Chapter 10: Hunter to Hunted

"I don't suppose you have anything else besides that sword on you do you?" Siesel asked Kevin, his eyes not moving from the guards surrounding him.

"Yep," Kevin whispered back, "but if either of us moves for it we're dead," he whispered again.

"Why are you whispering, who gives a fuck if they hear us or not?" Siesel asked.

"Because I'm thinking and I usually whisper when I'm thinking and talking at the same time," he answered.

"I have a plan," Siesel said. "HIT THE FLOOR!!!" Siesel dove, pulling Officer Ralph's pistol from his sleeve and began firing, striking three guards in the chest. The guards returned the fire but were not fast enough to follow Siesel's movement and ended up hitting some of their comrades. What seemed like nanoseconds later, rapid fire from another nature echoed off to Siesel's far left, he saw a few guards fall to the floor and the others turn in the direction of the fire.

"GET HER!" Siesel heard deep voiced guards yell, "SHE'S ONLY ONE WOM… URGH" the guard was cut off as he was riddled by the rogue women's bullets and cast to the ground. All of a sudden the fire stopped and there was a loud clicking of an empty ammo clip that echoed in the suddenly quiet hallway. Siesel took a quick look around and noticed there were only six guards left standing, the rest were either dead or injured, bleeding and vomiting while they groaned on the steel floor of the corridor. Finally a guard spoke.

"Drop your weapon, get on your knees and put your hands behind your head!" he ordered in a squeaky voice that almost made Siesel laugh. He looked around the floor to find Kevin and saw him already standing up and drawing his sword silently, it was a good move, and all attention was off them and on the now kneeling girl who Siesel recognized as Megan. Siesel stood and loaded the pistol as silently as he could, but even the little clicks never drew the guards' attention back to them.

Finally the gun was loaded and Siesel and Kevin stood side by side ready to attack, Megan must have sensed something because she looked up at the two soldiers. Hers and Siesel's eyes met and she nodded her acknowledgement, at this Siesel attack, closely followed by Kevin. Siesel fired at the two guards on the left as well as the one now standing in front of Megan while Kevin took down the other three, the first two with a single horizontal slash and the third with and upward diagonal motion right afterwards, all were dead, their guns dropping to the ground.

Siesel did not expect what happened next; he barely had time to get out of the way. In a flash, Megan rolled over to her right, scooped up an automatic and began to fire at Kevin and Siesel. Siesel had just enough time to knock Kevin into the adjacent corridor, avoiding being scathed by any of the bullets.

"Megan, what the hell are you doing!?" Siesel shouted around the corner over the sound of the firing gun.

Megan stopped firing. "I'm here to do a job, remember Siesel?" she screamed back. Siesel poked his head around the corner and then pulled it back as a bullet sailed over his head; he noticed that Megan was slowly moving toward where they were, picking up more ammunition from the other fallen guns.

Siesel check his gun and realized he was now empty. "Kevin lets move, she's coming and we only have the sword," he said turning and jogging down the corridor. Kevin didn't need to be told twice, and he jogged after him.

They ran for quite a while, taking every turn they could, but being careful not to go in a circle. "We're near the backdoor now," Kevin shouted to Siesel as the jogged, the sound of gunfire had gone now and they were certain they were home free. They took another right into Corridor Y-1 and a door loomed ahead of them, it was slightly open and Siesel could see that it was night now. That's weird, why is the door open? Kevin asked himself.

The answer became clear a few seconds later when the door burst inwards and guards began to poor in. Kevin went wild with his blade slashing multiple guards at the same time, Siesel fought his way through a bunch of guards, making sure to stay close range so they could not fire. In a mere few minutes all the guards were gone, either dead or disgruntled on the floor, Siesel picked up two automatics and hid two handguns in his pants and one in his sock. After Siesel was ready, Kevin and Siesel edged to the door and looked out at the courtyard, everything was quiet and desolate. Forty feet away, six armored trucks were parked, providing good cover if they were taking fire, as well as an escape route.

"Ok, this is what we'll do," Kevin started. "Run for the trucks, if we start taking fire, weave in and out of all six of them and try to take out the guards. If we don't take fire, find an unlocked truck and jump in and let's get out of here." Siesel agreed, and on the count of three the tore from the door and sprinted to the truck.

Four steps away from the door, a spotlight turned on, and something happened that that made Kevin's heart sank, something he had never thought of, sniper fire!