A/N: I don't own Chuck. I love the show, so I have decided to write about Chuck.
Chapter 1:
Buy More. May 28th, 2010 10:00AM
Another fine day at Buy More. It's the summer, and the store is getting more and more business. Chuck Bartowski works as a supervisor of the Nerd Herd, an IT support desk for Buy More. Things are slow since it's 10 o'clock in the morning. Chuck is sitting at the Nerd Herd station, located at the center of the Buy More, surfing the web and looking at latest gaming news. While he's drifting into his zone of the internet, Morgan Grimes walks up to the desk and notices that Chuck was zoning out. Morgan smirked.
"Chuck! How are you doing, buddy?" Morgan asks. Startled, Chuck looks up at Morgan and sighed of relief. "Okay so far. It's early, so just looking at some news for upcoming games." Morgan nods. Chuck's face is glued back on the computer screen. "I noticed that there is going to be some great games coming out this year," Chuck continues. "Again, I am relieved that you know my little--", Chuck looks around, making sure Jeff, Lester, and the other Buy More employees aren't nearby, "side job."
Morgan looks around again, making sure there's no one around as well. "Yea, it definitely helps my life out as well, knowing what you do and who you are." Chuck and Morgan notices that Jeff and Lester are walking towards the desk.
"Chuck! I need your help man!" Lester said. He looks like there is something wrong with him at this very moment. Chuck looks at both Lester and Jeff for a moment, "What do you need, guys?" Chuck asks, trying to look like he cares.
"Okay, I am working on a plan to get a girl in my life," Lester started as Jeff stands there like a bodyguard, making sure Lester isn't going to be harmed in anyway. Chuck sighed, but Lester shakes his head, "Now, hear me out--" Chuck sighs, shaking his head with disbelief, Lester continues, not noticing what Chuck is doing, "--my idea is foolproof. It starts with going out to a bar, finding this hot lady, and try to melt her with my charms and voice." Chuck nods.
"What happens next? We go to a motel, and we--" Chuck interrupts Lester's fantasy idea, "You know, that's not a good idea right there." Lester thinks about it for a bit and nods. "Yeah, I guess you're right. It's not smart to take advantage of a girl like that. Well then. There's goes my fantasy.. Thanks Chuck." Chuck shakes his head.
"Can I ask, since you seemed to be a 'Ladies Man', how do you do it? Can you give me any advice with me getting a girl in my life?" Chuck thinks about it for a moment, feels a bit amused when he heard Lester's voice sounding desperate, but Morgan clears his throat.
"Uh, sorry to disappoint you guys, but since I am the Assistant Manager here--," Morgan points at his name tag, showing his name and the rank of the company, "--I got the authority to stop this madness, considering the fact that this could be, somehow, a sexual harassment thing going on." Morgan knows he is helping Chuck out with this situation he got into. Chuck looks at Morgan and nods, showing that he appreciates bailing him out of this conversation.
Lester and Jeff both look disappointed when they witnessed Morgan's little heroic act for Chuck. Seems like they really wanted an answer to that. They walked away, talking amongst themselves, thinking about what to do with their band, "Jeffster".
"Thanks for helping me with that... awkward moment, Morgan," Chuck said. He's relieved that Morgan is still loyal to him, even though he was lying to Morgan for the past 3 years. "Time to get back to work," Chuck looks at his watch, showing it's 11:30AM "It's almost lunch time. Thanks again, Morgan" Morgan smiles and walks away, returning to his post, surveying his fort of "Buy Moria". Chuck continues to look through the internet for a while, deep in thought about what or when the next assignment will be. Time went by, and a bell starts ringing. Chuck at that time isn't paying attention, and it that bell rings again. He breaks his concentration of the internet and looks up, seeing that his partner in crime, Sarah Walker is smiling at him.
\Chuck always thought that Sarah is a great woman, both about the same age, very attractive, and seems to have a great personality. Besides the look, they both seemed to connect while they are out doing missions. Not only that, but every time they chat generally, whether it would be how their day was, or if Morgan would ever find someone in his love life, Chuck has always known that there's some type of connection between them, and secretly Sarah feels the same way. Sarah sometimes shows a stubborn personality when Chuck talks to her, especially when he keeps asking about her past.
"Hey Sarah! You know you don't have to ring the bell," Chuck said. Sarah looks at him with concern, "I know this bell is here for a reason, but you didn't hear me." Chuck let out a sigh. "Sorry. I wasn't paying attention." Sarah chuckles at his facial expressions when he apologized. Sarah looks around, making sure that no one is around.
"I know. That's why I rang the bell. Anyway, I came over here because it's lunch time, and we need to discuss the new mission coming up," Sarah says. "Let's talk about it in the Castle." Chuck nods, gathers his stuff, and walks out the Buy More with Sarah.
