The Colonel's Daughter

Well, there is one more chapter for you guys to read after this and then it is the end of this story my friends. Once this story is done I will eventually be writing Chuck and Sarah's wedding story. Anyways, this particular chapter is action packed with a bit of humor and drama mixed in. I hope you enjoy the read and like always please leave a comment because I've said before reviews are awesome.

Again, if you enjoyed reading my stories and left a comment I truly appreciate it. Please continue to do so as it gives me the incentive to write more chapters.

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The End Is Just The Beginning

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White Corridor - Deep Within The Bowels Of The Warehouse
6:55 a.m.
April 13th, 2010

Agent Smith rears back holding the GI Tanto knife to strike down on Morgan. He takes a moment to peer down and as he pulls the trigger, so to speak, motioning the blade down towards the bearded man's chest his focus is suddenly interrupted by not only a loud sound behind him but the room suddenly becoming illuminated. The sudden brightness causes him to wince from the light as he spins around.

The Ring's best operative, with the knife still above his head, sees the dark silhouette of what looks like to him a female aiming her weapon directly at him. She doesn't waste any time as she plugs several rounds into the man's chest standing across from her in the middle of the room causing him to stumbling backwards dropping the knife in the process.

Smith doesn't go down just yet giving the blonde agent the opportunity to empty her entire clip into his chest once again. When she does the man who tried to kill Morgan falls back into the darkness leaving his feet to only stick out in the light. As she stands there arms extended gripping her weapon tightly with smoke looming from the barrel of her weapon, her concentration on the fallen body of Smith is suddenly interrupted by the sound of Morgan's voice screaming at her. "Sarah!" I'm so glad to see you!" he stated with excitement in his voice. "Or should I say I'm glad to see you Agent Walker?"

She doesn't have time to acknowledge the fact that Morgan knows as she rushes over to him and Casey's daughter Alex, who she intends on releasing first. She immediately kneels down taking out her own knife in order to cut the two of them loose from being tied up and while that is happening Casey is being cut down by Travis. After a brief moment, he's drops down leading Chuck to catch his injured friend and teammate before he falls to the ground.

"Gotcha big guy!" quickly said Chuck as he gently lowers him to the ground.

The second Chuck and Travis kicked in the door they saw Casey hanging there it was a pretty horrific sight to see as blood drips from the open cuts in certain areas of his body that were specifically targeted by Smith himself. They didn't waste any time in just standing there as they rushed over to their friend and teammate checking to see if he is okay first and for the most part he is.

"Bartowski…" Casey gruffly muttered. "…you got my note." he said with a smirk.

"Yeah. Thank Jayne" added Travis kneeling down beside. "She's the one you truly need to thank man."

I will thank her personally he thinks to himself with a smile of relief as his teammates arrived just in the nick of team. As much as he wanted to get his hands around Smith's stinking Ring agent neck he's glad he got to witness his partner get what was coming to him as he got plugged with every thing she had. The satisfaction of seeing him gunned down point blank in the chest causes to express a smirk on his face. His thoughts are suddenly interrupted when he hears the voice of Chuck.

"It was not only a good idea to record the conversation on your computer…" Chuck said leaning forward patting him on the left shoulder. As much as Casey is in pain from the his wound, he does his best to keep focus on his nerdy teammate. "…but to leave your phone as well that was smart big guy."

As Travis' attempts to cut him loose from his bonds is suddenly interrupted by Alex rushing to Casey's side wrapping her arms around the weakened veteran agent as signs of tears streaming down her cheeks till show. "Are you okay?" Alex frantically inquired.

Casey reaches up still with his hands tied to cup her daughter's cheek with his right hand. As he does, a hint of smile appears on his lips. "Just another day at the office for me." he grunted in pain.

In that instance, Morgan appears with Sarah following closely behind him and the first person he makes a bee line towards is his best friend Chuck. "Why didn't you tell me you're a spy!" Morgan quickly says with amazed astonishment in his voice as he smiles at his best friend. "This is the best news I've heard in a long time dude! You got to tell how it happened!" he said reaches over to punch him lightly in the arm.

Chuck is about to respond to his bearded best friend when Sarah interrupts. "There's no time for this." she emphatically stated with absolute seriousness in her eyes. "We have to get out of her before this place gets destroyed."

"Destroyed?" questioned Morgan turning his attention from Sarah to Chuck then back to Sarah again. "You mean place go kaboom destroyed?" he asked with wide eyed concern.

"That's right moron." replied Casey peering up at Morgan. His attention on him is then turned to his blonde counterpart. "I counted on Beckman to dispatch a B2 Bomber and light this place up like a Christmas tree." he stated peering up at Sarah. "Right Walker?"

