Disclaimer: The characters of, "Sons of Thunder" and "Walker Texas Ranger", are owned by Chuck Norris, Aaron Norris, CBS and whoever else was involved with the creation and production of these two shows. Any new characters and story lines that come into play are of my own creation. No copyright infringement is intended. This is a fan fiction intended for entertainment purposes only and no money is being made off of it.

guardianM3: I guess my updates are coming quicker than I thought. Sometimes, the words just come and you have to write it down. I hope you'll enjoy this chapter. As I was rereading the previous chapters, I discovered that I gave Miller the first name George in chapter 1 and I called him Julian in the later chapters. I apologize for any confusion and I'll repost chapter 1 with the name Julian. I have also edited chapters one thru five, fixing some grammar mistakes or whatever (at least the mistakes I noticed anyway).

Chapter 11: Checking Stuff Out

Kim knocked on the open door to Walker's office. Walker looked up from the paper he had been reading. "Yes, Kim?"

"We are still searching for warehouses under those names, but Trent and Carlos did follow Slade and his fellow thieves to a warehouse to a town just outside of Dallas. I wasn't able to find out who owned the warehouse." Kim sighed and rubbed her forehead. "I guess I've been forgetting a lot of things."

Walker saw the dark circles under Kim's eyes from a combination of weariness and worry. He gave her a kind smile. "It's alright, Kim. We are all worried about Trent and Carlos but don't blame yourself for being forgetful. You've been working vigorously to find information that would lead us to them."

Kim gave Walker a smile. "Thanks, Walker."

"What's the address?" Walker asked Kim and she told him. Walker motioned for Kim to go back into the general office and followed her. "All right, Sydney, Gage and I are going to check out a warehouse outside of Dallas. Trivette and Kim, you two can continue searching. We'll be back soon." Walker said as he headed out the door, with Gage and Sydney right behind him.

Since it was uncomfortable for three grown people to sit in the front seat of Walker's truck, Sydney and Gage took Gage's car, while of course, Walker drove his truck. They drove with their sirens on and since both vehicles were going well over the speed limit, they made it to the warehouse in record time.

They drew their weapons as they headed stealthy to the warehouse. Walker kicked open the door and ran in, followed by Gage and Sydney. The place was dark so Walker flipped on the switch. The warehouse was empty.

Walker holstered his weapon as did Sydney and Gage. "They cleaned the place out." Gage said as he noted the marks of a forklift in the dust with the toe of his boot.

"Yeah, it makes sense that this place would be deserted. Miller told Slade that the boys had followed him so he decided to clear out." Sydney said as she scanned the large, open room.

"Now, what do we do?" Gage asked.

"Search for clues." Walker said simply as he walked toward a door that lead to a tiny office. Sydney and Gage headed in opposite directions and began to search the large room.

After Kendra had dragged Hunter out of the Rage Roadhouse, he had dug in his heels that forced her to stop.

"What is it Hunter? We have to go check that warehouse out!" Kendra exclaimed, releasing his arm and took a step toward her car.

Hunter grabbed her arm. "Hold on, Kendra. It is way too dangerous, especially at this time of night." He said as he indicated that the sun had already gone down and the stars and moon providing the only light. "I think we have to talk about what happened in there."

Kendra spun around and looked Hunter straight in the eye. "We can discuss that later, now we have to go see if Trent and Carlos are in that warehouse."

"Kendra…" Hunter began.

"Look, I don't want to call Walker and the gang out here for nothing. We can just go and take a quick look. Besides, the Rangers need a warrant before they can go barging in, unless, of course, they have a reasonable cause." Kendra said.

Hunter muttered something underneath his breath that was inaudible to Kendra. "Ok, we can go check things out and if we do find them, we are going to call the Rangers and wait for them to arrive." Hunter said firmly.

"Right." Kendra replied, a little too quickly for Hunter's taste. "We'll take my car."

Hunter threw his hands up in the air and then headed to Kendra's car and got in. As he was putting on his seatbelt, she started the car and spun out of the dirt parking lot. She followed Andy's directions and she soon drove past the blocked road.

"Where are you going?" Hunter asked glancing over his shoulder. "You missed the road."

"We can't just go up that road, they'll spot us. I was going to park down here and then we'll take a quick hike over there." Kendra explained, as she pressed the gas pedal down even further.

