She snapped, going to the car, "I'm going, already! Just leave him alone!"
Wolf was tossed in the car with her. The door slammed, and the car took off.
The car was like police cars, only instead of having a bar as a divider, it had an entire actual wall as a divider. The back seats had been ripped out. Wolf would have been impressed if he hadn't been in so much pain. "Sorry you had to come with," he told her. "Ug-get off my leg," he told her. "It's fine, we can give it medical attention when we get there."
"If you bleed to death, you can't get rescued."
"I'm not going to bleed to death from the leg wound," Wolf grunted, but responded, "there's first aid supplies in the backpack. Talk quiet, so Matt doesn't overhear."
She pulled out the backpack, looking for the first aid. "Wait-over there," Wolf said, pointing to the first aid kit. "I told you, he's an Snake scout."
"What?"
"Oh, sorry... Eagle Scout is like... head over boy scouts... It's an American thing, don't know how to explain it."
"...I see. Don't know much about it." She glanced at the window over his head. "I think Ben's the only person in this car. Matt and Steven just got into that one."
The car turned out of the parking lot harshly, knocking her down.
"Good. I could do with being away from the psychopath for a few hours."
"How long is it going to take for us to get there?"
"Not the foggiest." Wolf groaned. "Damn, I hate bullets getting cleaned out. Do you know anything about cleaning out bullet wounds, or am I going to have to give you a crash course in first aid?"
"I've cleaned out enough of my own," she responded as she got out the first aid kit.
"Let go of me!" Wolf demanded as Matt dragged him by his arm through the room. He dragged his feet, not wanting to cooperate with the man. "Who the heck do you think you are, you bastard? I hate you, I swear you're going down! Why are we even here?" He hadn't been able to see Alison, she had been taken away to another room. He had no idea what was going on.
"If I let go of you, then you will run away. I am your master, and you as the slave will do what I ask or say and not question it. So when I say that I don't want to tell you where we are, you're going to shut up, understood?" Matt said as he tightened his grip on Wolf's arm.
"I'm not your slave. I thought we had this covered on day one, and look, here we are, back to the same spot again."
"Actually if you want to be specific we found you in an alleyway, not a hotel room. So, no we are not back to the same spot."
"You are absolutely insane."
Matt raised his other hand and smacked Wolf in the back of the head. "What was that?"
"I said that you're a fucking awful person and I hope you die. Well, I guess I said it in a more condensed version, now I'm illustrating it so that you can understand it better," Wolf responded. He was tired of taking Matt's abuse. Actually, he was just tired in general of the shit.
The hotel room owner came out. "Here are your keys, one for room 111 A and 111 B located in the back. If you need anything don't hesitate to ring. Oh, and I shouldn't forget-we upgraded to soundproof rooms!"
Matt smirked and Wolf frowned, but before he could protest Matt was dragging him into the elevator where he hit the up button and leaned against the railing. "Now, once we get up there I have to show you something -"
"I would rather claw my eyes out." Wolf deadpanned.
"Oh, I'm sure you would enjoy watching this, after all it's about your brother."
"You sadistic-"
Matt turned and punched him in the gut. "That is no way to talk to someone of higher class."
"You just don't want me to talk at all do you? Well that is not an option. Where is everyone else? Can't handle me without your friends?" With that, they arrived at the hotel room. Wolf visibly swallowed.
"I can handle you perfectly fine, but if you insist..." Matt opened the door with the key the received, and inside were four other men, waiting on them.
"Good, some of you made it to safety," he said, flinging Wolf on the floor and closing the door.
"Fuck you all and I hope you burn in hell like the lot of bastards you are," Wolf said, furious of his ongoing maltreatment.
The man sighed and turned to Matt. "So, are we doing this shit, or just going to stand here the whole day and pass insults every minute?"
"We're doing it now," Matt said before he turned to the other men, "Get out."
As they filed out of the room, the man turned on the television, while Matt handcuffed Wolf to a chair. "Now, you're going to watch a movie. We're going to leave you in the quiet so your brain can process it. Don't go anywhere."
-movie-
Alex appeared on the screen and instantly Wolf felt his hands clench. He knew something bad was going to happen. "Niles, run! It's Ben!" he screamed.
Niles turned around and sprinted away, only to run into Ben.
"Where are you going?" Ben asked, dragging him back over to where Alex was.
"Let him go, you bastard!"
"The only bastard is your father, you act exactly like him," Ben said as he grabbed his gun out of his waistband.
