AN: Things get crazy from here on out. It's important that you remember this is an Alternate Universe story, so don't expect the characters to act the same. In Beckman's case she has been working with them for a while and has spoken to them many times. I think on the show, Beckman and crew had issues with Chuck because, be honest now, he was a sniveling tool at times. Here he isn't, so Beckman and crew respect him more.
Chuck was bored off his ass standing at the Nerd Herd desk when he saw her walk in. Beautiful he thought, a long legged blonde with legs up to the crack of her butt and curves in all the right places. As she made her way towards the desk all kinds of thoughts were going through Chucks mind, shit she's hot, oh no she's coming over, wait what's wrong with me? I talk to beautiful girls all the time. I think I'll ask her out. "Hi, can I help you?" at this point Morgan came up and made his presence known. "Come on Chuck, can't you leave at least one girl for the rest of us?"
"I'm sorry about him," Chuck said pointing at Morgan, "he has issues."
"I can see that. I'm having trouble with my phone and I really need it," said the blonde.
"I'm sure I can fix it right up, let me see it." The blonde handed her phone over to Chuck. He took a quick look at it knew right away what the problem. "Here's the problem, a screw came loose and I tightened it for you. I'm Chuck by the way," Chuck said as he extended his hand.
"Sarah, pleased to meet you. What did your coworker mean when he said leave some girls for the rest of us?"
"Don't mind Morgan, he's not right in the head. He's a twenty eight year old man that still thinks he's fifteen. He's referring to the fact I live with my sister, a friend and five other women."
"Wow, I didn't expect that." I also didn't expect you to look so good. You look way better than the picture Graham sent me. "I'm kinda new in town what's there do around here?"
"Not too much I can assure you. But if you're willing to take a risk you can follow me to my house in Malibu so I can get changed and I can take you out to a nice dinner and club afterwards?"
"That sounds like a good idea to me, when do you get off?"
"I'm ready to clock out now. Give me a second I'll be right with you."
It wasn't long before the pair were in the parking lot heading towards their cars. Sarah pointed at her car. "Nice Porsche, Sarah, but I prefer pure American muscle," Chuck said pointing at his Mustang, "Mines a one off, 1967 Mustang Shelby GT Super Snake, runs like hell when she's asked."
"I didn't take you for a muscle car type of guy" said Sarah. "I always figured that Nerds were into the smaller less powerful models."
"Most are, but I'm not your normal nerd am I?"
"So far no Chuck. We better get moving or we won't get a chance to go out," stated Sarah. It didn't take long to get on the road and begin the trip to Malibu. Inside each car a phone call was made.
"Logan, a CIA agent by the name of Sarah Walker came to the store today saying she needed her phone fixed. It's a simple trick they teach agents at the farm. I'm bringing her by the house before our date."
"Beckman called earlier today and said she has to send a John Casey here to look for some classified data that was supposedly sent to you via email. I told her she better tag along so we can figure this out, I'm glad I told her to come now that the CIA is involved. Did you get any strange emails?"
"Not that I can remember. I told you earlier for some reason I can't remember much of last night and I hardly drank that much. Do me a favor real quick and check my computer. I think I opened an email from an old frat buddy from Stanford." A few minutes later Logan returned to the conversation.
"Your computer's toast, like fried."
"Shit. Nothing I can do now, let's just see how this plays out. What's Diane's eta?"
"Karen and Nicole are on the way back with her. They should be back just after you get here."
In Sarah's car a much different conversation was taking place. "Did you meet up with the mark Agent Walker?"
"Yes Sir I did. In fact we are going out on a date later tonight. I am currently in route to his house. When I get there I plan to look around and see if I can get a look at his computer."
"Why didn't you stick with the plan and go to his place while he was at work?" This caused Sarah to roll her eyes before responding. "I did Sir, but the Intel you sent me was fucking wrong, again. He doesn't live in Echo Park he lives in Malibu. And I have no idea what the address is."
"Just remember the objective, if you can't get the data back kill him."
"I'm sure that won't be necessary but if push comes to shove I'll do my job."
"Very well, contact me when you have finished." And Graham ended the call.
Sarah was amazed when she pulled into the long drive leading to Chuck's house. It was a damn mansion. Chuck was already waiting for her when she exited her car and walked towards him. He took her hand and led her into the house.
"I'm going to take you out to the pool to meet my sister, she's been after me for a few years to get a girlfriend and since you're my date you'll do." He said leading her towards the pool area.
"Isn't it too soon to introduce me to your sister?"
