Paternal Bonds Shattered

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Chapter 15 (Saving the Williams Part 1)

Jonah and Michael piled into a large van they rented. Michael's father, Ryan, was joining them since he had been in war several times and would be of great assistance to them. Michael and Ryan had guns, but hoped to not have to use them. Jonah didn't have a gun, since he didn't have a license for one. They knew the police wouldn't do shit for them, they were corrupt, they couldn't rely on them.

"Should I call Mr. Williams?" Michael nodded his head as Ryan investigated a sniper rifle. They hoped to not kill anyone today. The only police officer they contacted was Henry, who informed Della and Amy what was going on. They were given official permission from a police officer to carry out these tasks while Henry deployed officers wherever they could. However it was made sure the officers remained obscure, they wanted nothing to happen. Jonah pulled out his phone and dialed Vincent's number. It was not long before he answered, his voice sounded a bit peeved and somewhat panicked. "Mr. Williams, are you okay?"

"Yeah, do you have any idea what's going on here?" Vincent asked. He tried his hardest not to appear as afraid as he was. He'd already clocked in and started walking to his office, trying not to act suspiciously at all. "I just got a call from someone at an unidentified number saying my family was going to be killed." He choked on the last words. Jonah frowned and looked at Michael, the phone was on speaker. This made their pace hasten, they had to pull this off today. "They said we're going to die today. We just got a call from our daughter earlier…so this is a nightmarish day for us."

"Shit."

"Yeah, they said not to act suspicious either."

"Mr. Williams, we're coming to get you guys out of there. You're going to fine." Vincent chuckled nervously and sat down at his desk, peering out of the window and down at the street. He could see a few officers walking along the road, but that was it.

"Well if you're planning to save us…don't worry about me."

"What?" Michael asked quickly. He didn't want to hear that, he wanted to get his friend out as soon as possible. "Vincent, we are going to get you too!" Vincent closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair. He sighed and heard a beeping sound coming from his briefcase. He slowly opened it and swallowed, it was a bomb set to detonate at eleven o'clock. A message said if any bomb squad appeared or a number of cops were at location of his workplace, it would be assumed he called for help and the bomb would be detonated by remote control. It was funny, eleven o'clock PM was when he got off work.

"No Michael, don't worry about me at all." He closed his briefcase and tucked it nicely under the desk. He needed to figure out what the hell he was going to do about this. "Not until you've saved every other member of my family. Besides, I'll be fine. They won't do anything to me until after I'm done working…I have until eleven."

"What?"

"Save the others first…" Inside the briefcase he had also found a slip of paper that seemed to let him know the order in which his family members would be captured or attacked, or perhaps killed. Vanessa was at the top of the list. "Go to Seattle University first…please…" Michael and Jonah nodded and Vincent hung his phone up. Vincent set the notes and other evidence on the table, being sure not to put his prints on anything. He looked underneath his chair and sighed in relief, thankfully they weren't smart enough to put a motion sensing bomb on his chair.

"Contact Mr. Benson!" Michael said quickly. Ryan was already on it, he had Henry on his phone. He clicked the speakerphone and Henry asked what the status was. "We don't want to be too obvious, but we need to send a squad car for Seattle University. Our first target is Vanessa Williams."

"Okay, I'm on it!" Henry said as he started up his vehicle. Jonah narrowed his eyes and pressed the gas pedal. He hated not being able to get Vincent out, but he had to respect the man's wishes.

"I'll climb to the roof of the building next to that and scope out the enemy?" Ryan asked carefully. Jonah and Michael shook their heads, they didn't know what the enemy would look like. They just needed to be obscure. Chances were any enemy would try and blend in. They reached the University fairly quickly and began searching the campus. They hoped to not be recognized, and were sure they wouldn't be.

Ryan checked the window in the dean's office, Vanessa was inside. He clicked on his radio and spoke into it. "I have information, Miss Williams is with the dean." Ryan looked closely and saw Vanessa's face, it held an expression of terror. Something was wrong. Ryan carefully started cutting a hole in the window and listened. He quickly pulled away and cussed. "Shit, the Dean is one of them! I repeat the Dean is one of them!"

