Don't own Chuck
-Chuck drove through the valley by Merced River with the view of El Capitan off to their left. Its high granite face looked down on them as they drove by. On the other side of the river they took the Southside drive, crossed Sentinel Bridge, and then drove back to the Ahwahnee hotel. Sarah went to handle check in while Chuck walked around the hotel with Mary and Sam looking for all the security cameras and adding a few wireless ones as they went along.
"Is it just me or does it seem like they're shooting a Shaw brother film in here," said Chuck as they walked around noticing all the oriental help.
"I see what you mean but they might have hired extras who could speak the language to take care of the delegations," said Mary.
"That really doesn't make much sense since most of the people in the delegations speak English better than most natives."
"Then I don't know but here comes Sarah," said Mary with a tone in her voice then Chuck understood when he turned to watch her button the top button on her blouse.
"I got us a room upgrade we're in a cottage now," said Sarah as she showed them the keycard. She saw the look on Chuck's face. "What? I got us the cottage. You can say thank you."
"Thank you. Yes you did," he said as he laughed and kissed her. "Though I don't think if I unbuttoned my top button it would've worked."
"Everyone has their own skill sets. My intersect might not be working but that doesn't mean I really need it."
"Doesn't mean you have to risk a chest cold," mumbled Mary as she bent down to check on Sam. Chuck and Sarah chose to ignore her.
"Well I never thought you did," said Chuck as he took her hands. Then over her shoulder he saw him, Yu Dung. "Don't turn around but our guy is behind you at your six."
"I'd like to get Sam out of here," said Sarah as she whispered in his ear. He nodded his head as he went out following Dung.
"Mary, here's an extra keycard take this and take Sam to the cottage now," said Sarah as she watch Chuck leave the great hall going back out to the parking lot following Dung.
"You sure you oughtn't take her and let me follow them," said Mary as she reached into her bag for her Beretta.
"No I'm sure. I really don't have time," said Sarah realizing she needed to hurry up if she was going to be able to give Chuck backup. "We've got this covered just watch Sam for us."
"Them who?" asked Sam. "I'm not tired I don't want to go yet. Can't we look around some more, please?"
"Sam this isn't the time to be stubborn. Please go with your Nana," said Sarah but then she realized if they went out to the cottage they were risking running into Dung and Chuck. "On second thought no stay here and look around but stay nearby. Mary, wait here until we come back for you two." Sarah darted out after Chuck but as she went out she knew she had to do something with Sam. Maybe bringing her along was a bad idea.
"There you are Love," yelled Chuck standing next to Dung by the Range Rover. He waved for her to come so she walked over with her hand in her bag.
"I was lucky, I found a bus boy when I came out to get our bags to help me take them the cottage but then I realized you did the room upgrade and I didn't know which cottage was ours."
"Oh... Oh that's right I'm so silly sometimes I should've given you the room card. Good thing I didn't give it to your mother," said Sarah as she looked at him but he gave her a signal to play along. Working the mark came easy to her.
"As you can probably can see my wife is pregnant with number two. Have you got any children... I'm sorry I didn't get your name?" asked Chuck as he and Dung started to carry the bags to the cottage.
"It's Yei and no I don't," said Dung. He acted like he was nervous and in a hurry but Chuck needed to get close to him for his plan to work.
"Well, Yei let me give you some advice. Find yourself a good woman and start having them. They are a true joy and don't stop until you've got all the bases and outfield covered."
"Sweetie, what kind of advice is that? I think Mr. Yei's future wife might want to have some input in that," said Sarah. "We've talked about this too. One was luck, two a miracle I wouldn't count on much more if any."
"And I thank God every morning to what I have to wake up to," said Chuck as he kissed her. Yei or Dung faked a cough outside standing on the doorstep with the bags still in hands.
"Oh Sweetie, we're keeping the poor man standing. Just leave them there on the stoop my husband can carry them in. Isn't that right tiger?"
"Yes ma'am," said Chuck. "You know while granny's got the kid we can break in the cottage properly if you know what I mean."