"Are you normally this…hasty?" Hunter asked.

"Only when my friends are in trouble." Kendra replied as she turned sharply on a curve.

"Yeah, that's a good reason." Hunter said as he grabbed hold of the door handle.

Kendra had hidden her car behind some shrubs about half a mile away from the road that lead to the warehouse. Kendra grabbed a black duffel bag from the trunk of her car and they headed off to the warehouse.

They had found a spot about one hundred feet from the warehouse. A bright floodlight helped illuminate the front and one side of the warehouse. "That's Carlos' Dodge Durango." Kendra said as she pointed to a vehicle that was parked next to the warehouse and was barely visible.

"How can you be so sure that is Carlos's Durango? It's parked beneath some trees, its dark out and…" Before Hunter could continue, Kendra handed him some night vision goggles.

"See, I'm right, that is his license plate." Kendra said as she pointed once again toward the Durango.

Hunter coughed as he studied the goggles in his hands. "Okay. You keep night vision goggles in a bag in your car. Are you a spy or something?" He asked somewhat jokingly as he returned the goggles to her hands without even bothering to use them.

"No, but I always like to be prepared. Can I borrow your cell phone?"

"Yeah," Hunter replied as he handed his cell phone to her. "You have night vision goggles, but not a cell phone?"

Kendra didn't respond as she punched in Kim's cell phone number. "Hey, Kim we found Trent and Carlos." She said into the cell phone.

"Wha….are….where….." Those were the only words that Kendra could hear from Kim due to the static.

"We think we found the boys so track Hunter's cell phone." Kendra said slowly before the cell phone lost all reception. "I hate cell phones." Kendra muttered as she slammed the cell phone closed and tossed it to Hunter.

Hunter pocketed his cell phone. "Now what do you want to do? I mean, all we know is that is Carlos' Dodge Durango, but how can we be sure that they are there?" He asked looking at the old warehouse.

"We go and see." Kendra replied and took a few steps before Hunter firmly grabbed her arm.

"Kendra! Are you crazy? Even if they are there, the people who are holding them are most likely going to have weapons and we are most likely outnumbered." Hunter pointed out.

"Do you say 'most likely' a lot?" Kendra asked.

Hunter sighed in frustration.

"Look, I'm sorry. I'm just worried about Carlos and Trent." Kendra said the worry reflecting in her eyes.

Hunter sighed and he released her arm. "Yeah, I know, but you just can't rush in there when you don't know what you're going to find."

"Yeah, I see your point. We'll head back to Rage Roadhouse and call Walker from there since I'm not even certain if Kim even heard me at all."

"All right. Let's go." Hunter said as he turned around and looked into a pair of brown eyes that belonged to a man who looked as though he was a professional wrestler. "Uh, hello."

Kendra spun around to see four men and with the light from the stars, she saw that they each had a gun.

After fifteen minutes, Walker, Sydney and Gage had returned outside to their vehicles after their search revealed one thing and that was the thieves were very good at covering their tracks. Gage kicked at the gravel as Walker's cell phone rang.

"Hey, Walker. Kendra called me." Kim said once Walker had answered his cell phone.

"What did she have to say?" Walker asked.

"I could barely understand what she said at all and since I was unable to track were she had called from, I tracked Hunter's car to a place called 'Rage Roadhouse."

"All right, thanks Kim. I know where that is and tell Trivette to meet us there." Walker closed his cell phone and looked at the two eager Rangers. "Let's go."

Walker drove his truck while the two younger Rangers were in Gage's car, attempting to keep up with the speeding truck. They reached Rage Roadhouse where Trivette was leaning against his car that was parked next to Hunter's car.

"Hey. Kim called and told me that a hit finally came through. There is a warehouse owned by Toby Blade a few miles from here." Trivette said once his fellow Rangers had come up to him.

"All right. We'll head there." Walker said as he headed back to his truck. Trivette got into Walker's truck as Sydney and Gage returned to their car. The Rangers sped down the road, all of them silently praying that they weren't too late.

guardianM3: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. This time, Kim's forgetfulness was my own. As I was rereading the previous chapters, I discovered that I had forgotten that the Thunder boys had followed the thieves to a warehouse outside of Dallas. I'll try not to let it happen again. Please review.