22 chapter: Under arrest.
To Katie janeway: Don't worry you don't have to bear with Joe in this chapter. But thanks for still read this!!!
To CharonStyx: Thank you so much for the review!!! Why doesn't it appear on the review page? Oh, anyway, about what I wrote to disgusted! Of course you can borrow it but not just some cool words to say, it's just truth, the actions of the character is totally up to the author even though the character is kinda stolen.thanks again!!!
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Chief Collig, Con Riley and Fenton Hardy stood on Galeriver's waterside.
A bomb had been placed at the trapdoor. It was controlled with a remote control and everybody were told to stay away.
Frank, Biff, Chet and Callie were waiting on the road.
'Has no one seen Tony?' Chet asked.
'I called Mr. Pizza and the Fanclub no one has seen him today, his dad has no idea where he is...looks like he disappeared too' Frank answered.
'Yeah, yeah he's fine. He can take care of himself' Chet said.
'You don't think Joe is responsible for this, I mean the helicopter explosion and murder of the Cline-girl?' Biff asked.
'I doubt it, or maybe I just don't want to believe it. But I don't understand why he should...' Frank sighed.
'Don't you think it's strange how many are missing, you know, Joe, Nancy, Randy?' Callie asked. 'Do you think they're alive?'
No one answered.
Suddenly a buzz began. Frank looked down. He saw the earth beside the river, open...or what? Of course that was impossible so it had to be a hidden trapdoor or something.
A helicopter flew up from the hole and another followed.
Frank took up a digital camera that was also a video camera, and took a photograph of the two helicopters.
Down by the river, Collig gave his men, back in the police station Bayport, an order to find and follow the helicopters and told them to what direction they were flying.
A few minutes after the helicopters were flown away, the explosion thundered.
All the police officers were shocked.
'Report yourself' Collig commanded.
Everyone reported themselves in order.
Collig let out a sigh of relieve when he was assured no one was missing.
'Ok, we've had enough of explosions for now' he said.
Con Riley and Fenton were about to remove it when they heard somebody knock at the trap door from inside.
Collig rushed to them. 'Open it' he ordered.
'Yeah, how?' Con asked.
'Right' Collig muttered.
Con disconnected the bomb and carried it carefully away from the trapdoor.
'Do you think they can hear us?' he asked when he came back to Collig and Fenton.
'Let's find out' Fenton said. 'Can you hear us?' he said loudly to the trapdoor.
'Loud and clear' the answer came from the ground. 'We've got pretty good system down here. Anyway, we surrender. We're coming up, don't kill us' the voice said.
Fenton and Collig looked at each other, then they drew their guns and aimed them to the trapdoor.
They slowly opened and a man stepped up with his hands on the back on his head. Six persons followed him.
Collig almost laughed, those people could have been used to being arrested. And maybe they were...
'If you're armed throw your weapons away' he ordered.
They started to loose gun sheaths and daggers from their waist and some put down their carbines.
'Good' Collig said. 'Is anyone down there?'
'Luise. She doesn't want to get caught' the first man said.
Con took up one gun sheath. 'Walker & Jennings. Then that's confirmed' he said.
'Ezra, do you mind, I talk to them alone?' Fenton asked.
'No, go ahead' Collig said.
'Hey, Frank! Come here!' Fenton shouted to Frank.
'You'll be all right?' Frank asked Callie who shook in Biff's arms, she was startled after the explosion, like all of them actually.
She nodded. 'I hate explosions' she mumbled.
Frank ran down to his dad. 'Hi, is anyone hurt?' he asked.
'No, everyone's fine and those fellows just surrendered, we're lucky today. Did the camera come to use?' Fenton asked.
'Yeah, I photographed the helicopters' Frank answered.
'Good. And by the way, this is...erm...?' Fenton looked at the man.
'Steinfield' he finished.
'Steinfield, almost like Seinfield' Franks said and grinned.
-'My first name is Jerry.'
-'You can't be serious.'
