Chapter 8
A/N: Wow some of this was baaaaad. It was my first fic. Sarah and the Intersect…that never goes well. Ch 8, Talk Nerdy to Me
Disclaimer: Don’t own Chuck. However word on the street is WillieGarvin does.
Carmichael Industries, Russian branch
“Mary, you might want to see this.” Jenny, Mary’s assistant was staring at the computer layout of the facility. She had never seen what was happening before. Mary walked over and glanced at the monitor. She sighed, seeing the flashing dot off to the side of layout. She knew what that meant, but the question was who else knew it, and why were they there. The answers that popped in her head made her frown. “How is this possible?” Jenny asked, pulling Mary out of her thoughts. “It’s outside of our facility and there’s an intrusion? The software must be buggy.” Mary gestured toward the keyboard and Jenny moved out of the way. Mary typed a few things, and another schematic of the facility popped up and overlaid the current one on the screen. Jenny stared at it. “What is that?”
“That, is Alexei Volkoff’s office,” Mary said, pointing at the room that was not on the earlier schematic. “But more importantly, someone is in there, and I need to know who it is.” Jenny’s eyes grew wide. She had always heard the rumors about Alexei and his private office, but it remained off books. Apparently it was for a very good reason, a reason that Mary wasn’t about to divulge right now.
“I’ll take care of this,” Mary said, drawing her weapon, and she left quickly. As she approached the doors she hoped to never see again, she noticed it was cracked open. She pushed it open, and used all her spy training not to gasp.
“Alexei! Hands up or I will kill you!” she screamed, pointing her gun at the man who wasn’t supposed to exist any longer, Alexei Volkoff. As Hartley screwed, she quickly realized it wasn’t Alexei. Mary couldn’t help but laugh as Hartley slumped out of the chair to the ground while trying to raise his hands. “Hartley, I’m sorry,” she said through fits of laughter. “It’s just you know you’re not supposed to be in here.”
“Do you think I want to be in here?” he yelled/screamed in a panic.
“Hartley what’s wrong?”
“They have Vivian,” he said with tears in his eyes. Mary’s face hardened. “Mary, they have my baby girl.”
“Come on,” Mary, said, harnessing her weapon, walking over, and helping Hartley up. “We’re going on a trip. There’s someone I need to make sure is where he’s supposed to be!”
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Vault
Chuck watched his wife Sarah’s head twitch and jerk as the Intersect uploaded itself into her mind. She suddenly stopped twitching and fell over. She didn’t move, and Chuck was beginning to get worried. The bodyguards moved forward as Chuck took in their positions. As good as he was with a tranq gun, he knew he was no match for the 12 guards that approached him. One of the bodyguards kicked Sarah’s foot, and she had no reaction. The men turned toward Chuck, who raised his hands in surrender, knowing he currently had no chance. He couldn’t risk Sarah. He’d have to wait for a better spot to attempt an escape. They pulled him out into the open and Chuck began to think this might be it.
“Hey, I recognize her,” one of the bodyguards said. “That’s the girl that was supposed to take this guy out, back when I worked for Quinn.” Chuck rolled his eyes thinking things couldn’t get any worse.
“I mean really, this guy, Intersect, does anyone ever bother to learn my name?” Chuck asked, disgusted. One of the bodyguards cocked his gun and aimed it at Chuck. Chuck swallowed. “Got it, not important right now.”
“Frank?” Chuck heard Sarah’s voice. Chuck looked over and she was sitting up, starting at first Chuck and then the bodyguard. She shot Chuck a death look, and his heart sank. She looked up at Frank. “Thanks,” she said to Frank. Frank looked confused. “You just helped me get my memory back.” She looked at Chuck with disgust, and Chuck swore to himself that if he ever got out of this, he’d quit ever thinking things couldn’t get worse. “Do you know I had to sleep with that idiot and have his kids,” she said with venom in her voice that Chuck had only heard once…it was the time Quinn had taken away her memories. Chuck felt sick inside. His world slowly began to crumble.
“Sarah, are you okay?” Frank asked. She nodded and stood.
“Let me,” she said to Frank, gesturing toward the weapon. Frank shook his head. “Hear me out. This…nerd…” the way she said it, drove a knife through Chuck’s heart. “Made me have his children.” Chuck looked at her, stunned. “He had his way with me, and kept me away from what I do best, just to be a mother to his kids.” Chuck stared straight ahead, his heart breaking with each word from her, and wondering how she could be remembering things the wrong way. She wanted kids, she had stayed an integral part of Carmichael Industries, and every once in a while she unleashed her ninja kick-assery skills on those that deserved it. “He had me watch all those goofy movies. They were sooooo stupid.”
