"He's waking up!" Dr. Kowambe shouted to his assistants.

The doctor ran to his computer and checked the patients charts. He wasn't supposed to wake up for at least a few more months. His stats were amazing for someone who had been dead only year ago. His heart was functioning normally, but what was more amazing was the fact that his brain was working at levels that regular human beings brain's don't reach, but after all, this was no regular human being. Anyone that survives a bullet blowing their insides to pieces is not normal in the doctor's books.

A man walked into the lab. He wore a nice suit and his hair was perfectly groomed as if he was going to some sort of fancy party. The man obviously didn't belong or fit in with the rest of the people in the lab.

"What is going on here?" he shouted so he could be heard over the sound of the machines.

"Sir, we have a slight problem with the patient." Dr. Kowambe said.

"So what is it?" the Italian man asked.

"He's waking up." the doctor said. Even he was horrified by what he was saying. If a patient was acting like this while he was asleep, he didn't want to imagine what it would be like when he was awake.

"Doctor, you must come see this!" one of the assistants said.

Kowambe left the man and rushed over to his assistant.

"What is it?" he started to ask, but there was no need for explanations.

The casket-like machine where the patient was being held was beginning to open. The lid rose with a hissing sound until it was fully open. The doctor and his assistants backed away until they reached the walls of the lab.

Inside the machine, the patient was beginning to open his eyes. He tried to turn his head to see where he was, but there was no room inside the machine. The patient didn't understand. A second ago he was being dragged away from everything he cared about, and now he was in this weird machine. He raised his hand and pressed it to his chest. He looked for the gun shot wound, but it wasn't there. The patient looked up and saw a white ceiling.

Am I still in the Intersect room?

The patient sat up. Finally, he could look around. What he saw confused him even more. There were doctors all around him, but that wasn't the worst part. In the middle of the room stood the man that he hated most in the world; his father. The patient rose slowly out of the machine until he was standing steady on the floor. He walked over to his father and stared at him for a couple of seconds.

"What are you doing here?" he asked.

"That's not a very nice thing to say to someone that saved your life now is it?" the patient's father said.

"I don't understand." the patient started to say. "A minute ago, I was on the floor, bleeding, and now I'm here. I don't even have a scar."

"You can thank Dr. Kowambe for that. He was the one that revived you using his research. I was just the one who arranged it all." the father said.

"I don't care who brought me back, I'm leaving now." he said and ran to the door.

"You won't get far, Bryce!" the father yelled, but Bryce was already out of sight.

As Bryce ran down the hall, alarms started wailing. He turned the corner but was stopped by three guards. Moments later, two more guards came up from behind. The first guard raised his gun and Bryce used the opportunity to jump. He reached out and grabbed a pipe that was hanging from the ceiling. The guards let out round after round of bullets, but they were too late. Bryce was already above them, and they were firing at each other. Moments later, things calmed down. Bryce let go of the pipe and fell to the floor. He leaned down and picked up a pistol from one of the dead guards.

He kept running until he reached the exit. He rammed the door and it swung open. Bryce raced out of the facility and into the open air. He looked around and found himself in the middle of Tokyo. Bryce looked back and saw that he had come out a subway station. To everyone else around him, it looked completely normal. Just another busy subway station in the middle of Tokyo, but he knew that behind the door labeled "Staff Only" was an evil facility.

Bryce made sure that he was far enough from the facility and headed for the nearest phone booth. He dialed the number for the CIA's secure line and waited for an answer.

"Please enter access code." said a mechanical voice on the other end of the line.

"Agent Bryce Larkin." he started to say. "Access code – 157624."

"Thank you for waiting. You call will be transferred to General Beckman's office." the voice said.

A few moments later, the call was transferred.


General Beckman picked up the phone from her desk. She didn't know who it was, but she sure didn't have time for this now, not with the Triangulum running around freely.

"Who is this?" the General asked.

"It's Bryce" he started to say. "I need immediate pick up from area code 79639."

"Bryce...how is this possible?" Beckman muttered into the phone.

