Don't Own Chuck - But even though he may be gone his exploits will live on.
"Good evening Mr. Carmichael. My name is Doctor Michell by now you've realize this was all a hoax, a ploy to get you and your friends here. You see we have mined for mineral X here for years and all we had to show for it was one little rock, the little rock that was in Ms Watson's ring. I guess Robert won't mind if I tell you all this seeing as your demise is imminent. Robert came to me with this idea of how to separate your group. He needed my scientific genius to make the perfect undercover agent and you know what, I did. Right now he is going to visit your wife and family to kill them all. Oh by the way, congratulations on the baby too bad your wife won't be alive to carry it to term. I wish I could be there when my men arrive to visit you down there but you see I'm on my jet heading back to Burbank. I'll give your regards to.. Oh my, you won't have anyone left for me to give regards to. One last thing your own people are on their way with MOAB so if you do evade my men which I doubt you will, you won't escape the mother of all bombs. Bye Mr. Carmichael."
"Crap, I always hate plan B," said Casey as he was untying Alex. "Chuck talk to me, I don't hear you, talk to me." Chuck threw his tranq rifle against the wall and it broke into pieces, pieces like his life was shattering into. He flashed. He drew Sarah's Walther P-38 and knife from his boot. Casey was trying to watch Chuck as he was releasing Alex, because Casey knew Chuck, he had seen Chuck in situations like this before and he was afraid of what Charles would do.
"Stop him!" yelled Casey but the CATs just stood there frozen Chucks transformation was, was terrifying . This was a Chuck they didn't know, this wasn't Chuck. Chuck bolted for the door with pistol in one hand and knife in the other. As he hit the door there was a loud explosion, someone had tried to come down with the elevator.
"Quick go after him," screamed Casey. Zondra and Carina followed but they were not prepared for the type of carnage they were about to see. Never in their careers had they seen anything like it. Chuck was cutting through the Doctor's men like a hot knife cuts through butter. Charging the line he got off shot after shot before his assailants knew what was happening. They never expected to see a human do the feats he did. Literally he jumped over the fallen corpses of the first line and began on the second then the third driving the Doctor's men back to the broken elevator. They had nowhere to go and Chuck wasn't stopping. Some even tried to climb the elevator cables for the hunter was now the hunted.
He shot one in the face at point blank range and got back splatter on himself but the bullet travel through the guard and dropped the man behind him. The mercenary force was not prepared for this type of close in fighting. There AK-47s would have been useful in shooting far away but at such close range they couldn't raise them or if they did they risked friendly fire killing their own and they were already outnumbered by an army of one.
Chuck fired Sarah's weapon until he ran out of bullets then picked up a Beretta off one of the down guards. The only time he paused was to holster Sarah's gun and that was because it was Sarah's. He wasn't going to lose any part of Sarah, nor if he could avoid it Sarah either.
Carina seeing Chuck blood stained shooting and hacking the mayhem thought about a tale her father had told her as a child, a story from the Völsunga Sage "...mad as wolves, bit their shields… they slew but neither fire nor iron had effect on them. These were the Berserkers." Chuck was berserk and these men who stood in front of him were dead but they didn't know it yet.
After the last man went down Chuck looked back over the corpses but he did not see them his mind was elsewhere and he knew where he needed to be. The elevator after it exploded had fallen down the shaft and ripped open the doors. Chuck walked in then looked up to search for a way out.
"Casey, toss me the bomb bag, quickly man," Chuck ordered because now Chuck was in charge or better Charles was. The team regrouped around Chuck and Casey had Alex under his arm.
"Give me the bomb bag," Chuck said again as he recovered two more 9mm pistols, extra clips and a flax jacket. "Okay Casey you bring up the rear." Casey was about to protest, "Casey you need to keep Alex safe," Chuck clarified. "Girls you're with me. I just hope you can keep up." With that Chuck grabbed the elevator cable and hand over hand went up almost running instead of climbing with the CATs trying to maintain pace.
"Okay, we're here," Chuck said. He balanced himself of the lip of the elevator doors. He planted the C-4 explosives and used the flax jacket he brought to direct the blast outward.
"Zondra, Carina, when I blow the door be careful because we're probably going to get covered by a hail of bullets." He had the girls wait on both sides of the shaft while he climbed the cable above and did a Spiderman hanging upside down. The door blew outward and as he predicted a volley of rounds came back in but Chuck took another C-4 charge and launched it at the propane trucks that were parked inside. A huge fire ball engulfed the third level and the Doctor's troops began to falter.
Mercenaries work for money but the money is only as good as if you're alive to spend it and now it was time to rethink positions for them. The poor local hires had families to feed but would they died defending a foreigner's claim and leave their families to starve? All this went into play as the ants began to leave the hill scattering to the four winds.
The team had made it, they were on level three trying to find a functional vehicle among the debris and chaos. Chuck was in the lead when he heard a shot behind him and through the smoke he could see that Zondra was hit. Both he and Carina ran to her side and as they were almost there Bob, the Doctor's goon, stepped out with weapon drawn. Carina was closest to him and managed to make him drop his gun but he delivered a brutal back hand that sent her flying.
