DEBS characters are owned by Angela Robinson, and this is a sequel to my story DEBS 2 Destination Hope, found on this site which was a sequel to her kick ass movie DEBS. Lyrics belong to Frou frou, from the song close up. I am going to try to update this quickly, but no promises, feedback and excitement will speed my progress)

: Is this a feeling of something
About to happen?
Like snapping out of something I didn't realize I was in.
Was I sleeping:

Lucy's POV

I tapped the steering wheel impatiently as the car inched forward through traffic to the arrivals gate. Up ahead of us people where greeting friends and relatives with excruciating slowness.

"Oh come on!" I slammed the horn. "Hug them when they're in the car people."

"Lucy," Amy put a hand on my arm, and I tried to relax.

"Sorry," I muttered as we finally pulled to the curb. "Where the hell's Scud?" We both craned our necks, searching through the throng of people.

"There," Amy pointed and I saw Scud waving to us as he shoved through the crowd. We climbed out to the car and I met him with a quick hug.

"How've you been?" I asked giving him a little shove.

"Been good," he grinned shoving his bag into the backseat.

"Great to see you," Amy hugged him tight.

"Come on people, I'm not waiting here for my health, stupid Americans," yelled a man with a thick Spanish accent, laying on his horn.

"Oh go eat yourself," I flipped him the bird as we climbed into the car. "Some people have no patience," I muttered as I pulled the car back into traffic, in the mirror I saw Amy and Scud exchange smirks. "What?"

"Nothing," Amy smiled, leaning over to kiss my cheek. "I love you."

"Me too, honey," Scud patted my shoulder and I swatted his hand, they both laughed.

"How's Janet?" Amy asked.

"Good, excited for the convention," Scud nodded. "After the last assignment, and the metal Max hasn't been giving her quite so much shit."

"They figure anything out about Katia?" I asked, glancing at Scud in the review quickly before returning my attention to the road.

"Call came out of Tokyo, but you knew that. Other than that she seems to have fallen off, there's been no sightings. Any more phone calls?"

"No," I shook my head.

"Maybe she was just bluffing," Scud shrugged.

"People like her don't bluff," I shook my head. "She's planning something."

"We'll be ready for her, babe," Amy took my hand, giving it a squeeze. "Let's just enjoy Scud's visit.

"Yeah, it's vacation time," Scud grinned.

"I guess," I smiled over at Amy.

We pulled into the driveway just as dusk was falling; I carried Scud's bags into the spare room, and met him on the porch. We kicked back watching the sunset fade, colors blurring to black. I glanced over at Scud, whose eyes were half closed as he dozed.

"Hey," Amy set down a bottle of wine, and glasses on the table.

"You are the best girlfriend ever," Scud, smiled, uncorking the bottle and pouring three glasses. He took a sip from his, then leaned back in his chair again, readjusting, and setting his cell phone on the table. I grabbed it.

"This is sweet," I flipped open the phone examining it. "A global cell?"

"Yep, Janet hooked me up with it from the DEBS stash," he grinned. "I kinda think it's just so she can use the built in GPS to always know where I am."

"Aww, she trusts you," Amy assured him.

"She might, but the other two don't quite yet."

"Not everyone's as trusting as you, Amy," I leaned over kissing her cheek gently. "Hard to believe some of us hardened criminals can change right?" I raised my glass to Scud.

"Here, here!" he tapped my glass with his and we both drained the glasses, I poured us each some more. On the table Scud's phone began to vibrate, he sat quickly to pick it up. "It's Janet," he frowned, flipping open the phone, setting it on speakerphone. "Hey babe."

"Scud," Janet whimpered a little, we all exchanged looks.

"Janet, what's wrong?" Amy asked, leaning forward.

"Amy, she's here, Katia, she has the place surrounded, they took all our cell phones."

"Katia," I asked leaning forward, any trace of a buzz gone.

"We're all here, and she's going to kill us."

"Janet, calm down. What's happening," Scud looked terrified.

"You have to stop her; it was a trap one of us." The line went dead. Aside from the lapping of waves on the beach, the world was silent, finally scud grabbed the phone.

"Janet? Janet?" He yelled into the phone.