'Now, Mr. Steinfield, I'm going to ask you a few questions. They're completely private, you won't tell them about it, understood?' Fenton said.
Jerry nodded rather carelessly. He took a cigarette and lighter from his pocket.
'You know, this is a bad habit' Frank said and coughed from the smoke.
'Sure, but I'm a criminal, ain't that a bad habit too? One more doesn't bother me' Jerry said.
'Well, it bothers me so turn this off' Fenton ordered.
'All right, all right. What happened to the politeness?' Jerry asked.
'Look, I'm only so happy because you surrendered by yourselves. So, 1st question, who were those in the helicopter?'
Before Jerry could answer Frank cut in.
'Dad, can I have a word with him before you start questioning?'
Fenton sighed. 'I suppose. I'll wait right there.'
'Well?' Frank asked when his father was gone.
'Well what?' Jerry said.
-'Who were in the helicopter?'
'He was just asking me this' Jerry said and meant Mr. Hardy.
'Yes, but now I'm asking and you're suppose to answer' Frank said sharply.
'Joe was there, wasn't he?' he added and watched Jerry closely with an significant eye.
Jerry shrugged. 'Yeah...'
-'Thanks. You're not going to tell dad that, got that?'
Jerry nodded.
Frank gave Fenton a sign to come to them.
'Ok. Where were we?' he asked.
'At 1st question' Jerry answered. 'Julia Walker, Tony Prito, two captives...(Jerry looked at Frank who nodded but was surprised to hear Tony's name)' and then he counted five other people.
'Captives? Who?' Fenton asked.
'Nancy Drew and Randy Cline' Jerry answered.
'Oh' Fenton had been hoping other of the captives was Joe, then he had known he was alive.
'Tony Prito, you say? What was he doing there?' Frank asked surprised. 'Was he a captive too?'
'Well, no, he...um...' it seemed hard for Jerry to answer this and looked at Frank.
'He what?' Fenton asked.
Frank moved his lips.
'He seemed to have a thing for Luise but he obviously didn't want to die with her and ran off with her sister' Jerry finally answered.
'Really?' Fenton looked at Frank. 'What the Hell is going on?'
'I saw Joe and Luise together in the park once and rest of the gang were there too but Luise and Tony didn't seem to know each other' Frank said.
'This is really starting to confuse me' Fenton sighed.
'Where is Luise, anyway?' Frank asked.
'Somewhere down there' Jerry answered.
Frank ran to Collig.
'Is anyone down there?' he asked.
'We sent a group there to search for miss Walker, they say she's still there' Collig answered and nodded to the criminals.
-'Ok. Can I have a raiment?'
Collig thought.
'All right, it's right there. Be careful' he said.
'I will' Frank said and picked his size of bullet proofed west and water proofed pants and thick gloves.
'What are you doing?' Fenton asked when he came to Frank after leading Jerry Steinfield to the car.
'I want to see what's there, don't worry about me, dad' Frank answered.
'No, I won't. Just as worried as usually' Fenton muttered.
Frank snorted and walked to the trapdoor. He saw the glitter of the water.
He went down the stairs. The water caught his shinbones.
'Oh damn, this is cold' he thought.
He started to wade down the corridor. This was a huge place, it would take the water sometime to fill it. Likely an old mine.
He passed many doors. He pointed the shaft of the flashlight to them. There were names and titles written or incised on the doors.
Elaine(I rule) -Matt(Fuck U) -storeroom -dining room...
The water caught Frank's knees. He read on one door. 'Luise, (don't come in without knocking)
He tried to open it but it was locked.
He walked on. He noticed a broken surveillance camera in the corner of the ceiling.
Suddenly he heard some noise. Some police officers were standing in front of some door and tried to open it.
The water level grew higher.
'Oh, that's just great' Frank thought,' Damn, it's cold.'
'How's going?' he asked the officers.
'Not well' one of them answered.
'Is there something I can do to help?' Frank offered.
'Sure, open or break the door before we go under water, that would be very nice!' the officer said.
