Time: 1120 Location: Castle
Chuck and Morgan walked in and found Scott and his mother sitting at the table talking in hushed whispers. Both of them looked emotionally raw and both had red puffy eyes. Chuck turned to Morgan. "Put a call out to all of the teams and find out how things are going please?" He asked.
"Chuck, I'd really like it if you did that." He said looking down.
"Okay?" Chuck said looking confused.
"It's just, I don't know if I can talk to the teams again. I gave them the go order a few hours ago and I feel responsible for the them now. I don't know if I can sit through a sit. Rep." He said.
"Hey, little buddy, you keep your head up. You did a really good job today. Can you go reload our gear. We might need it again tonight. After that go find Anna and make sure she's not doing anything. She needs to rest." He said patting him on the back.
"I can do that." He said taking Chuck's bag with a big smile.
When he walked away Chuck turned to the two seated at the table. "Are you two okay?" He asked.
"I don't know." Scott said looking up at him.
"I think we will be. We just need time." Jordan said taking Scott's hand.
"Good. Did you talk about everything?" He asked.
"We did." Jordan said looking sad.
"Good. Scott needs to be told everything. He's a member of this family after all." He said putting his hands on her shoulders. "And as a member of the family he needs to start working." Chuck said smirking. "You still have the key to my car?" He asked.
"I do. Here." Her said tossing Chuck the key.
"No. Keep it." He said tossing it back. "Go get a bunch of buggers and shakes. No one has eaten since breakfast and we have a team of tactical guys sitting upstairs waiting on orders." Chuck said.
Scott hopped up. "I can do that." He said grabbing his jacket. "Was there someplace you wanted the buggers from?" He asked.
"Surprise me, but if you bring a veggy burger I won't be held responsible for my actions." Chuck said walking with him up the stairs. At the top Chuck slug his arm over his shoulder. "Welcome to the family Scott, we might not be all sane, but we do look after each other." He said. "I want you to know Roark will suffer ever minute of the rest of his very short life for the things he did to your mother. The man had my father killed too. Anna is right now studying him. Watching his every move and every look. She will know how he ticks in a half an hour and after that he will never know peace. He will only know fear and pain. I can promise you that." Chuck said in a cold voice that made Scott rethink his opinion of Chuck.
"Thank you." Scott said.
"It's what family does for family." Chuck said patting him on the back and sending him out. He walked down to see Jordan on the phone.
"He's right here hold on." She said holding out the phone. "It's your wife Chuck." She said.
"Hello sweetie, how's things going on your end?" He asked.
"Just great Chuck. Remind me to kill you when I get home." She said in a grumpy voice.
"What did I do now?" Chuck asked.
"You put this Intersect in my head and every time I flash it hurts." She said rubbing her head.
"Oh, that just means you're tired. Try taking a nap. Even if it's a few minutes the pain will go away. That used to happen a lot in the beginning when I was working at the Buy More and I was working cases with you guys. It's why I sleep in the break room before a mission. It helps. Until then wear some shades and you won't flash on anything visual without really trying to." Chuck said.
"Why didn't you say that in the first place!" Sarah said pulling out her sunglasses.
"I thought I told you all of this stuff. If not I'm sorry. It must have slipped my mind with all the mission planning and team building, not to mention the crafting of individual Intersect downloads for everyone." Chuck said sarcastically.
"Right." Sarah said blushing. "I'm sorry. It's just I've never had a headache like this before." She said.
"I get it. Aside from the headache is everything going good?" He asked.
"Yes and no. Me and Casey are pooped and our team is running low on energy. We just took the docks and the warehouse. We still have three targets to go. We would love some help taking the rest of the targets." She said.
"I'll call Snow and see if he and his team is done yet. If they are then I'll send them to you. Have a few cars waiting to pick them up. I'll let you know. Aside from that how are things going?" He asked.
"Good. So far Casey sustained the only bad injury. He took two in the vest. Nothing broken but he will be sore for a while." She said.
"Good. I'm going to send you help. I'm also going to send Alex to New York if she's wrapped up her three targets. Call me if you run into any trouble, or if you need anything." He said.
