Ms. Nowhere's Jet
The crew stood before Ms. Nowhere as she sighed, she didn't want to do this, but due to the team's prowess in gathering intel on this mission, she had authorized them going to Brazil for their first ever international spy mission.
They were all elated to say the least, but she was still thinking about all the risks as she prepared to tell them the extra details of their mission.
She then slammed her hands onto the table in an attempt to get the crew to focus on her, being that they were all chatting nonsense to each other.
"Alright brats! Listen up! You're being inserted into a hot operational theater-" Ms. Nowhere is cut off as everyone's attention is drawn to Cisco who had let out a frantic yell.
"Spider!" He shouted as he danced around and fired lasers from the laser cap on his head at a seemingly metallic spider that crawled on the floor in front of him.
"Cisco put down that laser cap!" Ms. Nowhere shouted as Cisco continued to scream frantically.
"Who was the genius that decided to give him that thing in the first place?" Geleel questioned Ms. Nowhere as she once again sighed and began rubbing her temples, these kids were going to be the death of her.
"Wait a minute…HE'S TRYNA KILL MY BROOCH!" Echo then shouted as she rushed over to Cisco, effectively bumping him out of the way and gathering the robotic spider into her hands.
"That thing belongs in a brooch motel." Cisco said in exasperation as he finally took the laser cap off.
"It's not just jewelry! It's a tracker, it's a camera, and…it's a friend…" Echo said eerily as she cooed at the device.
Everyone gave her incredulous stares before turning to look at Geleel, who ofcourse arched a brow at them.
"What? What yall lookin at me for? I don't got nothin' to do with whatever is happening over there." Geleel said as he gestured to Echo, who was still crouched on the floor tending to the spider.
"Guys!" Frostee suddenly shouted as all eyes were on him now.
"Check this out! Look at me, I'm invisible!" He shouted…only he wasn't invisible…he was just standing underneath a transparent tarp of some sort.
"Uh Frost…we can definitely see you." Tony revealed to the smaller teen as Frostee's eyes widened in realization.
"Oh! Sorry, I got it inside out." He apologized before flipping the tarp around on himself, and finally, he was actually invisible now.
Everyone, minus Nowhere who had seen this device already, watched in awe as Frostee virtually had disappeared.
"Bro…we got invisibility cloaks?" Cisco questioned as Frostee chuckled at him.
"Nah, that's magic stupid! This is a fiber-optic mesh poncho that bends light around its wearer." Frostee said as the other teens deadpanned him.
"Only you can drain the fun factor out of an invisibility cloak." Echo said as she stood up and crossed her arms.
"Jealous?" Frostee taunted her.
"Now, watch this." He continued as he danced around all the while being invisible.
Ms. Nowhere, for the umpteenth time today, was forced to sigh as she tried her absolute hardest to maintain her composure.
"Why did I agree to this?" She rhetorically questioned.
"Because you know we're awesome." Tony said with a shrug.
"Besides, you have me back on the team now, I'm like the best, most subordinate agent you've ever had." Geleel said as Nowhere almost blanched at him.
"Are you delusional? The day that's ever true I'll actually peel my own skin off and shave my head, you're in competition with dunderhead Toretto over here for being the most ANNOYING agent I ever had the liberty of meeting!" Nowhere ranted as everyone gave her incredulous stares, she had definitely been holding that one in for a while now.
"She totally missed me." Geleel whispered to Tony who chuckled at his friend.
"No I didn't!" Nowhere shouted as she slammed her hands on the table again.
"Can we please just focus for FIVE minutes? We've already lost contact with one agent." Nowhere reminded them as Tony gained a bit of seriousness now…Layla Gray, the one name that forced him to actually start focusing...well at least he focused for 15 seconds.
Shortly after he began getting distracted by electricity gloves…because this was Tony Toretto.
"Your mission is to ascertain if Layla's missing, flipped-" Nowhere cuts herself off once more as she notices her purse floating beside her.
"Guess where I ammmm!" Frostee sang as he had used his invisibility cloak to snag the purse.
Nowhere made no clear acknowledgement of Frostee, she simply snatched her purse away from him.
"Or-" She was once again cut off, by Tony this time.
"Aye, check out these gloves, what do they do?" He questioned as he began feigning a few jabs to the air with the glove as the electricity trilled.
Suddenly, he punches straight forward as if he had connected with a tangible being.
As electricity crackled from the glove Frostee let out a loud shriek as everyone quickly realized Tony had inadvertently electrocuted him due to the fact he was standing on the table.
Everyone watched as Frostee's body shook and he fell onto his back with a loud thud.
Ms. Nowhere's eyes twitched as she slowly turned to Tony with an irate look on her face, the Toretto gave her a sheepish grin.
"I'm not gonna lie, this has to boost his annoying levels way past mine." Geleel said to Ms. Nowhere as he gestured to Frostee, who was still twitching on the table before them.
Ms. Nowhere then turned to him as she growled at him in annoyance.
"Okay you right, my fault, not the time." Geleel said as he once more threw his hands up in relent.
Ms. Nowhere sighed once more as she slowly exited the room.
"Just calm down Ms. Nowhere, if you kill them you can go to jail for life, just remember that." She spoke to herself as the crew gave eachother incredulous looks.
A little while later, after ensuring Frostee was okay…and Ms. Nowhere was no longer angry.
The crew was now walking behind Nowhere in the cargo area of the jet, the latter had agreed to look past the crew's previous insolence.
"Your hauler's been upgraded with increased armor capabilities so it can take a hit from a tank and still survive." Nowhere informed them with a smirk as they took note of the very much reinforced hauler.
