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"What the hell?" Joe mumbled more to himself then anyone else as he elbowed the person grabbing him in the gut. He heard the person suck in their breath, clearly winded.
"Really, Joe, I come all this way to help and this is how you greet my agents." A voice called from across the kitchen. The room was flooded with light, and Joe was abruptly released and able to look around.
"Gray?" The blond former detective asked incredulously.
"In the flesh." The Network agent replied. "It seems we have a bit of a problem, perhaps you should all sit down..." He said gesturing to the rest of the group who had been pulled inside after Joe. "It's nice to see you again, Fenton."
The private investigator nodded in acknowledgment as he sunk into a chair opposite the Network agent. Vanessa and Callie sat themselves on Joe's sparse kitchen counter, while Joe, Tony, and Biff took the remaining seats at the table. Chet and Phil propped themselves against the wall opposite the table and watched the Network agent with wary expressions.
"I suppose you're wondering what I'm doing here?" Gray remarked upon receiving several affirmative nods he continued to explain. "The network recently received a message from one Frank Hardy, who had been declared dead to the best of our knowledge..."
"He's alive." Joe affirmed in response to Gray's unspoken question.
"Frank informed us of a planned terrorist attack on New York to occur tomorrow." Gray said in a grim tone.
"The people who have Frank had kidnapped Joe, Callie, Vanessa, and Phil." Fenton stated. "We got Joe back several days ago, but the other three just managed to escape."
"How is it that you three escaped without Frank?" The Gray man inquired.
"Frank sacrificed himself for us." Callie said softly. "The only unguarded way out of the complex is through Marion's office, he's the head guy, Frank knocked out the guard outside our room and then pretended to try to escape out the window down the hall from Marion's office. While he did that I snuck upstairs to where Phil and Vanessa were being kept and broke them out. Frank was caught and they took him somewhere else in the building. Marion went with. Once Marion was out of his office Vanessa, Phil, and I snuck out that way." Callie explained unbeknownst to her a single tear slid down her face as her head filled with visions of the various awful ways Marion could be torturing her former boyfriend.
"Frank was able to send us the location of all the bombs." Gray continued carefully ignoring her demand that he free Frank. "The Network has decided that it will be best if we allow Frank to remain in his current location until we have secured all of the bombs, and neutralized the the threat, if we attempt to rescue Frank too soon, we might tip them off and they could either cut their losses and flee or else just blow New York to kingdom come before we have a chance to stop them. I know it's not what you want to hear, but this is really the best solution."
"For everyone else, maybe." Callie replied.
"I'm sorry that you're upset, Miss Shaw, however-"
"She's right. Frank lost a year of his life because of his work with the network, God only knows what is happening to him right now because he sacrificed himself to save his friends, and now you're going to leave him there to sacrifice himself for New York. When does he get to be a priority?" Joe demanded.
"We will save, Frank, I promise you that, but we're just going to have to delay it for a little while longer." Gray replied.
"If anything happens to my brother, I will be holding you personally responsible." The look in Joe's eyes as he said that was such that were Gray a lesser man he would've been cowering in fright, as it was he simply nodded his affirmation.
"What's our next move?" Fenton inquired.
"As we speak member's of the Network's bomb squad in cooperation with the NYPD are moving to the locations of the bombs and working to disarm them, once this task is complete, we will move in on Marion's complex." The network agent replied. "One way or another this will all be over in a few hours."
His words echoed ominously through the air as they settled in for a long and anxious wait until it was time to free Frank.
A/N I know this was short, but it was a necessary filler. Updates will be occuring every Tuesday in compliance with my new schedule. Review!