"What?" Henry was on radio as well, so he was hearing every word. He was stunned to hear the dean was with the bad guys. Ryan decided to listen in again and sighed, he cursed his hearing going down.

"I stand corrected, the dean and Vanessa are hostage in his office. There is another female in there, I didn't see her before. She looks like a student…she's saying she rigged the room with booby traps." Jonah frowned as he walked towards the main building, he was closest to the dean.

"Do you know what kind of traps?"

"It looks like…" Ryan listened in and frowned once more. "If the dean moves from his seat, she's triggered an automatic machine to fire an arrow at his head. Motion sensor…If Vanessa tries to move out of her chair, she will be electrocuted by the wires underneath it. The woman has a gun, but she's not using it. Evidently she's also rigged other devices in the room to explode if used, such as the phone. The phone is actually rigged with a powder."

"We get the point, the lady rigged the shit out of the place." And was also using an innocent bystander in this, that was the dean. They needed to save both of them somehow. "The front door?" Jonah stepped in front of the dean's office door and sighed, he knew better than to touch it.

"It's rigged too. Nobody can enter. If they do, that arrow gets fired off."

"I see…how close is the arrow machine to the door, and can the thing holding it be moved?"

"It is right next to the door, and the nozzle appears like it could be moved up and down. It is pointed at a ninety degree angle."

"What position are those electric cords?"

"They are at forty-five degrees." Jonah clicked his tongue and eyed the door. He narrowed his eyes as Henry's voice came on the radio.

"Ryan, I am approaching your location!" Henry reported. Ryan looked over to see Henry running in the distance. He ducked down and carefully made his way to the window. Looking in, he saw a perfectly good, open area for him to shoot. "Okay Jonah, what's the plan of action?"

"When I say now, you shoot that bitch that's got Vanessa and the Dean hostage." Henry nodded as Jonah reached for the door. Thinking fast, he quickly opened the door. "Now!" In an action that was too fast for anybody to react, Jonah shouted and quickly pushed the arrow machine down just as it shot the arrow out. The arrow fired underneath the chair and shot into the electric circuit, shortening out the wires so they couldn't harm anyone. The woman looked over, but couldn't react fast enough for Henry to rise up and fire a shot through the window, hitting her in the chest. Vanessa gasped as she and the Dean looked over. "Stay seated! We need to secure the room!"

"Young man, do you realize what you've done?" The dean asked quietly. "You've saved us!"

"Yeah, the day's not over yet, either." Michael rushed into the room and the two started clearing it of all the traps. When they knew it was safe, they let Vanessa and the Dean out of their chairs. Henry and Ryan entered the room as the woman started groaning in pain.

"Did anyone catch the number of the car that hit me?" She asked painfully. Henry quickly placed the handcuffs on her and narrowed his eyes.

"You are under arrest for conspiracy and attempted murder."

"You have no proof."

"We have enough."

"What's going on?" Vanessa asked as she looked over at Jonah. He motioned for her to follow, he would explain it to her on the way to the car. They just needed her to be obscure, they didn't want anyone to see her still among the living. Perhaps if she was seen traveling with them, it would be a bit dangerous.

"I'll explain in the car. Go to a friend on the campus and walk to our van, you'll see us. This is important that you do that." She nodded and followed his orders. Once they were in the van, she remained seated in the back. Jonah started up the car and began driving, glancing carefully at the clock. It was 4 PM, they had seven hours before Vincent got off work.

"Okay, so what was that all about? That woman said I had to die. What the hell's going on? We get a call from Valerie, and now all of a sudden…"

"Jeremy has probably issued a bounty on your heads." Vanessa frowned, she recognized that name. It had been said while they were talking to Valerie. He was the one that was hurting Valerie. "Just like they were going to do to my family, they're going to kill you guys. What we saw in there was just child-play, there's nothing that says for sure that those cords would have actually killed you. I think they're playing a game with you guys…"

"A game, they think this is a game?"

"I'm only suggesting that."

