Fan Fiction |
by Jenny Tran
Devin motioned Hung Gor into a corner where his group were kept a close eye on. Gun still pointed, he flicked his head for Erin to come over. She did as he asked as he leaned into her ear “Get Jenna to try to decode those bombs. I’m going to keep an eye on them, I have a feeling the bombs outside are just a scam like the last mission.”
She nodded in agreement but did not say a word to keep the enemy from perking their ears up. Returning to the group, she walked over to Jenna, who was tending to Matt’s wounds “Jenna.” Erin whispered as the young girl turned to her with questioning eyes “See if you can decode those bombs.”
“What?” she was unsure of what she just heard “Didn’t he say they were indestructible?”
“You can do it, Jenna. There's always a way to stop a bomb, he's just bluffing.” Erin nodded and walked over to tap Ryan on the shoulder. Pulling him to the side, she asked “Can you get outside and look for those bombs they are claiming are attached to the building? Devin has a feeling they’re a scam.”
“IF they are real and I walk out, the door opening will cause them to explode.” Ryan reminded her.
Erin sighed, knowing it was true. They would be doomed either way, suddenly, her eyes caught sight of a corner window that was open “Can you fit through that?” she pointed.
Ryan was reluctant but they had no other choice “Yeah, I think so.”
Before he left, Erin gave him a word of caution “Be careful.”
Turning to her, he smiled with a nod “I will.” Walking towards the back wall, he looked around for anything to give him assistance to get to the window. His eyes stopped on a dangling chain as he grabbed it “My lucky day.” He sighed and began climbing towards the window.
Devin smiled when Hung Gor’s eyes widened, probably feared that Ryan would discover his little game “What’s wrong?” he mocked.
Hung Gor twisted his lips crookedly “We’ll just die a little faster.”
“Great, have fun in hell.” Devin snickered.
Jenna’s fingers shook as she lifted Matt’s shirt and had a closer look at the bomb “I can’t open it…it’s taped to his body.” She whispered to Mia and Darren, who were blocking the enemy’s view.
“I’ll hold onto it.” Mia suggested as she held on tight “Darren, can you untape it?”
“Hold tight.” He nodded and began peeling the duct tape from Matt’s skin “Hold on Matt, I almost got it.” He coaxed when the lieutenant began groaning in pain. For what seemed like hours, Jenna was able to open the main control box. Inside were rainbows of wires.
“There’s too many, it’s impossible to know which one.” Jenna felt defeated before she even began the fight.
Matt could barely move but he managed to give her a last bit of confidence “Trust your instincts Jenna, you’ve always had good guesses.”
“But one wrong guess and we all die together.” Jenna pointed out, her hands still shaky as she traced a few wires but all were leading to the same place.
“Jenna…” Matt said while he caught her eyes “Listen to me. You can do it, I believe in you. Those bastards are planning to kill us anyways, we can’t let them win. If we die, we all die together. What do we have to lose?”
“Just our lives.” Darren cracked. Jenna turned to him as he gave her a quick wink “It’s better this than to wait for the bombs to go off. God knows when that psycho will change his mind.”
Mia nodded “Darren’s right. We have to take this chance. We all have faith in you Jenna. No pressure. Whatever happens happens.”
Feeling ten times better than before, Jenna nodded as she pulled out her tiny pocket knife “Okay. I’ll do this for the team. Matt, try not to move.”
“I couldn’t even if I wanted to.” He joked.
Ryan searched for the bombs that were supposedly surrounding the building, he dug through the bushes and dirt and found three black boxes, all were locked up. Using his tools, he picked the lock and opened it carefully. Inside was another small box, again with a lock. He opened that one faster than the last, inside the case was another smaller box. After the third box, he realized it was a scam as Devin suspected.
Rushing towards the door, he opened the sliding metal door and exclaimed “It’s fake!!”
Devin turned to Ryan and was ready to call Ted when Hung Gor lunged at him and knocked him down while trying to get a hold of the gun. They rolled a few rounds as the gun accidentally fired a few times but luckily not hitting anyone “Get them!” Hung Gor roared at his men.
They got up and charged at the remaining team, Erin, Leah and Ryan fought the people at the same time while Jenna watched worriedly “Jenna, concentrate.” Mia advised when the girl looked distracted “This bomb could still be real.”
Darren nodded “I’ll cover you girls.” He got up to block them and make sure that no one got passed him.