"Under normal circumstances I would agree, but I don't want you bored out of your mind while you wait for me. Plus my friend and his girls will be there so you'll have plenty of company." As soon as they stepped on the pool deck Sarah stopped dead in her tracks. Standing around the pool were four of the most beautiful women she had ever seen and a man that made the Greek gods cry. That normally wouldn't make Sarah stop, it was the fact that all the women were buck ass naked. The other thing that stood out was the women's bodies. They were in great physical shape and if she had to guess less than ten percent body fat. One of the girls ran up to Chuck and gave him a big hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"So little brother, is this the girl you have a date with tonight?"
"Yep, Ellie this fine lady is Sarah and Sarah this is my sister Ellie." The ladies shook hands as Chuck carried on with the introductions, "From left to right are Claire, Riley, Olivia, and the stud is Logan."
"Okayyy. I wasn't prepared for this, you could have warned me about it Chuck!"
"Come on Sarah where would the fun be in that? You'll get to meet Nicole and Karen in a bit. They are currently picking up someone from the airport. They should be here by the time I get out of the shower."
"Sarah," began Claire, "why don't you strip off those clothes and take a swim with us?"
"No offense but I hardly know you people and I wouldn't feel comfortable walking around naked in front of you."
"I'll buy that for now, as long as that's the real reason and it's not because you have throwing knives tucked in your boot or a Smith and Wesson 5906 tucked in your pants behind your back, it's cool." Just as Sarah was looking stunned and formulating her response, Karen and Nicole walked on to the deck shedding their clothes as they did. Behind them was a middle aged woman with reddish grey hair, and a hulking miserable looking man.
"Ahhh the gangs all here," declared Chuck. "General Beckman it's a pleasure to finally meet you." He said extending his hand which the General took. "And you my miserable looking bastard must be Major John Casey NSA." Casey clenched his fists like he was going to attack Chuck and all hell broke loose. He found himself flat on his back beneath a very naked Ellie who had her hand raised in a position that was known to be a killing blow. She then began to speak in a slow and deadly tone, "listen you over grown piece of crap, if you ever and I mean ever disrespect my brother or anyone here on this deck I'll cut off your balls and shove them down your throat. Nod once if you understand me you worthless ass." Casey was all set to reply when General Beckman spoke up.
"Stand down Major, and Ellie was that show of force really necessary?"
Ellie was undeterred as she stood up still glaring daggers at Casey. "Yes Ma'am it was. Casey is a guest in my house and he made a threating gesture towards my brother, General no disrespect intended but you better keep a leash on your dog if you want him to work with us."
"Ellie, that's enough," hissed Chuck. "Before this gets completely out of hand, can you explain what the hell is going on and why can I look at someone and know everything about them?"
"In a nut shell after 9/11 the intelligence agencies put all there data into a special computer. It was designed to ferret out the information stored within the computer using visual and audio clues. Two nights ago Bryce Larkin broke into the intersect computer and sent the data to you Chuck. From what Logan explained earlier to me, you somehow managed to download the intersect data into your head. Bryce was killed that night by Casey trying to get away. It was then decided that a joint CIA/NSA project would be established."
"That's some heavy shit there General," said Chuck. "Here's how I see it, Sarah can join our team to represent the CIA, yes Sarah I knew you were CIA as soon as you asked me to fix your phone and Casey here can also join as long as he loses his I'm better than anyone else attitude. I don't trust the CIA as you already know so I would prefer if we got any missions from you."
"Ma'am" Casey spoke up for the first time sending a cautious glance at Ellie who was still staring daggers at him and holding a throwing knife at the ready, "I understand Chuck has the intersect in his head, but he's an untrained civilian. I'm not sure he candle this."
"John, Sarah," began Beckman hoping to forestall any violence, "You have both heard of Fulcrum correct?" she received nods from both of them and carried on, "we didn't even know about them until eighteen months ago. These people standing here are the ones that brought Fulcrum to our attention. One day Fulcrum agents started showing up on our door steps, literally, they were bound and gagged just laying by the doors. Over that time they have taken down several Fulcrum cells and put over two hundred of them in jail. They have plans in place that will bring down Alexi Volkoff within the next few months. Just the other day Chuck single handedly stopped an assassination attempt on an Army General by catching a Serbian bomber in Burbank. They don't belong to any agency, they took it upon themselves to help this country and protect it with their lives. So I'll ask you one more time, are these people the kind you could work with, tell me now if you can't and I'll get somebody else to take your place."
"General, I'm on board with this team if they'll have me," began Sarah, "I just don't understand what they have against the CIA."
"I'll tell you what we have against the CIA," snapped Chuck and the anger in his voice was clear, "fifteen years ago your precious CIA sent my mother undercover into Volkoff Industries to bring him down. Despite her repeated calls for extraction they left her there to fucking rot. Graham was one of the people she reached out to and he didn't do a damn thing. Then that rat bastard Bryce betrays his country by stealing the intersect and sending it to me. Out of the 200 fulcrum agents we captured, eighty percent were former CIA agents. That, Sarah, is the reason we don't trust the CIA. The one thing we require from the people we work with is complete honesty, if you can't do that we don't need you."
