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Chuck versus The Bouquet - Part Seven

At the underground facility under the City Center Site, Casey is just coming to. Sarah is still knocked out and they are both tied to chairs in a small room. His eyes adjust to the light in the room and he realizes that they aren't alone. Across from them are Ellie and Devon also tied up but still unconscious. He starts to think, first, where are we?...then who got all of us without us knowing it was coming?...Oh crap, where's Chuck?

Casey: "Walker! Walker! Wake up!" Sarah groggily opens one eye and looks toward the sound calling her name. "Walker!"

Sarah's up now! Her eyes open and she takes in her surroundings. She looks at Casey with a questioning look.

Sarah mouths over to him trying to be quiet: "What happened? Where are we?...where's Chuck?"

Casey: "Been through that already Walker. Don't know. They picked up Ellie and Devon too." He motions with his head towards Sarah's left. She turns and her mouth drops.

Sarah: "Casey, what are we going to say to them when they wake up?"

Casey: "I'm not quite sure yet. There's also a strong possibility that this room is bugged so watch what you say." He surveys the room and finds what appears to be a two way mirror, he grins at it hoping to annoy his captors.

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Bryce: "Now Chuck, this is Fulcrum we're going up against. These are some of the best trained agents the CIA and NSA have. Remember they think the Intersect is either in me or you and we're both about to crash their party. We have to be careful, okay. You realize the leverage they have right now, don't you? Listen carefully… they have Ellie and Devon…..and they've probably neutralized Sarah and Casey by now, so it's just us against them and they have all the cards."

Chuck responds sternly with renewed confidence: "No they don't Bryce. One, they don't know we're here and two, even if they think we'd come to save them…..they have no idea what I'm capable of, especially now."

Bryce: "All right, once we're in we'll have a better chance if we split up."

Chuck: "Got it!"

Bryce and Chuck both get out of the car, Chuck heads to the trunk and stares at Bryce.

Bryce: "What are you doing?"

Chuck: "I'm not gonna need this." He holds out the pistol. He just can't bring himself to think about killing anybody; it's just not in him. "No bullets, okay!"

Bryce opens the trunk and selects various guns, knives, grenades and two rifles. Bryce looks at him and grins. "Damn Chuck, you sure, that's Fulcrum in there?!

Chuck thinks about that for a few seconds and then decides that he could probably handle the tranquilizer pistol and tranq sniper rifles and picks up three clips of ammo then nods to Bryce. "Okay, I won't kill anyone with these." They both put on bulletproof vests. Bryce loads his shoulder harness and ammo belt then nods to Chuck. They check their earwigs confirming they can communicate with each other and then head over to the pump building. Bryce picks the lock and enters the building; he immediately drops down a hole in the floor and is gone.

Chuck stops outside the pump building puts the sniper rifle over his shoulder and looks around. The fountains are doing their 1812 overture sequence and it gets him in a very patriotic, charged up mood. He gets a very determined look on his face and enters the pump building; only something pulls him back. "I'm caught already", he thinks. He slowly turns around and sees the reason, he didn't crouch down so the rifle would fit through the doorway, it's caught on the door. Stupid idiot, he thinks to himself as he lowers the sniper tranquilizer rifle. Way to go Nerd Rambo you can't even walk through a door!

Bryce: "Chuck, are you in?"

Chuck: "I'm in, working my way under East Harmon Avenue. The underground facility is to the south of the Vdara."

Bryce: "The what! Dammit, Chuck I don't have the map in my head like you do. Which way?"

Chuck: "400 meters south then 75 meters east, follow the storm drain until you get to the third t-junction and turn left."

Bryce: "Got it. From here on out maintain radio silence unless there's an emergency. And no girly screams, these mics pick up everything."……….."Okay, Chuck…….Chuck?"

Chuck: "What? You said maintain silence, that's what I was doing! Good luck! Bartowski out!" He chuckles to himself.

Chuck advances down the storm drain and as he approaches the second t-junction he flashes. Shoot, he thinks to himself. They changed the plans, Bryce should've turned here." He goes to press his earwig to contact Bryce when he hears shooting up ahead. Silencers. Bryce must have taken out one of them. It's all right, Bryce will catch up. He peers around the second t-junction and sees three figures about 75 feet down the tunnel at the entrance to the Vdara basement.

Chuck whispers to himself: "Chuck what are you doing?" His hand starts to shake. "Calm down, calm down." Chuck thinks to himself: "Think about why you're here…..Sarah, Ellie, Devon and Casey. They're all here, prisoners because of you, because of the Intersect. Now you have the knowledge and the tools to save them."

Somewhere deep down he can hear Casey say, "Grow a pair Bartowski!"

He says to himself: "Okay, here goes, just like Call of Duty – Sniper time." He levels the tranq rifle and with three rapid shots all three figures drop to the ground. He picks up his nightscope and surveys his surroundings, all clear. He advances past the three unconscious bodies, not wanting to look at them, he passes quickly and works his way to the entrance of the Vdara.

He stops and looks around, something's not right. He doesn't hear anything but he grabs the night scope and adjusts some of the dials on it. The night scope now set on infrared sensing shows that three feet ahead of him is an infrared beam and another at the door. He carefully steps over the first beam and then ducks under the one at the door. He's in! Dismantling the rifle he leaves it behind. He drops to his knees and hides in the darkness waiting as two guards pass. He turns and steps out just behind them silently, two instantaneous punches later, one to the kidneys and one to the head and the first guard is knocked out. As the second guard turns to see his assailant, Chuck swirls around and delivers a roundhouse karate style kick to the side of the head knocking him to the ground. He looks down and surveys the damage, it somehow reminds him of the Bourne Identity.

He turns the corner and sees a figure ahead. He crosses the room in a heartbeat not making a sound. One kick to the back of the knee and a swift punch to the chin and the guard drops. "Nighty Night Sucka!" Chuck says to himself.

"Chuck, wait!" He hears a voice in his head. "Just wait" It's Bryce just catching up. Bryce surveys the 6 unconscious guards in Chuck's wake and looks at Chuck impressed. Unphased, Chuck points to the next hallway and motions for Bryce to follow.

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