A/N I am so immensly sorry for the long gap in between updates, there are many reasons for this, which include: I have spent the last three weeks in hell AKA Summer School, five hours of math per day. I wanted to die. I swear. Summer school is the worst torture ever. Furthermore, I, An-Jelly-Ca am totally addicted to Webkinz, I can't stop playing with it. So, basically my chapter update time has become my webkinz play time. Lol. Also, I was having a few problems deciding what to do about the whole bomb thing, but I finally talked to my beta, The Silent Rumble, today, and we figured out what to do about it (or he made suggestions and I agreed.) and then he promised an update if I updated by 10:00am tommorow, thus, I updated. lol. Anyway, I'm really sorry about the wait. Here is your update...
Thanks to all reviewers!
Dedication: To Cherylann Rivers, whitetigers, MissMe113, Miss Fenway, Gotta Love Shoes, and No1butjoe for their reviews and their patience at my slow updating for this chapter. And, also, to The Silent Rumble for his help with the whole blow up New York thing.
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"I thought you said we were going to see Tim…" Vanessa said trying to appear as though she wasn't panicking.
"We are." Todd replied leading the way past rows of cubicles finally coming to a stop at a corner office, he opened the door and gestured for Vanessa and Phil to enter. "Stay here. Jim will keep you company. I'm going to go get Tim." He said placing emphasis on the word.
"Um, thanks." Vanessa said sharing a worried glance with Phil.
"Have a seat." Jim ordered. Vanessa and Phil complied. Vanessa scooted her chair forward until she was partway under the overhang of the desk their chairs sat in front of. She then reached into her purse and pulled out her cell phone and text messaged 'Help!' to Liz who she figured was most likely to check her phone. She then hurriedly shoved it back into her bag and folded her hands in her lap attempting to look innocent.
-I am a line-
"Patch me through to the boss." Todd said when the familiar voice of one of Marion's guards spoke through the phone. He heard muffled voices and then the phone was handed over to Marion.
"Yes?" Marion asked his tone cool as always.
"Jim and I have two kids here, we found them snooping around outside peering through a window, they say they're looking for a Tim Smith, but there isn't any Tim here." Todd said.
"Find out their names." Marion ordered.
"I'll get on that now." Todd said as he pulled a walky-talky from his back pocket and spoke into it. "Jim, the boss wants to know what their names are." He continued.
-I am a line-
"What're your names?" Jim asked. "Keep in mind that I plan to check your wallets to confirm this so you might as well just tell me."
Vanessa and Phil exchanged a glance before deciding that their best option was to tell the truth so that there would be less reason to make the two men suspicions.
"Vanessa Bender and Phil Cohen." Vanessa replied in a cool tone.
"Their names are Vanessa Bender and Phil Cohen," Jim relayed to Todd after checking the driver's licenses that both friend reluctantly showed him.
-I am a line-
"Bender and Cohen?" Marion asked he paused to consider the names; they seemed somehow familiar although he could not immediately place them. It came to him after a few moments, the names were those of Joe Hardy's girlfriend, and Frank Hardy's close friend, his records indicated that both Hardys were friend with the Cohen boy, but Frank and Phil had been closer due to their mutual love of computers. Perhaps he would offer the two a job; their presence might prompt Frank to be slightly more cooperative. Marion preferred it if this workers would complete their tasks willingly, perhaps frank would stop resisting so much if he could sway his friends into joining their organization. "Bring them here." Marion said finally.
"Alright, boss, we'll have them there within an hour." Todd said before ending the call.
-I am a line-
"Did you guys find anything?" Biff asked pulling up a seat across from Liz and Chet and Joe's kitchen table.
"No, our place turned out just to be an empty warehouse. Totally deserted. I'd doubt if anyone had been there in the last year." Chet replied.
"What about you guys?" Liz asked.
"We didn't have any better luck," Tony answered. "I hope Joe and Mr. Hardy or Vanessa and Phil found something, because we really need a break in this case, we're seriously running out of time based on what Joe said about their attack plan."
Their conversation was cut short by the appearance of Joe and his father.
"How did it go? Did you manage to find any leads on Frank or Callie?" Biff asked immediately.
"We think we found the place, but first where's Vanessa and Phil?" Joe replied.
"They haven't come back yet." Chet said in response to Joe's query.
"Does anyone have a message from either of them?" Joe asked. This prompted a noisy pause in which everyone searched through their belongings to locate their cell phones. Liz let out an exclamation of triumph upon locating hers and spotting the alert on her screen which declared: 'one new text message from Vanessa.'
"She sent me a text message," Liz said in response to the looks they were sending her. "It says 'help.'" She finished paling as she read the message.
"Which location did they go to?" Fenton asked.
"This one," Biff said indicating to the location circled in a blue sharpie on the map Phil had procured back when they were still looking for Joe.
"It looks like we're going to have to head over there to look for them." Fenton said with a sigh.
"I think that location was supposed to be an office building, we need to act normal so we don't tip any one off." Joe continued. "This is going to be tricky, hopefully, Vanessa and Phil are still there if they got caught, I wouldn't put it past Marion to have them transported to his headquarters for use as additional leverage against Frank or even to help in his computer operations if he knows who they are and he probably does considering the amount of research that went into faking Frank's death."
"We better get moving then." Chet replied.
-I am a line-
"I think it's time we faced facts, there's no way they're going to be able to find us in time to stop this attack." Frank announced in the previously silent room. "They're going to be placing the bombs in a matter of hours, so, basically, it's going to be up to us to figure out how to stop those bombs from going off. I know you don't want to hear pessimistic talk, but at this point I'm just being realistic, and we can't afford to waist anymore time."
"What do you know about the arrangement of the bombs?" Callie asked by way of reply.
"They're all triggered to a main bomb, basically, if we take out that one the others won't go off, at least not with the remote system they will be using, meaning that once we take the bombs out they would have to go and manually set off each bomb from the actual location, it'll take them awhile to figure that out, so we'll just need to buy enough time for you to sneak out and contact the police about the bombs." Frank replied.
"Do you honestly think that even if I could sneak out, I would?" Callie asked incredulously. "I refuse to leave you to die in another explosion, I'm staying."
"Look, Callie, Marion said that he was going to leave us underneath the main bomb, so all we need to do is take it out, and then if you can leave he won't waste time looking for you at least not right away, and he'll come get me to fix them, I'll stall for time pretending that it's some unknown error like a virus, while you get the police and lead them to the location of the main bomb, from there it will simply be a task of shutting down the smaller ones. After taking out the main bomb, lead them here, Marion has the launch system and the locations of every single bomb in his office." Frank watched his former girlfriend solemnly silently begging her to do as he asked.
"I don't want to, no, I can't leave you to die, Frank." Callie said tears filling her eyes. "Don't ask me too."
"We're all going to end up dead or worse anyway if Marion doesn't get caught." Frank answered. "This is our only chance, just do it, Callie."
A/N Review, please. Next update probably on Sunday, because I will be staying up all night tommorow having a reading Breaking Dawn sleepover where we will read Breaking Dawn all night, happy Breaking Dawn release to those Twilight Fans reading.