Let us do something, while we have the chance.
This story is an AU continuation of the Chuck vs the New Eureka.
Still don't own Chuck or Eureka.
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
- Albert Einstein
Chapter 1—Looking Back
Previously
North of Los Angeles, California
December 2009
Chuck and Sarah had just finished a fantastic meal at an old farmhouse on their way to a Stanford vs. UCLA basketball game at Stanford. They were to meet Ellie and Devon. It would be their first real break in over six months. Sarah answered her phone, "Casey, what do you need? I thought we were on a break."
When she ended the call, Chuck asked, "Okay, what do we have to do?"
"We are being ordered to a place called Eureka. There is a Sheriff up there we are to meet. We are to help him with a bomb threat that came from our old friends."
Global Dynamics, Eureka, Oregon
December 2009
Chuck tried to collect his thoughts so he could present all the information to General Beckman. "There are a few more things happening here. Sheriff Carter is investigating the theft of secrets from the hydroponics lab.
"Casey and I found surveillance equipment in our rooms at the Bed and Breakfast where we are staying. We tracked it to a center system that was controlling the cameras and microphones in all of the rooms. It was a unique system that was probably built back twenty or more years ago. The system included a massive storage bank that could hold all the recordings from the installation until now.
"While I was checking the system, we watched a recording from ten years ago. It showed a Doctor Beverley Barlowe. She was in the progress of killing another Doctor from GD named Doctor Ruth Hienzer. I did not get anything on the decreased, but Beverley is a threat. I saw records of her at Gitmo as a prisoner. She ran the Bed and Breakfast and was the GD and town Psychiatrist. She is a Ring agent, and her location is unknown.
"Beverley also worked with something called the Consortium. That organization's main objective is to steal secrets from Section 5."
Global Dynamics, Eureka, Oregon
December 2009
The investigation continued. Dr. Tess Fontana saw Chuck, Sarah and Casey. "Hi again, I heard Henry suggested we go see him first. If that is okay, let's go. It is just down the hall."
When they got to the room, Fargo and Julia followed them in. They went off to a corner and were talking and laughing.
Henry introduced Doctor Unna and explained a little of what they were doing.
"We are going to attempt some laser communications with high section packets made of images. The images include the data that Kim brought back." Henry did not explain what Kim was or who Kim was. "We are attempting to see if the data transfer is successful. You can stand over by the table. The laser itself is like an intense flashlight. It wouldn't do anything to you. Here see." Henry put his hand in front of the laser.
"What we are going to do is center the laser on the receiving optics, try a synchronization signal and then transmit the data," Henry said as he adjusted a joystick.
Chuck looked at the set up, "So how much data do you think you will send?"
"This is our first test and we hope to get to transmit signal at 1 petabyte per second."
"Okay, that's impressive." Chuck looked at Sarah. She was watching Doctor Unna at the receiver side. 'Maybe she thinks that is the Korean voice?' Casey was moving around behind the Doctor.
Henry said, "We have it centered. Beginning sync." At that moment Chuck began to step forward. Fargo's mini-masher truck jumped and sped forward. Fargo being Fargo had set the speed at sixty and the little truck made it to fifty by the time Chuck's foot came down on it. It exploded almost at once, sending Chuck head first into the laser table. The explosion caused everyone else to react. It was a bad choice for Doctor Unna; he pulled a ceramic glock and was taking aim at Sarah. By the time he had his aim there were three bullets in him, one from Sarah and two from Casey. Something in Chuck worked against him. When he hit the table his eyes had closed, but the sound of the shots made him open his eyes to see what was happening. The laser performed its function, projecting the images on Chuck's retina. Everyone continued to be on alert. Sarah saw Chuck fall, but kept a hand on his back to keep him down and out of the gunfire. Tess saw it first.
"Henry, turn it off. Turn off the laser." She was almost running to Henry to get the switch herself.
Henry realized it and moved his hand to the switch.
Sarah saw the sparkle of the laser reflecting from Chuck's eye.
March Air Reserve Base, California
April 2010
Chuck and Sarah reached for their phones at the same time. They had to study them for a second. They were the new phones from Global Dynamics. They had an enhanced antenna that connected to GD and all the other networks. It was to be a real improvement over any of the phones they had before. The phones were delivered in a big envelope to Castle the day before they completed this mission. Casey's phone was waiting for him at the conference table. He was flying into March with the General in a helicopter. The team's last mission had trapped the five Ring Elders. The Elders were being bused to March. The final destination was Supermax. Chuck and Sarah had been waiting for word that the buses had entered the base; they smiled at each other as they held their phones to their ear.