"I've also loaded all our intel we have for your mission onto an encrypted hard drive, so when you inevitably forget your objective you can easily check back in." Nowhere continued.
"You know, you're really makin it seem like we won't be able to handle this mission." Tony said as he tried to balance the shock glove on his head.
Naturally, he trips and electrocutes himself, which elicited a loud shriek from the Toretto.
"What was that?" Nowhere questioned sarcastically as she deadpanned at Tony.
"To be fair, his stupidity has gotten us killed yet, so I still think you could have at least a little bit more faith in us." Geleel said as Nowhere feigned a chuckle and began walking again.
"Oh yea, we upgraded all of your cars too." Nowhere revealed as everyone began getting excited, minus Geleel, he didn't HAVE a car to upgrade.
"Don't worry Barlett I can sense the look on your face already, we had to completely rebuild your camaro from scratch." Nowhere then stated as she brandished Geleel's keys, effectively placing a look of shock on his face.
Geleel immediately moved over to Nowhere as she dropped the keys in his hands.
She then gestured to the camaro as it was covered by a tarp.
Geleel pulled it back as the entire group gasped in awe and shock at the completely remodeled 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS, the main thing they noticed was the fact that the camaro's base color was changed to a matte black as the stripes were still white.
The new silver alloy rims definitely stood out to them as well.
"Yoooo that's sick!" Cisco shouted as Geleel fought the urge to contain his happiness.
"Back in black, I dig it." Echo said with a smirk as she ran her fingers over the hood of the vehicle.
"Sorry we couldn't get you your signature blue, Gary only had black and white to work with." Nowhere said as Geleel walked over to her.
She arched a brow at him before she realized him opening his arms for a hug.
"Uh-uh, all thanks are heard verbally." Nowhere stated as she sidestepped the hug attempt.
"Just when you thought the big bad Nowhere was startin to be nice…" Geleel trailed off as Echo walked up to him and shook her head at his antics.
"Oh yea, and since you all seem to have a knack for crazy stunts, we installed extra thrusters into your cars as well." Nowhere continued her exposition.
"I knew my charger was missing something." Tony said in realization.
"Yea cause Tony Toretto needs an excuse to go faster, anyways, take these." Ms. Nowhere said as she handed them each passports, only thing was the names were all fake, their picture IDs were there though.
"You all will be given cover identities that you will have to learn." Nowhere stated as they all tried to ensure they had their back stories figured out.
"Mar-shell-oh?" Tony butchered the name that was written in his passport.
"You're the tattooed man from L.A." Nowhere informed him as she gestured to the fake tattoos that were drawn on Tony's arms.
"The rest of you are in his crew, you need to make contact with the favelas, and use Tony's cover story to infiltrate the gang and find Layla…your secondary objective is to find out what that formula does." Ms. Nowhere continued as they all looked at the chemical compound on Tony's left arm.
"Alright! Another new identity!" Echo shouted gleefully.
"How many identities do you have?" Frostee questioned Echo as she arched her brow at him.
"I don't think you wanna know, the list is insurmountabl-ack!" Geleel exclaimed as Echo slapped his arm and shushed him.
"Hey check it out! There's all this new stuff in here! Look at all this gum!" Cisco shouted as he brandished a colorful array of gum from a fanny pack he had strapped to his midsection.
"That's spy gum, each flavor has a different purpose; when you chew the peppermint it becomes an automotive sealant that's 10 times more powerful than the current gum you use to fix your cars." Nowhere informed him with a smirk as Cisco seemingly had a moment of realization.
"Now there really is nothing a little bubblegum can't fix." He said in glee.
"Pink lemonade glows for visibility in the dark." Nowhere continued expositioning the gums before grabbing a green one.
"This green one forms a molecular bond like geckos have on their footpads for climbing." Nowhere said as she held the gum up.
"Gecko gum! What flavor is it?" Frostee questioned Nowhere.
"I said it was green." She answered cryptically.
"Green is technically not a flavor." Tony pointed out matter-of-factly.
Before Nowhere could respond, the comm system came on.
"Don't! Just…don't." It was Gary warning them from the cockpit.
"What does this one do?" Cisco questioned as he held up a yellow packet.
"That's the gum that never loses its flavor, you can chew it 24 hours straight and it will be just as delicious as when you first pulled it out of the wrapper." Nowhere simply stated as Echo gasped at this.
"Woah! You invented gum that never loses its taste?" Echo questioned.
"Nah that's been around for mad years, but it never hit the market thanks to Big Gum."
"That's actually true…" Nowhere confirmed Cisco's nonsense before turning.
"Okay! The drop zone is coming up, here's your briefing binder." Nowhere simply stated as she dropped the heavy file into Echo's arms as the green haired girl strained to keep them up.
"Damn Nowhere, I don't think Interpol knows what BRIEF means, what the hell is all this for?" Geleel questioned as he helped Echo with the binder.
"That is the smallest briefing we can offer you, it's not that bad, quit your whining, besides, it is always valuable to have a binder in case the hauler becomes compromised, a binder doesn't run out of batteries, need to be upgraded and a binder would never break up with you over text!" Nowhere shouted as she turned away from everyone, they all blinked at her back incredulously.
"Uh…you good there Ms. Nowhere?" Echo questioned.
"Fine! You have your instructions! I'll be on my own mission while you're in Brazil!" Nowhere shouted as she began walking away.
"Why do you still have to go on your own missions? Isn't this stuff hard on the joints after a certain point?" Geleel questioned her as she grit her teeth.
"I'll look past your comment Barlett, because going on missions isn't a job for me…it's a lifestyle, duct taped in a shipping container for hours waiting for a perp to leak just the right information before I burst out…and start cracking skulls!" Nowhere shouted maniacally before taking a breath to calm her nerves.
