Paternal Bonds

Disclaimer: I don't own iCarly. I keep it simple.

A/N: Thoughts in "Italics" and regular speech in "Regular font." Only applied if in quotes.

A/N: By the way, everybody is 26 in this story, except Spencer who would be older. I doubt he'll be mentioned much. Please read this regardless of their age. It will all make sense, I promise. They have to be this old in the story.

Chapter 14 (The Dogs Bark)

Carly and Jonah walked down the street, Carly was smirking and Jonah was groaning. "Why Carly, Why?" Jonah asked. He had a large, fat, red flannel suit on and was wearing a large white beard. "Why did you make me dress up as Santa!"

"You suggested it," Carly said with a grin.

"I did not!" Jonah sighed and crossed his arms. "Besides, you're the actress, not me!"

"Hey, I'll be doing my fair share of acting."

"Yeah, all you have to do is go up there and start acting like you."

"So I have to pull the whole 'my car broke down' trick, so what?"

"I have to be Santa just to get two dumb bodyguards attention on me. Then I have to let them chase me."

"Hey, remember, it's all for Sam and even Valerie. I agree with you guys, it can't be good for Valerie, being the only girl in there."

"Yeah…" Carly stopped walking and lifted some binoculars. She saw in the distance, the house where Freddie was, two bodyguards were guarding the front. Both were near the corners of the house. She lowered the binoculars and patted Jonah on the back.

"Okay, you have to go first."

"What!" Jonah sighed, it made sense really, he'd go and get the bodyguards away. Then it would be up to Carly to distract the old woman.

"Once I'm distracting her, it will be up to Mrs. Briggs to get inside through the top. Then you have to find a way to return back to the house without letting the hound dogs return."

"Oh yeah, I'll definitely try." Carly and Jonah walked a slight bit ahead and then Carly hid behind a tree as Jonah continued to walk down the street. Jonah stopped in front of the house and turned to face the two men who were now staring at him with wide eyes.

"Who…are you?" One man asked.

"Ho-ho-ho, I'm Santa Claus. Who do you think I am? Who are you, lard butt?"

"What!"

"That's right, I just called you lard butt and I'm calling your partner a jarhead." Carly raised her eyebrow from her hiding spot and shook her head.

"I never said make them want to murder you," Carly said under her breath. Jonah saluted the two men and turned around.

"Hey! You can kiss my big…fat…REAR!" Carly slapped her forehead and the two men started to charge toward Jonah. Jonah laughed and ran off. "I got them! I got the stupid hound dogs!"

"You are being an idiot," Carly said with a sigh as she walked up to the door and pressed a button on a remote she had. "Briggs, the hound dogs are after the bone, it's time to commence take two, taking down Sergeant butt-face." Carly rang the doorbell and Amelia opened the door and smiled at Carly.

"Well look who it is!" Amelia said quickly. "Carly Shay! I love your movies, what brings you here?"

"I was in Arkansas, got bored and decided to start signing autographs for fans. This is the third neighborhood that I've been in."

"Oh, I'd love an autograph!" Amelia walked into the house and came back with a notepad and pen. "You know, you must be tired from signing so many."

"Yes, well it doesn't really matter."

"Yes, but normally if you were signing autographs, your fingers would be tired from gripping the pen." Carly looked up from the notepad to see Amelia holding a gun to her face, she raised her eyebrow. "I saw what your 'Santa' did to my two bodyguards, what are you plotting?"

"You know, I've had a gun pointed to my face before."

"But was it real?"

"All guns in my movies are real, so if you think that gun is going to scare me, you're wrong. Besides, I've seen scarier."

"Like what?"

"My bagpipe loving teacher becoming the best bodyguard around. Oh, and the ruthless bodyguard is…" Carly smirked and pointed, Amelia raised her eyebrow and turned around in time to be shot in the abdomen by a pistol. "…Right behind you." Carly looked over to see Jonah walking back without the large red robe on, in his hands were two shotguns with smoke coming out of them.

"The hound dogs didn't suspect a thing," Jonah said with narrow eyes.

"That woman really has a clean chimney," Mrs. Briggs said with a smirk.

"Okay, well it looks like the dogs have been stirred up, let's get Freddie and the others," Carly said as she stepped into the house. Carly looked down at Amelia, the woman was holding her side and groaning with pain. "Sorry, but it had to be done."

