Disclaimers at the end. It's just the way I like to do them OK!
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Sarah Walker was running as if her life depended on it. No less than 30 seconds before LA was hit by a totally unexpected earthquake and it put everyone into a total state of panic.
Sara's only thought – Find Chuck!
Sarah pushed her way through the mass of people trying to get out of the Buy More and made it to the nerd herd desk only to find Jeff and Lester scared crapless under the desk. One was holding a collection of homemade DVDs and the other a case of half full beer. Upon hearing Sarah scream they pointed towards the door to the area known as the cage. Looking down she saw Chuck's GPS watch looking like it was electrocuted.
She kicked open the door as she drew her gun "CHUCK WHERE ARE YOU!"
"I'm so sorry Special Agent Sarah Lisa Walker of the United States of America Central Intelligence Agency, The one you call Chuck seems to have eluded both of us for the moment."
Sarah spun around and with gun ready, she aims it directly at…. Emmett?
"Oh Crap, really my dear that will not be necessary. Look into my eyes. See, there is no reason to move is there?"
Sarah could not explain what happened next but she found herself letting Emmett take her weapon which he then threw in the garbage then allowed him to tie her up to the chair Chuck usually sat in when doing repairs.
"Now my dear, tell me where your is-he-fake-or-not boyfriend is?"
Sarah suddenly looked up at Emmett and blinked "What.. .How did I get here? What did you do to me Emmett?"
"Why Agent Walker, or as that waste of flesh Jeff puts it Totally Hot Blonde Momma, don't concern yourself with such little details as who I am. You can call me… your Master for the moment. Now where is the…" An alarm that Sarah never heard before goes off and Emmett looks points a small metal rod at the large test monitor that Chuck uses when he fixes computers. What appears is a image of Casey entering the front doors of the Buy More. Only it looks a little strange. Almost 3D only it appears a bit out of focus. Like the last Superbowl game she and Chuck watched with Ellie and Devin wearing those uncomfortable paper glasses.
"Well well well, what do we have here? John Casey finally decides to grace us with his presence. Excellent maybe he knows where the little lost sheep got too hmmmm. I've spent a long time getting this together since my ship crashed to have your boy toy mess it up. And you my CIA lovely will be the bait to make sure that doesn't happen."
As soon as Emmett goes out the doors, Sarah works on getting loose, but whatever he tied her up with feels like metal and she can't find any place to try and pry it apart.
Looking around she notices that in the there is a strange machine in the corner of the cage starting to glow. As the light gets stronger the earth starts to shake and another earthquake hits. "They are getting stronger, another one like that and the Buy More will become the Flat More!"
From the storage room Sarah starts hearing another strange noise and a flashing light appears under the door. In the matter of seconds it stops though, Just as Emmett returns "Well Agent Walker I have to admit your partner is pig headed. When he decides to want to strangle you then it takes 4 of these…" He holds up Casey's tranq gun, "…to finally get him to see reason. No matter, even asleep he will still serve his master."
"Aaaah I see you are admiring my little invention. It has taken me several months to construct this. Not the best design I have ever came up with, but let's face it, Earth is not the place I would come for supplies normally."
"What are you doing Emmett?"
"Why Sarah, you don't mind me calling you Sarah. Of course you don't. You see in about 20 minutes there will be a Vogon Construction fleet flying by and I intend to hitch a ride. However in order to get them to slow down enough I need to drain the all heat from the Earth's core. It serves two purposes really I can use all that power for my transmat. I could say I am being enviromentally friendly, but really it is a small planet and won't be missed when the transmat's feedback blows the planet in half." Emmett throws a towel over his shoulder. "Now I have to go and make sure your boy toy is too busy saving you and the beast minor to interfere with my plans. Fate is sometimes too cruel. If I had known he would be here I would have stayed far far away." Emmett points a his metal tube at the feet of Sarah's chair and then he rolls it right up against his devices and then the chair becomes stuck once again. "That should keep you from moving. Now when I leave I will activate the laser cell. If the invisible beam is broken, then kabloom! Little bits of Blondie all over the place. Ta Ta!" and Emmett heads toward the steps going to the roof.
"Psst"
"Whose there?"
"Sarah it's me"
"Chuck – you got to get out of here. There is a bomb set to an invisiab.."
"I know I know. Aww really is that the best he could come up with." She sees Chuck coming out of the closet holding another one of those weird devices. He presses a button and looks like he is scanning for bugs.
"Just as I thought" Chuck tells Sarah as he walks over to the fuse box and turns off the power to the cage. "Emmett is really not that bright since that last regeneration, hooking up everything to the same power grid. Turn off the grid and you turn off the bomb, the heat sucking from the earth's core device and his transmat. There, now they are useless." Chuck goes over to Sarah and using whatever he had in his hands releases her hands and feet.
Then after Sarah stands he leans down and kisses her.
"Chuck – Don't – stop Emmett"
"Right. Sorry, we do have other things to so, like now we really have to get out of here." He points his device at the fuse box and it explodes in a bunch of sparks and he grabs Sarah by the hand and heads to the closet.
"Oh Crap. Chuck why is there a British police call box in the closet?"
Sarah had not seen one since she had to go undercover as a British museum tour guide to capture a known art thief in London three years ago. The display was policing through the ages and more than one teenage boy offered to take her inside the 1950 police call box, sometimes even suggesting handcuffs.