Hung Gor had the upper advantage when he rolled on top of Devin and banged his wrists against the ground roughly. Devin knew his only chance was to throw the gun far away and fight the man fist to fist, so he flicked his wrist throwing the gun within far distance. It slid down the floor and stopped at a box.
Erin fought Ah Gam but she refused to pull out her gun “Why are you helping him? I know you don’t want to.” Their arms crisscrossed after he blocked her punches.
“How do you know?” he pushed her away to untangle their arms.
“You could have killed Darren, but you didn’t.” She recalled.
Ah Gam snickered “If Mia didn’t beg me, I would have done it.”
“Bullshit.” Erin snapped, “You didn’t want to kill him.”
Leah fought with a few of the men but eventually, she would be outnumbered. Seeing this, Ryan pulled out his gun and fired at a few men trying to attack her from behind. Some tried to go after Jenna and the other two. What he didn’t see was Becca from behind as she attacked him with ease and caught him off guard while knocking the weapon out of his hand. She winced in pain from the earlier stabbing but disregarded the blood now seeping out of the wound “You’re bleeding.” Ryan pointed out.
Raising her hand in defense, she stopped him “Don’t come near me.” She yanked out her own gun and pointed it to him “I’ll kill you.”
At the corner of his eyes, he saw a few guys trying to slip through. He noticed Leah was way ahead of him as she began fighting with three of them at the same time. Ryan ingored the gun as he rushed to help Leah, but some made it towards Darren who tried his best to block them “Jenna.” Matt called again when she began to stray towards the fight scene to her left “Concentrate.” He whispered.
She nodded and continued to carefully slice open the plastic covers of the wires. She finished all ten and realized they were made of different material “Copper, silver, bronze and gold…” she said it out loud.
“What does that mean?” Mia asked while she turned to check on Darren who had defeated one guy.
“Bomb wires are only made of two materials…copper and bronze.” Jenna said.
Mia nodded “Okay, then cut them.”
“Only one wire can be connected to the bomb. There are three coppers and two bronze wires.” Jenna analyzed.
Devin and Hung Gor received a simultaneous punch in the gut at they fell on one knee, eyes glaring both had no intention of stopping until the other was down. Roaring to fuel up his anger, Devin attacked Hung Gor with vicious throws and kicks. But his enemy was as ready as he was with the blocks. It seemed Devin was winning as he finally pinned the man onto the wall “Where is the control to the bombs! Tell me!” he commanded.
With his nose bleeding, he laughed while spitting out the blood that began to drip from his mouth “Let me go and I’ll tell you.”
“Go to hell!” Devin punched at his head again but the man moved as his hand collided with the wall. Whipping his hand back in pain, he wrung it out and balled it into a fist again.
Hung Gor’s eyes brightened suddenly as he turned to Ah Bat “Detonate the bombs.”
Erin, Ryan stopped as they turned to each other and charged towards Ah Bat, who scurried into a corner screaming like a little girl. Devin turned to the man whose smile was growing “NO! He doesn’t have it!”
“Becca, now!!” Hung Gor ordered.
She pulled out a clear square like control with a black button in the center. Staring at it with caution, she turned to Erin who was stopped by Ah Gam. Ryan and Leah too were being attacked. She was suddenly caught in the middle when Mia began screaming “No, Becca! Please…don’t do it!”
She stared at them to Hung Gor, his voice echoing in her head to do push the button. Time seemed to stand still as she debated with herself. Wishing that she had some kind of a sign on what to do. Before she had a chance to decide, it was snatched right out of her hands from a figure swinging by “I’ll take that.”
Her heart nearly stopped as she spun around at the familiar voice. He pushed the device into his mouth and somersaulted from the chain he used to get him inside. Gun drawn, he pointed to Hung Gor and used his free hand to catch the control when he opened his mouth “Hey boss, sorry I’m late.”
Devin’s eyes widened but a smile came on his face “Better late than never.”
The room seemed to freeze as everyone’s eyes landed on the person that was suppose to be dead “Doug!!” Jenna cried.
Mia turned to her friend but her hands still carefully holding onto the bomb against Matt’s body “What took you so long?!” she demanded.
Jenna turned to Mia strangely “What?”
Doug pointed the gun closer to Hung Gor’s head “What’s wrong? Surprised to see me still alive and kicking?”
“It can’t be…” his head began to twitch “You’re dead…Reina killed you…you’re suppose to be dead!!” as if going mad, he curled into the ground and wrung his fingers through his head.
He laughed merrily at his discomfort “Speaking of which, why not give you another surprise?” he turned up at one of the hanging cages “Care to join us?”
