Chapter four will hopefully see the team reunited, so long as Matthew and Kendra can make their way to the market place, in time to save Kevin, Cindy and Shameelah from the giant man. To get there they will have to brave danger, and put their trust completely in each other. But when the world around you is going to hell around you, can you really trust anyone else…

Chapter Four - Divided We Fall Part 3 - Kendra

Early Morning, The Market Place, Sozma Qala

Nodding at Matty, the two agents contrasting each other in so many ways ran forward in unison and both dived at the large window, curling so their shoulders took the impact of hitting their windows and not their faces. Faced with both her, and Matthew's weight the window gave way quite easily and in a rain of glass, the two BSAA agents were free falling through the sky, to a building beside Vashika Rejali's, skilled in all kinds of dangerous activities, Kendra knew that she needed to roll to take some of the momentum out of her fall, and to stop her from injuring something. And Kendra trusted that Matthew wouldn't fall wrong and break his leg and become a burden. Rolling, Kendra stopped in a crouching position, gasping with pain Kendra slowly felt the way up her left arm and with trembling fingers drew a small piece of glass from her arm. With a steady trickle of blood running down her arm, the black agent stood up to her full height, to survey the surroundings. She could hear shouting from the building, but that wasn't important. They needed to find their way to Kevin and Cindy, and hopefully get away from these crazy people…well they weren't crazy. Something was very wrong in the Sozma Qala district, and it was screwing with the people and turning them into monsters…she had heard of a few incidents of disasters like this. One was in a small American town, out in the middle of nowhere that became overrun by zombies, then two incidents in Spain and Africa, where the inhabitants of a small town or something turned into psychotic creatures…both occasions a few agents had managed to stop the spread of the infection…though the populations generally didn't fare too well. The American Government tried to cover these incidents up, but eventually someone would release a book detailing the crimes, or one civilian would survive and the government wouldn't find them until they had sold their story to the news. And then the world would look to blame the government…after all, if the US Government had covered up these incidents, what involvement did they have?

Walking quickly over to Michael, Kendra stood at his side as the two of them slowly made their way forward to look over the edge of the building. Gasping, Kendra drew back. The building was surrounded by those things, and the only reason they hadn't over run the two agents was the fact that there was no roof access to this buildings roof. But what good would that do, except allow them to slowly plot their own demises…after all the creatures not being able to get up, meant that Kendra and Matthew couldn't get down…and then they couldn't go save Kevin and Cindy and get the fuck out of this God forsaken place. However the two agents never had the opportunity to plot how they would get down safely, as with a cheer one of the creatures, from the window of Vashika Rejali's house threw a bottle of wine, that struck Kendra on the side of the head, dazing the agent and knocking her over the edge into the hands of the men and women who were all looking up and screaming, their faces ecstatic with the idea of ripping apart this woman. However they were not given the satisfaction, when a strong arm grabbed Kendra's own…Matthew was holding onto her arm for all it was worth, using his good arm to fire three bullets into the man who had thrown the bottle, before placing his gun on the roof beside him and using both hands to grab Kendra. With Kendra's whole body, and Matthew now half way hanging over the edge to stop her falling, the beautiful agent could see a way out of this predicament. "Matty…Matty, hold on tight!" The agent shouted, her voice barely carrying over the cries of the men below her. Nodding, the hardened agents grasped his partners wrist much tighter, prepared for her to use him to pull herself up…but instead she kicked off the wall and swung her body sideways, causing Matthew to gasp in exertion as he tried to make sure his partner didn't slip out of his grasp. Now away from the wall, Kendra drew her legs up and braced them against the wall, and slowly walked sideways to a window, going faster and faster, until she was able to brace her legs against the glass. Kicking hard, Kendra felt the glass give way beneath her blows, and shatter, the small window now able to be entered. The window was at Kendra's waist, and the BSAA agent's curled up legs were able to slide into the frame, her backside resting on the window sill which still had a tiny amount of glass in it, which caused the agent to wince, before looking up at her partner and nodding…they both knew her plan. So letting go, Kendra slid into the unknown building.