"I'm sorry Chuck I didn't know any of that." Sarah explained. She was also mulling her situation over. She just got filled in what the team had done so far and their record was pretty impressive. She also knew that physical training was very important to these people because each of them looked to be excellent physical condition. "Part of my CIA training to taught me to lie and deceive people, I promise to tell you the truth as I know it. It may take me some time but I know I can get there. I'm in."
"We got off to a bad start Chuck most of it was my fault. It's been a long time since I was in another position other than leader and after what I just heard I'm in," said Casey. "By the way Ellie nice take down."
"Thanks Casey. Once you guys finally move in I'll get you started on your work out regime. You're strong but you're too slow, we need to make you faster."
"Good, that's settled then," stated Beckman. "Now where are the beers and steaks you promised me Logan? In keeping with the motto of the team, work hard and party harder, let's get this fucking party started," shouted the General. Casey just stared hard at his commanding officer wondering what the hell was going on. Sarah was at a complete loss about what to say or do. None of this was making any sense to either of them. Similar thoughts were going through each agents heads, what kind of rabbit hole did I just fall into? When Chuck noticed the discomfort on Sarah's face he decided it was time to approach Sarah and help her out a bit.
"Hey Sarah that was a lot to take in. Do you still want to go out or would you rather stay here?" asked Chuck.
"You still want to go out with me even knowing I was playing you like a mark?"
"Sure, thanks to the data base in my head I knew you were CIA when you walked into the Buy More. I know everything you've done while with the CIA and don't give a shit. I still thought you were hot and it was worth a shot at asking you for a date. So what it's going to be Sarah?"
"How about we hang here and do some team building?" I can't believe it, he should be running for the hills right now. If he doesn't care what can it hurt? "We can go out tomorrow if you want."
"Sounds like a plan Sarah. Don't worry about driving back to the hotel the CIA put you up in and stay here. As you can see we have plenty of rooms." Chuck glanced over to where the General was tossing back her third shot and smiled. "Casey and the General will be staying by the looks of things. She's working on getting hammered." Just as Sarah was about to respond Ellie strolled up to her and began speaking.
"Sarah let's get a move on there, you're the only chick here that still has her clothes on. If ya wanna be on the team you have to act like it."
"Ellie I'm not sure if that's such a good idea, I have a date with your brother tomorrow and I was kind of hoping to have a date before he saw me naked." Ellie took a moment to ponder Sarah's words before commenting.
"That makes sense I suppose, but don't wait too long before you screw him six ways to Sunday, that boy seriously needs to get laid. And don't give me those 'what the hell is she talking about eyes'. I saw the way you were looking at my brother during the meeting, he was looking at you the same way."
"Ellie I can't do anything with Chuck, it's against agent asset rules. I'd get tossed out of the CIA."
"Well you're wrong on both counts. First Chuck and by extension his team are not assets. We are considered paid private contractors of the NSA. That by default makes point number two invalid. So what if you get kicked out of the CIA, you could join us or the NSA." Ellie said with a shoulder shrug. "You'd still be doing the same job just under a different name. I don't see what the problem is," replied Ellie. Sarah was getting ready to give her answer when her phone went off. Even with Ellie standing there she answered the call and put it on speaker, "Walker secure."
"Walker, I just found out that Beckman is sending Casey in to grab the asset. He's a killer Sarah, real old school. I can't afford to let that happen. I need for you to bring him in ASAP." Sarah heard Ellie snort at the director's comment. She then looked in the direction Ellie was pointing and saw the General doing shots off of Chuck's rock hard abs. lucky bitch. Casey was licking salt off of Riley's neck and doing a shot. It was all she could do to keep from laughing out loud.
"The asset or mark as you keep referring to him as, has a name, Chuck. He does not fit the definition of either, he is a paid contractor working for General Beckman head of the NSA. So I have to ask, Graham is your Intel always this fucked up?" Ellie chuckled at that comment. "I am currently with both the General and Casey out by Chuck's pool. Right now the General is tossing back shots and grinding against Chuck. Casey just did a tequila shot off a naked chick's stomach. It doesn't look like he's going to kill anybody."
"What the hell are you talking about? Beckman is here in D.C. I spoke to her earlier and she said she was in her office. Casey just left a few hours ago."
"I don't know what to tell you Sir, but I'm looking at the General right now." Sarah noticed the way Chuck and Beckman were dancing and grinding on each other and decided to make her move. "I have to go something important just came up." And she disconnected the call. "Ellie let's go we have shit to do, I have a man to catch."
When Chuck finally got a break from dancing with the General he scanned the area around the pool looking for Sarah. To say he was shocked would have been an understatement. Sarah was walking straight at him naked as the day she was born and with the exception of her head the same amount of hair.