"I think they're somewhere in the basement," Mrs. Briggs said. Mrs. Briggs tapped Amelia with her foot. "Hey, old hag…"

"Isn't it weird that she's calling another old woman an old hag?" Jonah whispered to Carly. Mrs. Briggs narrowed her eyes and glanced at Jonah. "Sorry." Mrs. Briggs rolled her eyes and looked at Amelia.

"Where's your basement, and if you have a key to where our people are locked up, I'd suggest you give it to us."

"Y-You bastards!" Amelia exclaimed. "Ganging up on a sweet old woman like this."

"I think you're more of a cunning old woman than anything else. Now tell us what we want to know, you damn old hag."

"Seriously, that creeps me out," Jonah said quietly. Mrs. Briggs continued glaring at the woman but lifted the pistol up and fired a shot past Jonah's head. Jonah jumped up and Carly sighed.

"Let's not waste our ammo," Carly said as she knelt down toward Amelia. "Now, a stereotypical actress and a real actress are often the same. I however am not a stereotypical actress, I'm not mean, I'm not stuck up…I'm not shallow. But, if I have to be, I will be. I know you don't want to be shot at again, and I'm not above having my bodyguard do it again. But I won't do it, if you would just tell us what we need to know." Amelia growled and sucked in some air through her teeth.

"Fine," Amelia said with a groan. "The key is in my pocket."

"Thank you." Carly fished the key out of Amelia's pant pocket. "Now the basement, were can we find it?"

"The door to the basement is in the kitchen."

"Again, I thank you for your help. Once we get our people out, we'll be sure to help you survive, plus, I think you'll enjoy going on trial for all of this.

"What you're doing, it's impossible. Do you know how powerful of a man Hector Puckett is!"

"Do you know how powerful of a man Freddie Benson is? Not only that, Freddie Benson, Henry Benson, Della Benson, Amy Puckett, Spencer Shay, and even myself. We are much more powerful than that lame asshole, Hector Puckett. Do you even have any grandchildren?"

"I have no family."

"So I suppose you wouldn't know how to deal with a man sexually assaulting his own daughter. I guess you wouldn't know the pain of dealing with all that. Too bad, it's a pity. Do us a favor, stay alive, my brother is going to enjoy prosecuting you." Carly stood up slowly and looked around, she then looked at Mrs. Briggs. "Okay, let's go." The three walked into the kitchen and Jonah shot the basement door with his guns. Carly sighed and opened the door. "Why, Jonah?"

"I couldn't help myself, I just wanted to do that," Jonah said with a smile. "Plus, it could have fired off a warning shot to alert Freddie that we've arrived."

"I have a hard time believing they'd hear us." Carly peered down into the dark basement, and raised her eyebrow. "Okay, now be extra careful, we don't know if there would be anything else down here. Who knows, that cunning old woman could have the entire place booby trapped."

"Yeah, so let's tread carefully then," Mrs. Briggs said as she cocked her pistol. Jonah nodded and cocked his shotguns. The group stepped into the basement and Carly felt the wall for a light switch, she found one and turned it on. The floor was covered with rats running all over the place, most of the rats were big and brown.

"I have a feeling she wasn't worried about pest control," Jonah stated with narrow eyes.

"Anyone ever die from being covered in rats?" Carly asked with a sigh. All the way across the basement was a door that seemed to be tightly closed. "Okay, here's what I'm going to do…I thought I'd have use for these." Carly lifted her shirt up some to reveal several grenades around her belt. "Stand back, it's time for some rat extermination."

"We could just pull this switch," Jonah said while pointing to a switch on the wall. "Pull this and I guess some jets come from the wall and sedate the rats."

"Sure, spoil my fun why don't you."

"Eh, you can still blow up the rats, but I'm pulling this." Carly shrugged as Jonah pulled the switch, some machines moved from the ceiling and the wall and sprayed the rats with what looked like steam and smoke. The three watched as the rats all stopped moving and fell asleep.

"Cool, now to blow them to bits!" Jonah laughed lightly as Carly started tossing her grenades into the basement. Smoke and explosions covered the room, rat blood shot onto the walls and soon Carly stopped tossing grenades. "I'll save the last two in case I need them. I think it's safe to say most, if not all, the rats are dead or sedated."

"I'd say you've been watching too many movies, but I don't think it'd work," Mrs. Briggs said with a sigh.

"No, saying I've been in too many movies would be more accurate."

