1006 hours 1/1/2026

Paris, France

Interpol headquarters

Lee woke with a start, unknowing what had happened lately. He hurt all over as if a truck had hit him. Looking around his cell, Lee saw Chris, Tarpley, Trey, and Noah who were getting up from their small nap. Tarpley was the first to speak, "Man, the last time I slept that good was basic training." Which if you want to know you hit the bed around 11 p.m. and wake up around 4 a.m. "We all know that." said Chris. Everyone got up and started looking for ways to get out. Trey studied the lock, while Chris and Lee tried to pry the bars out off the window.

After 15 minutes of getting nowhere, they gave up and sat down on the floor. Suddenly Trey sat up and asked, "Did you hear that?" Chris heard it too, a small beeping noise. Tarpley got up and walked to the window. Looking out he saw a small black object stuck to the bars of the window and it was beeping. "Shit!" He yelled as he flung himself back and 3 seconds later, the bomb went off. Noah got up and yelled, "What the hell was that!" Lee was about to say something, when a turtle with glasses and a crash helmet came up to the hole that used to be the window, "Well, you coming or not?"

The Crew didn't need to be asked twice. Once they got out, they found their saver had disappeared. "I wonder who that was." Asked Lee, before anyone could answer, alarms went off to announce their escape. Everyone ran as fast as they could to get out of the way. Several police officers were in the way and Trey being faster jumped them before they could get their side arms out to get them. However, Trey failed get the last one who put a well placed round into Trey's gut. By this time Lee was got there and after seeing his friend fall, he punched the officer so hard the he flew back nearly 3 yards.

Trey was down but managed to get himself up onto his elbow. "Go, or you wont get out of here." Chris hated that badly, "No, ether we go as a team or we don't go at all!" Nevertheless, deep down Chris know they had to leave him. The bullet wound was deep and Trey was bleeding allot. "Just go and don't look back, I will stop anyone who tries to get you." Trey garbed one of the cop's fallen side arms and waited. Chris stud up and snapped of a crisp solute then ordered the team to move out.

Trey sat there, waiting for his death to slowly come. No one came his way so the only thing to do was either bleed to death or shoot himself. Bleeding took too long and shooting himself was not going to happen. Then he heard a rustling sound and managed to bring the sidearm to bear. A large paw came out from behind him and grabbed the sidearm out of his hand.

Chris, Lee, Tarpley, and Noah ran as fast as they could to the impound lot where the SSC and the Camaro were being held. Somehow they got on the roof and got a good view of Paris. Chris looked out and spotted the impound lot almost 6 city blocks over, "Man, it can take too long to get there. Shesh, the last time I did that was boot camp." "There's a short cut across the river."

Everyone turned around to see the turtle with the crash helmet standing…err…sitting, because he is in a wheelchair, on the other side of the building. "I can get you over there if you guys help me." Chris, since he was in charge, thought about it, "I think we can get there ourselves." "Right, you guys were just fine in your little cell back there, besides you haven't heard my proposal." "One moment," with that every one started shouting at each other then they stopped as if nothing had happened, "Fine, get us over to our vehicles and we'll hear you out."

That pleased the turtle greatly, "Good, see that dock down there, you Mark V Special Operations Craft is down there." Tarpley, who from years of being one of the greatest spotters, spotted the sleek black craft with its pirate flag, "How did you guys get it here? We left it in San Diego at our safe house." "I called up a few people and the police found it yesterday, apparently all of your safe houses were hit simultaneously and some one broke the number one rule in this world: Don't tell on anyone, they might not be friendly next time."

"Amen to that, any idea who it might be?" asked Lee. Before the turtle could answer, someone interrupted him on his ear piece, "Look, I don't want to be rude, but we will miss our rendezvous and by the way, my names Bentley." With that, Bentley jumped off the edge of the building and used the rocket busters in his chair to get across the street to the building on the other side.

Suddenly two bolts of electricity came out of nowhere and slammed into ground near the Crew. Everyone turned around the see Carmelita and Eli standing on the building next door, "Freeze!" yelled Carmelita, but the Crew had already jumped of the building onto various landing points, "Why don't they ever freeze!" Eli cracked a smile and said, "Maybe they feel threatened with a shock pistol and a shock cane." Just like his brother Sly, Eli always found a joke in everything.

"Why did I get stuck with you in sniper school with you?" Chris and Tarpley stud on a fire escape, trying to find a way to get to the river. "Oh I don't know, maybe it because we volunteered." Chris ignored Tarpley's smart alack remark. "Let's go." Chris activated his com as he climbed down the fire escape, "Lee, are you there?" "Ya, I'm half way to the Mk V now via roof top." Tarpley turned to Chris and asked, "How are we going to get there ourselves?"

Noah stud in an ally looking out into the street, waiting for the right time to sprint across. Noah poked his head out for a few seconds and determined that now was the time. He shoot out from his cover at full speed and sled over the hood of a car parked on the side of the rood. But he accidentally set of the alarm, "Crap!" That got the attention of everyone within ear shot. He ran at full speed down a side ally and kept running.

As Noah ran down the alley, he picked up a wooden base ball bat. He stopped at the entrance of the alley to see if anyone was coming. He saw two Interpol cops running down the street towards him. Good, he thought, two unexpected cops walking into my trap. Once they were close, Noah quickly jumped out and hit both in the face with the bat. Turning around he wished he had looked be for he had jumped for a whole platoon of cops were waiting for him with guns.

Most of them cared small calibre pistols, like Beretta M9s, but a few of them had FAMAS-G2s with ACOG scopes. Suddenly, a cloud of 9mm and 5.56mm round came flying at Noah. Noah quickly grabbed a M9 from one of the cops he had knocked out and jumped behind a car parked on the road. Bullets riddled the car with holes and Noah had to flatten himself on the ground in order not to get hit.

Noah reached around and fired 5 rounds from the M9s 15 round clip. His shots went wide, but he managed to hit an officer who had a FAMAS-G2. Noah then laid down on his stomach and started firing from under the car. Then he heard a new sound, the sound of two Mini-UZIs on full auto and a high calibre assault rifle. Soon all the cops were dead and Noah stud up to see if he could find his savers. On a roof not far away he saw Lee waving at him and a very familiar arctic fox standing next to him.

Noah managed to get up on the roof via a fire escape. Once there, he found Lee holding a 7.62mm Kel-Tec RFB with a holographic sight. Lee stepped forwarded and slapped Noah on the shoulder, "Have fun being shot at?" Noah ignored him and turned his attention to the arctic fox, "Hey Lilly, nice to see you got my message." Lilly didn't say anything, only stared at him and handed him a large revolver. Noah cracked a smile as he griped the custom grip of his favourite gun: The Smith & Wesson 500.

Lilly also handed him some spare moon clips and a ear com. Once the ear com was in, Noah clicked it on and heard the countless bickering of Chris and Tarpley, "Hey guys, I don't mean to interrupt, but we need to get to the Mk V now!" Lee walked to the other side of the roof and then ran at full sprint to the other edge and jumped onto the next building, "This way!"

Soon everyone was on the Mk V and with Noah at the controls, because he's the team vehicle expert, was heading down the river to Bentley's rendezvous. As they approached the rendezvous a large ship came into view. On the deck, the crew saw Bentley waving at them to go to the front of the boat. As soon as Noah was in front of the boat, whose name is Lady Dragon, the front opened up to allow them to drive the Mk V into it.

Authors note:

How's that for a jail break? Now you all might be wondering who Lilly is and I will give you more details in the next chapter. I can't give anything away now, but she will play a big role in upcoming chapter. Ya know, I would really hate to be working for Carmelita right now.