"I'm with you Sweetie," she said as she bite his lip. "And there's more where that came from." She said as she opened the door and walked in.
"Here's a C-note Yei and remember go forth and multiply. Who said math was boring," said Chuck as he took his bags inside the cottage.
"Thanks," said Yei as he pocketed the C-note and was about to leave when Sarah reappeared with two glasses of champagne.
"Here you two can drink a toast to our baby and Mr. Yei's finding his soulmate while I go slip into something more comfortable."
"I'll drink to that," said Chuck as he passed Yei his glass they clinked and both drank. "Now that's what you need to find so if you'll excuse me I've got a math problem to work on."
Yei handed Chuck back his empty glass then ran off knowing he was late. Chuck pulled out a listen device and set it in the middle of the room where Sarah could hear while he grabbed the rest of the bags on the stoop. In one he pulled out a tracker and began tracking Dung's movements.
"He ran off like there was a fire under him I think something is going down. The microbots are up and I'm tracking him. Are you hearing anything from the EM-50 I put in his pocket?"
"It's up and I'm listening to everything he's saying. By the way that was a good idea planting the bug on him. We'll get more like this then we can bring him in."
"Like this we should be able to identify everyone with him. He's headed towards the visitor parking lot are you picking up anything? An IR scan shows a lot of warm bodies."
"He's talking to someone," Sarah said as turned up the volume on the receiver. "Chuck, listen you're right they're up to something."
"You're late, where have you been," said a man in Chinese. "What took you so long? You know we need to be in place for Big Brother."
"I know but I got held up with this stupid long nose and his oversexed wife. If I hadn't gone along with them I would've blown my cover. I'm here now so let's just go."
"Get in the back with the rest of the men," said the man. They heard a door open on a van then close. "Check your weapons," said the voice. "We're going to pick us a couple of lotuses."
"Chuck, they're going after Anna and Rebecca."
"Do I have a long nose? I gave him a good tip and he calls us that it's hard to find good help these days."
"Chuck, Anna and Rebecca."
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The motorcade proceeded again after eating a hearty animal style meal at In-N-Out. Everyone was full just the Presidents had to spend extra time washing up afterwards. Neither understood why they had to use their hands to eat. Their ties were the first casualties of this pit stop. They stood on opposite sides of the restroom trying to dry their hands with the hot air blowers but it wasn't happening.
"Mine must be broken that's the only thing I can think of," said Shinagawa. "This thing just isn't working."
"Mine's the same," said President Chien. "You wonder how everyone else dries their hands. If you have to eat with your hands you'd expect to be able to clean them afterwards. How was your meal? I have to say in the beginning I was skeptical but my daughter insisted we should stop here and I'm glad she did."
"Your daughter you say. Mine insisted on stopping here too. She wanted me to try the strawberry shake. She knows I have a weakness for strawberries."
"Mine did too. I guess we've found the first thing we agree on we both like strawberries," said Chien as he laughed. "You know if we don't agree on anything else we always have strawberries to fall back on."
Outside the bathroom the rest of the delegation waited and listened. When they heard the two presidents laugh they couldn't help but think this was a good sign for the treaty negotiations. While the presidents where in the male restroom the two daughters went into the female one. Daichi started behind Aiko but she stopped him and pointed to the sign.
"Aiko, we're here together finally," said Lin as she took Aiko by the hands and they let out a low scream. "But are you sure you want to go through with this?"
"I've never been so sure in my whole life about something. I promised my mother I'd do this for her and I'm going to keep my promise. If you don't want to come along you don't have to. I'll understand."
"Are you crazy? After we've gone through all this trouble there's no backing out now. We move forward but are you sure you can trust your friend Daichi? I think he likes you a lot. I can tell just by the way he looks at you when you're around him."
"I'm not worried about him. He'll come through when we need him but you really think he likes me? If my father found out that would be a problem."
"Then we need to make sure he doesn't find out. So we make our great escape then what? We go to Disneyland first then Malibu or vice versa."