Pushing her long body through the small window, Kendra landed nosily on the weak floor boards that creaked under her weight. Her eyes adjusting to the artificial light, Kendra noted two things. The first was that this was a building that hadn't been used in a while. And the second thing was that this place wasn't just some old Afghan store, or a home…this was some kind of government base. At first Kendra thought that this was where the government had gotten all their information on Ahmid Rejali, but then looking at the majority of the documents…they were in some Afghanistan print that Kendra couldn't read. Shuffling through the documents, Kendra came across an important looking one that was luckily written in English and pushing her shades down her nose (surprised that they had even stayed on) the agent began to read. It wasn't an official document, but an email from someone, somewhere in the English speaking world to whomever had inhabited this building.

"The fact of the matter is 'sir' that I can't keep doing this…this is wrong, these people haven't done anything wrong. Most of them are civilians; they don't deserve to be dragged into this. But two of them, male and female, joined a small team…I could arrange them to come to your country. They were both in Raccoon city…that's what your boss wants right? But that's it, I don't want anything else to do with your scheme. I'll anonymously leave a message saying that you're in Sozma Qala that will draw them. But Ahmid you tell your people that this is it…I'm sick of betraying my country to fucking terrorists…good bye."

Gasping, Kendra quickly reread the document trying to absorb the information. An American official had arranged for the team to come here. Someone, who was controlling Ahmid, wanted Kevin and Cindy to come here…but why, they weren't special, they were just two members of the BSAA team…they had survived Raccoon city…but why did that make them desirable? Questions running through her head, Kendra shoved the document into her pocket along with the folded documents she had slipped in from Vashika Rejali's apartment. She needed to find a way to get Matty off the roof. He'd know what to do with this information, and then they could go find Kevin and Cindy. But just as Kendra left the room she had been occupying, gun drawn against an enemy that could pop out at any moment she heard, through the thin roof, Matthew scream…and then a loud bang.

The whole building shook, knocking Kendra to her stomach. Raising into a crouching position, Kendra's vision was obscured by the dust that had been unsettled when the explosion…or what Kendra presumed was an explosion, had rocked the unused building. Raising her hand to her ear, Kendra called down the com link "Matty! Matty answer me! Are you okay?" Before standing, and sprinting around the small apartment for a way to get to the roof to find her partner. But it turned out; she didn't have to look that far! Turning a corner, Kendra was shocked to see that a whole section of the roof had caved in, and at the edge of the rubble lay the still body of Matthew Willis. Screaming, Kendra dropped down beside the body and rolled over the heavy body with a sigh. His skin was blackened by soot and dust, and there were sores on his arms and face, but his eyes were still moving. Her face just a little slick with tears, Kendra felt his pulse which was strong, before she tapped his face gently with her hand, three times before he woke up. Groaning, Kendra lifted his head off the floor and both agents used their combined strength to drag him next to a wall, so he could sit unaided. "Matty…Are you ok…"

"I'm fine" Matthew interrupted, before he reached out and used both the wall and his partner to stand. "One of them has grenades…he threw one up…" And just as he uttered those words an ominous rattle sounded, as a small silver grenade rolled down the pile of rubble towards the agents. Both agents reacted simultaneously, jumping up and racing for the corridor, Kendra letting Matthew go ahead so she could push him to go quicker. The explosion was like a wave of heat at Kendra's back that knocked her flying into her partner, both of them skidding across the slick wooden floor, before coming to a stop.

