Chapter 5

"Neal?, NEAL?" Peter screamed running into the room, in which he saw Neal run into 10 minutes prior. Peter, along with Diana, Jones, and the SBPD team, searched the place from top from bottom. Then Lassitor ran down to the basement and saw a secret door that Neal had traveled out of when he got kidnapped. Lassitor yelled after the rest, "Guys, I found something down here."

The rest of the team ran to where Carlton was standing. They found tire tracks, and follows them until after a half mile, they came to an end. Peter sighed, "It's a dead end. Let's go back to the office, plan for a little bit, and worst come to worse, we send out a missing person search in 24 hours. The teams rushed back to the office, and fill Chief Vick in on the most current events. "How did you let this happen? You could have gone in with him for all I care. He better have a plan. I am going to give him a few hours before I call a meeting. "

Peter was way too worried about Neal to even wait a few hours. He send Diana and Jones "out for a break", they were really going out to get a trace, or a lead for the case. Back at the police station, they had Shawn in a room, with eyes on him 24/7. They all knew that the Koala was going to try to get him next, for whatever their stupid plan was. They had police officers in the room with in without a question, and Juliet stayed with most of the time as well, because she was worried sick about him. That night, everyone had gone home for the night, and Jules when out for a break after dinner, Shawn was playing Angry Birds on his phone, when he got a text message from an unidentified number.

Shawn, I know they are hiding u from me and my boss Diego, but u cant do that forever. Tonight go the nearest 24 hr. McDonald and ill be there. If u tell anybody, Gus dies. Simple

Koala

Shawn thought about the text for a while thinking about what to do. He didn't want to go and risk his life, but at the other time he needed a way for the police to catch the guy. He went back and forth and back and forth for a while, until he came up with a final say. He dialed up Jules around 1:00. "Hey sweetie, I know you're probably asleep but I am going out to grab a McDouble in around in hour. Bring the team, and who knows, maybe we will mean some old lost friends, maybe some animals."

Back in the house, Juliet listened to the voicemail a bunch of times. She wrote it down, and tried to decipher exactly what he intended. She had gotten, he is going to McDonalds at 2:00. But what about the animals? Then it hit her. He has to go to McDonalds at 2:00 to meet with the Koala, and she had to bring police forces. She dialed up Lassitor, Chief Vick, and Peter and explained what was going on.

Shawn got to the McDonalds right at 2:01. He went in, looked around, and saw the Koala sitting at a table in the corner, sipping on some coffee. At least he assumed he was the Koala because he had a grey fuzzy sweatshirt on.

"Are you the Koala?" Shawn asked.

The Koala nodded and said, "You can call me Tony."

"Alright Tony, what do you want from me?" Shawn asked, waiting for the right moment to bust over into the line and buy a McDouble. He was actually kind hungry.

"I want you to clear my name from charges. Use your psychic tool and tell everyone I am innocent. Even tho I may have stolen those Shakespeare plays it wasn't my idea. I…"

"FBI, hands in the air." Peter yelled as he rushed into the McDonalds, followed by Jules, who winked at Shawn, and the rest of the team. He runs over to Tony and handcuffs him.

"You should be lucky he got you," Lassie started. "If it was me who got you, your head would be blown off before you could say anything. Now let's go you little thief.

As the Koala climbed into the back of the police car, he smiled and looked at Shawn, "remember our little chat."

Later that day, Koala was sitting with Peter and Lassitor in the interrogation room back at the SBPD.

"Alright," Peter starts in, "You can make this easy on us, and tell us what you did, or this can go the hard way. You hear me?"

"Alright. Fine, you caught be. I stole the Shakespearean art. But it wasn't my choice to. My boss, Diego, has put me up to all this. I owed him and now I have to do this task for him, and my debt is paid permanently."

"And where are Gus and the others?" Lassie asked, eyes glaring like bullets.

"What do you mean? I don't know what you are talking about. I swear. You see, there are lots of people that work for Diego, so he must have had someone else take your friends." With that McNabb stepped into the room, "Sir, Tony's lawyer is here, and he would like a moment."

Lassitor and Peter stepped out of the room for a moment while the man in a suit nodded at them and entered the interrogation room. After 5 minutes, as the man requested, Peter stepped back into the room, while Lassie finished up some details of another case with O'Hara. When Peter stepped back into the room, the Koala was laying dead on the floor, alongside the security guard. On top of the Koala's dead corpse there was a note.

Congrats on capturing the Koala. Unfortunately he will be no use to you. The man you are looking for is me. I have Gus, Neal, and Mozzie. They work for me now, with their lives on the line. Too bad I couldn't get Shawn for my plan. But it will take a lot more to stop me. Just saying. Good luck :)

Diego

When Peter was done reading the note, he ran back and showed it to all the others. They tooks turns passing it around, until all of them had read it.

"What does this mean, boss?" Diana asked

"Diego is out there, somewhere, and we will find him. Then this will all be over." Chief Vick said with a smile.

"Over?" Shawn asked. "Heck, this is only the beginning."

End of Book 1