"I can feel my blood pressure dropping already…besides, these missions actually keep me from strangling all of you." Nowhere then finished as the crew stared at her again.
"Noted." Tony stated curtly.
"Anyways, call me when you have an emergency." Nowhere stated before turning to walk off.
"Uh, don't you mean IF we have an emergency?" Frostee questioned her as she got further away.
"Nah, she definitely meant when bro." Geleel informed Frostee as he placed a hand on the latter's shoulder.
"Well, I hope Nowhere enjoys her duct tape mission because WE'VE got one of our own to complete." Tony declared with a smirk.
"Right…nothing will go wrong at all."
Later
The hauler sped down a highway, the crew was now officially on Brazil soil.
Only thing is, they had attracted the attention of Brazil's local police force, if the wailing sirens and speeding cop cars behind the hauler weren't any indication of this.
"Why did you have to flash your tattoo?" Echo shouted at Tony, his mistake was what got them into this predicament.
"This is Tony Toretto, he did that completely out of impulse." Geleel said as he deadpanned at Tony.
"Would you guys relax? The guy asked if we had any guns, ya know I had to show em some." Tony said as he flexed his left arm before kissing his bicep, eliciting a groan from Frostee.
"Only now, they think we're in a gang!" Frostee revealed to the young Toretto.
"Exactly! Isn't that what our cover story is supposed to be anyways?" Tony questioned incredulously.
"Yea but, explain how we're supposed to oh I don't know, COMPLETE the mission if we're stuck behind a cell in a foreign country?" Geleel questioned as Tony threw his hands up placatingly.
"Don't worry, we can just lose the cops the Tony Toretto way, behind the wheel of a 10 second car." Tony said with a smirk as he left to go get his charger ready.
"We're gonna die before this mission even starts." Echo said with a deadpan.
"Yup, Frostee, you and Cisco just try and hold things steady in here." Geleel stated as he and Echo left to go prepare their respective cars.
"We can try!" Frostee shouted out.
After a moment of getting their cars ready for ejection, Echo, Tony and Geleel all smirked to themselves.
Sure they wouldn't be in this predicament if not for Tony's insolence but, none of them were complaining about a free excuse to drive.
Tony whooped as Geleel noticed his charger eject onto the road in front of the police, the dreadhead immediately took note of the new shiny, metallic silver finish Tony's charger adorned, it was nice.
Geleel then watched as Echo's hyperfin sped past him and onto the road to join Tony, only thing was, instead of it's usually red base with yellow accents, the hyperfin was an aqua blue with green accents, and it looked like the back rims were even bigger than before.
"What are you waiting for G? Christmas already passed." Echo said over the comms as Geleel got over his stupor.
He was seated in his camaro as he felt the steering wheel in his hands.
His grip on the wheel tightened as he could feel his arm hairs raise up due to adrenaline and excitement.
Geleel then gave his engine a few revs, there was that powerful roar he missed so much…she was back.
"Don't worry, I'll never cheat on you with some old soccer mom van again…now let's introduce these cops to your majesty." Geleel said as he finally sped out of the back of the hauler and swiftly turned using his handbrake.
He then sped forward as he rode up behind the hyperfin and the charger who were both on their own respective sides.
"Wow…that thing actually looks amazing." Echo said in admiration as Geleel's new paint job was accentuated by the sun.
"Gotta admit G, she's definitely a bute, but I think it's time we give these cops some smoke with our new smokescreen tires, what do ya say Echo?" Tony questioned the green haired vixen as she smirked.
Geleel sped ahead as he looked into his rearview mirror to notice Echo and Tony criss-crossing, all the while causing a giant smoke cloud to muster up, this obscured the police's vision as they were not able to notice Cisco sneakily turning the hauler onto a road that led through the jungle.
"That's so not fair, how come they get smokescreen tires…" Geleel trailed off as he was scrolling through his modem in search of any new spy gear in his car.
"E.M.P discs? That sounds interesting." Geleel said as he began slowing down a bit to drive in between Echo and Tony again.
"You guys might wanna speed up a little, it's about to get hectic back here." Geleel said as Tony and Echo arched their brows before ultimately speeding ahead.
Geleel then clicked two buttons on his modem as 6 E.M.P discs flew out and attached themselves to the police cruisers.
"Andddd, boom." Right as Geleel said this the cop cars in the front caused an electric explosion that ultimately rendered them and the other vehicles behind them useless.
"Thank you Ms. Nowhere." Geleel said as he smirked at the success of the E.M.P discs.
"Show off." Echo said with a deadpan as Geleel rode up next to her.
"Yea, yea, hey, where's Tony?" Geleel questioned her.
"I don't know, he sped ahead earl-" Echo cuts herself off as they noticed Tony was speeding back in their direction with a new set of cops on his tail.
Geleel and Echo looked behind them to notice the group of cops who were unaffected by the E.M.P discs were coming up behind them as well.
"I hope you guys are ready to play chicken again!" Tony shouted as they continued speeding towards each other.
"Oh you don't even know T…" Geleel trailed off as he switched gears and sped up.
"We play chicken…" Echo trailed off as she sped up as well.
As soon as they came close to colliding with Tony all three teens swerved to avoid crashing into each other.
Unfortunately for the police, they didn't expect this, so they ultimately crashed into each other, resulting in an array of confusion and crashes.
"...and they waffle." Echo finished her quip from earlier as the three teens rendezvoused and drove side by side.
"Good work team, now let's catch up with Frostee and Cisco." Tony said as they turned onto the road that Cisco had used to escape with the hauler earlier.
