You guys seem to be lovin' the cliffhangers *smirks evilly*.
Tooth froze on the shelving. She turned her head, and could see the gun out of the corner of her eyes.
"No sudden movements," The person, a woman, said, "One step at a time, come down,"
Tooth did as she was told, climbing down.
"Hands where I can see them, and turn around slowly."
Taking a breath she lifted her arms over her head and turned around to face her assailant. It was young woman, a bit taller than her with a short, brown pixie cut.
"Your ear piece, take it out."
Tooth swore in her head. How'd she notice that already? She took the earpiece out and tossed it on the ground at the woman's feet.
"Who sent you?" She asked.
Tooth didn't answer. She was evaluating the situation. Jamie should be there soon, so if she could bide her time until then. Maybe, if she moved quickly enough she'd be able to unarm the woman. But she didn't like the way the closet limited her options.
"How'd you know we were here?" The woman asked.
Again Tooth didn't say anything. The woman, who ever she was, had blocked the doorway completely and her stance didn't have any openings. She was good. Tooth could tell just by looking at her. Where the hell was Jamie?
"Did Hans send you?"
Tooth blinked, then she rolled her eyes. She dropped her hands.
"Of freaking course," She sighed.
"I said-"
"You're a Disney agent," Tooth cut her off.
"How'd you know…"
"I'm DreamWorks."
The woman narrowed her eyes, "Sure, like I'd believe that just because you said so."
"You can talk to Elsa, who I'm guessing is here with you. She's in that room, right?" Tooth indicted over her shoulder, "Actually you could get her to confirm who I am, we met a few days ago."
The woman dropped her gun and lifted her hand to her ear, "Els, could you come check something for me out here?" She said. Stepping aside she let Tooth exit the closet. At the same moment the door to room 203 opened and Elsa came out.
"Oh son of a…I wish Disney and DreamWorks could find a way to share when they're running operations in the same area." She said testily.
"Yeah," Tooth nodded, "It would defiantly reduce the number of times we try to kill each other."
"Sorry about that," The brunette said, "I didn't know."
"You couldn't have. But thanks for not pulling the trigger right away."
"Tooth? What's going on?" Jack asked when she hadn't answered him or Hiccup the last few times.
"Jamie, do you have a visual?" Hiccup asked.
"Not yet."
"Hurry up, she hasn't answered us, and there's a blind spot in the security cameras."
"Relax, she's probably just run into a guest asking for something and she can't talk to us," Hiccup said to Jack.
"We'd hear her side of the conversation."
"Alright, then that signal interference, it's messing with the signal."
"I don't like it."
"Jack, its Tooth. She's fine."
"I'm going to check. It's a floor above us, right?"
"Jack, Jamie will be with her in a minute."
"I'm going." He walked out the door.
Hiccup sighed and slumped back in his seat, "Jamie, Jack's joining you."
"Why?"
"Like I know why he does anything."
"I'm almost there anyway," Jamie said, "My elevator just got to the floor."
Hiccup glanced around at the screen, "Alright I've got a visual on you," He said as he watched Jamie exit the elevator, "There's a blind point in the cameras by the room so I can't tell you what to expect." As he spoke he saw someone appear behind Jamie, walking quickly.
"Kid, behind you!"
Jamie spun around, just in time to get a palm to his nose. He fell back, stars in his eyes. He blinked quickly to clear his vision. He kicked up in the area he guessed his attacker to be. He felt his foot connect with flesh, but the way the impact vibrated told him it was block. He rolled back, aiming to get himself out of range of his attacker.
He jumped on the balls of his feet, staying in a low crouch.
"Wait stop!"
That was Jack. Jamie's body, instinctively prepping to launch an attack suddenly lost its tension. Like a spring he moved forward, but trying to stop himself he ended up misbalancing and falling forward on his hands.
"Don't hurt him, he's with me."
"Bloody hell, you're back."
Jamie looked up and saw Jack face to face with a red head, who he assumed was his attacker.
"What's going on?" He asked.
Jack sighed, "Jamie, this is Merida DunBroch, a Disney agent."
"She's a Disney agent?" Jamie asked, getting to his feet.