"I will. Thank you Chuck. I love you." She said.
"I love you too." He said before hanging up. He tossed Jordan the phone. "Get Major Snow on the line and route him to D.C. and send Alex to New York. I need to go check on Anna." He said.
"What about the other teams?" She asked looking up Snow's number.
"Touch base with Melissa and see if they need any help. If they do send Kate or Carina. Which ever one is done. Tell the other they're on stand by until I can get some answers out of Roark." He said coldly as he walked away.
Chuck walked down the hall and saw Roark in an interrogation room what confused him was Anna beating the crap out of him. He ran into the room and picked her up. He put her down in the hall and looked at her with a demanding stare.
"What?" She asked looking guilty.
"What? What? You were told to rest! You were told to take it easy. I told you to watch him. I did not tell you to start the questioning!" He said in a fear fueled rage.
Anna flinched away and got small. "I'm sorry." She said softly.
Chuck grabbed her in a hug making sure not to squeeze her too hard. "I know. I also know you wouldn't disobey me unless you found something." He said softly before kissing the top of her head. "I'm sorry I yelled." He whispered.
"It's okay. I understand." She said smiling.
"What did you find?" he asked turning to look into the room at a beaten Ted Roark.
"He tried to play tough guy. He thought he could talk his way out before you got here. He's very afraid of you. I could see he was clinging to his lost power so I broke him of the idea he was going to get out or even talk his way out. I beat him and asked no questions. He's crapping himself right now. He will tell you anything to make the ass kicking I was giving him stop." She said.
"Good. Now it's my turn and he's defiantly not going to like me." Chuck said coldly.
"NO!" She said grabbing him and making him look at her. "You can't go into that room mad. If you do you'll make him collapse into himself out of fear. You need a calm center before you go in that room." She said.
"Really?" He asked.
"Yes. You can't push too hard or he'll crack. He's not trained in being tortured. He will talk with just the threat of violence now. That was the point of me going in first."
"Okay." Chuck said taking a deep breath. He let it out and relaxed into his Mad Dog persona. He pulled his gun out of his pants and handed it to her. "Hold this." He said before walking into the room.
The second Roark saw him the color drained from his face. "Chuck I'll talk! I'll tell you everything you want to know! I swear I will. I'll tell you everything. Just please don't hurt me! Please!" he rambled in panic.
"Just shut up!" Chuck said grabbing him by his shirt and hurling him out of his seat. "Why should I believe you?" Chuck asked.
"Because I know where your parents are!" He said shaking.
"What?" Chuck asked coldly.
"I have them! Both of them! I know who you are!" He said.
"I told you who I am." Chuck said.
"No, before that! I always knew who you were! I've been keeping tabs on you and your sister. I knew you were Steven's son the first time I saw you walk into Roark Tower. I knew it was you. I figured they recruited you like they did your mother." Roark said.
"What?" Chuck said feeling numb inside. Anna ran into the room and pulled Chuck out.
"Jordan!" She called out as she walked Chuck into the observation room.
"What happened?" Jordan asked running down the hall.
"We have a problem. Roark knew Chuck was Chuck but he didn't know he was working undercover. He said he has Chuck's parents. I have to go get the rest out of him. I think Chuck's in shock. Watch him until I can get the full story." Anna said holding Chuck's pale face in her hands.
"I got him, you find out what's going on." Jordan said sitting on Chuck lap and holding him as he looked lost.
"Da." Anna said slipping into Russian. She ran into the room and slammed Roark into the wall. "Talk! And if you say something I don't like I'll cut out you're balls and feed them to you!" She said pulling out a switch blade and holding it to his junk.
"A long time ago Chuck's father Steven and I worked on the Intersect project together. When the government lost interest I kept up the research and kidnapped Mary Frost, Chuck's mother to make Steven work for me. I used them both. Him to build the intersect and her to train my operatives. This worked well until about six years ago when Steven fried his brain with the intersect. Now he's little more than a vegetable. I used the threat of hurting him and her kids to keep Frost working for me. She trains my hit men. I have both of them in an underground bunker in the desert." Ted said quickly.
