Hildago Palace, Mexico City.
Busting the Aretas drug dealers was dangerous. At the point after the spies found their hideout, their presence had triggered a shootout led by the Aretas woman and young man. Joy Jenkins briefed the spies that the objective was to apprehend the criminals as they were wanted for escaping the Mexican prison.
Lance and Walter quickly dodged the bullets and hid behind a flipped over table but the shooting doesn't stop.
"There are too many of them! Some of them even have rifles!" Walter said while catching his breath.
"Although I have calling backup as my Plan B, how the heck are we going to get through those guys and catch Mama Aretas and her son!?" Lance yelled through the noise of gunfire.
"I mean, the woman looks like she can put a bullet in your head before you can say "freeze!"
A bullet flew threw the table and the gap between the spies. They had to think fast because the bullets are penetrating the table and ripping off every splinter.
Lance quickly threw out his camera drones as the spies wore their glasses trying to get visual. The three drones carefully hover towards the thugs but were shot down by the cartel leader's son.
"Dang it!"
"What you got, Walter?"
"The two Aretas are behind the thugs!"
"Same here, man!"
"Okay, Lance. Call the backup team, fly through and distract thugs and hold off the Aretas. I'll "Silly String" them while you do the distracting part"
"Got it!" Lance sent a distress signal and hovered his finger over his bow tie until the young tech genius powered up his spy pen.
"Ready?"
"Ready!" Walter confirmed.
One tap of the bow tie transformed the greatest spy into the flying pigeon who was now into air and flying towards the thugs. Lance pecked them on their heads causing them to stop shooting and get occupied trying to swat away the pigeon.
"Alright, kid. That's your cue!" Lance voice buzzed through Walter's earpiece.
Walter jumped out of his hiding and shot the thugs till they were pinned to the wall. Some thugs tried freeing themselves by shooting it open put the very thick goo of Silly String slowed down the force of the bullets even when penetrated. Walter jumped in victory not before he threw the bow tie towards Pigeon Lance who was close to the Aretas. Walter knew the timing very well and that's why Lance didn't need to be notified whenever he was about to get into combat with another human being and also, he has monocular vision.
As the bow tie reached Lance. He returned to his human form in midair and landed perfectly in front of none other than Isabel and Amardo Aretas, one holding a dagger and one holding a pistol.
"Lance Sterling" in an unamused Mexican accent voice, Isabel had anger in her eyes like every other villains whenever someone ruined their bad guy plans.
"I know, I know. Everyone knows the name" Sterling chuckled.
"Do we know each other?" Sterling carefully asked in precaution, just in case if he caused pain to the villain in the past like Tristan McFord.
"No. But I will not let you destroy everything my marido worked for!" Isabel shrieked and started slashing at Lance, but the spy manage to block her moves.
"Hijo, go get that brat!"
The young man nodded and ran towards Walter Beckett, who happened to quickly activate his jet pack to avoid getting shot and tried to trap him with his Silly String. But Amardo was too quick on his reflexes, he dodged and attempted to shoot Walter. The first shot flew past Walter's right arm and gave him a flesh wound, causing him to wince and drop his spy pen. Walter still kept balance of his flight while his other arm reached into his bag pack and threw a Security Blanket at Amardo. Before the Mexican man could react after reloading the pistol, the blanket opened with the voicecom buzzed "UNITEE!" and hit him until he collapsed on the floor being wrapped tight by the blanket. He couldn't break free since Walter made the blanket more durable.
Walter swiftly picked up the spy pen and flew towards Lance and Isabel who were still in a fistfight. He pointed his spy pen at Isabel and shot Silly Strings at her hands and legs before she could stab Lance in his head. Knowing that he disabled the criminal, Walter desended to the groung next to Sterling.
"Good work, Walter! We finally busted the most dangerous crime lords in Mexico" Lance said.
"Actually, we both did it. Again" Walter reminded.
"Dang. This is the fifth time I gave credit to you. But I couldn't help it but look up to you too much" he chuckled at his own pun about Walter's height.
"Not bad yourself too, buddy" Walter then help out his right fist. "Team Wei- ow" He winced when he tried to strech his arm.
"Whoa! You okay there, man?" Lance frowned in concern and noticed a cut on Walter's right blue sleeve with a patch of red.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I- I just to sit down..."
Instantly Lance's fatherly instincts kicked in, he helped Walter sat down and help him took off his jet pack and opened it to find for antiseptics and medical gauze.
"Unless the spy suit helps, you better take it off"
Walter took off his spy suit and rolled up his yellow t-shirt sleeve showing his flesh wound. Lance applied the antiseptic on the gauze and handed it to Walter who obliged and started treating his own wound.
"Thanks, Lance" he said with a grateful grin growing.
"No big deal, kid" Lance patted him on his back to help him relax and then contacted Director Joy.
Isabel grumbled in defeat while one of the thugs who was stuck on the wall claimed he was going to puke due to be positioned upside down.
"Hey, Lance. Should we help him down?" Walter asked, he constantly felt guilty for people who had gone through like this.
"Nope. He probably had to drink down on this one" Lance Sterling requested Joy to send in medical treatment for Walter. He contacted Marcy too, who was the oncoming backup, and told her they had everyone immobilised.
"That's a good job, Lance" Marcy spoke at her earpiece. She was in a chopper with Eyes, Ears and the security forces, flying towards the Hilgado Palace.
"Okay, while you boys were having fun, the MPD called us. They caught the rest of the goons who were en route to you guys. We are nearby now and ready to take them into custody"
"Sounds great. Marcy. We'll see you then" Lance hung up the call and continued consoling Walter who was now burying his head on his knees to prevent himself from falling over if he fainted. His right arm was trembling and his breathing became heavy. Luckily, the ambulance and police arrived followed by the H.T.U.V security force team.