Chapter 109 - Rescue and Escape (7)

29 December, Terrorist Camp, South of City K

Moving carefully outside the room they had been held in Matthew could not believe his own stupidity. Not only had he given Lexi a kiss of his own volition, but he knew through her own expression that he may have given away his feelings to her. At this moment in time, the last thing he needed was to become too distracted with his feelings for Lexi. He needed to focus on the important things, protecting her from harm, and getting her, the Imam and anyone else he could out of the facility they were in to safety.

While carefully looking around he could see little, as the corridor ahead of him was in total darkness.

He could hear cries from inside rooms, clearly with undertones of fear. One room, he could hear the sounds of someone being abused. However without anything as a weapon available, he was reluctant to burst in at that exact moment, as it risked more that he could stop.

He could, also hear a gun battle. Listening to he weapons he could hear those the special forces teams use, that confirmed to him that a rescue mission was underway. The question in his mind was who was involved with the mission. He just hoped, given it was likely done on short notice that no one from the local base was involved, as that would cause too many problems. The issue was that the teams stationed there presently were designated as the go teams. The mission capable teams in the capital were on routine stand-down, and those at the other bases were currently in training phases. While they could be activated, if required, that did not make sense.

Carefully moving along the corridor, it was easy to observe that this area was a holding area for the hostages taken, it was lined with cells, and rooms that he would hazard a guess was where people were abused. He kept quietly telling those he came across to keep quiet, and it sounded like there were an effort to rescue them underway.

Strangely, there was none of the ISX members visible in the area, but based on what he had heard, there was likely a couple of them in at least one room abusing a hostage. Processing their absence, the explosion and the gun battle was likely diverting their attention, but something did not feel right about the situation. There was, in effect no one guarding the hostages. That did not fit the intelligence they had on ISX, but at the same time it could cause trouble in the rescue mission as it meant they could come from anywhere.

Carefully he started to move back towards the room where Lexi and the Imam were, and one of the doors he had not been able to open sprung open. Out came a man, gun slung over his shoulder and a knife in his hand. Spotting Matthew, he started to charge towards him, holding the knife ready to stab him. As he got within striking distance Matthew, instinctively reacted grabbing the hand with the knife in it, twisting the arm behind the man's body, forcing him to drop the knife, before using his skills to break his neck. While he knew prisoners would be the perfect intelligence coup, but as he did not know who was coming in, staying alive was more important.

He paused, listened to what was happening elsewhere in the compound. Little spoken words could be heard, but it was clear that there was a gun battle happening. Listening carefully, he could hear multiple weapons, including those common to the special forces. That sealed it for him, there was a rescue mission on the way.

Matthew started to make his way back to the room where Lexi and the Imam were waiting. The room was something that he could secure as carefully as possible.

Meanwhile, upstairs, the two groups of special forces, joined in the crematorium room, to deal with the terrorists. Within a few minutes, the eight special forces soldiers dealt with all the terrorists within the room. Ben and Joseph, when they were happy turned to the men, seeing that Lieutenant Akur was injured.

"Lieutenant," said Joseph, "Head back to the surface and get medical treatment from the medic."

There was no way that he wanted to leave this building until the Colonel had been located and gotten out of the facility. "Sir, no. I will keep watch on this room, until you secure the Colonel. What is in there needs to be doc.u.mented properly."

Observing the look in the Lieutenant's eyes, Joseph knew he would ignore orders. There was no way that he wanted a man like Lieutenant Akur taken before a disciplinary hearing. He lent to Ben and quietly said "He will ignore our orders. But he is right, we need to secure that room until we can get someone to doc.u.ment what is in there. Let him do it."

Joseph turned back and said "Lieutenant, guard the room. When we locate the Colonel, someone will come and relieve you."

Seeing that Lieutenant Akur settled in to protect the room entry, the remaining group, led by Ben and Joseph moved back to the stairs and headed down the stairs to the final lower level. Ben and two others headed in one direction with Ben and three men heading in the opposite direction. Both groups knew that there were very few places left where they could find Colonel Rong.

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