'No, Frank. Move out of the way, that would help,' another one said,' I think we need dynamite.'
Frank stiffened.
'Hey, are you ok?' the officer asked as he tried to shoot the door open. It didn't open.
Frank didn't answer but pointed the flashlight at the door behind them.
The letters J.H. were incised into them and Frank had a pretty good idea what they meant. He tried to open it and surprisingly it was open. He walked in and looked around. He was going to hurry to find some information and leave before the water level grew even higher.
Things like pens, papers and other light things were floating on the water that reached halfway upon Frank's legs.
But before he could (execute) bring out (?) his simple plan he saw a woman on the bed. It was Luise.
Frank also saw a gun in her hand. She laid there still, there was no blood or anything around her but Frank hurried over to her to check her pulse.
'Oh, man!' he thought.
When he grabbet Luise's wrist she suddenly sat up, grabbet Frank's arm and presumed his weight to slam him aback to the floor that was full of water and she held him under water.
Frank tried to resist and pull himself up. But Luise was pretty strong, plus he was underwater and therefore lighter than normally.
After a second Frank lay as still as dead in the water. Luise let go of him. Abruptly he rose up and punched her in the stomach.
She moaned and fell back on the bed. Frank quickly stood up and wasted a moment to catch his breath.
Luise used that moment to kick him in the chest and he fell back down and lost the breath again. Then she grabbed the gun.
Frank slowly stood up with his hands raised up so she could see he wouldn't try anything...for now. He coughed up the water.
He heard the men on the hallway curse because they couldn't get in to the room that they thought Luise was hiding in. He was thinking about screaming so they'd come and help him but right after ,that it was ridiculous. Luise would shoot him if he'd let out a sound.
So there he stood and waited, for what, he didn't know.
Luise wasn't sure what to do, she just aimed the gun at Frank. They heard someone outside say: 'Let's get out of here, we can't open the door!' Frank was on his own, until his father and Collig would order somebody to go down and check on him.
'Luise, you don't have to do this. It'll only lengthen your staying in prison' Frank warned carefully.
Luise laughed nervously. 'You'r not that stupid that you'd think I would just let them cast me to some filthy bullpen just like that. No way.'
'Then what? What are you going to do? There's no way you can escape, your people won't help you, not your sister, no one! How do you eye a chance? Tell me' Frank demanded.
'I will not discuss it with you' Luise answered.
'Then why haven't you shot me already?!' Then Frank understood. 'Oh...of course.'
'Yes, you'll help me out' Luise said like she had read his thoughts.
She walked to him and pushed the gunpoint to his back. 'Now walk out, slowly. If you try anything I'll put a bullet in your arm, got it? Go!'
She opened the door. More water flowed in. She pointed him with the gun to go out. Frank obeyed. His teeth chattered he was starting to lose the feeling in his legs.
They waded through the hallway. They were silent and the water sound appeared louder.
Frank couldn't come up with any plan. All he could think of was if he would be in the same place if Joe would have been with him. If they had worked this out together. He knew for sure he wouldn't have been walking through ,an almost-full-of-water, hallway, pushed ahead by the gun Luise was holding.
When they came to the entrance she told him to go up first.
Frank silently climbed up the stairs. He felt heavy, the water leaked from his clothes. Luise came after him. They were almost up when she told him to stop. She put her arm around his neck and held the gunpoint to the side of his head. Like that, soaking wet, they climbed up.
'Did you find something...' Fenton was about to ask when he saw Frank's head come up from the trapdoor, but the words died on his lips when he noticed the gunpoint next to his head and Luise's evil grin behind him.
Frank answered with a frown.
'Drop all guns! If I see a gun he's dead!' Luise said so everybody heard.
Her order was complied.
'Kick them away.'
Also complied but they were ready to get the guns back from the ground.
Frank felt so helpless. He had no idea what would happen. Would she take one of the cars and let him go, would she take him with her or would she kill him? He didn't like the last option. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
To Katie janeway: Don't worry you don't have to bear with Joe in this chapter. But thanks for still read this!!!