"You will tell me everything about the bunker. You will not leave out any detail." Anna said throwing him back down into his chair.
In the observation room Chuck was starting to get the feeling back in his body. "Are you okay Chuck?" Jordan asked holding his head to her chest.
"I think so? Did he say he has them in a bunker?" Chuck asked.
"He did. Now we know what's in the bunker." Jordan said.
"I have to get in there." Chuck said standing up but Jordan stopped him.
"No, let her do this. Even injured she's ten times the interrogator you are. Let her get all the facts. We are going to have to hit this bunker tonight. I need you to just listen and flash on as much stuff as you can." Jordan said getting up to stand with him.
"The bunker was an old Army left over from the Manhattan project days. I bought it in the 80's and rebuilt it to be an underground military base to house the first Fulcrum Operations teams. After we got bigger I had them transferred out and I had an NSA expert on Secure holding bunkers come in and refit it to hold Assets and prisoners. We even found a few comfort girls for the assets. It's how we turned NSA and CIA assets into Fulcrum assets." He said with a smile.
Anna elbowed him in the ribs. "What is the security like?" She asked. "And the next time you smile I'll fuck you up so bad they won't be able to identify your croups." She added in a tone that spoke of the countless people she killed before.
"I understand." He said nodding. "Security is light because it's out in the middle of nowhere. I think there are ten guards, five agents and a light staff like cooks, maids and girls." He said.
"You think?" She asked coldly.
"I don't know for sure. I don't really handle that place full-time. I have department heads for this kind of stuff. My office computer at R.I. has everything on it. Password is fulcrum command. I'm willing to work with you. Tell you everything I know. Just don't hurt me." He said letting the fear get to him.
Chuck knocked on the glass. "I have to go talk to my boss now. You sit here and think about anything that might be useful to us. If the information is good I might let you live." She said. As soon as she got into the observation room she started to sway.
Chuck picked her up and took her to a holding cell. He set her on the bed. "Are you okay? This is why I didn't want you in the room. You're hurt!" He said checking her eyes, for what he didn't know, but he knew that's what you did when someone had a brain injury.
"I'm fine Chuck, stop that." She said batting his hands away. "We need to look at his computer and I need to get back in that room. I have him talking now, I can't stop. He'll clam up." She said trying to stand up but Jordan held her down.
"No, I'll do it. I can play off the power reversal and keep him off his game that way." Jordan said.
"Do you think you can be in the same room with him?" Anna asked.
"I can." She said looking ready.
"Okay. He's favoring his left side, I think he has a sprained wrist. Also he's not breathing well with the broken nose. You might want to reset it when you want to cause some pain. It will help later when I'm ready for round two." She said with a dark smile.
"No! no round two. No round anything young lady! You will stay in bed and rest." Chuck said.
"But Chuck!" She said.
"No! I'm letting you stay at Castle, but if you push things with me I'll have Scott take you back to your hotel room." Chuck said in a voice that called out to the part of Anna that longed for a family. For a father that didn't touch her or beat her.
"Okay." She said letting her Russian accent out.
"Good girl." He said brushing the hair off her forehead. "When Scott gets back I'll send him in here to stay with you. He's a little tense after this morning and I think we need to keep him busy or he might freak out on us. Can you do that for me? Watch him I mean?" He said.
"I can keep him busy." She said blushing.
"Not that! Besides the adrenalin will wear off after he eats. I think you'll be happy with some cuddling if your lucky." Chuck said smirking. Before he pulled Jordan out of the room.
"There you go again manipulating that girl to be with my son." Jordan said shaking her head.
"You say manipulation. I call it match making. The two need each other. She needs a normal guy that won't hurt her and he needs someone as perfect as his mother. You did kind of set the bar high when he was growing up." Chuck said putting his arm around her.
"Turn down the charm Carmichael. It's not going to work on me." She said boxing him on the back of the head.
"Right." Chuck said pretending to be hurt. "Now I need to run back to R.I. and dump his computer." Chuck said grabbing his gun off the desk. "I'll be back in a half hour. In that time see if you can get him to tell us anything more. I'll call Carina, Kate, and her team and send then to Nevada." He spotted Morgan walking down the hall with the two bags. "Right on time." He said taking his bag "Stay with Anna until Scott gets back. Keep her company. I'll be back in a little bit with intel."
