Action Comics Inc.... [for nerdherdchuck]

[psychette]

Things were buzzing at Comic Con. People milling here and there, some in costume, some without. Somewhere near the entrance...

"Com'n, we're gonna miss it!" Jackie urged, absentmindedly tugging on her arm bands. She was loving her Kira costume this year, getting quite a few thumbs up from passers-by...ignoring the fact most of them were thirty-ish guys who probably still lived with their mom.

"Chuck, I thought you wanted to be at this auction thing too. What's taking so long?"

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Jackie had been busy staring at the bad guy and all of his toys...and trying to not look like she's got a knife behind her back. When Chuck looks over, she mentally facepalms and starts trying to rub it against his ropes unobtrusively. She gives Chuck a "com'n, keep him busy!" look as she works.

The kidnapper lights a cigarette to start, letting out a cloud of smoke at them. Where is the painting? As if this is the last time he's going to ask nicely.

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

Chuck turned to face forward before the kidnapper had a chance to see him glance towards Jackie. Now that the kidnapper had turned around and blown a smoke ring in his face, he couldn't help coughing for a moment.

As Chuck caught his breath, the kidnapper continued to glare at him, waiting for an answer to his question. "We don't have it on us. It's back at the convention, honest. We thought it was a nifty poster. If we had known how much it really meant, we'd have never bidded on it."

"What's that supposed to mean?" the kidnapper growled.

"Well, we just wanted a show prop. We're sci-fi fans, really. This Comic-Con is a big deal, you know?" He then let out a nervous chuckle, but the kidnapper continued to glare at him. "Okay, maybe not, but that's the real truth, honest! I'm dressed up in a classic Star Wars costume and my friend is dressed up as a character from the Chronicles of Riddick movies."

A blank stare crossed the kidnapper's face. "Yeah, I knew who you were supposed to be," he growled, motioning to Chuck. "But I have no idea about your friend."

"Oh, the character's name is Kira and-"

A grunt this time silenced Chuck. "I may not know who she is, but I don't need the history of your sci-fi...fandoms or whatever."

He goes over to his minion and takes a pair of pliers from him. "Now," the kidnapper begins. "Maybe you'll be more willing to talk if you knew I'd start taking out a tooth if you didn't."

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There's a really weird soft high pitched sound. It takes a minute before Jackie realizes it came from her the minute she saw that pair of pliers. She clears her throat. "Um...I'm pretty sure it would be physically more difficult to talk with less teeth. Perhaps if you started with toenails or something? ...maybe individual hairs?" She was leaning back, talking as she did as the kidnapper was coming towards her purposefully.

Behind her back, she was scraping away like crazy, trying to make some headway with Chuck's ropes. She couldn't even see how far it had cut through but she didn't get a chance to finish. "Hold her," one of the minions was directed to come around, taking her head with his big hands. Jackie squeaked out, "Please don't..." as the pliers were coming for her.

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

Jackie had managed to cut through the ropes just enough that Chuck could wiggle his wrists free. As he saw the minion clamp the pliers on Jackie's front tooth, he screamed out, "Okay, okay! Don't! Just...I'll tell you what you wanna know!"

This got the kidnapper's attention and he removed the pliers from Jackie's mouth and made his way back to Chuck. "Really? Then start talking now!"

Chuck took a breath and concentrated for a second. His eyes glazed over as a skills flash loaded. He shot up, surprising the kidnapper who thought Chuck was still bound. He let out "How did you-" before Chuck brought him to the ground with a swift roundhouse kick.

The minion, seeing his boss on the ground, ran at Chuck. Chuck flipped over him and the minion turned to where Chuck was now standing. He growled and ran at Chuck only to be brought to the floor with a quick uppercut to the face.

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Jackie couldn't have known what Chuck was planning but at least he got the bad guy to let go of what was probably her favorite tooth at that point in time...

But her mouth hung open as she watched Chuck flip through the air, taking down the minion guy neatly. "Holey rusted metal batman!" She blinked at Chuck "That was amazing!"

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"I've...um, taking some defense training classes. Not sure how I did the flip really," Chuck sheepishly replied.

Then noticing the minion start to stir a bit, he looked back at Jackie. "We should probably get outta here..."

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She squirmed against her bonds. "Com'n, hurry up and untie me!" she hissed at him.

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Chuck ran over to Jackie and loosened up the ropes.

"That should do it."

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She unties her feet hurriedly, one of the goons is starting to stir. They hurry out the door and out of the warehouse onto the street...

...which turns out to be a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. "Aw man. There's no telling where we are."

There's a helicopter parked nearby and the van that they were kidnapped in. "Don't suppose you know how to hotwire a van really quick?" Jackie asks.

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"Well...I could try something I saw in a movie," Chuck timidly offers.

