Chuck vs The Bracelet
Chapter 10: Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal
Team B continue to look on in shock at Morgan as he lay on the ground, not moving at all. "Morgan!" yells Chuck trying to get a response from his best friend.
Laz walks over to check Morgan out. "Don't you touch him you son of a bitch!" yells Casey.
"Yup. No pulse. The little bearded man is definitely dead." says Laz.
"That's one less person to worry about." says Edgar. "Spider. Round up our three remaining 'friends' and escort them to the car. We're taking them with us."
"What? Why?" asks Sarah. "You have the bracelet. Why keep us around?"
"Because I'm not done with you yet." says Edgar. "Laz, you wanna take care of... that?"
"Yeah. I'll take care of the body." says Laz.
As Laz drags Morgan away, and he is being put in the car, Chuck says. "No! Morgan!" He continues to struggle, so Spider hits him over the head to make him stop. Knocking him out in the process.
When Chuck awakens, he finds himself in a cell, being looked after by Sarah. "Ah... Wha... What?"
"Hey, you're finally awake. Are you okay?" asks Sarah.
"Yeah... yeah. I'm good. Where are we?" He asks.
"I wish I knew. After they knocked you out they put bags over our heads so we wouldn't see. We've been here for almost an hour." She says. "Chuck... Chuck, I'm so sorry about Morgan." She grabs him to give him a hug to comfort him more. She herself begins to get emotional as well. "I'm so sorry. He meant a lot to me too."
Chuck holds her tight, shedding a few tears for his fallen best friend. After a couple of minutes, he forces himself to regain his composure so he can be strong for everyone while their in this situation. He takes a moment to look around. The cell that their in is made of hard clear glass, so they can pretty much see what their surroundings are. He sees that the cell is in a large room, with desks and computers around.
Casey is the cell next to them. "Grimes... never hurt anyone." He says. "He didn't... deserve that. Oh my God. How I'm I going to tell, Alex?"
They then hear the sounds of people coming their way. It turns out to be Edgar, Spider, a few Fulcrum agents, and Laz. "Chuck! It's good to see you up and about again. Hope that bump Spider gave you isn't too serious." says Edgar.
"Now what do you want?" asks Chuck.
"You'll find out soon enough. All in due time, Chuck." says Edgar.
"I couldn't care less about what you're thinking on doing!" says Sarah. "Where the hell is my son?"
"Oh... the rest of you family is being... 'taken care of'. Laz made sure of that." says Edgar.
Laz just stands there, with big smile on face, taunting Team B. Sarah look directly at Laz, and tells him. "If anything happens to him, or any of them, I'm going to kill you, you psychotic bastard!"
"How could you do this? We trusted you. You swore that you'd help us." says Chuck.
"Yeah well... I say a lot of things." says Laz. Before he says his next thing, he begins to laugh. "But I mean, really? I know that this was a sudden turn of events. You finding out I was playing you this whole time. But...it was inevitable. To tell you the truth I don't know who's a bigger idiot. You? Or your Dad? No Aces for you, Charles."
"And Morgan?" asks Chuck. "Why Morgan?!" He slams his fist on the cell. "Why did you have to kill him?!"
"Well... he shouldn't have eaten all the shrimp." says Laz.
"It's funny, though. Isn't it? This whole thing started when we sent Bryce after the Intersect." says Edgar. "Even though that didn't go as planned... we have you now. In the beginning... it was, Fulcrum. And now in the end... it's still, Fulcrum. We've won. It was always going to be us. It was always going to be... me. I should have been put in-charge a long time ago. Instead of Roark or those damned Elders. Just imagine how much better we would've been."
"Wow. Way to go. You just made it sound like a cult or something." says Laz. "Speaking of, Bryce. I always meant to ask you, Chuck. How did it feel to get his sloppy seconds?" He jokes.
"Laz. That's enough of your... 'humor'. As a matter of fact, you get first watch." says Edgar.
He replies in a sarcastic tone. "Hooray." Edgar goes on and leaves with the rest of his group, leaving Laz behind. Laz takes a seat looking directly at Team B. "Well... I don't know about you, but that went on shorter than I expected." The members of Team B don't say anything. All just look at Laz with a burning hatred. "Ah Geez, come on guys. Don't look at me like that." He says. "Making me feel bad here. You know, if you hadn't just lost a friend, I would say something..."
End of Chapter
Next Chapter to be called, "There Will Be Blood"
Author's note- Sorry for making this chapter so short. Some of the content I wanted to put in I actually want to hold on to until the next one. Hope you all understand. As always, please feel free to leave a review and let me know what you think. Thank you for reading.