"No time for explanations. Please just send someone to pick me up. I will explain everything when I get back to the U.S." he said urgently and hanged up.

Bryce...alive. How is this possible? I saw the body. He was dead.

General Beckman picked up the phone again and dialed the number for the CIA air field.

"I need a helicopter sent to Tokyo immediately. Area code 79639." Beckman said and hanged up.

She opened her computer and entered her access code. The General pressed a button and her call was transferred to Castle, the secret base located in Burbank. On screen, Chuck and Sarah were sitting around a table and looking at some files.

"Agents Walker and Bartowski. Could you please explain to me what you are doing?" she said.

Chuck and Sarah looked up from the files and saw Beckman on screen.

"We were just trying to get some more information on the Triangulum." Sarah said.

"I clearly remember telling you, Chuck, to leave the mission alone until we have more information." Beckman started to say. "But that is of no importance now. Just a few minutes ago, I got a call from a phone located in Tokyo. It was Bryce."

On screen, Chuck and Sarah looked amazed and confused at the same time.

"General, how is this possible?" Sarah asked.

"We don't know yet. A helicopter is on it's way to pick Bryce up from Tokyo. He should arrive here in a few hours." the General said and terminated the conversation.


"Sarah, are you okay?" Chuck asked. He knew that Sarah and Bryce had been in partners and been in a relationship in the past, so it was obvious that she still cared about him.

"I'm fine" she started to say. She knew that she was lying. How could she be fine after everything that's happened. "I need to be alone right now. Please, don't follow me."

Sarah left the room and Chuck was left alone. As much as he wanted to see Bryce, even the thought of him and Sarah together annoyed him.


The helicopter descended to the parking lot until it came to a full stop. Bryce opened the door and stepped out. It felt good to be back. He headed towards the Orange Orange yogurt shop where the entrance to Castle was located. He stepped inside and accessed the computer. Bryce typed in a code and a door opened. He stepped through and started walking down the stairs. When he walked in, Chuck was sitting at the main table and Sarah was sitting in one of the other rooms.

They've probably heard the news.

"It's good to be back." Bryce said.

Chuck and Sarah both looked up and saw Bryce coming down the stairs. Chuck was the first to get up and walk towards Bryce.

"It's great to see you again, but I don't understand. How are you alive?" Chuck asked.

"I'll explain everything later. Could you tell Sarah to come to the main table please?" Bryce questioned.

Chuck left Bryce and headed towards Sarah.

"Bryce is here" Chuck started to say. "He wants us in the main room."

"I'll be right there." Sarah said.

"Hey, are you alright?" he asked.

"No, but I don't have much of a choice, do I?" she said.

Sarah got up and walked with Chuck to the main room.

"It's nice to see you two again." Bryce started to say. "Please sit down."

Chuck and Sarah both gave each other :what the hell is going on" looks, but still sat down.

"Let me explain everything. After I was shot, I was taken away by the Ring's men. Apparently, my father's men were waiting outside. They took out the Ring agents and took my body with them." Bryce said.

"Wait a does your father have to do with this?" Sarah asked.

"My father's name is Adam Larkin. He's been involved in some dirty business in the past. " Bryce started to say. "I've never been proud of it."

Chuck's eyes started fluttering at the sound of the name. In his flash, he saw the man named Adam Larkin. He had done many bad things in the past, including arranging murders and dealings with the black market, but worse than anything, he was the main founder of the Triangulum, the one they called the head chief. Chuck snapped back to reality and stared at Bryce. This gave him an idea he didn't like.

Does Bryce know about the Triangulum? Could he be involved with all of this?

"Bryce, could I talk to you privately for a second?" Chuck asked.

"Sure." Bryce said and walked with Chuck to a room that Sarah couldn't see.

"Have you heard of an organization called the Triangulum?" started to ask. "They've contacted me lately. They want me to do thing for them, and they said that they would hurt people if I didn't follow instructions."

"Don't worry, Chuck." Bryce started to say. "I know about the Triangulum."

"You do?" he asked.

