"Ok guys everyone listen up." Bryce yelled, calling the chatting agents, plus head leader for the group Beckman sent in to attention. "This is basically our defense, and one shot, at taking down this section of Fulcrum. Our mole indicates no other group is aware of their plan or is working with them, so we take down this section and it will deliver a severe blow. Understood?"
"What's the objective chief?" Chuck asked pumped and ready to start the mission.
"It is quite easy, we are taking down the regional command center. When I mean take down, I mean infiltrate shoot to kill, or injure, anything. Take no prisoners unless they are leaders. They may have some of our guys held hostage, get them out of the building. The only man we want to make sure is dead is Samuel Thomas, Ron Thomas's brother. Do you understand? He is the one we have figured out has control to shooting that nuke off to D.C. take him dead, not alive." Bryce with such a strong voice, no one dared to make a sound.
"So we just go in guns a blazing and hope for the best?" Carina asked.
"Basically. There is no set way we can hatch this out, I mean we will get to specifics, but that is the outline of the job." Bryce answered.
"Awesome." Whispered Casey.
"Now we need Chuck protected in that building to flash on Thomas, and in care the nuke gets sent we need his computer skill to deactivate it. I need a three people to go with him, and obviously it's going to be Walker, Casey and Carina." Turning towards the other units head man Bryce commanded that "Your side will be split in half, snipers at all windows we will be wearing black with black head bands so you know who we are, no friendly fire. The other half will be manned by me rushing for as many leaders as possible. We want to just blow through the guards."
"I can knock out the security cameras." Chuck offered.
"There really is no point, this is the main meeting ground for Fulcrum out here in California, led by Thomas. As long as we get to him, we will only have to worry about the other 49 states they are positioned in." Bryce admitted, a bit sarcastically.
"So, how do we know this won't cause a reaction from the rest of Fulcrum?" Sarah asked.
"Oh we know it will, but the thing is, once we do this, Fulcrum is going to know the main leaders of taking them down are you, me, Chuck, Casey and Carina. So…we will be the ones in danger, not the world." Bryce replied.
"Woah woah woah, will they know I am the intersect?" Chuck asked.
"Excellent question, NO one is to call Chuck the intersect, he will be AGENT BLUE! UNDERSTANT?! Agent Blue, so that way we know right away if he is in danger." Bryce yelled, making sure his true point got across.
"We are compromising ourselves." Casey yelled out.
"Maybe, but with the damage done, we have some time to lay low, with the intersect we should be able to be warned of an attack against us. So, while we may have to go off the grid and get new identities and looks…well I mean this is the life of a spy." Bryce said a bit sadly.
"What about my sister?" Chuck asked, feeling out of place from the rest of the group.
"Don't worry, we will make sure she is safe." Bryce said firmly.
"If I suddenly have to get a new identity she can't think I died, it will kill her." Chuck pleaded.
"If you have to go off the grid, she will too." Bryce admitted.
"So she will be safe, no lies?" Chuck clarified.
"You can trust me." Was Bryce's simple reply. "Now this mission is dangerous, it is crazy, we are probably going to lose some lives, but we are saving thousands. Lets go people, move out!" Bryce shouted, grabbing his guns and gear, walking towards the many cars that awaited his team.
"Sarah Bear?" Chuck called softly, being the only two left in the house.
"Yea?" Sarah smiled, thinking of how the nickname came about.
"Promise you will come back to me." Chuck pleaded.
"I will do my best." Sarah replied.
"I need you to come back, so you can be my wife." Chuck whispered, pulling out a diamond ring.
Sarah's jaw dropped, he was proposing now?
"No Chuck, this isn't going to be goodbye, you hold onto that ring, and when this is over you ask me." Sarah answered.
"You are saying no?" Chuck asked shocked.
"No, I am saying I am not going to let this be the last memory I have of you. When the mission is over, you ask, not as a goodbye, ok?" Sarah pleaded.
"Ok Sarah bear, anything for you." Chuck answered, pulling out a chain and putting the ring around his neck. "Lets go beat up some bad guys."
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The drive to Fulcrum's command center was long, about thirty miles outside of town. It was another five walking to the actual compound. Everyone was dressed in their gear, ready and willing to strike.
"No holds barred guys, if you can't kill, knock em out, understand?" Bryce asked, looking right at Chuck.
"It's showtime." Casey yelled out.
Suddenly it was like world war three broke out as the teams stormed the compound. Entrance was quickly gained, the snipers were firing off shots while inside everyone was firing their guns at all moving targets.
Casey, Carina, Sarah and Chuck were quick to get away from the main fight, walking smoothly through the building until they came upon the room where they knew Samuel would be.
Casey counted to three before they knocked the door down and rushed inside, only to find the place empty.
