Bang and Burn ~ Dreamnotfound + Skephalo

Chapter 31

George found himself starting to fall asleep during the meeting. During the last four days, not much had happened. After learning Clay was an agent, getting Nick home, and detaining the rogue agents, there wasn't much action going on. The two biggest points of conversation going on were about who they worked for and where one of their accomplices, Strawberry, had escaped to. Dylan and Zak had both spent time talking to the other agents, but didn't learn anything that was too helpful. They knew that their boss was making a lot of money and that he always had eyes on them, but they refused to go any further. Even Wilbur refused to talk about it. For now, their best bet was to find Strawberry and to take her down.

Darryl stood in front of a large whiteboard as he wrote down his notes in front of Zak, Clay, and George. Dylan was busy talking to Thundah and Nick had stepped away to use the restroom. "So! We know that Straw works with Agent F1nn5ter. She also has connections to the agents we have in captivity. What else do we know about her?"

"Not much," Clay admitted. "Finn knew more about her than the rest of our team, but he doesn't seem to know much."

"I hate that we lost him," Zak mumbled. "He was an amazing honey trap and could help us quite a bit."

"Yeah, but he had to finish our original mission with Jake and Geo," Clay explained.

"And they took Vincent with them," George said, barely able to keep his eyes open. "I get that they had to switch him for Clay and Dylan, but still. It sucks to be down to half of our team now."

"Oh, wait!" Clay shouted excitedly, starling George enough to wake him up. "Nick talked to Straw privately! Maybe he knows something?"

"Where even is he?" Zak asked. "It's been, like, twenty minutes since he left."

George stood up and stretched. "I'll go look for him. Be right back."

As he stepped out of the conference room, he spotted Dylan down the hall, typing away on his phone. When Dylan noticed George, he gave a half smile. "Hey, I just finished up with Thundah. Once again, I learned nothing. How is the rest of the meeting going?"

"Not good," George admitted. "I'm on my way to look for Nick. He said he was running to the restroom and just never came back."

Dylan's smile faded. "Are you sure? Cause I saw him get in the elevator and go up to the roof."

"How do you know he went up there?"

Dylan pointed to a dial sitting on top of the elevator that showed the floor it was on. The arrow inside of it was still pointed to the roof. "No one has used it since he went up." George walked over and hit the button to call the elevator. "Dude, what are you doing?"

"I'm going to see what's going on with him." the elevator doors opened and he stepped inside. Dylan stepped in with him and pulled his gun out of its holster. "Woah, we don't need to have any guns out!"

Dylan checked the magazine to see how many bullets he had. He then pushed it back into the gun and prepared it to fire. "You can never be too careful around a loose cannon."

"Nick is not a loose cannon."

Dylan looked up at George. "Better safe than sorry."

As the elevator doors opened, they could hear a woman screaming. George pulled out his own gun as Dylan took the lead. Around the corner, they found Nick wrestling with someone. He had his hands wrapped around their wrists and had them pushed up against the ledge of the roof. The person beneath him was Straw. Their eyes were red and puffy and they were screaming, begging for Nick to spare them. But he wasn't listening. It looked like he was trying to push them over the edge.