This is set after the last episode of Chuck Season 2.

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Wow, a month or so since my last update, this is sort of an early update for me. Anyway, just found the time and here we go to the fourth chapter. :)

Hacked

Chapter 4

On The Run

"Hey, Sarah?" Chuck said on the shotgun seat "Where are we going? And what's going on? I'm kinda still new with this." He continued, eyes wide and full of inquiry.

"Hiro, can you explain? When you said they got to you first, you meant Fulcrum, right?" Sarah said, just as she started the car and began to drive quickly.

The two startled passengers at the back of the car were speechless. Gel looked worried, since it meant Hiro was in contact with the dangerous guys and now she was debating with herself whether Hiro was indeed innocent or involved somehow. However, when she turned to look at the person beside her, she saw he was also afraid. The usual calm that dwelled in his face was gone. He nodded at Sarah's question.

"When was this?" Sarah said, taking a glimpse at the rearview mirror, meanwhile, Chuck was facing the two passengers at the back.

"A few minutes after I received Gel's call." He answered briefly.

"So, you know us, how?" this time, it was Chuck who asked.

"They showed me your pictures, and told me to familiarize myself with your faces so I would know who to look for."

"Where were they when you met up with us?"

"I don't know. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have come and lured them." He explained.

"What's done is done. I just hope they take it that you still have the tracker and will follow that one."

"They shouldn't have been able to follow me though."

Chuck and Sarah looked at each other with looks of puzzlement. And both, almost at the same time asked, "Why not?"

"I was able to transfer the tracker without them detecting to my computer at home. Then I programmed it to display or send to them the message that I went somewhere else to meet with Gel."

"But they tapped your phone didn't they?" Sarah stated.

"They did, but they also wanted to call the shots, so I sent a text to a bogus number, pretending it was Gel's in order to pretend we were meeting somewhere else."

"That's smart," Chuck said, then thought again, "But didn't they follow you here? I mean to Buy More?"

"I made a lot of detours, and was able to convince some friends of mine to wear the same shirt and jeans, cap and sunglasses as I was, and I hope that was able to get them off my trail."

"Again, smart." Chuck said, and was smiling a bit in admiration that this guy had potential to be a spy.

"Are you sure you weren't followed?" Sarah asked this time.

"I'm not. I just tried…I'm not sure if they really aren't following me." He then looked at Gel and said, "I'm sorry."

"Wait! Then that means, Casey driving off the opposite direction is meaningless?" Chuck said and couldn't suppress a giggle. Sarah looked at him seriously then he understood. "Okay, I'm sorry. I'll give him a call."

As Chuck was calling Casey, Gel speaked to Hiro. "They didn't hurt you, right?" which was answered with a shake of the head. "You don't have flashes right?"

"Flashes?"

"You know, streams of information you suddenly see when you look at something?"

"Nope, why?"

Sarah answered him instead, "You need not know, right Evangeline?" she looked at her through the rearview mirror. "You don't want him involved."

"I'm sorry Hiro." Gel said.

"But I'm already involved." He said, then seeing the expression on Gel's face, and the threat on Sarah's, he relented. "Fine. Just let me help then, any way I can."

There was thirty minutes of silence during the car ride, when Chuck broke the awkward silence. "So, where are we going, Sarah?"

"To a safehouse. Casey knows where it is already, we've had this backup plan since Day 1."

"How come I've never heard of this?"

"You shouldn't. The information is only for your handlers. Since your knowledge of it can compromise the location."

"Come on! I'm already an agent." Chuck said, a bit taken aback by Sarah's formality.

"And now, if all three of you don't mind, please blindfold yourselves. I'd rather you do it all yourselves than me tying a cloth over your eyes."

"Okay. Fine." Chuck said, and took his tie and tied it over his eyes as a blindfold. The two followed suit.

After this, Sarah turned the radio on, in order to distract the three and continued driving. This is part of her job as a handler of the intersect. Not one of them should know where they were heading to avoid the risk of any of them establishing outside contact and revealing their location. Also, she still didn't trust their new companion—Hiro. To her, it was too convenient for him to have lost Fulcrum's trace on him.

Meanwhile…

After Chuck's phone call to Casey, Casey decided to play it safe and tossed the watch out the window of his van. He had to make sure. He then drove back and went into his apartment and planned to get some extra equipment—he felt that he would need them since they might be gone a while. When he was on his way to the van, he was confronted by Morgan, who was looking for Chuck.

"Hey, John, buddy!" Morgan said, in his usual gawky manner. Casey just stared at him, and was walking away, afraid he might lose it and punch the guy. "Do you know where Chuck is? Cause I just want to say thanks to him again, about last night, and I also wanted to say goodbye."

