St. Arthelais military base was about six to seven hours away from the palace but because of Bret's erratic driving, they made it in two and a half. Brian was surprised that no cops had tried to stop them but they were in a official palace car so no police would even bother. They knew they would be out of a job if they even tried to give them a ticket.

Bret sped passed the gates and into the parking look. He turned into the parking space, parked, and turned off the car.

"I think I'm going to be sick." Jack says as he hold his stomach. Bret wasn't the most gracious driver at the time.

Brian rubbed his stomach to settle it. The baby didn't take the drive to well.

"Suck it up and come on." Bret said as he got out of the car. Hunter, Brian, and Jack followed him as Bret ran across the parking lot and two the base.

"General." An officer greeted him.

"Where is Private Riley?" Bret asked. The officer was a bit baffled that he wanted to see the low ranking scum.

"Um, I told him to say inside the base."

"Go get him, NOW." Bret yelled and the officer scurried off. Bret shook his head.

Hunter put his hand on Bret's shoulders. "Calm down before you have a heart attack."

"I'm sorry, I'm trying." Bret said and took a deep breath.

Alex ran outside with the officer behind. He ran up to Bret and gave him a salute. Bret saluted back.

"Didn't I tell you to be out here?" Bret asked.

"Yes but the officer told me to go back inside." Alex answered and Bret gave the officer a look. He would deal with him later.

"Do you have the note?" Bret asked.

"Oh Yes sir." Alex said. He reached into his pocket and grabbed the note and gave it to Bret.

Bret opened the note and started to read:

To the finder of this message:

I don't know who you are or where you are but I'm so glad that you've found this note. I don't know what year or day that you've found this message in but let me introduce myself. My name is Shawn Hart. I'm married to General Bret Hart. Most of the world thinks I was killed. I wasn't. I'm still alive. I was kidnapped by Sunny McMahon and here minions, forced to fake my own death, and placed in a small cottage in the middle of know where. The cottage is in a open clearing for a few yards but then there are woods to the north, east, and west. To the south of the cabin is the lake in which this bottle flowed in. If you follow the river in the opposite direction of which this bottle flowed, then you should find me. I don't know you but I hope you have enough goodness in your heart to get this letter into the right hands. I hope you can help me. I don't know if I'll ever meet you but I just want you to know that I appreciate you and you'll always have a place in my heart for helping me get back to my family. May God Bless You! Shawn Hart

Bret looked up at Alex. "What direction did the bottle come from?"

"It came from the east." Alex answered. "So if we track west through those woods then we should find Shawn."

"Ok." Bret wiped his eyes as he felt the tears rise up in his eyes. "We'll start at sunrise."

"Sunrise?" Alex questioned.

"It' too dark to go now and there's too many strange animals in those woods, sunrise." Bret said before turning around and going to Hunter, Brian, and Jack.

"What's going on?" Brian asked and Bret gave him the note. Brian read it. "Sunny."

"What?" Hunter grabbed the note and read it. Hunter looked up at Bret. "What are we going to do?"

Bret pointed to the woods. "We're going through those woods at sunrise to get Shawn."

"Good, I have to make a phone call."

"Hello, this is Stephanie."

"Stephanie, are you alone?" Hunter asked.

"No."

"Go into a different room."

Stephanie got up and went upstairs to her bedroom and locked the door. "Ok, what's up?"

"Is your sister home?"

"Yes."

"Good, keep her there for the rest of the night." Hunter said.

"Why? What's going on?"

Hunter sighed. "We found a note from Shawn in a bottle…It says that Sunny kidnapped him and is forcing him to live in this secluded area."

"Oh God!" Stephanie said and placed her hand over her mouth. "Oh, I'm so stupid."

"What?"

"She said she had a new boyfriend and that's why she's been traveling across town…I-I should have know she wouldn't have been over Bret that fast."

"Stephanie."

"No Hunter, this is all my fault. If I would have acted on my gut-."

"Look, all of that is in the past. Now, you can help us. Just make sure that Sunny stays in the house but don't act too out of the ordinary. I'll text you tomorrow when we get Shawn and make sure he's safe, then you'll be able to let Sunny out of the house."

"Ok Hunter. Tell Shawn and Bret I'm sorry." Stephanie said.

"Ok, thanks Steph."

Stephanie hung up the phone and went back downstairs and sat across from Sunny. She wanted to shake her head and give Sunny a piece of her mind but she had to be normal for Shawn's sake.

"Hey Sun-Sun."

"Hm." Sunny looked up from magazine.

"Lets have a girls night. We haven't spend a lot of time together since I've been planning the wedding and you have that new boyfriend, so lets just drink, eat, and give each others facials." Stephanie said and Sunny smiled.

"Yeah, lets." Sunny smiled. She finally felt like her life was coming together but it was really about to fall apart.

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