No, Wolf thought, no, no, no, no, no, no -
"What are you doing? Leave him alone, he didn't do anything to you!" Niles cried.
"On the contrary he ruined about everyone's life. I just found that your DNA was a match to Wolf's? I always knew he was a dirtbag."
"Fuck you, it's not his fucking fault!"
"Why don't you just leave him alone!" Niles shouted at Ben.
Ben shrugged, "Fine, if that's the way you want it to be..." Ben switched the safety off of his weapon and grabbed Alex, flinging him to the ground just before he shot him. Not waiting to watch him bleed out, he grabbed Niles roughly and dragged him away.
"Let me go! What did I ever do to you?" Niles sobbed, but Wolf was too obvious to care. He was straining his handcuffs, trying to see if Alex had gotten up from the ground, but the camera had blocked the view at this point.
"Jeez, what is up with you kids and ruining everything? You're related to me, and I don't like that one bit."
"And you think I do?" Niles said, before comprehending what was being said...him and Ben, were related? Like father and son, or brothers? "What?" he asked, confused.
"You're related to me! You're my fucking half-brother on my father's side! How do you think that makes me feel to know that my brother is being forced to work for the ring? I had to kill Alex because he was too much of a bother, now I may have to kill you too!"
"But I don't want to die!" Niles wailed, before he started crying, overwhelmed with everything that had happened.
"I guess you think Cub did, just another reason why you're a bratty idiot!"
"I-I'm sorry I don't mean too."
"How does that do me any good? Get in the damn car now!"
Wolf couldn't tear his eyes away from the scene, fearing that Niles would die next. How could Ben kill Alex? How could he? Ben truly had gone dark side.
"I said get in the fucking damn car before I castrate you!"
"What-What does castrate mean?" Niles asked.
"How did I get to be related to such a fucking idiot? Get in the damn car!"
What Wolf, Niles, and Alex couldn't have known was that Ben was trying to get Niles away and into a safe house before he had orders to shoot him too.
"Get in!" He said, picking up the teenager's legs. Niles surprised him though, managing to buck him by surprise.
PRESENT
Niles ran with all his might down the block, not looking back when Ben threatened his life - multiple times. He wanted Alex back, but he was sure that if he went back there, he would be sick because Alex would be bleeding out, dead. Taking a breath, he didn't know where he would go next, not knowing many people, except the crazy people who had kidnapped him and Alex. The list diminished to five people. Snake, Wolf, Alex, Eagle, and the sergeant. Not knowing where Snake was, or Wolf...they were out. Alex was dead, and Snake and the sergeant were somewhere too
"Niles! Niles wait up!" he heard another voice say. "Niles, I need help!" It was then when he heard Ben's car pull and screech away. "We gotta get out of here!"
"What? Alex?" Niles turned around and saw Alex limping towards him before collapsing. Walking over to him cautiously, he looked down. "Are you a ghost?"
The sleeping figure stirred. Niles was suddenly reminded of his cell phone. Dialing the number he had last called, he put it up to his ear as it rang. Snake had gotten him a replacement when he'd heard his was stolen. Since Eagle was still in the hospital recovering, Niles had programmed Snake's number in to call if there was trouble.
He certainly thought this counted as trouble.
"Snake? I need help. I think Alex is a ghost...he looks really pale. I didn't know the number for Ghostbusters, so I called you instead."
"Okay, Niles. I want you to calm down and take a deep breath for me. What happened to make you think he's a ghost?" Snake asked.
"B-Ben shot him, and then ran off with me. But then he said I was related to him, that we were cousins/step-brothers? Which one I don't kn-know, it's not my f-f-fault! Right? But I don't want to be related -"
"Niles, take a deep breath. Please, we can deal with that later. Alex may need help right now." Snake left out that Alex would need help or he'd be an actual ghost and not in the way Niles was thinking. "Alex is still breathing right? Is he breathing fast or slow? How much blood has he lost?"
"I-I don't want to touch him. It might hurt him..." Niles trailed off his eyes locking on Alex's chest, which was moving really slow. "I-I don't think he's going to make it...Snake what do I do?!"
"Okay, Niles. Where are you? You're at the park, right?" Snake said, praying he was right. That was the last time he ever let the kids go out unattended again.
Clearly he had a lot to learn about this parenting stuff.
"Y-Yes, right next to it. Snake, you need to hurry."
"I'm on my way." Snake hung up and grabbed his car keys even as he dialed the number for the local hospital that ran the equivalent of ambulances. He called them and explained the situation before parking next to them.
