"So, Veronica, what is this plan?" Toni asks.
"When all the midnight club shit was going on and I wanted to get my parents in the same room, I wrote them each a letter, telling them to come to the same place. If we could do that for Hiram Lodge, Betty Cooper, Alice Smith, FP Jones, and Penelope Blossom, lure them to the same space, isolated in the middle of nowhere. Tell them to bring their unnamed "Hostage." whomever has Archie will hopefully bring him. Once we're there, we can save Archie, while they all fight."
"Why would they all fight?" Sweet pea asks.
"My Mother blames Alice for Jason's death. FP tried to shoot Hiram, even if he was working on Hermione's orders. Betty Cooper hates Penelope and Hiram. They will all be tense and suspicious." Cheryl says.
"It might work, but it is no guarantee they'd bring Archie. In that case, what would we do?" Charles raises.
"You, me, Jughead, Cheryl and Mum would be there. We'd lure the people who want us outside, one by one. All the rest of us could surround them and make them talk." Veronica finishes.
"There are too many ways this could go wrong." Charles argues. Veronica's plan has potential, and even he has to admit that, but it also seems to complicated. They don't need them all there, there would be no benefit to having all the people who had hurt them in one place, it would make far more sense to target them one by one, and surely Veronica knew that.
Unless her plan wasn't to get Archie back.
If she was planning on dragging them all there, and having them all fight, while recording it, so they could have them arrested,, then her plan was perfect.
"Veronica. Your trying to get them all arrested aren't you? You aren't trying to get Archie back..." Charles says.
"Once they are all in jail it'd be very easy to find Archie. We know who they are, we know where they'd keep people. And we can't spend our entire life scurrying around like rats." Veronica says.
"Why didn't you just tell us that was your plan from the beginning" Hermione asks.
"Because there is a high risk that some of us would get arrested. Why would they not reveal our crimes to the police too?" Veronica says shrugging.
"Oh my god. You were willing to let me go to jail just to bring your father to justice." Hermione whispers.
"We're basically at war, Mum. There has to be sacrifices."
"That's what Hiram would say. You sound like him." Hermione says
"Lets all just calm down. Veronica, we aren't willing to sacrifice half our team. We will come up with a plan to bring them all to justice later on. For now we need to focus on Archie. If Penelope has him he's in little danger, as she will basically just want him as a son. If Hiram has him, we would have received a ransom note. If Alice or Fp, has him, he could be dead, or else in real danger. Which means I think we need to focus on them first." Charles says.
A sharp rap on the door made them all jump. Ricky, Joaquin's brother, ran in.
"They've got a license to search this house! The police have got a license to search this house under pretence of belief that we're the ones holding Archie hostage!" Ricky yells.
"How long till they get here?!"
"Ten minutes!"
