s face.  “Why does it say ‘terminate’ next to our pictures?”
                  A gun was drawn from under a jacket, quickly being pulled to face the aggressive Sargent.  Bearden dropped the man from his grasp, turning his attention to the pistol.  His hand clutched over the gun, wrenching from the smaller man’s grip before he could pull the safety lever.  Bearden’s hand swung back, then lashed forward, the handle of the pistol smashing into the nose of the suited man in the middle. 
                  Janys had fallen back, the word ‘terminate’ kicking her in the brain.  She watched the scene unfold, her body unwilling to move on the men who attacked her friend.  The word began to turn, stabbing her throat, trying to plunge deep into her heart.  Her face became flush, her skin turning red as she lifted her right foot and stomped her boot on the face of the man on the left, still trying to get back to his feet.  The blood from the man’s nose splattered against the mirror surface of the elevator, distorting the reflection.  She knelt, her hands fumbling under the dazed man’s jacket, searching for her salvation.  She found it in a form of a pistol, pulling the strap and freeing it from the holster.  She continued her search, retrieving a datapad from the man’s left pants pocket.  She brought it to life, confirming the message that the other man had received.  Her profile picture stared back at her, the word ‘terminate’ written in capital, bold letters.  Her blood continued to boil as the man’s hands fumbled around the floor, trying to grasp onto her boot.  Like her Sargent, she reached back, then smashed the butt of the pistol into the man’s bloodied face.  The hands fell flat on the floor.
                  “Answer me!” he snapped, pressing the ‘hold’ button on the elevator panel.  “Why were you ordered to kill us?”
                  The man looked confused as his eyes looked to his co-workers, lying motionless on the elevator floor.  His eyes were wide in terror, his hands stretched above his shoulders, giving in to the rage of the larger man. 
                  “I…..I….donot know,” he shrieked.  “I didn’t SEND the message, it just came in.  I can’t answer you, Sargent.”
                  The Sargent knew the elevator was heading to the ground floor.  He anticipated that several men would be waiting, rifles in hand, to escort him and Janys somewhere secluded.  He needed time to think, time to strategize how to get