Disclaimers: I do not own or lay claim to Walker, Texas Ranger or the characters Walker, Gage, Sydney, Trivette or Alex. This was written for entertainment purposes only.
Search Party Part 2
Chapter 5: Inside a van
Gage and Sydney were in the back of the van for what Gage determined as about twenty minutes. Two of their captors kept them company and, ever since the ride had begun, no one spoke. The men allowed Gage to hold Sydney's unconscious body. Though the van was dark and he could not see her wounds, he felt blood on his hands from a gash on the back of her head.
Finally, Gage piped up, "What do you want with us? Where are we going?"
"No one said you could talk" Ned, one of the kidnappers, said to Gage.
"I got a question for you though," another one of the captors said.
Before Gage got a chance to answer, Ned said, "Don't ask him any questions, Carl. The less we know about them, the better."
"I wanna know what they do. You saw them ninja skills they got."
"Just shut up." Ned commanded and from that point on, the back of the van was silent.
It was at this point Gage tried to put things together. The martial arts skills of the rangers surprised them. It was only then that it dawned on Gage that these people probably weren't after rangers, but they were just trying to kidnap two people and he and Sydney just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. If that was the case, he was going to find out why. He had a feeling that this kidnapping was far more than four guys trying to get some ransom.
Chapter 6: Stonelake Park
Within the hour, the park was filled with law enforcement officials all looking for clues as to what happened to a pair of their best rangers. Walker and Trivette noticed a homeless man sleeping against a large rock.
"Excuse me, Sir, have you been in this park all evening?" Trivette asked as he shook the man's shoulder in an attempt to wake him up.
"All day, why?" the man drowsily asked.
"Well, I am Ranger Trivette, and this is Ranger Walker and we were wondering if you may have seen some friends of ours?" Trivette handed the man a picture of Gage and Sydney.
"I'm Paul, Paul Meshan," he said as he looked at the picture. "Yeah, I saw them two walking around here earlier. They were taken away."
"What do you mean, 'they were taken away'?" Walker questioned.
"Well, I was sitting her behind my rock and I heard some noises. I turned around and I saw three men jump the two in your picture."
"Did you see any of the men who attacked our friends?"
"No, they all had ski masks on."
"Three men?" Trivette questioned.
"Well, three came after them, but one of their friends or however was in the van."
"What van?" Walker asked.
"Well, your friends were fighting, and then two of them knocked the girl out and carried her off and into a black van over by the entrance. One of the guys pulled a gun on your male friend and forced him into the van."
"Did you see what type of van it was or the license plate number?" Trivette wondered.
"No, sorry to say I didn't." Paul answered.
"Well, Paul, thanks for your help." Walker said.
"No problem. I hope you find your friends."
"We will." Walker said as he and Trivette began walking away from the man.
"You think it's a personal vendetta?" Trivette questioned Walker.
"No, if Gage was able to drop his star, he probably already had it off prior to the attack. I think Sydney and Gage were victims of circumstance. Let's get back to headquarters."
On that note, the two partners hopped into Walkers Ram and headed downtown.
Chapter 7: Destination of the Van
"Okay, this is where we get out." Ned said.
"You carry the girl and don't try anything funny or we will shoot you both." Carl said to Gage.
The two men who were in the front of the van opened the doors and all of the people who were in back filed out. Two of the man lead Gage, with Sydney in his arms, and two walked behind him with guns aimed at him. They went inside of a rundown house and were led to the basement. After heading down the rickety, wooden stairs, Gage came to terms with his surroundings. There was an old cot and the room was very small room with cement walls and one very small window that was about 6 feet from the floor on one side of the room.
"Here's the deal. Do what we say and you won't get hurt." Bob the captor said. "We don't want to kill you, actually we will be selling you to someone else who needs you for something."
Gage was trying to soak in all of the details. Gage had lay Sydney down on the bed and was standing next to her. Gage tried to find a way to get out of this mess, but with Sydney not being able to fight or run from someone shooting at her, he figured he would have to wait until she woke up to try to get out of this mess. Two of the men still had guns aimed - one at him and one at Sydney.
One of the men pulled a small disposable camera from his coat pocket and said, "We need to prove we have you, so smile!" At that point the man started snapping pictures of Gage and Sydney.
"Now, so you don't get any ideas of using those ninja skills," Carl said, "we have these." The man held up two pairs of hand cuffs. He threw one pair at Gage. "Cuff your girlfriend." Fearing one of the men might shoot him or Sydney he did was he was told. He took her hands and cuffed them in front of her. He made sure not to cuff them too tight.
"Now, your turn." Carl roughly pushed Gage up against the wall and grabbed his arms. He cuffed Gage's arms behind his back and then pushed Gage toward the ground.
"We'll be back," one of the armed men said as the four trooped up the stairs.
Gage stared at Sydney trying to think of what he should do next.
Chapter 8: Ranger Headquarters
Walker and Trivette had spent nearly trying to get a lead on the black van but were getting no where fast. They needed more information than that it was a black van.
Alex walked into the Company B office and headed towards Walker's desk.
"Walker, I don't know if this has anything to do with Gage and Sydney's disappearance but I just got off the phone with a friend in California who works in the sheriff's office over there and they had a case just like this. A couple was abducted from a beach at about dusk. The abductors sold the couple to this other guy, John Slim, who used the couple to get the police to allow his and his brother safe passage into the next state as well as a few million dollars, assuring the police that the couple was alive and would be released when the crossed the state border."
"What happened?" Trivette questioned.
"Well, after Slim and his brother got into the next state, they gave the police an address where to find the couple and then Slim and his brother disappeared."
"Why do they need permission to pass from state to state?" Walker asked.
"Well, Slim's brother, really his half brother, Harold Colburn, is a fugitive on the run and wanted for murder in California. The police were closing in on him and that is when they figured they needed to get out of California."
"Now you think they might be in Dallas?" Walker asked Alex.
"Well, when the men left California, the FBI took over and last week the FBI notified my friend that these two might be in Dallas. If Slim and Colburn felt they were being closed in on, they might pull their trick again. It worked for them once."
"What happened to the couple?" Trivette wondered.
"They were found at the address beaten to death. The woman had signs of sexual abuse, so she was probably raped and then killed." Alex said. "If Slim has Gage and Sydney, we have to find them fast, Walker."
"Well, they will probably be contacting the police to guarantee them passage. Trivette send out a message to law enforcement officials through out Texas that if they are contacted, they send the people to us."
"Right, Walker."
"I'm scared, Walker. We need to find them." Alex stated.
"At least we know who we are dealing with. We will find them." Walker said as he pulled Alex into a light embrace.