"Yes. I did some research about them a couple years back. It didn't have to do with the CIA. Your father was the one who told me about them while we were planning the break in to the Intersect room so we could destroy it. How is your father by the way?" Bryce asked.

Chucked looked at the floor for a few moments, then looked back up at Bryce

"He's...dead."

"I'm sorry. I really am. He was a great man." Bryce said.

Chuck snapped out of his daze and looked up at Bryce.

"So what should I do?" Chuck started to ask. "You know, about the Triangulum."

"Just do what they tell you for now. Like you said, they might hurt someone if you don't follow their orders. You should just lay low for now." Bryce stated.

"I guess that sounds good." Chuck lied.

He doesn't want me to do anything to stop them. Maybe he really is working with them.

"Let's head back so Sarah won't suspect anything." Bryce said.

Chuck followed Bryce back to the main room and sat down next to Sarah.

"What did you two talk about?" Sarah whispered.

"Nothing. I'll tell you later." Chuck stated.

"Now, as I was saying, my father's men took me away." Bryce started to say. "They took my body to a lab located in Tokyo. They held me there for about a year. In the lab, a doctor named Dr. Martin Kowambe worked on bringing me back to life."

Chuck's eyes started fluttering again. In his flash, he saw a Zamibian man. He was a doctor and one of the most respected scientists in in his country, but he was also working on illegal organ harvesting and doing illegal research. Worse than all of that was the fact that Chuck already knew him.

"Chuck, did you just flash?" Sarah asked.

"Dr. Kowambe was the man that was experimenting with organ harvesting." Chuck stated.

"So what does that mean?" Sarah asked.

Chuck looked at Sarah a few moments, wondering if he should tell her or not.

"He was the one that brought Shaw back." Chuck said at last.

Sarah's face went blank. She hadn't thought about Shaw in a while, and she didn't think that she'd have to hear his name again.

"Wait. Shaw as in Daniel Shaw?" Bryce asked.

"Do you know him?" Chuck questioned.

"We used to work together when I first joined the CIA. He was kind of a mentor for me." Bryce said.

"So you mean you don't know?" Chuck asked in amazement.

"Know what? What are you talking about?" Bryce asked.

"Shaw was a Ring agent. He used us to get information. Shaw wanted to destroy the CIA." Sarah said sadly.

"Oh. I didn't know." Bryce started to say. "Maybe I should just continue. I woke up in a lab surrounded by doctors and my father. All I could do was run away. When I got out, I found myself in Tokyo."

Chuck's eyes started fluttering again. He saw a Triangulum base located in a subway station in Tokyo. He snapped back and stared at Bryce again. He thought of the idea of Bryce working with the Triangulum again, and it sounded more realistic now than it ever had.

"Chuck, did you just flash?" Bryce asked.

"No...no, I'm fine. You can continue." Chuck said.

"As I was saying, I found myself in Tokyo. I called General Beckman and she sent a helicopter to pick me up and bring me here." Bryce stated.

Bryce's phone rang and he stepped aside to answer it. Chuck used this opportunity to talk Sarah.

"Sarah, I need to talk to you." he said.

"Okay. What do you want to talk about?" Sarah questioned.

"I told you about the Triangulum right. I flashed on Bryce's father. Adam Larkin is the main founder of the Triangulum. I don't know if Bryce knows this or not, but I'm afraid that Bryce is working with them as well." Chuck said.

"Chuck, this is crazy." Sarah started to say. "Even if Bryce's father is a bad man, it doesn't mean that Bryce is too. I know that you and Bryce don't have a great history together, but blaming him for committing treason against his own country, that's just preposterous."

"Please, Sarah. I can't tell you everything but you have to believe me." Chuck pleaded.

Sarah looked at Chuck for a few moments, thinking what to do.

I've trusted him with these things before, and usually he's right. But what is this time he's wrong.

"Okay, Chuck. I believe you. What do you want to do?" she asked.


"Tonight, we'll go to Bryce's hotel room and look for any evidence showing that he's working with them. Thanks for trusting me on this, Sarah." Chuck said.