To CharonStyx: Thank you so much for the review!!! Why doesn't it appear on the review page? Oh, anyway, about what I wrote to disgusted! Of course you can borrow it but not just some cool words to say, it's just truth, the actions of the character is totally up to the author even though the character is kinda stolen.thanks again!!!
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Chief Collig, Con Riley and Fenton Hardy stood on Galeriver's waterside.
A bomb had been placed at the trapdoor. It was controlled with a remote control and everybody were told to stay away.
Frank, Biff, Chet and Callie were waiting on the road.
'Has no one seen Tony?' Chet asked.
'I called Mr. Pizza and the Fanclub no one has seen him today, his dad has no idea where he is...looks like he disappeared too' Frank answered.
'Yeah, yeah he's fine. He can take care of himself' Chet said.
'You don't think Joe is responsible for this, I mean the helicopter explosion and murder of the Cline-girl?' Biff asked.
'I doubt it, or maybe I just don't want to believe it. But I don't understand why he should...' Frank sighed.
'Don't you think it's strange how many are missing, you know, Joe, Nancy, Randy?' Callie asked. 'Do you think they're alive?'
No one answered.
Suddenly a buzz began. Frank looked down. He saw the earth beside the river, open...or what? Of course that was impossible so it had to be a hidden trapdoor or something.
A helicopter flew up from the hole and another followed.
Frank took up a digital camera that was also a video camera, and took a photograph of the two helicopters.
Down by the river, Collig gave his men, back in the police station Bayport, an order to find and follow the helicopters and told them to what direction they were flying.
A few minutes after the helicopters were flown away, the explosion thundered.
All the police officers were shocked.
'Report yourself' Collig commanded.
Everyone reported themselves in order.
Collig let out a sigh of relieve when he was assured no one was missing.
'Ok, we've had enough of explosions for now' he said.
Con Riley and Fenton were about to remove it when they heard somebody knock at the trap door from inside.
Collig rushed to them. 'Open it' he ordered.
'Yeah, how?' Con asked.
'Right' Collig muttered.
Con disconnected the bomb and carried it carefully away from the trapdoor.
'Do you think they can hear us?' he asked when he came back to Collig and Fenton.
'Let's find out' Fenton said. 'Can you hear us?' he said loudly to the trapdoor.
'Loud and clear' the answer came from the ground. 'We've got pretty good system down here. Anyway, we surrender. We're coming up, don't kill us' the voice said.
Fenton and Collig looked at each other, then they drew their guns and aimed them to the trapdoor.
They slowly opened and a man stepped up with his hands on the back on his head. Six persons followed him.
Collig almost laughed, those people could have been used to being arrested. And maybe they were...
'If you're armed throw your weapons away' he ordered.
They started to loose gun sheaths and daggers from their waist and some put down their carbines.
'Good' Collig said. 'Is anyone down there?'
'Luise. She doesn't want to get caught' the first man said.
Con took up one gun sheath. 'Walker & Jennings. Then that's confirmed' he said.
'Ezra, do you mind, I talk to them alone?' Fenton asked.
'No, go ahead' Collig said.
'Hey, Frank! Come here!' Fenton shouted to Frank.
'You'll be all right?' Frank asked Callie who shook in Biff's arms, she was startled after the explosion, like all of them actually.
She nodded. 'I hate explosions' she mumbled.
Frank ran down to his dad. 'Hi, is anyone hurt?' he asked.
'No, everyone's fine and those fellows just surrendered, we're lucky today. Did the camera come to use?' Fenton asked.
'Yeah, I photographed the helicopters' Frank answered.
'Good. And by the way, this is...erm...?' Fenton looked at the man.
'Steinfield' he finished.
'Steinfield, almost like Seinfield' Franks said and grinned.
-'My first name is Jerry.'
-'You can't be serious.'
