Derek covered Cassie's back with the MG-225 turret. He fired at the soldiers coming in from the hole in the wall, killing about half a dozen; only because the soldiers were smart enough to stick to cover and not run into the line of fire. Outside the Tomb, Zaman, Hamed, Harkov, Lachina, and Khaled all laid down behind a truck, devising a plan on how to get back at Derek and Niko.

"They are killing us with our own turret," Hamed stated the obvious. "We only got like maybe thirty or forty soldiers left; I say we use our grenade launchers on the turret."

Harkov liked that plan and patted his friend on the back. "I love that idea. Let's blow them to bits."

Zaman chuckled at their sadism to kill both of the Lowells but had something better in mind. "Before we arrived here, I made sure that the soldiers put a Stopped on the turret." All four soldiers looked at Zaman with confusion, allowing Zaman to explain himself without stating the obvious. "A Stopper is a device implanted within a heavy machine gun like a turret that when activated, jams the chamber in the guns, therefore, stopping the gun from firing. I have a Stopper button right here on my phone." He shows the four his phone and types in a password to open his phone. He scrolls through several apps and clicks on the Stopper app. He types in the MG-225's serial number and presses the activate button.

The MG-225 turret jammed on Derek mid-fire, pissing him off and cursing out loud. "Damn it, the gun jammed!" Niko suggested unjamming it. Derek desperately tried this in time before the Overlord soldiers started moving in on them. "Crap, it's not unjamming! They must've implanted a Stopper on the gun." He could take the Stopper out, but too much time would already be wasted and the Overlord soldiers were moving in on them. "I say we leave this gun and start running."

"Agreed," spoke Niko.

Derek and Niko abandon the turret jeep and make a run down the opposite hall that Cassie and the other two went down. The Overlord soldiers quickly flooded the hole with reinforcements. Derek and Niko ran like the wind, but the Overlord soldiers were catching up, despite carrying a heavy kit like backpacks and firearms like assault rifles.

Derek shot his pistol at them to buy themselves some time to get more ahead of them. He was wishing that Cassie was here because he was missing her a lot.

They had a good fifty feet head start of the Overlord soldiers chasing after them and when they cut to the right at the end of the hall and kept their lights turned off in hopes that Overlord would lose sight of them. The loud noise of large objects clinging hard together in the distance almost shook the two off their feet.

A door opening at the very end of the hallway gave both the Lowells hope that they would escape. They doubled the pace and dived through the door upon reaching.

The door was closing as fast as a snail, ultimately taking away the hope that the Lowells had that they would escape from Overlord in time. Lachina leads a team with about two dozen Overlord soldiers managing to squeeze through in time before the doors closed. Zaman and the others were left behind and forced to find another way around. Derek yanks Niko to his feet and they continue to run down the halls with only half of the two dozen soldiers following. Soldiers aimed their guns to shoot the two, but Lachina refused. "Let's kill them with our bare hands."

Derek heard what Lachina said even from a distance away and turned to look over his shoulder. Lachina and ger group were already catching up to them. Lachina dives forward and tackles Derek just as he enters a room filled with overhead lit lanterns. Derek landed on his side and gagging as Lachina started choking him. Niko was attacked by four other soldiers. The soldiers that weren't combating were standing guard.

Derek places his foot underneath Lachina's belly and flips her over him. He kips up, still gagging for air, and nearly loses his balance until seeing soldiers attacking his cousin motivated him to ignore the pain and attacked the four soldiers.

Derek shouted to Niko, "Let's make this quick. Every Overlord soldier from outside is probably inside the Tomb!"

He whacked the first soldier in the temple and knocked him to the ground. Niko struck his distracted attacker in the throat and lunged at his waist. The third soldier went to help the one being beaten up by Niko while the fourth one went up to Derek. Derek kicked the fourth soldier in the stomach and wrapped both hands around the soldier's throat. Instead of choking him, he simply just punched him six times in the face and tossed him to the side. The first soldier got back on his feet and jumped onto Derek's back. Relying on instinct, he jumps into the air leans back as he falls, hammering the soldier into the ground.

Niko halted the third soldier's kick and propel his kicking foot to the side. Niko hits him in the kneecap before bitting him in the calf. The third soldier yells in pain and trips over the soldier that Niko was laying on. He hit his head hard against the floor and was knocked out instantly. The soldier underneath Niko was still attempting to push Niko off, but he refused.

Niko punched the soldier underneath him several more times until he felt his knuckles beginning to bleed themselves. He jumps to his feet and smashes his foot into the soldier's face, knocking him out instantly. He looks over to his cousin and goes to assist him.

Derek was not trained in any formal martial arts like Cassie was, so he was more street fighter. He relied more on his wits and athletic gymnastic skills to punch and dodge his opponents. The soldier was trained in unarmed combat, so he knew what he was doing. Derek had to be careful. The soldier's punches were aimed mainly for his head, which was predictable at shit. Derek just ducked and wadded out of the way like a penguin. He strikes the soldier in the jaw and knees him in the stomach. He grabs the soldier by the hair as he catches his opponent's punching arm, and slams him into the nearby wall hard. The soldier groaned in pain as he felt his hair being tugged on, on the verge of being ripped off like a wig.

He swings his free hand at Derek, only to have it blocked. The young adventurer forces the soldier to bend forward by kneeing him in the gut before shoving him down flat on his back and punching him across the face.

Derek turned his head over his shoulder and was whacked in the face by Lachina. He falls over on his side, but he kicks her in the kneecap and gets back up. Lachina gets up faster and grabs Derek by the throat. She puts a leg behind his leg and uses it to trip him to the ground with her on top of him. He was about to lose his breath.