Time: 1055 Location: Drug processing lab, East of Austin, TX.
Carina was watching as Roy Dobbs lamented the death of his 1973 Ford Bronco. A part of her wanted to laugh at him for whining over car full of bullet holes, but a small part of her, the voice in the back of her head that sounded like a combination of Chuck and Sarah told her that she should apologies for killing his truck. She knew deep down that voice was right, but she didn't know how to say she was sorry. She never really had to say the words before. She patted him on the shoulder. "I'm sure my boss can get you another Bronco and I'm betting he'll throw in a big check too. He's a good guy like that." She said.
"Don't touch me evil woman!" He said batting her hand away as tears rolled down his cheeks.
"Okay! I'm just trying to tell you I can fix this. I just have to make one phone call to my boss." She said waving her iPhone. It lit up. "Speak of the Devil!" She said. "Hey Chucky!"
"Cut the crap Henson I need you to listen very carefully." Chuck barked as he weaved through traffic on his way back to R.I.
Carina's smile dropped. "Sorry Chuck. What can I do for you?" She asked without a hint of joking in her voice.
"No I'm sorry Carina. I'm having a really shitty day so far and I just figured out Roark has my parents, alive and in that bunker in Nevada. I need you to get to that air strip you landed at a few days ago. I'm sending a Jet to take you to Nevada. I'll meet you at the staging ground with whatever guys I can gather as soon as I can." Chuck said feeling the weight of the day settle on his shoulders.
"I can do that Chuck. I'm headed there right now." She said flagging down one of the patrol cars.
"Thank you Carina. I'll see you soon." He said hanging up.
"I need to barrow your car." She said flashing the officer a sexy smile.
"Oh no you Don't! You are not driving another thing in this state! Not while I can still draw breath!" Dobbs yelled as he ran over.
"Well I need to get to the airport. So either I barrow a car or you drive me but I need to catch a plane." She said.
"Your leaving the state?" He asked with hope in his voice.
"I need to be on a plane to Vegas in the in the next half hour." She said looking at her watch.
"I'll take you. I want to watch you get on the plane. I want to make sure you leave." He said getting behind the wheel.
"You say that now but you'll miss me when I'm gone." She said getting in next to him.
"I can promise you I won't. you are by far the biggest pain in the ass I've ever met." He said flooring it down the street with the lights and sirens blaring.
"If you keep saying things like that you'll make me think you don't like me." She said pinching his cheek.
"I'm pretty sure I hate you." He said.
"They all say that." She said smirking.
Time: 1055 Location: Small airstrip, South of Denver, CO.
Kate looked over her remaining team as they sat in and on the two SUVs parked next to a hanger with a CIA Black Jet. She was still struggling with the fact that she lost two men. Mike took a seat next to her on the steps of the jet. "Penny for um?" He asked.
"What?" She asked.
"Your thoughts. What are you thinking about?" He asked.
"I don't think that's any of your business." She said indignantly but then her face dropped. "The two men. Ramirez, and Brown. I was supposed to have the easy targets. The ones that would topple over fast and lead to no casualties. Instead you almost died at the warehouse and I lost two men at the office building. How the hell I'm I going to look Chuck in the eye and tell him I managed to get two of my guys killed?" She asked.
"I don't know, but if this Chuck guy has any brains in his head he'll know it wasn't your fault. Doing tactical takedowns can be very dangerous. You might have all the information in the world going in, but if the guy you're come for ate a good breakfast and got a good night's sleep he could be just a little bit faster than you and that little bit could mean the difference between an easy takedown and you're whole team getting blown up. You can never know for sure what's waiting for you on the other side of a door." Mike said placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Maybe you're right but I still have to tell him what happened. I still have to live with the fact that two men died on my watch." She said
"Everyone deals with something like that at least once in their life if they chose to do this job." He said.
"How do you…" She started to say before her phone started to vibrate. She pulled it out and saw it was Chuck. "Here goes nothing, Hey Chuck." She said sadly.
