~*~*Chapter 52*~*~
The loud sound of a gunshot filled the small room and echoed in their ears along with the loud out cry in pain. The bullet hit the left leg shocking everyone in the room. The loud cries continued as Michael and Lincoln watched in horror at the scene, both unable to say or do anything but stare. Sara was shaking and in tears unable to process what had just happen. It was like a horrible nightmare that you couldn't wake up from no matter how much you wanted to. Just when they thought the worse was over, the smoking gun was raised a little and then the trigger was pulled again.
BANG
Almost right after the loud shot was fired a second time the screaming stopped. Sara felt like she was frozen and her chocolate eyes widen and watched as Mason fell to the ground with a bullet in the leg and another one in his side. He lay on the ground bleeding out and behind him standing in the doorway with his gun still pointed at Mason was none other then Paul Kellerman.
All three of them let out a breath they had been holding in when the finally saw Paul. "You guys alright?" he asked as he moved into the room to see if Mason was still breathing.
Sara watched Paul checking Mason's pulse and before speaking swallowed hard, "Is he…"
"No he's alive for now" Paul said standing up and moving over towards Sara to cut the rope that had her hands tied behind her back. When she was free Sara hopped to her feet and started rubbing her wrists to try and get the feeling back in them. Stepping over Mason's motionless body she stood against the wall and stared at Paul as he moved to cut Michael free.
As Paul's knife cut the rope around Michael's hand he heard Michael let out a painful grunt. He glance over at Michael's shoulder and as his shirt covered in blood from the bullet wound. "You alright? Looks like Mason got you good" Paul said.
"I'm okay," Michael said with a moan as he got to his feet. Slowly he made his way over to Sara while Paul continued to cut Linc free. Their eyes connected as Michael got closer to her and then she fell into his chest. Quickly Michael's good arm wrapped around her and held her close. Sara's face buried in his chest and she started shaking uncontrollably as she thought about what she had just been through. "It's okay, it's okay" Michael whispered against Sara's soft auburns hair before planting several kisses on her head.
Once Linc was free he stood in front of Paul and nodded in thanks, "So how'd you find us?"
"Well after your dad pleaded his case to Sullins he had a number of agents sent over here to cover the area. Surrounding the stage, snipers on roof tops, under cover agents in the crowds keeping an eye on people. Some agents are searching the floors in this building and I guess I got the luckily floor. I'll explain more later, right now we need to deal with this automatic sniper weapon." Paul said moving over towards the device with Linc.
"This is it" Linc said as he started to inspect it. "Okay it's nailed to the floor so it's not going anywhere." Reaching into his pocket Linc pulled out his cell phone and started to dial a number.
The rest of them watched as Linc put the phone to his ear and waited for someone to pick up on the other end. "Hey Sucre it's me"
"Linc, where the hell are you, you've got Sullins freaking out! He's sent agents out looking for you guys as well as Mason"
"I don't have time to explain but I need your help, you've been studying the automatic sniper weapon design Mason had build right"
"Yea I been working on it, why"
Linc moved closer to the weapon and then looked up a Paul, "Because we're with it right now and I need you to help me shut it off." Linc told him.
Back at Division Sucre slid his wheelie chair across the floor over to one of his many computers he was currently using moved in front of one computed and clicked on a link to bring up some information he had. "Umm okay Papi, just so you know I've never seen anything like this before and haven't had any time to test my theories."
"That makes two of us, what do you got"
"Okay first I need you to tell me how many wires are connected to the small trigger box?"
Linc reached underneath the gun to where a small box was covering the trigger, "Okay I'm counting five wires" Linc told him and then double-checked. "Yea five wires"
"Okay good that's what I thought now carefully unclip the plastic cover on the box without pulling on the wires."
Slowly Linc bunched the wires up and kept them still as he undid the cover and pulled it off. He tossed it aside and saw a timer counting down with five minutes to go. "Okay Sucre there's a timer and counting down from five minutes there is also a little keypad to put in a code of some sort! We need to do this quick," Linc urges.
"Okay I'm going to need to cut some wires for me"
"Hang on" he told Sucre and looked at the other occupants in the room, "Anyone got scissors or something to cut these?"
"Paul reached into his bottom leg pocket and pulled out small pliers and handed them to Linc. "Okay I'm putting you on speaker phone Sucre" Linc said as he set the phone down on the desk. "Alright I'm ready!"
"Okay separate all the wires so they're not touching and slowly and carefully cut the blue wire without nipping at the other four."
"Blue wire okay!" Linc said. Paul reached over and helped Linc hold them apart so he could cut the blue one. Slowly Linc slid the pliers in and placed the blue wire in the mouth of the pliers and carefully broke its connection. Everyone in the room held their breath in case something happen.
"Okay it's cut but the time didn't stop!" Linc told him.
"That's okay," Sucre told them. "Okay now I need you to cut the purple wire"
Linc looked over at the last remaining wires and looked for the purple one.