"He left." Casey replied, then left and went to his van. When he was driving past Orange Orange, he noticed three suspicious looking men and decided to find out what he can from them. They were all looking around, so, he decided to ambush them. He went inside Buy More first, entered Castle and was now inside Orange Orange. He was under the counter, when he fired two Tranquilizers to two of the men, where they fell where they were standing and the one who was left was looking around and was panicking. Casey assumed these men were just henchmen, but still, he had to take his chances on finding out what they know. From behind, he grabbed the remaining man who was conscious, disarmed him, by landing a blow on the man's hand. The gun dropped to the floor, and Casey grabbed the man's arm and pinned him to the ground, while twisting the arm.

"Who are you?"

The man refused to answer and Casey slammed the man's head lightly to the floor and asked again. "Fulcrum?"

Reading the man's reaction, Casey's assumption was correct.

"What're you here for?"

Again, the man did not reply.

"Since you are useless to me then, I won't find it difficult to blow your head off." This was then followed by the sound of a gun being made ready to shoot. He then pressed the barrel of the gun against the man's head and this time, the man spoke.

"We were sent to follow Hiro Sakurai. His tracker is saying otherwise but our commander told us to also keep a visual on him. It was hard to track him down, and now we've lost him here."

"Thanks for the info." It was then that he knocked the guy's head against the floor to make him unconscious. He called in to General Beckham about the three unconscious men, and was told that agents will be coming to capture the men. What's important now is for him to catch up with Sarah and Chuck.

As soon as the agents were at the scene, Casey left and drove for the safe house.

Three or four hours later, Chuck wasn't able to estimate anymore, Sarah stopped the car. "You can take the blindfolds now guys." She said.

It was only Chuck who removed his blindfolds, and when he looked at the backseat, he saw the two were motionless. "Gel, Hiro?" he said.

"They're sleeping." Sarah said. And then went out of the car and opened the door where Gel was positioned and woke the two.

"Oh, are we here already?" Gel said, her eyes squinting, and afterwards, yawned.

"Had a good sleep?" Chuck said, as if trying to make her feel at ease.

Hiro was also able to take his blindfold off, and then asked, "How long were we out?"

"Check the time." Sarah said coldly.

"Wow." He said, and then stepped out to stretch.

"So this is the safe house?" Chuck said, staring at the cabin, and looked around, "in the middle of nowhere I bet?" he continued, seeing only tall trees and no roads. "Explains why the last part of the trip was a bit bumpy." He chuckled.

Sarah was about to tell him to be serious when they were welcomed by Casey. He stepped out of the cabin.

"What took you guys so long?"

"How'd you get here so fast?" Chuck asked, also a bit amazed at how Casey was able to get to the cabin first.

"I drive very, very fast." He smirked.

"Let's get settled inside." Sarah said, then turned to Casey, "Please escort Evangeline and Hiro inside."

"My pleasure," Casey replied, and again a smirk. He grabbed both by the arms and took them inside the cabin.

"I thought we can trust them?" Chuck said, in a tone caught between a statement and a question.

""I thought you're already a spy Chuck. You can't trust anyone that easily."

"So, as a spy then, how can I tell if I can trust someone?"

"You don't. you just don't trust anyone but yourself." Sarah said, then brought their things inside the cabin. Chuck noticed that Sarah was edgy.

"Sarah, is something wrong?"

"Yes, Chuck. Something is wrong. Do you know how you could have been killed this morning when you showed yourself at the parking lot?"

"I'm sorry, Sarah—"

"No, Chuck. You do not understand yet, do you? Today we were lucky. YOU were lucky to have gotten away scratch-free and alive."

"Sarah—"

"Let me finish Chuck." She said, then paused, weighing if Chuck was about to say something then continued. "what if Hiro was traced there, huh? Whatif Hiro is Fulcrum and we have him here with us in our safe house? Then it's not a safe house now is it? If you were expendable because of their new intersect, they would easily kill you. Do you understand Chuck?" for the first time, Sarah was being very emotional about a mission and Chuck found it hard to respond.

"I'm really really sorry, Sarah," he said. "I won't be as carefree and reckless next time."

"I just don't want you to get killed," Sarah calmed down a bit.

"Sorry." Chuck said and hugged Sarah. They were then interrupted by Casey.

"That really was a close call." He said, and immediately the two let go of each other and acted as if there was nothing there.

"What do you mean?"

"Did you know I found three Fulcrum agents by Orange Orange?" he smirked. "but, they said they were asked to follow Hiro Sakurai, and that was about it."

"this means Hiro's not a suspect anymore right?" Chuck said, "And also Evangeline?"

"We can't tell Chuck, not until we've fully talked to him." Sarah replied.

"So, where are they?" Chuck said.

"In separate holding cells in the basement" Casey replied.

"The basement?"

"this is like Castle, Bartowski." Casey chuckled and went down the basement.

How is the story so far? This is the best I can do for the moment. Thanks for reading and reviewing. I hope it is still an interesting story.

Also, I have to apologize for the fight scene, I'm not so good with writing those types of scenes. Anyhoo, give me your thoughts..

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