Don't own Chuck

Morgan woke up on the train. He looked around him and there were oriental looking men dressed in black. His mouth tasted like he'd been chewing on sand and his throat was as parched as the Gobi Desert which given his current location he couldn't help wonder if that wasn't their final destination. He started to get up but the man next to him held him down with one arm then flashed a pistol tucked in a shoulder holster under his jacket.

"I need to go use the little boys room… the bathroom… the toilet… the WC. Do you speak English? Would you prefer I just go here?"

When Morgan started to undo his pants, the man got the hint then quickly got him up. He was followed to the restroom by this same man and another.

"This is where you guys wait," said Morgan as he went inside then closed the door behind him. "Geez Morgan, what are you going to do?" he said looking at himself in the mirror. "Well I'm not hearing anything? What would Chuck do?"

"Chuck would flash then take out the whole lot of them then do some sort of fancy interrogation technique and get then to sing like canaries."

"But you aren't Chuck and you can't do that," he said to his reflection. "But if they underestimate you then maybe you might be able to do something. Oh, this is so disgusting," he said to himself as he took some of the toilet paper and put some hand soap on it."

"This idea of yours had better work or I won't be talking to you again," he said to himself as he heard the sound of pounding on the door and men yelling. He figured they were telling him to hurry up from their tone but he didn't understand a word.

"Okay, okay," said Morgan as he came out. "I don't perform on request and when I'm nervous it takes longer. Look around you I think there's enough here for me to nervous about."

The one man just grabbed him by the shoulder then pushed him down the aisle towards his seat. He looked around the car for a familiar face. He was hoping he'd see Anna or Mary but he saw neither.

"I hope I'm not seeing you because you're laid back following my tracker signal and not because you're not on this train. Look Wong, I'm thirsty. Is there any way I can get a glass of water? You know thirsty," he said as he mimed drinking water from a cup.

The man reached into his pocket and pulled out a box of some sort of fruit juice then handed it to him. Then he pulled out a straw and stuck it in the box. Afterwards he motioned for him to drink up then sat back in his seat.

"Xièxie," said Morgan then he started drinking his drink. It had an undefined taste and he couldn't figure out for the life of him what fruit was in it. But the man smiled when Morgan said thanks so part of the communication barrier was down.

Morgan looked out the window as the train drove through town after town but in all the stops the signs were written in Chinese ideograms which didn't help him at all.

"Where are we," said Morgan as he pointed out the window when the train came to a stop. "What town is this?... You know town… Shanghai, Canton, Peking… town," he said as he pointed at the sign.

"Town name Fuzhou. This is Fuzhou here," said the man next to Morgan but Morgan misunderstood what he said.

"This is Foshan? This is the home of Wong Fei-hung. Gee, I'll go anywhere you want to take me if you let me visit his memorial. I've seen all of Jet Li's movies… Once upon a time in China or Donnie Yen, Iron Monkey. I really want to see it as well as the Shaw Brothers studio. Do you know Shaw Brothers?"

"No, no, no Foshan... Fuzhou," said the man. He pulled out a piece of paper then drew a map for Morgan. "Here were… Fuzhou. Here Foshan. Down, down. Shaw Brothers here in Hong Kong and here Guangzhou. You call Canton. We Canton go."

"Xièxie," said Morgan as he thanked the man. "So we go Canton… I mean Guangzhou no Hong Kong or Foshan?"

"Méi cuò," said the man. Morgan looked at him puzzled stare. "Shì," said the man as he nodded and gave him a thumbs up. The man put away his pen then leaned back in his seat. Morgan could tell he'd reached at least one of his captures and now he knew where he was and where they were taking him. But that didn't help him much. If he decided to make a break for it he'd need to know a lot more.

"No Morgan, your best bet at finding Alex and Ellie is to stay put and ride out this out. Once you get to wherever their holding them then you can put in your escape plan." As they were sitting there his stomach started talking to him. The man sitting next to him looked over at Morgan.