"If you're done with the General it's my turn and will be for the rest of the night, this is our date remember?"
"I remember Sarah and for your information your mine tonight, do you understand?" The forcefulness behind Chuck's voice left her weak in the knees and all she could mumble out was ok. The party continued long into the night before ending.
The day after the party the group convened in the data center's small conference room so Graham could join in on the meeting. The main order of business was centered on where the team would operate. Logan made it clear that they would not use his home as a base of operations. Chuck was the first one to come up and idea and voiced it.
"As you all know a while ago I sold my second computer game to Sony and I started looking for office space and I found a building I liked. Not too far from here is an old Pacific Bell building that used to be one of the distribution points for all the phone lines in the area. It's roughly one hundred feet across the front and two hundred feet from front to back. The outside is red brick with no windows, the second floor is where the offices were located. By my estimation if you had crews working twenty four seven the remodel shouldn't take more than a week to ten days. The first floor and basement are a different story all together."
"I like the idea so far Chuck," General Beckman said. "What are your plans for the other floors?"
"I envision the basement split down the middle from front to back with one side gutted and used for our computer servers. I want it jammed packed with servers so we can store everything and expand as needed. The other half would be an indoor range and armory. Casey what's the average length of pistol range?"
"In the Corps the furthest target is seventy five feet, hand guns aren't very accurate after that." Casey paused for a second then continued "I'd add at least ten feet of buffering material in front of the wall. You don't want to weaken the foundation with rounds hitting it. Five feet would be needed for the firing line itself. Chuck said the basement would be split in half leaving about plenty of room left over. I'd say make three firing lanes of ten feet each. We would have left for a thirty by forty five foot armory which would be plenty for a team this size."
"Thanks Casey. When we go to the design phase I want you to take the range portion of it. That leaves the first floor to go. Sarah any thoughts?"
"I'd put in a few small bedrooms in case we have to spend some nights here. Add small kitchen slash break room, gym, dojo and a locker room. If it could be squeezed in a small medical bay."
"Thanks Sarah. General, Director, how soon can we expect the building to ready for us to move in?"
"The hard part will be to get the funding," Beckman answered. "Once we get that our crews can get it done inside a month. Graham since the intersect is a CIA project I'm sure you can get the funding."
"I'll see what I can to, it may take a bit." Just as Graham finished a sequence of tones was heard coming from one of the computers. Logan jumped up and went to the machine that was making the noise and turned on the screen. "Sir someone inside the CIA just tried gaining access to our system, I'm shutting you down. We'll be in touch soon." Graham's connection was cut and Logan looked at his team.
"General for your benefit I'll explain what just happened. My computer sent me two alerts, the first was like I said someone in the CIA trying to get in our system. From the info our system gave me Graham had someone in the room with him out of our view piggy backing off his connection, don't worry General they didn't get in, but the next time they reboot their computers it won't be pretty." Logan turned to face Chuck and Ellie "The second one came from one of Chuck's BOTs. It got a hit on an email address being accessed in Moscow containing the name Frost. It's your call now." Chuck and Ellie's faces turned grim at the news, then hard. The three new comers would never have believed the two fun loving people they had just met could look like that. Chuck got up from his spot at the table and stood at the facing everyone seated there.
"General we are about to begin our takedown of Volkoff. I would like to offer you two options. The first is you can leave now and let us do our thing and have plausible deniability or you can join us and possibly risk you career. The Choice is yours."
"I've been stuck behind a desk for far too long and can retire in comfort right now. I need to make a call that should take no longer than five minutes. If I get the go ahead from the President I'm in."
"Take all the time you need, I need to send an email first anyway and see if I get an answer." Chuck walked over to his special computer followed by Ellie. Once they were seated in front of it they began planning what they would send in the email so if it was their mom she would know it was them.
"I have an idea, why don't we embed a link that will take her to a discussion room talking about fairy tales in the email. We open a room discussing the Frost Queen and hope she shows up."
"That could work Ellie, but a link might get filtered out. We just put it in without the dot com."
"Do it Chuck." Five minutes later the email was on its way and the chat room was open. General Beckman came back in the room with a big smile on her face and said "I'm good to go. When do you expect to start the take down?"
"Right now if Chuck gets an answer from Frost," Logan said. "The real fun won't start for at least three weeks from when we begin. The first two weeks will be cyber-attacks aimed at his systems, Chuck is better suited to explain that since he designed the attacks. When that's in the final stages we create a situation that requires Frost's skill set." A loud YES stopped whatever talking was going on. Ellie was giving fist pumps and slapping Chuck on the back hard enough to make him rock in his chair. "Sounds like they got through to her."
"Ya think," came from Sarah.