“The prequels,” Frank said.
“Hey, they’re not that bad,” Chuck interjected. Everyone turned to look at him. “Right, shutting up.” Frank shook his head and handed her two guns.
“Enjoy,” he said. Sarah winked at Frank and turned toward Chuck. She walked right in front of him and squatted down, looking him directly in the eye. Chuck was terrified…and a little turned on.
“I want you to hear this Bartowski, all of this,” she said. Chuck looked into her eyes. “Of all the nerdy things you made me watch, I think the worst is Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan.” Chuck raised an eyebrow. Wrath of Khan? That was very…specific. She turned and looked at Frank. “You know the worst thing, besides these nerds running around and talking in Klingon?” Frank shook his head. “They used some stupid code to communicate with each other, Regulation 46A. I mean how dumb do you have to be to tell someone what you are doing with a barely disguised code?” She asked, turning and looking directly at Chuck. Chuck had had enough. He decided he wasn’t going out, without taking a few of his own shots, besides what did he have to lose?
“That’s the worst memory?” Chuck asked. Sarah nodded. “I would have thought it would have been you having to say these words to me. ‘Chuck, you’re a gift. You’re a gift I never dreamed I could want or need and everyday I will show you that you’re a gift that I deserve. You make me the best person I could ever hope to be and I want to spend and learn and love the rest of my life with you.’” One of the guards wiped his eyes. Chuck looked at him like, “really?” He turned back to Sarah. She was smiling almost evilly.
“I’m used to lying,” she answered. Chuck nodded with a smirk on his face. “The worst thing I had to do, was listen to you. ‘How do I express my love for you? Or my dreams for our future? Or the fact that I will fight for you everyday. Or that our kids will be like little superheroes with little capes and stuff like that? Words can’t express that and don’t do it justice. They just don’t cut it. So no vows. I’ll just prove it to you everyday for the rest of our lives. You can count on me.’” Chuck leaned back, placing his hands behind the legs of the two thugs behind him.
“So that’s it? After all this time, this is how I find out?” Sarah bounced a shoulder and shrugged. “So it’s time to end this?” he asked. She nodded, stood, and looked right at him. “Do you have anything you want to say to me?” She grinned.
“Perfect,” she said. Chuck brought his hands up and forward, hitting both of the guards in the back of the knees, as Sarah squeezed off two shots at them. They were dead before they hit the ground. Chuck looked up. He knew it wasn’t possible, but it seemed like things were moving in slow motion as Led Zepplin’s Immigrant Song played. There were 12 guards, two dead with her and Chuck’s move. The guards attempted to move their guns to aim at Sarah, since they had had them down during the two’s exchange. Sarah side kicked Frank with her left leg, sending him into three off to the side. That left six, two behind her and four to her right, she dropped down into the splits and spun, taking out the four to the right while the two behind her shot over her head. Chuck shot cover fire over the heads of the two, from one of the guns on the ground, and the two scattered. She stood, moving to her right, taking out three of the five on the right, leaving Frank and another guard and the two behind them. One of the guns jammed, and she threw it at Frank, knocking him backward. She shot the other behind her, the gun running out of bullets. Chuck shot cover fire again at the guard on the right, and he ducked. Sarah kicked the guard in the face, and caught the gun Chuck threw to her. The two were down, and Sarah looked at Chuck not sure what to do. As she did, Chuck saw Frank rise with a gun, and he started to cry out, as she shot both Frank and the other guard all while looking at Chuck. Chuck nodded understanding what she had to do. He stood up, brushed himself off, and walked over to her.
“Regulation 46A, if transmission are being monitored during battle, no uncoded messages are to be transmitted on an open channel,” Chuck said, smiling. Sarah put her hand around his neck.
“See, I did pay attention during those movies,” she said, grinning.
“Everything?” he asked, a grin on his face. The smile on Sarah’s face nearly made Chuck cry.
She straightened his tie, pulled him in, and kissed him. “Who’s your Momma,” she asked when she pulled away, with a coy smile and a raised eyebrow.
“Hi-Yo!” he yelled, and gave her the 100 megawatt Chuck smile that was reserved for her.
“Uh, we hate to break up the party there, but we have a situation in Castle,” Carina said over the earpiece. Sarah and Chuck’s hearts leapt to their throats, as they remembered the situation with their kids.
“We’re on our way,” Sarah replied. There was no answer. She looked at Chuck. “Carina? Carina!” Static.