Reina sat on the top of the cage and grinned at the eyes turning up to look at her. Pointing the gun to the chain control, she fired as the cage began to drop. Before it collided with the ground, she jumped off to the ground safely “Happy to see me?” she asked Hung Gor.
“No…this can’t be happening. My plan worked! It had to work!! No!! This is fake!!! NO!!!!” he began pulling at his hair.
Devin stepped over to Doug “Is Ted moving in?”
“Yeah, we should be surrounded in a few seconds.” Doug explained.
Becca eyes were welled up with tears of joy, she had been devastated when learning that Doug had died. She wanted nothing more than to see him one last time at the funeral but she could not get through security of the team. Stepping closer to him, she smiled while a tear fell from her cheek “You’re not dead…” suddenly at the corner of her eyes, she saw Hung Gor rolling away towards Devin’s gun that he threw to the side “Watch out!!” she leaped a few feet and caught the bullet flying into the center of her back while Doug’s eyes widened.
Erin reacted quickly as she drew her gun and shot at Hung Gor, the bullet through the head killed him as he sank slowly to the ground, eyes still opened “Becca.” Doug cradled her in his arms as he looked down at her wound, she was bleeding profusely “Why?”
She was short of breath as she tried hard to breath but her lung was giving up on her “I…I, I’m so…sorry…I…”
“It’s okay, I forgive you.” Doug quickly said the words he knew she was waiting to hear.
Smiling, her eyes began to close “Thank…you…” it was a mere whisper but he knew she was able to go in peace. Pulling her body closer, he hugged her lifeless body.
Ah Gam knew that was his time to escape as he ran for the door, but when he got there, he froze as a gun was pointed to his head “Going somewhere?” Ted asked. The guy backed up with hands raised “Everyone get down!!” he ordered the remaining group of assassin terrorists. His eyes did a double take on Doug, who was hugging a female figure.
Tilting his head, he stared at him “I’ll explain later.” Mia looked up from her position.
Reina rushed over to the girls “This bomb is real, the button that detonates it is in the back, pushed into the body. The minute it’s removed, we all turn to barbeque. It’s useless if we have the control.”
“Do you know which wire?” Jenna asked.
She nodded “Two, actually.” Reina concentrated as she tried to recall the bomb training she had over five years ago with Hung Gor “Two bronze.” She answered.
“Are you sure?” Mia asked, “Our lives are at stake.” She looked up shortly to see the police coming in to take over and the paramedics taking out all the injured people. They were about to move Luke when she pointed “No! Don’t, he’s got a bomb on him!”
The emergency crew stopped as they backed away while waiting for Ted’s orders. He cuffed Ah Gam and motioned for his men to take him away “I want everyone to leave this room. The bomb experts are on their way.” But it was the team that refused to move “Guys, this is too dangerous, I need all of you to leave.”
Mia shook her head “You know, your lips are moving but I can’t understand a single word.”
Reina and Jenna exchanged smiles “I think it means we’re not moving.” Jenna turned up to the Captain.
Ted knew it would be hell to convince them “I can’t make you guys.”
Reina turned to bomb and back at Jenna “Cut it.”
Fingers steadier, she pulled at the bronze wires “Here goes…one…” closing their eyes with silent prayers, they waited for her “two…I can’t…I can’t do it!” Jenna backed away “I don’t want to…”
Reina smiled “I’ll do it then.”
“No! I want the credit for saving us all.” Jenna realized.
The group groaned, “Just cut it!!” Mia took the scissors from her hand and cut the bronze wires she had pulled out.
“NO!” Jenna cried as she cowered into a ball. Expecting the whole place to blow up, she slowly opened her arms up at the laughing sounds of her teammates “Are we in heaven?” The group shook their heads while she stood up laughing, “We're alive!!!”
“Yeah, but Reina helped a little.” Doug snickered. Jenna snapped her head to him as she glared at him “You’re not going to hit me are you?”
Her lips curled into a smile as she ran to him, he backed away fearfully but all she wanted was a hug “You’re alive.” She whispered. Pulling away, she smiled as he relaxed “You don’t know how many tears I’ve lost.” Pulling her fist back, she gave him an unexpected punch in the gut as he yelped and fell to his knees “How dare you make me cry for nothing!!!”
“I was waiting for that.” Devin cracked.
The remaining people were released of the bomb with Reina’s help. They were removed from their bodies and were all taken to the hospital for checkups. The team too were told to go to the hospital for a checkup.