Chapter 15

The elevator doors opened and the hallways were trashed with dead bodies of agents and black trench coat guys on the floors and blood on the floors and the walls. Leon and the agent were stunned on how many bodies they were dead. They walked slowly down the hall; the agent was in front of Leon for protection. Leon was still carrying me and I was still gripping on his shirt because of the pain inside of my head. I opened my eyes a little bit and saw everything what they saw. Bodies on the floors and blood on the walls and on the floor, I couldn't react to it because the pain was getting to me. Leon broke the silence.

"What happened here?" The agent shrugged.

"I don't know, but it looks like we've been breached." Leon looked around and the lights started to flicker.

"Where is everyone?"

"They either ran out or they fought with their lives on the line or probably dead." Leon shrugged that feeling off; he couldn't imagine Claire being dead. He shook that thought out of his head and ran into the agent. "Hold on, I hear footsteps." The footsteps started to grow louder and louder. The agent raised his gun ready to shoot and Leon moved behind the agent with me in his arms. The shadows started getting closer to them and the agent was about to shoot, until a familiar voice spoke.

"Don't shoot Steve! It's me, Anika!" Steve lowered his gun and saw Anika.

"Anika! Boy, am I glad to see you. What happened around here?"

"We were breached and now there are like a dozen guys dressed in black trench coats. Maybe even more then we expect." Leon came around of Steve's back and spoke.

"Is Anya's family out of harm's way?"

"Actually it's the opposite of harm's way." Leon was confused at what Anika said and then he saw Gerard, Jenna and Mikey with guns, shotguns, grenades and all sorts of weapons. They wore their battle gear and shooting at the black trench coat guys.

"Fire in the hole!" Jenna threw a grenade down the hall and Gerard, Jenna and Mikey ducked in another hall. A loud explosion went off and the black trench coat guys were dead. Gerard looked at me and saw how much pain I'm having. He walked towards me and put one hand on my cheek.

"Anya, are you okay? What happened to you?"

"I'm fine dad; I have some pain in my head, that's all." He looked at me with concern and he looked at Leon.

"What happened to her?"

"She got sick last night, but she's getting a little bit better." Anika came over and looked at me. She put her hand on my forehead.

"She has a slight fever."

"That was one of her symptoms she had yesterday night and this morning."

"What are the other symptoms?"

"She had the chills, sweating, shaking violently and she was exhausted. She also tripped over something when she got out of the shower and she hit her head on the ground and was unconscious for only ten minutes. That's when she got sick." Everyone looked at each other and then they looked at me and I was getting worse. Steve spoke.

"Uh, we may want to get out of the hall way." Everyone looked at Steve. Anika spoke.

"Why Steve, there's no one here." Until everyone looked at the end of the hall and more black trench coat guys started coming at them.

"Well now they are. Get back!" Everyone dodged from the bullets being fired at them and Anika, Gerard, Jenna, Mikey and Steve started firing at them. Leon dodged the bullets with me in his arms.

"Hey, you okay?" I looked up at him and I saw him giving me a shy smile.

"I'm okay; the pain in my head is going down a little. It's not in much pain as it was anymore." He was relieved. He looked up at everyone else shooting at the black trench coat guys.

"Guys! We need to get out of here! We need to get to a safe room!" Anika was still firing as she moved towards Leon and me.

"We need to get to the command room and to Boss's office! His office is the safest place!"

"Sounds good to me!"

"Okay! Let's go!" She yelled to everyone else and they all started moving one by one until they were out of bullets of war. They all ran toward the command room and saw the bodies of the dead lying on the floor. We walked slowly over the bodies and watched our steps. We walked up the stairs to Boss's office and he was there and there were a few bodies on his floor too.

"Leon. I'm glad you and the subject are unharmed." Boss smiled at both of us and everyone behind us too.

"Me too Boss. We need to lay her down somewhere or at least let her sit in chair."

"Of course, here is my chair." He rolled the chair towards Leon and he set me in the chair. I was exhausted and I couldn't prop my head up right so Leon sat in the chair and I was sitting in his lap laying my head on his shoulder. Steve closed the doors to the command room and locked the doors, so no one could get in. Dad walked towards me and Leon and gave me a shy smile.

"How are you doing kiddo?"

"I'm hanging in there. The pain in my head is gone now, but I'm really exhausted."