'Now, Mr. Steinfield, I'm going to ask you a few questions. They're completely private, you won't tell them about it, understood?' Fenton said.
Jerry nodded rather carelessly. He took a cigarette and lighter from his pocket.
'You know, this is a bad habit' Frank said and coughed from the smoke.
'Sure, but I'm a criminal, ain't that a bad habit too? One more doesn't bother me' Jerry said.
'Well, it bothers me so turn this off' Fenton ordered.
'All right, all right. What happened to the politeness?' Jerry asked.
'Look, I'm only so happy because you surrendered by yourselves. So, 1st question, who were those in the helicopter?'
Before Jerry could answer Frank cut in.
'Dad, can I have a word with him before you start questioning?'
Fenton sighed. 'I suppose. I'll wait right there.'
'Well?' Frank asked when his father was gone.
'Well what?' Jerry said.
-'Who were in the helicopter?'
'He was just asking me this' Jerry said and meant Mr. Hardy.
'Yes, but now I'm asking and you're suppose to answer' Frank said sharply.
'Joe was there, wasn't he?' he added and watched Jerry closely with an significant eye.
Jerry shrugged. 'Yeah...'
-'Thanks. You're not going to tell dad that, got that?'
Jerry nodded.
Frank gave Fenton a sign to come to them.
'Ok. Where were we?' he asked.
'At 1st question' Jerry answered. 'Julia Walker, Tony Prito, two captives...(Jerry looked at Frank who nodded but was surprised to hear Tony's name)' and then he counted five other people.
'Captives? Who?' Fenton asked.
'Nancy Drew and Randy Cline' Jerry answered.
'Oh' Fenton had been hoping other of the captives was Joe, then he had known he was alive.
'Tony Prito, you say? What was he doing there?' Frank asked surprised. 'Was he a captive too?'
'Well, no, he...um...' it seemed hard for Jerry to answer this and looked at Frank.
'He what?' Fenton asked.
Frank moved his lips.
'He seemed to have a thing for Luise but he obviously didn't want to die with her and ran off with her sister' Jerry finally answered.
'Really?' Fenton looked at Frank. 'What the Hell is going on?'
'I saw Joe and Luise together in the park once and rest of the gang were there too but Luise and Tony didn't seem to know each other' Frank said.
'This is really starting to confuse me' Fenton sighed.
'Where is Luise, anyway?' Frank asked.
'Somewhere down there' Jerry answered.
Frank ran to Collig.
'Is anyone down there?' he asked.
'We sent a group there to search for miss Walker, they say she's still there' Collig answered and nodded to the criminals.
-'Ok. Can I have a raiment?'
Collig thought.
'All right, it's right there. Be careful' he said.
'I will' Frank said and picked his size of bullet proofed west and water proofed pants and thick gloves.
'What are you doing?' Fenton asked when he came to Frank after leading Jerry Steinfield to the car.
'I want to see what's there, don't worry about me, dad' Frank answered.
'No, I won't. Just as worried as usually' Fenton muttered.
Frank snorted and walked to the trapdoor. He saw the glitter of the water.
He went down the stairs. The water caught his shinbones.
'Oh damn, this is cold' he thought.
He started to wade down the corridor. This was a huge place, it would take the water sometime to fill it. Likely an old mine.
He passed many doors. He pointed the shaft of the flashlight to them. There were names and titles written or incised on the doors.
Elaine(I rule) -Matt(Fuck U) -storeroom -dining room...
The water caught Frank's knees. He read on one door. 'Luise, (don't come in without knocking)
He tried to open it but it was locked.
He walked on. He noticed a broken surveillance camera in the corner of the ceiling.
Suddenly he heard some noise. Some police officers were standing in front of some door and tried to open it.
The water level grew higher.
'Oh, that's just great' Frank thought,' Damn, it's cold.'
'How's going?' he asked the officers.
'Not well' one of them answered.
'Is there something I can do to help?' Frank offered.
'Sure, open or break the door before we go under water, that would be very nice!' the officer said.