"Sorry, but it's been a while since I had something to eat. I don't suppose but would it be possible to get a little dim sum or a steamed bun… you know Char-Siu Bau? I'm not picky I'd take some plain white rice with Soy sauce though.

The man next to Morgan laughed then sent another man off. Morgan hoped he'd gotten his message across. A few minutes later the man came back with two aluminium containers and he handed one to Morgan along with a pair of disposable chopsticks.

"Good something to eat finally," said Morgan as he took his chopstick broke them in half then rubbed them together before taking the lid off the container.

"Mumm this smells good. Is this Szechuan I'm smelling?" asked Morgan but the man was busy doing the same. "I guess you're hungry too," he said as he took the lid off and was greeted by a container full of chicken feet in a spicy Szechuan sauce.

"You like," said the man as he started gnawing on the feet eating grisly and all leaving only the toe nails. Morgan looked at him for a moment shrugged his shoulders then dug in.

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Not far away Anna sat in her seat with an earpiece in holding what looked like a radio for all the other passengers. But she was actually keeping watch of Morgan's tracking signal and she was in touch with the rest of her team that were following them by van via radio.

"Okay, we just left Fuzhou and we're still heading for Guangzhou," radioed Anna. She was sitting by herself. She'd just sent David on a scouting mission to walk up the train to get a visual on Morgan. She didn't want Morgan's captures to get cute and leave his ring on the train then jump off. As she was the watching the screen someone sat down next to her.

"I'm sorry but that seat is taken," said Anna without looking up. "My boyfriend just left to go to the restroom but he'll be back soon."

"Your boyfriend? What does your husband have to say about you having a boyfriend?" said a familiar voice. Anna looked up to see Mary sitting next to her.

"What are you doing here? You shouldn't be here you could ruin the whole thing. What if someone sees me with you?"

"I guess we'll just play that by ear. But they won't if you keep your voice down," said Mary as she held out a map and pretended to be asking directions. "You ask me why I'm here? Do you really have to ask? I'm here for my daughter. As far as ending Ettore goes I don't care which one of us does it as long as it's done."

"You've got no problem with what I've done? With me using Morgan as bait to get to Ettore, I mean? I don't think Chuck would approve."

"I'm not my son and while he has his father's heart I follow a different path. I see something and I handle it which is what I'm doing now. Do I approve of what you've done? No, I don't think I do but I see the necessity of what you've done."

"I'm not asking for your approval or disapproval… I could care less. I'm doing what needs to be done and that's it. I hope Morgan understands but I have my orders."

"I never let orders get in my way. Like I said I'm here for my daughter and I will protect her as well as Alex. You can terminate Ettore and take credit for the kill. I don't care but don't endanger my daughter. You do that then you and I will have a problem. What do you think they'd do with a Taiwanese spy here if they caught one?"

"Probably the same thing they'd do to an American spy just with less fanfare. Now that we've threaten each other you need to go before my man returns. I don't want to have to explain who you are to the rest of my team. They're nervous enough as it is."

"Just keep in mind what I told you," said Mary as she got up. "Xièxie, thanks for the information," she said then she disappeared into another car as David came walking back.

"Who was that you were talking to? We need to be careful who we talk to they could be MSS. Do you want me to follow her?"

"No, she was nobody just sit down and tell me did you get a visual on Morgan?" said Anna. She had to measure out her words so she didn't sound like she was anxious.

"He's sitting with some goons about two cars up. He doesn't look too worse for the wear and when I was walking by they were eating feng zhao.

"You saw him eating phoenix talons? And he complained about my green bean casserole," mumbled Anna. "Did you over hear them talking about anything?"

"They were talking about the big boss arriving in Guangzhou today. I couldn't stand around them listening without looking suspicious."

"That's okay," said Anna then she radioed the rest in the van. "Look, it sounds like Ettore is arriving in port at Guangzhou. Go to the port and hang around the piers see if you can see him. If anyone has a clear shot take it."

