Chapter 10

Basically this entire chapter takes place in F.D.O.S.R., so don't expect any more jumping around.

Also, I had to go back to Berk for a scene, as I feel that since this is a fan-fiction there shouldn't be total focus on my OCs. I'm sorry if that's turning people away at all from this story. Let me know if it is.

Anyway, enjoy Chapter 10.

Berk- Night

After a long day of combing through every inch the island, the village began to quiet for the night. The villagers went home after the day's unsuccessful search for Hiccup, Toothless and Astrid. Stoic sat outside of his house on the step leading to the front door. His helmet was off and beside him as he sat with his head in his hands. He rubbed his forehead in frustration before putting his helmet back on. As he did this, his attention turned to four familiar teenagers, who were walking by.

"So what do you think happened to them?" Snotlout asked the rest of the group.

"Beats me," Ruffnut said as she stopped and put the axe she was carrying down, "when Hiccup's involved, you can never be sure."

"I've been thinking that maybe some sort of water dragon grabbed them and dragged them to the depths of the sea." Fishlegs said, his eyes widened to emphasize the last part.

Tuffnut raised an eyebrow, "Oh yeah, that seems completely possible." Fishlegs turned red in embarrassment.

"Are there even such things as water dragons?" Ruffnut asked.

"Probably." Snotlout responded.

"But dragons breathe fire. Wouldn't living in water make them, you know, weaker?" Tuffnut asked.

"They probably are under water to avoid your ugly face." Ruffnut snickered.

"Um, you do realize that you just insulted yourself. After all, we're twins."

"Watching you two argue is honestly the most entertaining part of my day." Snotlout said, chuckling a bit. The group then continued back down the path as Stoic sighed and looked up towards the sky.

"Hiccup, what have you gotten yourself into?"

F.D.O.S.R.

Toothless slowly began to regain consciousness as he heard a voice right in front of his face. It was a sadistic voice that had a very proud and arrogant tone. Slowly, he opened his big green eyes to see Dr. Klein standing in front of him. The scientist smiled as Toothless suddenly remembered what had happened the night before. He tried to move, but to no avail as he was still groggy from the anesthesia. Plus, straps that pinned him to the table he was laying on kept him almost completely immobile. Dr. Klein was the only person in the room, showing how cocky he was that Toothless wouldn't break free.

"Don't bother straining yourself Toothless," Dr. Klein muttered, "I hope you enjoyed your first experience with anesthesia. In fact, we're still administering a small amount to your body as we speak. Not enough to go to sleep, but enough to keep you calm. We don't want you thrashing around before the military comes. That would be problematic." He grinned and patted Toothless on the head.

"You'll offer so much for the military. But if you don't, I don't give a shit. The scientific community will welcome me back with open arms."

The dragon just glared angrily at him and gave a low growl from the base of his throat. Dr. Klein nodded and started to leave the room. "I'll see you soon Toothless." He shut the door.

Two men stood just outside the door to guard the dragon's cell. They, however, were standing just outside another door across the hallway from Toothless' holding room. That door led to the cell that Jake and Astrid were being kept in.

Dr. Klein walked down the hall, adjusting his tie and smiling. If he was going to impress the General, all of his psychotic tendencies would have to be masked by his feigned "sane" self. For him, today was going to be splendid.

Meanwhile, just outside of the complex, Lee pulled up to the gate in his black SUV and showed the guard his ID. The guard looked at it quickly and nodded before he raised the gate. Lee drove slowly into the complex as the gate lowered behind him.

Ben was sitting in his passenger seat, acting like nothing was out of the ordinary. He wasn't too concerned at the moment. Dr. Klein didn't have any reason to suspect him of anything, save for the original "accident" in the forest. But the Doctor still thought it was an accident, at lease he appeared to. Nevertheless, Ben wrung his fingers nervously as he couldn't remain completely still given the anxiety he felt at the time.

In the back of the truck, David, Grace and Hiccup were crouched down, hidden from view. They were pressed to the side of the vehicle while a large, unknown object under a white sheet took up the majority of the trunk. Lee even had to lower the second row of seats to allow this thing to fit. Lee pulled the SUV into its parking spot and stopped. He turned the engine off and handed a different set of keys to Ben.

"Here are the keys to my van. Leave the keys to this truck in here and leave the doors unlocked so I can get inside." He was about to hand the keys to Ben, but stopped and pulled them away just as Ben reached for them. Lee gave Ben a very intense stare. "This plan had better work, otherwise we won't just be unemployed. We'll be in jail." He grumbled.

