Me again! This was a very slow update – sorry! Thank you to BNTN, emmadactryl and spinkle for your reviews! As promised, this chapter is longer by about a mile. Please, please, please R+R!

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Alex's eyes fluttered open. He quickly screwed them up again as he was blinded by a flashing light.

"Wha – what?" he croaked.

Slowly he sat up and opened his eyes. His head was swimming and he couldn't remember a thing. Shakily, he reached his hand up to his blonde hair. It was matted with bright red blood. He seemed to come to his senses... a fight. He could remember a fight. He blinked, trying to remember more. They had taken the others away. As more memories returned to him, he took in more of his surroundings. The room he was in resembled a laboratory, it was clean and white and as sterile as a doctor's surgery. There was a table to his right; on top of it were several test tubes, each containing a different chemical. A surge of power suddenly washed over him like a wave in the sea. The new power forced Alex to stand up. Leaning on the table next to him, he gradually got to his feet, shaking. He reached his head forward and vomited onto the hard white floor. He groaned and reached his hand out to steady himself as he suddenly felt dizzy. Again power surged through his body. He had to find the others!

Along the corridor, four teenagers lay unconscious. They were a heap of bodies on a cold stone floor. The silence that filled the air was deafening. But then... a movement. If you weren't looking closely then you would have missed it, but it was definitely there. One teenager was awake.

Li opened her eyes. She immediately felt a sharp pain searing through her left arm. A heavy male body was lying on top of her, his head slumped back and deep red blood seeping out of a crack in his forehead. His dark curly hair was covered in blood. Dark curly hair. Paulo. Li now felt a pointy elbow digging into her back. Slowly, she eased an unconscious Paulo off her stomach and dragged herself up off the pile of bodies. She now noted that the sharp elbow had belonged to Amber, who, like Paulo, had blood streaming down her face, but, unlike Paulo, the blood was coming from her right eye. Li's skinny but muscular arms were able to lift Amber's drooping form off the last body. She was now able to check that Amber, Paulo and the mystery body were breathing well. Then two thoughts came to her at once. The first was that there were only four members of Alpha Force in the dark dingy room, meaning that one of Alpha Force was missing, and secondly that, seeing as the last body had spiky dark hair, Alex was the one missing. Then she remembered the task on hand: checking her friends' breathing. Firstly Li checked Amber's breathing. She had worked out that it would be best to check her first as Amber was a diabetic and it was possibly more serious if her breathing wasn't regular. Li bent down and put her ear to Amber's mouth so her breath was tickling her cheek. 1...2...3...4...5... perfect. Amber was in a crooked position: her arms were twisted under her body and her right leg, her best leg, was bent upwards so her toes practically touched her forehead! Li put her into a more comfortable position and then moved on to Hex's breathing. She went through exactly the same procedure as she had with Amber. This time when Li put her head to Hex's mouth she had to strain her ears to hear his breathing but it was definitely regular: she could feel it on her face. Li stayed down slightly longer than she had for Amber, purely for the reason that Hex's breathing wasn't as audible. When Li was completely satisfied that his breathing was regular, she moved on to Paulo. As she tiptoed across the room, she listened for sounds from outside the dark room. She knew that a trap had been set up to catch them. Li was angry with herself that she had let herself and the others fall into it so easily. She reached Paulo and put her head close to his. She couldn't hear a thing. She couldn't feel a thing. Li kept her head down to Paulo's lips for a while longer in case it had been some mistake. Still nothing.

"Please Paulo!" she whispered "Don't do this to me now."

Li took a deep breath. She clasped his hand in hers and kissed his cheek. Li lifted her hands high and pressed down frantically on his chest. Tears streaming down her face, she did this again and again. She kept pushing and pushing, each time getting more desperate. Li was about to give up and break down when Paulo suddenly coughed. Li's screwed up eyes snapped open. Paulo too had his eyes open now. He leaned over and vomited violently on the cold, hard floor. Paulo squinted in front of him.

"Li?"

Oooh! I don't know about you but that definitely sent shivers down my spine! Review, as always, are very much appreciated. Thanks!