"Yeah, one who has a knack for hurting DreamWorks agents, apparently."
"I didn't very well know he was a DreamWorks man," Merida grunted.
"Oh, damn, Jamie your nose," Worry flashed across Jack's face.
"What?" He raised a hand to his nose and felt his grow wet, "A bloody nose, thanks."
"Sorry," Merida shrugged, "But, at least I didn't break it."
"Merida," Elsa appeared around the corner of the hall, "We can relax, the tap into our signal was DreamWorks…which I see you figured out on your own."
"Yah"
"Please tell me she didn't do that to you," Elsa said to Jamie.
"I didn't know he was DreamWorks!" Merida threw up her hands in exasperation, "It's not my fault he was looking shady."
"Let's get something on that," Elsa said to him, then looked at Jack, "And you can tell us to what we owe the pleasure of such a prompt reunion."
"Perhaps you could do the same."
Elsa only smiled.
Jack touched his ear piece, "Yo, Hiccup…"
"Yeah, I saw it happen this time. I'm coming."
Ten minutes later everyone was sitting in the Disney ladies suite. Jamie was sitting with his tilted forward, using a small towel to stopper the blood.
"I really am sorry kid," Merida said.
"It's fine, the bleeding is stopping already," He said in a nasal voice.
"So…who wants to start?" Anna asked, glancing between her sister and friends, sitting next to her, and DreamWorks agents sitting on the couch opposite them.
"Well, it would help if you told us how you'd ended up being here today." Tooth said.
"Why should we go first? You could tell us why two of your agents were sneaking around our room."
"Rapunzel, it's okay," Elsa said to her.
"Hey, you were the ones who pulled a gun, on us, and gave Jamie a bloody nose," Jack retorted.
"Whoa, okay, stop," Hiccup said.
"We're not each other's enemy." Elsa said, "We know our agencies loath sharing information."
"Their spy agencies. Without their secrets they'd be nothing," Jack said.
Elsa smirked slightly, "Right. So I'm guessing you're here because of a break in your Black Dust investigation."
"And I'll guess you're here because of a lead on your weapons dealer, Hans…was it?"
"Right."
"So what made you come here? Today of all days?"
"We got information that he was meeting a client here today at 3." Anna said.
"We got the same info," Jack said.
"How?" Elsa asked.
"We pulled it off the body of a man we believe works for…or at least used to work for whoever is behind the production of Black Dust." Tooth said.
"I see. We got our intel via a bug we'd placed in one of Hans' warehouses," Elsa said.
"Okay, obviously this isn't just a coincidence. Hans is somehow involved with this Black Dust," Rapunzel said, "I wasn't there, but you got the info about the deal, and planted the false one that Elsa ended up stealing."
"Right," Jack nodded.
"Rapunzel's right. Us running into each other again. Once, that's a confidence. Twice, that's suspicious."
"So we think Hans is moving Black Dust, why?" Merida said, getting up to walk around the couch.
"It's not his usual MO," Anna said.
"BD could be used a as a biological weapon," Jamie said.
"That's true." Elsa agreed.
"And we have reason to believe that the formal has been altered to make it more dangerous," Jack said.
"What? How could a virus designed to cause extreme insanity possibly get worst," Elsa looked at him in shock.
"Someone improves it so it's targets not only children, but everyone."
"That's wonderful," Merida said sarcastically, she hit Rapunzel lightly on the shoulder, "You're the med, what would something like this be used for."
"I could only guess, but biological warfare is certainly up there." She said.
"Hans with something like this," Anna shook her head, "That's a scary thought."
"BD being back was scary enough," Jamie said.
"And now we find out it's in the hands of an international weapons dealer," Tooth groaned.
"I'm sure the higher ups aren't going to stoked about this, but it seems like the best course of action is to work together." Anna said, "You know about Black Dust. We know about Hans."
"It's the best logical choice." Hiccup nodded.
Elsa clapped her hands on her knees, "Well, it looks like we'll be working together again Frost."
A shorter chapter this time because it was this, or another cliffhanger, a bad one, and I don't think I should be that evil.
Nardragon~ until the next page.