"I know, we're gonna get you out of here soon, I promise." I gave him a shy smile and so did him and walked toward Jenna and Mikey. Jenna spoke.

"How is she doing?"

"She's doing okay, the pain is gone in her head, but she looks really exhausted. We need to get her out of here."

"I know, but there are like a dozen of those guys in black trench coats out there maybe even more outside of headquarters."

"I know, how did they get through the hardcore security to this place?"

"I don't know, but someone must've given them the access codes." Mikey spoke.

"Or someone on the inside was disguised as an agent."

"All the possibilities are up in the air right as of this moment." Boss looked at them and spoke his mind.

"Are you saying that one of my agents is a betrayer?" Gerard, Jenna and Mikey looked at Boss with confused faces and Boss was getting concerned. Mikey spoke.

"I'm sorry sir, but was just brain storming that's all, but if it's one of our enemies from our past, then we have more reasons to be concerned about." Mikey stopped for a moment and looked at me and Leon and saw how much suffering I was going through. Then he looked back at Boss. "If Anya is danger here, then I have more concerned to give to my granddaughter. I don't want her to suffer anymore." Boss didn't say anything after Mikey's statement. He was right, I was suffering from all of this that is happening. Boss was about to speak until Steve ran up the stairs to the Boss's office.

"Hey, there are a few more agents that are fighting off black trench coat guys."

"How do you know?" Leon confused face.

"Because they just radio in on one of the agent's radio, I'll go and bring it up." Steve ran back down stairs and grabbed the radio on the dead agent's waist and ran back up stairs to the office. "Here, listen. Bravo, bravo, this is Sand Trooper, what is your location? Over." There was static from the radio and there was no answer. I could hear the static and it started hurting my ears. I groaned and Leon looked at me and put his hand on the side of my face. I could feel his warm hand on my cold cheek.

"Hey, you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, but I can't fall asleep."

"I know, everything is going to be okay, we're gonna find a way out." I gave him a shy smile. Leon smiled back and then he looked at Steve as he radio in again.

"Bravo, bravo, this is Sand Trooper, what is your location? Over." More static came from the radio and it became silent in the room, then we heard a voice.

"This is Bravo to Sand Trooper; we're near the doors to the command center. What is your location? Over."

"It's your lucky day, we're in the command center, but we need to get out of headquarters. Is there any way to get out of headquarters without running into any black trench coat guys? Over."

"Not that I know of, but we can try finding one and we can get back to you-" Before finishing his sentence, they heard scream that sounded like bloody murder. The screamed faded away and there was static in the radio. Jenna spoke after hearing the bloody murder scream.

"Did they say they were near the door?" Steve looked up at Jenna and he could the fear in Jenna's eyes and worry she had for me as she glanced at me and Leon. Steve didn't answer right away, but he didn't dodge the question.

"Yeah, they were near the door."

"You mean they are near the door as of right now." Steve froze and he dropped the radio. His face was in shock that he realized that they were near the door when they were killed. He looked at Jenna and Jenna looked at him and they both ran downstairs. They go to the main floor and saw ten black trench coat guys trying to break down the door. Jenna yelled up to us. "Hey guys! There trying to break the door down, what should we do?"

"Whatever you do, don't shoot the door!

"Why!"

"Because the door is bullet proof will bounce off the door!" Jenna looked at the door and seeing the black trench coats guys trying to break down the door. She looked at Steve and they both nodded and they both ran back upstairs.

"So what do we do?"

"Find the trap door that leads to the garage. There are cars and a way out of here." Everyone looked at each other and then the radio static was gone.

"Sand Trooper, this is Black Chaos, do you have my dear sweet Anya there? I would like to see her before I kill her." That voice, I remember that voice, how could I not forget that sinister voice. I thought seeing the blonde girl butchered body was my nightmare or being killed, my worst nightmare and worst enemy, was back from the dead.

"Ryan." I was frozen in Leon's lap. He stared at me with confusion. I felt fear in myself. I killed him with my own hands and saw him die right in front of me. I know I did.

"I have something that belongs to Boss." The radio had static and then we heard a familiar voice.

"Let me go! Where are you taking me! Let me go! UGH!" Leon didn't say anything, only anger boiled in his blood. He got up and put me in the chair and I felt tears welled up in my eyes. He just stood there looking at the radio then finally spoke.

"Claire."