Cassie slid through the door and runs to assist Derek in taking down Lachina. She knocks Lachina to the ground by ramming her shoulder into her shoulder. Once Lachina hit the ground with a loud thud, she looked over to the wheezing Derek and helped him to his feet. "Are you alright man?"

"I'm doing good," he answered quickly, embarrassed that a girl was beating him. Being observant, he notices that Omaria and Ahmed were absent in Cassie's presence. "What happened to you and where's Omaria and the other?"

Cassie shook her head, knowing that Omaria and Ahmed were in no harm and did not require help for the time being. "What happened to you guys and where's Niko?"

He saw the grappling hook around her chest.

He points over her shoulder to show Cassie that Niko took care of himself around two Overlord soldiers. "There he is." He was proud of his cousin. Cassie was about to say something to him until Lachina kips up to her feet and shoved Cassie with an intense force out the way and to the ground, hard enough to dislocate her shoulder.

Lachina unholstered a knife from her chest holster and swung it at Derek. The young man had to use his keen senses to help himself predict and dodge the blade attacks. He had to back away from Lachina just to make sure that she wouldn't get too close to him and slash him.

"I got you cuz," Niko shouted as he sprinted towards Lachina. She backhands him with the knife in her hand and throws him to the side.

Lachina heard gunshots and saw several of her men go down. She was then sensing Cassie aiming at her, but she ignored it and continued to attack Derek, intending on using him as a meat shield if she had to. She didn't have to because of the several soldiers that went to go deal with Cassie themselves.

Lachina punched Derek hard across the face, enough to make him turn and expose his back to her, and she slashed him twice. The blade sliced through his shirt like butter and two bloody lines that crossed each other to make an X shaped scar. The scars ran from his shoulder bone to his hips. He yells in pain when Lachina kicked him in the center of the scar on his back and he falls on his stomach, his face turning red from pain.

"If it makes you feel any better, Derek, I think that scar on your back looks beautiful." She stabs him in the shoulder with her blade without even hesitating. Derek yells in pain and does the last thing he ever expected: He backhanded her.

He tried to backhand her, actually.

Niko saw the anguish that Lachina was putting his cousin through and he was filled with rage. He though Derek could take Lachina, but he was horribly wrong. He charges at Lachina from the side, tackling her in the waist and to the ground before Derek could even backhand her. Lachina was caught completely off guard by this and fell to the ground. Niko laid down on top of her, raised his hand to punch her. She caught the punch bit him in the forearm, enough to draw blood. Niko sneers through his teeth and is shoved off. Lachina kips up and kicks Niko numerous times in the stomach. She sweeps him off of his feet, leaving him open to her next attack. She raised her foot all the way up to her eye level, being flexible enough to do so, and brought her foot down hard on his stomach.

Niko groans in pain and folds over to the side. Lachina was not done with him, however. She grabs him by the hair, yanks him to his feet and knees him in the crotch area; the one place men dread to be hit.

"You want me to cut you like I cut your cousin?" she asked the cousin but did not give him a chance to reply. She grabs his arm, yanks it out as far as it could stretch, and forces Niko on his stomach. Remembering how Cassie broke Salaam's arm in the Pyramid back in Egypt, she decides to do the same thing on Niko.

She puts her boot on Niko's elbow and hammers it into the ground. Niko yells in pain as the feeling of his bone being snapped sets in. His screams echoed off the walls and awoken the still wounded Derek from the ground.

Derek looks over to see his cousin's arm being snapped. Anger sets into him instantly. "You don't touch my cousin, EVER!" He jumps to his feet and yanks the blade out of his shoulder. Lachina smiles at the fact that Derek was using blind rage to fight, so she could use that to her advantage. She kicks Niko aside and throws a kick to Derek. He catches her kick and traps her leg under his armpit. He stabs the blade deep into her kneecap, forcing a scream out of Lachina. For the final touch, he brings his leg over her trapped leg, kicking her in the face in the process, and brings down all his weight on her trapped leg. Lachina's leg snaps louder than Niko's and her screams almost made Derek go deaf. After breaking her leg, he gets off of her and shoves her broken leg to the ground and leaves her lying all by herself, clutching her broken leg in pain.

"Niko, man? Are you okay?" Cassie meets up with Niko and sets him up against her knee so he had something to lean on. "What happened?"

Niko waited for the pain in his arm to wear off before he answered his friend and cousin. "That bitch Lachina snapped my arm."

It pained Derek to see Niko in such a critical condition. "I took care of her for you. I was not going to let anything happen to you. I'm sorry I let you down.

"At least you avenged me," he groaned. With his good hand, he shook his cousin's hand. "Go on, I'll stay here."

Derek shook his head. "No Niko, your arm is broken and I won't leave you here."

"If you don't leave me here, you won't get to Cleopatra in time and save the world. Go on!"

Derek looked at Cassie for approval. She hesitantly shook her head and laid him against the ground. "We'll come back for you."

"When the coast is clear, I'm going to make a run for our getaway car. Derek speculated that all Overlord soldiers are inside the Tomb, so the coast could be clear outside."

"What?"

"Go!"

Cassie was reluctant to back away from Niko as Derek hugged his cousin goodbye. Derek promised his cousin that he would survive and Niko kissed Derek's head for good luck. Now it was up to Cassie and Derek once again to finish the adventure. Wherever Omaria and Ahmed were, they would find later after they destroy Overlord.

"Let's go, Cass," Derek spoke softly.