Divide and Conquer

Oil Crew

Fire Crew

TJC Reinforcements

Divide and Conquer is the third book of Season 3: The Lost Thieves. The focused character is Gabriel, who ends up in troubling situations. The main featured crew is the Seal Crew, then coming along with Water Crew, Fire Crew, and Oil Crew. The story's is symbolizing about friendship and trust in others. Whenever friends are apart and are in troubling situations, place trust on each other and never doubt that they will come for you.

## History

Around 8-9 years before 2030, Friedlich Glutberg whispered to one of the Blackfeet tribesmen to keep a hidden treasure safe. He claims that he wants to keep it away from TJC. Friedlich mentions that two vans will cross this area and the tribe, known as Blackfeet, need to do anything to prevent that. The tribesmen kept Friedlich's word, satisfying him.

## Beginning

The book begins as Gabriel and Katelyn walks off the A340 Delta Airplane. Gabriel was wiped out by the experience, saying that the pilot doesn't know how to fly a plane. He was planning to sue them again, after two times, by Katelyn changes the subject saying that they are going to be late. They go to the baggage claim area and picked up their bags and called a Taxi. Gabriel tells him the address of their destination: 1896 Swan Drive or known as the Seal Crew HQ.

## Plans

Once Gabriel and Katelyn reached their destination, Alex greets them and tells them that they have a new assessment by the TJCTO council. The assessment was to track down an mysterious affiliation named JMBZ Industries. Lizzy talks about her claim that they know the industries has two leaders from the first two letters of the affiliation. Katelyn then connected that they were first discovered in Milpitas, the same city where the San Jose Church is located. Jayden then said that the council was mentioned a red football was involved in this case. Oscar then pieced the events together and remembered the scene. He states that Juan was the J in the acronym but the M was still unknown. After two hours of searching, they concluded that the M was Martin. There was soon a fire alerted by Lizzy and Oscar, which stopped the search. After clearing the fire, Nathaniel then went to bypass JMBZ's firewall which was way more encrypted then Jakey Boy's website. Later, Gabriel mentions that there is two scheduled Isthmus of Panama cruises are planned and they will meet again after five hours.

## TJCTO Restriction

Alex later informs Gabriel that the TJC Crews will not be able to travel this year so they can temporary support a homeless help center program. This will result into flying domestically without the help of TJCTO. Gabriel then leaves the HQ and calls a Taxi. The destination was 1345 Belmont Drive, but the fare was extremely high. The taxi-man shushed him and injected some liquid in Gabriel, leaving him unconscious.

## Kidnapped

Gabriel finds himself on a chair, tied up, and with a blindfold on. Suddenly, a guard then asks who he is Gabriel answers, referring to his title of a lawyer. The guard asks which crew he's in and Gabriel answers truthfully. The guard then asks what he does but Gabriel scoffs at him, resulting being smacked by the guard. The guard mentioned that each member of each crew has beyond special abilities. Gabriel regurgitated a toothpick from his stomach, piercing the guard's eye. Another guard smacked Gabriel's face, and Gabriel told them his other abilities. He then asked Gabriel what Joshua does, but refuses. The guard started beating him up until Gabriel gave in, answering that he performs a sonic scream with some vocal nano tech. The guard seemed surprised that TJC people have such special abilities, although they are artificial. The guard then asks what Austin does but it was so much Gabriel forgot half of it.

The guard then informs Gabriel that two guards will be following him around. Gabriel was surprised that he was kidnapped into his house. He meets up with Betsy, without a mind of her own, cooking for him.

## An Attempt to Rescue

Brandon, Emily, Alex, Jayden, Seraphin, and Nathaniel flew to Boston for a rescue mission for Gabriel and Katelyn. Following the events of disembarking a plane, they had trouble finding Seraphin's bag that was checked in, as usual. Jayden, who bumped into a Mexican man, thought it was strange for a Mexican man here, for he has never seen one before. The Mexican man asked for Jayden's name, which he blindly answered. Emily was quick enough to realize that the Mexican man was indeed a JMBZ officer. Brandon, who was leading this mission, assumed the combatants of this small battle were going to fight rough, so he equipped himself with a bow and arrow and started firing at them. They rescue team escaped the airport and reached Gabriel's old penthouse. They had a small conflict of figuring out where key to this place was. Emily remembered there was a key underneath a flower pot, which sure enough was correct. The team barged into the house, surprised that the penthouse was empty. While examining the house, they were abruptly interrupted by a loud knock on the door.

Luckily, the lights weren't able to turn on, so the crew used that to their advantage. Brandon pulled out the Emily's heat manipulation device and asked Jayden the exact location of the officers. Brandon told Nathaniel to activate his EMP to blow the officer's radios, which he did, causing the officers's faces to explode. While the officers were screaming in agony, the crew escaped to the open park that was right across the street. Unfortunately, Nathaniel's EMP's radius was approximately 10 miles, in which frying the electric circuits in the radius. The crew found a car parked next a palm tree,