"You got it Mr. Mar-shell-o." Geleel mimicked Tony's mispronunciation of his own fake name.
A little while later, the teens had caught up to Cisco and Frostee as they all drove through the path that led them through the jungle.
"Alright guys, follow the leader." Tony said as he drove up front, Geleel and Echo drove behind him side by side and ofcourse the hauler was behind them with Cisco driving whilst Frostee occupied the passenger seat.
"I'm so happy we ran into you guys, how'd you find us?" Cisco questioned.
"C, you're in that big ass moving hunk of metal, it wasn't hard to notice those tire tracks on a dirt road." Geleel explained to Cisco as he shook his head with a chuckle.
"Besides, you already know I'm a master tracker, it wasn't that hard." Tony gloated as Echo rolled her eyes.
"Yea well we took a few turns and somewhere our antenna broke off…" Cisco revealed as Echo blanched.
"What? Why are you saying this NOW?" She questioned.
"Not to make matters worse but the canopy is also too dense for us to use the GPS." Frostee added in as Echo sighed and rubbed her temple with one hand.
"Whatever, all we gotta do is get back to the highway before we get too deep into the jungle." Echo relayed to the team.
"No way, the highway's probably swarming with cops looking for us, besides, we're on a shortcut." Tony brushed off her worries.
"To where?" Echo questioned him.
"To Rio!" He answered as if it was obvious.
"How do you even know that if you've never stepped foot in Brazil prior to this?" Geleel questioned the young Toretto now.
"It's my Toretto instinct! Besides, this road is running parallel to the highway, we're fine." Ironically, as Tony said this the road began turning to the left.
"Uh, the parallel road just turned." Echo informed Tony.
"It'll turn back." Tony said with that confidence never leaving his tone.
"Yea, cause that's how parallelism works." Geleel said sarcastically.
"Listen, I have a feel for this." Tony said as he wiped a fruit that was splattered on his windshield off.
"Just sit back…and enjoy the scenery." Tony finished as he stuck his head out of his window.
This turned out to be a big mistake as Tony was nailed in the face with another fruit, this caused him to lose control of his car as he swerved the charger around.
"Woah!" Echo shouted as Tony almost caused the others to begin swerving as well.
"Hang on!" Cisco shouted as they watched Tony's charger slide onto another path before coming to a halt.
Tony lets out a breath of relief as he prepares to drive.
Unfortunately, when he tries to move his wheels only spin in place as the charger was virtually stuck.
"Come on!" Tony shouted in aggravation as the others arrived on the scene.
Geleel and Echo parked their cars in the grass as they noticed Tony's tires were stuck.
"Aw man! I spilled my froyo! Also…I think we might be stuck." Cisco said in realization as he had accidentally driven the hauler into the mud as well.
"Relax, it's just a little mud, we can power out of this, hit the gas Cisco." Tony said as both him and Cisco began trying to drive out of the mud.
Geleel and Echo both swiftly exited their cars as they ran up to the edge of the mud puddle.
"Stop! You're making it worse! That's quicksand!" Echo shouted as she'd taken notice of how both vehicles were sinking even more.
"What? There's no such thing as quicksand." Tony said with a chuckle as he stepped out of his charger, only to begin immediately sinking into the quicksand.
"Oh my gosh…it's quicksand!" He shouted in realization.
"That's what she just said, dumbass!" Geleel shouted as they watched Tony begin panicking.
"Tony! Hold still! The more you move the faster you'll sink!" Echo shouted as Frostee and Cisco had run up beside her and Geleel, they took the safer route so that they wouldn't end up like Tony.
Geleel then ran over to a tree as he broke off a sizable branch and brought it back over to Echo, Tony had sunken up to his neck now.
"Guys…hello! Help!" Tony shouted as his head was about to be submerged.
"Cisco! Use this to orient Tony into a horizontal position!" Echo shouted as she handed Cisco the branch, he had the longest limbs out of everyone there.
Cisco dug the branch under Tony as the latter was still panicking.
"Grab the branch when you feel it!." Geleel shouted at Tony as the young Toretto didn't hesitate to grasp onto the branch when he felt it poke him.
Cisco immediately pulled Tony out of the quicksand as the latter began to breathe heavily and sputter, but fortunately he was free from a murky death.
"Booyah!" Cisco shouted as he helped Tony to his feet.
"Thanks…whew!" Tony said as he took note of his muddy clothing and body now.
A sudden bubble from the quicksand drew everyone's attention as they all remembered the hauler and Tony's car were still sinking.
"Come on man." Geleel said in a defeated tone as everyone else dawned wary expressions.
"Maybe now's the time to call Ms. Nowhere." Echo said as Geleel sighed and brandished his phone.
"You're right, I got it." Geleel stated as he began dialing Nowhere's number.
"What? No!" Tony shouted as he inadvertently slaps Geleel's phone into the quicksand, the dreadhead immediately scrambled to try and reach for the phone, but it was too late as it began sinking.
"Ooooo." Frostee and Cisco said simultaneously as Tony chuckled nervously.
"Heh…sorry." Tony apologized as he rubbed the back of his head.
Geleel then turned to Tony with a cross between an irate glare and an awestruck expression, he still couldn't process what just happened.
The dreadhead then grumbled as he irately advanced Tony.
"Hey! Hey! I've been wanting to rip his head off since we got to Brazil, if I can control myself for that long you can too." Echo explained as she held Geleel back from getting to Tony.
"Listen G, I'm sorry about your phone but, we JUST got here, we can't fold and call Nowhere right now." Tony informed them as Echo rounded on him.
"Our command center is in a hole Tony!" She reminded him.
"These are just challenges we face as spies in a foreign country." Tony challenged once more.
