Every YouTuber at the station are unsure of what to do, all of them talking at the same time. Dan shakes his head cupping his hands around his mouth shouting as loud as he can.
"HEY!" Dan says grabbing their attentions. "We need to keep our cool. We are so close to finding our friends and lovers. They need us. I know most of us feel like we aren't doing anything to protect and find them but we are. These people don't know what it is like being an internet star. This information could help. So if and when they ask, we tell them what we know. Got it?"
"Yeah, Danny boy, we got it." Ian says.
"Now, John is going to be coming here soon. It might be best if we don't all bombard him with questions so, Benny, Rafi, Tyler, you guys greet him first. We'll go in groups of three. Ian, Scott and I can go next. Now, I don't know if Tom and Sonya know about Jordan and Sky so when they get back we are going to have to break the news."
"Dan?" Benny says raising his hand slightly.
"Yeah, Benny?" Dan asks.
"I think you, Ian and Scott should see John first. It just seems that…well the kidnappers have targeted your lovers and I think you guys should know how they are and everything." Benny says. Rafi nods agreeing with his brother.
"Are you sure?" Scott asks. "How about you welcome him when he gets here and he can have a good five minutes of peace."
"But the police are going to want to question him." Rafi says.
"And you should be there with him when he does." Dan says. "Both him and Hank need you right now."
"Okay, thanks, Dan." Rafi says to him. Dan just smiles as the two men walk towards the officers at the door. Dan goes back into the room noticing Ricky with his head phones on.
"Ricky, what you listening to?" Dan asks sitting next to him.
"Troye." Ricky says. "Dan, I can't imagine him doing this. I can't imagine him being involved in this, he's a good guy. He is."
"You don't have to explain it to me, Ricky. I get it. He's your friend. He's Connor's friend." Dan says. Ricky looks at Dan taking his headphones off.
"He's more than that. Connor would never admit it but I know that deep down, we both love him." Ricky says, "And as much as Joey loves him, Troye just can't love him back."
"He's right you know?" Tyler says. "I was Troye's first love, just like Joey and Shane were first loves. I think Troye agreed to be with Joey just so he wasn't alone. He hates being alone."
"Joey really loves him." Ricky says.
"Yeah he does, but if he truly loves him then he'd let him go. Because trapping him in a relationship would only make it worse." Dan says putting his hand on Ricky's shoulder. Ricky starts to cry, Tyler pulling him into a hug holding him tightly. Dan stands up going over to Ian and Scott.
"You okay, Daniel?" Scott asks usually using Dan's full name when talking with him just like Ian calls him Danny boy.
"I wish I knew what to say to him. He's just so confused." Dan says. "I wish I had the answer."
"I'm pretty sure we were all pretty confused except for maybe Scott because with Scott, you knew you liked boys from an early age. We only liked girls until we met Anthony and Phil and really started to get close to them." Ian says. "I mean I didn't start to have feelings for Anthony until like 3 years after I met him. And it just hit me. Like this guy is perfect. I honestly believe Anthony is my soul mate."
"It was meant to be." Dan says. "I feel like we were all supposed to meet and be friends. I want to get to know you better Scott. You and Mitch both."
"Okay, we should all hang out more after this." Scott says. Ian taps Dan on the shoulder pointing to Syndicate and Sonja coming into the room.
"Where's Jordan? And Sky?" Syndicate asks. Dan goes up to them Ian and Scott not far behind not wanting Dan to do this on his own.
"Sit. Please?" Dan asks. Syndicate sits down on the couch next to Sonja who grabs his hand. "Felix is a part of all of this. He took Jordan, Sky, Joven and MatPat with him when he went to go to be with the kidnappers."
"Jordan and Sky are with them then? Both of them?" Sonja asks.
"Yes." Dan says. Sonja nods rubbing Syndicate's back as his head is in his hands.
"They will protect each other Tom. You know that. Jordan won't let Sky get hurt and Sky wouldn't let Jordan get hurt. After all he is a ninja." Sonja says.
"Yeah he is. He's our ninja." Syndicate says.
"Ninja?" Ian asks.