"What do we do now?" Casey asked.
"Oh my God, he sent off the nuke!" Cried out Carina.
Quickly Chuck rushed to the computer and started to type in keys.
"There are five high powered fire walls put up, blocking the manual shut down, and the automatic was destroyed." Chuck told the group.
Suddenly, Fulcrum agents made their way into the room. Casey, Carina and Sarah all started fighting while Chuck worked on the computer. It wasn't until the cold butt of a gun landed on Chuck's neck that he stopped.
"Agent Bartowski." The man said calmly. "I believe you are one of the people who have my brother, and now you are trying to stop my revenge? Not smart."
"Yea, well what can I say, I wasn't always good at academics." Chuck replied.
"It shows." Grunted out Samuel Thomas, as he took off his mask.
Chuck flashed as soon as they made eye contact. He saw the plans in detail of the attack on D.C..
"Tell your team to stand down." Thomas ordered thrusting the butt of the gun towards Chuck.
"Uhh Sarah?" Quickly Sarah looked over and saw the predicament Chuck was in.
"Everybody freeze!" Sarah yelled causing the fighting to stop.
The Fulcrum agents looked smug as they walked over towards their leader while Carina, Casey and Sarah looked down right pissed.
"How did we let him slip past us?" Carina asked out loud.
"I am very good at disappearing, I was trained by the best." Thomas answered.
"He was trained by the CIA." Chuck admitted.
"How did you know that?" Thomas asked.
Chuck quickly tried to think of a random story that would allow him to save his cover, but he was coming up blank, luckily Sarah was watching out for him.
"We all are taught to research our marks, your file says you used to be CIA." Sarah replied for Chuck.
"Very good Walker, I am impressed." Thomas replied. "But see now I have this problem, because you are trying to put a rain on my party and I just do not approve. I am going to have to kill you, you know?"
"Or you could like, like let us fight it out?" Carina proposed.
"I am not stupid I know you could take my men." Thomas admitted.
Suddenly, Chuck realized that the guard were piled right in front of one of the windows where snipers were hiding out up on a hill, a smirk came onto his face.
"I don't know, maybe you could take us." Chuck said, trying to stall for time, he knew any minute bullets were going to be flying.
"You are pretty stupid if you think I would believe that." Thomas replied evilly.
"Well if you are going to kill us, can I at least join my team over there?" Asked Chuck.
"I guess, you are all going to die anyway." Thomas replied.
"Man it is a good thing that Agent Blue needs help, I am glad we brought enough agents." Chuck said aloud, catching the attention of his team.
"Agent Blue?" Thomas asked.
"Yea, with us caught in here about to die, I am glad we brought some extra men, because he really needs help." Chuck explained, covertly pressing his mike button on his watch so everyone fighting could hear he needed help.
Sarah quickly realized what Chuck was doing, and motioned for Casey and Carina to get ready.
Within ten seconds shots started flying through the window, killing the guards and anyone in sight. Chuck was trying to fight off three men, so he did not see Thomas aim his gun at him, but Sarah did and she quickly drew her gun and aimed at Thomas but suddenly Thomas turned and fired causing Sarah to crash to floor from the bullets impact into her stomach. Chuck caught her mid fall, as Casey and Carina both quickly shot Thomas dead to the ground.
"Cease fire!" Casey screamed into his mike. "Walker is down, I repeat walker is down, get EMTs in here NOW!" He boomed.
"Sarah?" Chuck whispered, lifting her head onto his lap. "Sarah bear, I need you to be ok, say you are ok." Chuck pleaded at the unconscious body on the floor.
Quickly he checked her pulse, happy to see it was strong, but knowing it wouldn't stay that way for long with all the blood she was losing.
A stretcher suddenly came into the room, along with EMTs to help Sarah.
"Chuck we need you to disarm the nuke, can you do it?" Carina asked, pulling him off of Sarah, trying to get him to focus.
"What?" Chuck asked, his eyes staying on Sarah as she was placed onto a gurney.
"CHUCK! The nuke!" Casey yelled, snapping Chuck out of his daze.
Quickly running over to the computer, Chuck typed in the disarm code he saw during his flash and watched as the nuke's track started to shut down.
"The code was in the flash, the nuke is disarming, you should be able to automatically type in where you want it to land." Chuck said in a monotone voice.
"Ok I will take care of that, Carina take Chuck to the hospital and get him cleaned up while we wait on news on Walker." Casey ordered, sitting in the seat Chuck had just occupied.
"Come on Chuck." Carina said gently, leading him out of the room.
On the inside Chuck was going crazy, his Sarah Bear was hurt because he wasn't paying attention and she had to save him. He wasn't going to be able to live if she didn't make it. She had a ring to wear, she was going to be Mrs. Bartowski. She had to be ok.