"And there's nothing wrong with calling for backup when you need it! Maybe Nowhere's Interpol contacts can help us." Echo relayed to him as he sighed.
"You're not listening Echo." Tony began as Echo's brow arched at that, that was the most hypocritical thing she'd heard all day.
"We've been begging for months to go on an international mission, we can't call for help two hours after we land! I'm sure we can handle this, just give me some time to think." Tony said as he placed his finger to his chin in thought.
"Okay Einstein, while you're at it, you mind figuring out a way to get me a new phone?" Geleel questioned as he was still in utter disbelief at his friend's sheer stupidity.
"We have a mission to worry about G, stop being so immature and let me come up with a plan." Tony said as he waved Geleel off.
"He's calling me immature, you think a mud worm crawled into his brain? Or is that just his natural stupidity?" Geleel questioned Echo.
"I'm leaning heavily towards option 2." Echo said with a deadpan.
"I have an idea!" Tony shouted once more.
"And Cisco…we'll need your truck." Tony said to the oaf who arched a brow.
Soon enough, Tony had hooked Cisco's truck onto the back of the hauler.
"Alright! Let's do this!" Tony shouted as he put Cisco's truck in reverse and began trying to pull the hauler out.
Unfortunately, the more he tried, the more the baja crawler began to sink.
"Be careful with my baby T!" Cisco shouted as they noticed the truck was beginning to sink even more.
"It's fine!" Tony reassured Cisco.
"Ain't a damn thing about this whole mission fine." Geleel said as he crossed his arms.
"You're making this so much worse dude." Echo once again tried to convince Tony.
"It's always darkest right before dawn." Tony combated her statement as he continued trying to pull the hauler out to no avail.
"Scientifically…that's not true." Frostee stated as the crew continued to watch Tony struggle.
"I don't think it's working!" Cisco shouted to Tony.
"I'll make it work!" Tony shouted as he ignited Cisco's thrusters.
The thrusters didn't help the process, it only started splattering mud everywhere.
Geleel uncharacteristically yelped as he leaped behind Echo to avoid getting mud splashed onto his white T-shirt.
The dreadhead chuckled sheepishly at Echo, who was deadpanning at him.
Before she could retaliate the entire crew is forced to focus on Tony who had gasped.
He had made Cisco's truck engine die…the baja was definitely going to begin sinking even faster now.
The crew groaned in exasperation as Tony looked at Cisco sheepishly.
"Want me to call now?" Echo suggested.
"Careful, oh fearless leader over there might throw your phone into a crocodile's mouth or something." Geleel said as Tony glared at him.
"What do we do now?" Frostee questioned as everyone fell silent…they all genuinely had no clue what to do.
Later
The Sun was beginning to set, judging by the dark orange hue that adorned the once brightly lit jungle.
They had decided to open up the back of the hauler and see what they could salvage from it, because they weren't going to get it unstuck anytime soon.
Geleel had finished tying a black durag onto his head because he knew the jungle's humidity was about to make his dreads get frizzy.
This was expected in this new climate, even Echo dawned khakis shorts and a thin black T-shirt because she knew how hot Brazil would be, unfortunately the others dressed the same, the dreadhead could not understand how they were managing, especially Cisco.
After ensuring that the durag was securely placed on his head Geleel had walked up besides Echo right as Tony began talking.
"I just need a snack to help me think, Frostee, C! Look for some licorice!" Tony shouted as Cisco and Frostee prepared to enter the hauler.
"You got it T!" Frostee shouted before turning to enter the hauler with Cisco.
"Ugh! How does he eat that stuff?" Frostee rhetorically questioned as they got further away.
Tony arched a brow as he noticed Geleel and Echo deadpanning him.
"What? Licorice is good." Tony defended himself before noticing Geleel waving his hand in front of his nose.
"You smell like shit bruh, why you still got the quicksand all over you?" Geleel questioned him.
"It's no biggie, I'll just clean it off with this." Tony stated as he picked up a plant and began rubbing it all over himself in hopes of cleaning the mud off.
"Yo! Don't do that! Mud flies lay their eggs in there…" Echo warned Tony, but per usual, he did not heed her warning.
"It could be good for my skin." Tony said with blatant disregard.
"I be wonderin how you made it this far sometimes…" Geleel trailed off as he watched Tony continue to rub the plant over his face.
Before Tony could respond to that, all three teens heard a loud crash from inside of the hauler, followed by Frostee and Cisco frantically screaming.
"Get it!" Cisco shouted as items began flying out of the back of the hauler.
"Woah!" Geleel side stepped a pineapple that was flying directly at his temple.
A loud screech then drew the trio's attention as they noticed a yellow and brown monkey with a gray face perched on top of the hauler's door with a bag of spy gear in its hands.
The monkey then screeched at Cisco and Frostee before running by Geleel, Echo and Tony with the bag in its hand.
"Please tell me that thing doesn't have my snacks…" Tony trailed off in annoyance.
"Really, that's all you're worried about that thing taking?" Geleel questioned him.
"Go! Go! Get it! It's getting away!" Frostee shouted as he and Cisco ran by in hot pursuit of the monkey.
"Wait guys you probably shouldn't…okay nevermind they're gone." Geleel muttered the last part before turning back to Echo and Tony.
"Today just keeps getting better and better." Echo said dryly as a small swarm of flies began to buzz around Tony.
"Tony, I think we're in over our heads." She then followed up.
"If you're never in over your head you'll never learn how to swim." Tony said in an optimistic tone as she swatted at the small swarm that was steadily growing.
"Stop saying lame movie quotes from the 80s, they don't even make sense." Geleel said with a deadpan.