"Hey, if you want to play why don't you play with someone your own size?" Carina and Zondra watched Chuck stand up to the junior mountain and they feared the worse. Bob threw a right haymaker that Chuck brush blocked with his left hand and circle reverse chopped with his right going under Bob's extended arm striking his throat. The mini mountain staggered back gasping for breath but Chuck was giving him no time to recover. Chuck then delivered a right reverse punch to Bob's head then circled behind giving his two quick kidney punched and buckled his leg with a side thrust. As Bob went down Chuck stepped in for the kill after an elbow smash he grabbed Bob's head and with a quick twist there was an audible snap as he broke the man's neck. All this was done in under five seconds Bob was dead on the ground.
Both women stared at each other with an expression that said what the?
"Come on we don't have time to waste," Chuck had a truck hotwired. "Carina get Zondra in the back. Casey load Alex up." They drove out of the mine just in time for Casey to call off the air strike and hear the sound of a C-130 fly low overhead. This was the longest Chuck had flashed ever before but he knew it wasn't over.
"Casey, tell Beckman to have someone go get Sarah and the rest then try to call her," Chuck said as they raced down the mountainside down towards the city.
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It was late afternoon in Burbank the weather had been sunny all day. Typical southern California weather nothing strange had happened, nothing out of the normal. However, looking back there should have been some hint, some sinister music, some act of God that would have foretold the coming storm, for they were in the eye and they didn't even know it. Devon was about to leave while Sarah and Mary were in the living room talking. Ellie had gone to the kitchen to get coffee.
"Devon, can you be a love," asked Sarah. "If you're going out can you bring back some ice cream, rocky road if they have it."
"Sis, I know you're eating for two but you need to slow up on the calorie intact or they'll be call for a whale watch on the beach."
"Very funny, but I think I can manage and besides it's for Clara too."
"Anybody else want anything while I'm out?"
"Devon, can you fix your chicken alla cacciatora this evening," asked Ellie from the kitchen. "I know the girls would like it."
"I want to keep the women in my live happy. I'll be back in a snap," Devon said as he left.
"Sarah you know you really need to be more careful where you leave your purse with what's in it. I mean you just can't keep it lying around where little hands might get at it.
"I know El but it's only a dart gun, but I hear what you're saying. If you want you can bring it to me with the coffee."
"Oh here's grandma's little angel," said Mary as Clara walked into the room. "I tell you what, why don't you and I go out in the courtyard and I can watch you play? That way you can work up an appetite for the ice cream Sarah shouldn't eat."
"That's right princess because you don't want your aunt to get as big as a house." Clara giggled as Sarah puffed up her face. Mary was taking Clara out the door when she opened it and found Morgan there.
"Morgan, everyone's been worried about you," said Mary. It was then looking at him that she noticed something strange in his eyes yet familiar. She saw the bulge under his jacket and knew what it was. "Honey," she said to Clara, "go ahead and play, Grandma will be right along." Mary shoved Clara out the door then pulled it shut.
"Is that Morgan," asked Ellie walking back into the living room. Sarah got up from her chair and was turning to say something to Morgan when he drew. Mary tried to block his arm but he punched her hard but she was able to get hold of his gun so she and the weapon fell to the ground. Sarah leaped over the chair and grabbed hold of Morgan so they both tumbled to the ground. Morgan was the first up pulling a knife from his boot he lunged at Ellie but Sarah was up too and got in between. Morgan plunged the knife into Sarah as she let out a dreadful moan. Morgan stood back up with the knife in hand looked at Ellie but she had Sarah's tranq gun in hand and fired off two darts that dropped Morgan to the ground.
"I shot him," Ellie muttered. "I actually shot another human being. I shot Morgan."
"Hold on, hold on," cried Mary. "Ellie call 911, Ellie snap out of it. Move." But as Mary was trying to get a reaction from Ellie, General Beckman showed up with two agents having been warned by Casey.
"Mary, what happen?"
"Diane, Sarah's been stabbed. We need to get Sarah to the hospital. She's lost a lot of blood." Luck would have it that Devon showed up then and started first aid. Awesome reached inside the wound to pinch off the artery to reduce her bleeding. Sarah grabbed Devon's shirt collar and pulled him close to her, "Awesome, save my baby, please."
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The team was about to hit the city limits driving as fast as the vehicle would go and on some curves all most rolling over a couple of times but Chuck managed to keep it on the road. He had too, there was too much at risk and he had nothing to lose.
"Casey, any luck?"
"I talked with Beckman but all my calls to Sara are going to voicemail and no one is answering at either house."
"Use the secure line and call the Teddy Roosevelt they are doing ops off the coast here. I want a F-18 waiting at the airfield in ten minutes with a flight suit."
"Chuck, do you know how to fly one of them?"
"Nothing like the present," Chuck winked. He may not know how but the intersect did.
"Chuck I can't go as your co-pilot, I need to stay here with Alex."
"Big Guy I wouldn't ask."
"Chucky, I'll go with you," said Carina.
"You do know, I've never actually flown a F-18 before."
"I've never asked to be a co-pilot before either."
