Chapter Six
"Oh you silly, silly bastard, I may have a small arm wound, but I will not let it slow me down." Jane whispered to herself as she chased after Father. They reached the entrance hall as red alert sounded. Doors and Windows were on lock down now. He grabbed a gun and some bullets from behind the security desk and kept running. He stopped at the door going further down to his underground escape route. Jane burst through the stair doorway only to duck behind the security desk not to long after. The sound of more helicopters arriving let her know that more assasins were on their way as did the security cameras. She searched for a gun and found one hidden in a usually secret location. Father made a run for it and locked the door behind him.
"Come to mama." Jane said as she walked to the door. She kicked at it, but the lock wouldn't give. John came running down the stairs and gave her a hand after collecting the last hand gun from behind the security desk.
"Hey wait." Jasmine said. She put in a code and more guns dropped. Jane and John exchanged theirs for better guns.
"We better hurry or we'll never catch him." Brooke said as she heard footsteps on the stairs. Everyone nodded. Jane and John kicked open the door and they hurried down the steps towards the boiler room. Once in the room they found nothing, but a trap door he conviently had to shoot open. They jumped down only to fine they had to crawl to get to another trap door which led to the sewage system it seemed.
"Its wet be careful." Jane said. They raised their guns and went in search of Father.
"Happy swimming suckers." They heard his voice come from no where and than the sound of rushing water met their ears.
"Shit run for it!" Eddie shouted. They ran as water was coming fast at them.
"Link together we can't loose each other there might be some way out." John said. They linked together with rock climbing rope that Jane thought would be conviently useful. They were met by a brick wall. They all searched.
"It might be way back there we may have to swim for it." Jasmine said. Everyone nodded as they secured their guns properly and prepared to swim.
"Never go anywhere without minor swim gear." Jasmine said just as they put on their googles they were thrown into the each other and brick wall by the water. They swam against the current as best they could looking for a way out. John was the one who found the door Father either had gone through or planned on after they had drowned in the water. John tugged on the rope leading Jane and the tugging continued.
"Stop." Jane mouthed to John as he tried to pull it open. He looked at her questioningly and she pointed to the lock. He looked annoyed as he searched for the small hatchet Jane had hooked onto his belt, he had wondered what exactly they'd need it for, but for once he liked Jane's preciseness and the way she needed to plan out everything. Jane found it for him and handed it to him motioning for him to hurry up seeing as they were all running out of air. He motioned for them all to go up. They all went up to the top and stole a few precious gasps of air before the water filled to the top. They went back down and John struck at the lock for some time before it broke and finally with each one pulling they were able to lift it up. The water sucked them down with them and landed them into a different sewer system. It was much bigger and definately much nastier as they stood up getting cleaned off by the rushing water.
"Some fall." John's friend said.
"Your telling me, John your lucky we like ya." Eddie said.
"No, he's lucky you've all got something to gain and lose from all this if you don't take their sides." Jasmine said.
"What do you mean?" Jane asked checking her wound as he became familiar with their surroundings.
"These bastards are married well except four of us." Jasmine said indicating herself and three other girls as well as Eddie.
"What!" John exclaimed.
"You mean to tell me that we've all been living a lie to each other?" Jane asked.
"Yea, pretty much." said one of John's friend.
"I got curious and I had to know I couldn't go on lying especially after you and John had that little tiff I guess we could call it."
" I don't call trying to kill each other a little tiff." John said angry.
"Well we can only forgive and forget right now father is our main problem who knows what he's got down here waiting for us." Jane said.
"Exactly, so ladies your guns." Jasmine said. They all made a truce for the time being and chose to go right seeing as they heard noise coming from that end of the sewer. They held their guns ready for almost anything to come jumping out at them, and wondered to themselves if they'd ever catch father or die trying.