Red sirens flashed and alarms wailed all over the top secret underground CIA prison. Guards were running back and forth. A solid steel door slid open at the end of the hall and three men dressed in prisoner's clothes walked out. The guards immediately saw them and opened fire at the trio. Each man jumped and rolled in a different direction, taking cover from the wall of fire.
"Perseus, you okay?" one of the men shouted to the man named Perseus.
"I'm fine." Perseus said. "Roland, you still alive?"
"I'm okay, guys. Can one of you explain to me how we're getting out of here?" Roland asked while taking cover from a bullet that whizzed past his ear.
"Follow my lead." the man who talked first said and took out two pistols from his shoes. He aimed them at the guards and his eyes started fluttering fast. He let out a few rounds of bullets, which were perfectly aimed and hit each guard in the chest. The man wasn't usually this good with a gun.
Perseus and Roland each took out their own pistols and aimed them at the guards who had just arrived. Their eyes fluttered and with perfect aim, they hit the guards and knocked them back. All three of them ran towards the doorway at the end of the hall.
"Roland, can you handle the lock?" the third man questioned, but he knew the answer already.
"Now you're just insulting me, Byron." Roland said.
"Just do it." Byron said impatiently.
Roland kneeled down and took a good look at the lock. He had done this too many times before. He took a small circular object and attached it to the lock. Roland stepped back and the others followed his lead. A few moments later, the lock melted and fell to the ground.
"How do you come up with these things?" Perseus asked in amazement.
"It doesn't matter now." Byron started to say. "We have to get out of here."
They exited the prison and found themselves in the middle of the desert. When they were brought to the prison so many years ago, they had been blindfolded, so they had no idea where they were.
Sand swirled in the air as a helicopter landed on the hot desert ground. Perseus, Roland, and Byron entered the chopper and sat down. As they had requested, a laptop computer was waiting for them. Byron typed in his access code and the screen lit up. On screen, a man was sitting in an office. Through the glass windows behind him you could see the lights of Tokyo glowing brightly.
"I see you found your way out." said the man on screen.
"We did. The three of us on our way now to headquarters. Thank you, sir." Byron said.
"Not a problem, Byron." the man on screen said. The screen turned black and smoke came out of the computer. Byron picked up the smoking laptop and threw it out of the window.
"We're on our way to freedom, men." Byron said and looked out the window.
Chuck and Sarah woke up to an angry General Beckman staring at them from the television.
"Agent Bartowski and Agent Walker. Would you please wake up already?" the General pleaded.
Sarah got up from bed, not realizing that she was wearing nothing but underwear and a bra.
"We're sorry, General. What is it you wanted to talk to us about?" Sarah asked, still clueless about her lack of clothes.
"Umm, Sarah." Chuck started to say. "Maybe you should get dressed first and I'll talk to the General."
Sarah didn't understand at first, but soon looked down and saw that she was standing half naked in front
of her superior.
"I'm so sorry, General." Sarah said and tried to cover herself up with the blanket. She ran to the bathroom and closed the door.
"So, what is it you wanted?" Chuck said, trying not to laugh about everything that just happened.
"This is not funny, Chuck." Beckman started to say. "This morning, three men broke out of our highest security prison in the Sahara desert. They used to be the leaders of a group that called themselves "The Triangulum".
Chuck's eyes immediately started fluttering when he heard the name. He flashed on the group called "The Triangulum" and about everything that they had done.
"I suppose that you know everything about them from your flash." the general said."
"These are very bad men, General." Chuck started to say. "They've done everything from hacking government computers to hijacking planes, but I thought they were locked up."
"They were, but their three leaders escaped today. They call themselves Perseus, Roland, and Byron." the General said.
Chuck's eyes started fluttering again. He saw pictures of the Triangulum leaders and of what they had done. One of them, Perseus, used to be a CIA hacker. When he heard about the forming of a new rouge group, he seized the opportunity and was one of the first to join. Since then, he had done many bad things using his computer skills. Perseus looked just like an average computer nerd would look at his age. His skin was pale from too much time inside, his dirty blond hair was in a mess, and he had the thickest glasses that Chuck had ever seen.
Byron on the other hand had the look of a natural born leader. His dark hair was always neat and cut, his beard was perfectly trimmed, and he was always wearing impressive looking clothes. Byron was never involved completely in any of the things that the Triangulum did. He mainly looked over them and made sure that everything went smooth.
Roland used to be a weapons designer for the CIA, but just like Perseus, he preferred going rouge. He had designed all the weapons that the organization had used on their missions. He was handsome, but in an unusual way. His blond hair fell down to his shoulders and he usually had black sunglasses on to hide the fact that one of his eyes was blue and the other was green.
"So why are they called the Triangulum?" Chuck asked.
"Their organization had three main bases located in different places around the world, forming a sort of triangle. Each one is run by a different man. The leaders of the bases are know as "chiefs". The chiefs are the men that escaped from our prison today." General Beckman said.
"So what's the mission?" Chuck asked. They hadn't been on a mission in a while, and he was anxious to get going.
