Don't Stop

**James**: *❝ What the fuck? What the fuck is this?!❞*
**FFUB Solider**: *❝ Just a little device. See, the only advice I have for you is this: you know your Speed Run power? **Don’t stop**. If you do, you’ll explode, and we’ll explode. Same thing happens if you try to remove the device. Clear?❞*
―The FFUB soldier, after he attaches the device to James.
**Don't Stop** is the 35th mission in *Shattered*, and the eighth mission of Chapter III.

## Plot

Joey calls James to tell him that there's a gigantic hostage situation occurring in a big building in the Mystric District. The leader of this hostage situation, a high-rank FFUB solider, has over 100 people trapped in a restaurant in the building. The soldier tells everyone that on the bottom of their wine glasses is a phone number. Everyone must transfer their bank account over to this number so the money goes to that number. If anyone here calls a number other than that one, the entire building will blow up, collapse, and kill everyone.

James starts to get close to the area, but for some reason, the soldier's voice can be heard on James's bluetooth. James decides not to get too close to the area because he fears that sensors might detect him and blow the place to hell. James heads to the black market and purchases the Chain upgrade for Aura Zoom, which, when an enemy is hit with the Zoom, the aura energy chains to nearby enemies, incapacitating all enemies around. James perches on a rooftop a few blocks away and snipes the soldier with the Aura Zoom from a distance, bringing him down.

James heads inside the restaurant now and everyone inside is terrified, but relieved that James is there. The soldier, injured, attaches a device to James's arm, and says that if James goes below a certain speed using his Speed Run, the device will explode and trigger the explosives, killing James and everyone inside the restaurant. James kills the soldier and exits the restaurant using his speed run, terrified. He calls Joey and tells him about the situation (while using speed run, of course) and Joey says that, although it may be a bad idea, James should jump in the water, which may deactivate the device. James, out of ideas, does so, and it works. The device deactivates and de-attaches from James's arm, and afterwards, the cops go in the restaurant, deactivate the bombs, get the hostages out safely, and arrest all the FFUB soldiers. James calls Joey back and thanks him once again, because without him, James would've died.

## Trivia

* This mission's concept bears a similar plot to the 1994 movie *Speed*, where the main character must drive a bus with a bomb attached to it, without falling below a certain speed.
	+ As well, the mission's plot bears a striking similarity to the Flash TV series episode, "Tricksters", where the villain straps a device to the Flash's arm, which will explode if the Flash stops running. The restaurant and wine glass-bank account concept was also taken from this episode, but that's OK.
* When Joey tells James that "heroes get remembered, but legends never die", and James replies "Wait, isn't that from a movie?", this is a direct reference to the 1993 comedy movie *The Sandlot*.