"But wasn't he supposed to pull into Shanghai?" said David. "Does this mean he knows we're after him?"

"I think that should be a given," said Anna. "No, it's nothing," she said as she touched her ear. "David is just wondering if Ettore is onto us. I don't know why he changed ports. This could've been his plan all along to throw us off our game. But it doesn't matter if he pulls into Shanghai or Guangzhou we're still going to take him down. Our plan stays the same we keep our eyes on the prize and sooner or later they'll take us to Ettore," said Anna as she signed off from her team in the van.

"David, see wasn't I right to follow Morgan? If we hadn't been following him we'd be waiting at the piers in Shanghai for a ship that was never coming in?"

I have to admit it seems like you called it right. But I can't help but keep wondering if this was the right call for your friend Morgan. What are you going to do when the Red Lotus shows up? She tried to warn you off in LAX?"

"You worry too much. If Rebecca shows up you let me handle her. The only thing you need to do is just follow orders and everything will be all right," she said. David nodded his head than sat back in his seat. She didn't know if he believed her or if she even believed herself.

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Tien and his men ran up the stairs to the roof. If was quite a cardio workout but they ran as fast as they could. The door to the roof that was supposed to be locked but they found it open. Like all the other doors in the building it had been opened by the same virus.

"This was Chuck's plan all the time," said Tien as he pushed open the door. They found Chuck there standing on the other side of the railing walking along the edge.

"And to think I'm afraid of heights. Tien, I've done what I came to do. You know in your heart I'm right when I tell you not to trust Ettore. Everyone who has has ended badly. Don't let your people make the same mistake."

"Come away from there. Let's go back downstairs and talk this out. You said Ettore has your sister we can work something out. It doesn't have to end like this."

"Oh, it's not going to end like this. I'm just getting started," said Chuck as he took a swan dive off the railing.

"No," yelled Tien as he and his men ran to the railing. "Geez, what the heck is that," he said as he watched a delta wing deploy out of the back of Chuck's jacket and he went sailing away as the morning sun rose in the sky. One of Tien's men pointed his weapon and was about to fire when Tien stopped him.

"Idiot, don't shot at him now. You shoot and miss who knows who'll you'll hit below so put that thing away. Print off his photo… you should be able to get something off CCTV when he came into the building then have it sent out to everyone. I want him picked up before sunset."

Meanwhile Chuck drifted off out of sight on an up current. He'd timed his swan dive with the rising sun so it was in everyone's eye if they decided to look up. He glided around some high rises until he came to a new skyscraper under construction.

"I hope John's already there," he said as he came in on the top floor. Chuck had done research on the housing bubble that had hit Guangzhou and discovered the builders of this particular construction had gone bankrupt so for the time being all further work had been halted.

"The perfect place to hole up and establish our base camp," he said as he released the delta wing and he sat down the rooftop. Suddenly a gust of wind came up and he was dragged towards the edge. The building was still under construction so there was no railing and he risked being blown over the side.

"Oh no, no stop," he said as he frantically tried to get out of his jacket. He finally got out in the nick of time.

"Are you done screwing around," said Casey as he walked up to the rooftop. "Come on down where I've setup shop before your commie friends spot you from their commie chopper."

"Thanks for the assist and is everything going to be 'commie' while we're here," said Chuck as he walked over to the stairwell then walked down following him.

"Well we're in their homeland, aren't we? I see you've pissed them off. I spotted what looked like a bunch of ants running out of the ant hill earlier with my binoculars."

"Yeah and now for phase two of my intel gathering mission," said Chuck as he set up his stage make up and mirrors. He started applying base then gluing on his beard and moustache then he worked on his eyes. "How do I look John?"

"Geez, where's number one son?" said Casey. "Okay Charlie Chan, let's not get carried away like your other alias the Colonel. What bits of wisdom do you have to bestow on us?"