Sarah briefly stands there peering down at her injured partner. If he knew her partner well enough he would most definitely consider the injures he suffered acceptable losses that were well worth enduring. In her mind, she couldn't fathom being a spy without him, Travis, and especially not Chuck. Even though he can be stubborn at times, Casey will and always be the best damn partner she has ever had.

"Affirmative partner." she replied back. "It's nice to see you're still kickin'." said Sarah flashing him a quick smile.

Casey expresses a smirk towards his partner. "It would take much more than getting sliced and diced to get rid of me Walker." he replied.

In that moment, Chuck glances down at his watch and then looks up at Morgan, Alex, and the rest of his teammates. "Unless you guys want to get blown up we better get outta here." he suggested. Everyone simply nods in agreement. Travis, along with his daughter Alex, help Casey up to his feet and with Chuck as the lead they head out with Morgan following suit. Sarah brings up the rear watching everybody's back heading towards the exit.

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DN1 - General Beckman's Office - Washington D.C.
7:05 a.m.
April 13th, 2010

General Beckman sits behind her disk with a look of seriousness on her face concerning the current situation at hand. To her left on the big screen, is a map of the city of Burbank, Los Angeles with a pulsating red dot indicating the military satellite has a lock on The Ring Warehouse. As she is narrowing her eyes at the screen, she on the phone with someone asking the individual a question.

"General Bauer…" she firmly stated. "…what is the SITREP?" Beckman asked.

"As you can clearly see on your screen the location of the warehouse has been pin pointed." he replied. "The B2 Bomber has already been deployed with a bunker buster. What do you want to do?" he asked.

Without any hesitation Beckman clearly states his orders to Bauer. "Drop the bomb." she ordered with absolute calm in her voice. It's an order she has given many times before.

"What about your people?" questioned Bauer on the other end of the line.

For the past 3 and half years Team Chuck has been on many mission both assigned and unassigned. Each and every one of them has been considered successful due to the hard working efforts of Agent Chuck Bartowski, Agent Sarah Walker, Agent John Casey, and Mr. Travis Riley. Granted it didn't start off on the right foot with the cohesiveness of the team not working well together in the beginning before Mr. Riley joined the team.

However, the 3 strangers ultimately became a team to not only be reckoned with but quietly possibly be feared as well, especially now with a 4th member added. Speaking of Travis Riley, she was dead seat on not having him join the team after the situation concerning her old flame Marcus Stefano resurfaced back into her life after being exiled from the Zeitgeist.

The General's decision would be made for her due in part to Sarah's father who threatened to have is weapons company cut ties with the military completely if he isn't granted approval to be on the team. She relented and weeks/months after the decision was made she harbored resentment towards Wexler but when the team gave her results after results of successful mission her resentment gradually faded.

To her, Team Chuck has been or rather continues to be the best team she has ever had and she has faith they will be able to get the job done by any means necessary like they've always done in the past. If it means sacrificing their own lives for the greater good then so be it. They're deaths will not be in vain as they served they're country to the best of their ability and will be remembered as unsung heroes on the against terror.

"They're American heroes." she firmly stated.

As she says that, a B2 Bomber flies over the Burbank area on it's way to its intended location. While soaring several thousand feet over the area the pilot informs the base that he's approximately 20 minutes from the target.

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White Corridor - Deep Within The Bowels Of The Warehouse
7:07 a.m.
April 13th, 2010

The Team, along with Alex and Morgan, hug the left side of the white corridor making their ways towards the soda machine in order to get out quickly and safely from the warehouse that is about to destroyed. Chuck is leading the way while Casey is being supported by his daughter Alex and Travis on either side of him with Morgan following closely behind them as Sarah brings up the rear.

They approach the next white open corridor to their left and upon reaching it a slew of dark suited Ring Agents emerge from out of it pointing their weapons directly at them. In that instance, Chuck's eyes begin to immediately flutter leading him to flash to where he sees images of Chinese symbols and martial arts techniques. When it's over he gives an expressive grin.

He immediately reaches over with his right hand grabbing the closest Ring Agent's gun, pulls him forward then past him, and as he passes him he does a standing left spin kick that connects with an approaching ring agent who gets a foot in the side of the face for his trouble to where he gets knocked into the dark suited agent next to him. From where Morgan is standing, he is absolutely flabbergasted at what he just witnessed with his own two eyes.

