After the day they’ve had, they raid Mike’s fridge, drink
all his beer, and eat what little food he has. Alvin tries to work Mike’s
computer, but in his drunken state, he sets off the security designed to wipe
the computers clean. Fearing it’s a bomb, the drunken party trashed the
computers and some furniture trying to escape the blast radius. In her fear,
Kara ends up accidentally hexing most of the electronics in the apartment.
While the group was out, Mike finished his patch to fix the
economy collapse. But, he needs to run it on a computer hooked up to the secure
financial servers. He heads to the Federal Reserve and fast talks his way in.
As he’s working on uploading the code, two building guards
tell him he’s not supposed to be there and to get out. He tries to fast talk
again, but they tell him they’re working for his aunt, the White Court vampire
maven who told him to fix the problem in the first place. And they’re here to
stop him.
A battle ensues and Mike kills the two guards, but not
before they raise an alarm. When mortal guards find Mike, he’s hiding under a
desk in the server room, feigning fear. They take him into a conference room
for protection and lock him in there. He tries to force the door, but it won’t
budge. He calls his aunt, who says she’ll send someone to take care of this.
Alvin’s police radio (which escaped hexing because it’s
older and simpler) chirps news of the slayings at the Federal Reserve, and that
it’s being blamed on James. Since James is in the room with everyone, they
figure it’s Mike and head over to help.
James and Maeve stay in the car because they’re wanted.
Alvin sees six FBI guys heading over to the building and Kara IDs them as White
Court vampires. Alvin heads over to stop them and they get into an argument.
One of the FBI goes and talks to the office in charge of the scene. The officer
comes over and tells Alvin to let the FBI in. Alvin says no. The office smells
beer on Alvin’s breath, tells him to go home, and threatens to have him fired.
Alvin threatens to tear his arms and legs off.
The officer in charge leaves to get reinforcements. Kara
casts a veil and she and Sean head inside to help Mike. Maeve creates a
distraction by getting several cops to chase her. About a third of them do.
When the reinforcements arrive, Alvin tears the doors off
the entrance to use as a shield/barricade, but accidentally shatters them. The
cops taze him, but he only feigns incapacitation. As the FBI try to step past
him, he grabs as many as possible and world walks to the NeverNever.
Three FBI and five cops all appear in a snow covered
clearing where Alvin meets some dire wolf friends. The dire wolves are happy
Alvin brought them some mortals to eat. Alvin offers them the vampires instead.
They don’t like that trade, but Alvin’s bigger and meaner.
James, sensing that things aren’t going well and needing
time to think, takes Alvin’s cop car and drives off unnoticed into the night.
Sean and Kara find Mike and break him out of the conference
room. Mike needs to go back to the servers to finish up. Kara keeps watch while
Sean stays with Mike. The FBI shows up and Kara blows them back down the hall
with a blast of air. She raises the alarm to let Sean and Mike know trouble is
here.
The vampires threaten Kara with their speed and strength, so
she flees. Sean tries to hold them off, but they manage to start feeding on
him. Since they’re phobophages, he’s scared into a moderate and severe
consequence.
Mike finishes his fix and joins the fight, transforming and
shredding his clothes. He kills one vampire and drives off the other with
Sean’s help. But Sean isn’t in any shape to get out of there, since he just
want to hide from the vampires. Mike tazes him, hides his sword in the drop
ceiling of a conference room, and carries Sean out. Somehow the naked man,
carrying another man, manage to sneak past a bunch of cops.
Mike steals a cop car and throws Sean in the back. Kara
follows them and takes shotgun. Maeve circles back and hops in the car as Mike
drives away. The cops follow in hot pursuit.