"Your mission right now is to stay right where you are until we have more information" the General said and pressed a button on her computer. The screen went black again as if nothing had happened.
Sarah walked out of the bathroom. She was dressed now in her regular clothes, but Chuck still thought that she was the most beautiful thing that he had ever seen.
"So what did Beckman want?" Sarah asked.
Chuck snapped out of his daze and remembered the conversation. He filled Sarah in on everything that he had flashed on and what General Beckman had told him.
"What about your promise to Ellie?" Sarah asked. After all, Chuck had told Ellie that he quit his spy life.
"I can't believe I didn't think of that!" Chuck said and face palmed himself. "What should I tell her?"
"I don't think you have to tell her anything. If she doesn't know, then it can't hurt her." Sarah suggested.
"I guess we can do that." Chuck said, though he knew that hiding things from his sister wasn't the brightest idea, he didn't want to fight with Sarah over this.
"So are we supposed to just do nothing now?" Sarah asked.
"Yeah, but I have a better idea. When I was in my father's lab, I saw a file about the Triangulum. Maybe if we go there, we can find out more." he said.
The phone rang and Sarah ran to pick it up. A few moments later, she came back with the phone in her hand.
"It's for you." she said and handed the phone to Chuck.
"Hello" Chuck said into the phone.
"Hey, it's me." Morgan said. "Could I come over? I have something that I need to show you." he asked.
"I guess." Chuck said and hanged up. Morgan probably wanted to show him a new video game that he bought. Chuck really wasn't in the mood for that kind of stuff but he couldn't say no to his best friend.
Morgan arrived a few minutes later and quickly walked in. He sat down on the couch and started looking for something in his jacket.
"Is something wrong?" Chuck asked. He hadn't seen Morgan so nervous in a long time.
"I got this today in the mail." he said and handed an opened envelope to Chuck. The envelope had a watermark on it in the shape of a triangle. Chuck's eyes started fluttering again as he flashed on the watermark.
"Did you just flash?" Morgan asked.
Chuck quickly opened the envelope and took out a letter. He started reading it to himself.
If you want your family and friends to stay safe, you will not interfere with what we are doing. You will tell General Beckman that you can not accept your assignment and ask her to not give it to anyone else. If you do not follow these instructions, everyone you love will face the same fate as your father.
Chuck crumpled up the letter and threw it on the floor. He tried to understand how they knew about him, his family, or his father.
"There's one more thing." Morgan started to say. "This also came with the envelope." he said and handed Chuck a steel triangle. Chuck looked at it closely and flashed.
"What did you see?" Morgan asked. He really wanted to know what was going on.
"It's some sort of container." Chuck said and pressed a hidden button on the bottom of the triangle. It opened up with a hissing sound. There was an earpiece inside. Chuck picked it up and placed it in his ear.
"I'm glad you got our package, Chuck Bartowski." a voice said through the earpiece.
"Who is this? How do you know who I am?" Chuck asked, terrified. He had so many more questions.
"I think you already know who we are, Chuck. We are an organization called the Triangulum, and if you don't want anyone to get hurt, you will follow all instructions that we give you. Is that clear?" the voice asked.
"Yes...yes, it's clear." Chuck said. He looked around and saw too many people that he cared about that could get hurt. Sarah, Morgan, Ellie, Devon, and many more. It looked like he didn't have a choice.
"Good. Your first assignment is very simple. Go to your father's house, go to the file where he stored information about our organization, and destroy it. All of it, except for one thing. You will find a container just like the one you got in the mail. I need you to collect that and bring it to us." the voice said. The earpiece turned off and Chuck removed it.
"Who was it?" Morgan started to ask. "What did they want?"
"Nothing. Go home Morgan." Chuck said. He had no idea what he was going to do.
"Okay, buddy. Whatever you want." Morgan said and left.
Chuck made sure that Morgan was really gone so he could leave for his father's house. He grabbed the keys to the Nerd Herder and left the house. When he got in the car, he made sure that all tracking devices were removed. He turned the GPS off and took off his watch. Chuck didn't want anyone to come after him. He started the car and started driving toward his childhood home.
The helicopter slowly descended to the roof of a tower in Tokyo. The rotors slowed down and the helicopter came to a stop. Byron walked out of the helicopter, followed by Perseus and Roland. Two men armed with assault rifles were waiting for them on the roof.
"The high chief is expecting you." one of the guards said.
"It's an honor to meet you." said the other one.
Byron nodded and the three of them followed the guards into an elevator. One of the guards pressed the button for the bottom floor and the elevator started moving down. It came to a stop after a minute or so and the doors opened. A man dressed in a black suit was waiting for them in front of the elevator.
"It's nice to see you three again." the man said.
Byron saluted the man. Perseus and Roland did the same. The man shook hands with Byron and smiled at him.
"After all these years...It's great to see you Byron, but you know that saluting isn't necessary." the man said.
"It's an honor to see you again, high chief." Byron said and straightened himself so he would look good in front of his superior, or at least as good as you can look after 15 years in prison. At least he cared about how he looked, not like the other two.
