Chapter Five-
The time Machine came to a halting stop and Lucy Frowned and gagged. It was never going to get easier to time travel. She looked over at Flynn who gave her a grin and then at Rufus who looked as bad as she felt, "Is it just me or was that a little worse than normal?" She asked him.
Rufus looked over at her and nodded, "It felt off when I was navigating, like it wanted to do it own thing." He started to look over the buttons and screens. "The calibration is off in the navigation."
Flynn unbuckled and reached over to help Lucy start to unbuckle also, "Well let's see what my home country looks like." She looked at him and shook her head, "How are you not sick."
"Excitement of the new adventure." Flynn said stepping out of the door to see the lush green country side and fields of vegetables. "It looks the same in 150 years, maybe a little darker and sadder. But that could be because I grew up and it had an ugly tint to it."
Lucy walked out behind Flynn to look at the view. "It looks beautiful." She said in awe. "Everything is so green and full…. it looks so peaceful." Rufus and Wyatt climbed out behind them to look around.
Flynn looked down at Lucy, "Appearances can be deceiving." He said softly with a frown.
Lucy looked over at him and reached for his hand, giving it a small squeeze.
Wyatt looked over at them with a scowl, he started walking forward over to look beyond the hill, "Lucy and I will go towards the town over there." He said pointing to the distance. "Flynn and Rufus can try to cover the machine with some branches, so it stays hidden."
Rufus, Flynn and Lucy just turned to look at him, "Really?" Rufus said looking at him. You want the one person who speaks the native language to NOT go into town?"
Wyatt turned to look at them, "We are just scouting and getting clothes. We are not going to worry about going into town right now." He said.
Lucy shook her head at him "Every moment we wait Emma could be killing or kidnapping Duka. We have to find her and protect her as soon as possible"
Wyatt nodded reluctantly, "Fine I will go with Flynn to find her, Lucy and Rufus stay here."
Lucy snorted, "Yes because two large men going to a very pregnant woman and getting her to listen is going to work. I am going because I probably know the most about her. I did an entire portion of my class last semester on Nikola Tesler and his family, his upbringing and his accomplishments. None of you know more then I do. Flynn is going because he is the only one who will actually be able to communicate with her." She turned to Rufus, "Do you know what's going on with the time machine?"
Rufus nodded at her, "It is the navigation, I am going to need to recalibrate it, and then reset parts of the system."
Lucy frowned, "How long will it take, do you need anything?"
Rufus shook his head, "I shouldn't really need anything, but I will need some time. At least a few hours." He turned to look at the panel under the machine.
"Lucy turned to Wyatt, "As much as I know you hate it, I think it would be better if you stay here with Rufus, or maybe come with us to find some clothes and bring them back to him." She turned to Flynn with a frown, "We have to divide and concur here. We have to get to Duka but we also have to make sure that we can get home."
Wyatt looked like he wanted to object but Lucy was making logical points, "Fine, I will go with you two to find clothes. Once I get something for Rufus and I, I will come back here and check up on him and get him the clothes. We will see after that."
Lucy nodded in agreement, "Rufus, you ok with that plan?" She asked him. But his attention was on the control panel and he grunted in response. Lucy walked over and tapped his shoulder. "You good with that?" He looked up with a grin, "Staying here and safe, fixing the machine. Not a problem."
Lucy smiled at him, "Ok we will be back in a bit, hopefully after we have fixed the world one more time." She said as she started walking to town. Flynn and Wyatt followed her at a slower pace, Flynn smiling at her back and Wyatt scowling in general.
They walk for what seem like hours, until they found a house with laundry out to dry. Lucy, Wyatt were lucky because they found things that fit right away, and they were able to find Rufus something. Flynn on the other hand, being 25 feet tall looked ridicules in the pants that were about 3 inches too short and the vest that did not meet the top of his pants. Wyatt rolled his eyes at him before turning to Lucy. "I am going to take these to Rufus, then I will meet you in the village." He said before running back the way they came.
Lucy turned to Flynn and started following him into town, she snickered at him as she walked behind him looking at his ankles.
He stopped and turned, eyes narrowed. "Its not funny." He growled.
She started laughing out loud, "Actually it is really funny. And really it is your own fault, I didn't make you 25 feet tall."
Flynn rolled his eyes at her, "It is genetics not a choice."
She snickered as she walked past him, "Yep and its your genetics, not mine."
He gently pushed her shoulder with his elbow as he caught up to her, "Brat." he whispered to her making her grin up at him.