The agent who was pull forward by Chuck gets a forearm elbow to the gut and then swift upward palm thrust to the chin by Casey's daughter Alex. As she quickly turns to Casey, he is expresses a grin on his face causing her to reciprocate that grin as well. The injured NSA Agent turns to Travis with a smirk on his face. "Can your kids do that?"

Travis glances over at Alex and then back to his somewhat heavy teammate. "Not my kids." he replied expressed an amused but brief grin.

Their attention is suddenly interrupted when more agents appear behind them leading the blonde agent to take action. She fires at the first ring agent she sees but nothing happens causing to her realize that during the earlier melee with Smith she forgot to reload a new clip. She instead grabs the man pulls him forward hitting him with the butt of her gun and as she does she spins to her left doing a hard side kick to the next nearest ring agent.

Upon kicking him in the gut causing him to stumble back, she discuss throws the disoriented ring agent who Sarah hit on the head with the butt of her gun over to two agents to her right. The two catch the man thrown at them leading all 3 dark suited individuals to fall to the ground. As that happens, 2 ring agents double team Sarah who catch her looking the other way facing Alex, an injured Casey, and Travis.

The 4th member of Team Chuck turns around seeing this and knows what he has to do. He immediately turns back calling out to Casey's daughter standing in front of him. "Alex! "

"Yeah!" she quick replied rushing over to him.

"Stay with your dad!" he ordered as he gently guides him to the floor. He then hands her his gun causing Alex's eyes to go wide as he glances at the gun then at Travis. "Protect you and your dad." he firmly said with absolute urgency.

Alex responds with a brief nod and complies with his order. She then watches as Travis rushes over grabbing the man closest to him that has Sarah in his clutches on the left shoulder with his left hand. As he jerks him backwards, he rears back with his right hand and deep forearm elbows his lower back causing him to lean his head back to holler in pain but doesn't make a sound as Travis reaches up with both hands to break his neck.

During that altercation, Travis had the ring agent who he pull back hitting him in the lower back briefly lift Sarah up to where she knees the ring agent in the chin as hard as she could stunning him to the point that he stumble backwards. Once the grip of The Ring Agent's grip was loosened by Travis' doing she's able to break free from his clutches and finish him off.

The blonde, blue eyed, C.I.A. agent runs at another agent at full force and then jumps on to him with his head between her legs causing both of them to fall backwards with her on top. Before ever hitting the ground she uses the strength of her legs and inner thighs to break the man's neck. She then lands safely on her feet while the unfortunate ring agent meets his demise by the best female C.I.A. agent they have to offer.

Meanwhile, Morgan is watching his best friend kick butt as he sees him drop to the floor doing a reverse leg sweep knocking the ring agent he's currently going toe to toe with on his back. The dark suited agent immediately lifts his head but is quickly met with a hard right elbow on the face causing him to be instantly knocked out. As Chuck peers down, he sees several concealed knives within his coat but his attention is suddenly turns to Morgan cheering him on from behind.

"That is my best friend!" he proclaimed jumping up with excitement punching the air with a wide smile on his face. He points directly at Chuck who expresses a quick smile towards him. Unfortunately, he would suddenly find himself grabbed from behind and commences dealing with another ring agent.

As all this is happening, Alex is protecting her father as both their focus and attention is on Chuck who is taking care of business. In the meantime, Morgan is standing a few feet in front of her and Casey watching him in absolute awe. Sarah and Travis are so preoccupied with the remaining agents that they let one slip by them unnoticed and its just not any agent. Its Agent Vincent Smith who was thought to be shot to death at point blank range in the chest by Sarah.

He quite possibly was wearing a bullet proof vest but nobody bothered to check. He approaches from behind not only grabbing Alex by the hair, but also the gun clutched in her hand. Upon doing so, she screams causing Casey to turn in order to help her daughter but receives a hard swift kick to the face for his effort. Morgan hears the commotion behind him and sees Smith throwing Alex by her hair over to the wall hitting it hard with her right shoulder where she immediately turns around facing him. "Say goodbye to your daughter Colonel!" he yelled as Casey screams shaking his head reaching for her daughter.

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White Corridor - Deep Within The Bowels Of The Warehouse
7:10 a.m.
April 13th, 2010

Morgan sees with absolute horror in what is about to occur. Without even thinking about it, he rushes over yelling Alex's name. When he reaches her he places himself between her to become a human shield in order to protect her as Smith is about to pull the trigger. Chuck hears the screams behind him and sees Smith aiming a weapon directly at his bearded best friend. He rushes over to the incapacitated body of the man with the knives concealed in his coat.

