The prius was parked non-parallel to the curb outside the meeting place of the secret drug dealing building as Steve hadn't had to time to straighten up when they were pursuing the artefact. They got into the car and Claudia immediately took out her laptop from underneath the passenger seat, she was just loading it up when the Farnsworth rang.
"Steve would you get that?" Claudia asked as she was busy with her laptop, trying to get more information on Theseus's ring. He opened the device to Artie's same old greying beard and under tamed eyebrows.
"I have the information on the car you're after, the registration is fake but the current location of the of it is away from the city, in what looks like some kind of farm building, co-ordinates 67 – 98 maybe Claudia can-''
"Already on it" Claudia interrupted him as she typed with vicious speed on the keyboard the co-ordinates to their new destination.
"Alright, thanks Artie" Steve shut the Farnsworth and drove out of the city street, out of the city and into the country lanes.
They drove for another thirty minutes, following the co-ordinates from Claudia's laptop. The weather was more noticeable in the farmlands as the sky scrapers of the city tended to block out the sky somewhat. It was boring weather, just a plain white cloudy sky, steadily getting greyer, ready for rain and the temperature wasn't much better either.
"We're a little low on gas" Steve said, staring at the fuel gauge. Claudia looked up, only slightly worried. "We should be fine"
"This is it" Claudia said as they turned left down a long dirt road leading to a lonely shabby looking old farmhouse.
Steve pulled over half way down the dirt road. "I think we should know how many are in there before we even try to snag this thing" he said as he took off his seat belt.
"OK, you wanna go round the back? We should be able to figure out how many are in there if we peak through a window"
"Let's go then"
They got out of the prius and briskly walked towards the big building. It was very run down and in dire need of a handyman to fix the many holes in the roof and the broken windows and pipes. This place was the perfect meet up location for guys like Max; it was isolated, surrounded by miles of fields, had loads of room for larger gatherings and was difficult to find unless you already knew it was there. They passed the black car they had traced earlier parked in what was once the driveway, now just a continuation of the dirt road.
Claudia and Steve quickened their pace as they neared one of the un-broken windows. They crouched down underneath it, and heard voices coming from inside.
"...just think guys, with even just half of this stuff sold to the right buyer, we still get loads of cash between us and the remaining crack"
"Seriously good haul man, this thing really is neat, huh"
Claudia stole a quick glance through the window and saw four pretty big Caucasian guys stood in the centre of a large room with old wooden walls, ceiling and floor. She ducked back down as quickly as she had peaked up.
"There're four of them from what I can see. Steve these guys don't look so inviting...how do we go about doing this?" Claudia whispered.
"Well we can't just knock on the front door and ask them to just hand it over"
"Oh no shit Sherlock" Claudia rolled her eyes with a small smile on her face, still keeping her voice quiet. "I say we move to one of the broken windows, we each take out one of them with our Tesla's, that's two down, leaving Max and one other guy left"
"Then what?"
"I'm working on it Jinksy" she said while clearly wracking her brains for an easy solution to their predicament. "The remaining two would freak out, then they would discover us sat under their window and game over. I can't see these guys being the co-operative type, do you?"
"No not at-'' Steve stopped. "Does it seem quiet to you?"
The pair of them were silent. The men had stopped talking, stopped making any noise what so ever. Claudia's breathing quickened ever so slightly as she and Steve slowly looked up.