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Five minutes earlier, Castle
Samantha and Stephen were in their prep room when the fire fight broke out.
“I wasn’t ready for this,” Samantha said, working on the computer as fast as she could. Stephen watched her, understanding what she was doing, just not caring.
“You missed that code there,” Stephen said, looking for nunchakus. She looked over at her brother.
“You really need to let Mom and Dad know that you understand all this coding,” Samantha began. Stephen sighed, not finding what he was looking for. “Are you really going to use Kung Fu?”
“Of course I’m going to use Kung Fu, and why would I tell Mom and Dad what I can do?” Stephen asked, annoyed by his younger sister. “They’ll want me to do stuff on the computer, and I can’t watch the cool movies with Uncle Morgan.” Samantha studied him for a minute.
“You do know if Dad knew, you could help him and Uncle Morgan write a video game?” Stephen turned toward her, his mouth dropped opened. “There!” she exclaimed. “I’ve got Aunt Ellie total tactical and communication control of Castle!”
“Let’s go beat up some bad guys,” Stephen said, finally finding his nunchakus. The two headed toward the firefight.
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Now
“Carina!” Sarah shouted, while running down the hallway. She had been worried in the past about Chuck, but this…this was a new level of worried. This was what Chuck called, “Mama Bear levels of worry.”
“Sarah, we are five minutes out,” Casey said. “The bad news is bodyguards are headed your way.”
“Sarah?” Ellie’s voice came over the coms.
“Ellie?” Sarah asked, as her and Chuck exchanged a look.
“Listen, your children have locked Devon, Clara, and I in a panic room.” Sarah looked at Chuck.
“It’s not my fault!” he exclaimed, but there was a smile on his face.
“You Bartowskis are always protecting everyone,” Sarah retorted, with both pride and irritation.
“I have total schematics, and you have nearly a hundred guards heading your way,” Ellie said. Sarah’s eyebrows shot up. “Are you showing any side effects of the Intersect?”
“No, not yet, in fact I remember everything.”
“Any headaches?”
“Nope,” she said popping the P. “How long until any possible side effects begin?”
“I truly don’t know. Here’s the bigger question, can you take out a hundred enemies?”
“Ellie, she’s Sarah…with the Intersect…how-” Chuck said, before he was cut off.
“I don’t think I can take that many,” Sarah said, looking at her husband. Chuck gave her a surprised look. “I’m not that good.” Chuck smiled like he disagreed.
“Chuck,” Ellie began. “Your best chance to get out of this and get back here is to put on those glasses.”
“Is it safe?” Chuck asked.
“I have no idea,” Ellie replied.
“If it messes me up I’ll be no help to Sarah.”
“Sweetie, let’s be honest, the way you are you can’t really help a lot in a fight,” Sarah said honestly. “I mean you can take out some, but it they come in firing…” she couldn’t complete the sentence. Chuck nodded and held out his hand. She handed him the glasses as he looked at them.
“One more time…with feeling,” he said, as he put them on. The flashes came across, and blinded him for a second. When it was over, he took off the glasses, handed them to Sarah, and fell straight back, on the ground. “I hate that part.”
“I really need remember to catch you when you fall after doing that,” Sarah said with a grin. She bounced a shoulder with a shrug. “I guess I forgot,” she said, smiling.
“HA!” Chuck replied.
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Castle
“Carina, are you alright?” Zondra yelled, returning fire.
“My shoulder hurts like a-” Carina began but was cut off.
“Aunt Carina!” Samantha shouted out with a warning. Carina and Zondra turned toward Samantha as Samantha gave her a dirty look.
“I’m shot, doesn’t that let me say what I want?” Samantha shook her head. The firing stopped from the twelve men who were trying to take out the remaining CAT squad members.
“Boss said not to hurt the kids,” one of the guards yelled. They kept their guns trained on the CAT squad members. Stephen came walking forward, swinging the nunchakus, and promptly hit himself in the head. Carina rolled her eyes.
“You’re definitely the Nerd’s kid,” she said.
“I’ll make you a deal,” Stephen said, rubbing his head where a welt was starting to form. “You capture me and my sister, we’ll gladly go with you, and you don’t hurt anyone else here.” The guard laughed.
“Kid, it’s on.”
“Stephen, don’t!” Zondra yelled. Stephen turned toward his aunts, and grinned, a grin they both recognized from his father.
