Gambled Parts 14/17
By Debbie Eng (Wan-ping@juno.com)


3:43 PM
Outside of Better Beef Meat Packing Plant

	She had tried dialing Mulder's cell phone, but he wasn't answering.  
That either meant that something had happened to it while he was following a 
lead or he had forgotten to turn it on.  Considering that she had managed to 
reach him before, she opted for the other choice.  While doing the
autopsies she had discovered something new.  Under the corpses fingertips was 
evidence from this meat packing plant.  Scully arrived in her and Mulder's 
rental car just as a green car screeched to a halt.  To her surprise Caine 
and a man she did not recognize stepped out.  

	" Caine, what are you doing here? " she asked as she walked towards 
them, " And who is that? " she pointed to Kermit who had taken out his 
non-regulation gun.

	" Kermit Griffen, at your service, " he said as he checked his gun clip.

	" Griffen, the guy with a lock and key on his computer? " Scully asked. 

	" The same, now let's go free the guys. "

	Caine spoke for the first time since they had gotten there, " They 
have just finished playing the game.  We must go now, while they are all 
still inside. "  As he spoke a group of men dressed in black fanned out around 
them.

	" What the hell? " Scully asked as she trained her gun at one of them. 
Then as if the sound of her voice had been a command to attack, the men in 
black started to attack.  

	Kermit shot one as he dodged a kick from another.  Scully wounded one 
on the shoulder.  As she brought her gun up for another shot, one of the men 
knocked it from her hand.  She used a karate kick and knocked the guy down.  
Good thing the FBI made all of the field agents learn some hand to hand 
combat she thought.  She looked around to see Kermit finish dispatching the 
guy in front of him and Caine take down the last of the three guys that had 
surrounded him.  She bent down and picked up her gun.  
	
	" Come, " Caine said, " Peter is very near. "
	
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