Scorpion: A New Member

Chapter 62: Are you ready?

(2 weeks later)
SYLVESTERS POV
We have been playing around with our projects for an hour when Cabe walks in. Meghan is still in the hospital but I guess we will still have to go on this case, we don't have a choice. We gather around the table.
"Ok I guess you could guess what I am going to say, we have a case."
"And what would it be about?" Walter asks.
"Somebody stole illegal rockets from a truck carrying them out of state. We need to track them down and disarm them immediately." Cabe says placing pictures of the people who were killed to at the rockets.
"Oh lord." Paige says looking at the gory pictures.
"And how do expect us to do that if we don't know where the rockets are headed?" Happy asks in her usual unimpressed tone of voice.
"Well we did find these numbers at the shooting scene." He says handing us a paper with numbers on it. Walter takes the numbers from Cabe. I take a look at the numbers 12.12. -12-11-25- -17-11-7-25-
"Let's go to the hospital and ask Meghan if she knows anything." I say, we get the car immediately. Happy drives as usual and we get there in 10 minutes. We walk into the hospital, check in and walk to her room. We remember which room it is now since we've been there so many times, the other Megan also takes physically therapy here. We knock on her door and she says 'come in' so we do.
"Hi Meghan." I say walking into the room.
"Hi guys." She says looking up from the computer she was typing on.
"Did you just get out of surgery?" Walter asks her.
"About an two hours ago. 1 down 1 to go." She responds closing up the computer and placing it on the nightstand.
"Did you have any seizures in surgery?" I ask her anxiously.
"No, not even one." She responds smiling.
"You've gotten so big." Paige says looking at Meghan's stomach.
"Yeah seven and a half months, I feel huge." Meg responds looking down at her now quite visible and quite large stomach.
"We have a case." I inform her.
"What's it about?" Meghan asks getting a bit excited.
"We found these numbers at a crime scene and we need to find out what they mean." Toby says handing her the paper with the numbers on it. She thinks for a while. Eventually she takes out her computer and opens it but she doesn't turn it on.
"What are you doing?" I asks curiously.
"They made this code in order of something he was looking at most." She responds counting something.
"What?" Walter asks.
"If you count the letters on the keyboard you get letters that spell out words. The first two numbers are 12.12. so it would be S.S. and if you count 12 it would be another S then A, N, space, J, U, A, and N." Meghan says looking down at the computer.
"S.S. San Juan?" Walter asks in a confused voice.
"It must be on a boat." Happy says looking at each of us.
"San Juan's the capital of Puerto Rico, which you could get to by boat." Meghan says pushing her wide rimmed glasses up on her face.
"We're not going on a boat right?" I ask nervously.
"Looks like we are." Walter responds. I almost curse but I don't. Walter turns on Meghan's computer and checks into the boat.
"Ok we could afford four tickets for the boat. It should Sylvester, Paige, Cabe and myself because I can hack, Cabe can use his badge to get us wherever we need, Paige can help us talk to normal human beings and the last ticket is for a male under 22 and Sylvester your the only one who can be passed off as a 22 year old. Happy, Toby, Meghan you stay here." Walter instructs. The team nods but I object.
"No I am not going on a boat."
"Your going on the boat or there will be illegal rockets traveling around San Juan." Meghan says in a demanding voice. I agree because I know how important this is. The four of us head back to the garage and get changed into fancier clothing. Paige and Walt are supposed to be a honey mooning couple, I'm supposed to be Paige's cousin and Cabe is Paige's dad. Once I set my foot on the deck I can feel the anxiety rise inside of me.
"Have you ever heard of the Titanic?" I ask them nervously.
"That was in 1912." Paige says calmly.
"What about that fiery that sunk 3 months ago." I say freaking out.
"Don't forget about the Andrea Doria in 1956." Meghan says through the ear piece.
"Thank you Meghan you are making this so much better." Walt says sarcastically. I forgot about the Andrea Doria, shit.
"She's right about the Andrea Doria." I inform them.
"She's just playing around Sly don't worry." Paige says, calmly.
"1956, Sylvester." Walt says walking towards the check in and holding Paige's hand. I walk behind them with Cabe. Walt checks into the boat and we go into the suite. Paige and I stay in the suite while Walt and Cabe go and try to find the rockets. I start shaking, I think I'm having an anxiety attack.
"Sylvester calm." Paige says, eating the grapes that were set out on the table.
"Where is the closet way to get to the life boats?" I ask nervously.
"It doesn't matter because we won't need them."
"But in the case that we did..."
"We won't need then Sly."
"How can you be certain of that?"
"Sylvester." Paige says raising her eyebrows. We hear a knock at the door and Paige goes to answer it.
"Hello?" She asks. A tall blonde man is standing there.
"Hi I'm the captain and I wanted to know if you and your husband would like to join us for dinner?"
"Oh the captains table, sounds lovely. I will tell my husband... once I find him. Bye now." She replies closing the door in his face.
"Great now I have to have dinner with the captain and I don't have a clue where Walt is." Paige says plopping down on the couch. Suddenly her phone goes off.
"Hello?" She asks now getting annoyed. There is a silence, I assume the person on the other line is talking.
"Great. I'll have somebody pick him up in a few." She says almost crying out of stress now.
"Now Ralph is sick, I need to ask Toby to pick him up." She says, flustered. At that moment the horn goes off signaling that the boat is leaving.
"Would this cousin of yours be scared that everything is going to hell?" I ask pacing back and fourth. She rolls her eyes and rubs her head. Walter comes running into the room.
"What the hell is happening in there?" Meghan asks through the ear piece.
"What took you so long the boat is leaving?" I ask them, urgently. Walter responds quickly.
"We kind of ran into a problem."