Rescue Me (Sidney Crosby)

Chapter Twenty Two

"What do you mean 'he's still in Pittsburgh'?"

"I'm saying that Kyle Mullery is still in Pittsburgh!" Greg said over the phone and I looked at Vero.

"Call Julie! She's going the wrong way! Kyle is still in Pittsburgh!" I said and Vero's eyes widened and she nodded her head and grabbed her phone.

-Sidney-

It was the middle of the second period and we were winning, but not by much, and the Flyers were close to scoring a goal. I was sitting on the bench watching as the puck went back and forth between teams, when I looked up and saw something coming towards the ice. Another puck landed on the ice that was thrown from the crowd. The whistle was blown for disruption of the game and as the ref when to pick the puck up, but the puck exploded with smoke.

My eyes widened as I looked around, but didn't see anything. I looked to Kris who was sitting next to me and he nodded his head, knowing what I was thinking. Kyle was here.

There was an announcement saying that we were going to take a fifteen minute break to allow the smoke to clear and both teams were ushered back into their locker rooms.

"What the hell was that all about?" Chris Kunitz asked as he sat down and took his helmet off.

I looked over towards Geno, Tyler, James and Matt and they nodded their heads, they knew that he was here too. And if he was here, maybe that meant that Josh was here too. I ran to my locker and grabbed my phone out of my bags and dialed Allie's number.

"Sidney! Why are you calling me? You should be-"

"Allie! He's here! Kyle is here! Have you found Julie yet?"

"No, she keeps moving! I knew that he was still in Pittsburgh. Veronique keeps on trying to call Julie, but she's not answering."

"Keep trying-" the lights went off in the locker room and everyone stood up and looked around.

"Sid? Sid! Can you hear me?" I heard Allie yell from the other line and I shined my phone around.

"Is that Allie?" I heard Tyler ask.

"Yeah, she still hasn't found Julie yet."

"So the creep is really here?" Tyler asked and I sighed.

"Yeah."

"What the hell is going on?!" Coach asked along with some of the team.

I sighed and ended up explaining it to the team what was going on.

"So you're telling me that some psycho path is here to do what with us exactly?" Pascal Dupuis asked and I shrugged my shoulder.

"Don't know, I don't even know if he as the kid with him," I said and then watched as Cooke stood up and walked over towards the door.

"Why is the door not opening?" he asked a I shined my phone over towards him and stood up.

We pulled on the door but it wasn't opening and I growled because I didn't know why. Coach came over and then started to pound on the door. my phone started to ring and I looked to see that it was Allie calling me back.

"Allie!"

"Sidney, what the hell is going on?"

"I don't know, Kyle has to be up to something!" I said and then looked around the room, "Find Julie, don't worry about us!" I said and then hung up the phone and then figured that we were going to be in here for a while.

"Sid, if the creep has the little man here with him, we have to get him," Geno said as he shined his phone towards me and I nodded my head.

"We have to get out of here first," I said and then shined my phone towards the ceiling and saw an air ventilation system, '...I think we can fit through there...'

I walked over towards my locker and then stripped from my gear and put my shorts and left my under armor on. I threw my sneakers on and then climbed on top of the one locker and then leaned up to take the screen off of the ventilation system.

"We're gunna crawl through there?" Geno asked and I looked down at him.

"You got a better idea?" I asked and he shook his head.

"Crosby!"

I looked down and Coach handed me a mini flashlight, I nodded my head and then stood up and climbed up into the vents, "Let's go."

One by one the guys stripped out of their gear and into their clothes and climbed into the vents.

"Do you have any idea where this goes, Crosby?" Craig Adams asked and I sighed.

"Nope."

"How do you plan to get through here then?" Chris Kunitz asked.

"Praying to the hockey god," I said and heard someone snort.

"Nobody better fart!" I heard and shook my head.

We were crawling through the vents for a while and I saw another screen and broke it and leaned in shining the light everywhere.

"Crosby?!"

"Howdy boys," I said as I looked around to see that the Philadelphia Flyers were there, we were in the visitors' locker room.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"Are you guys locked in?"

"Yeah, the door won't open," someone said.

"Listen, we got a psycho path out there that kidnapped a little seven year old kid," I said and some of the guys looked up towards me, "You wanna help?"

"Sure, but how do you plan on getting us out of here?" I heard someone ask.

"Follow the train," I said and then got back into the vents and continued through the maze.

-Allie-

"This is pissing me off! Where the hell is she?" I growled as I kept driving.

"Julie?! Julie! No don't hang up!" I heard Vero yell over the phone and I looked over towards her, "Where ever you are, go back to Pittsburgh!... Because Kyle is still in Pittsburgh!... Because Sidney told us... Kyle's doing something at the arena right now!... Yes now turn around and go back!... Yes!... All right!"

"She coming?"

"She's on her way," Vero said and then I nodded my head and got off the highway exit to turn around and head back to Pittsburgh.

-Sidney-

I was standing in a hallway looking around and seeing how one by one both the Flyers and the Penguins were climbing down from the vents. The power to the arena was still off and I was surprised that no one had fixed it yet.

"Where are we?" someone from the Flyers asked.

"I don't know, this place looks different when it's dark."

"Will you guys shut up!" I growled and then walked to the end of the hallway and carefully turned the corner to see that no one was there, "Come on!"

I heard commotion behind me and then turned around and saw that my team was in a shoving match with the Flyers.

"Hey! Knock it off!" I growled and they looked at me, "Let's go!"

They all looked at me and then followed after me, Marc was by my side as we carefully walked through the hallways because this Kyle guy was known for his booby traps.

"Watch it!" I heard someone growl and then put their hand on my shoulder. I turned around to see that it was #26 Ruslan Fedotenko, he pulled me back and then stepped in front of me and bent down, "This man, he's smart," he said and you could clearly hear his Russian accent, "Who is he?"

I bent down and looked to see where Fedotenko was looking to see that his fingers were gliding across a thin wire, "Trip wire?"

"He's probably booby trapped this whole place," he said and I nodded my head.

'...This is definitely going to make our situation even harder...'