IV - A Whole New Level
Me and Gisele packed with Dom and Brian to London, where Bryce and Hobbs told us to meet them and our family. And because I still remember what the weather is like there so I packed appropriately, as did Gisele and we flew in a private jet to London.
When we landed, Hobbs and Bryce introduced us to their new partner named Riley Hicks. She seemed stoic and cold, but there was also something off about her.
They took us to a skyscraper that acted as a bit of a safehouse and we went up ahead of them and when we reached the floor we're meant to go to, there was a whole bunch of high tech equipment that made what we used in Rio look like primitive tools. Han, Tej and Roman were there as well and we greeted them and they congratulated me and Gisele for being married.
"Thank God! Finally, some equipment I can work with." Tej stated looking at the tech as Roman and Han greeted each other while me, Gisele and Brian checked the guns. Over the last 2 years she taught me all I needed to know about guns. And Dom was looking out at the London skyline.
"This is way better than that trash in Rio." Tej added.
"Way better." Gisele added as she examined a SCAR with a grenade launcher attached to it.
"Has anybody heard from Leo or Santos?" Brian asked. Yeah, where are they?
"Yeah, last time anyone saw them, they were hitting up the casinos in Monte Carlo." Han informed us.
"I thought that was our last job, Brian. And who's paying for all this equipment? The taxpayers? So now we work for the Hulk and Wonder Woman? That's what we're doing?" Roman questioned everything, not realising that Hobbs, Bryce and Riley were walking up to us. He then started sniffing.
"Why do I smell baby oil?" He questioned.
"If you keep running your piehole, you're going to smell an ass kicking." Hobbs warned him. OH MY GOD! HOBBS COVERS HIMSELF IN BABY OIL! I wanted to laugh so bad because that had to be the funniest thing ever!
"Alright, Hobbs, you got the best crew in the world standing right in front of them a reason to stay." Dom shut him up.
"Our target is Owen Shaw." Bryce said and placed a photo on the table.
"Former major in the S.A.S, Spec ops soldier. He ran the UK's Mobility Division in Kabul and Basra." Hobbs then explained as we gathered around. I looked at the photo and saw a man in his 30's with a buzz cut.
"Ah, damn. That Mobility unit's the truth. We're talking vehicular warfare. Best in the world. Those guys don't mess around." Tej explained what he knew. Geez, this is crazy.
"For years, they've been running jobs in Europe, but it's their most recent jobs that graduated them to a whole new level." Bryce further explained about the crew we're after.
"Three targets, highly specific. The program terminal from an ICBM missile and a poison fill chip computer virus from the NSA Black Lab." Hobbs listed off as Roman was asking for some change for some food.
"So what does this all mean?" Brian asked.
"Well, our best guess is that Shaw's crew is building a Nightshade device." Hobbs said. A what?
"Which is?" Gisele asked, just as confused as I am.
"A tech bomb. Designed to block an entire military communication grid for 24 hours." Riley said. That doesn't sound good.
"If you blind a soldier for a single second in the middle of a fight, he dies. If you blind a country for 24 hours, the loss of life is unthinkable. This could be worth billions to the right buyer." Bryce said and I inwardly gasped when she mentioned billions.
"Billions?" Tej asked.
"How come we can't just steal it so that Shaw doesn't get his hands on it?" I asked.
"Hey, man. Which one of these things is a dollar? It says something about-" Roman was asking. I swear this is what I have to deal with sometimes, ignorant Americans. But he didn't finish as Hobbs took out his revolver and shot the vending machine, making all the snacks in it fall out.
"It's on the house." Hobbs told him casually.
"We want you to help us catch Shaw. He's only got one piece left that he needs, and we intend to stop him before he gets it." He then stated.
"Now, we know you guys are a family. So we're offering you a chance right now to make that family whole again." Bryce finished off, looking at me directly and placing the photo of Letty on the table.
"You want to make this family whole again? Get us to Letty, we'll get you Shaw, full pardons all the way around." Brian set the conditions. If they agree and we pull this off, we can fully end up being free people.
"We can't promise you that." Hobbs stated.
"Yes, you can." Brian pushed back. Dom then got in between me and Brian and looked directly at Hobbs.
"That's the deal. Take it or leave it." Dom put his foot down. Hobbs and Bryce looked at each other and after a few quiet seconds, they looked back at us.
"You get us Shaw, and we'll get your pardons." Hobbs agreed with the conditions as well as Bryce as she nodded.
"Alright. This will be a whole new level. As it isn't corrupt cops or drug dealers anymore." I said to everyone and they got the picture.
It was nighttime and we as well as the London Police surrounded a site where Shaw is supposed to be. We were up high at a vantage point.
"Interpol picked up one of Shaw's guys in Moscow. I went in, had a little therapy session with him. He gave up Shaw's hideout." Hobbs informed us as Brian and Gisele looked through binoculars and Tej was on a computer.
"Then why aren't we down there now?" Gisele asked him.
"Well, we weren't invited." He simply said.
