Special thanks to the skills and help of divergent_spn61 :) 

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Alex watches the black van drive away, in disbelief. He just witnessed his teammate, Dylan Larkin, get kidnapped. And for no reason. At least none he can think of. He runs towards where the van left and starts to try and chase the black van, but it is too late. The van is soon quickly out of sight.

Alex wipes a single tear down his face, mumbling to himself, "Кто хотел бы, чтобы похитить моего товарища по команде? Почему это держать происходит с хорошими командами в НХЛ?" (Who would want to kidnap my teammate? Why does this keep happening to the good teams in the NHL?)

Suddenly, he sees a shiny object from the corner of his eye that catches his attention. He walks over to it, and sees that it is Dylan's cell phone, lying right in the middle of the road. He bends over in shock and picks it up. "Dylan never leaves his phone anywhere. Wait, maybe I can see who he was trying to call?"

He unlocks the phone with a simple swipe of his finger on the cracked touch screen, and sees that Dylan was trying to call someone named Chucky. Alex looks at this contact information, confusion on his face, "Who could this be? Dylan always talks to this person, so maybe they'll be better off at knowing what just happened."

Alex starts a phone call with 'Chucky' and the phone rings three times, before a voice says, "Hey Dylan! What's going on now?"

Alex speaks into the phone, "Who is this? I am Alex Ovechkin. Not Dylan."

"I'm Alex Galchenyuk, aka, Chucky. I was traded to the Bolts and got out of the Habs system. Dylan and I....we've gone through similar experiences with our former teams. We only call each other if we want to check in or something really bad happened."

"Okay, then why was Dylan trying to call you?"

Galchenyuk sighs. "I'm guessing it was about the Matthews trade, and knowing him, he wanted to warn the Bolts. He probably had a bad feeling about the trade, and I couldn't blame him."

Alex sniffles, but shoves his feelings away. "So...he wasn't worried for no good reason? Because I kept telling him to calm down kinda, and then he got up and walked outside to make a phone call to you, and then he got kidnapped!"

"What? Dylan got kidnapped....oh no. I think I know who could have wanted this."

Alex, tears coming down his face now, as he can't hold back his feelings and care for his teammate, chokes out, "Who would have wanted to kidnap Dylan?"

Galchenyuk sighs. "I never would have thought this, but Justin Abdelkader. Detroit hasn't been doing too well as of late, and he probably wanted Dylan to come back and save the team from declining anymore."

"Why Abdelkader?"

"He's just....evil. Dylan also doesn't have a good history with Abdelkader. I'll go find him with some members of my new team. We're kinda...experts on this field. Sadly."

"Okay, what can I do to help out?"

"Go to the Capitals, and be honest with them. Tell them what happened, and just try to keep the team safe and sound from any more danger."

"Alright, I'll do that. Best of luck with finding Abdelkader." Alex then hangs up the phone call and books it back over to the Verizon Center, anxious to inform his teammates about the bad news. He just hopes that Dylan won't get hurt and that the Bolts can save him.

In Tampa, Florida, at Amalie Arena,

Galchenyuk hangs up the phone and looks towards his teammates, who are all gathered around him (including Vladdy, Brayden, Jo, TJ, Nikita, Ondrej and a few others). "DYLAN LARKIN HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY ABDELKADER!" He then goes into a cursing mode, grabbing at his short hair.

Vladdy stands up. "So, we're going to Detroit to try and stop him again? No problem! I mean, I'd think a few zaps from Yzerchuk will do him in!"

Galchenyuk states to his team, "We don't have Yzerchuk, so how in the world are we going to be safe in enemy territory?"

Vladdy shrugs. "Oh...right. Well, we'll just protect each other. That's what we can do from now on. Besides, we managed to defeat Abdelkader before, so what will stop us from defeating him again? Now, who wants to go with me to Detroit to save Dylan Larkin?"

Galchenyuk smiles at the blond. "I envy your positivity and bravery, Vlad. I will. I have to help my friend out."

Brayden Point stands up. "I've always wanted to go see Detroit, my buddy's hometown! So I'll come too!"

Ondrej stands up next and exclaims, "Abdelkader needs to pay for what he's done now! I'm in!"

Nikita then blurts out, "I follow Pally! I go too!"

Vladdy looks at the group of Bolts players. "So, anyone else want to join us?"

TJ stands up. "Well, someone has to keep an eye on Kuch and his babysitter, Pally, so I'll go too."

Nikita hugs TJ and Ondrej. "Yay! Triplets are back together again! We're going on an adventure! AGAIN!"

Vladdy smiles at his team of adventurers. "Alright! Off we go to the airport! Again!"

(Seriously, this mirroring December for the Bolts, on and off the plane...haha)

The six brave members of the Tampa Bay Lightning leave Amalie Arena and start piling into cars, getting ready to head for the airport. The Triplets ride in Ondrej's car, while Vladdy drives Brayden and Galchenyuk over.