Thank God for cars.
Snake felt for Alex's pulse, breathing a sigh of relief. He gently rolled the kid onto his back, breathing yet another sigh of relief when there were no bullet wounds. Ben must have been ordered to kill Alex but had chosen instead to fake Alex's death.
Thank God he was still good. That meant that they'd have to be more careful. "He'll be fine, Niles. I think he was just shot in the leg."
Alex groaned as he faded in and out. The EMT was holding a bandage over his hand. "How are you feeling?"
"Niles?" he asked, ignoring the EMT in favor of his friend. "Are you hurt?"
"N-No, but you are. I'm sorry Alex I didn't know what to do. But then I found out I'm a brother, and you were dead so I called Eagle, and he said you were okay..." Niles then whispered, "but I believe he was lying."
"It's not your fault, blame Matt and Ben," Alex said. He had been warned by Ben that he'd have to die-Ben would fake his death. At least he was alive. "And you are my brother Niles remember? Eagle has my custody right now," he lied. He was pretty sure that Eagle had said that because he wanted Niles to travel with. And besides with Wolf missing Eagle did have his custody.
"But...what?" he asked, confused as to how he could have two brothers. And in such a short notice too.
"No, you are my brother... Wait, nevermind, can we talk about this later?" he asked, glancing at the EMT. "...Hey, how much longer till we get to the hospital?"
"...Bout ten minutes." The EMT flashed a wicked grin. "Then we can give you your gift."
"What gift?"
"I want a gift too," Niles pouted.
Alex had a bad feeling in his gut. "...What do you mean?"
"Your guardian is dead boy. We're giving you his ashes."
"No! Wolf is NOT dead! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU!"
"Alex, I remember Matt saying it's not polite to curse..." Niles mumbled, but Alex ignored him.
"My father is not dead! I refuse to believe your lies!"
"Cub, if you don't shut the fuck up I'll kill Monotaro are we clear?"
"His name is not Cub, it's Alex! You have no right...you...you-you person!" Niles yelled at the EMT man.
"Carl, can we give them anything?"
"Not until we get to the hospital," Carl called back. "You know what Matt's rules are."
"You should know better Monotaro, and for that Cub will be punished," Carl said as he moved towards Alex. He forced the teenage boy to sit up and cuffed his injured hands behind his back. "We are delivering you gift-wrapped back to Matt."
"Alex is not a present. He's not going anywhere, Matt wouldn't want the extra charge of having Alex shipped." Niles explained. He knew what he was doing - he was calm enough to think. He figured he may as well look stupid so that he could be plotting an easy way out. He winked at Alex before wincing as he leaned back against the wall of the ambulance.
"So, he's going to live?" Niles asked, moving closer to him. "But, why didn't Ben wait until he was dead...or shoot more accurately. He fired at least three times before we left. Perhaps he needs lessons-"
"Niles, can I explain that later please?" Snake asked as he saw the squad arrive. "His brother is going with him, I'm following on the way to the hospital," he said to the EMT squad.
"Whose brother? I'm not his brother though."
"You're his adopted brother," Snake said, lying through his teeth. He didn't trust these guys for a second.
"Since whe-"
"Niles don't argue right now, just go with Alex. I will be there right behind you." Snake walked away, getting in his car and following the ambulance. He hoped everyone would be all right, and that Wolf would be located soon.
Alex groaned as he faded in and out. The EMT was holding a bandage over his hand. "How are you feeling?"
"Niles?" he asked, ignoring the EMT in favor of his friend. "Are you hurt?"
"N-No, but you are. I'm sorry Alex I didn't know what to do. But then I found out I'm a brother, and you were dead so I called Eagle, and he said you were okay..." Niles then whispered, "but I believe he was lying."
"It's not your fault, blame Matt and Ben," Alex said. He had been warned by Ben that he'd have to die-Ben would fake his death. At least he was alive. "And you are my brother Niles remember? Eagle has my custody right now," he lied. He was pretty sure that Eagle had said that because he wanted Niles to travel with. And besides with Wolf missing Eagle did have his custody.
"But...what?" he asked, confused as to how he could have two brothers. And in such a short notice too.
"No, you are my brother... Wait, nevermind, can we talk about this later?" he asked, glancing at the EMT. "...Hey, how much longer till we get to the hospital?"
"...Bout ten minutes." The EMT flashed a wicked grin. "Then we can give you your gift."
"What gift?"
"I want a gift too," Niles pouted.
Alex had a bad feeling in his gut. "...What do you mean?"