"Come with me to my office." the high chief said. They followed him down a hallway and into an office with a fantastic view of Tokyo.
"Please sit down." he said and pointed at three chairs placed in front of his desk. "Did the escape go smoothly?" the high chief asked.
"Yes, sir. We had no problems." Byron said.
"I think that you all remember Stephen Bartowski." the high chief said. The three men's smiles immediately disappeared and were replaced with looks of hate. Stephen Bartowski had done something to each of them. Roland touched a scar beneath his left eye, remembering the day when Stephen had given it to him. Bartowski was the one that had locked them up.
"I have some good news for you." the high chief started to say. "Stephen Bartowski is dead. He was killed by a man named Daniel Shaw."
The looks of hatred turned back to smiles. They didn't care who killed him, as long as he was gone.
"I have some more good news." the high chief said and smiled. "Bartowski's son is now helping us, though he doesn't completely know it yet. He will get rid of all information that his father had on us. He will also retrieve our prized possession for us, our Intersect."
Chuck parked the car in front of his father's house. The place brought back so many memories. Morgan getting beat up by girls, Chuck saving him, his mom leaving, and so many more. Maybe this visit could give him more information about his mother's whereabouts. He got out of the car and headed towards the front door. The key was waiting for him on the rag next to the door. Chuck picked it up and slid it into the hole. The door opened with ease and he walked in.
The entrance to his father's secret base was under the fire place. He flicked the light switch up and down in the right combination until the base opened up. Chuck walked carefully down the steps to the base. The base was lit with soft blue lights, just like last time. He walked down the hall until he reached the box marked "The Triangulum." Chuck opened it and picked up the files. His father had worked for years on this, and now he was going to destroy it all. His dad would be ashamed of him, but he was doing it to save the ones he loved.
Chuck skimmed through the files and flashed on almost everything. The Triangulum was worse than he thought. They had spent the ten years up to their capturing building an intersect. He put the files aside and picked up the container that he was told about. He looked at it and his eyes started fluttering again. The container contained the Triangulum's intersect, and Chuck was supposed to just hand it over.
Chuck took a box of matches out of his pocket and took one out. He lit it and stared at it for a few seconds.
"I'm sorry, dad." he whispered and threw the match into the box with the files.
The files caught fire quickly. Smoke climbed up from the burning pile and started filling the room. Chuck picked up the container and closed the box. He looked back at the end of the hallway, where his mother's files were located, but realized that he had no time to investigate today. He exited the base with the box and the container and left the house. Chuck threw the box on the ground and stomped on it to put out the fire. He opened the lid and all the smoke came out, blinding him for a few seconds. All that was left of the files were a few black pages. It wasn't readable anymore. Chuck threw the box into the trash can, and returned to his car. He looked at the container, put it aside, and started driving back to his house. He didn't dare to look back.
Sarah paced back and forth in the living room. She called Chuck ten times in the last two hours. He hadn't picked up and he hadn't told her where he was going.
"Come one, Chuck. Answer the phone already." she said as she tried to reach Chuck again.
The door opened and Chuck walked in to the house. Sarah jumped on him and hugged him.
"Where were you? I was so worried!" she said and kept hugging him.
"I had to do something, umm...for my dad." Chuck lied. He hated lying to her.
"As long as you're fine, it doesn't really matter." she started to say. "I called you ten times. You're tracking systems weren't working, too."
"Sorry about that, but like you said, it doesn't really matter." Chuck said.
Sarah left him and returned to their room. She opened the computer and logged in to a tracking system she installed in Chuck's shoes. He wore the same shoes all the time, so it was easy to keep track of him that way. She looked at where the tracking system showed that Chuck had been in the last two hours. A green dot indicating Chuck's flashed on the map. It showed that he had been at his father's house.
Maybe I should trust him more, but just in case...
Sarah logged in to the surveillance camera's in Stephen Bartowski's house. She looked at the one located in the secret base and rewinded the tape. She saw Chuck look inside one of the boxes, then throw a match inside.
Chuck, what did you do?
On screen, Chuck took some sort of container out of the box and left the base. Sarah heard Chuck's footsteps coming closer and closed the laptop.
"Is everything okay, honey?" he asked.
"Everything's fine." Sarah lied. She hated lying to him.
Chuck felt something buzzing in his pocket. He reached inside and felt the earpiece.
"I have to go to the bathroom." he lied again and left the room.
Chuck put the small earpiece in his ear and it automatically turned on.
"Well done, Chuck Bartowski." the voice said.
"I can't do this anymore. Please, just don't hurt my family." he whispered so Sarah wouldn't hear him.
"Don't worry, Chuck. As long as you do what we say, nothing will happen to them." the voice started to say. "You have done well."
The earpiece turned off and Chuck took it out. He had no idea what to do. He couldn't tell Sarah what was going on, Casey was away on a mission with his new team Morgan was...Morgan, and Ellie would get mad at him for being a spy again. There was only one person he could talk to, and that person was dead. More than anything, Chuck wanted to talk to Bryce.