"Scud," I grabbed his arm, pulling the phone from his ear. "Chill. Amy," She looks up at me, face pale in the twilight. "Where's the convention."

"I…I don't know," she shakes her head.

"Scud, where is it." He shakes his head too.

"I don't know."

"No one knows," Amy explains. "Each year the location is different, and known only to DEBS. Lucy, think about it, every DEB in the world is there, if people knew where it was."

"Someone might take control of the place, hold them all hostage, or blow the place up? Hmm what do you think Katia has in mind? A or B?" I stand and start pacing. "Janet's phone has GPS too, right? Can we trace it, figure out where they are?"

"Not likely," Scud answers, throwing his phone on the table.

"The phones are scrambled," Amy explained.

"We have to find them, this is my mess, Katia's doing this for me."

"No, she's doing this because she hates the DEBS and they ruined her plans for world destruction."

"Yeah and we were a part of those plans," inside the phone began to ring.

"Lucy, this really isn't about you," Amy tried to grab me, but I pulled away.

"We never should have helped them, we coulda stayed on the run, and then we wouldn't have this super bad bitch trying to fuck everything up, and god can you shut up!" I yelled at the phone. I heard me and Amy on the voicemail.

"Yeah and only a few small countries would have had to be exploded in exchange," Amy scowled at me. "What are your priorities, Lucy?"

"Lucy Diamond." We all froze, and turned as one to look into the house. "I assume you got sweet little Janet's message yes?" Katia's voice dripped with false kindness. I strode purposefully into the house. "All your little friends are here. Max, what a fighter, and that Dominique…"

"Fuck you," I answered the phone.

"Oh you are home," she laughed icily. "How's the coast this time of year?"

"Let them go," I spoke through clenched teeth, heading back to the patio, she laughed again.

"Oh Lucy, you have gone soft to even ask that."

"What do you want?"

"That's better, now you understand me," she was practically purring. "I want my son to be free, I want to take him to the park without worrying that I will be arrested and he will be taken away."

"You really picked the wrong career then," I answered snidely. Scud gave me a thumbs up.

"Not with you helping me, love."

"Maybe you missed it, but fuck you."

"You understand a remote detonator, yes?"

"Of course," I froze. Amy mouthed what, but I held up a hand.

"You know how to put one together?"

"No."

"You may want to learn. Explosives are lined around the DEBS convention area. If you do not help me they will be dead before the week is over."

"What do you want," I bit the words out, each one hurt.

"Money, enough to live well and off the radar. One hundred million."

"Yeah let me just run over to the bank in the morning and get it," I replied sarcastically. Amy lifted an eyebrow. I scribbled the number on the piece of paper and handed it to her, her eyes went wide.

"I know you have money and possessions buried away, but don't worry, I don't want anything you have. The DEBS have offices all around the world, each office has a vault, you will break into each one until you have collected my money."

"I'll do that why?" I asked.

"Because each time you make a delivery to me I will give you a piece of a copy of the detonator. While I have a copy I can still use, yours will be the one which can override and disable the explosives."

"Won't help us if we don't know where they are."

"When I have my money you will know where the DEBS are. Do we have a deal?" I was silent, biting my lip and thinking this all over. "You need time to think. I will call you in the morning." The line went dead, and I let the phone drop to the table as I sunk into a chair.

"What's going on?" Amy asked, as I buried my head in my hands.

"How well do you know the layouts of the DEBS headquarters around the world?"

"Well enough I guess," she frowned. "Lucy, talk to me what's going on?"

"The convention center is loaded with explosives. Katia will give us the detonator piece by piece if we break into the DEBS headquarters around the world until we get her money."

"One hundred million?" Scud's mouth dropped open in awe. "No way, that would take forever.

"Our branch of the offices had probably twenty million in cash, another ten in product," Amy spoke slowly. "The other braches should be equally stocked."

"What kind of a secret agency do you people run?" Scud asked standing, and running a hand through his mess of hair.

"Can you put back together the detonator, Scud?"

"Can I put back together. Fuck!" I stared at him, unblinking, waiting for him to calm down, he punched the air a couple times and stomped his foot in anger. "Fuck, yes, yes I can put it back together."

"Good," I smiled. "You two ready for some exciting crime?"