They made it to the village and thank god for Flynn's ability to speak Croatian because they would have been well and truly screwed without it. They found out that Duka and her family lived on the other side of the village and they were not the first to ask either.
"Fuck." Flynn muttered looking down at Lucy, "Rittenhouse are already on the way."
He was cut off as Wyatt ran up to them, "Rufus was looking through the main frame and said that he needs something with copper. I came to see if you need any help and grab some copper." He said out of breath.
Lucy looked back and forth at them, finally she cleared her throat, "Ok we can't all be in two places at once. So, I will go to Duka's house and you two have to find the copper." She held up her hand as both men opened their mouths to argue. "Flynn you are the only one who can speak Croatian, so you have to ask around, find it and then Wyatt needs to get it to Rufus as fast as he can. We need to be able to get home, but we also need to get to Duka as fast as we can. So, you two go and then Flynn can catch up with me. If anything happens we will all meet at the lifeboat." She looked back and forth. She saw both men looking like they still wanted to argue with her. So, she held up her other hand, "You heard Agent Christopher. I am in charge and this is the best plan in a really sucky situation. So, go right now and the sooner we meet up the better."
She watched as they both nodded with unhappy looks on their faces. Flynn looked at her with a frown, before handing her a small pistol that he pulled from his back. "Take this." When she went to shake her head no he pushed it into her hand, "You want us to follow your plan, then you will take this. You need to be able to protect yourself when we can't be there." He reached out and grabbed her hand, turning her to look at him, "You are to go and watch only. Make sure she is ok, if you see ANY Rittenhouse, you hide. Yo do not engage with them, ok."
When she didn't nod at him, he grabbed her shoulders, bending his knees to look into her eyes, "You say yes and give me your word, or I go with you and fuck the copper."
Lucy finally nodded and took the gun and slid it into the pocket of her full skirt, hiding it from view. "Fine, You guys hurry and no fighting. We don't have time to argue right now." She said turning and walking away quickly.
Flynn looked over at Wyatt and smiled his condensing smile, "Looks like we are partners now."
Wyatt scowled, "You are not my partner and I don't trust you even a little. Now let's find this stuff so we can get to Lucy." He said turning towards the village. Flynn followed grinning.
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It took them 3 hours to find some who had a copper pot and another 30 minutes trying to find something to trade him for it. In that time both Flynn and Wyatt were getting more and more anxious, knowing Lucy was alone and knowing Lucy, if there was a problem she would be diving in head first.
They watched as the man finally came out with the copper pot with a smile and Flynn felt himself slipping into his old anger and wanted to hit the man with the pot when he finally handed it over. He looked over at Wyatt and for once they looked like they were on the same page. Flynn handed over the coins he had lifted off another man earlier and he and Wyatt walked away.
"Ok you go back to the life boat and I will go get Lucy, so we can get out of this hell hole." Flynn said walking to the road. Wyatt nodded, "I am going to Rufus, once I give this to him, I will come find you two. If you are done faster come down this path so we can meet." Wyatt said, but before Flynn could answer shots rang out.
Flynn and Wyatt dived for cover in the ditch, pulling out their guns while rolling. They both turned to the direction that the shots rang out from. But there were too many trees, and who ever was shooting was hiding well.
"Do you see them?" Flynn asked looking around without lifting his head.
"No," Wyatt growled also looking, trying to ignore the pain in his leg. "I think it came from the right."
Flynn looked to the direction that Wyatt was pointed and started to look for the reflection of the metal of the gun. Finally, he spotted the shooter behind a tree 50 yards over to the right. He sighed knowing he was over this day already. He wanted to get to Lucy and each moment he sat in this ditch was a moment wasted. He turned to look at Wyatt who was looking like shit. "I am going to run past you to the left, It will make the shooter come out from behind the tree. Shoot him. 50 yards down the right, behind the tree. Do you see him?"
When Wyatt nodded at him and grunted Flynn took a breath, "Try to hurry, I would prefer not to be shot today. Plus, if I Die Lucy will be pissed." He said with a grin.
Wyatt rolled his eyes and nodded, "So move fast, old man."
Flynn grinned and said, "Ready?" He crouched up and took a deep breath, "Now." He said taking off shooting in the direction of the tree. Once he made it up and out he took off and waited to see if he could trust Wyatt.
He heard the shoots ring out and ran faster. He finally heard a shot from Wyatt and then he saw the man fall from behind the tree. He stopped and took a deep breath, he was really getting old he thought. He walked over to the man bleeding out from the gunshot to the chest, "How many of there are you?" Flynn asked kicking the mans gun out of his reach, he squatted down and pointed his gun at him, "How many?" He asked again.