'No, Frank. Move out of the way, that would help,' another one said,' I think we need dynamite.'
Frank stiffened.
'Hey, are you ok?' the officer asked as he tried to shoot the door open. It didn't open.
Frank didn't answer but pointed the flashlight at the door behind them.
The letters J.H. were incised into them and Frank had a pretty good idea what they meant. He tried to open it and surprisingly it was open. He walked in and looked around. He was going to hurry to find some information and leave before the water level grew even higher.
Things like pens, papers and other light things were floating on the water that reached halfway upon Frank's legs.
But before he could (execute) bring out (?) his simple plan he saw a woman on the bed. It was Luise.
Frank also saw a gun in her hand. She laid there still, there was no blood or anything around her but Frank hurried over to her to check her pulse.
'Oh, man!' he thought.
When he grabbet Luise's wrist she suddenly sat up, grabbet Frank's arm and presumed his weight to slam him aback to the floor that was full of water and she held him under water.
Frank tried to resist and pull himself up. But Luise was pretty strong, plus he was underwater and therefore lighter than normally.
After a second Frank lay as still as dead in the water. Luise let go of him. Abruptly he rose up and punched her in the stomach.
She moaned and fell back on the bed. Frank quickly stood up and wasted a moment to catch his breath.
Luise used that moment to kick him in the chest and he fell back down and lost the breath again. Then she grabbed the gun.
Frank slowly stood up with his hands raised up so she could see he wouldn't try anything...for now. He coughed up the water.
He heard the men on the hallway curse because they couldn't get in to the room that they thought Luise was hiding in. He was thinking about screaming so they'd come and help him but right after ,that it was ridiculous. Luise would shoot him if he'd let out a sound.
So there he stood and waited, for what, he didn't know.
Luise wasn't sure what to do, she just aimed the gun at Frank. They heard someone outside say: 'Let's get out of here, we can't open the door!' Frank was on his own, until his father and Collig would order somebody to go down and check on him.
'Luise, you don't have to do this. It'll only lengthen your staying in prison' Frank warned carefully.
Luise laughed nervously. 'You'r not that stupid that you'd think I would just let them cast me to some filthy bullpen just like that. No way.'
'Then what? What are you going to do? There's no way you can escape, your people won't help you, not your sister, no one! How do you eye a chance? Tell me' Frank demanded.
'I will not discuss it with you' Luise answered.
'Then why haven't you shot me already?!' Then Frank understood. 'Oh...of course.'
'Yes, you'll help me out' Luise said like she had read his thoughts.
She walked to him and pushed the gunpoint to his back. 'Now walk out, slowly. If you try anything I'll put a bullet in your arm, got it? Go!'
She opened the door. More water flowed in. She pointed him with the gun to go out. Frank obeyed. His teeth chattered he was starting to lose the feeling in his legs.
They waded through the hallway. They were silent and the water sound appeared louder.
Frank couldn't come up with any plan. All he could think of was if he would be in the same place if Joe would have been with him. If they had worked this out together. He knew for sure he wouldn't have been walking through ,an almost-full-of-water, hallway, pushed ahead by the gun Luise was holding.
When they came to the entrance she told him to go up first.
Frank silently climbed up the stairs. He felt heavy, the water leaked from his clothes. Luise came after him. They were almost up when she told him to stop. She put her arm around his neck and held the gunpoint to the side of his head. Like that, soaking wet, they climbed up.
'Did you find something...' Fenton was about to ask when he saw Frank's head come up from the trapdoor, but the words died on his lips when he noticed the gunpoint next to his head and Luise's evil grin behind him.
Frank answered with a frown.
'Drop all guns! If I see a gun he's dead!' Luise said so everybody heard.
Her order was complied.
'Kick them away.'
Also complied but they were ready to get the guns back from the ground.
Frank felt so helpless. He had no idea what would happen. Would she take one of the cars and let him go, would she take him with her or would she kill him? He didn't like the last option. --------------------------------------------------------------------------