Hello, fellow fanfic readers 'n' writers! I present to you the second instalment of 'The Kidnapping' here in 'Adventures'. Picking up exactly from where we left off, Chase and Ryder were taken hostage by a group of men. What will become of them? And what will the PAW Patrol do? Find out now!
DISCLAIMER: I would have said that I don't own rights to PAW Patrol, but that was a previously established fact, thereby negating reiteration.
Rere, listening on, silently gasped with a terrified expression on her face. The man continued. "We expect a ransom of $100 million by the end of the week, or they will never return to you." [Who do you think they are, the bank?]
The kidnapper was about to hang up when The Expert answered, the same as always. "No." [Well, then.]
Rather surprised, the man asked what The Expert had said.
"I said 'No.'. I know that you will not kill them. You are trying to threaten us simply to get the money quickly." The man's eyes widened. [This is what is known as an Oh Crap! moment. Also, this guy's dead.]
"That is a lie," he tried to say, but The Expert just went on.
"I know what you are doing. You are heavily in debt to a dangerous person or group of people, and you must give them a large sum of money to pay off the debt. If you do not, you will be killed." [Literally.]
"Why are you lying?!" The man sounded desperate. The Expert didn't care. [I expected him not to care anyway, so not surprised.]
"You phrased your words very cleverly, though. You said that we would never see them again. And while this may be true, it is for a different reason. As you are the only ones who know where they are, we cannot ask anyone else for their location if - no, when you are killed." The Expert paused before smirk-asking, "Am I still lying?" [That's the beauty of The Expert's stoicism. Even the funniest of lines are delivered in total deadpan, and this makes them even better.]
The man on the other side had had enough. He ended the call and walked away from the hostages to report to the others. [That's right! Hit the road, Jack, and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more! Hit the road, Jack, and don't you come back no more. ... Have I really just sung that in public?]
Rere, on the other hand, was astonished by what he had done. "How - " The Expert cut her off, as expected. [Rule. Number. One. Please. You of all people should know that!]
"I'm an expert at these things," he stated. [Of course.]
And that's why they call him The Expert, she thought before asking, "So we're going to sit here and do nothing until a week passes?"
The Expert replied, "No, of course not. ... We're going to tell the others, then do nothing until a week passes." [Lovely Bait-and-Switch by The Expert.]
Rere laughed and rolled her eyes good-naturedly.
Meanwhile, the masked man who had called The Expert had returned to his partners-in-crime and was about to tell them what had occurred. [That's probably going to give him a premature death.]
"The one you called," began the apparent leader, "what did you say, and what did he say thereafter?"
"I said that which we had prepared beforehand, but he saw right through it. He saw right through us." [What is with these guys' speech style? I thought mine and the stupidity laced within was bad.]
"What do you mean?" [I feel like I should say something about Justin Bieber here, but that would anger me and probably someone else too. So, no.]
"He re-stated our entire threatening idea to me when I delivered the message. He talked about us wanting the money quickly, he talked about The Deathstar Mafia who we owe money to, and even saw straight through your idea of ambiguity in the message to strike fear into them." [He is The Expert, after all.]
The ringleader became genuinely concerned and frightened at what the recipient of their call had found out; in a matter of seconds, on top of that. [This may be the start of a Villainous Breakdown for this guy.]
"How are we to get the cash now?" The other kidnapper chimed in.
The leader pondered this. He said cantankerously, "I don't know. We'll have to come up with something different." [And The Expert will see right through it again. It's not going to work.]
Marshall was busy sleeping in his fiery red pup house when his tag would went off. He groggily answered, "What is it?"
"Come into the Lookout. I have an announcement to make. Oh, and get the other pups whilst you're at it."
Marshall recognised the supreme flatness in the voice. "Why didn't you get them?" [Lampshaded laziness.]
"Do you want to hear it or not?"
"Oh, alright then. I'll get the others," Marshall mumbled lazily. He arose and proceeded to round up the rest of the pups. [Don't fall asleep now, okay?]
The Expert then took the liberty of contacting Tracker so that he would know what had happened. This was because of the fact that The Expert had not introduced himself to Tracker. [Makes sense.]
After a while, Tracker responded to the summoning. "Bueno?" [Fact about me: I love Spanish. It's easily my second language and I'm most definitely going to be using it to the max. Cool? Cool. Also, no comments during this Spanish segment.]
"Buenos días, Tracker."
Tracker realised that The Expert was a fellow Spanish-speaker and switched to full Spanish. "¿Quién habla?"
"Llámame 'El Experto'. Y tengo un mensaje para ti."
"¿De verdad? Dame ese mensaje. ¿Qué pasó?"
"Desafortunadamente, tengo malas noticias. Ryder y Chase han desaparecidos. Alguien los secuestró."
"¿Qué?"
"Qué malo, ¿no?"
"Sí, esto es muy mal. De todas maneras, ¿qué necesitamos hacer?"
The Expert paused before saying, "Nada."
"Pero ¿por qué? ¿Qué tienes?"
"Nada. Necesitamos hacer nada, porque si hacemos nada, el problema desaparecerá."
"¿Cómo - "
"En realidad, no hay problema. Digo este porque las personas quienes son responsables sólo quieren el dinero. Si no lo reciben en una semana, estarán asesinados."
"Ah, ya entiendo. Esperamos una semana, y después de esa semana esas personas estarán matados, y nosotros vamos en busca de Chase y Ryder."
"Exactamente."
"Muy bien... yo pienso. Pero una pregunta más. ¿Cómo - "
"Soy un experto de estas cosas."
Tracker smiled at that. [I promise you, none of this involved Google Translate.]
Marshall had meanwhile gathered the remaining pups, including Everest. They all plodded inside the Lookout to see The Expert waiting for them.
"What do you have to say?" Everest asked, to which The Expert half-sighed and covered his ears. [This is going to cause quite an uproar, I sense...]
"Ryder and Chase have been kidnapped."
Complete! Another cliffhanger, but that's gonna be the case in this subseries. What do you think will happen next? You don't have to tell me unless you want to do so. Please EAR, please!
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