"TELL ME!" Mike screamed, banging him against the wall, almost knocking him unconscious.
"All right!" he finally answered, then gagged. Mike lessened the pressure on his collar a little. "The old abandoned command post near the edge of town. You won't find it unless someone takes you there."
Everything went so fast after that Mike hardly remembered the drive to the huge old underground bunker. As they drove up in front of it, it appeared deserted with a stick put through the handles of the huge double doors, to hold them shut. When they stopped, however, many marines leapt from their hiding places to surround them.
"No one can enter here. What's inside is government property."
"Lot of respect you have for government property!" Mike said, sarcastically.
Then, the MPs pulled up nearby. Mike guessed someone had been thinking ahead! All the better for him.
"We have orders to search this property. For your information your friend, Col. Bristol's under arrest. You've no need to disobey orders any further."
A terrible fight ensued between the MPs and the other marines. Mike managed to slip away from the battle and get through the doors. In one half of the building he found various government vehicles and supplies. In the other half was a huge room in the center of which stood a large operating table with different odd looking implements hanging from the ceiling all around it. He saw the walls of the room were lined with people chained to it by their wrists. Some were local residents, their tanned bodies slumped to the floor, if possible. They were all in the nude. Two uniformed men were dragging a prisoner to the table. Mike casually went over to them and knocked them unconscious with one blow. Then, he went over to the nearest prisoner. It was a young boy, his body beaten and bruised, and he trembled as Mike came near.
"Don't be afraid," Mike said as he turned around in a circle trying to face everyone. "I've come to help you....to get you out of here."
He went to some of the prisoners and pried their bonds open quickly, with his bare hands. they looked at him in wonder, as if they were terrified to test their new freedom. Most wouldn't budge until Mike showed them all the evil men in the immediate area were out cold, or, taken prisoner. MPs came in with the key, at last, and they were all wrapped in blankets then led out into the open until another truck would come along to transport them to a place where they could be treated to medical care and given fresh clothes, then, they would be taken to the police to testify against their captors.
As they led one woman outside, she had to pass one of the evil men who were handcuffed and held at gunpoint near the entranceway. She rushed to one man and beat on him with such fierceness, knocking him to the ground, tearing at his eyes and shouting something to him in Spanish, the MPs had to drag her away before she killed him!