Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Kendra and Cindy will have to focus their wrath as they race against time to save their partners. But the sewers still hold more twists and turns before they can get out…

Chapter Seven – Loss – Kendra

Late Morning, The Sewers, Sozma Qala

Kendra could feel water filling her boots. Kendra could feel each step becoming heavier and heavier. She could feel Cindy just behind her, she could feel the heat, she could feel the danger of the situation…but she couldn't feel Matty. They had a strange bond, and Kendra could always feel his influence in the back of her mind, his calming voice telling her what to do. It wasn't Matthew himself talking to her telepathically, but it was just the fact in most situations he knew what to do, so the voice in Kendra's mind that told her what to do in tense situations took on her partner's voice. But she couldn't hear it. The voice that sounded so like Matthew would tell her to holster her gun so she could run faster, he would tell her to stick to the sides so water wouldn't get in her boots, and he would tell her to calm down and stop fretting. He would have said calm down, you can hear gunshots he must be okay…But she couldn't hear his voice, which was probably because she was so worried, but in her frantic mind it was a sign of his impending doom. Shameelah, if that was her real name, had screwed them over good and proper. She had made them save her, then led them down here, stole the map and betrayed them. She had given Matty and Kevin over to whatever beasts Ahmid had created, and now they would probably die. Cindy, though much smaller, was keeping pace with Kendra, which the agent admired, because no matter how new the field doctor was to the world of the BSAA, Cindy secretly loved Kevin as much as Kendra secretly loved Matty, and that love meant the petite agent kept pace with Kendra, which was no small feat. Kendra's heart was jumping around in her chest, and though the agent was running full speed, she knew that it was because of Matty. She could have lapped the earth if she needed to save him. When she had broken into the home next to Vashika Rejali's, and an explosion had rocked the building she had seen him on the floor and almost died…he needed to be okay. The explosion, the note about Kevin and Cindy, the tall man and the mysterious sniper were all like long past memories, this tunnel seemingly going on for years and causing her to forget things that happened less than sixty minutes ago.

But finally, as a relief to the agent, the tunnel started to change in temperature, and the gun shots they had heard were now getting louder and louder. Finally reaching a large tunnel, Kendra skidded to a halt, and started to fire without thinking, into the crocodile that was circling Ryman. Kendra called out Matthew's name, but the side of her that was an agent couldn't let her turn from Ryman to help Matty, he could take care of himself. Firing three more times, Kendra knew that this creature and the one lying dead in the far side of the room were the creations of Ahmid, because once in Somalia a drug lord who had gotten too big for his boots and started dealing weapons across the boarder had decided to drop Kendra and Matty into a swamp where crocodiles…or alligators had lived. Kendra knew that though they looked tough croc's were generally quite easy to take down as long as you stayed away from them. But these were not going down without a struggle, and as Kevin rolled away from another attack, Kendra once again drew her second gun, firing into the creatures face until it stopped moving. Looking around, Kendra spotted Matthew on the floor, a woman straddling him and choking the life from him. Rushing forward Kendra raced to save her partner when an explosion tore through the tunnel. Flying backwards, Kendra didn't curl into a ball like most would, instead stayed loose as to not take too much damage. Coughing as dust and putrid water filled her mouth, Kendra rolled onto her stomach and stood up, surveying the tunnel with horror. An explosion above ground had destroyed most of the roof, and covered the tunnel, huge patches of the room were covered in rubble where the roof had fallen through, Cindy and Kevin were kneeling next to each other in shock…but Matthew was no where to be seen.

Screaming, Kendra ran forward, jumping over a pile of rubble to the location where Matthew had been. Huge slabs of rubble covered the ground, and Kendra couldn't see any movement. "No…no..no" she murmured to herself, tears cooling her scalding hot face and dropping onto the dust covered floor. Pulling a large piece of stone, Kendra tossed it to the side revealing the woman who had been attacking Matty, he face caved in from the weight of the rubble. Screaming once more, Kendra kept moving through the rubble, though her screams were drowned out by the screams coming from above. Dozens of citizens of Sozma Qala were climbing down into the room, the huge piles of rubble allowing them to clamber down into the room. But Kendra didn't notice, even when an arrow flew past her face she didn't flinch, just kept pulling pieces of rubble from where Matty was, hoping that she'd find him soon. Feeling an hand grip her shoulder, Kendra spun ready to fire, but it was Cindy, the young blond looking worried as Kevin stood tall behind her, firing into the crowd that were getting ever closer. Feeling Cindy pulling her, trying to get here away from the pile Kendra once again called out no, even more quickly trying to pull the roof from her partner. Screaming and crying, Kendra struggled when both Kevin and Cindy pulled her up by her arms and dragged her towards a hole in the wall, not the tunnel they had come in through but the tunnel that Kendra presumed the crocodiles got in through. Struggling and calling out his name over and over, the tall agent couldn't understand why they wouldn't help her get to Matty, he couldn't be dead…he couldn't…

Feeling the shift in temperature as they once again entered a tunnel with cold water on the floor, Kendra resisted the pull of her partners even more, the room was now crawling with those creatures and Matty was hurt and he couldn't defend himself, but she could, she could stop them getting to him if they'd only let her go. They were about twenty feet into the tunnel when another explosion rocked the tunnel, causing Kevin and Cindy to let go of her arms. Racing forward, Kendra cleared the gap within seconds and dived onto the ground, using her momentum to crash into a creature and knock it to the floor. Firing three times with each gun into separate targets, Kendra was getting closer and closer to the pile that Matty was under, when the floor beneath her feet gave way and the agent fell through the air, calling out Matthews name.

(The shit is still going down in the next chapter)