Both in adrenaline mode, the agents shot up and faced the end of the corridor, a large portion of the roof had fallen down, and the walls were breached. This meant that those things could get in. Both raising their guns high, the two stepped forward almost simultaneously and glancing left and right they made their way towards the sunlight they could see streaming through a giant hole in the wall. Glancing at her partner, he nodded quickly and then Kendra, and her partner rushed forward both running towards the gap to fire into the crowd as they tried to make their way through using brute force. But instead of the massive throng that Kendra had expected, they were met with an empty street. Glancing around for about thirty seconds, Kendra could see a look of awe on her partner's face which she presumed was mirrored on her own. Minutes ago the streets had been thronging with people ready to kill the BSAA agents and now the street was as empty as when Kendra looked out of Mrs. Rejali's house what seemed like a life time ago. Dropping the six feet that separated the damaged section of the wall from the floor, Kendra and Matthew sprinted towards the market place where their friends were waiting. Kendra had mentally cursed herself for not getting directions or a location from Cindy when they had been talking on the link, but as soon as they got further towards the market place they saw them…

The whole wall of the building had fallen down, and about two dozen of those creatures were walking towards their partners, and heads and shoulders above the others was a large man with a giant club in one hand, and in the other the limp body of Kevin Ryman. Instinctively both agents fired towards the creature, and Kendra saw her own bullet ink into the large mans neck, whilst Matthew hit the creature's wrist, causing it to drop Kevin. Getting closer Kendra had to step over the disfigured bodies of some of those people, who had been hit by that giants club. Pulling out her second gun from its holster, Kendra started firing into the back of the crowd, causing three to fall down within seconds, and Matthew followed suit and dropped a few more. But if they kept firing, they'd never reach Kevin and Cindy in time to stop that huge man from crushing them. Racing forward, Kendra fired into two creatures that had turned to see what the commotion was, shouting back at her partner "Cover me!" before dropping and rolling past a man with a knife, and kicking him in his chest, knocking him backwards. The crowd was thinning now, as some of the men went for Matthew, some had gotten into the building past the creature…and the rest were dying by their team mates hands as he crushed them with each swing of his arm. Receiving supporting fire from Matthew, Kendra managed to get closer to the creature and bracing her feet started to fire into the creatures back, each bullet ripping the dark flesh to pieces, and Kendra could see blood spraying back on her but kept firing. When the creature turned, the pain in its back getting too hard to ignore, Kendra rolled past it, firing into its legs as she did so. Glancing around the room, Kendra gasped. Kevin was lying still on the floor, whilst Cindy fussed over him with her medical stuff, and an Afghan woman stood over them with Kevin's custom hand gun and was firing into any of the creatures that got close to her. Kendra recognized the woman, but didn't recall where from. Distracted for a brief moment by the state of her two partners, Kendra didn't notice the giant like creature grab her head from behind and lift her up. Screaming, Kendra struggled to pull her head free from the creatures vile fingers, but with nothing to press against she couldn't get enough strength to pry his fingers from her head and instead could only scream louder as the creature raised her higher, and higher, before swinging her abruptly towards the ground.

But luck was on Kendra's side, as the fourth member of her team arrived in the building, and jumped up, tackling Kendra herself and knocking her from the creature's hand. Landing with a groan as her partners full body weight pressed her into the floor, Kendra felt the wind leave her body and she struggled to breath for a few seconds until Matthew got up and started firing into the creature. The large man was now stepping closer to them, the normal sized men and women who had turned into the raging creatures that Kendra had witnessed first at Vashika Rejali's home. Standing, Kendra started to fire into the giant creature as well as Matthew, as the two backed up towards Kevin, Cindy and the woman who was now also firing into the large creature. But before the creature could even step closer, a large chunk of its face flew from its holding place towards Kendra, and her companions. Then the creature's neck exploded in an array of blood and pieces much thicker. Then three similar explosions erupted from the creatures chest before it fell to its knees, and one more explosion finished the creature off. Spinning, Kendra started firing into the normal sized creatures, who were now racing forward since the danger of the club man was gone. Shooting two in the face, Kendra almost screamed when once again parts of the creatures started to explode in red and pink pieces. And after a few minutes the combined fire power of the three shooters, and the mysterious sniper had cleared the market place.

(Sorry for the large gaps, my computers been acting up and college has been kicking my arse big time! Reunited at last! The foursome, as well as the beautiful Shameelah, are now together but as they head to the sewers what dangers will they encounter? What are the villains plans for Kevin and Cindy? Who was the mysterious sniper aiding our heroes? Stay tuned to find out (: please read and review!)