There was a moment in the darkness when everyone held their breath. Alex recovered from surprise first and elbowed his captor in the ribs, everyone heard the man shout out from the pain. His grip slackened from Alex's arms and the blonde haired boy wriggled free. A shout issued from beside Alex and it was not Hex's voice so he figured Hex had the same idea. The boys both considered running but the darkness was so obsolete they realised their predators would track them with the sounds they made. Alex and Hex tiptoed away quietly, the men, in a fit of anger from losing the boys, shouted out and ran forwards. Alex flattened himself against the wall and he felt a man run past him. The men's shouts could be heard getting quieter as they ran down the corridor; not paying the slightest amount of attention to finding their prisoners. Alex thought he could breathe normally, he recollected his thoughts before the blackout; he could've sworn he saw Paulo stood next to-

"Lily!" Hex whispered loudly as the lights flickered back on. Alex looked down the hallway to see Paulo was indeed stood next to the dark skinned girl. She appraised him in turn.

"Hey guys," her eyes never left Alex's until Hex coughed pointedly, she jumped and looked to him. "Oh sorry Hex! Thank you so much." She ran to him and hugged him tightly.

"That's alright." He muttered rather sheepishly.

"What're you talking about?" Paulo asked and Lily let go of Hex.

"Hex gave me a…err-" she said and began to undo the rope binding his hands. Paulo walked over to Alex and did the same.

"It was just a device that showed her where we were. Using the same tracker system I hooked us all up with." He smiled triumphantly and Paulo laughed.

"This isn't the time." Alex took a step from the wall and everyone turned to him. "They're gonna come back any-" He was cut off as they heard the doors open and they looked around; the men were stood, staring at them in confusion. They started forwards to capture the teenagers but everyone was again surprised as the lights went out. "What's with the lights?" Alex whispered.

"This place always has power cuts." Lily answered, "Welcome to Peru, Alex." She whispered scathingly; Alex should be used to the power cuts by now. Everyone stood still, trying to listen for the men's footsteps; they walked clumsily down the darkness and that meant they could be heard. Lily was about to step forwards when someone grabbed her arm, she almost called out but stopped herself.

"Wait a second," Alex turned Lily to face him even though they couldn't see each other. "You are angry at me?" He whispered, thinking of the sarcastic tone she'd used with him. The lights turned back on and Alex pushed Lily away while jumping back, out of reach from a man that had appeared behind Lily. The man shouted again in frustration and they were plunged into darkness once more. Alex was turned around by force and shouted but a hand came to his mouth to stop him.

"Well you weren't exactly understanding…" Lily whispered and Alex pulled her hand away from his mouth.

"Understanding?!" Alex shouted. The lights came on again, Lily and Alex saw Paulo jump out of the grip of a man and into another room, the man followed. Hex was being hounded by the only other man hunting them, Hex ran down the corridor and the man perused, leaving Alex and Lily alone in the corridor. She turned away from him in frustration. "It wasn't to difficult to understand." He muttered as they both thought of what to do next, Lily sighed and put her hands on her hips.

"Will you shut up and let me think?" She snapped, the lights turned off again, they both groaned in annoyance. "Perhaps we should look for Li and Amber; get them out and meet up with the others." Lily suggested and Alex nodded.

"Paulo and Hex'll be OK; it's just a game of hide and seek."

"Hide and seek; you were rubbish at that game Lily." A voice said behind the pair. They both turned to Pedro who stood at the end of the corridor. Pedro looked over at them, smirking at the fact that the two people in front of him looked completely different. The girl, dark in all her appearance; a black dress on her tanned skin, her long, dark hair no longer perfect and her eyes held some essence of deepness. Where as the boy was fair in every way, although his skin had tanned slightly in the Peruvian sun and his eyes were a glassy grey, as though he could read every part of you but only let you touch the surface of himself. The lights blacked out again before giving light once more. It was like something out of a horror film, Alex and Lily could've sworn that as the lights flicked on and off Pedro was coming closer. Lily trembled as she realised what she should do, she really didn't want to show that side of herself to Alex but she had no choice. As the lights stayed on Alex glanced over to Lily and saw her shaking hand pull her dress up to reveal her thigh, he cocked an eyebrow and was shocked to see a red ribbon holding a gun to her leg.

