Chapter one Vaughn POV Taipei: I watched Sydney run to me flailing her arms at me begging me to

begin to run but I just stood there in my own dumbfounded lull. Finally Syd

got to me and pushed me out of my dream state and I finally turned around

and began to run. I ran my fastest but that just wasn't enough to keep up

with Sydney. I watched her round a corner and I ran as fast as I could go 'Damn

Mr. Balls of Steel, why can't you run a simple sprint like you did in Basic

Training, what kind of CIA agent are you' I told myself as I rounded the

corner and saw a large metal door shutting before us. Syd ran faster than

before, as if that were possible, and made it through just as it was getting

closer to shutting. I realized that there was no way for me to get there even

though I saw her small fragile fingers trying to pry the door open long

enough for me to get through, but the door shut with a loud click and I knew

that was it.

When I finally got to the door and looked through the small glass

window to see the saddest thing that my eyes have seen, Sydney just

standing there with a look of terror on her face.

I have never seen her look like that before and that was going to be

the last way I ever saw her. I swam to the top to get some more oxygen and

when I returned to try and ward her off she was banging the window with

something. a fire extinguisher. I waved my hands and for her to leave that

I would somehow find a way out, but my eyes betrayed me she saw every

amount of terror that was mirrored in her eyes. My lungs were burning for

more air and I swam up to the top where there was barely anymore space

left with oxygen when I swam back down Sydney was unconscious and a

guard was dragging her off down the hall.

I decided that I would see her again or I would die trying so I swam

up to the top to get some more air and figure a way out of this mess. When I

swam up to the top the most inconceivable thing had happened the water

level was dropping. As if they had pulled this plug at the bottom and all the

water was going down a drain. I pictured myself going down in a water

tornado down the drain and ending up in a river somewhere so I quickly found

some kind of door handle to hold on to while the remaining water was sucked

out from around me.

Then the metal door that had just shut a few minutes ago began to

open again and I took cover behind a corner trying to see who was waiting

for me on the other side.