She entered the box and stopped "Oh Crap, no way" and she went back out the doors, and walked completely around the police box.
When she came back around to the doors, Chuck reached out and pulled her inside then closed the doors "Yes I know it is bigger on the inside that the out side, Really, Yes really, now if you do not mind we have to go. I need to go over here and make sure that the Vogons will pass up by nicely and not decide to blow up the planet just because I said once in passing that I've heard better poetry."
Chuck runs around a round table filled with controls and a weird lighted column goes up and down and then flips switches, hit buttons and occasion uses something that looks like a tire pump.
"There that should do it. And Emmett has been caught in a time bubble he meant to trap me in as well. Perfect we can pick him up after I take you out to dinner! There is a great restaurant at the end of the universe." Chuck said with a big smile on his face. He turns to Sarah when the main door flies open and a small metal dogish looking thing wheels in. Attached to its leash he seems to be dragging in one snoring John Casey dressed in what looked kind of like an old world war one British military uniform. "Master, retrieval of Casey unit achieved. Scans indicate he will be unconscious for 18.314649 hours."
Chuck bends down "Good boy K-9. Go introduce your self to Sarah then please take Casey to the small guest room next to the theatre. Can you start playing his favourite movie "Broke back Mountain" in a loop. I want to make sure he won't miss a second of it and he will get to re-watch his favourite scenes. Try and find the 2090 3D interactive remake ok boy" Chuck is patting the dog on the head while he is talking to it and Sarah cannot help but smile as the 'ears and tail' wag when praised. K-9 then goes over to Sarah and a sniffing sound is made. "Identification stored. Good morning mistress. I am K-9. I am a good dog."
Sarah, having giving up any chance of clinging to sanity at this point, 'scratches' k-9 behind the ears. "Yes I hear that you are a very good boy, thank you for bringing Casey here."
"Affirmative mistress" and with another wag of the tail he exits out a side door with Casey in tow.
Chuck looks at Sarah "Soooo I suppose there is no chance I can ask you to forget this right?"
"Chuck what is going on here? How does Emmett know about me? What is this thing and did I just scratch a robot dog towing a loud snoring Casey behind the ears?"
Chuck breaks out in one of his famous Bartowski smiles, however it turns serious much too soon for Sarah's likening. "Sarah did you ever wonder why I am so good with computers, or why I seem to be the only person in the world that can take the intersect without going crazy?"
"I know you are different Chuck, special and not in a bad way like Casey usually means it."
"No Sarah it is more than that" Chuck goes over and reaches into the pocket of a trench coat draped over a far railing and pulls out a stethoscope. He hands the earpiece over to Sarah who takes it timidly and he puts the head on his chest. Sarah listens to his heart and then he moves it and she hears a second heartbeat.
"Oh Crap Chuck something is wrong with these"
"No Sarah. I come from a planet that actually no longer exists; my people are called Time Lords. I have worked on computers much more advanced, centuries ahead of current technology. My brain power and capacity is works differently than yours, so it can work with the intersect with out getting fried."
Sarah stares at Chuck as he gets down on one knee.
"Sarah those hearts beat for you and you alone. This ship can go anywhere in time or space. We can leave be together, see wonders and still be back in time for the next mission briefing with Beckman if you want. We can have a life and you can still be with the CIA. What do you say? A long vacation with romantic beaches, watching the suns set over a Red dwarf. I am offering you your career and the universe…"
Chuck does not get to say another word as Sarah notices a small red box coming out of Chuck's pocket; she grabs hold of his collar and starts kissing screaming "YES"
(RING RING)
Sarah jumps straight up in bed, breathing heavy and soaked in sweat. She reaches her phone and notices the picture on the screen.
"WALKER SECURE DARN IT!"
"Casey Secure, oh crap Walker bite my head off why don't you. Sorry did I interrupt you practicing your lap dancing?"
"Casey it is three forty in the morning, what the heck do you want?"
"Beckman wants a meeting in an hour. Something about the scientists claim we are going to be having a series of sudden earthquakes and she wants the moron somewhere out of the earthquake zone. I'm thinking about Australia. Company plane. We can even knock out Ellie and Awesome and let them sleep it off for a week. Since their wedding last month, I have no idea where they come up with all that energy."
"Fine I'll be at your place in an hour. Just don't scare the crap out of Chuck when you wake him again. He still has some sort of nightmare about you coming out of the closet wearing a trench coat. Hey can you pull up the info on Emmett and lets go over it again. OK"
Grunt #568 (Way too early for this crap) "Why Walker, something wrong"
"Just a feeling."
"Fine. Anything else while I'm at it?"
"Just one. The next time I agree to a 72 hour Doctor Who Marathon with Chuck and Morgan please find a national emergency somewhere!"
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AN
Usual Disclaimers! I own nothing. NBC and others own Chuck. BBC owns most if not all the other references. I do it for fun not money.
Sorry I have been away, but as I am sure most everyone can relate, family gets in the way of truly serious writing (and no I could not even type that with a serious face)
No beta, so all mistakes are my own.
I am just going to proofread crappy day to post later today / tomorrow (depends on how busy I am at work).
Please review good or bad, I know this is not for everybody, and it's not to be taken serious.