"Yeah…" The three walked down the steps and through the floor covered in rats. Carly kicked some of the rats to the side. Some of the rats were still alive and active, but the numbers were few. That made it easy for Jonah and Mrs. Briggs to shoot the rats that came nearby. When they arrived at the door, Carly brought out her key.

"Let's get the leader of the pack out of this…literally rat infested place." Carly unlocked the door with the key as Mrs. Briggs and Jonah turned around to watch the ground and basement door. Carly opened the door and smiled as she saw Freddie, Jake, Henry, Della, Amy and Spencer all sitting on the ground. Freddie looked at her and smirked.

"What took you so long?" Freddie asked as he slowly stood up. "Thanks for the help."

"No problem." Everyone stepped out of their cell and looked around.

"I did not know there was rats all over the place, uh…what happened to them?"

"Carly went grenade crazy," Jonah said with a sigh.

"Yeah, yeah, let's get out of here," Carly said. "It's good to see you guys alive!" Carly hugged Freddie and then Spencer, she smirked and looked toward the door. "Well, the old lady is still alive, not sure about her bodyguards though…" Jonah chuckled and rested a shotgun on his shoulder.

"Those two hounds are probably not alive, and if they are, they are probably going to be mute for the rest of their lives. I don't know, I only shot them twice, one shot per body."

"Okay…well anyway, we need to go save Sam now," Freddie said as he shook his head.

"We don't know where Hector's hideout is though," Henry said as he rubbed his chin.

"Valerie did say that it was the 'biggest mansion around,'" Jonah said quietly. "Only, there's no way to know what that is."

"Actually, just before I jumped out of the plane, the pilot said he knew where the four biggest mansions in the country were," Mrs. Briggs stated. "He can fly us to each of those, Sam will be in one of those."

"Okay, that definitely helps narrow things down," Freddie stated. "Let us hope Hector doesn't choose to move his base."

"It's time to bring down the bastard," Spencer said as he dusted himself off.

"Personally, I'm more interested in getting Sam out of her imprisonment. I could care less if we fight Hector right now or not. If we have to, then we will. Including Valerie, there are ten of us, which is more than enough to beat him down." Freddie crossed his arms and smirked as he looked from Carly to Jonah, Mrs. Briggs, Della, Amy, Spencer, Jake, and Henry.

"Whatever happens, we have one goal in mind and one goal only. Save Sam at whatever the cost, it's been a long time running but we've finally got a break, we're going to get her. We need to stick together and stay alive, every one of us should leave Hector's mansion with Sam and Valerie. There will be nobody left behind, if Nevel, Jeremy, or Gibby stand in our way, take them down. I want no casualties, no deaths, even Hector should live and put on trial. I'm confident he'd be put on death row, but if it comes to the point that one must die, then do so. Both Sam and Valerie need to exit that mansion safely, so if you must kill someone in order to save them, do it. Now, are you ready? No, that's not a question, we've been waiting for this moment for ten years, you're either ready to go in there and fight or you're too scared to go in there. I don't want cowardice, we need bravado. There is a little six year old girl out there who needs her mother, so we are going to give that child what she wants. If you are too scared, get over it and follow me into that mansion, it's time we declare war on Hector Puckett and bring down his empire."

"I'm not scared," Jake said as he crossed his arms.

"I'm ready to prosecute these bastards and put them all on death row," Spencer said with an angry face.

"I'm going to save my daughter," Amy exclaimed. Della nodded, she was in.

"I'm sticking with my son and…ex…wife through it all," Henry said as his hand rested just next to his gun holster.

"I'll put those kids in a permanent detention," Mrs. Briggs said with narrow eyes as she placed her pistol in her holster. "Nobody puts one of my students in such a long detention, except me of course." Mrs. Briggs smirked and Carly chuckled.

"If Valerie's in there, she's in danger too," Jonah said as he glanced at his shotgun. "Sam and Valerie both are in danger and both are scared." Jonah aimed his shotgun toward a rat on the ground near the wall, his face grew fierce and his eyes narrowed. "Hello Hector, goodbye Hector." Jonah fired a shot into the rat and it died.

"Ten years without my best friend is just too damn long," Carly said with a low growl. "I'm with you all the way." Freddie crossed his arms and smiled.

"Then what are we waiting for, let's get moving!" Freddie exclaimed.

Well Carly's group got them out of there, the next chapter should be up soon! I hope you liked this one, Carly's fun.