"Look, we can't keep this up forever, we have to get out of here and find Layla." Echo urged as Tony still wasn't keen on listening to her, the mud fly number increased once more.
"I know things are tough but that's when we're at our best! Ack!" Tony exclaimed as he swatted a fly that bit his face.
"When we're running on instinct! Ack!" He swatted another fly.
"Flying by the seat of our pants! Gahhh! These things are everywhere!" He shouted as they continued biting him.
"Maybe because oh I don't know, just a wild guess here, YOU RUBBED THAT PLANT ALL OVER YOURSELF!" Geleel emphasized in hopes of finally getting the thick skulled teen before him to listen to them.
"What? Why didn't you tell me that?" Tony shouted at them as Geleel threw his hands up in exasperation, his best friend was hopeless.
"Are you serious? You wouldn't listen when we went through the border and showed off your tattoo! You didn't listen when we left the highway and got stuck in quicksand! And you're not listening now!" Echo scolded Tony irately as he scoffed at her and waved her off dismissively.
"You're crazy." He stated dryly as Echo's eyes flared in anger.
"Uh oh." Geleel knew Echo was about to snap, Tony had been testing EVERYONE'S patience today, but waving off this green haired woman was a clear death wish.
"Crazy? You wanna see crazy?" Echo exclaimed as she picked up a branch and raised it over her head, poised to use it on Tony.
"Woah! Woah! Let's settle down now." Geleel said as he held his hands out to stop Echo from cracking Tony's skull open like a Chesapeake Oyster.
Echo still glared furiously at Tony as he gave her an unimpressed stare.
"I know the guy's a total idiot but, smashing whatever is left of his brains is NOT going to help." Geleel tried to console Echo before things got ugly.
"Thank you G…wait, what?" Tony questioned after realizing Geleel's subtle insult to him.
"You know what." Echo started after drawing in a breath.
"You're right G, figure this out by yourself Toretto, come on." Echo stated as she roughly grabbed Geleel's hand and began leading him away from Tony and into the jungle.
"Wait hold up, this was NOT a plan we discussed, why are we purposely going into the jungle with no protectio-ack!" Geleel exclaimed as Echo squeezed his hand and continued walking.
"Okay! Okay, I got it, no questions, just walking." He relented as they got further and further away from Tony.
"Hey, do we have any repellent?" He heard Tony call out.
'Idiot.' Was all Geleel mentally stated as he was being drug through the jungle by the irate green haired vixen in front of him.
A little while later
Geleel anxiously walked next to Echo as she was still upset at Tony's insolence.
Although the dreadhead was extremely paranoid by walking through the jungle he couldn't help but feel worried for Echo.
"Hey MarMar, you know Tony's not tryna be a douche right? He's just very…I don't know a good word to describe him." Geleel said as he scratched his head in thought.
"An idiot? Self absorbed? A dick? Did I say idiot yet?" Echo questioned as Geleel incredulously blinked at her.
"Well um, yes, he is all of those things, but he doesn't mean any harm, trust me, just gotta lose your voice a couple times if you want him to listen to you, ya know?" Geleel questioned as Echo sighed.
"I know G, that's just how Tony is, but sometimes he just makes me feel so…so…gahhh!" Echo shouted in exasperation, she couldn't even find the word.
"And it's like, he's just so…so…so…" Echo trailed off this time.
"Gahhhh?" Geleel questioned in a flatter tone than her.
"Yea exactly!" Echo shouted as Geleel chuckled.
Despite herself, Echo began laughing a bit.
"Dork." She said as she lightly shoved Geleel's arm, count on him to make her start laughing when she's completely pissed off.
"Thanks Geleel." She then spoke up after they had stopped laughing.
"For what?" He questioned.
"Always makin me feel better." She answered honestly as Geleel smiled at that.
"Wellll, ya know that's my job and all." Geleel said as he placed both of his hands behind his head.
"Sooo, this means we can go back to the hauler and get out of this ominous ass jungle, right?" Geleel questioned her.
"Nope, we still gotta do one thing." Echo said as she narrowed her eyes.
"And that issss?" Geleel questioned her.
"Find these two." Echo relayed as she gestured to Cisco and Frostee…they were seemingly having a panic attack about being lost.
"Heyyyy! Help!" They shouted as Geleel and Echo approached them slowly.
"Somebody please help us! I'm too young to die!" Frostee shouted out into the skies.
"Hey." Echo said dryly as the two boys jumped and yelped in fear before realizing Echo and Geleel had walked up to them.
Echo gave them an unimpressed look as Geleel arched a brow at their fear filled breaths and expressions.
"We're saved!" Frostee shouted.
"I'm cured!" Cisco shouted.
"Cured? What the hell you talkin bout Cisco?" Geleel questioned the oaf as he was prepared to answer.
"Aht! Aht! No! Anyways…how did you guys find us?" Frostee questioned them.
Echo simply lifted a hanging tree up to show them that the hauler was still in view…they hadn't really gone that far, but it was still far enough for the jungle to start getting creepy.
"Dang…the jungle make that shit seem wayyy further…" Geleel said as he scratched his head once more.
"Anyways, if you guys wanna catch that monkey we should probably go before it gets dark." Echo said flatly as Geleel blanched at that before following after her, as soon as that Sun went down he was running back to the hauler, there was no way he was traversing through the jungle at night time.
"How do you know where the monkey even went?" Frostee questioned Echo.
"Just following the monkey's trail." She said flatly before gesturing to an empty Yoka can that was stuck in a tree.
Frostee and Cisco were in utter disbelief at Echo's keen eyesight.
"Detective MarMar is ever so observant." Geleel said in a feigned British accent, eliciting a few chuffs of laughter from Cisco and Frostee.