"Don't worry, it will."

Both men got out of the vehicle as Ben walked over to the driver's side. He got back into the truck and drove off towards Lee's street car storage area, which were basically small garages that vehicles not F.D.O.S.R. licensed could be stored for the day. In other words, the employees' normal, street vehicles had a place to be stored for the day as they couldn't just take the licensed trucks and vans off of the property.

Ben pressed the button near the rearview mirror. This caused the door to the storage area to open. Ben smiled as he slowly parked the truck inside.

Lee was making his way towards the building to complete his part of the plan when he turned to see a long line of Humvees and two black SUVs with flashing red and blue lights drive by. Lee suddenly picked up the pace, power-walking towards the building, because he realized that General Christiansen had arrived.

The line of trucks stopped. Dr. Klein, who had just exited the building, watched as soldiers in their green military outfits began to spill out of the vehicles. The doctor couldn't help but sport a cocky smile on his face.

A large, stoic African-American man in his fifties stepped out of one of the SUVs and made his way towards Dr. Klein. He had greying hair and was wearing a green jacket that was cramped with badges and medals from various sacrifices that he made during his terms in the military. This man was General Horace Christiansen.

Dr. Klein walked over to him and extended his hand to the general.

"Good Morning General Christiansen how was your flight?" He firmly took the military man's hand and shook it, smiling.

"Terrible, felt like it wouldn't end." said General Christiansen, to which Dr. Klein nodded.

"I hear you. And sir, let me just say how much of an honor it is to have you on this base."

"All right, I appreciate a hardy welcome as much as the next person, but if you don't mind I'd like to start the presentation as soon as possible so I can catch my plane back home. My daughter has a soccer game tonight that I would really hope to attend."

Dr. Klein nodded and led the General towards the building. General Christiansen followed, as do a few other soldiers who had accompanied him from the capitol.

In the building, Ben was pushing a large, wheeled metal cart that was covered in a white sheet, down the hall. David, Grace and Hiccup were under this white sheet, concealed from view so that no other scientist had any idea of their presence. David and Hiccup both held silver dart guns that were loaded with tranquilizers, just in case they were needed.

As Ben made his way towards the room where he knew Astrid and Jake were being held, Lee made his way towards the security camera room. Once there, Lee saw two scientists were already there. They were watching about ten to fifteen screens that all showed different areas of the building's first floor. Lee knocked to grab the attention of the two men, who quickly turned around.

"Oh, hey Lee, what's up?" asked one of the men.

"Dr. Klein said he needs you down in the auditorium to help set-up."

"But we're watching the security cams. Does he know that?" asked the other who was visibly confused.

"Yes, that's why I'm here. He told me to take over for you two."

Without thinking logically, the two men shrugged, got up and left the room so that Lee was all alone. As soon as they left, Lee quietly shut the door and walked over to the monitors. He sat down and took out his phone and texted Ben to tell him that he was in position and the coast was clear. He chuckled a bit and leaned back in his chair.

"Man, the people who work here are the dumbest smart people on the planet." He thought, imagining the naivety of the two people who he told to leave.

Ben received Lee's text and nodded to himself before pocketing his phone. He pushed the cart with the hidden kids until they reached the hall with the two guards standing outside of the two important rooms. The cell where Astrid and Jake's were and the examination cell where Toothless was. Ben knew this, and decided that it was time for a little "shock and awe".

At this time, inside of the cell, Astrid was examining Jake's nose. Her hand was close up to his face, touching the skin of his nose.

"Tell me if this hurts." She pressed on his nasal cartilage, which earned her a loud "Ah!" from Jake. She nodded

"Yeah that's broken."

Jake shook his head, "Figures."

Back outside of their cell, Ben stopped the cart in front of the door where the two guards looked at him. Their faces showed pure confusion as to what was going on.

"Ben, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with Dr. Klein?" one asked. Ben gestured them closer.

"I need you to check something for me."

"What?" the other one asked as they both inched closer. Ben pointed to the cart.

"I have a piece of equipment here that I think is broken, but before I go bother Dr. Klein with it on his special day, I really wanted to see what you thought of it."