"Your guardian is dead boy. We're giving you his ashes."
"No! Wolf is NOT dead! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU!"
"Alex, I remember Matt saying it's not polite to curse..." Niles mumbled, but Alex ignored him.
"My father is not dead! I refuse to believe your lies!"
"Cub, if you don't shut the fuck up I'll kill Monotaro are we clear?"
"His name is not Cub, it's Alex! You have no right...you...you-you person!" Niles yelled at the EMT man.
"Carl, can we give them anything?"
"Not until we get to the hospital," Carl called back. "You know what Matt's rules are."
"You should know better Monotaro, and for that Cub will be punished," Carl said as he moved towards Alex. He forced the teenage boy to sit up and cuffed his injured hands behind his back. "We are delivering you gift-wrapped back to Matt." Carl and the team did not know that Ben had been instructed to kill the two.
"Alex is not a present. He's not going anywhere, Matt wouldn't want the extra charge of having Alex shipped." Niles explained. He knew what he was doing - he was calm enough to think. He figured he may as well look stupid so that he could be plotting an easy way out. He winked at Alex before wincing as he leaned back against the wall of the ambulance.
"God, Carl, where did Matt getthis kid?"
"From the back streets of America," Niles pointed out. "My mother always said we lived where nobody would want to go. I don't know why we lived there then…"
"I asked Carl, not you! Don't you know not to volunteer information when you're asked?! Put your hands behind your back."
"You asked the general area, and since I would be the only one to know the answer, I gave it to you. Helps shorten time on worthless questions that no one - Carl - knows the answer to," Niles said as he moved away from the man who looked pissed.
"Put your damn fucking hands behind your back before I strangle you, castrate you and donate your body to science!"
"What does strangle, and castrate mean again? I've asked twice today and people keep ignoring me. For your information, I love science, I had an A in it when I was still in school. So by all means, donate my body to science."
"Niles, just stop talking!" Alex groaned.
"Castrate means I'm going to cut off your private parts and throw them away so you can't reproduce," the man responded even as he reached for the drugs.
"Micah! Don't give them anything yet, it's against hospital operations and we can't fuck this thing up!"
"Shut up Carl, you think I give a fuck what these kids hear? It's not like the kids are going to say anything."
"Micah, don't make me castrate yourpenis."
"Like you have the ballsto even try."
"What does castarate mean again?" Niles asked again.
"Niles, shut up before you get us both killed!"
"But, why would it get both of us killed...I thought they were going to strangle me, then castrate me?"
"Just shut up!"
"All right... don't get snappy," Niles muttered before finally shutting up.
Alex winked at Niles, trying not to let him get discouraged. One of the bad guys moved towards Niles with a pair of handcuffs.
"N-No please. I'll be better, I promise!" Niles said trying to back up, but having nowhere to go.
"Shut up!" The man responded, backhanding him viciously across the face. He grabbed him by the chin. "You'll listen, or your brother dies!"
"B-But I don't have a brother," Niles said as he flinched away.
Alex groaned. Loudly. "Micah, stop terrorizing the kid. It's me you want. You're angry at me, right?"
"Shut up or I kill him," Micah said, not taking his attention away from Niles. He pressed his knife against Nile's neck. "What's your nameboy?"
"I-I don't know," Niles said, his mind freezing up.
"His name is Niles," Alex said, glaring defiantly at the man.
The man turned towards Alex. "I meant his slave name."
"We aren't slaves."
"Sure you aren't. Now, what is your slave name?" Micah demanded as he pressed the knife against Niles' neck harder.
"M-Monotaro," Niles whispered.
"Good boy," Micah said as he handcuffed him and ruffled his hair. "That wasn't so hard sweetie now was it?"
Niles flinched away and stared at the wall of the ambulance.
"How are we going to unload them without their person knowing?"
"Simple, we unload them at the dock and pretend they are patients. We check them out, have him come up too, and we trap all of them and deliver them to Matt."
"That will never work," Alex told them.
"And why is that? Don't forget we killed your father, sonny boy."
"Alex isn't your son," Niles said.
"Shut up, bitch. One more word and you're both dead. Got it?"
"I'm not a bitch...that's a female dog," Niles whispered, hoping Micah didn't hear him.
The rest of the ride was silent.
Challenge: What will happen now? Will the fact that Snake sent the Alex and Niles on the ambulance blow Ben's cover, or does it matter-has Ben gone darkside? What will happen to Wolf and Alison? Will the unit be able to catch up?
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