Chapter Two:

~Five Months Later~

Oh, Lancelot you've really mucked it up this time. I thought to myself although it was hard to hear even my own thoughts through the ringing in my ears. What I sight I must be right now in an abandoned hospital, sprinting headlong though the unending corridors, clutching a tattered umbrella. My lungs burned in protest as I turned and the corner into a dead-end corridor. Great job Felicity.

This mission is just going from bad to worse first they cut off my communication with Merlin, my glasses are now nothing more than an unnecessary annoyance sliding down my nose. Next after dropping from the celling to retrieve a microchip from right under this cartels nose, my only handgun blew my cover by falling from its holster to the ground alerting the men playing poker in the room next door to my presence.

They were less than pleased to see me as one could imagine and after some inaccurate shots fired in my direction cut my line attaching me to the celling I took off at a sprint after grabbing the microchip. They've been hot on my tail ever since and now here I am staring wide eyed, chest heaving at a dead-end hallway.

Perfect I grimaced. Swallowing hard I turned hearing the heavy strides of my pursuers. I was hoping to avoid conflict I had what I came for after all but desperate times call for desperate measures. Slipping the tiny microchip into my jackets inside pocket for safe keeping and adjust my grip on my trusty umbrella. Just in time too as I smooth my jacket closed three burly men come staggering around the corner two of them side by side and arm to arm in the tiny hallway the third and by far the largest lagging behind.

"Ha! Are you lost little girl?" The one on the left spoke first his voice full of malice. He has the kind of face you just want to punch. I bit back a laugh as I reminded myself that's just what I intend to do.

Seeing my smirk, the brute on the left squared up to me his extraordinary hairy nostrils flaring. It really makes me wish I wasn't as short as I am but I digress.

"Our boss is goanna want a word with you" the man on the left decidedly the chattiest of my aggressors said reaching a porky hand towards me.

I waited until his fingertips had grazed my bicep before using the crook of my umbrella to catch and bend his wrist back until a sickening crack bounces off the walls of the hallway followed by a yell of pain. His companion on the right made a wild grab for my arm but caught my umbrella instead, big mistake. I push the button on the handle that causes the umbrella to open the force sends the second man reeling into the largest man behind. I guess the old saying is true the bigger they are the harder they do fall.

My chatty friends with the broken wrist is on his feet again making wild swings at me. I spot an opening, ducking under his wild haymaker to where his legs are wideset I scarper though them catching his leg just above the ankle with the handle of my umbrella. One sharp tug later and a loud thud sounds as Mr. Chatterbox lands face first on the ground.

I can't help my mirthless laughter as I step over my neutralised assailants. The largest man now crushed under his buddy's weight and toughly dazed makes a grab for my own ankle but I quickly move it from his reach.

"Sorry boys I'd love to stay and chat but this 'little girl' has to go call her Daddy" I say walking until I reach the corner of the corridor I came down the first time before breaking into a sprint once again. A few wrong turns later I'm walking out the front door of the not so abandoned facility.

After sneaking past the guards once again I leave the perimeter of the facility and hear static in my ears as Merlin attempts to establish a stable connection with you.

"Lancelot? Hello? Can you hear me?" Merlin says ill-disguised panic in his voice.

"Calm down Merlin I'm fine I have the microchip and I'm on my way home now. God you'd think you actually care what happens to me or something" I joke breaking the tension between you two.

"Oh, hahaha and here I was thinking 'Merlin she's dead and it's all your fault'" there's a brief pause while Merlin takes a breath and he continues "I'm sending a jet to pick you up it'll about an hour see you back at H.Q."

"Wonderful thanks Merlin see you then"