"Kate I need…" Chuck started to say but stopped himself. "Kate, what's wrong?" He asked.
"I lost two guys at the office building. They walked into a wall of bullets as soon as they went through the door." She said close to tears again.
"I'm sorry to hear that. Are you hurt?" He asked.
"No, but I lost two guys Chuck." She said.
"That's terrible, but you need to get up and dust yourself off. I need you to fly out to meet the team in Nevada." Chuck said.
"Your not mad at me?" She asked.
"Mad? Why the hell would I be mad? You had a dangerous job to do. You and your team raided two enemy locations. It sucks to lose men but it happens. It's what we do. I knew I was sending you all out to do dangerous things today. So far none of the team is dead. I can tell you now I didn't think you would all make it out of this in one piece. I hoped, and I believed in you guys to do the job but I knew the risks. We only have a few missions left and then we can all come back home and take some time to think. Right now I need you to turn that part of your brain off. I need you and your team to get to the Nevada rally point. We are going to need all the help we can get for this last one." Chuck said.
"What is it Chuck? You sound… I don't know, but I don't like it." She said trying to place the sound in his voice. It was desperation mixed with a weakness she never heard from him. A tone she really didn't like.
"I, well Anna got Ted to talk. He said he has my parents in that bunker in the desert." Chuck said feeling raw.
"Chuck I'll be there. I'm bringing my team and I'll meet you there soon. We will get them back for you. You have my word." She said confidently.
"Thank you Kate. I have some information to get together first, but I see you soon." He said before hanging up.
Kate put her phone away and looked at Mike. "Get the boys together we need to go. We're going to take down the desert base." She said walking up the stairs of the plane with the same confidant swagger she had at the start of the day.
Mike shook his head and walked over to the group. The whole time he was thinking about the guy on the phone. With just a few minutes he turned her self-doubt into total confidence.
A half hour later Chuck came back with a black passport drive and plugged it into the conference room computer. Jordan looked on as he pulled up the file for the bunker. "What are we looking at?" She asked staring at the overhead shots of a concrete landing pad and a small brown cinderblock building no bigger then a small house.
"Fulcrum's cold storage. The only access point is by chopper, and only Fulcrum agents get to land on the small pad. Anyone else will get shot down. Then you have two guards with M4s protecting the elevator to get down to the bunker. The bunker is three levels with increasing number of guards on each level. Four on the first, six on the second, and ten on the third. All heavily armed. Then you're looking at three fulcrum assassins in training living on the third floor which, by some fun stroke of luck is the same floor my parents are on." Chuck said pulling up files as he spoke.
"Wow, this really is a fucked mission, how are we going to do this?" Jordan said reading the files.
"We get Teddy to call in a prisoner transfer. We take two fulcrum choppers and the tactical guys. We land and me, you, and Kate walk right in. They will take our guns at the door but, we don't need our guns. The guards have all the guns we could ever need. Once we get down to the third level we have the guards take us to the cell with my parents, and drop the guards. We take their guns and call in Carina and the tactical guys. They clear the ground floor, we take the third floor by the time the guards on two and one have any idea what's going on they'll be out numbered. Three of us could take on ten guards and three assassins right?" Chuck asked looking at her side.
"I'm fine Chuck, it's stitches, if I rip them open I'll have some put back in. we have one more job to do and then we can pack it in for the day." She said patting him on the arm.
"If we do this you're wearing a vest and staying behind me. You are not getting shot again today." Chuck said smiling at her.
"Fine. Now lest do this." Jordan said.
Time: 1523 Location: hovering over the Cold storage bunker, North of Reno. NA
Chuck looked at Jordan sitting across from him. They where both wearing vests and carrying MP5Ks. "If this doesn't work out fall back to the room my parents are in and I'll hold off the guards long enough for the tactical guys to get there." Chuck said.
"Chuck, that's crazy. We don't…"
"Just do it. The mission is to get them out. I am not your mission. Kate is not your mission. My parents are. They make it out of this with the same amount of holes God gave them." Chuck said looking every bit the trained killer his file said he was. Today had changed him. What little of the man he once was, was fading away fast. every time he killed, a little bit more of his innocent past was dieing too. She hoped they made it out of this alive so he could sit in a room and talk to his wife. The man was losing it fast and she was sad to say it suited the mission they were about to undertake. The two choppers landed and Chuck, Jordan, and Kate jumped out as the engines wound down.
