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Chapter 12: Missing No More

"You wouldn't believe how often this happens to me." Kendra commented to Hunter as the men lead them into the warehouse. "And it always seems that it includes a warehouse."

"Shut up!" One of the men yelled as he pushed her enough to cause her to stumble but she was able to keep herself from falling on her face.

"Hey, leave her alone!" Hunter shouted but he just got punched in the gut for his efforts. Hunter was doubled over clutching his stomach but the man behind him just pushed him forward toward Slade.

"My, my look what we have here." Slade said once his men had brought Kendra and Hunter to stand before him.

"Well, well, look what we have here, slime ball number one and slime ball number two." Kendra mocked as she glared at Slade and then at Miller who was standing next to him.

"You are a troublesome girl." Miller remarked as he stepped up and punched her.

One of the men that had brought Kendra and Hunter into the warehouse grabbed Kendra before she had a chance to leap at Miller and the one that looked like a wrestler grabbed Hunter because he was about to do the same thing. Lip split and bleeding, Kendra glowered darkly at the man standing before her, struggling to break free from the man who held tightly onto her.

"Let's allow them to see their friends one more time before they all die." Slade said with a wicked gleam in his eyes.

Slade lead the way as Kendra and Hunter roughly forced to walk down about five rows of stolen electronics that were stacked about twelve feet about their heads. Then they turned right and after that row, they made another right. They stopped when the entered an open area but were still surrounded by electronic equipment piled about fifteen feet high wrapped in plastic.

"Trent! Carlos!" Kendra screamed once she had spotted them. They were each tied to their own chair but they had their backs to each other. Kendra could see that their bonds were too tight because she saw the blood coming from their wrists. Their faces were bruised and bloody and their clothes were torn from the scuffle they had been in and when they had been beaten. Their heads were slumped down onto their chests. Kendra obviously couldn't see what damage had been done beneath their clothing but she tried hard not to picture the broken bones and bruises.

Slade turned around and smiled cruelly at Kendra. "Oh I assure you, they are still alive. At least, the last time I checked they were still breathing as best as they could, anyway."

"I suggest you release my friends before I have to resort to kicking all of your butts and ripping that smirk off your face." Kendra said coolly but her blue eyes were ablaze.

Slade laughed. "Right and how exactly do you plan on doing that sweetheart? You and your friend have already been caught and you don't even have a weapon." He said as he pulled out a gun from underneath his tan jacket and pointed it at Kendra. He then pivoted on his foot, swung the gun around, and aimed it at Trent and Carlos.

Suddenly, a crash was heard coming from the direction of the entrance of the warehouse.

"Slade, the Rangers are here!" A man shouted from where the crash had occurred.

"Right on time," Kendra said, as she freed herself from the man who was holding her by kicking him in his privates.

Slade growled and just as he was about to pull the trigger, Kendra grabbed his arm and bent it and the gun away from Trent and Carlos. A loud snap was heard followed by a scream of pain and a thud as the gun fell from his hand and onto the floor. "I told you to release my friends." Kendra's eyes gleamed angrily as she knocked him out cold with her other arm in one punch.

While Kendra had been preventing Slade from killing her friends, Hunter had elbowed his captor in the nose and then spun around to face the large man. He threw about half a dozen punches to the man's face, receiving a couple of his own but had been able to remain on his feet. The man fell to the ground when Hunter's seventh punch clipped the man on the chin. Then Hunter chased after Miller who had decided to make a run for it.

Walker jumped out of his truck, the cause of the crashing noise, and punched a man that had come running up to him with his fists in the air. Trivette had jumped out of the truck a second after Walker and was already fighting a man who looked and smelled as though he hadn't had a bath in a long time.

Gage drove his car into the hole that Walker had made, parked next to the truck and he and Sydney jumped out and chased after some men that took off into the maze of electronics.

Gage and Sydney split up as they each followed one man.

The man Gage was chasing after, stopped and turned to face him. The man was a couple of inches shorter than the Ranger was but the thug's biceps were the size of honeydew melons.

"Why do I always get the guys that have spent way too much time in the weight lifting room?" Gage commented as he dodged a fist that was aimed at his head.

