Lost and Found

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Trubel's POV

Cash gave us his blessing and said he'd be able to get everything together in two days. We decided that in two days at 10 PM would be a good time to have the setup. It would be dark and late, but not so late that people would be too tired to fight. Plus, not a lot of people would be around, wandering the city at night.

Now we just needed to figure out how to tip off North End without them discovering that our plan was a trap. It sounded like Andre might have had a plan, but I wasn't sure. We would figure that out later. For now, we just wanted to update the gang. Roy called Bruno from his phone and put it on speaker. Bruno, apparently, was driving and put the phone on speaker.

"What's up?" he asked.

Roy explained what happened with Cash.

"Well, crap," Bruno said. "What are we going to do?"

"We're going to pretend to have a gang meeting at a warehouse," I said, listing the address. I heard Bruno command Dwaine to start writing stuff down.

"Okay," Dwaine said, finishing writing the address I told him and Bruno.

"They're going to come there, two days from now, probably around ten at night when the meeting is supposed to start. They'll think they'll be catching us by surprise, but we'll be expecting them and will have people both outside the warehouse long before North End arrives. Everything will be prepared and we'll all have our own positions, so we'll be able to kill quite a few Crew members before they kill our people."

I could faintly hear a pen or pencil scribbling frantically on a piece of paper. "Got it," Dwaine said.

"Now what?" Bruno asked.

"Talk to the guys," Andre commanded. "Let them know what's up."

"Okay, we'll see what we can-" Bruno began before he was interrupted by a high pitched, multi-toned sound. "Uh-oh."

"What?" Roy asked.

"Freaking cops," Bruno hissed. "They want to pull us over."

"Aw, hell," Andre yelled.

"What do we do?" I heard someone - I think Marcus - ask.

"Don't run," Andre commanded. "We don't need the attention of a high-speed chase on us."

"Well, it depends," Bruno argued, yelling over the siren sounds. "Are we in trouble for speeding, or for armed robbery?" he asked.

"Just pull over, and don't tell them anything," Andre demanded. "They shouldn't have anything on you, and they'll have to let you go."

"Fine," Bruno said. "I'm pulling over, but if my ass gets stuck in jail, you're bailing me out."

"Good luck, man," Roy said.

Bruno hung up.

Andre immediately started yelling. "Why can't anything be freaking simple?!"

"Don't ask me," I complained. Nothing in my life was ever simple. I had the urge to add, "Welcome to my world," but I didn't want to piss him off more.

"Look, hopefully, they just had a taillight out or something," Roy suggested.

"I guess we'll find out," I said.

I had a feeling it was something worse. Bruno had kidnapped me, Marcus helped murder the nine gang members in the alley, Dwaine helped rob the convenience store with me... Any single one of them could lead the police to us.

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Nick's POV

My phone rang. It was Wu. I picked it up quickly and asked, "Wu, what have you got?"

"Nothing big, just the car from the alley murder and three potential suspects," he said happily.

"What?!" I asked excitedly. Hank looked up from his computer to stare at me questioningly. I wasn't patient enough to fill him in and decided to throw more questions at Wu. "Where?"

"Up in Northeast. Franco and I are en route," Wu answered. He told me a more specific location and then asked, "You coming?"

"Hank and I are on our way," I said. "Radio ahead and notify the officers to wait for us before they touch anything. And to treat the suspects as armed and dangerous."

"Done and done," Wu said and hung up.

Hank was already on his feet, with his jacket in one hand and keys in the other. I was on my feet to and told Hank, "They have the car," before heading to the garage. Hank followed after me.

"Hopefully. this is the tip we need," he said.

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Robbie's POV

We were meeting Bruno and the others. We were going to regroup and decide on what our next move was for finding some Crew members. After calling Bruno, we went to the location he told us which was when we saw the Fusion pulled over on the side of the road with a cop car waiting behind it.

"Damn," Walter said.

"Keep driving," I told Julian.