The man laughed, blood spraying out of his mouth, "Enough…enough that you will never win."
Flynn grinned down at him, "Says the man bleeding out. I have killed enough of your Rittenhouse people that I am not worried." He leaned down and narrowed his eyes, "I will kill every single one of you. I will kill each and everyone of you … and I will do it with a smile on my face." He said reaching down and pushed his gun down by the hole in his chest. The man screamed in pain, eyes watering, chest heaving out breaths.
"Fine." He screamed after a moment. "There were 3 of us. Emma, another man and I." He said gasping when Flynn let up. "I was to follow and kill you two. Emma and the other man went after the target."
Flynn nodded down at him, "Duka Teslaa?"
The mans eyes widened, "How do you…"
Flynn grinned, "Come on now… you should know by know that we know everything that you are up to?"
The man coughed again and screamed when Flynn put pressure on his chest again, "Stop." He screamed, "Please stop." When Flynn let off he took a breath that echoed with the wetness of his blood, "Emma and the other guy went to take Duka and keep her until she gives birth. Then they plan on giving the baby to an agent they dropped off before." When Flynn went to put more pressure again the man shook his head, "That's all I Know, Emma is the only one who knows who the agent is. I swear." He coughed.
Flynn grinned down a them, "Well then I guess I don't need you." He said putting his knee on his chest this time and slowly adding weight until the mans eyes rolled in pain, "The next town over. A woman, dark hair, short and I swear she has a light mustache. That's it. I don't know anything else. Please." The man said coughing blood.
Flynn nodded at him and stood up to walk away, when he passed the gun he picked it up and slid it into the back of his waist. He heard the man behind him laugh, "I got your man though." He said before he coughed one more time and then his rolled into the back of his head.
He turned back to see Wyatt slowly getting up and then he stumbled back to his knees. Flynn cursed and ran back over to him. "What's going on? Getting lazy on me?" Flynn asked looking over at him.
Wyatt narrowed his eyes at him, "Fuck you." He muttered reaching down to his leg with a gasp, "I think that asshole got me."
Flynn looked down at the blood pouring out of Wyatt's leg and cursed. He reached down and took off his belt pushing Wyatt down and rolling him onto his back, "Well you are going to be useless." He muttered down at him, trying to get a rise out of him and to get him to focus on being angry and not in pain. He tied the belt around the bleed trying to get pressure to stop the bleeding. He looked up at Wyatt who was getting paler and paler with each passing moment. He looked up and around them and then cussed again, "You are not going to make it back on your own, come on." He said pulling Wyatt up and onto his feet. When Wyatt swayed Flynn wrapped an arm around him and started pulling him down the road towards the lifeboat. He stopped and scooped up that stupid fucking copper pot that started this trouble.
It took them another 45 minutes for Flynn to carry Wyatt back to the life boat. When it came into view he saw Rufus under the machine doing something to the panel.
"A little help here." He called out of breath. He watched as Rufus looked out then scramble to his feet.
"What happened?" Rufus asked running over to them.
Flynn smiled, "He irritated me one to many times, so I shot him." He said with sarcasm.
Rufus stopped and looked at them for a moment, until her realized Flynn was being sarcastic and grinned, "Bull, you would have shot him in the chest, not the leg."
He said walking over and taking Wyatt's other arm.
Flynn grinned over at him, "No, Lucy would be mad if I killed him. But a leg shot he will heal from." Making Rufus laugh.
Wyatt rolled his eyes at them, "Will you two shut the fuck up." Which only made them laugh harder.
Rufus finally noticed that Lucy was not with them, "Where is Lucy?"
Flynn frowned, "Probably also getting in trouble. She is with Duka, so I am dropping this one off to be watched while I go find and help her."
Rufus nodded, and they set Wyatt down against the life boat, He reached out and grabbed the copper pot from Flynn. "Ok you go get Lucy and I will finish fixing the life boat. I just need a chunk to solder into the wiring. Should take about 20-30 minutes total."
Flynn nodded and looked down at Wyatt who had laid his head against the machine, his eyes closed. "You should be safe. We took out the agent coming after us. Emma and one more are with Duka. I will take care of them." Flynn said with a scowl. "We will be back as soon as we can."
"Good I am ready to get the hell out of here." Rufus said with a frown.
"I gotta go, Lucy has been alone for over 5 hours now." Flynn said with a nod walking away. "and I am ready to leave this hell hole."
Rufus nodded and went over to check on Wyatt, "This place sucks…" He muttered.