"Lily…?" He looked at her questioningly but realised that Pedro thought Lily had lost her nerve and so did not retrieve his own weapon, indeed her hand had stopped going for the gun. The lights went off once more and Alex took the opportunity and pulled the ribbon from her leg, grabbing the gun for himself he pointed it at Pedro. The lights turned back on and he saw the shock on Pedro's face and the boy did not even have time to reach for his own gun. Alex jumped as a hand landed on his shoulder. Alex had indeed held guns before and shot but he had never done so to hurt anyone, his hand shook and he stared at the boy determinedly. Lily put her lips to his ear and her hand moved from his shoulder down to the gun.

"Hold in steady, he'll know you're nervous otherwise-"

"I'm not." Alex whispered back and Lily smirked.

"Your hands say otherwise." She held his hand with the gun to steady it and Alex could feel himself blushing as she did so. "Concentrate and look straight down the site." He nodded; he knew all of this but his body wasn't responding to his mind.

"As sweet as this is." Pedro said, "either take the shot or let me kill you." He stood, waiting for Alex to move.

"If you don't want to do it Alex, I will." Lily whispered, Alex didn't look at her but he could hear the determination in her voice. After a few painful moments Pedro sighed and went to take out a gun from it's holder beneath his jacket. At that moment the lights lost power again, Pedro ducked in case the British kid took a shot, nothing happened; Pedro removed his gun and stood. The lights came on once more, but Lily and Alex where nowhere to be seen.

Li woke with a start, she thought she heard a bang from outside their room and looked around, she was so tired it took her a moment to realise that the light in their room was off.

"Amber, did you turn the light out?" She said with a laugh, knowing her friend was just as incapable of movement has she was. "Yo, Amber? Wake up now!" She shouted and yawned. She shut her eyes as the lights turned back on; the light was blinding. She turned to the door as she heard it open. "Food?" She said sleepily; realising now how hungry she was. But no one came through the door; she stared out into the empty corridor in confusion. Hex ran past their door, stopped and doubled back, he pointed and stared at them with his mouth open before running off again, Li screwed up her face in confusion and nodded as a man ran after Hex. "Everyone's got something to do but us; well I'm fed up of waiting!" She looked around the room and noticed a pile of Alpha force's bags that were within leg's reach. Li's malleable body meant it was easy for her to reach the bag with her unbound legs, she dragged it towards her and opened the zip with her teeth. "Aha!" She shouted in triumph, "Amber don't move ok? You might get cut…" she added and proceeded to remove a knife from the bag, holding on to the blade's handle with her teeth. She turned her face and dropped the blade behind her. She groped around for it and when she found it began to cut at the rope that bound her hands until they were free, she whooped triumphantly and turned to do the same for Amber. The lights went out again.

Paulo backed out of the room and into the darkness of another; he had no idea where he was going, he couldn't see a thing, but at least that meant his pursuer couldn't see anything as well. His back hit another person and yelped.

"Paulo?" The person whispered and he was relieved to hear Hex's voice.

"Hex? Where the heck is everyone?"

"I don't know," the lights turned on and the boys glanced around quickly; making sure they were alone. "I think we should gather everyone, get our bags and just get the hell out of here." He said quickly and Palo nodded but then groaned.

"We have no idea where they took our bags!" He cursed softly, "let's just find the others." Hex nodded and they set off together, they had not moved far when they heard a squeal and turned around.

"Paulo! Hex!"

"Li, be quiet!" Paulo whispered, "they'll hear you and come running." But the smile he had was wiped off his face as he saw the worry etched on Li's face, she ran up to them and grabbed their wrists. "Li? What is it?" He asked.

"It's Amber," Li panted, evidently she had been running around to find them. "She's not waking up."