Chuck vs The Bracelet
Chapter 11: There Will Be Blood
As Team B continue to try to figure out how to escape, Laz can't help but, well, be Laz. "Have any of you ever been to India? There's this great restaurant in Bangalore that serves the best Tandoori chicken. I've been craving some all day." says Laz as he swerves around in his chair. "Thinking I'll go and get some when this is over."
"Go to hell." says Casey.
"Casey, that was mean. Don't be like that. I've already made your daughter a widow before she even got the chance to walk down the aisle. Please don't make me make her half an orphan too." says Laz. He then turns his attention to Chuck. "Why so glum, Carmichael? You've always been such a high-spirited fellow. Come on. Tell a joke. Crack a smile. Say one of your intelligent little quips."
Chuck says nothing. He completely ignores Laz at first, knowing that his time will come eventually. But he does give him one very harsh look. Letting Laz know he'll pay for what he has done. Sarah does the same.
"Okay, you're really bumming me out." says Laz.
"What should we do now?" Sarah asks Chuck.
"I'm looking for some kind of way to hack the cell. But I can't find anything. These things are pretty much full proof."
"Hurry up, Bartowski. You have no idea how badly I want to clobber that son of a bitch." says Casey.
"Get in line." says Sarah.
Soon after, another Fulcrum agent walks in letting Laz know that his shift was done and that he was needed in the lab. Before leaving, Laz tells Team B. "Farewell, Bartowski's. I leave you all in the capable hands of... well... lets just call him, Fulcrum agent number one. I'm not gonna bother finding out their names."
The Fulcrum agent just sits down, and reads his magazine quietly, not really paying any attention to the prisoners. The thing that does eventually get his attention is some noise coming from the vents. At first, he shakes it off. But after it happens a few more times, he gets up and begins to listen. He follows it for a while, but after it stops, he forgets about it and goes back to his magazine. As soon as he sits down, one of the vents bursts open and out pops a small man and shoots the agent with a tranq gun. As the agent lay on the ground, the small man says. "Oh my God. That was awesome!"
"Morgan?!" says Chuck, beyond surprised to see his 'late' friend alive and well.
"Hey, guys."
"What the hell, Grimes?" says Casey.
"How are you alive?" asks Sarah.
"I will answer everything in a minute but first, let me get you guys out of this cell." Morgan tries to get the cell to open, but has no luck. "I can't, dude. I need the code to open it."
As Morgan thinks about what else he could do, one of the doors opens. And in walks in Laz. "Morgan, run!" says Chuck.
Morgan stands his ground, however. Laz walks over to him, but stops by the tranqed agent. Laz looks down at the agent and begins to laugh. "What the hell? Do you think you're in a Mission Impossible movie or something? What are doing?"
"What was I supposed to do? You left me in that room alone with nothing but this tranq gun and little to no plan." says Morgan.
Chuck doesn't know whats happening, and says. "Okay, I am so confused right now. What's going on?"
"Just one second. " says Morgan. "Laz? The code."
Laz is pouring himself a drink, and as he sips it he tells Morgan. "Three, one, six."
With the code, the cell doors opens and Team B all hug, and by all it really means only Chuck and Sarah because Casey is Casey, Morgan and are so happy to have him back. "Good to see you up and walking, Grimes."
"I don't even care what happened. It's so good to have you back, buddy." says Chuck.
"As much as this whole reunion is tugging at my heart-strings, we gotta move." says Laz.
As soon as Sarah hears Laz, she rushes over to him and punches him directly in the face knocking him to the floor. "What the hell is going on and where the hell is my son you psychotic bastard?!"
"You made me spill my drink." says Laz.
"I don't give a rats-ass about your drink! Now answer the question." Demands Sarah.
Laz spits, and wipes away, the blood from his mouth, and gets up. "Well... I think it's pretty obvious by now that I didn't kill Morgan." He says.
"And?" asks Chuck.
"The gun I used to shoot Morgan, wasn't actually a real gun. It was loaded with... I guess you can call them high-tech paintball's. They were filled with fake blood and laced with sedative. So it knocks out the person once the liquid touches the skin. It also slows down your heart rate. Giving the illusion of death."
"You said I was only going to be out for forty-five minutes tops. It's been over two hours." says Morgan.
"Sorry. I forgot that the dose I shot you with was meant for someone who's adult sized." says Laz. "While we were in the van, and after Edgar had showed up, I told Morgan and we went for it. I dropped it on him, he had little to no time to process so don't be mad at him. Besides, whether he agreed to it or not, it was gonna happen either way. It was a way to get into Fulcrum Headquarters so we could finally put an end to this. And what do ya know! I guess it worked! Because here we are."
"And where exactly is, 'here'?" asks Casey.
"Just outside L.A." says Laz.
"And my family?" asks Chuck.
"They're still at my house. They're fine. I just told Edgar what he wanted to hear. I've been playing him way longer than I was fake playing you." says Laz. "Just ask Morgan."
They all look to Morgan, who assures them Laz is telling the truth. "Alright fine. But next time you come up with a plan, how about you let us know." says Sarah.
"Noted." says Laz. "So... we good? Or do you need me to tack on even more exposition?"
"Okay, well... I'm glad Morgan isn't really dead. By the way, don't ever do that again. And that you're not a complete traitor, Laz. But Edgar has the bracelet now." says Chuck.
"No. I think we're good there too. He doesn't know I cracked it. I put a firewall of my own up on it. So it'll take his tech's awhile to hack it."
"This all sounds fine and dandy." Sarcastically says Casey. "But there's one problem... we're not armed."
"Got that covered." says Laz. He goes over to one of the table, reaches under, and pulls out some handguns. He gives them to Sarah and Casey, and gives Chuck a tranq gun. "Now, Edgar is in the main Lab. And that's located across the base. So I hope you're all ready for a fight."
"Guess it's now or never." says Chuck.
"Grimes, you stay here." says Casey.
"What? Why? Didn't you see how I took care of that guard?" asks Morgan.
"We did. You should be getting a medal for it any day now." Jokes Laz.
"Because. We thought we lost you once already and I really don't want to tell my daughter that her fiancée really did die on my watch."
"He's right, buddy. Best you stay here." says Chuck.
Morgan agrees, and Laz tells him. "Lock the doors with same code that I gave you and if you need to make a quick exit take the vents like you did to get here." He says. "That it? Everybody ready?"
"Just one more thing." says Sarah. She goes over too Laz again, and this time, slaps him across the face. "That's for the sloppy seconds comment earlier... ass." She tells him.
Laz spits out blood once again and tells her. "Completely fair."
As they all head out, Chuck asks her. "Better now?"
To which she happily replies. "Absolutely..."
End of Chapter
Next Chapter to be called, "Fulcrum Thanks You"
Author's note- As always, please feel free to leave a review and let me know what you think. Thank you for reading.