Two guards in full tactical gear and M4s met them at the door. "Carmichael?" He asked.
"That's me, we're here for a prisoner transfer." Chuck said handing over the official paperwork.
"Full vest, and tactical support for a crazy old man and an old agent?" The guy asked as they walked into the bunker and stopped at a desk with another tactical guard seated behind a desk.
"You have no idea who those two are do you? They are both very high value targets the gear is not for them, it's for anyone trying to hit us to get to them." Chuck said unclipping his MP5K off the sling under his jacket and a Glock from his hip and handed them over. He put his hand on the scanner and his file popped up. Jordan went next as Chuck stepped aside.
"I see. Well good luck, do you want us to escort you down?" The guard asked.
"Sure, if it's not too much trouble." Chuck said as they all got on the elevator with the guard. When the doors opened on the third floor two more guards were waiting by the elevator. The first guard and the two guards from the elevator walked with them through a maze of hallways to the last door at the end of a hallway.
"This is the room." He said hitting a green button next to the door and it slid open. "We'll go in first to secure the prisoners." The guard said walking into the room with the two other guards. As one Chuck, Jordan and Kate moved in after them. Chuck took the first guy from behind grabbing him in a choke hold, the guard struggled for a few seconds before he passed out. Jordan kicked her guy in the back of the knee buckling his legs, she grabbed his head in her hands and snapped his neck. Kate, on the other hand jabbed two fingers into her guys neck at the base of his skull which made his crumble to the ground, she then kicked him in the throat, breaking his windpipe. In seconds the guards were down and Chuck looked up and saw them standing in the middle of a small apartment similar to the one he was kept for a few days. They were both dressed in jeans, white t-shirts, and white tennis shoes. He didn't know what to say, he just stood there in shock.
"Chuck?" His mom asked in shock as she walked the few steps up to him.
"Mom." He said unsure of what to do with himself.
Mary grabbed him in a tight hug and cried. "My boy, my baby. Chuck, what are you doing here?" She asked looking panicked.
"It's okay, mom were here to bust you out." Chuck said looking at his father who was still standing there looking confused. "What's wrong with him?" Chuck asked.
"He'll be fine we just have to get him to a computer in the CIA. It will help him." Mary said walking over and taking her husband's hand. He smiled and walked with her.
"The Intersect? I have one back at Castle. Did he fry his brain?" Chuck asked looking at his confused looking father.
"No, he put a block on his memories to stop Roark from building an intersect. This is the key to unlock his memories." She said pulling a small micro SD card from her watch.
"Good thinking dad." Chuck said nodding as he patted his father on the arm.
"How are we going to get out? There are guards everywhere." Mary asked.
"Don't worry about that." Chuck said as Jordan and Kate came over with their hands full of gear. "Here put these vests on and stay close to Jordan." Chuck said handing his mother two of the vest. He took a Sig 226 tactical from Kate and tucked it into his back before shouldering an M4. "Kate call Carina and tell her to attack." Chuck said looking outside the hallway was clear. "You guys stay here for now." He said pulling Kate out the door with him. He ghosted down the hall with his M4 up. He stopped at the corner and peaked around. He saw three guards at the end of the hall standing in a group. He looked back at Kate and held up three fingers. He handed her the M4 and casually walked down the hall towards the three. "Hey, are you three having bad Cell reception down here? I can't seem to get any bars down here." He said as he walked up to them. The first guard turned to look at him and Chuck punched him in the throat sending him to the floor, He landed a round house kick to the second guards chest sending him flying backwards into the concrete wall behind him knocking him out cold. The third guard tried to bring his M4 up to shoot him but Chuck grabbed the barrel and slammed the but of the gun into the guys face dazing him, he then kneed him in the balls and slammed his elbow into his head knocking him out.
Chuck was zip tying the first guard by the time Kate ran over. "That was very violent." She said pulling a set of zip ties off the second guard and binding his hands.