In the next second, they thought they were hallucinating. The walls of the building changed from a light blue paint to a tan while they were standing there. An ash tray appeared on the wall and the picture of C-17 Globemaster transformed into a black and white picture of an F-80 Shooting Star flight.
Camp Eureka, Oregon
April 1947
"Nice work, Jack!" Henry exclaimed. The Einstein Grant Bridge, a transmitter in Doctor Einstein's lab came to life. Kevin, Doctor Allison Blake's son, had activated the same machine on Main Street at the Founder's Day exhibits in 2010 Eureka. The two machines using solar flares from the solar maximum created the bridge between 1947 and 2010. They linked with the new GD cell phones and the connection transported five people from Eureka in 2010, to Camp Eureka of 1947. Henry was one, Allison was another, then there were Deputy Sheriff Jo Lupo and Fargo. Finally, Sheriff Jack Carter was transported. Henry and Doctor Trevor Grant, the co-founder of Eureka, were working on cell phones and replacing the burnt-out transistors with ones that Doctor Grant had in the lab.
Sheriff Jack Carter was across the street in the tower of a satellite dish. He had just reoriented the antenna manually to point at the satellite. As he looked down he saw Allison being taken into the Major Ryan's office. Major Ryan had been trying to round up the possible spies ever since Jack first came in the gate. Jack climbed down from the satellite antenna and ran over to Albert Einstein's lab. Jack ran into the lab, "Ryan has Allison. I am going after her. How are the phones?" He slowed down as he came to Henry's bench.
March Field, California
April 1947
Chuck and Sarah were still in Sarah's room. Earlier they agreed that nothing could be left behind. So Chuck put the backpack on and the strapped the brief cases to their wrists. They had been trying on the half hour to make a call with the phones. It was almost 11:00 PM. Chuck wasn't going to give up, "I can't believe this. I did not spend the last three years trying to defend my friends only to find when I am seventy that they are five years old and can finally write their names."
Sarah laughed, "Well, you would be able to see Jeff win Missile Command."
Chuck was about to say very funny when the light on the display of the phones lit. "Okay call on the phones." Chuck and Sarah hit redial, put the phones to their ears, held each others' hand, and kissed.
Camp Eureka, Oregon
April 1947
Henry was making the last adjustments to the Einstein Grant Bridge. He called out, "It's time." He was surprised to see his phone ring.
March Air Reserve Base, California
|April 2010
Chuck and Sarah looked at each other and walked out of the building, then over to Sarah's car. They were back in 2010. Chuck and Sarah wrapped themselves around each other. Chuck asked, "You okay?"
Eureka, Oregon
April 2010
Chuck looked at Sarah. He remembered the problems they had with the good Agent Forrest and her protocols, "So, what is the protocol here?"
"You can't ever tell anyone," Allison said plainly.
"That's it?" Sarah asked.
"It's a lot harder than you think," Jo replied.
Present Los Angeles, California
October 2010
Chuck and Sarah were back in the Underground at Chuck's old home. They sat at the work bench in the lab. Chuck had moved the surveillance and recording device from Eureka's B&B to the lab and had been working to crack the access code. They had explained to Jo and Jack that before CARINA was put in place, the device handled the cameras and mics that CARINA now uses. It had been in place for a very long time in the previous timeline. Since the new Doctor Unna was so focused on protecting it, they assumed it had been here for many years too. Some of the things recorded on it in the previous timeline included, Doctor Beverley Barlowe killing Doctor Ruth Hienzer, information on Fulcrum and Ring agent activity here at Eureka such as Doctor Don Marco, and the activities of the Consortium including their attempts on the entity called the artifact. It had taken Chuck longer than expected to break the code as it was a 64 bit code that changed on an irregular basis. He had spent most of the summer determining the change pattern, and then the code that was being used. After that he developed a program to search through the contents. It was either that or spend hours watching surveillance tapes that went back twenty years.
The day before, they got a call from Jo. She needed help. A new experiment had been hijacked in transit. The DED was a high profile weapon that used an EMP blast to knock out power sources in a target area and definitely something several parties would be interested in obtaining. Zane had already been accused of being behind the theft. Chuck and Sarah had cleared their absence with General Beckman and packed for Eureka. Chuck said they needed to stop by the Underground. He had started the new search program the previous weekend and was sure that by now it would have the results for their review. The monitor on the workbench had the information Chuck wanted.
