Author's Note:

Many thanks to all-evil-grins, Cryptic Sarcasm, and The Queen Of Confusion for reading and reviewing!

I hope everyone has a good holiday! As long as I avoid my mother, (and her obsessive need to vanquish every dust particle in our house), I think I should be okay.

Chapter #4:

"Are you sure Nicole won't kill us for breaking into her office?" I asked as I kept an eye out for anyone who might interrupt our little crime spree.

"She gave me a key for emergencies and if this isn't one then I don't know what she had in mind," Joanne answered casually.

"Did she also give you her computer passwords for emergencies?"

"Not exactly."

"Then don't you think she'll have a bit of a problem with you guys hacking into her files?" I looked over at Mitch who was sitting at the computer typing rapidly as he worked to break into Nicole's e-mail account.

"I think this is the one instance where she won't mind," Mitch commented, "after all we are trying to save her."

"Nicole doesn't need saving," I muttered.

"No," Joanne informed me impatiently rolling her eyes, "Nicole doesn't believe that she needs saving, she's stubborn like that. She does, however, definitely need our help and soon."

"Got it!" Mitch cheered. Joanne and I peered over to look at the screen.

"Mitch," I sighed, "there isn't anything in here. We just spent half an hour for nothing. Nicole probably deleted her mail, especially if it had something to do with whatever's happening with her."

"Nicole is an excellent Office Director and was an excellent Agent," Mitch told us, "but she is truly horrible at working computers. If she deleted the mail she probably didn't think to destroy the history." There was a short pause and then he grinned. "Here we go her history shows that last night she received an e-mail from Simon Doyle." Mitch looked at Joanne. "Do you remember Simon?"

"Yeah I do," she answered, "and I remember where his house is. Let's go and see what he knows about this whole thing."

--

Arwen, Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Eomer, Eowyn, Faramir, and fifty soldiers from Gondor marched had on the old fortress. They stood outside, waiting for the Mary Sue to come out. Finally the figure, dressed in pink came out onto a balcony, looking down on them all condescendingly.

"Well like it totally took you long enough to like come and start to worship me," she said, "but I like totally forgive you."

"We are not here to worship you Sue," Eomer called, "we are here to destroy you." He turned to Legolas irritated. "If you would take care of this."

"My pleasure," the elf grinned. He raised his bow and arrow and aimed carefully. The Mary Sue didn't even bother to move. Legolas' arrow flew straight at her and buried itself into her neck.

And then she pulled the arrow out with a giggle.

"You shouldn't have done that," she said suddenly sounding fiercer and not very Sue-like at all.

"I have a bad feeling about this…" Faramir announced with a gulp.

--

"Joanne," Simon said when he opened the door, "Mitch. What a surprise." But he didn't sound surprised. He glanced over our shoulders, looking for something. Joanne looked at him curiously and he nodded slightly twice. "Why don't you come inside?" he asked.

"Thanks Simon," Mitch said as he grabbed my arm and pulled me in.

"You should have called," he said as soon as the door was closed. Neither Mitch or Joanne said anything. "It's just Kip watching me, and she doesn't have the house bugged. She might come charging in now that she's seen you lot come though. She doesn't have much patience."

"How'd she know that you e-mailed Nicole?" Mitch asked looking hurt that Kip had found the lead before he had.

"She didn't," he replied, "she received a report from me right before she left. Nicole also called me about that mission. I'm guessing that something I saw meant something to her."

"That's our guess."

"Umm hello?" I waved my hands around. The three of them turned and gave me strange looks. "I don't like being ignored." Mitch rolled his eyes.

"Simon this is Amy," he turned to me, "Amy this is Simon. Happy?"

"Thrilled."

"Anyway…"

"What did you tell Nicole?" Joanne asked. Simon told us everything he'd said to Nicole.

"A Sue with raspberry eyes who keeps a man and a little girl prisoner," Joanne mused, "defiantly the Mary Sue who kidnapped her husband and daughter." At Simon's confused look Joanne waved her hand as if to say, "it's better you don't know" and he shrugged but didn't ask.

"But where is she?" Simon asked.

"We were hoping you might know," Mitch said with a sad smile.

"So what now?" I asked. The three Sue Hunters looked over at me. "Come on, we have to think of something!"

--

"What are we going to do now?" Faramir asked the group. They were all sitting back in the Minas Tirith throne room.

All of them except for Eowyn, Legolas, and Aragorn.

"We're going to get them back," Arwen assured them all and herself at the same time.

"But you saw her," Gimli reminded them sternly, "this one is nothing like the others were! We can not defeat this one and her evil servants without the help of people who know more." The dwarf fixed them all with a look. "You know who I am talking about."

"We know," Eomer sighed, "Nicole, Amy, Mitch, and Joanne know more then we do however you are forgetting that we do not know where they are. We have no way of contacting them, even if they could help us."

"But we do have a way," Arwen spoke up suddenly, "before they left they gave Aragorn a device that they claimed would contact them if we were in need of assistance."

"Then we should use it," Faramir exclaimed.

"Agreed," Arwen nodded, "I will fetch it."

--

No one said anything after I'd spoken. We were all racking our brains, Nicole wasn't here so she had found something that had helped her. But what was it? After a few minutes the silence was interrupted, but not by any of us.

There was a sudden pounding on the door, insistent and fierce. After a beat Simon walked over and pulled the door open to reveal a grimly grinning Kip.

"I knew that you were all trying to help your friend Nicole," she said looking over all of us, "but I'm here to stop you."