Bryce stepped out of Castle and answered the phone.

"Hello." he said into the phone.

"Do they believe you?" a voice asked.

"Yes. Everything is going as planned." Bryce stated.

"They're planning to go to your apartment tonight. Catch them redhanded. That should bring the girl to our side." the voice said.

"So I guess that Chuck doesn't completely believe me." Bryce said.

"No, he doesn't, but it doesn't matter. Once the girl thinks that he was wrong, she will leave him and return to you. We will have no need for Chuck Bartowski." the voice said.

"What do you want me to do with him?" Bryce questioned.

"Eliminate him. It shouldn't be very hard." the voice said and hung up.


The high chief placed the phone on his desk. He picked up a picture from his desk and stared at it for a while. The picture showed his son and wife having fun at a park. It was taken many years ago, his son was older now, and his wife...his wife was dead.

The hight chief was taken out of his daze by a knock at the door.

"Come in." he said.

Byron stepped into the room and saluted the high chief.

"I don't want to tell you again, Byron. I don't want you saluting me. We are not in the CIA anymore. Please put your hand down" the high chief said.

Byron did as he was told and put his hand down, but still stood up straight.

"So what's the matter, Byron." the high chief asked.

"I just wanted to know how the operation is progressing, sir." Byron started to say. "That's all."

"It's going well." the high chief started to say. "Stephen's Bartowski's son and Sarah Walker are going to Bryce Larkin, our new agent's house. Bryce will catch them redhanded while they are in his apartment. Walker will leave Bartowski and join Bryce, who will bring her here. Chuck Bartowski will be taken care of."

Byron's eyes started fluttering, but he didn't need a flash to know who Bryce Larkin was. Larkin was a CIA legend. He and his partner, Sarah Walker, had been on countless successful missions together. He was the one who had breached into the Intersect room and destroyed the Intersect. One thing was strange, though. Bryce Larkin was supposed to be dead.

"Sir, I don't understand." Byron started to say. "How can Larkin be one of our agents? He's supposed to be dead."

"It's complicated. You don't need to know all of the specifics." the high chief stated.

"But sir, I am one of the Triangulum leaders. I think that I deserve to know what's going on." Bryce demanded.

"If you want to call yourself one of the Triangulum leaders, you better start to act like one first. If the information you want is urgent, you will be updated. As of now, you have no need for it." the high chief said.

"Yes, sir." Byron said, ashamed of himself for insulting the high chief.

"Now, please leave and return to your business. I have my own business to attend to." the high chief said and turned away from Byron.

Byron left the office and the high chief chief picked up the photo again. He looked at his wife, so happy and alive, then looked at his son, so happy, so different from today. How he missed those days.


Chuck looked at his watch. The time was 9:00 P.M. It was time.

"You ready, Sarah?" he asked.

Sarah hesitated for a moment, then looked up at Chuck.

"Yeah. Let's do this." she said and headed for the weapons room.

Chuck followed her and started to get ready. He picked up a bullet proof vest and fastened it to his chest. Next, he picked up a pair of night-vision goggles and strapped them to his vest, in case he would need to use them.

"Take this." Sarah said and handed a pistol to Chuck, but he pushed it back.

"You know that I can't take that." he started to say and picked up his favorite tranquilizer gun. "This is more like it." he said and slid the gun into it's holster.

Sarah smiled. She hadn't noticed how much she loved Chuck's humor. It was one of the only things that got her through the day.

Last but not least, Chuck strapped his father's machine to his hand. It had gotten his dad through many tough situations, and now it was Chuck's turn to use it.

"You look good." Sarah said. Chuck had gotten stronger, more handsome in the last few years. It suited him.

"We should go." Chuck said.

Chuck and Sarah walked up the stairs and left Castle. Outside, Sarah looked around for Bryce, but he was nowhere to be found. Chuck took out the keys to the Nerd Herder and unlocked it. Both he and Sarah got in and he started the car. As soon as they were inside, Sarah started tampering with the GPS system.

"What are you doing?" Chuck questioned.