“Hey,” he said softly. “It’s me.” They stared at him, as his eyes moved rapidly. If they hadn’t been looking at him, they’d have never seen it. Their eyes grew huge, but not as huge as the 12 henchmen that found themselves in the middle of a fight they weren’t prepared for. Samantha launched herself at the two nearest her, Superman punching one, knocking him out, and leg sweeping the other as she landed. He crashed on the ground and she brought her foot down on his head, knocking him out.
Stephen threw the nunchakus across the room, knocking out two instantly, as he sprinted toward two more, slid under one of the henchman’s legs, stood and turned quickly. He hit both in the back of their knees, and the two men fell. He jumped, grabbed both henchman by their necks from behind and slammed their faces into the ground, knocking them out. Carina and Zondra exchanged a look, nodded, and stood. The other six were stunned with no idea what to do. The former Cat Squad members each took three shots, taking out the other six. Samantha turned, furious.
“We had a deal!” Samantha said, furious that they had killed the six.
“Zondra and I didn’t, and for that matter, they would have killed us if you two had lost.”
Samantha thought for a second. “Bad guys tend to not keep their words,” she said, understanding. She walked over to the computer and hit a few buttons. A few seconds later the Woodcombs, appeared. “Carina’s been shot,” Samantha told Ellie. Ellie nodded and began triage on Carina. The doors opened and the team stormed in. They stopped as they saw bodies lying everywhere and surveyed the carnage.
“What happened here?” Casey asked. Beckman, who had been pushed to safety during the firefight, looked over at the two Bartowskis with pride.
“Stephen and Samantha,” she said calmly. Casey looked at them, and then at the CAT members. Zondra held up her gun and nodded at those with gunshot wounds. Casey’s mouth was still open.
“Chuck me,” he muttered.
“Where’s Mom and Dad?” Stephen asked. Casey locked eyes with Carina. How were they supposed to tell the kids that their parents were still in danger?
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Undisclosed Location
The tall man stroked his goatee as he watched everything take place on the monitors in front of him.
“They’re good. They’re so good, and they remember. It’s good they remember, because now, I can hurt them. They will know what they are losing, and that…that is the beginning of my revenge.” He turned toward his female prisoner. “I apologize Vivian, but your father gave them too much.” He walked back toward the monitor. “They must pay for what they did, and so must he.” He turned to face her. “Don’t worry, I’ll kill you first so he can watch, and suffer, the way I did when I lost her.” The two men that were tied up looked at each other, desperate to escape. “Don’t worry, they’ll all pay, no one takes away my play thing.”
Vault
5 minutes ago
“Are you going to lay there all day,” Sarah asked, searching in her clutch. She found a ladies watch and put it on, she made a face and smiled. “That’s better.” She continued to look in her purse.
“You know back when I was the asset you used to help me in these situation,” Chuck said as he slowly got his bearings and got back to his feet. Sarah gave him a look. She was trying not to smile.
“Maybe you should go wait in the car,” she deadpanned still looking though her clutch. She smiled when she found what she was looking for and pulled it out in front of him. “Maybe I think since you’re no longer an asset, you can get up off the ground while I take care of more pressing matters for you. She took the watch and fastened it on his wrist. Chuck sighed as he felt the stress leave his head.
“Ohhh, fancy. His and hers governors?” he asked.
“No reason not to be stylish,” Ellie answered over comms. “I had them prepared in case things went south.”
“I mean that was a stretch because things never go south when we’re on a mission,” Chuck deadpanned to Sarah. He had a huge grin on his face. Everything seemed like old times, with a few noticeable upgrades. Sarah gave him an amused look and shook her head.
“Guys, be careful.” Ellie said over the comms. Chuck looked at Sarah and smiled.
“Please it’s us,” he replied. Sarah smiled at him. “Leave me a few?” he asked. Sarah bounced a shoulder and shrugged.
“Keep up,” she replied, and the doors opened in front of them. Ellie listened for the next five minutes and heard groans, shouts, bodies hitting things, and all sorts of mayhem.
“Now you’re just showing off!” Chuck yelled once. “I mean using the wall for leverage is one thing, but running off people’s heads, that’s just nuts!”
“Maybe I’m just better at being the Intersect,” Sarah’s playful tone said. A few seconds later, “Oh, now who’s showing off!? How did you make that gun you threw boomerang?”
“I’m the OG Intersect, Baby, and don’t you ever forget it.” Ellie heard what sounded like someone getting swatted…in their seat area. “Hi-Yo! Mrs. Carmichael, are you getting a little frisky?”
“Mr. Carmichael, if you don’t know the answer to that, I’m not doing it right,” Sarah replied.