"I heard that!" Echo called out to them as they all immediately straightened up.
"And sharp too." Geleel added in with his regular accent before they began following after Echo.
A short while had passed as they traversed through the jungle in search of the monkey.
"Man, you're right Echo, chewing on this grass actually keeps me hydrated." Cisco said in between chews.
"It builds my jaw muscles too, gotta admit, they could use some definition." Cisco said as he felt his face.
Echo offered no response as she suddenly came to a halt, the boys were about to question her until a loud screech drew their attention.
They all looked up to notice the tree in front of them, and sure enough, the monkey was in a high branch helping himself to their spy gear.
"Well looks like we found Curious George, have fun with this yall, we'll be waiting by the hauler." Geleel said as he and Echo turned and began walking back to the hauler.
"You're leaving us? What if we lose our way?" Frostee shouted frantically as they continued walking away.
"And what if I get onchocerciasis? River blindness is real yo!" Cisco shouted as Echo stopped and sighed.
"Couple of green horned tenderfeet, I scored the trees, the markings will lead you back." Echo explained to them as she brandished a can of spray paint.
"Ohhh, that actually makes complete sense." Frostee said with a chuckle.
"Yea, see ya." Echo stated before turning to finally leave with Geleel.
Frostee and Cisco turned to each other before looking back up at the tree where the monkey was…it was a long climb.
Geleel and Echo once again walked side by side in the jungle on their way back to the hauler.
Only this time, Geleel was so paranoid that it was becoming evident to Echo.
"G, why are you so tense?" Echo questioned him as he snapped his head towards her.
"Tense? Me? Psssh, why would I be tense? It's not like this jungle could have Jaguars or 20 foot Anacondas ready to kill us or anything, besides, even if they pulled up I wouldn't be scared, I'm too manly for all that." Geleel boasted as he tried to hide his anxiousness.
"Oh really?" Echo questioned him with an arched brow.
"Yup." He answered confidently as they continued walking.
As Geleel was oblivious, Echo sneakily brought her hand up behind his neck, as she used her fingers to imitate a spider crawling onto his neck the dreadhead immediately let out the most uncharacteristic yelp she'd ever heard from him, all the while swatting at his neck area trying to get the 'spider.'
Echo had moved her hand in time for him to still be panicking
"Man hell no! Get it off! Get it off!" Geleel shouted as he began sprinting back towards the hauler, he had to get out of this damned jungle.
Echo chuckled to herself as she watched him sprint full speed towards the hauler whilst shouting different curse words and holding his neck area.
"Such a dork." Echo said to herself, but it didn't matter, he was her dork.
As she finally arrived at the bush in front of the hauler Echo was prepared to tease Geleel about his outburst…but stopped in her tracks as they both hung their mouths open in disbelief.
Right in front of the hauler was Tony, trapped in a vine, some sort of snake skin in his hand, and tree sap in his hair for some reason.
"What the hell did you do? Is that a damn snake?" Geleel questioned Tony who sighed at them.
"Nah, I had to let him go, he was on his own journey." Tony said philosophically.
Echo then heard bubbling from the quicksand as she turned to see her Hyperfin was now sinking in it as well.
"Yo! My car!" Echo shouted in disbelief.
Geleel's eyes widened as he ran around back to notice his camaro was still safe and sound, he let out a sigh of relief.
"Yea that's on me Echo, tried to use it to-" Echo groaned, cutting Tony off right as Geleel came back, the dreadhead could tell all the work he put towards calming Echo down had just gone out the window.
"Can't you see? You just keep making things worse!" Echo shouted at Tony as he groaned.
"Okay I get it damn! Now can you help me down?" Tony questioned with an eye roll as Echo frowned and crossed her arms.
"You really don't wanna make this easier for yourself, do you?" Geleel questioned as he leaned against the hauler.
Tony groaned now, he knew he'd have to swallow his pride and simply apologize.
"Okay fine, I'm sorry!" He shouted as Echo was not impressed by this.
"Nice try, you're not getting off that easy, tell me why you're sorry." Echo demanded irately.
"Really? You need me to say a whole thing? You can't just cut me down?" Tony questioned as Echo gave him a deadpanned look, she was serious about getting a REAL apology.
"G? Come on man, we're basically brothers, you can't let her do this!" Tony shouted as Geleel threw his hands up.
"Aye, I tried to help you as best as I could, I'm staying out of this one." Geleel stated as Tony sighed once more before turning back to Echo and mentally steeling himself.
"Fine, you were right and I was wrong." Tony admitted finally as Geleel feigned a gasp.
"Oh no, Tony just admitted he was wrong, the Sun is gonna fall out of the sky." Geleel said as Tony glared at him.
"What else are you sorry for Tony?" Echo continued pressing.
"I'm sorry for being selfish, I can't do this alone, I need you guys, you all…make me a better leader." Tony was about to continue until he noticed a flash go off.
"Hey!" He shouted as he had realized Echo had recorded the entire apology on her phone.
"I'm saving this for later." Echo informed him as he groaned.
"You have no idea how much I wish you could send me that right now…I woulda had that video at the top of my favorites." Geleel said as they began helping Tony down.
They finally got him down from the tree as he sighed.
"What's going on here?" Cisco questioned as he arrived onto the scene with Frostee.
"Hey! You guys got our stuff back!" Tony shouted in glee.
"It wasn't easy." Frostee said with a deadpan.
"What's with the monkey, C?" Geleel questioned Cisco as to why the monkey that had robbed them was on his shoulder now.
"He has become a friend! And why is there a snakeskin in your hand?" Cisco questioned as he gestured to Tony.
Before the conversation could continue the crew's attention is turned to the whirring of helicopter blades in the sky above.