The Castle: 12:10PM
The Castle. The current location that Chuck's handlers' base of operations is located at beneath the Buy More store and Sarah's cover job, Orange Orange. Chuck's handlers are from both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. CIA's side is Sarah Walker, a blonde haired, green eyed woman, the same age as Chuck, and is always on Chuck's side whenever they go on these missions. John Casey is the other handler, from the NSA, he's more of a soldier, the "brass tacks" type of guy, and he's more of a big brother type to Chuck, in a weird sort of way. The leader of this team is Daniel Shaw, fairly new to the group, and Chuck still has mixed feelings with him. He's still not sure if he can be trusted still, especially after the Ring tried to break into the Castle, and an assassination attempt on Shaw a few weeks ago.
Sarah and Chuck entered the Castle through Sarah's cover job, conveniently located across from the parking lot of Chuck's Buy More. Sarah put in the pass code on the cash register screen, the freezer opens, and a set of stairs goes down towards the main area of the Castle. Shaw is already there, standing next to where the screen where General Beckman would show up whenever there is going to be briefings and debriefings. Casey is sitting at the table in the middle of the room looking through files, apparently for this new mission. Chuck notices a Major League Gaming logo in one of the papers Casey's going through. Chuck raises his eyebrows and hums in excitement.
"Seems like it may be your dream mission, Bartowski," Casey comments when he saw Chuck's expression. Shaw rolled his eyes and turns on the screen showing General Diane Beckman. Beckman's always the one telling the team about the ongoing problems that the United States of America is facing. Chuck walks over and sits at the table where Casey is still sitting there.
"General," Casey greets Beckman like a formal military person would, giving her a quick salute. Beckman nods, acknowledging the salute. She looks around. "Colonel Casey. Looks like everyone is here. Now then, the new assignment." Chuck sits up and starts to pay attention to whatever the details of assignment will be.
"Today, we have suspicions to believe that there's a particular person to try to get information from. His name is Daisuke Nakamura." The intersect kicks in and Chuck flashes at the name, showing a young Japanese man that plays video games, shows the Major League Gaming Logo, and shows what appears to be Daisuke's father, Nori Nakamura. Brief images show of the father figure somehow involving the Ring with the Yakuza. The flashes disappeared and Chuck clears his throat. "I am sure that Mr. Bartowski saw what I am about to say. We need to get information from Daisuke to see what his father, Nori, is doing with the Ring. We know that Daisuke has no involvement with the Ring, but if we can get information of at least what his father is doing with the Ring, then we can act from there."
Chuck nods and comments, "So basically we have to somehow get some type of lead of the whereabouts or whatever plans Nori may be doing from his son, Daisuke. Now, the question is, what does Major League Gaming have to do with all this?"
"Major League Gaming has a tour for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. We know that Daisuke is going to attend the amateur tournament that is being held at San Francisco. This is where you come in, Mr. Bartowski. Since I know of your friend, Mr. Grimes, thanks to Shaw letting me know of his knowledge of the Castle, and of course, of the situation between you and the other members of this team." Casey grunts as he rolls his eyes. Clearly he still feels that it's a bad idea that Morgan knows about the secrets going on beneath the Buy More and Orange Orange. "We know that you trust him and he wouldn't betray you in any way, so we think this should be a simple mission that you need to have someone that has the skills for this particular assignment. I think it's a fairly simple job for you and Mr. Grimes to show up and play this video will be teamed up with Mr. Grimes and play at the tournament. This event will start in a week. You don't need to win, but you just need to get in contact with Daisuke, and see what he knows about his father's situation."
Chuck thinks about it for a second. "General, if I may comment about this assignment--" Beckman acknowledges by nodding, "--are you sure that this is going to work? I mean, not with the situation with Morgan, but the idea of the fact that if we don't win, we can still get information from Daisuke?"
"Despite the fact that his father is involved with the Yakuza, we have sources that indicate Daisuke is similar to you. He's open to social contact, and he's not in anyway, harmful. Which is another reason why I believe that you and Mr. Grimes shouldn't have a problem. Of course the rest of the team will be with you along the way." Chuck looks around the room and sees Shaw, Casey, and Walker smirk, to let him know he won't be alone.
Chuck nods. "Okay, General. Shouldn't be a problem then." Chuck doesn't want to press on about how it would be difficult to see if he can get the needed information from Daisuke, as the General would insist that it's not difficult at all. Besides, Chuck has done things like this before, trying to befriend Manoosh Depak, which led to Manoosh getting underground for his safety, preventing the Ring to try to make another intersect. At least I don't have to bring this guy underground, Chuck thought. Now how does Chuck bring up this mission to Morgan?
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