Chapter Five

I kept my grip on the case and flew to Vaughn. He was being shot at and was hanging off the side of a motorcycle. I landed on the other bike and smacked the psycho with the case. I turned to my physical form and extended my hand for Vaughn.

"Vaughn, grab on!" I shouted over the engines.

"Chase?! What are you doing here?!" Vaughn asked confused.

"Just take my hand!" I yell. He immediately grabs it and I pull him to safety. Fiona was being strangled by another psycho. I jumped to the car she was on and kicked the guy off of her.

"Thanks," she said.

"No problem. We need to get out of here. We have the case." I showed her the case and she smiled.

"Alright! Let's get out of here!"

I jumped back over to Vaughn and saw the Caravan. Felix was reaching out and grabbed my arm. He pulled me through the window with the case.

"Chase!" Vaughn yelled my name.

"Felix, get Vaughn!" I yelled at him.

"I'm afraid I can't do that," he said and pointed a gun at me. I still had the case in hand.

"Now...hand it over," he said calmly. I took a few steps back and shook my head.

"I don't want to kill you," he said. I heard a loud bang and so did Felix. Fiona came through the door.

"Felix, what's going on here?" Fiona asked.

"I'm sorry, Fiona. I'm taking the money," he said. Felix then aimed at Fiona.

"She's family!! You're really going to kill her and leave?!" I asked with rage.

"If I must," he replied. He pulled the trigger and the bullet was heading straight towards Fiona. I dropped the case and pushed her out of the way. The bullet grazed my arm. Then, Felix accidentally crashed the caravan and I hit the table. Luckily, it didn't knock me out.

Felix was okay and grabbed the case. I stood up and followed him. Fiona was following behind me.

"Goodbye, Fiona, Chase." He put his foot on the caravan's front wheel and was about to push. He was trying to open the case at the same time.

"Don't open it!" I screamed. Felix didn't listen.

"What's wrong?" Fiona asked.

"There's a bomb in there that only Vaughn can disable. It requires his biometric code." Fiona comprehended what I said and pleaded with Felix. He didn't listen and opened the case. A loud explosion goes off and Felix, along with the money, are gone.

"No...." Fiona stared at the scene in disbelief.

"I'm sorry, Fiona. But, we have to go," I said and we hopped out of the caravan.

"Thanks for saving me back there, Chase," she thanked me.

"I'm sure you would've done the same thing for me." She smiled at me after I said that. We joined the others in the center of the arena.

"There you two are!" Vaughn said.

"Where's the case?" Rhys asked me. I looked down at the ground in shame.

"The case....is gone and...so is the money." I kept looking at the ground.

"Fi, where's Felix?" Sasha asked.

"He's...gone," Fiona said sadly.

"Don't tell me he opened the case," Vaughn said. Fiona and I nodded together.

"No way...." Sasha said. Then, burnt money came down from the sky.

"What now? We just lost ten million dollars," Rhys said.

"Check the dead bodies. They're bound to have some loot on them," Sasha said and checked the body next to her. I found a few hundred dollars on Bossanova's body.

"Who killed him?" I ask myself. I saw a puncture wound through the front right where his speaker is.

"I'm guessing Zero did this. There's no way Rhys or Sasha did this," I said. I gripped the money and gave it to Fiona. She nodded and thanked me. Suddenly, I heard Rhys scream. I turned around and saw a huge hole where he was standing. Everyone else gathered around the hole.

"Rhys, are you dead?" Vaughn asked.

"I-I'm fine...I meant to do that," he said and rubbed the back of his head.

"Uh huh, sure," I said sarcastically. I jumped down and joined him.

"What's down there, you two?" Sasha asked.

"It looks like an old Atlas underground facility. It's full of prototypes," Rhys answered. Sasha immediately jumped down after she heard prototypes. She pushed a button and a gun appeared.

"No way....it's the Atlas Silver!!" She cheered and picked up the gun.

"Vintage....I guess?" Rhys walked over to Vaughn who found another prototype. Apparently, it's called the Atlassio. Rhys pretended to be interested when Vaughn told him what it could do.

Fiona came over and accidentally knocked into Rhys. This caused Rhys' elbow to graze my wound. I tried to keep from whimpering but it still hurts. I quickly covered the wound so Rhys wouldn't see it.

"You okay?" Rhys asked me.

"Y-yeah. I'm okay," I said and plastered on a smile. Fiona saw this and immediately jumped in.

"No, you're not okay. You're bleeding," she said and looked at my hand covering the bullet wound. I saw that blood was seeping through my fingers. This got Rhys to worry even more. He pried my hand away form the cut and looked at it.

"How did it happen?" He asked me.

"Felix was going to shoot Fiona and I pushed her out of the way. The bullet just grazed me. I'm fine, Rhys," I looked into his eyes. Fiona pulled a small piece of cloth out of her pocket.

"Use this to cover it. Once we get back to the caravan, we'll treat it." She gave the cloth to Rhys and he tied it around my arm. I thanked both of them and I went to check out the room. I was staring at the Atlas symbol that was on the floor. Then, I saw a glow and the symbol was rising from the ground.

"What did you guys do?" I ask Fiona and Rhys.

"Just pressed a button," Fiona responded. Once the Atlas symbol reached a certain point, two objects appeared.

"What is this?" Rhys asked.

"No clue," Fiona said. Vaughn and Sasha joined us after hearing that.

"I get the bigger piece," Rhys claimed. I let a sigh slip after I heard him. Both Rhys and Fiona picked up the piece in front of them.

"I wonder what it does," Sasha stated. I heard a noise and the pieces suddenly connected together. A huge map appeared.

"It's a map," Fiona said.

"This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Gortys Project. It'll lead us to a vault key....and probable kill you," a voice I've never heard spoke. Rhys and I were the only ones looking around. A blue man was standing behind Rhys and putting his arms around Rhys and Fiona.

"U-um, Rhys?" I pointed a shaky finger at the strange man. Rhys saw what I was pointing to and screamed.

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