One of the auxiliary C-4 charges exploded, destroying a building in the pool. The panic that ensued blocked Jake from my view for a minute.
"Now you know I have it in me!" I said. "Now get out of the fucking blast zone because I'm not giving another warning got it!" Suddenly Cassie came to. Jake saw it and kissed her. He began to run with her at his side limping slightly, soon he was out of the blast zone. I heard Karen's voice in my earpiece.
"Erik, all personal are in safe zones ready to detonate."
"Ok then," I said. "Becky lets blow this place to the Hell it is." Becky smiled and turned the key. Nothing happened.
"Shit!" Becky said.
"What's wrong?" I said.
"When I set off that warning shot it changed the air composition, I can't get the signal into the pool."
"You mean we did all that and now we can't blow the place?" I said feeling horrible.
"No we can do it, the C-4 is set to detonate in a line, if one goes off by any source other than this detonator they'll go off, but the C-4 has to be set off manually." What she said took awhile to sink in.
"So someone has to go in there and set it off themselves?" Jordan asked.
"Yeah, they won't make it out…" Becky said sadly. I turned on my mike and told the others.
"Who's gonna do it?" Marco asked.
"It's my mission," I said. "I'll do it."
"What! Erik NO!" Karen said. Her voice made me smile. Becky looked at me.
"You sure?" Becky said. I nodded. "Okay all you have to do is press the red button on the charge, pick anyone of them it won't be hard to find.
"Ok see you then." I hugged Becky, she gave me a kiss on the cheek. I gave Jordan a hug too.
"Erik, no please don't , Erik don't…" Karen's voice was near tears. "Please Erik, I love you, I love you don't die, I'll find something there has to be…"
"We don't have time Kare, we need to finish this now, I'll always be with you, Fred can you hear me?"
"yeah," Fred said. "What is it." He was doing a good job of hiding his grief but I could still hear a touch of it.
"Take care of Karen OK." I said.
"I will, I promise."
"Bye guys." I said. I began to walk towards the entrance, back into Hell. I knew I was crying, I was going to miss Karen, well I would see her again, someday, in heaven, I began to pray silently. My feet were swept from under me. I saw Jordan had knocked me over. She looked me in the eyes.
"Your not dieing today Erik, Karen needs you, I'm expendable."
"No you're not I'm doing this." Jordan smiled. "No your not." She hit me in the face, I blacked out. In the blackness I heard several voices.
"What the Hell, what's Jordan doing here?" Rachel.
"Is she, I thought Erik… That bastard" (Guess who)
"Somone go get her, I'll do it don't let her…" Rachel again.
(It's too late for that she's already too far in if someone goes in after her they'll die too) Ax. The last voice I heard before I blacked out completely was Jordan's.
"This is for you Dad, I'll see you soon." I heard a loud blast then silence.
Short Chapter I know but I need to keep suspense. I did what I could for J/C but that's not my strong suit I can't really do much justice to that relationship. The next chapter should be the last one.
