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An:I wrote this story based on the new Tv Show Intelligence. Please read and review would love to know what you think. More Chapters/Stories will come soon.
Chapter 2: May God Be With You
Gabriel looked around the basement to see if he could find any other clues after finding nothing Gabriel headed back to the car pushed under the window wipers was another note:
NV61 JKO
"Car Registration?" Gabriel pondered as he began looking through the car data base.
After searching for a few seconds he struck gold it belonged to a White Peugeot Van.
"Jameson, pull up the location of a White Peugeot Van reg NV61 JKO." Gabriel requested turning to face Jameson who was sitting the car on his laptop.
"Found it its heading along Colorado springs." Jameson replied.
Gabriel and Jameson raced through Colorado Springs; he could see they target in site. They didn't want to engage, as it could lead them to Riley, so instead began to follow the van. After 15 minutes of tailing, the van was still moving, but Gabriel was never going to give up he was determined.
Gabriel and Jameson were still following the van, still determined to find her just as then the van began to slow. BANG! Gabriel slammed onto the breaks as the van in front of him descended into a thousand pieces, slowly Gabriel vision came back into focus as black smog filled the air and flames were now sprouting from the van, he had been tricked again. Not hearing Jameson shouting, Gabriel shot from the car towards the van.
Gabriel hoped that if he looked in the wreckage he could find something a clue, lead, location anything that meant Riley was fine. As he neared the driver side of the burning van he could see a phone sticking out from under the seat. Gabriel didn't care if he got burnt he just hoped that the phone had something useful on it that he could use to find her.
Gabriel leaped into the wreckage sticking out his hand and grabbing the phone from under the burning seat. Collect a couple of light burns on the way, he quickly began to skim through the phone finding nothing but a number of recent incoming calls maybe this was The Shadow? Gabriel decided to call it, after calling it three times he had no answer, but that didn't stop him he just kept calling and calling on the sixth try his hard work paid off and someone answered.
"Hey Joe, what do you want?" a mysterious voice questioned.
Gabriel knew that he had to pretend to be this Joe person; it was his only way of finding Riley.
"Hey I was wondering where we are keeping the girl." Gabriel said with a slight accent.
"Joe, are you ok? You sound different?" the mysterious voice applied.
"Yeah fine," Gabriel said hoping to persuade the voice.
Gabriel thought he had fooled him, but he was wrong when the phone suddenly cut off. Gabriel knew that he had to find her quick he might have put her in more danger.
"Gabriel when you were on the phone I tracked his location." Jameson said trying to reassure Gabriel.
"Thank god" Gabriel replied with a relieved voice.
"The location leads to a small town outside of Saskatoon." Jameson said with confidence.
Trying to keep his hopes up her began to run though what he had found in his head. Letters, phones and that mysterious note that lead to the van and phone, who had put it on his car? Amelia? Riley? Earlier Gabriel had been scanning the letters to see if there was any finger prints for him to use. But nothing Gabriel was getting worried The Shadow really was just a Shadow; he had kept scanning and scanning but still nothing. The only print he'd managed to find was Riley's. Maybe Riley found a way to help him? He was quickly broken from his thoughts when Jameson told him they had arrived at the location. Everyone at Cybercom knew Gabriel would not do another mission until Riley was by his side; it was like Amelia all over again.
It didn't take him long to realise this was a ghost town, broken windows, smash doors, and debris covering everything in sight. Every building in this place was destroyed it was like a nuclear bomb had gone off. How long this place, has been like this, Gabriel wondered.
Gabriel and Jameson decided to look around for any sign of life, as they cleared the buildings one by one, they found nothing all were empty and deserted. Just as they began to enter another small house, Gabriel saw something out the corner of his eye, turning quickly he sees it again a small gleaming white light coming from inside a massive church opposite. Without warning Jameson; he turned and ran across the road he was going to find Riley he had too. Following after him, Jameson nearly crashed into Gabriel's back as he suddenly stopped.
"What is that smell?" Jameson asked, walking past Gabriel who was stood in the doorway. Stopping dead in his tracks, he realised why Gabriel was silent and why the church stunk. Littering the aisle lay dead and rotting corpses.
Apart from the rotting corpse littering the floor and the crumbling wall the church was beautiful. With huge stain glass windows behind the alter and the cushiony red pews, Gabriel knew that this church would of looked beautiful before this disaster happened. Gabriel only hoped that God was looking down on him, and was keeping Riley safe until he could find her.
Looking over the bodies Gabriel didn't recognise any of them so he began to run face recognition. All four of the bodies were low level criminals suspected of ties to The Darkness and The Shadow. Looking over the bodies Gabriel found a camcorder in one of the men's pocket. It was almost destroyed but Gabriel was able to gather the memory through his chip. There were many pictures of the men together and what Gabriel presumed was their families, but one thing that stuck out was a video of Riley.
As the video began to play Gabriel was instantly drawn to Riley she lay unconscious in the middle of what he now recognised as 12 Leon Close. Gabriel could hardly hear what the men in the background were saying as he just focused on Riley; her hair was sticking to her forehead from the sweat and blood. Her face was now revealing a yellowy purple bruise on her cheek. Moving lower Gabriel could see she was wearing her running clothes her once white t-shirt was more browny red a mixture of blood and dirt and her black bottoms were repeated ripped. Gabriel couldn't even begin to imagine the injuries she had. Pulling himself from his thoughts he saw one of the men move closer to Riley before chucking a bucket of water over her face jerking her awake.
"Ga..Gabriel?" Riley stuttered.
"Sorry Princess just us." One of the men says smiling maliciously at her. "Where is the Athens list?" he demands.
"I..I don't know," Riley said trying the keep her voice strong despite her injuries. Seconds tick by but the men do not talk they just stare at her as if assessing her. Before anyone can speak again the doors burst open. The camera turned black as if someone had put it in their pocket but it was still running.
"You idoits they got Jack we need to move her!" the mysterious voice from the phone call earlier said.
"What how he said he was only leaving for an hour." One of the men spoke.
"He will give away our position now move her!" the voice growled.
The camera began the shake and Gabriel could hear Riley in the background crying before the camera shut off. Gabriel jaw locked as his eyes began to blur. They must have killed the men for letting us catch Jack he thought. The 24 hours he originally had was now down to 11 hours, time was running out.
"What do you think Jameson? Will we find her?" Gabriel enquires shakily.
"I think at the end of the day, we will have the Athens list and Riley alive and well." Jameson replies trying to reassure Gabriel the best he can.
"I will find her, and I will not stop until I do," Gabriel said more determined than ever.
Gabriel and Jameson keep searching for any more clues or locations, every isle they have gone up so far has nothing, but that doesn't stop Gabriel or Jameson from giving up, they keep searching the isles and still nothing, but when they reach the last isle Jameson see a bible laying on a pew. Opening the bible to the page mark he smiles and shows Gabriel. "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me."
Where are you Riley? Where are you?
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