The New Driver (COMPLETE)

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Third pov

"Anything?"

Junior Nobody shook his head. "They're gone." He threw some papers onto the table. "The DOD confirmed it was a nuclear football. He's got an EMP and nuclear launch codes. I don't know what it is but they're building towards something."

The air in the room was heavy.

"Deckard?"

"He didn't make it." Junior looked at Tej. "Neither did Phoenix. I'm sorry."

The heavy feeling in the room now felt downright miserable. Tej nodded slowly and got up from the chair. "I'll call Carter. He deserves to know."

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Magdalene Shaw was someone that Phoenix would love to introduce to Mariah Verone.

Her sons, less so.

After the ambulance ride, and finding out it wasn't a real bullet that hit her, at least not one that could have killed her, her instinctual reaction was to point her gun straight at Deckard.

He didn't seem very amused about it but his mother did.

"Toretto did say that would be your reaction." The old woman hummed. "I do understand that you're pissed about what he did, but without him, you're chances of saving your children goes down quite severly."

There's a pause in Phoenix thoughts.

She doesn't lower her gun.

"You raise as much as a pinky towards my family again, and I'll do to you what I'm gonna do to Cipher."

The gun lowers, she puts it away.

"This is all well and good, but what are we supposed to do and are we really going to have to drag her with us? Doesn't look very useful."

Phoenix looked at the other man. "So you're Owen. How's your time in that blacksite treated you? I mean, your plan of killing everyone clearly didn't work out for you."

Owens face darkened but Deckard cracked a smile at that.

"So," Phoenix continued. "Anyone feel like at least giving me the short version of what we're supposed to do? I'd rather not the news of my supposed demise gets to my husband before I can explain everything."

Mama Shaw motioned for them to follow her, muttering something that sounded suspiciously like "Shame she's already married".

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Carter gritted his teeth so hard that it hurt, the phone he'd had in his hand had hit the wall with such a force that it broke.

Deep breaths.

Deep breaths.

He has work to do.

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"The problem we've had with tracking Cipher is that there's nothing to trace. But now, we have Rhodes information."

"And we're getting snapshots of his data before it's scrubbed off the net." Tej fingers flew over the keyboard.

Roman sat beside him looking at the screen. "That looks like somebody's bank account, so why don't we just go ahead-"

"It's a longitude." Hobbs interupted him. "Given the fact that Dom and Verone hit a Russian motorcade, it's safe to say it's Russia. Go ahead and bring up the map." The map was shown on the screen on the wall. "Good. Let's start here and run the possibilities."

Tej tried reading a few names. "Yalta, Poltava.... It's like they just threw letters together. Kronyurt.."

"It's Vladovin."

Junior Nobody and the others looked up to see Mr Nobody enter the room.

"What are you doing here?"

Mr Nobody raised an eyebrow. "What? I told you I was going to check in on you from time to time. See how you were doing. By the way, not so hot."

"But there's nothing in Vladovin. They'res just ice."

Mr Nobody chuckled. "That's funny. Could have sworn there was a secret Russian naval base where they retrofitted Cold War submarines." He caught himself. "Well, technically, it's not Russian anymore. The base was taken over by a terror group of military separatists about a month ago, and the Russians haven't taken it back yet, so there is a little window of opportunity there."

"Russian submarines, nuclear footballs. It sounds like everything we do, our legs gonna be blown off."

Letty listened to them from the stairs she'd been sitting, the oppressive atmosphere slowly lifting just a little as they came up with a plan.

QUESTION: Do you guys want to see the rest of the scenes with Dom + Crew or are you happy with seeing the plane part with Phoenix?

This is the second last chapter and I'm feeling a bit sad that it's over soon.

Anyways, next chapter will be the last part of the movie and a sorta epilogue.

Vote and comment, it keeps me motivated :)