The two men approached the cart, faces full of curiosity. Ben smiled and pulled the sheet off. As soon as they were exposed, David and Hiccup fired a dart into each man, causing them to fall back against the wall unconscious. David looked over at Hiccup and gave an impressed smile.

"You know, you don't strike me as the kind of guy who could aim a gun."

Hiccup didn't even look at him as he crawled out of the cart "Yes I know, I'm weak, I'm helpless; I get it. Geez, you'd think befriending a dragon would get me some respect."

David helped Grace up. "M'lady." David said as he pulled her up gently while giving a big, cheesy smile.

Grace returned the gesture with a small smile of her own. Ben walked over and held his ID to the door to open it. Inside, they saw Jake sitting on the floor, nose pointed towards the ceiling as Astrid was still looking it over to see how broken it was. When they heard the door open, they turned and saw their saviors. Their eyes widened in excitement as they ran over to them. Astrid embraced Hiccup happily as David did the same to Jake. After hugging Hiccup, Astrid broke the hug and punched him in the shoulder.

"That's for not being there when we got captured."

"Well it's not like I could help…" she shut him up by kissing him on the lips. They broke it and Astrid smiled.

"That's for everything else."

Hiccup blushed and smiled before he kissed Astrid back.

Meanwhile, David was still hugging Jake.

"Dude, stop it! This is so embarrassing." Jake mumbled.

"I'm sorry for not being there for you Jake. I should never have left you alone." He said, holding back his tears. He pulled away and looked at the streaks of dried blood that ran down from Jake's nose to the top of his mouth.

"Jake, who did that to your nose?"

"Some bastard scientist."

David sighed angrily. Grace, who was watching the two brothers' reunion, turned to see Ben pointing to the other room.

"Come on, let's get Toothless." he said. Grace nodded and turned to the others, whistling so she got their attention.

"Hey! I'm sorry to be the jerk that has to break up this reunion, but last I checked we have a dragon to rescue."

They all nodded and filed out of the room. They went across the hall to the other room and, as he did before, Ben opened the door with his ID card and led them in. It looked very similar to a room that one goes into for a minor procedure, such as a colonoscopy. There was a heart monitor and other equipment that was on, and, in the middle of the room, was a very excited looking dragon, tied down to the bed.

"Toothless!" Hiccup shouted before running over to his friend. He hugged the dragon around the head. In return, Toothless licked his rider, though he was still groggy from the medication he was still somewhat being injected with. "I'm sorry I wasn't there bud."

"All right, shall we proceed with the plan?" Grace asked, annoyed by all of the time they seemed to be wasting.

Ben nodded and Jake and Astrid looked confused.

"Plan?"

"Yeah," Hiccup said, trying to pull the straps off of Toothless, but to no avail. "We came up with an escape plan, well me and David did but….aw gods can I get some help over here?"

Ben walked over to a small table that had a keypad on it and punched in a code which allowed the straps to loosen on Toothless. The dragon shook his head once completely free of the straps that had confined him.

"These straps are code activated, makes it tougher to take off."

"Well that makes me less embarrassed." Hiccup said.

"Well, you're still a weakling Hiccup." Astrid teased, walking over with a triumphant smile. Hiccup just rolled his eyes. Astrid smirked.

"Butyou're my weakling." She chuckled as Hiccup slowly looked up and gave her a weak smile back before they were interrupted by Grace. "Hey can you two love-birds cut it out for a second and help us get Toothless down?"

They stopped and helped the others get Toothless off of the table he was on.

Ben, David and Astrid were on one side while Jake, Grace and Hiccup were on the other. Once they finally managed to get Toothless down, they all let out sighs of relief.

"Great, let's go." Ben said, starting to lead them out when Toothless, still in his sleepy state, tipped over towards the side where Ben, David and Astrid were on, pinning them against one wall of the room.

"Ah crap." David spat through clenched teeth, turning to Astrid and Ben. "Push him back up."

David, Ben and Astrid pushed Toothless to, what they thought would be a right-side up position. However, Toothless only stumbled over the other way, pinning Hiccup, Jake and Grace to the other wall.

"What the hell Dave! Don't just push Toothless up!" Grace shouted.

"It's not my fault that your side can hold your end of the weight."

"Sorry, is it our fault that you forgot we have the twelve-year old on our side and are therefore structurally weaker?" Grace asked. "Not to mention Hiccup."

"ENOUGH WITH ME BEING WEAK!" Hiccup shouted, silencing everyone. Ben knelt down and looked into Toothless' eyes, noticing the somewhat zoned-out expression.