"That woman said Vixen was next. We have to hurry to her!" Jonah nodded and started driving towards the dance school Vixen was at. Ryan alerted Henry and he sent Della on the way, since he needed to take the woman down to the station.

"Dad, call Mr. Williams up, we need to let him know that Vanessa is safe." Their plan had been a bit thrown off when Vincent told them about the situation, but that would be fine. They knew they had to get the family out soon anyway. "When this all blows over, we need to take you and your family to Index, there is already a house there that's been rented out for you all."

"We can't just leave Seattle, and Index is an hour away!"

"It will have to do. It's small, it'll be enough to accommodate everybody." Vanessa had no choice but to trust him, especially if their lives were on the line. Nobody else could be counted on right now, and surely Henry was one of the only police officers in Seattle that was really going to give a damn.

"Hello Vincent?" Michael asked when the phone was answered. Vincent grunted as he moved around his office, he was pacing, trying to figure out how he was going to diffuse this bomb. He knew it was a small bomb, it probably would have the radius of his office room, which was not very big at all. "We have Vanessa with us."

"Dad!" Vanessa called out. Vincent chuckled nervously and smiled, he wasn't going to worry her at all. He knew he didn't have long before the big bang. "Dad, are you okay?"

"I'm just fine sweetheart. You let your mother know I love her, all right? I'll see you girls when I get off work."

"Okay, but hang in there Dad. They want to move us to Index!"

"Index, huh? Well that doesn't sound too bad off. We'll make due. The Williams family has seen a lot worse than this! Keep strong Vanessa, don't lose sight of anything!"

"I love you dad."

"I love you too." Vincent hung up abruptly and blew out, puffing his cheeks up. He looked at the clock and groaned. 4:45, time seemed to be going on way too quickly. He looked out his window and narrowed his eyes. Someone was in the window of the building across from him. "So that's where you are, asshole? Maybe I'll take one more look at this bomb…" His door opened and his boss stepped in. He groaned and shook his head, he had forgotten he had a meeting with the boss. Crap.

Jonah and his group pulled up in front of Vixen's school. It looked quiet, very quiet. "Let's take this carefully, we don't know what we're going to find in there," Jonah said as he exited his vehicle. The others nodded and exited, meeting up with Della outside.

"What's the status?" Michael asked as Della and Amy stared at the building.

"Well, they've got Vixen holed up in the auditorium," Della said as they all walked towards the building. "The teacher and other fourteen students are locked up in their classroom and have no idea what's going on."

"You haven't gone in yet?" Jonah growled out while crossing his arms.

"Hold your horses. They aren't letting anybody in unless they're somehow related to one of the students. If anybody enters that doesn't have a connection to this school or a student, then all hell breaks loose. They drop Vixen from the beam at the top of the auditorium and evidently there's a bomb somewhere that's set to go off…they'll set it off early."

"Shit. Well then they won't let any of us in." Della shook her head as Vanessa clenched her fist up. She hated feeling helpless. She was the oldest, it was her duty to take care of her younger siblings. She couldn't do anything for Valerie, she can't even attempt to save her, but here. Oh here, she could do something. There was no way she was letting Vixen die, or be harmed in any way.

"I'll go in," Vanessa said quietly. Jonah stared at her in shock. It was far too risky for her to go in there, she was one of the targets!

"Are you insane?" Jonah asked while narrowing his eyes. "If you go in there now, they could kill you. The whole plan could be compromised!" Vanessa growled and grabbed Della's knife from her. Della frowned as Vanessa started walking to the doors.

"I'll be careful. This is my sister we're talking about. I may have lost one, but I am not losing another." Jonah frowned as Vanessa walked around the building. She found a window leading into the bathroom, and decided to use that. She busted the window open and gained entry. Vanessa reached into her pocket and pulled out the ski mask the woman had. She placed it on her face, in case she was spotted by any of the criminals.

Someone was already in the bathroom, washing up at the sink. She slipped over to her and put the gun at the woman's throat. The woman gasped and narrowed her eyes. "I hear you got this place holed up," Vanessa whispered softly.

"How did you get in? They weren't supposed to let anyone in."