"John, if you haven't figured out by now but the Chinese have proverbs to fit every possible situation. What do you think keeps the fortune cookie industry in business? Chuck printed off some documents. Then Casey took a polaroid photo of him so he could come up with a security badge.

"Hopefully this will get me in. Wait here I'll be right back," said Chuck then he threw everything in a briefcase. He walked down out of the construction site then over to the MSS building.

{Walking through the front door]

"I was sent over here to look at your network. We were notified that you have some sort of problem with it," said Chuck in Mandarin then he handed the man behind the desk his work order.

"I don't know what to do. The phones are down and so is my swiping machine for security badges. I'm not sure if I can let you in."

"If you don't let me in nothing is going to get fixed then when I go back and tell my people you wouldn't let me in… well have you ever been station in the Gobi? I hear there's a lot of excitement going on there watching dromedary herds wandering by."

"Let me see your badge," said the man. Chuck handed him the one he'd made. He did his best to mirror it like the one Tien had but he only glanced at it. He got a look at it when he lifted it on the plane after he bumped into him so he could apply a new magnetic strip with the virus that was now running rampant in the building. "Here just get us back up and running as quickly as possible. People are going crazy upstairs."

"I'll do my best," said Chuck. He walked up the stairs to the vault and walked right in thanks to his virus. He went over to the mainframe then started downloading their archive. He sat there looking at his watch then at the door. He knew the real computer experts would be on their way that was why he had to hurry.

"Come on," he said as he watched the download indicator counting down. Finally, it hit a hundred percent and the light turned green. "Okay, now to make everyone happy," he said. He typed a string of code then got up and left.

"Hey, where are you going?" said the man at the front desk. "Nothing is back up yet? What's going on and what do I tell people when they ask me?"

"You can tell them everything will be back on line in ten minutes. I've got the system rebooting," said Chuck as he was talking the lights went out then came back on. When they came back on everything came back with them. "See what I mean. I've got to run now I got called about another computer problem. This is a bad virus that's going around."

"We're lucky we have guys like you on our side," said the man. Chuck just smiled back then left as quickly as he could. On the way out he ran into three men walking in carrying computer repair kits.

"You can turn around and go home," said Chuck. "It was a false alarm. Someone shorted out the main circuit breaker which left the building without power. Repairmen came and now everything is up and running again."

"That's better for us. We're out now so we might as well stop somewhere for a late breakfast or an early lunch…"

"Why not just make it an extra-long lunch? There's nothing to do inside but you don't have to tell your people that."

"I like the way you think," said the one man. They went back to their van then left. Chuck started heading back to the construction site. He noticed a lot of men in black driving around. They were still looking for him and now that he'd restored their network they had other tools they could use to find him or did they?

[Inside the MSS building]

"What do you mean we don't have any images of him we can use? He walked right into this building. At least one of the cameras should have gotten him. Either the ones in the elevator, in the hall or in the interrogation room should have gotten him. What you're telling me is totally unacceptable?"

"I'm sorry Agent Tien but look for yourself and you'll see," said the men operating the CCTV feed. "Here you are coming in with him and see that. I have no idea what that is. I've never seen anything like it before. It's like his whole face is one bright light."

"And it's this way all the way through?" said Tien as the man fast forwarded to show him he wasn't lying. "I see what you mean. You don't think the video feed was corrupted because of our computer problem?"

"I don't know but I don't think so. All the video feed is sent to a different server then back up in the vault. No, I don't think this was done by any virus. If I had to guess and that's just what this is. I know certain LED lights can be used to obscure security cameras. We give them to our agents when they have to penetrate areas protected by cameras."

"But I didn't see him with anything like that on him," said Tien. "Would he have to have it on his head for it to work?"

"Like I told you mine is just a guess but in theory no. He could have them sown into his lapel and since they operate out of the spectrum our eyes can see you wouldn't have noticed them. I have to give it to this American, he's good."

"I'd keep comments like that to yourself right now. Chuck has pissed a lot of people off and none of them are that forgiving."