He focuses his attention on them and once he does, his eyes flutter once again leading him to flash to where he see images of an assortment of knives and a target board. Once the flash is over he reaches for the metal throwing knife in the agent's coat pocket, stands up, narrows his eyes, and throws it just as Smith is about to pull the trigger embedding the throwing knife through his right wrist.

A shot is fired by Smith but lucky it was not directed at Alex. As Smith is dealing with a metal throwing knife through his wrist, Casey suddenly pops up from behind kicking him in the left knee causing him to scream in pain as he kneels down. He then reaches over and wraps the bonds he's currently in around Smiths neck. Casey, like a man possessed, locks it in tightly and begins choking the life out of Smith. As he does, he gets close to The Ring's best agents ear as he struggles to breathe.

"Wrong move asshole!" he growled gritting his teeth. Casey places his right hand on Smith's forehead and his left hand on his. Afterwards, with as much force as he can muster he breaks his neck. He hangs there for a moment tangled within the veteran NSA agents bonds but he unwraps them from his clutches letting his lifeless body fall to the ground. His attention on Smith's dead body is then turned to Morgan who is comforting Alex.

Casey is about to hobble over to her when Sarah and Travis get to him first after dispatching the remaining ring agents. "Chuck!" Sarah screamed over to her fiancé. "We got to get out of hear now!"

After giving a hard side kick to the remaining Ring Agent left standing against the wall inevitably knocking him out Chuck responds to her. "Let's go!" he shouted.

All 6 individuals head to the soda machine to get themselves the hell out of there. After a few moments they find themselves jumping into Casey's Crown Vic leaving behind Chuck's car knowing its going to be destroyed along with the warehouse itself. As they speed off, Alex and Morgan turn around with Casey sitting between them to see The B2 Bomber arrive releasing a bunker buster that completely destroys the warehouse along with everything in, under, and close to the area of it.

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Castle
7:40 a.m.
April 13th, 2010

The 3 members of Team Chuck were able to safely retrieve one of their own along with his daughter and Morgan. They all make their way back to Castle where Casey immediately receives medical attention but being the stubborn man that he is bandages himself up. As he does that, Chuck tells Morgan and Alex to wait in Orange Orange while they talk to General Beckman to which they comply with.

After a few minutes, all 4 stand in front of Castle's main computer with Beckman on screen. "Once again I commend you 4 for a job well done team." she stated. "You were not only able to retrieve a valuable member of the team and save two additional lives in the process, but destroyed a Ring Base as well." added Beckman.

"It's not over." grunted Casey.

"I concur with your assessment Colonel." the General replies. "There are more of them out there possibly within every agency."

"What do we do?" questioned Travis.

"We keep fighting until The Ring is completely eliminated." stated Sarah glancing over at Travis. "It's not going to be easy." she said.

"It never is…" replied Chuck. He turns his head glancing at Sarah standing beside him. "…but we manage to pull off the difficult and impossible every time."

Sarah responds back with a smile of her own. The two ashare a brief moment but it's abruptly broken up by the sound of grunt number 31...somebody kill me. It causes a hint of hint of laughter amongst Travis, Sarah, and Chuck while Beckman, on the other hand, responds with just smirks. The red headed military general reaches over to turn off the main screen leaving the team to talk amongst themselves.

"I wonder if my car insurance covers bunker buster destruction." Chuck pondered out loud.

"Hey, you can afford to buy a new car dude or…" replied Travis. "…you can let the government replace it on their tab." he suggested.

"Tough choice." he said nodding his head at his friend and teammate. "What do you think I should do Trav?" inquired Chuck.

As Chuck and Travis are busy talking about what options he should take in either getting a new car or having the government replace on their tab, Sarah and Casey are left to talk amongst themselves. "How are you holding up?" she asked looking at the man nearly bandaged up like a mummy.

"Hurts like a mother…" he said wincing in a bit of pain. "…but I'll live." grunted Casey.

"What are you going to do now?"

"Drink some whiskey Walker." he replied. "I need it after the night I've had." the marine stated with a grin.

Sarah shakes her head in response to what Casey said. "You know what I mean partner."

Casey pauses for a brief moment as he mulls over the question Sarah really asked of him. He shakes his head and then responds. "I've faced Afghani Warlords, hired mercenaries, and my former mentor at one point but…" he said shaking head. "…but this I have no idea what I'm going to do."

"You'll know."

"Come on Walker. All I know…all I've ever known is my life as a spy." retorted Casey. "Where do I even start?"

Sarah leans in looking directly into Casey's eyes. "You start…" she said. "…by walking up those stairs and talking to her." added the blonde agent who watches her partner turn his attention from her up towards Orange Orange where his daughter is currently sitting and waiting.

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