Chapter 22 – Shots, Sirens, Lights

Tyana's breathing caught up with her, becoming frayed and strained. But she pushed on nonetheless and willed her legs to pound harder against the grey solid floor. As she ran she could feel the muscles in her legs begin to tense under the pressure she was putting on them but she tried her best to ignore it just like every other aching limb she was overlooking. Her vision blurred temporarily, causing her to stop dead in her tracks. The group all halted around her and Marrettabella stopped right at her side, placing a gentle hand on her back as Tyana doubled over.

"Ty, are you ok, do you want me to take over?"

"No!" the turquoise haired beauty barked back, straightening and blinking furiously. Her vision blurred more then cleared to resemble crystal. "Come on" she shrieked and waved her arms. They all began to flood the corridors again.

Seconds later they found the final intersection and with the extra 3 corridors they found a group of angry guards piling in to trap them. Tyana clenched her gun tightly and her finger was hovering over the trigger in a split second. Open fire suddenly shot in all directions and she ducked to a roll as she tried to get out of its way.

"Split into 4" she screamed about the ruckus. Her fleet did as commanded and divided into 4 equal groups and each group attacked the group of guards that were blocking the hallway nearest to them. Tyana began to fire again but her gun coughed up air and she cursed loudly when she realized she was out of ammo. Barrels of fists were swinging towards her. She flipped backwards on one hand so not to put weight on her damaged arm, landing in a battle stance, and then instantly began to fight back when guards rushed at her. She round house kicked the first guard, landed again in the perfect stance then uppercut him in his large square jaw. He stumbled backwards in surprise and she took the advantage of time to see to the next guard making a dash for her. She caught his nose with a punch and then jabbed the bottom of her palm into his solar plexus. He too stumbled but her boot smacked against his face before he got too far and then smashed him back the other way when Tyana reversed her kick.

"Ty there's too many, they just keep coming" someone screamed over the gunfire. Tyana quickly looked around and saw it was true. For every guard that was shot, stabbed or beaten two were filling in to take his place.

Before she could take command of the situation with a necessary order she was caught off guard by being rammed into. Her bad shoulder was caught in the barge but she managed to dodge a large percentage of that weight that was hurled at her and merely had to take two steps to the side to regain perfect balance. Her shoulder seared angrily, screaming and oozing in utter agony. She clenched her teeth.

"Bastard" she muttered with pure rage and pulled out her knife with lightening speed and brought it down in two quick slashes across his chest. She finished up with a pierce to the heart. The body slumped to the floor.

"Mission reassessment" she snapped in the loudest voice possible, "Plan eleven."

The second that final syllable left her lips 7 of them flung themselves to the floor, Tyana included, and the loudest burst of gunfire known to mankind sparked off as the other 8 responded to her orders.

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Jeff threw himself to the floor the moment he heard the mighty uproar of screams and shots. He had been hearing the sound of death all night but nothing could have prepared him for such a screech of carnage. He only hoped it was the good side that was imposing that carnage. It seemed a little further off than he had thought. The man jumped to his feet, took a quick look about and then dashed off in the direction the noises were coming from. He hoped Tyana was a safe distance from those deathlike cries. Little did he know she was caught slap bam in the center.

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Tyana staggered to her feet, all bodies around her now pinned to the floor, gasping for their last breathes or dead having already taken them.

"That's what happens when you side with the bad guys" she heard Marrettabella mumble. She could only mumble silently in agreement. And again she was off. Everyone followed, trying desperately to keep up the pace that her legs were setting.

Soon she felt Marrettabella's presence at her side as she managed to keep up with Tyana's stride. She dared a glance at her companion. Blood stained her shirt beneath her ribs. She hoped to god that blood was not hers. Tyana was injured. That was one injury too many. They couldn't cope with any more.

"Two more to go" Tyana barely registered Marrettabella's scream. She had known the content of it off by heart. It was set on auto play in her mind and was flashing before her eyes as she neared the end of her mission. She took a corner. One more corridor to go. Another corner. And she could see it. Huge steel doors, slapped tight and solid into the walls before her. She halted in front of it. The final phase was looming behind this door. There wasn't enough time to take in the moment. To smell the near linger of success. It was now or never. She leapt into action.

Tyana launched herself at the large door, grabbing it at the opening in the center. She could just about slip the tips of her fingers into the crevice. The remaining 14 joined her and with an almighty grunt of pain and force of strength they pulled the door open long enough for Tyana to get inside. Once she did she hit the button to open the doors and then turned her attention to the guards that were lined sternly up around the one thing Tyana needed in this entire room. The one thing she had killed for. The one thing she wanted and needed to end the pain that radiated from the ripping shot in her arm. The one thing to free the person she had done all this for.

The doors were snapped shut behind her just as the guards charged. Gunfire pounded through her ears again. Bodies fell. And then they were alone with the end of their torture.

"Get out the chips" Tyana yelled as she rushed towards the large silver cylinder that stood tall and bright with lights and buttons covering the huge surface area.

All at once everyone lifted their shirts and tore their waistbands containing the chips from their stomachs and then everyone was standing gathered around the coladulator.

"Right, begin fitting" everyone complied and tried to press the chips into the correct slots. Tyana blinked hard in concentration, trying desperately to block out the screaming sirens and flashing lights that lit up the room they had barged into. She knew they only had a few more minutes until reinforcements forced they way inside. Then they were dead.

Tyana shook off her disorientation and joined her group in slipping the cards into the slots. Each card had a distinct shape that had to fit into the correct slot on the coladulator. Tyana had matched up three already. Her eyes shot up to the large screen on the top of this huge machine. It read 15. They had plenty more cards to fit in. And the seconds were ticking away.

Tyana concentrated again.

She began to move around the coladulator in an anticlockwise direction as she tried chip after chip, trying to fit it in slot after slot. She heard a ping. Someone had fitted all of their cards.

"I'm done" she heard Meliya yell.

"Then go" Tyana screamed back. She watched as Meliya took a deep breath, wished them the best and then jumped into the flashing blue door of the coladulator. She was gone. Safe on the other side. Safe, only if the other volunteers could fit the cards in 8 minutes. Someone else barked their progress. They disappeared into the other dimension.

13 people were left.

7 minutes in which to complete the mission.

Tyana broke into a sweat and continued on her mission.

"Please god, just….fit"

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