Archived La Vie de Luxe - Oh Canada!

[Nina West]

Still swallowing hard, Nina West kept on driving after Vic. That's her only option now, they made the first aggressive move.

"Agent Hobbes?" said Nina to her other unit, "did you see what that was? They're hostile, what's your suggestion?"

 

[Narrator]

[Hobbes]

"I saw it, Agent West. Don't worry, that explosion was definitely life-threatening." Hobbes said unwittingly. "Oh. Oh, wait, no. I didn't mean that. Thrown inaccurately, Ms. West. Not to worry. It was thrown inaccurately. No danger to you." Hobbes quickly added, pulling behind the Buick with a clutch-sputtering lurch.

"I believe we can assume the occupant of the vehicle is suspect Vincent Fumagalli, Agent West. His unidentified female passenger I profiled earlier is likely armed and therefore both suspects should be treated as dangerous. Whatever they're planning, it must be important.

"Now, Nina," Hobbes continued, "Sitting beside me right now is Officer Laurent, who can summon the entire on-duty police force of Montreal with one radio call, so long as we do not call between eleven or five after eleven when they all go on break. Besides then, the capture of an international criminal would look very good on the police and they would help us as much as possible. But I think it is important that suspect Vincent lead us directly to where he plans to go.

"My plan is to switch roles, Nina." Hobbes said. "You continue the exciting job of pursuing the suspects while I perform the boring duty of following from a block away. Then, you 'lose' them at a convenient point for me to roll into the picture again and present myself as a French-Canadian criminal who was promised payment by syndicate leader Carmen Sandiego in exchange for assisting suspect Fumagalli in his heist. By pretending to be working with them, I will hopefully gain enough trust to follow Fumagalli and lead yourself and the Montreal police force right to where the suspect plans to travel. I hope that sounds like a plan, because I see an intersection coming up.

The gas pedal ground into the floor, Hobbes' K-Car brought his bumper behind the Buick with a sputtering wheeze. Arriving at the intersection, the pencil-pushing desk-type rammed the emergency brake into gear and veered left in a curtain of burnt rubber. Releasing the break, Hobbes sped forward and took a quick right, perspiring as he thought about all the ways his plan could go horribly wrong.

 

[Nina West]

The expression on Nina's face ranged from surprise to uncertainty to confusion then back to surprise as she listened to Agent Hobbes's suggestion. Infiltrating the enemy? Sounds like something that could take weeks to clear with Chief. If you were higher on the food chain, thought Nina, you can do anything you want and say it was situational.

"Let's do it, Hobbes," Nina replied, she was part adventurous and part still upset that Chase Devineaux stuck his nose in her case and released Sir Vile early. If anyone in ACME can do just about anything, then she could too. "I'll 'lose' them in about 2 miles, you take it from there."

[OOC: Great post, Hobbes! Now we're rolling!]

 

[Narrator]

[Hobbes]

"Excellent, Agent West. If this works out, we might just kill two birds with one stone, so to speak." Hobbes replied smugly, sliding his vehicle gracelessly through sporadic traffic.

"Oh. Nina, in case Officer Laurent is incapable of making the call for reinforcements, would you be able to re-affirm the request? That is to say, double-check that a transmission was sent? It would be my inclination to invite the power of the local authorities to crack down on our suspects, but I am assuming ACME agents would also be invaluable to our assault.

"And if anything goes wrong, I will take full responsibility for disobeying your commands, Agent West. But let us hope luck is on our side. We've been fortunate thus far. Maybe prudence takes us a little further."

 

[Nina West]

"Affirmed!" Replied Nina as she moved her buzzing electric car closer to the Buick and checked the SatNav for a good spot to play her part of the plan.

Her teeth gritted when she thought about this plan going wrong. Vic Fumigalli was one of the few VILE agents that had regular contacts with Carmen Sandiego, and getting this close was almost too close. Vic doesn't look like much, but he's smart. Letting local authorities deal with him could result in an escape.

"Be careful, Agent Hobbes," Nina said, "you might need to leave Officer Laurent first, suspect has experience with authorities."

 

[Vic]

While the two ACME agents exchanged parts to a plan, an oblivious Vic the Slick was still trying to figure out a way to lose the one remaining car on his tail.

"We're city-bound," Vic said to Dragon, "when we hit traffic, it's gonna get harder to lose this one, ah? You try give it a scare again when we hit the next bend."

 

[Narrator]

[Kyzano]

Dragon listened to the man driving and merely gave a grunt in reply. Her eyes scanning the road. She noticed that now they only had one follower.

"They're trying to corner us." She snarled.

Wolves did something similar, at least similar in the general concepts. Hunting in packs you co-ordinated your efforts; that's how you got the prey. In this situation, two hunters running at the prey in the same direction would be useless as long as the prey remained ahead.

"Vic, I have a bit of an idea, but no matter what happens you keep driving got it?" Her idea was dangerous... if her timing was off things could go very, very badly for her. But it was worth the shot.

 

[Nina West]

Nina pulled up closer to Vic's car, she wanted to look like she was persistent. It was dark, and they had been almost bumper to bumper for miles. She hoped Agent Hobbes was doing well, she could see his little dot on the SatNav about a block away.

 

[Vic]

"Corner us?" Asked Vic, "Ya better be sure, ah?" This girl's been spending her life rolling around in the forest, what does she know about how drivers, especially cop drivers, behave? He'll have to talk to Carmen, if this goes wrong, it weren't his fault.

Vic did as he was asked, and kept driving. "Don't do anything dumb, Tike, I can't come back and collect ya if something goes wrong."

 

[Narrator]

[Kyzano]
"Look, there's only one car tailing us now. There were two, and wolves do this when hunting. It's how a pack works. One plays decoy while the others nab the prey from elsewhere." She looked behind them again, trying to judge the cars distance.

Thinking quick Dragon faced a problem, she'd have to leave the grenades behind if she wanted to go through with her plan. Not that she didn't like it, but they'd come in handy. "Vic just tell me the meeting point, if I do go through with my idea I'll make my own way there."

She would stay until she had no alternative. But it did relax her some to have a backup plan.

 

[Vic]

"Yeahum..." Vic thought about where a good quiet spot was going to be. "Ya remember the Ritz, ah? Where Carmen was nights ago, you got meet me in the alley there, but I can't stick around long. If I ain't find ya tonight, I report back to Carmen, say it's a bust, then we start over."

 

[Narrator]

[Kazano]

Dragon nodded. "Don't worry Vic, if I go through with my plan, I'll be there. For now let's be careful, We don't know where our second follower went."

Dragon still wanted to go through with her plan, but until she had a clearer idea of what the fallout would be, she'd stick to the car. No matter how much she hated it.