"Well as you sister let's go to Malibu first. You've got your promise to keep to your mother and that takes priority over fun."
"Yes sister, I like that. So Sis, we're going to do this," said Aiko and the two girls let out a little scream for joy.
"Are you two okay in there," they heard their fathers ask. They couldn't help it they put their hands over their mouths and laughed.
Outside the restrooms and a ways away Mei Sheng, the Chinese Ambassador was nursing a cup of tea. Since before these negotiations started his stomach had been acting up and his meals consisted of antacid. As he was sipping slowly on his tea his phone rang. He didn't recognize the number but something told him to answer it anyway.
"Oh Chuck, it's you I guess I should congratulate you, your Secretary of State told me the good news. I'm happy for you. ... Okay I'm listening. ... A trap, I can give you a number we use as a drop box. They just check in with me not too long ago saying they were on the trail of Jason Wang and they were going to take him in for questioning. They felt he might be the mastermind behind the plot to disrupt the talks. Our intel on him has him working for both the Triad and the Yakuza ... I wish I knew where they were. They did have me run a license plate number," said the Ambassador. He pulled out a notepad and read Chuck the number. "It's a Mercedes SUV rented to Jason Wang. Chuck, keep me in the loop. I need to know what's going on," said the Ambassador before Chuck hung up then he took two tums for the tummy.
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Just past Highway 41 on the Wawona road, Anna and Rebecca were driving a Ford 4x4 with double cab and tinted windows down the winding road leading up to the park. Anna was driving as Rebecca checked her weapons making sure the Taser was fully charged and ready for fun. Then she pulled out of her bag a red neckerchief and hung it from the review mirror.
"What's that supposed to be," asked Anna looking over at the bandanna. She could barely see over the dash. "Is that supposed to be a joke or what?"
"Well we can't hang a rifle in the back window and we don't have a hunting dog so I thought this would give us a little local color."
"Local color funny, I think you've seen a few too many of those propaganda films. Okay, check on his GPS signal but we should be close to him soon."
"I've got him just south of Glacier Point it looks like he's pulled off to the side of the road. He's not moving. Maybe to admire the view or something I don't know but we should be on him soon. Let me get out first to deal with him. He doesn't know me and once I've stunned him you come in. We get him in the back zipped up then we take him some place quiet."
"I don't know, don't you feel this a little bit too easy," said Anna. "I don't want to sound paranoid but something just doesn't feel right."
"Maybe you're right but we've got to try anyway. We're just going to have to go in with both eyes open. There he's on the move again," said Rebecca as the GPS on his vehicle showed movement. "Hurry up we want to catch up to him before the Yosemite tunnel. We can take him in the tunnel there he'll have no place to escape to and he'll be all ours."
"And neither will we," said Anna as she sped up. In her gut she felt this was a bad idea but like her cousin said they had to try. This was their big opportunity to cut the head off the snake and they couldn't let her paranoia get in the way.
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The Motorcade started again after the pit stop then proceeded north towards the park. However, just after leaving highway 41 they were informed that the Yosemite park tunnel was temporarily closed due to a multiple car pileup. So they stopped off at the Wawona hotel for a little while to give the road crew time to clear the wreckage and reopen the tunnel.
"My friends," greeted the U.S. President. "My people told me about the tunnel so I've got an idea. Why don't we tee off and play nine holes while the road crews clear the mess away. It will be a good two hours and they have to verify the tunnel's still sounds so we've got time."
"I'm not very good," said the Japanese President. "But sure it will be nice to stretch my legs after been cooped up in that car. "Chien, how do you feel? There are no newspaper people or photojournalist to take your picture playing a capitalist sport."
"Okay but the first word that get out about this and everything is off. My party opponents would have a field day with this."
"Good, I've got clubs for everyone. You know we can't keep going on calling each other president all week long. Please call me Jonah.
"My first name is Etto," said the Japanese President. "It was my grandfather's name. He died in Nagasaki after the bombing."