"Sucre there's no purple wire!" Paul yelled out as he saw the horrified look on Linc's face.
"What that can't be right? What colors do you have?"
"Red, yellow, green and white" Paul told him.
Behind them the heard a grunt leave Mason's mouth as he lay on the floor. Linc and the others looked at him and then turned back to the task at hand. By this time both Sara and Michael had moved closer to watch what was going on.
"Okay don't cut anything else because you have a different combination, I don't have white or yellow so I don't know which one. Just give me time."
"Hurry Sucre!" yelled Linc.
Pulling away from the group Michael pulled out his own cell phone and dialed Jen; the governor's assistants number to tell her to get the governor off the stage.
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Down below the governor was making his speech to the people of Chicago, Jen was standing off to the side of the stage on the left side listening to the governor. She suddenly felt her phone start to vibrate and pulled it out to see on her caller ID that it was Michael Scofield. She realized he and his partners wouldn't be able to prevent the sniper form going off and killing the governor. She glanced around at the people in the crowed and the high security they had surrounding the place. If the sniper went off no one would be able to act quick enough to stop it. Her phone continued to vibrate and as she glanced at it one last time she shoved her phone back in her pocket as it vibrated and pretended to act like nothing was wrong. In a couple minutes the Governor would be dead, just like Richard Mason wanted, as she thought about it she smiled. They were going to do it.
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"Damn it!" the heard Michael yelled from the other side of the room after he flipped his phone shut. " Can't get through to Jen, she's not picking up! So I can't warn the governor."
"Okay I'm sorry his system is different then mine, so don't cut any more wires, it could set the it off" Sucre voice said from the cell phone.
Linc cursed under his breath as he notice things were only getting worse. "Okay what do we do now?" Linc asked Sucre.
"Your going to need the code to disarm it" Sucre told them and everyone in the room looked hopeless. "We have two minutes!"
Becoming very frustrated Paul moved over towards Richard and grabbed him by the back of his collar and lifted the upper half of his body off the ground. Richard let out a loud groan in pain as Paul crouched down and held Richard close to his head. "What's the code?"
"Go to hell" was all Richard mumbled.
Michael had also had enough and picking up his gun with his good arm and made his way over to Richard. Kneeling down beside him he pushed the end of his gun into Richard's wounded side and he started to scream in pain. "What to try that again? WHAT'S THE CODE!" Michael yelled.
Richard did nothing but scream. Throwing him back to the ground Paul got to his feet and moved over towards the window to watch as the governors speech continued. Michael got up as well and paced the floor, "How old does that key pad look?"
Linc took a closer look and estimated that it was brand new, never been used before. Michael then started to scope the room and moved over to the corner of the room and ran his hand along the floor and picked up some dirk and dust on the floor.
"What are you doing?" Linc asked as Michael moved towards them and blew the dust and dirt onto the keypad.
"This might help us figure out which numbers to use" Michael said and then closely he examined the buttons to see which ones have been used.
"Okay I have the numbers 0, 1, 1, 3, 4 and 8" Michael said the group.
"This is nuts we'll never figure this out Paul said pulling out his walkie talkie. "Agent Lugo do you copy?" he got no answer so tried again "Agent Lugo do you copy?"
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Down where the governor was making a speech the crowd was cheering after Governor Tancredi's last statement and it was so loud that no one could really hear anything but the screaming. Sofia Lugo was standing in front of the stage watching all the people and at first didn't notice he walkie-talkie going off. When she did notice she could hear someone yelling into it. Pulling it up to her mouth she said. "Agent Lugo, who is this?" The screaming and cheering of the crowd wasn't dieing down. "I'm sorry I can't hear you"
"Paul, is this you? What's going on?" Sofia asked. She brought the walkie-talkie closer to her ear but it wasn't helping much. "Paul I can barely hear you…Paul are you still there? Paul…"
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"It's no use I can't get a hold of Sofia or anyone," Paul said.
"What do you mean my father is down there and is going to be shot you need to do something?" Sara cried. Michael moved over to her and held her back and tried to get her to calm down.
"We need to figure out this code we have 15 second!" Linc said anxiously.
It was quiet in the room, only the sound of the quiet beeping of the timer ticking down.
12 11 10 9
"Try 10, 14, 83" Sara said as she held onto Michael's shirt. "Wasn't that when his unit was killed?"
Michael thought about it for a second and nodded, "October 14, 1983" Michael said and after double checking to make sure all numbers were used Linc started to punch them in.
"Make's sense" Linc said and everyone watch as Linc punched in the code. As he did that Paul remained on the phone trying getting a hold of someone to get the governor out of harms way. Sara held onto Michael tight as she could and buried her face in his shirt trying to prevent herself from crying.
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End Notes: Okay I know another cliffhanger but we're getting to the end of the story so I have to keep you on edge. There is about three chapters to go for this story. Thanks for reading