"What's wrong with him?" Hiccup asked, concerned.

"Apparently the anesthetic didn't completely wear off yet." Ben muttered.

"Well that's unfortunate" Grace groaned.

"Please tell me your plan accounts for a sleepy dragon." Astrid whispered.

"It should still work." Ben said, "But I think a few changes might have to be made."

Elsewhere in the complex, Dr. Klein and General Christiansen started to make their way to the auditorium.

"So you fought during the Gulf War?" Dr. Klein asked.

"Yes."

"What was it like?"

General Christiansen stopped and turned to Dr. Klein. "You want me to sit here and talk to you about the Gulf War?"

Dr. Klein shrugged, "Maybe later when we have time, but I'd love to hear your perspective. I've always been interested in warfare."

"Dr. Klein your obvious attempts to kiss my ass aside, I don't like to reminisce about war when I'm currently involved in two. Besides, if you really wanted to impress me, you'd use "sir" after every sentence. Understand?"

Dr. Klein is silent for a moment before he forced a smile back at the General. He didn't care that he was a general, he hated being patronized.

"Yes sir." As they were about to go into the auditorium, Dr. Klein saw the two men who were in the security room earlier come up to him.

"Why are you two up here? I thought I told you to stay watching the cameras."

"Lee told us you wanted our help sir." One asked, his expression showed confusion at the situation. Dr. Klein gave them a look and shook their heads, "I didn't tell him anything like that."

Beep-Beep. Beep-Beep

Suddenly, Dr. Klein's phone began to beep. He quickly took the phone out of his pocket. Once he saw the caller ID, he immediately picked answered.

"Angus, I'm incredibly busy, this better be good." He muttered. General Christiansen rolled his eyes, tired of all of this, what he thought was, procrastination.

"Sir! He's gone!" Angus shouted over the phone.

"Who's gone?" Dr. Klein asked before putting two and two together. "Toothless?"

"Yes sir."

"Where did he go?" he waited for a response before snapping back to his old, insane self, "Angus…where did he go?" he hissed into the receiver.

As if on cue, the fire alarms began to go off and the sprinklers that were located on the ceiling began to shower water down onto everybody inside of the building.

In another part of the building, Ben began to run towards Lee's SUV in the storage area. Behind him was the fire alarm that he had just pulled.

It was all part of the plan.

"Come on; let's get outside before the water ruins my uniform!" General Christiansen shouted before heading outside with his men. Dr. Klein just stood there, his phone still in his hand as water ran down his back and face. He didn't move a muscle, as he went over every piece of bad luck that had happened to him in the past minute in his mind. "Dr. Klein, are you coming?" General Christiansen shouted.

Dr. Klein snapped out of his completely frozen state just enough to nod slowly. He spat some water out that had dribbled into his mouth from his head. He turned and nodded.

"Yes….I…am coming." He said, chuckling like a man on the edge of sanity.

Outside of F.D.O.S.R., the employees, military personnel, and everyone else evacuated the building and looked around. They talked among themselves under the mid-morning sun. The fire trucks were on their way, but there didn't seem to be any fire. Regardless, Dr. Klein walked outside and grabbed the radio that was on his soaked shirt.

"Yes, I don't want you to let anyone in or out of this place." Dr. Klein barked into the receiver, his face red and eyes showing his masked frustration. "Because I have a feeling that someone is intentionally screwing with me." With that, he turned the radio off and clipped it back to his shirt.

"Dr. Klein," General Christiansen walked over to him angrily, staring him down. "I'm hearing that the dragon is missing, is this true?"

Dr. Klein looked at General Christiansen nervously and lied, "No of course not."

"I'm telling you now, that if this situation isn't handled soon or if I find out that there is no dragon for me to see, I'm leaving. I didn't fly up to New York for some God-damned dog and pony show. If I wanted that, I would have stayed in D.C. And let me tell you, when I get back to Washington I'll have a few choice words about your "demonstration"."

Dr. Klein doesn't respond with so much as a nod, a fake smile, or a "yes sir". He just stared blankly as General Christiansen walked back over to his men. He was clearly angry at Dr. Klein for wasting his time.

Dr. Klein turned away in a rage, pulling out a new pack of cigarettes that he had bought just that morning, just in case his habit kicked in.

Guess what? It did, with a vengeance.