"You don't want to be tracked, do you?" Sarah started to ask. "Give me your shoe."

"My shoe? What do you need my shoe for?" Chuck asked in confusion.

"Just give it to me." she started to say. "I installed a tracking device in your shoe. I'm really sorry, Chuck, but I had to. You are the Intersect after all."

Chuck took off his shoe and gave it to Sarah.

She installed a tracking device in my shoe. Does she know about what happened at my dad's house?

Sarah looked inside the shoe until she found the tracking device. She plucked it out and threw it out the window. Sarah handed the shoe back to Chuck and he put it on.

"I'm really sorry, Chuck." she said.

"Whatever. I suppose you've been to Bryce's apartment before so you know where it is." Chuck said.

"Yeah. I know where it is." she started to say. She was beginning to have second thoughts about trusting Chuck, but then remembered that she loved him and that he was the Intersect, so he was right most of the time. "Just drive along the highway until I tell you to turn."

Chuck turned onto the highway and started driving towards Bryce's apartment.


John Casey lay on his bed in the sleeping are of the military base in Afghanistan. It was his first break in a while, and he was using it to rest. Casey didn't want to be interrupted, and his soldiers knew that. The problem was that other people didn't. Casey's rest was interrupted by a knock on the door.

Can't these idiots survive five minutes without me.

"Ughh...come in." Casey grunted and got up out of bed.

A soldier stood at the door and waited for permission to enter .His hair was cut short like all the other soldiers and his uniform was tidy and clean. There was no way to distinguish this man from the hundreds of other soldiers that came and went through the base everyday, and that's exactly what Casey hated about this place. He missed the rush of being out in the field on missions. He missed being a spy.

"Lieutenant Ryan Miller, sir. Permission to enter, sir." the soldier said.

Casey grunted. He hated when the soldiers around here kissed his ass.

"At ease, soldier." Casey started to say. "Permission to enter granted."

"Thank you, sir." Miller said and entered the room.

"So did you actually want something or do you just enjoy ruining my first break in a long time?" Casey questioned.

"You have a phone call, Sir." Miller stated.

"Thank you, soldier. You may return to your business." Casey said.

Who could be calling me here? Barely anyone knows where I am, and the ones who do know that I don't want to be bothered.

Casey left the shaded room and walked out into the hot desert military base. Soldiers ran back and forth, planes with new arrivals and leaving soldiers took off and landed at the nearby air base, and trucks packed with soldiers rolled by as they came back from enemy land. A soldier jumped out of one of the trucks, ran past Casey, and bumped into his shoulder.

"Hey watch where you're going!" the soldier shouted without looking.

"How about you watch your mouth, soldier." Casey said. He hated these soldiers more than the rest; the new arrivals.

The new arrival turned around and stared at Casey for a few seconds.

"Well, don't just stand there!" Casey shouted at the soldier. He loved to scare them.

"Sorry, Colonel. Didn't mean to bump into you. Sir." the soldier said.

"At ease, soldier. Run along now, before you get on my nerves." Casey said and started walking towards the phone.

There was one phone in the entire base, and it was usually taken. Casey walked over to the phone and picked it up.

"Who is this?" he asked.

"Hey, Casey! What's up?" Morgan asked.

Out of all the people in the world...it had to be Morgan.

"What do you want, Morgan?" Casey questioned.

"Remember when you gave me that tracker thingy so I could find Chuck if there were any problems." Morgan started to say." Well, I was thinking that Chuck was acting kind of suspicious, so I traced him in the thingy. I got the address of the place he was heading for, and I looked it up. For some reason, Chuck and Sarah are going to Bryce's apartment."

"Why would they go to Bryce Larkin's apartment?" Casey asked. Even he was confused now.

"I don't know. That's why I called you." Morgan stated.

"So after I tell you to never ever call me while I'm in Afghanistan, you do the exact opposite and call me." Casey started to say. "Never mind now, we need to take find out what's happening."

"And how do you suggest we do that?" Morgan asked.

"I know what to do, Morgan. Just stay where you are." Casey said and left the phone.