They all looked up to notice two choppers flying above the jungle with their lights shining above the crew.
"You called Ms. Nowhere?" Tony shouted to Echo.
"That is not Ms. Nowhere." Echo relayed to him.
"That's the feds!" Geleel shouted as he took note of the coloration on the helicopters.
"They spotted us, we gotta get out of here!" Cisco shouted in fear.
"How? The car's are stuck in quicksand!" Tony exclaimed in urgency.
"Not for long! Cisco! Geleel! Grab those logs!" Echo shouted as she averted their attention to a set of logs that were on the floor.
"The logs are in place!" Cisco shouted as he and Geleel set the logs out along a path.
Echo then brandished some rope from her bag as she began using it to tie the logs into a makeshift bridge.
This entire process took a bit of time as the sun had finally descended from the sky and it was now a moonlit night.
Geleel and Cisco had leveraged the bridge underneath the baja.
"This will give the truck enough traction to get it out." Echo stated as Cisco got into his truck and began reversing, sure enough, he was able to get the truck out and also pull Echo's Hyperfin out of the quicksand as well.
The crew all let out sighs of relief as the plan was a success.
"Whew! See? We don't need Ms. Nowhere's help! We have a little Nowhere right here." Tony said to Echo as her ear twitched.
"Never say that again." She said darkly.
"Sorry." Tony said with a shaky chuckle.
"When did you become so keen on all this wild jungle stuff Echo?" Geleel questioned her as she arched her brow.
"You thought I did all that girl scout stuff for nothing?" Echo said with a smirk as Geleel couldn't help but return it, she had him there.
"Respect." Frostee said from the passenger seat of the baja.
"Thank you for your service." Cisco said with a salute.
A sudden set of sirens blared through the air as the crew immediately remembered that the cops were aware of their location.
"Alright, we gotta get up outta here, and now." Geleel said as he got into his camaro.
"What about the hauler?" Cisco questioned, it was the only vehicle still stuck in quicksand.
"We don't have time to rig up all the cars and tow it out!" Echo shouted before hopping into the hyperfin.
"So we're just going to leave it here?" Frostee questioned.
"But Ms. Nowhere said it's super important for our mission and stuff, plus I feel like I shouldn't have to mention this but, the froyo machine is in there!" Cisco shouted frantically as his new monkey friend screeched in terror as well.
Frostee then sighed to himself before manually turning the hauler's cloaking on, it was now invisible to the naked eye.
"We can come back for it." Frostee reassured Cisco.
Unfortunately before the conversation could continue, a light flashed through the window of Cisco's truck.
"Freeze!" The police officer shouted as they turned to realize he was pointing a gun at them.
The entire crew had been compromised as the entire squadron of officers had made them all freeze and put their hands up inside the vehicles.
The same officer from before opens Cisco's truck as he prepared to detain him.
"What the…" The officer trailed off as the monkey leaped at his face with a screech.
"Woah!" The man exclaimed as the monkey continued its assault on his face.
The squad came over to him as they tried to help him with his predicament.
"Go! Go!" Geleel shouted to everyone over the comms as they all immediately shifted gears and took off into the jungle whilst the monkey caused a distraction.
"Goodbye froyo!" Cisco shouted as he was last in the line of vehicles.
"Come on!" Frostee shouted at the monkey who screeched and leaped back onto the baja as everyone sped away from the scene.
"All right! Back on track!" Tony shouted as they quickly expanded the distance between them and the officers.
"Nice one monkey!" Frostee complimented the monkey's distraction.
"Uh, I think we gotta problem with the track up ahead." Echo alerted her team to the roadblock that the police had set up ahead of them.
"Everybody move over…I got this one." Cisco said as Tony, Echo and Geleel moved to the right side of the road in a straight line.
Cisco then sped ahead in the baja.
"Go get 'em big dog." Geleel said as Cisco put his thrusters on.
"Woohoo!" Frostee shouted as the baja easily crushed the police cruisers and got them out of the way.
The officers yelled and jumped out of the way in order to save themselves.
Echo, Geleel and Tony sped through the middle in that order as everyone cheered and whooped.
They were finally scot free…for now anyways, now all they had to do was focus on the road ahead to Rio De Janeiro.
"That was some good work team." Tony complimented everyone.
"Yea yea, you know you still owe me a phone, right?" Geleel questioned as everyone chuckled at that.
"No like…I'm deadass though." The dreadhead added in with a flat tone, this only served to make the laughter intensify.
Geleel sighed as they continued to drive down the road.
Later
After what felt like atleast 2 hours, the crew finally arrived at the outskirts of Rio.
They all drove up the side of a mountain and came to a halt before exiting their vehicles.
"Well, we made it." Tony said as they all walked up to the edge of the mountain and took it all in…the beautiful lights of Rio, and ofcourse, that statue looming over the city was a must.
"Well, we don't have the hauler." Cisco reminded Tony.
"Which was our safe house." Echo added in.
"Also we lost all our mission data and any lead we have on this case." Frostee followed up.
"That's true but…we did it all without Ms. Nowhere's help." Tony tried to stay optimistic as the others, minus Geleel arched a brow at this.
"Hm, for the first time today I agree with Mr. Toretto here." Geleel stated as the others blanched.
"What?" They shouted simultaneously.
"Aye man, I already lost a phone for this mission, no sense moping around or getting discouraged now, we in Rio!" Geleel shouted as he spread his arms to mimic the statue.
"Now…let's go find out what that formula means…and of course, find our favorite hillbarbie." Geleel said as he turned to the city with a determined look marring his features, a feature the others now shared…they still had a mission to complete.
Chapter Fin