He took out a single cigarette and began to smoke it with fiery passion. He took the cigarette out of his mouth with his shaky hand and blew a long stream of smoke into the air when he suddenly looked up towards the lot where the F.D.O.S.R. vehicles were parked. Nothing seemed un-natural, until his eyes landed on a white van. Ben was pushing something into the back of the vehicle, something shiny and black, and apparently something with a long tail.

Dr. Klein's eyes widened and he began to strut angrily over to Ben.

"Ben!" he shouted. He then took the cigarette from his lips and threw it to the ground like he was angry at it. "BEN! BEN!"

Ben turned as he started to get into the driver's side of the van. He quickly put the keys into the ignition without turning them, just in case he needed to make a quick get-away. He got into the seat when Dr. Klein reached him. Next to him in the passenger seat was Grace.

"Hello Dr. Klein, is there something you need?" Ben asked, slowly sitting onto the seat.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"I'm taking my niece back home for the day." he said. Grace put on a fake smile and extended her arm.

"Hi I'm Grace, it's very nice to meet you Dr. Klein. My Uncle's told me a lot about you." She said with a performance that was truly Oscar-worthy. Dr. Klein glared at her for a moment before looking back at Dr. Klein.

"That's your niece?"

"Yep," Ben nodded, "believe it or not I'm starting to become an old man." Ben laughed a bit at this last remark, but Dr. Klein was in no mood to engage in such emotions.

"What do you have under that sheet?" Dr. Klein asked, pointing to the giant thing what was under the white sheet. He didn't notice the kids hidden behind the shape. When the covered thing moved slightly Dr. Klein took notice.

"Nothing important sir, it's just a broken piece of equipment that I'm going to take home to fix." Ben said nervously.

"Ben, think about what you're doing."

"I don't know…" Ben started, but Dr. Klein cut him off.

"Yes you do." Dr. Klein sighed, eyes staring directly into Ben's, like daggers they seemed to pierce into his very soul. "You're betraying me, your betraying the man who gave you a job. Who took you under his wing and trained you. Who made you into the man you are today."

Ben grimaced, knowing that Dr. Klein's statements were true.

"Ben. Don't let yourself get swept onto the side of fiction. Reality always triumphs over fiction, and I am reality. Come back to my side."

There is silence as Ben seemed torn. He looked over at Grace who gave him a pleading look. Behind him, David peeked up from where he was hiding, and shook his head vigorously.

Ben then looked down at his feet, realizing what needed to be done. "Well then with all due respect sir."

He slowly looked back up at Dr. Klein, his eyes cold and disobedient to his mentor.

"Fuck reality."

Dr. Klein's eyes went wide as any bit of sanity that he had left evaporated into the morning air. He quickly lunged for Ben, but Ben had been expecting this and used his legs to push the door of the van open. This, in turn, knocked Dr. Klein onto the pavement back-first. Ben slammed the door shut and turned the keys.

As Dr. Klein scrambled to his feet, he watched as the van sped away towards the gate of the complex. He turned and started to run towards his Wrangler, all the while shouting, "Follow that van! Don't let it get away!"

He was so intent on getting to his Jeep; he didn't even hear General Christiansen calling his name angrily.

"Dr. Klein, what is the meaning of this! Dr. Klein!"

Dr. Klein didn't care he just had his mind focused on getting to his Jeep and chasing Ben down. All around him, other F.D.O.S.R. agents followed his lead and got to their Jeeps, obeying their boss' orders to pursue the vehicle.

"Follow that van!" Dr. Klein shouted one last time before he got into his car, shut the door, started the engine and sped off after the other Jeeps to follow Ben.

Ben, meanwhile, floored the accelerator to smash into the yellow security gate.

After breaking through, Ben continued to speed down the road, the caravan of white Jeeps following.

Lee watched all of this with a nervous expression. He looked over at his SUV and began to think. He bit his lip as he realized that the chase was on, and he needed to do more than just stand around.

"Do not let it get out of sight!" Dr. Klein shouted into the radio that was in his car. He watched as the van kept going down the road, weaving with the winding road that led away from F.D.O.S.R.

The chase has begun.

Okay so this chapter was a little more intense. Hopefully the escape made sense and wasn't too implausible for reality.

Next chapter will also have action in it. And before you ask, yes this is the climax and, yes, the story is almost over. Thank you to all that have read thus far, and I hope you're enjoying the ride.