"He's got a black belt in karate, a Red and white belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, as well as Judo and a bunch of other martial arts stuff." Syndicate says.
"Hell who knew he was such a badass." Ian says chuckling.
"His specialty is throwing knives." Sonja says. "And ninja stars as well."
"Yikes, that sounds kind of dangerous." Scott says.
"Not when you are trained like he is. He doesn't aim to kill, he aims to injure." Sonja says, "And only if he or someone else is in danger."
"So he's a superhero basically?" Ian says. Syndicate thinks on it a moment then chuckles.
"Yeah I guess he is a superhero." Syndicate says.
"John just got here guys." Corny says. "Looks like he's been crying."
"Yeah well it probably wasn't his idea to leave his brother behind." Dan says.
"Do not tell me to calm down! My brother is there, alone, with those psychopathic bastards and I can't protect him anymore! I'm not there! They already hurt him twice who knows what they are going to do next!" John yells. Benny just pulls John into a hug.
"I get it. I do. But you know where Hank is. You know what the house looks like. Yeah you may not know how to get there but at least you can help them. But you have got to calm down." Benny says.
"Okay." John says taking a deep breath.
"What do you mean they hurt him already?" Kendall asks.
"Kicked him in his stomach so much that he…he got sick. And-" John inhales not sure how to say this next thing without completely losing it just like when it happened. "F…Felix made Hank, forced my brother to suck him off, all the while I watched."
"Jesus. I didn't know Felix was capable of that." Natasha says.
"He wanted Anthony. Hank wouldn't let him, that's when Felix and Sam decided to give us a lesson." John says. "I'm pretty sure they were planning on raping him. But Joe didn't want to risk anything going wrong and Hank be injured, they decided a forced blow job would suffice. Fucking pricks."
"Whoa there John." Rafi says.
"Is everybody else okay?" Benny asks.
"Matthew is pretty beaten up, bloody nose, probably a mild concussion. Mitch was bleeding after he was raped because Sam didn't wear a condom. And Anthony, he had a panic attack." John says.
"Shit. Ian isn't going to like that." Benny says.
"None of them are going to like it! Our friends and lovers are being hurt and I can't help but feel responsible for it!" Rafi says.
"It isn't your fault. Felix and Sam are just very sick people, we know this. We've seen it. Joe can be pretty ruthless when he wants to be and Louis and Sam bring out the worst in him." John says. Kendall hands John a bottle of water and a candy bar. "I just ate but I will take it for later. Thanks."
"I need to know everything you remember about the house." Kendall says.
"Okay the outside was blue and white, didn't have a front porch just a long driveway. It had a balcony on the second floor. When you walked in you automatically entered into the living room or I guess it could be a dining room. But here's the thing, the kitchen was in a separate room with a door that closed and locked." John says. "I have no idea what the upstairs looks like they had all of us downstairs. They obviously prepared the house for us because there were these railings on the dining room walls so they could tie and cuff the handcuffs to."
"Sir, a video is starting to blow up and it isn't good." Becky tells him.
"What is it? What's on the video?" Kendall asks.
"Sean, being hit on the back with belts. He was hit at least 35 to 50 times." Becky says "The comments on the video aren't good."
"What channel posted it?" Kendall asks.
"That would be CinnamonToastKen." Becky says.
"If you will excuse me for a moment." Kendall says walking to the conference room where the YouTuber's are huddled around Mathias watching the video. Mark sits down on the ground, bringing in his knees close to his chest as he starts to sob. "Turn it off!" Kendall screams at them. "Now, turn it off! Look at what it is doing to him!"
"Mark, it's okay, it is going to be okay. We have John here now and we are going to get them back." Dan says.
"Yeah well they've already hurt him! Hurt all of them!" Mark says sobbing rocking back and forth.
"Give me the phone, please?" Kendall asks. Mathias hands the phone over to him. Kendall watches the video closely noticing the excitedness of this Sam Pepper guy. The video did not cut off right away. Sam held the camera as if he knew something else would happen. There is a commotion that wasn't caught on camera, and then a gunshot rang out. "Shit. They have a gun."