The first name on the list was Beverley Barlowe. She had been at the B&B several times, but never as a guest. When Chuck clicked her picture, a long list of names was presented. These were the people she had contacted at the B&B. Next was a list of phone numbers and names that went with the numbers.
Chuck was reaching for his laptop as he said to Sarah, "You better call Jo and let her know that Beverley Barlowe is still out there. At least three of her contacts were engineers in Dad's list for Volkoff. One other was a Ring agent under both lists. And the list gets worse."
Sarah nodded in understanding. Chuck had rejoined the CIA during the summer. It was the only way he could continue to find his mother. Actually it was a request from General Beckman that started it off. She wanted him back. He had several conditions, most of which the General found outside the normal protocol. One of the conditions was for Chuck to get a new data Intersect update. Fortunately that was in the works and the update was provided within the first week. Chuck knew enough about the Intersect at that point that he did the final architecture changes. He fixed the Intersect update so that it became the master control for those he already had. Going back to his old house helped him realize that the one time he stopped in his Dad's lab; he had gotten a rudimentary Intersect or Bootstrap starter program. He also had the Intersect 2.0, although he thought there was something different about his program than the program this timeline's Chuck had loaded. He did not have the emotional rollercoaster that Chuck had. He had found his Dad's records on the watch moderator. He knew that he had not seen that problem surface, but realized that it could be possible. He constructed three of watches and kept one on at all times. Then last Christmas on his timeline, when Chuck and Sarah were at Eureka, Kim's data base had been downloaded. Chuck had spent some time trying to learn its characteristics and found them far more flexible and elegant than Intersect 2.0. Using Kim's database was like finding the Matrix Kung Fu of science. He used that to retool the Intersect he downloaded from his Dad and then the new update. It had taken an extra week to get his Intersect Update approved, but he felt that they worked cleaner and faster. That meant there were fewer visible flashes. The final nice touch that he and Sarah appreciated was the compare feature. Any flash that used more than one database included a comparison to show where data existed in each of the databases.
Sarah had her cell phone out and hit the number for Jo. She waited two rings and Jo answered. Sarah said, "Hey Jo, we are headed your way. Chuck just found that Beverley Barlowe is still alive and active." She listened for a second and then put the phone on speaker. "You're on the speaker now. Chuck is here. Can you tell us what happened?"
"We don't have all the details yet, but Beverley was somehow involved in 1947. They used the power source from the DED. We are looking for her but it looks like she is gone. It would help if you could get up here as fast as you can. General Mansfield is here if we need to ask your boss?"
Chuck shook his head. Sarah answered, "No, that's fine. Casey has a plane waiting for us. We'll be up there in," she looked at Chuck.
"Should be about two hours. Jo, take care. Bev is working with some really bad people," Chuck added.
"Okay, see you in a little," Jo ended the call.
"Okay, I am ready. I have the results in the laptop. We can give a copy to Jo and Jack and work out a way to approach the list. Let's put on our vests on the way out," Chuck snapped his laptop shut and got up.
Sarah was right behind, "Okay."
Chuck caught the concern in the short reply, "Don't worry. We are still here. What ever happened is over. Jo sounded the same. We are okay." The use of 1947 in a sentence was their code for time travel. Someone had gone back in time. The fact that they were still here was good. And Jo seemed to be okay. Chuck knew that Sarah and Jo had talked frequently over the summer. Sarah had someone she could talk to and it gave Jo someone to talk with. While Sarah remained engaged to Chuck, Jo had lost her opportunity with the Zane that loved her in the previous timeline. Chuck thought that their conversations helped both. He had talked it over with Sarah many times. Right now the secret could not be spread.
"I know. It's just so complicated," Sarah lamented.
"Oh really, and I thought it was complicated when I originally got the Intersect. You're right; no one can know about 1947. Only you know about Kim really working. And since we've been back in this timeline, I told my sister that I was not going to be a spy anymore and guess what I am." He turned and smiled broadly at her, "So what's complicated, I thought this was normal."
"Very funny, let's get going Mister A.B. Normal."
A/N So the Chuck and Sarah that went to Eureka are a little different than the Chuck and Sarah from the Series. This takes place sometime around episode 4.4 of the Chuck series. You'll see that it is after the last episodes in Eureka.
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