"You can call me Chein," said the Chinese President. He saw the looks on his colleagues' faces. "My name is Chein Chein but your people should have told you that. You know I have the impression that your intel isn't as good as what we thought it was. So who starts? I think Jonah, you should since you're the best and I should be last so I can learn from you two how to play this sport."
"I don't know I am such an expert to learn from. I knock the ball around a bit but okay I'll tee off first," said the President. He grabbed a number three wood then explained how to get ready. "Notice the way I hold my hands and see the way I stand," said the President. He swung and hit the ball. It went high and plopped right in the middle of a sand trap. "Well I guess it could've dropped in the pond. Etto, you're next up."
"I'm going with a three wood too," said the Japanese president as he set up. He swung and hit the ball. It arched high flying straight down the middle of the fairway but dropped short about a couple of yards off the green.
"You know watching you guys I think I've got the hang of it. I'm going with a number five wood," said Chien as he grabbed the club from the bag. He then placed his ball on the tee. "Now this is the way you hold the club right then what? Just swing throw?"
"It might sound easy," said the American President as Chien made his swing ignoring that Jonah was speaking. The ball lofted high in the sky right down the middle.
"You got to be kidding will someone shoot me in the head," said Jonah as Chien's ball dropped on the green then rolled towards the cup. "No, no, no this can't be happening... Gez, someone give me a break folks."
"I think you call that a hole-in-one. You know I think I like this game but I have to admit that this isn't the first time I've played it. Come on Etto we can walk and talk. Jonah is going to need time to get out of the sand. You know getting your troops out of the Middle East might be easier than getting that ball out of there."
In the hotel Lin and Aiko were walking around looking for something to do but they were generally bored. Lin covered for Aiko so she could duck out by pulling her security people away. She pretended she needed help with her IPhone.
"I can't get reception here, how are your people managing. I need to get to my Facebook account and update my page but I can't. This is so frustrating."
"You don't have your roaming set up," said one of the agents. They glanced up and watch Aiko disappear with Daichi but none of them thought anything about it after all he was one of them. "There it should work now."
"Domo arigato gozaimashita," said Lin as she took her phone back. The agents smiled then made a deep bow.
"Doitashimaste," said the men as they smiled then quickly dispersed when Mei Sheng the ambassador showed up.
"I see you play the damsel in distress quite well with all your knights coming to your defense. I have just one question, how long have you known the Japanese President's daughter."
"What are you talking about we just met and shouldn't you be on the golf course with my father advising him or something."
"People who just met each other don't cover for them so they can go off with a 'friend' shall we call him. You know he's much older than she is? But love is blind. Don't worry I won't say anything, it's not my place. However, you my dear are. Your father is like a brother to me and he's had enough heartbreak wouldn't you agree?" Lin looked up as Aiko came back inside smiling.
"Everyone deserves happiness wouldn't you agree."
"Happiness is a strange thing most of the time we don't know we're happy until we don't have it anymore." He walked away nodding his head to Aiko as he walked by then looked back at Lin.
"Ambassador, I just got word that the tunnel is clear," said General Beckman. "We should be moving soon. Is there going to be a problem there?"
"You need to find the Japanese ambassador and ask him but if she were Lin I'd already have had a nice talk to her."
"You mean like the one you just had."
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A few hours before...
Chuck realized how the trap was being set. Anna and Rebecca were following the GPS signal from the anti-theft device installed on the Mercedes but Jason was counting on that to lure them in the trap. They used the Microbots Sarah put in Dung's champagne to track him to the Yosemite tunnel where he disappeared.
"That's it that's where the trap is set. I've got the bird overhead I count eight warm bodies that's roughly half of the people they brought in the container. This must be the Triad's side."
"Don't you see Sweetie this is the Triad getting even with Anna and Rebecca for the work they've done against them. Like they say no good deed goes unpunished. I got an idea why don't you do the same thing find Jason's GPS signal then hack it. You could switch it off then they'd have nothing to track and in the meantime while you do that I'll try to call Casey he should be behind them."
"Excellent idea, beautiful and intelligent, you're perfect," said Chuck as he started hacking the security company that ran the GPS tracking software.