"All right men!" Casey started to shout at the soldiers in the base. "I need ten of the best men that this base can provide. Report at my office in exactly ten minutes."

Casey knew exactly what to do.


Chuck parked the car in front of Bryce's apartment building and got out of the car.

"Just follow me. His apartment is on the fifth floor." Sarah said and headed for the building.

Chuck followed her to the elevator and pressed the number five. The elevator headed up to the fifth floor. After a few moments, it came to a stop and the doors opened. Chuck and Sarah exited the elevator and turned left towards Bryce's apartment. For a few seconds they walked in silence until they reached the right door.

"Can you open it, Chuck?' Sarah asked.

"I can try." he stated and kneeled down so he was facing the lock. Chuck stared at it for a few seconds and his eyes started fluttering. With skills that he didn't have a few seconds ago, he went to work on the lock. Several seconds later, the lock fell to the ground.

"Nice work, Chuck" Sarah said.

Chuck and Sarah entered the apartment. Sarah had been here before, but Chuck was amazed. He didn't know that Bryce was rich. Huge glass windows surrounded the house instead of walls, decorated furniture covered the apartment, and flat screen televisions stretched from floor to ceiling. Sarah didn't look around, instead she headed straight for one of the televisions.

"This really isn't a good time to be watching TV, Sarah." Chuck said.

"Just come here." she started to say. "There's a safe behind this TV. Bryce showed it to me once. Help me take it down."

Chuck came over to Sarah and grabbed one end of the TV. They both raised it and started to take it down, but were interrupted by someone opening the door.

"Quick, put it down." Sarah said and put down the TV. She quickly took out her pistol and aimed it at the door.

Chuck followed Sarah's lead and took out his tranquilizer gun. The door opened and someone stepped in. At first they couldn't see his face, but he soon turned around and faced them. Bryce raised his hands and quickly realized that the ones aiming at him were Chuck and Sarah.

"What are you doing in my apartment, Sarah?" Bryce questioned.

"Chuck...Chuck though that you might be working with the Triangulum. We came here to look for clues." she said ashamed.

"Chuck, did you really think that I was one of the bad guys? After everything we've been through?" Bryce asked.

"I...I...I'm sorry. I just thought..." Chuck muttered.

"Well maybe next time you shouldn't think." Bryce started to say. "Come on, Sarah. I'll take you home."

Sarah started walking to Bryce, but was stopped by the sound of a helicopter. All three of the looked around to see what the source of the sound was, but there was no need. Moments later, the giant glass windows smashed to pieces as men repelled from a helicopter hovering above the building. The men quickly circled Bryce and pulled out their weapons. It took all of them a few seconds to realize that one of the men was Casey, who they hadn't seen since he shipped off to Afghanistan.

"Casey...what are you doing here?" Chuck muttered under his breath.

"I got a phone call that said that you and Sarah were in trouble. I thought that the best thing to do was to come and help." Casey explained.

"With the whole army?" Chuck asked sarcastically.

"Who was the phone call from, Casey?" Sarah asked.

"It's good to see you too, Walker." Casey started to say. "Well...it came from...Morgan."

"And you believed him?" Sarah asked in amazement.

"You see, Casey." Chuck started to say. "I might have made a mistake. I thought that Bryce was one of the bad guys, so I convinced Sarah to come with me and look for and evidence."

"Well like you said, Chuck. You made a mistake. Come on, Sarah. I'll drive you home." Bryce said and left with Sarah.

Chuck looked at Casey, who grunted back at him.

"It's good to see you too, buddy." Chuck said.


Bryce and Sarah left the building and Sarah followed Bryce to his car. She got in, but Bryce stayed outside for a few seconds. He raised his watch to his mouth and pressed a button that turned the microphone on.

"It's done." he started to say into the watch. "She thinks that Chuck made a mistake, and she's with me. I'll bring her to headquarters tomorrow."

"Everything okay, Bryce?" Sarah asked from inside.

"Yeah, I was just getting some fresh air, that's all." he lied.

Bryce got in the car and drove off with Sarah.