Chapter 110 - Rescue and Escape (8)

29 December, Terrorist Camp, South of City K

As they were walking along the corridor Ben and the soldiers accompanying him, soon met another pocket of resistance. As they looked around, the observed there was no place in the corridor that they could use to shelter themselves from weapons fire, so they quickly retreated to the entry point of the corridor, as it allowed them the use of the walls to shelter themselves, but the ability to target those coming at them in the corridor. At Ben's signal, the group retreated as one along the corridor, working as a group to make it back quickly and safely to that point.

When they arrived there, they positioned themselves, two on each side of the corridor, which ensured that they had the widest field of fire along the corridor to deal with any terrorist. Ben signaled to the lieutenant across from him to pull from their uniforms the mirroring devices that allowed them to see along the corridor and minimise risks.

While they could hear the sounds of the terrorists making their way along the corridor, the mirrored devices allowed them to observe the movements to know when the terrorists were in the ideal position to fire. As they had not secured Matthew, no one was concerned about trying to take any captives for intelligence purposes. Ben, looked at the lieutenant, and when they were both happy that the terrorists were in the best position he signaled and they opened fire.

Meanwhile, Joseph and the other two soldiers headed down the remaining corridor, carefully checking each room. Quite quickly they found that they were in an area where captives were being held in rooms and cells. Joseph thought to himself that this was likely to be the area where Matthew was being held. As they made their way along the corridor, they carefully checked each room, occasionally coming across a terrorist.

While Joseph knew their standing orders for the mission, he decided that he needed to try and keep one or two terrorists alive for the purposes of allowing them to extract whatever intelligence that they may hold. Carefully in the third room they entered, the terrorists had their backs to Joseph and the other solider with him, so they came up and quickly and quietly placed them into a hold that they could render them unconscious.

As they went to exit the room, the solider outside said "Sir, why did you do that?"

"Have you not figured out something is off here. These men seem to be believers, but they do not have significant military training and their age seems to tell us that they are not the leaders. We need to figure out what is happening, and we have very little area left to clear that we can secure terrorists to try and figure out what is happening. Now one of you need to stand outside the door to watch them, as well as covering the corridor while the other comes with me to check the final rooms."

With a nod, one solider started to follow Joseph down the corridor towards the final few doors and cages.

Back with Ben, it was clear that they were in an area where the terrorists had rooms. They were preventing them from coming further along the corridor, but they seemed to be making no progress along the corridor. The Lieutenant said "Sir, I suspect that this may be a sleeping and rest area."

Ben responded "You may be right, but we need to contain them to allow Major Wang to finish his task."

"Tear gas sir?"

"Not yet. We need to move down the corridor to prevent problems for us."

Meanwhile in the room, Lexi could hear the gun battle that was going on and moved over to stand behind Matthew. He slightly turned and said "Lexi, it is safer where you were."

Lexi totally ignored Matthew and stood as close as she could behind him. She knew that she would be safe there and said "No, it is safe here."

Matthew turned and walked back towards there the imam was still huddled and said "Lexi I have no idea what is happening out there. Our brothers, let alone everyone else will kill me if I let any harm come to you that I could have prevented. Please stay here, as you will be safe."

Having gone through all the remaining rooms along the corridor that they were searching Joseph was becoming worried. He could hear the gun battle continuing and hoped that the Colonel was not along that corridor as with the small group they had it would be highly difficult to storm it to try and locate him, even if he was still alive. Plus, they had the added complications of dealing with the captives that they had located, many of whom needed medical treatment, the two terrorists that they had incapacitated, and the computer room that they needed to take as much data from.

Inside the room, as the door started to open, Matthew tensed as he could see a weapon moving into the room. As he reached out to grab it, the door was flung open...

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