"Sir! Someone just called the tip line said that they saw Joe, Joey and Troye come into a McDonald's. They said that Troye didn't seem like he wanted to be there. They got their food and took off. She turned on the news and saw their faces on the TV and called right away." Natasha says.
"Okay. This is good. This is really good." Kendall says "But we have another problem. They have a gun."
"You have got to be shitting me. How the hell do they have a gun?!"
"Because of Todd and Douglass, Barely Political, they are active gun users." Rhett tells them. Kendall sighs nodding to him.
"Sir, we have a Shay Carl on the line he says that there is a mole within the department and that he's helping the kidnappers. He gave us an address, we checked on the maps and it is just an open field." Jack says.
"An open field that they could have built a house on." Kendall says. "We got them. I want you to take them to the hospital so that they are all their when their partners and friends arrive."
"Yes, sir." Jack says.
"Natasha, you think you can figure out who the mole is?" Kendall asks. Natasha points to Carson who is in the corner of the room talking quietly on his cell phone.
"I think I already did." Natasha says going over to Carson snapping the phone away from him but before she can say anything the person on the other end hangs up.
"How far away is this field?" Kendall asks.
"About 45 minutes." Jack says.
"Get SCO19 on the phone, ask them for a TST team, and send them the address." Kendall says.
"Got it." Ollie says. Natasha gulps coming over to Kendall.
"What is it, Nat?" Kendall asks.
"Troye Sivan has been shot. He's at the hospital with Connor Franta and Sarah Blackwood. He was rushed to surgery."
"Connor is okay?" Ricky asks.
"Yeah, he's being checked out by the doctors right now." Natasha says.
"Sir, guy at a gas station said that Felix came in and bought a bottle of vodka and a bottle of tequila." Jensen says.
"What is he planning on doing with those? Make a bomb?" Ollie asks.
"No, no. He's planning on having two of the kidnapped drink the whole bottle." Dan says.
"What?" Natasha asks shocked.
"It's a thing that he does." Ian says.
"At conventions and stuff." John says. "Never at VidCon because he knows we would never let him get away with it. But playlist live, after the streamy awards, ComicCon."
"It is sort of like a tradition. He'd find guys to target, it started off with smaller YouTubers but once he started gaining more popularity, the target's changed." Dan says. "Almost all of us have been victims of it. Me, Ian, Tyler, Ricky, Mark, Alfie, Rafi, like I said a lot of us."
"Who as far as the people kidnapped has not been through this little tradition?"
"More like hazing," Jack says, "Jesus he's more messed up then I realized."
"Hank and Phil." Dan says. "He was talking about how he wanted to do it at VidCon and the perfect targets would be the ones that are so loved. I guess he figured he couldn't be at VidCon so he's doing it now."
"How many of you suffered from alcohol poisoning after this?" Kendall asks.
"The only ones that got really messed up from it were Dan and Tyler." John says.
"Shit." Kendall says.
"What?" Tyler asks.
"Well, Phil and Hank are about the same size as you guys. So if they do down the whole bottle then they are more likely to get alcohol poisoning and not to mention the alcohol could really mess with Hank's stomach." Kendall says. "It doesn't matter we will get there in time, we have the address."
"Come on, you guys." Jack says.
"Ollie, Jensen you two go to the hospital with Jack I need you two there to take statements from the victims." Kendall says.
"You got it." Jensen says. "Okay guys six per van."
"I'm not going." Zoe says. "I need to be here when they bring my brother in."
"Should I stay?" Alfie asks her.
"If you want to, you can." Zoe says.
"I'm staying too." Benny says.
"Me too." Rafi says.
"Okay, then, four per car." Ollie says.
"Let's go." Corny says. The YouTuber's all following the three officers out the door. Kendall gets his bullet proof vest on, a gun in his left holster, another gun on his right holster.
"Be careful." Benny says.
"Always am." Kendall says gesturing for the other officers to get their equipment on.
"Please if you can…don't hurt him." Zoe says.
"I can't promise anything, but I will try." Kendall says. He nods to the four of them as he steps outside, the adrenaline already pumping. "Let's do this." Kendall says getting into the car as it speeds off towards the house.