"Hobbs, they're sending in your punching bag. He's wired. He's going to give a positive ID on Shaw before they move in." Tej updated. We watched as the guy slowly walked into the area and disappeared to wherever Shaw was.
Something doesn't seem right. Shaw is a smart man. He'd more than likely expected something like this and he'd come up with some kind of plan.
The minutes dragged on and on until Tej got a positive ID.
"I just got confirmation on Shaw. They're going in." Tej told us. We watched as the police swarmed in.
"Wait, wait, hold up. Police scanners are saying alarms are going off at Interpol headquarters." He then said. Shit! This just confirmed my suspicions.
"He brought us out here so that he can take down Interpol. He expected us." I said to everyone.
"Brian, David, take the team." Dom ordered.
"And you?" I asked.
"Hobbs, Carter and I will wait for Shaw. Shaw leads to Letty." He said.
"Let's go." I said to everyone and Riley handed us pistols as we got in our cars. Gisele entered the same car as me and we all raced through the streets of London to Interpol.
"Han, how far are we from Interpol?" Brian asked through the radio.
"Twelve blocks away." Han said.
"You guys, it's a ghost town over here. Shaw must've pulled all the cops to him" Tej pointed out.
"Alright, y'all, we're in this shit, so let's go get it." Roman then said.
"Just don't get sloppy or cocky." I cautioned and Gisele smirked, seeing that I'm giving them the same advice she taught me when she teached me how to shoot.
We continued for a while until I saw Interpol.
"Interpol straight ahead." Han said.
We were then driving until we got shot at and I couldn't see anyone. I swerved to a stop as everyone else did.
"Must be a sniper." Gisele said. I opened the door, pulled my pistol out and looked up to see the sniper and then I aimed (with help from the car) and fired at him which made him get into cover.
But then I was pulled into cover by Gisele because some other members of Shaw's crew came out and started to shoot at us. We then fired back at them, but somehow we didn't hit them.
Gisele then ran out and tried to shoot at them as they were driving away until I saw the sniper pop back out and aimed at her! I then ran out and pushed her into cover behind a mailbox and the sniper tried to shoot us but hit everything around us making some ricochet fly everywhere. It then stopped.
"You alright?" I asked her. She gave me a quick kiss.
"Yeah. Thanks." She replied and I nodded before we got back in our car and chased after the crew with the guys.
We chased after the Rover and whatever it was they had that looked like a Ferrari sports race car if it was a gladiatorial game.
They shot something at Tej's car and then on Roman's, and then on Brian's. They tried to get me but I drifted out of the way, making it miss.
Suddenly Tej crashed into a parked car!
"What the hell?" I cursed.
"It must be whatever they shot onto their cars!" Gisele concluded.
And then Roman crashed through a building that had glass panes for walls. Han stopped for some reason.
"Just go, I'll make sure they're okay." He said.
"Roger that." I replied.
Brian then drifted and he hit the thing off of his car.
"Hell yeah!" I cheered.
We then chased them to a roundabout.
"Dom! Tej and Roman are out! Where are you at?" Brian asked.
"I'm right behind you." He answered and then we chased them into a tunnel.
"Guys, we got eyes on Shaw. He just made a left." Bryce informed us.
"We got right." I said.
"Toretto, make that left!" Hobbs then said and Dom did as told.
We continued and Brian rammed up the back of the Rover but as he was about to ram it again, that thing propelled him into the air and then it swerved perfectly at us and did the same to us.
We spun into the air until we crashed and landed on the top of the car.
"You okay?" I groaned as I felt a cut on my cheek.
"Yeah. That sucked." Gisele replied.
"And to think, that was the first crash I made in 9 years." I said. She chuckled.
All of us got back to the safehouse and Dom had a bullet wound to his shoulder. He said that Letty shot him without hesitation and that was just hard for me to believe. Why would she do that?
"This is crazy. We are not in Brazil. So now we got cars flying in the air? On some 007 type shit? This is not what we do!" Roman complained as I was working on one of the cars with Gisele sitting on the hood.
"Roman, will you just stop being a cry baby and man up?" I snapped, annoyed at him.
"Yeah, man, you really got to check that emotion. Your voice just went from Shaggy to Scooby Doo." Tej backed me up.
"This is not what we *woof, woof, woof*" Tej then mimicked and that managed to make me chuckle, along with Han and Gisele.
"See, man, when a woman starts shooting at you, that's a clear sign to back the fuck off! We need to get the hell out of Dodge! That could've been my forehead, man." Roman then continued, pointing to the car he drove.
"No. That's not as big as your forehead." Tej mocked him and I just laughed so much because Roman really needs to quit being a bitch.
After I did as much as I could, I walked over to Dom who was trying to get the bullet out.
"How could Shaw get his slippery hands on her?" I asked him in anger that Shaw took a member of our family from us.
"I don't know." He just said. He then pulled the bullet out.
"She definitely saw it was you?" Brian asked as he came over to us.
"She looked dead at me, Brian." He told him.
"Maybe the Letty we once knew is gone, Dom. Even though she's alive, maybe she's gone." Brian argued.
"You don't turn back on family. Even when they do." Dom retorted.