"We have to do this quick." Chuck said tying the third guys hands behind his back. He took the M4 off the ground where she set it and ran down the hall with Kate behind him. As they crossed a double door three guys in their mid twenties and dressed like the rest of the prisoners came rushing out with guns in their hands. Kate was confused for a split second, in that time the first guy turned his gun on her and fired three times. Chuck spun around, saw they where the assassins, and shot them all. He dropped down next to Kate. "You okay." He asked looking her over.
"Yeah. I think I took all three to the vest." She said sitting up.
The last four guards came running down the hall Chuck pulled the Sig 226 from his back and knee capped them all. "You move and you all Fucking Die!" He yelled helping Kate to her feet. He spun around and put a bullet right between the eyes of a guard that was trying to get his gun up. "I warned you. The rest of you stay the fuck down." He said as he walked up to them. He pulled the Mag out of each of their M4s and handed them to Kate. He took the Sigs off their belts and stuck one in his back and took the mag out of the other three and tossed the guns. "You ready for the sound floor?" He asked watching her favor her left side as they walked down the hall to the elevator.
"I'm okay." She said wincing.
"No, you're not. You should…" He stopped talking when the doors on the elevator opened and four guys got out. They looked at each other for a second and the guards reached for their guns. Chuck dove forwards into a roll and came up on his knee with both guns up. Before the guards could figure out what was going on they were all dead. "Like I was saying. Just stay here and guard the elevator. I'll handle the second floor. If Carina didn't do it already." Chuck said pulling one of the dead bodies on to the elevator with him. He hit two and the doors closed. Tucking himself close to the side he took the short trip up one floor. When the doors opened he heard a few shouts and two guards came to see who was on the elevator. As soon as they stuck their heads in they lost them. Bullets pinged off the back wall of the elevator car and Chuck dropped down low on one knee. He waited for the shooting to stop before he popped his head out and saw three more guards standing at the end of a long hallway. Chuck emptied both mags hitting them multiple times he was about to get out of the elevator to see if there were any more guards but the doors closed. "Shit!" He said changing out his mags. When the doors opened on level one he saw Carina and her four man assault team waiting for the elevator. "Get on I didn't get a chance to clear Level two." He said waving them in with his gun.
"You and you with me." Carina said. "The other two get those bodies out of the elevator. Your work Chuck?" She asked. Standing next to him as two of her guys drug the bodies out.
"Yes." He said coldly as he hit the button for two. When the doors open the they swept the level. "Carina call in the other two choppers, I want to start clearing people out." He said.
"I will, you take your parents and get out of here. I'll handle the clean up." She said patting him on the arm as he got into the elevator.
"Are you sure?" He asked.
"Yes, now go, and take Jordan and Kate with you, they're both injured." She said hitting the button for three.
Chuck walked off the elevator and saw Jordan, Kate and his parents waiting for him. "Come on, let's get you all out of here." He said waving them in with him. They rode up in silence, and when they got to the entrance Chuck grabbed his MP5K from the desk and clipped it to the sling. They got into the waiting Black Hawk helicopter, and Chuck got behind the stick. In seconds they were headed back west to L.A.
Mary sat holding her husband, she kept looking at Chuck. The last thing she heard about him was that he worked at a Buy More, but Nerd Herders didn't have the skills she just saw. That was company training. She looked at Kate. "Do you mind switching seats with me?" She asked.
"Sure, do you want me to hold his hand?" Kate asked pointing to Steven.
"Would you please, he gets agitated when we're out of the cell." Mary said handing Steven off to Kate as she took her seat.
"Hi, I'm Kate." She said holding his hand with a big smile.
Mary sat in the seat next to Jordan and right behind Chuck. "Chuck, How long have you been with the CIA?" She asked.
"A few weeks. It's a long story mom." He said deep in thought.
"We have a long trip, why don't you tell her about it Chuck." Jordan said seeing the tension in his shoulders.
"Please Chuck. I want to know everything." Mary said holding his shoulder tighter.
"I guess it al started with an email…" Chuck spent the rest of the flight just talking in a monotone voice.