"Oh my God!" Patricia can't beleive her eyes. In an instant Alex Cummings collapsed to the floor in mid sentence. There wasn't even a sound. As she ran out onto the stage she saw the gruesome scene. Blood was every where and Alex legs had both seemed to have completely dissapeared. It took a moment for the crowd to realize what had just happened, but when they did, complete and utter mayhem ensued. The front row began to scream and run like roaches when the lights are turned on. Like a dominoe effect all the remaining rows followed suit until there were 25,000 frantic people pushing each other out of the way. Instantly the public address system sounded a loud alarm followed by instructions.
"All students and faculty, please calmly exit the auditorium in an orderly fashion. Return to your dorms immediately and await further instructions. All security staff report to the courtyard post haste. I repeat, this is an emergency lock down, return to your dorms immediately." This message had absolutely no effect and repeated several times for the next several minutes.
Meanwhile Patricia ran to Alex Cummings' side knelt down to her knees and placed her right hand under his head. He was barely conscious and could utter nothing but incoherent mumblings and moans. "Alex... ALEX, can you hear me? You've been shot, but Im right here, I will not leave your side. Help should be here immediately." The Black Talon security guards had already dispursed to find the culprit save 3 guards who had instantly surrounded Mr Cummings. A group of paramedics arrived right then and pulled Patricia away from him.
"Maam... MAAM, we need to get to him right now! Move away NOW!" The paramedics began instantly working on him. They applied an oxygen mask to his mouth and placed an IV in his left arm. One of the female paramedics began soderizing what was left of his legs to stop the massive bleeds he was now suffering. This all occured within a minute or two, but it seemed like an eternity to Patricia Craig. She was in such a state of shock when they placed him on the floating gurney, that she didnt even notice them taking him to the ambulance at first.
"WAIT, Im going with him."
"Very well maam, hurry up and get in."
"Is he gonna be ok?"
"We don't know yet, just let us do our job and we will do everything we can to stabilize him." Just then Alex grabbed her arm and mumbled something that she could not understand save two words, "RepEx" and "Torres." At that moment she remembered what she had to do in this situation. She removed the comm pad from her purse and sent the following message to Ulrich Wagner, RepEx's current COO:
Quote:Dear Mr Wagner,
I do not have details at this time but our CEO Alex Cummings has been shot while giving a speech here on Planet New Berlin. We are in a frantic situation at this time so I cannot be long here, I will be traveling with him to the hospital. They will not give me specifics about his condition but it does not look good. Mr Wagner, per Mr. Cummings' previous instructions, please enact Contigency Plan Alpha-1-5-4 Epsilon and assume the role of CEO so as to keep the company on its feet. I will send further updates as they are made available to me. And please all of you pray for Alex, he's gonna need it.
Interim COO Patricia Craig Out
She hoped Ulrich Wagner was prepared to take over his new responsibility. She certainly was not ready to take hers. She then clasped Alex's hand who was no longer conscious and began to pray for her long time boss and friend.
<span style="color:#FF0000"><strike>RETIRED</strike></span>
ON MY WAY OUT OF RETIREMENT