He sits in the driver's seat staring at the wheel for a moment a takes a deep breath to concentrate. Suddenly, his eyes roll back and in a flash, he knows exactly what he's doing. He quickly gets the ignition to turn over and gives a dopey smile, "Hey! That worked!"

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Jackie was too busy keeping watch outside the van, hoping Chuck was right. When the engine turned over, she made a happy sound, jumping into the passenger side of the van. "Chuck, you're fantastic! Go quick!"

Just as they were about to pull away, the bad guys come out of the warehouse, rubbing their heads and drawing their guns. "DRIVE, HURRY!"

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

Chuck puts the petal to the metal and starts pulling away from the warehouse with the tires screeching as he does so. He weaves his way down the dirt road until it finally comes out to a paved road of some sort. Chuck turns right onto the paved road and says, "I have no idea where we are or where I'm going, but hopefully this will come out to somewhere familiar..."

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"Who cares, just keep going for now." Jackie's already crawling into the back, looking for a map or something.

"Some extra handcuffs, rope, gun clips..." She pulls back a small tarp to reveal a bike and some survelliance equipment.

As she goes to climb back up, she happens to look out the back. "Uh oh...as they say in the movies, we've got company!" There's two blue cars chasing after them at a fast clip. Jackie gets back into her seat quickly. "Should we try to go for the police or something??"

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"Do you think our case will look too good? We are in a hot wired van," Chuck nervously remarks. "But we can't keep running either." He thinks for a moment.

"Is there anyway we can contact the police? Any phone or anything back there?"

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She climbs back up into the passenger seat, clipping on her seatbelt. "Not really, there's some cameras and stuff..." Eagerly reaches forward, noticing the CB radio under the dash. "Hey! Don't these things have a police scanner or something??"

She ducks down as there's gunfire from the cars chasing them. "They don't give up easily, do they?"

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"Usually," Chuck replies right before hearing gunfire. He ducks down a bit too, just enough to see the road ahead of him.

"No! They don't give up!" he frantically exclaims. "Hopefully you can get a signal on that CB cuz, I dunno how long I can drive being shot at. I'm not Jack Bauer, y'know..."

goodness, do I owe you this one

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The back window shatters as the gunmen get in a lucky shot. Jackie presses every button she can find on the CB, trying to figure out how it works. "Hello?? Hello, anyone there?"
Turns to Chuck, "Am I supposed to say breaker breaker or something??"

Right then, the whole van jerks to the side as the bad guys shove them over with their car.

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

Chuck doesn't get to answer Jackie's question before the car pushes their get away vehicle off to the side.

He groans, stunned from the impact, and sees the kidnappers slowly start to come out of the car.

ooc: It's okay. :)

[psychette10.livejournal.com]

"Whatdowedowhatdowedo???" Jackie's freaking out now, still pressing buttons on the CB radio.

*bzzz crackle* 911 emergency... Jackie stares at the radio, almost not believing it. "Help! We're being shot at!"

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The person on the other end of the CB radio replies, "What's your location?" There is definitely noticeable static on the line.

"Um...we don't know! Near a warehouse and a dirt road and-" But before he can finish, he's interrupted by the sound of another bullet hitting the van. "Aaah!" he screams.

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Jackie ducks down, crawling into the back of the van and tugging at Chuck's sleeve to get him to follow. It's not much of a plan but it might be safer in the back than the front.

There's a shattering sound as the windshield is suddenly fired at repeatedly and breaks all over the dashboard. Jackie scrabbles around, only finding a tire iron for a weapon. "Ohhh, why couldn't they have left us some weapons?!"

"Come out kids~...come out and we won't kill you." It's the lead kidnapper. And he may be teasing but he is definitely not happy.

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Chuck follows Jackie's lead. He turns down the CB as the operator asks again for a location. Hopefully, they can trace the call, he thinks to himself.

Noticing the tire iron, he whispers to Jackie, "Got any ideas?"

[psychette10.livejournal.com]

Wincing as the back windows are broken. Jackie looks helplessly from the tire iron to Chuck and back. "...not a one. You?"

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

A hand reaches through one of the busted back windows unlocking the back door. The door slowly opens, revealing one of the angry kidnappers.

Without thinking, Chuck throws the tire iron, hoping to hit the kidnapper right in the forehead.

[psychette10.livejournal.com]

The kidnapper wasn't prepared for that and stumbles back, holding his hands to his face. His friend starts climbing in, shoving his partner aside to try and get to them. Jackie takes the cue from Chuck and starts throwing anything she can get her hands on...

The camera bag she tosses slows him down but he still gets ahold of her wrist and Jackie is kicking and squealing, trying to get free. "Let go! You big oaf!"
SLAP! She gets a hand to the side of her face.

Meanwhile, the kidnapper with a reddened tire iron mark across his face is pointing a gun at Chuck. "That was pretty stupid, boy." He glares at the two of them.