Sorry it's so short guys. I'll make up for it soon!
"Myka! Good. You're here." Luckily I had hid the stuff I was using to build another grappler before the guys got back. "We have a sort of lead. When I went back to the warehouse I found a watch. That watch is connected to the Brotherhood of the Black Diamond. Which means, the failsafe or something that can bring back the warehouse is in France! But there's something that's odd. The time is wrong…"
"It's a stop watch…and it started counting down from when the warehouse was destroyed. Let's go to France and find this failsafe. Hopefully we can figure something out from there. You get your bag of wonders together and I'll get plane tickets." I wanted to fill H.G. in on our lead but I didn't have time. A few hours later we landed in France and headed towards where the watch Artie had been made.
As we walked in we saw that there were five men standing in front of a door that translated into Black Diamond. "I guess that's where we need to go. Okay, Myka and Pete, you distract the guys while Claudia and I go find the failsafe."
"Hey guys, how are you? I was wondering if you knew where to get this certain type of olive. My wife is a health nut and she really wants to try them. It says in my guide to french food book that I couldn't leave without trying them. Any ideas?" One of the guys took a quick step back and Pete took a swing at him.
"That's your plan? Attack the biggest one?" I ran to take on another guy who was about to attack Pete. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Claudia and Artie sneak through the door. We were fighting a losing battle even though I knocked one of the guys out. One of the guys had a rope around my throat and was choking me. Everything was starting to go dark when suddenly he was shocked with what sounded like a tessela. He dropped and I fell to my knees. As I tried to catch my breath I heard the noise again.
"I'm sorry it took so long my love." I coughed as Helena came to my side to help me up. "Are you alright?" My voice was still weezey so I just nodded. Once I got to my feet I wrapped my arms around H.G.'s neck and kissed her hard.
"H.G.?" Pete was shocked and surprised. "What the hell? You're dead!" He paused a moment. "And you're kissing Myka?" We chuckled.
"Yes Pete, I'm kissing Myka and I am very much alive. It is a long story and not one for now. We need to go help the others." We ran through the door and saw three men moving in on Artie. Helena fired her tessela again and took them out.
"H.G.?" Artie had the same tone as Pete had. "What the…how the hell are you…"
"It's a long story Artie. One for another time. Where's Claudia?"
"Down here! Glad you're back." Artie looked from Helena to where Claudia was and back to Helena.
"The two of you knew she was alive and you didn't tell me?!" I knew I'd be in big trouble when he found out but I was glad Helena showed up when she did.
"Yeah. We did." Helena and I walked down to Artie and saw what he had. "That's an astrolabe right?" They both looked at me strangely. "Really? You know I grew up in a bookstore so I have random knowledge about almost everything."
"Yes, it is. But what does it have to do with the watch?" Artie looked down at the watch and it wasn't counting down anymore. It had turned into a regular watch. But the time was wrong. "It says 4:18…what does that mean?" Lena and one of the higher ups were spouting off information related to latitude and longitude.
"What about army time? 16:18?" We all looked up as Pete walked down the steps. "What? Just a thought. Never mind."
"A Bible verse." We all looked where Claudia's voice came from. "They made us read the Bible in the looney bin. I think that's how they kept their founding. I can't remember what exactly it meant but it has something to do with the Vatican. Now go! We don't have much time!"
"We'll be back Claud, promise." As we left Claudia told us to hurry and that she would be fine.