A few short minutes later, the six players arrive at Tampa's airport and start to find a plane that is heading to Detroit. They eventually find their private plane ready to go.

"Well, let's get onto the plane! I guess that Yzerman knew where we would be going," Vladdy chuckles.

They all walk onto the plane and sit down. And then within the next few minutes later, they are flying towards Detroit. Nikita is happy, except that he is also hungry. He turns to Ondrej. "Do they have cookies on the flight?"

Ondrej sighs. "I don't know, I'll take a look around though." He gets up out of his seat and starts to wander around the plane, looking for a certain food storage area. As he walks towards the front of the plane, he sees an area where food is stored.

He opens the cabinet up and sees all sorts of food, from cookies to cheese for Vladdy. Ondrej grabs some cookies for Nikita and walks back to him. "Look! I found some cookies for you!"

Nikita turns towards his Czech babysitter, with cookies already in his mouth.

"Kuch! Where did you get those?" Ondrej scolds.

Nikita smiles and points to TJ, who holds a backpack on his lap. TJ smiles at Ondrej, who folds his arms and give him a look. "Well, I always make sure to pack extra food for Kuch. Do you want some Pally?"

"No thank you...I have some for me that I grabbed. Now I have to deal with hyper Kuch for the rest of the plane trip." Ondrej sighs and starts to eat the cookies that he originally grabbed for the Russian.

Vladdy, Brayden, and Galchenyuk, who have been watching all of this go down, start to laugh a little bit.

Brayden then asks, "Is this normal for the team to act like this?"

Vladdy nods. "Yup! But the whole team brings a whole new level of craziness to a flight! You got to see some of the normal stuff that happens a little while ago."

"That's right, but I could tell that they were sad because of what's been going on. Who do you think could do this?"

"Probably the person we're after right now. But, we'll make sure that he doesn't hurt anyone!"

"Yeah!" Brayden smiles at Vladdy and they both go back to talking about what a normal plane flight looks like for the Bolts.

Meanwhile, Galchenyuk is staring out the window, a frown on his face. He keeps thinking about what has happened recently, from the death of his former friend to now dealing with a kidnapping of someone who went through a situation similar to him. He just hopes that his friend wouldn't be the next victim of the mystery murderer.

The six Bolts soon arrive in Detroit a few hours later. They all rush into the airport and run towards the exit of the airport because they know that every minute wasted is a minute where Dylan can be hurt.

They hail down two taxis; the Triplets in one, and Vladdy, Galchenyuk, and Brayden in the other. Then they are off to Joe Louis Arena.

Within seconds, the taxis pull up to the edge of the Arena, and the driver in Vladdy's taxi looks and says to them, "This is where you want to get out?"

Vladdy smiles at the driver and hands him the 'tip'. "Yup! Thank you so much!"

As Vladdy closes the door in the taxi, he hears the driver say, "Are you sure you don't want to-"

Vladdy, Galchenyuk, and Brayden all turn towards the arena, and they see every member of the Detroit Red Wings gathered around, arguing and chattering - clearly flummoxed and annoyed - out near the main entrance. They hear the Triplets get out of the taxi behind them and go to meet them.

Nikita spots the mob of players and shouts, "They're killing Dylan! Why they so mean?"

The six of them then run over quickly to the group of Wings players, thinking the worst. "Get away from Dylan! Don't hurt our friend anymore!"

The Red Wings all look at them in shock, a few recognize the Triplets. One of them, Kronwall grabs Ondrej's wrist and yanks him back into a headlock, snarling, "Well, well, well, if it isn't the babysitter!"

Ondrej kicks back with disgust. "Really don't have time for this, Krons!"

"What...what's a matter, Pally Boy?"

Nikita comes up and bravely stomps his foot down hard on Kronwall's foot, causing him to let the Czech player go. "Let him go you big meanie!"

Ondrej snatches Nikita's hand and pulls him off, while Kronwall snorts in anger. But this instigates anger and soon Red Wings lock up with Bolts, until finally, Henrik Zetterberg comes over to where the group is. He quiets everyone with a strong, "STOP!" And then he looks down at Vladdy and says, "Umm, we haven't heard from him really since he got traded. Why do you think we have him?"

"We don't think it's the whole team, but mainly Abdelkader," Vladdy snarls.

Henrik points to the middle. "If you think it's him, come take a look at this."

The Bolts join the group and see a sickening sight: Justin Abdelkader is lying on the cold hard ground. Dead. A single wound - a gunshot to the forehead - is all they could see, and they don't see any signs of life from their former enemy.

Justin Abdelkader is dead.

And not at the hands of Brian Boyle.

Vladdy gasps. "First, Gally, now Abdelkader. Cally's gone, Auston Matthews is a Lightning Bolt and Dylan's missing! Who's next?"