“Children, I can hear you,” Ellie answered, her head in her hand.
“Sorry, Mom,” Chuck yelled. Ellie felt Beckman beside her.
“This was why I never listened in on one of their missions.”
“You should have had to been on then,” Casey said, joining them. “It was…ridiculous.”
“We’re out!” Chuck yelled. The two left the party, went outside, and looked around from the top of the steps. A Porsche pulled up with two bad guys in it. Sarah threw the two handguns she had left at both bad guys, knocking them down. She looked at the car, then at Chuck, and did her version of the Bartowski eyebrow dance. “You are going to be the death of me,” he muttered. She bounced a shoulder.
“You’ll go out with a smile on your face.” Chuck watched her head down to the car, and nearly drool over it. She hopped in. “Are you coming?” Three and a half minutes later they entered Castle.
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Castle
“Where’s Mom and Dad?” Stephen asked.
“Right here,” Chuck answered, grinning as they walked in. Sarah handed the glasses over to Ellie who quickly began running tests on the glasses.
“Chuck, your kids…” Devon began.
“Awesome?”
“They were like miniature versions of you and Sarah! I’ve never seen anything so scary as those two kids beating everyone up.”
“Which means one of us is going to have to keep the Intersect,” Sarah said. Chuck and everyone looked at her. She shrugged. “It’s going to be hard to discipline your kids if they can tie you up, put you in safe room, and you can’t do anything about it.”
“Then let’s get it out of you, before you start having problems,” Ellie said to Sarah. “We’re going to upgrade it first to make the removal easier than it was in the past.” Sarah nodded, and grabbed Chuck.
“Come on, you’ve got to get upgraded too,” she said. The computer flashed as everyone looked away. After the upload, Chuck felt Sarah’s hand on his back to make sure he wouldn’t fall over. He looked over at her and grinned. “Flash on Jenny Burton, Chuck,” she said softly. Chuck did, and noticed there was no headache, strain, and it happened almost instantaneously. “Chuck, flash,” she said. Chuck smiled.
“I did,” he replied. Sarah was shocked and then she heard Ellie yell, “Yes!” and did a fist pump. Chuck grinned and turned to his sister. “Fixed it?” Ellie nodded proudly.
“Okay, Sarah, let’s get it out of you,” she said, and with that, she handed her the removal glasses. “Morgan, you’re next, we’re going to fix you too.” Everyone seemed excited and happy, except Beckman and Jason Black who were off by themselves. Little did they realize that Samantha had moved close and was listening to everything they said.
“We shouldn’t,” Beckman began. “But, if we don’t…he’ll kill them. He’s crazy, Jason. He’ll kill all our love ones.”
“Your love one,” Jason replied, looking down, and then back at the group. “I feel more love here than I ever did with him.” Beckman nodded.
“And, how would she react if he died,” she asked looking at Sarah. Jason nodded, looking at her.
“She’d never forgive me,” he replied. “Of course, I’m not for sure she’ll forgive me now.” Samantha thought she knew what was going on, the only question was, should she tell everyone.
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A deep dark hole
“Ma’am, I’m telling you he’s here,” the guard said.
“I’m telling you until I get a look at him, I don’t believe it,” Mary replied. The guard sighed and looked at Hartley and Mary.
“Follow me,” he said, and led Mary and Hartley into the prison. The two got on a cart and rode for what seemed like miles until they came to a fortified cell. The guard had radioed ahead to prepare everyone. Mary and Hartley walked up to the cell, and a guard slid a small door covering an opening no more than 1 x 2 open.
“Company!” the voice inside said. Mary looked at him.
“You’re here?” she said, shocked.
“Who were you expecting, Superman?” Shaw asked. “Oh, I get it, someone is after Chuck and Sarah and you thought it was me? Would they like help? I’m always in a mood to kill those two!” Mary nodded at the guard and he slid the piece of metal shut. “Nice visit,” came the muffled voice from inside.
“Was that him?” Hartley asked.
“Yes, that was Daniel Shaw. So who is doing this to Chuck and Sarah?” Mary shook her head. “Come on, it’s time I went home and try and help the kids figure this out, and you’re coming with me.” Hartley nodded and followed her.
“You know I never really thanked you, I could have been in here if it wasn’t for you.”
“You gave the kids 837 million dollars, I’m pretty sure that covers it,” Mary said smiling. Inside her guts were churning. Who was doing this to her family?
A/N: You know how I said I didn’t think I’d ever do the sequel….my mind is churning as I work on this…