Uncharted: Seekers of the Lost
By Obrusnine
Last updated: June 16th, 2012 fD
(ED: Basic Edit / RW: Rewrite / fD: First Draft / FD: Final Draft)
Chapter 10: Scafell Pike
"Don't tase me bro!" –Unknown
"So… now what?" Charlie asked.
"Well, if he's here and somehow miraculously survived, can that really be a coincidence?" Chloe asked.
"Do you think he's following us?" Elena asked.
"It's a possibility." Nate said. "I don't think we can risk just leaving him there. Who knows, he may be out for revenge."
"Harry never really struck me as the revenge type." Chloe said.
"That doesn't matter, go and start the truck; I'll be out there with our friend in a minute." Nate said. They all nodded and left the bar; Nate paid for their drinks and stood up. He walked along the bar slowly, making sure to always be looking somewhere else. Either way, Harry didn't seem to be interested in anything but the drink in front of him.
This was to Nate's advantage, he was easily able to sneak behind him and press his Beretta to Harry's spine and sit next to him. He froze for a second and put down his drink.
"Hello Flynn." Nate said.
"Nate? Is that you?" Harry asked looking at him. "Been a while, hasn't it?"
"Well, I can't say I expected to see you again after you blew yourself up. You almost killed Elena." Nate said distastefully.
"What? Blew myself up?" Flynn said. "I haven't seen you since that job we pulled in the Caribbean, on that boat. Who's Elena?"
"Don't play with me Harry." Nate said pushing the gun into Flynn's back a little harder.
"Well, this at least explains why you have a gun to my back…" Flynn said. "I swear Nate; I don't remember anything you're talking about. Why don't I buy you a drink and we can talk all about it."
Nate didn't know why, but something about his face told him that Flynn was telling the truth.
"You're telling me you don't remember anything about the museum heist in Istanbul?"
"Can't say I remember robbing a museum in Istanbul with you, though I've been there before. Fun place, Turkish jails… not nice I hear."
"I can attest to that considering you got me thrown into one."
"Uh… sorry? I don't remember any of that."
Something was wrong with Flynn though, Nate could sense it.
"There's something you're not telling me, what is it?" Nate asked.
"Well, it's all a bit weird really." Flynn said. When Nate didn't add anything and just kept staring at him, he continued. "Well, um, I woke up in a field a few hours ago. I wandered around until I found this bar. I don't remember anything after the last time we met, when we robbed the boat…"
"…on the Caribbean." Nate finished.
"So, you said I blew myself up?" Flynn asked.
"Yea, you were working for Zoran Lazaravic. Betrayed me to help him out. Long story short, we followed you guys all the way back to Shambhala and when you got cornered, you decided to pull the pin on a grenade and blow yourself up."
"Well, I can't say I see myself doing that. But, according to you I did. Maybe that has something to do with me waking up in the middle of a field."
"The Caribbean job was more than four years ago, you killed yourself 2 years ago. I don't think there's a connection. What did we steal all those years ago anyways?" Nate asked.
"Seems like just yesterday to me… we stole a book." Flynn said.
"What was the book about?"
"What, you think I was paying attention?" Flynn replied.
"Come on Harry, you have to remember if we're going to figure this out." Nate said.
"Wait, I think I opened it up and read a little…" Flynn said. "I think… the client claimed it was…"
"Come on Harry…"
"Oh, he said it was Merlin's Spellbook." Flynn said. "What a load of gibberish, he paid well though."
"Shit, that can't be a coincidence." Nate said.
"What?" Flynn said.
"The last thing you remember is the Caribbean job, where we stole Merlin's Spellbook. Right now, we are searching for The Holy Grail."
"What, that thing King Arthur was looking for?"
"Yes and King Arthur's most trusted friend was Merlin. You read his Spellbook, and when we come here searching for the grail, you're here. That can't be a coincidence. It all links back to Arthurian legend. Do you remember the spell you read?"
"Absolutely no idea." Harry said.
"Pay for your drinks, you're coming with me." Nate said.
"Can I at least have one more…?"
"No."
Harry rolled his eyes and paid, then stood up with Nate's guidance. They walked out of the bar with Nate's gun firmly to his back.
"Come on, you don't believe me?" Flynn asked.
"I don't trust you as far as I can throw you Flynn." Nate said. "I think I believe you, but I'm not taking that chance."
As they approached the truck, Chloe suddenly stepped out of the car and jumped down. She went straight for Flynn.
"Well, hello Chloe…" Flynn said. He didn't get to finish as Chloe suddenly walked up and slapped him across the face as hard as she could.
"Ouch!" Flynn said. "What in the hell was that for?"
"You betrayed her to." Nate said. Suddenly Elena jumped down out of the car as well, and then she went and punched him straight in the center of the face. "Nice punch honey."
"I… don't even know her, why did she just punch me?" Flynn said.
"Remember what I said you hurt Elena when you blew yourself up?" Nate asked.
"This isn't fair; I'm getting punched around for things I don't even remember!"
Nate ignored him.
"Charlie, can you throw me some rope and tape?" He asked. Charlie complied and Nate bound Flynn up and put him behind the back seats.
"MMM!" Flynn said, trying to shout through the tape on his mouth.
"Oh shut up." Charlie said. He didn't as Nate climbed into the front seat.
Nate told all of them what had happened in the bar with Flynn trying to shout from the back.
"Do you honestly believe him? I thought we've all figured out by now that he's a lying backstabbing son of a bitch." Chloe asked.
"I don't know why, but I do." Nate said. "I am less inclined to believe him than anyone, I spent 3 months in a Turkish prison because of him, remember?"
"That sounds painful mate." Charlie said.
"I still don't trust him." Elena said.