"I know." Vanessa released the woman. "In college, we have a martial arts class. I've learned three methods to knock someone out cold for a very long time. The third method is the most lethal. I won't use it on you. Here's method two." She quickly backhanded the woman's cheek, causing her to turn away, then she swiftly sliced her hand down on the back of the woman's neck, knocking her out instantly.

She then carefully made her way from the bathroom and pressed herself against the wall, peering down a hallway. She saw two guards talking. Past them, was the auditorium. She carefully made her way down, unseen. She instantly performed the method to knock them unconscious and ran for the doors.

When she opened them, she quickly ducked behind a chair. Peering over the chair, she saw two guards standing below Vixen. Vixen was being held up with a rope and was crying as they teased her by moving her up and down like a yo-yo.

"Not my baby sister you don't…" Vanessa narrowed her eyes and ran for the stage. She quickly tossed the knife towards one of the guards and climbed the stage. The knife struck the guard in the armpit as he turned around, he shouted out in pain and fell to the ground while Vanessa quickly performed a karate chop to the second guard's neck. She looked over and glared at the third, frightened guard. Vixen looked over as Vanessa took off her ski mask and smirked.

"Vanessa!" Vixen cried out. "Vanessa help me!"

"I'm on it Lil' Vix." The guard narrowed his eyes and smirked as he tugged the rope. Vanessa cracked her neck and sighed. "I know you're not using my sister to taunt me." She placed her foot on the wounded guard's chest and pressed down as she yanked the knife from him. She quickly ran for the guard and grabbed the rope with one hand and stabbed the man through the hand. He shouted out in pain as Vanessa lifted her hand up and sliced the back of his neck with her hand.

"Go Sissy!" Vanessa smirked and looked up to Vixen, she was proud to have saved her sister. She slowly lowered Vixen to the ground and walked over to untie her. Vixen hugged her around the neck and let her lift her up. "Let's go!"

"One more thing…" Vanessa walked over to the wounded man, who was still screaming in pain while holding his armpit. She grabbed his shirt and lifted him up. "Where's the one that controls that bomb?"

"That was me."

"Oh, where's your remote?" She looked to his pocket and narrowed her eyes, she could see what looked like a joystick and a red button. Slowly she reached in and pulled it out. "This it?" He remained silent, so she shook him. "I asked you if this was it! I'm not joking around! You threatened my sister's life and I know you're involved in my other sister's abduction! Now you will answer me or I will injure you in more painful methods."

"Fine! Yes, yes it is! There are two remotes, that one and someone else who isn't at this location."

"You will not tell that person to detonate. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes! Perfectly clear!"

"Good." She placed the remote on the ground and swiftly stomped on it, crushing it. She turned back to Vixen and smiled as the girl looked up to her with pride. She wanted to be just like her sister one day, so strong and proud.

"Let's go Lil' Vix. Jonah's waiting."

"Jonah? They're here!" Vanessa kneeled down and smiled happily, closing her eyes and tilting her head.

"Yes, and so is Mr. Brown. They're going to take us all somewhere safe."

"Okay!"

Jonah waited with anticipation as he paced the grounds. He was becoming nervous and anxious, they needed to know that Vanessa was okay. He didn't want to have to be the one to tell Valerie that her two sisters didn't make it out alive. "If they don't come out in the next thirty seconds, I am going in!"

"No need for that, son," Michael said while placing his hand on Jonah's shoulder. "Look!" Jonah looked up as the front doors opened up. Vanessa was holding Vixen in her arms and smirking as she walked up to the group. "Let me take her." Vanessa nodded and handed Vixen to Michael, who helped her into the van.

"Okay Ms. Benson, you're going to need to go in there and clean up. I only wounded two people, all the others are unconscious. The wounds of the others are minor." Della nodded as she phoned for backup. Everyone else piled into the van and started driving off, proud and glad to have Vixen safe. They looked at the clock and frowned, it was 6:30, only four and a half hours before Vincent was off work. They each had a sinking feeling about this.

Yeah this all was going to be one chapter, but it was too long to be just one chapter.