"Casey tell them I want a F-18F and two flight suits with three drop tanks gassed up and waiting to go. They can also off load its payload too and if they give you static tell them if I break it I'll pay for it."
"You know you're going to have to refuel in flight."
"It's about 9,000 nautical miles so about eight or nine times I estimate. Just make it happen."
It was still dark as the F-18 rolled onto the runway and was given permission to take-off. Casey, Zondra and Alex watched the bird lift off then disappear in the western sky.
"I've seen crazy," said Zondra nursing her wound. "But Chuck is about the craziest person I've ever seen and that is saying something."
"Zondra," said Alex. "Chuck isn't crazy, Chuck's in love."
Chuck ejected his drop tanks somewhere over the Atlantic then he continued west as he flew half way around the world to get back to a desperate situation. He managed to talk with the General in flight and was told Sarah she was still in under knife his only consolation was that Awesome was the surgeon.
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"Mom, have they notified Chuck," asked Ellie.
"Yes, your brother is flying home now."
"What airline is he flying on? Should someone go pick him up when he lands?"
"No, Chuck is flying home." Ellie was still in a state of shock so she really didn't understand what her mother had said.
"Mom, we need to get Sarah's Mom. She needs to be here too."
"You're right. I'll go pick her up. I wanted to meet her but I would have liked it to be under different circumstances."
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IN THE SKY SOMEWHERE OVER ARZONIA
"Chuck that should be the last refueling, how long before we hit Miramar?"
"We're not going to Miramar."
"Chuck, where are you taking us?
"Munn airfield at MCAS Camp Pendleton, I have a ride waiting for us."
"Chuck, you wouldn't happen to have a brother?"
"You know I don't but how do you feel about accents say like British ones?"
"I love them. In fact I'm a secret Daniel Craig fan."
"I have someone I'd like you to meet when we get back."
Chuck had afterburners on just about all the way only decelerating when he had to refuel. He had engine warning lights and sirens screaming at him when he finally reached Munn. Once on the ground they taxied over.
"We're here now, where's the ride?"
"It's parked over there."
"All I see is a helicopter?"
"Yeah, a Cobra we'll be able to sit down in the hospital parking lot."
It was jump out of one and into the other. Flash and they were gone. Flying the copter felt like flying in slow motion compared to the F-18 but what Chuck needed was to get straight to the hospital as fast as he could. Less than an hour from Munn and six hours from his takeoff in Bonino he walked through the hospital door with Carina by his side. More than one head turned to see the two walk in in flight suits.
The first people Chuck hugged were Mary and Sarah's mom. "How's she doing?"
"The Doctors say she's stable but we have to wait on the baby, her body could abort. Devon's still in with her."
Seeing Clara and Molly sitting together quiet and sullen Chuck went over and hugged them. "Hey, I've got a favor to ask you two. It's very important. I need for you two to keep guard on my helmet for me. If you want you can take turns wearing it." This distracted them from the seriousness of the situation and put a smile on their face.
Carina walked over and knelt down by them too, "here you can do the same with mine that way you each have one to wear." Chuck mouthed "thank you" to her. Getting up he walked back over to his mom and took her aside.
"Now tell me about Morgan. What exactly happened?"
Mary explained how Morgan wasn't acting normal and how he had attacked them. That he said he was Cobra now not Morgan and that he was in custody at castle.
"I need to see him."
"No, son you need to stay here. Leave Morgan or Cobra alone."
"Morgan wouldn't do this."
"Son it will just hurt you."
"Mom I never gave up on Sarah and I won't give up on Morgan. There has to be a way to bring him back."
"Okay, then just wait for Devon first."
After what seemed and eternity Devon came out dressed in scrubs. Seeing Chuck he went straight up to him and gave him a hug.
"Bro, I'm glad to see you're back. Nice clothes."
"Awesome give it to me straight. How bad is it?"
"Well the knife nicked the aorta but she was lucky I was on scene. I blocked it until I could get her here and into surgery. We repaired the damage and she seems to be stable. The next twenty four hours will be critical. As far as the baby is concerned Ellie is consulting with the pediatrician now but her body could have a spontaneous abortion. She needs to be relaxed and calm. I've got her on a mild sedative but because of pregnancy there are only so many medicines I can use.
"Can we see her," asked Sarah's Mom.
"I'd like to limit the visitors to one at a time. Chuck, she's been asking for you."
"Thanks Awesome."
Chuck walked slowly into the emergency room. It hurt him to see her lying there with all those machines and tubes. He had to tell himself that they were there to make her better. He walked up to her side and pulled a chair.
"Hey, bebe."
"Oh Sweetie, you're back," she said in a thin voice. "What do you have on? Did they fly you in? You flashed didn't you. Now we have two pilots in the family."
"Don't talk just rest."
"Sweetie, don't blame Morgan. It wasn't his fault." Chuck took up her hands in his and kissed them.
"I love you so very, very much."
"I know you do, and I love you. You never gave up on me. Please don't give up on Morgan. He's your friend, you best friend. Sweetie, I want to hear you say it."
"Rest, please okay I won't give up on Morgan."