"I don't think him showing up just as we're about to go and climb the mountain is a coincidence. Whether you all like it or not, he's coming."
"I don't, but I trust you Nate." Elena said.
"Me to, but he's staying tied up." Chloe said.
"Um, I don't think him staying tied up with us moving through a rather populated area is a good idea." Charlie replied.
"Fine, someone is going to keep an eye on him the whole time then." Elena said.
"If I'm not mistaken, Charlie just volunteered." Nate said patting him on the shoulder as the pulled up back into the SAS base and stepped out of the car.
"What?" Charlie said.
"Come on Charlie, you gotta help me get him out of the truck."
"I hate you." Charlie replied.
"I love you to buddy." Nate replied grinning.
"Bollocks." Charlie said. But he jumped out of the truck and helped him lift Flynn out of the truck and onto his feet.
"MMM!" Flynn said.
"Mmm?" Nate asked.
"MMM!"
"I don't quite hear you. Speak up." Nate said. Flynn just glared at him. "Charlie, stay here and watch him. We should get climbing up the mountain already before daybreak, which is in a few hours, which should give us enough time to climb."
Charlie nodded. Nate went to the plane and dragged open the door.
"Sully, you've had enough time to sleep, get your ass up so we can get going."
Nate heard groans from the inside and knew he had been successful; he went to the small building and entered. Harold and Captain Rogers were sitting across from each other at the table chatting.
"We should probably get going dad, is Captain Rogers coming?" Nate asked.
"No, I have to stay here and monitor the outpost." Rogers said. "This is a cover station for an SAS operation; we were already here before you called. We're in the middle of a sensitive operation."
"How sensitive?" Nate asked.
"Classified sensitive."
"Sounds very clandestine." Nate said. "Coming Dad?"
"Be right there." Harold replied. "Why don't you make sure the truck is started so I can say goodbye?"
"Of course." Nate said. "Nice to meet you Captain Rogers."
"Same to you son." He replied. Nate nodded and stepped outside. Chloe and Elena were waiting by the truck.
"Hey, Elena, Chloe, come and help me get some guns to bring along. Just in-case." Nate said.
"That's a man's work love." Chloe said jokingly.
"Ha ha ha." Nate said unenthusiastically. "Just come and help me so we can get going."
They moved and started helping Nate cart guns and ammo from the back of Sully's plane into the back of the truck. When they were full, they all climbed it.
"What about pretty boy? This has five seats, they're all taken and the back is now filled up, where are we going to put him?" Charlie asked.
"Looks like he's going to have to sit on your lap Charlie." Nate said grinning.
"No." Charlie said simply. Sully started climbing into the passenger seat. "By the way I call shotgun!"
"Show respect for the elderly." Sully said back.
"Bollocks." Charlie said.
"He's going to have to sit on your lap Charlie." Nate repeated.
"MMM!" Flynn tried to yell. They ignored him.
"No!" Charlie replied.
Ten minutes later, Nate was driving as Charlie set in the left back seat with Flynn on his lap. They were both glaring at the back of the seat in front of them. Then, Flynn adjusted his vision to Chloe who was sitting next to Charlie. He lifted his eyes in a suggestive way, and Chloe could tell he was grinning under the tape.
She slapped him again.
"MMMM!" Flynn said moving around.
"Stop squirming you moron!" Charlie said. But Flynn fell sideways and his face slid sideways along the back of Nate's seat, tearing the tape on his lips off.
"Oh thank god." Flynn said after he landed between their feet and the back of Nate's seat. "Finally, help me up would you."
"No, I think I quite prefer you there." Charlie said.
"No, come on and help me back up!"
"Shut up mate."
"Would you two stop bickering like children back there? I'm trying to drive here." Nate said. Harold merely sat next to Chloe lifting his eyebrow down at Flynn.
"What are you staring at old man?" Flynn asked.
"A fool." Harold replied.
"I'll show you a fool!" He said sitting up. Charlie subsequently threw him back down.
"Stop moving and shut up already!" Charlie said. Flynn complied grumbling.
"Quite the motley crew we've got here." Sully said to Nate.
"Yup." Nate replied.
They continued on for about an hour before reaching Scafell Pike's base and reaching the end of the road they could drive on.
"Okay, everyone out, we have to hike from here to the peak." Nate said throwing open the door and getting out. They all got out after him. Charlie dragged Flynn up and got him outside of the truck. "Everyone grab an AK, a Beretta, and some ammo."
Elena went to the back of the truck and opened it up, and the others followed her, grabbing the guns and ammo they needed. Flynn approached the back of the truck as Nate was grabbing what he needed and stashing it in his belt.
"What do you think you're doing mate?" Charlie asked grabbing his shoulder.
"Well, don't I get a gun?" He asked.
"I don't think so." Nate replied.
"But what if we encounter mystical monsters or something?" Flynn asked.
"Nice try. Come on, what are the chances of that?" Charlie asked.
"High." Nate said at the same time as Elena, Chloe, and Sully in the background.
"But I think you'll do just fine." Nate said reaching into the back of the truck and grabbing a Taser Gun. He tossed it to Charlie, who caught it. "If he tries to run, shoot him with that.
Charlie nodded.
"That isn't necessary…" Flynn said.
"Sure it isn't." Charlie said. "Now move along."
Nate gazed at what little of the mountain he could see in the dark, and wondered what they would find up there.
Looks like the gang got some revenge on Flynn that chapter, for stuff he doesn't remember to, hahaha
Comedic relief is great. This chapter is also a milestone (chapter 10!).
Anyways, remember to review. I write for you guys remember, *wink*
Be prepared for a really neat chapter for the next one, it'll also be pretty long to, and everyone may not live to see tomorrow...