Gage kicked at the man but he instead hit the crate that had several small screen televisions piled on top of it and since it had not been placed correctily it was titled just right and it all came crashing down onto his adversary. "That has to hurt." Gage commented as he bent down to make sure the man was still alive. Satisfied that the man would live, with some bruises and a horrible headache, he took off to find his partner.

Walker flipped a man over his shoulder and then kicked another in the head. A red-haired man that was standing about twenty feet from Walker decided that he wasn't going to try and fight Walker and he headed into the rows.

"Are you going to go after him?" Walker asked Trivette and then threw a couple of punches as the first man who had tried to attack him but this time he came at the Ranger with a two-by-four.

"Why do I always have to chase them?" Trivette asked and Walker gave him a look right before he delivered a roundhouse kick to the armed attacker.

"Right. Never mind." Trivette grumbled as he took off after the man.

"You'll all under arrest." Walker said to the unconscious men as he handcuffed them together.

One of the men that had run into the rows returned to the entrance. Once he had seen Walker and his three unconscious comrades, he threw his hands up into the air. "I give up."

"Good idea." Walker said as he walked over and slapped handcuffs on the man.

Hunter tackled Miller who had made it about two rows from the clearing. Miller flipped Hunter off of him and threw a punch that hit Hunter squarely on the jaw, causing Hunter's head to snap back. Miller scurried away from Hunter and stood up. Miller threw another punch and hit Hunter on his right cheek.

"Ah. You and your little girlfriend are going to pay." Miller spat out as he went to throw another punch.

Hunter dodged Miller's fist and threw a punch of his own and hit Miller in his right eye. "I doubt it."

Miller grabbed his eye and then he lunged at Hunter. Hunter jumped to the side and Miller fell onto the hard concrete. Miller screamed in rage, stood up and ran at Hunter again.

Hunter hit him on the jaw that caused Miller to turn abruptly as he slammed into one of the rows. Miller fell to the ground.

Hunter checked to see if the man was still alive. "He'll live, but he's going to have one bad headache when he wakes up." Then Hunter took off and headed back to the clearing.

The man that Sydney had been chasing had gotten away from her, but another man had popped out from one of the rows in front of her.

"Ah look, it's a pretty little lady Ranger." The dark haired man who needed a haircut and a shave said as he stepped closer to Sydney.

"I hate being called little lady." Sydney replied anger flashing in her dark eyes as she did a roundhouse kick.

Gage heard the sounds of punches landing and quickly went around the corner. He stopped when he saw Sydney fighting a man almost twice her size. He leaned against the row to watch as she threw several punches and expertly dodged the few that had come her way. Then she did a roundhouse kick that hit the man in the gut. The man fell onto the ground, clutching his stomach.

Gage walked over and bent down to look in the man's eyes. "You called her little, didn't you?"

The man looked as though he wanted to cry. Gage shook his head in pity and disgust as he stood up.

"Not bad, Syd." Gage commented as he walked over to her.

"Thanks, Gage. You just decided not to help me?" Sydney said as she turned and headed into the rows.

"What?" Gage exclaimed as he ran after her.

Kendra kicked the gun away from Slade's unconscious body, just in case, and then stood protectively over Carlos and Trent. Hunter returned and ran over to Kendra as she indicated that he should check Carlos. She kneeled down, grabbed a knife from Slade's belt, and then went to cut Trent's bonds. She handed the knife to Hunter, who cut Carlos' bonds.

"Hey, Thunder Boy, can you hear me?" Kendra asked as she gently held Trent's face in her hands. Kendra's worried frown became a determined line. "You're going to be all right," Kendra said firmly. "How is he doing?" Kendra asked Hunter, indicating the unconscious Carlos.

"He's alive but he needs a doctor." He replied as he finished removing the ropes.

"The ambulance is on the way," said Trivette as he came into the small clearing with his cell phone in hand.

"Good. Miller is knocked out over there." Hunter said as he pointed to his left.

Trivette nodded his head, punched in a number on his cell and called Walker to let his partner know that Trent and Carlos had been found.

guardianM3: I hope that you'll have enjoyed this chapter. Thanks to all of the readers who reviewed.