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"All right, this is the last place on Z's list," Suki said as they approached the area that overlooked a shop. They watched as he shot a grappling hook into cement and Roman winced. "Holy shit. What's the dude plan on hunting? Moby Dick?" Roman questions in shock. "That must be our guy," Han adds, he glances over at Zenna who seemed to be deep in thought. "So, how do you all want to play this?" He questioned knowing Zenna would have an idea.

"Han and I got this," Roman states in a cocky manner. "We go in tight, you let me do all the talking, and y'all have my back on it." Suki rolls her eyes, hitting Rome in the back of the head, "it's like you wanna get us killed with your dumb ass mouth."

Zenna rolls her eyes, moving from the railing as she eyed the blonde man below them. "There's one thing you boys are forgetting. He's a man." She says, beginning to walk away, "this is a woman's job. Let's go, ladies." Suki and Giselle smirk, following after the woman, Riley joining them.

Roman looks at them with furrowed brows. "He's a man?" Roman repeats in confusion.

"You know, she always says that." Han says, watching his girlfriend walk away in admiration.

Zenna and the three women with her walk through the door and walk towards the blonde man. "Who sent you?" He asks, directing his eyesight on Zenna when he got no response. "Come on, ladies! Four hot girls like you don't wander into this neighborhood unless I've called the escort service." Zenna raised an unimpressed brow and he smirked. "And I haven't, yet, today."

Meanwhile, Han and Roman watch the interaction from afar. "I don't know, man. That was disrespectful. And I don't like the way she said it, like, "he's a man." Roman mimicks Zenna's as Han tosses a chip in his mouth, his eyes solely focused on his girl. "He's a man?" So, what are we?" Roman questions. "Come on, she's just doing her job," Han defends before tossing another chip in his mouth.

Roman eyes Zenna, seeing her laughing at something this guy was saying, the other three playing along with her. "Doing her job." Roman repeats, squinting his eyes at Han, the man still having his eyes on Zenna. "I see what's goin' on," he smirks, crossing his eyes over his chest.

"See what?" Han questioned, not looking at the man when he spoke. Roman grins knowingly. "You got the little stardust in your eyes, eh?" Han glances over at Roman, a bit annoyed with his teasing but Rome continued anyways. "Little birds floating around a little bit." Roman twirls his finger, mimicking bird noises. Han just gives him an unimpressed look before turning his attention back to his girlfriend, though his face held a small hint of amusement.

"Uh, you don't want to lease this model. You want to buy." Roman continues with his teasing. Han shoots him a look, becoming a bit flustered by the accusations. "Can you please stop talking?" Roman shook his head, refusing to be silenced. "No, no, you're in love! Look at you! Zen really got you whipped man!" Roman laughs. "Just stop." Han smiles for a split second and pops a chip into his mouth, putting his eyes back on Zenna, admiring her from afar.

"You got special plans, huh? Big day? You're going to invite us all out? Pop the question? Better make sure you get her a big rock, man, cause Zen don't seem like she'll be that easily impressed. And if it's not a big rock, you better be big somewhere else." Roman hints with a grin, laughing lightly, "you know what I'm talking about."

"That's why all your girlfriends wear so much bling, huh?" Han retorts making Roman's face fall in realization.

Zenna crosses her arms over her chest, tired of having to flirt with this hideous man. She needed to get to the point. "We're looking for information," she said. "You're looking information? About what, sweetheart?" He asked. "Information about...cars. In particular, two you designed recently." Zenna says. "Ramp cars," Giselle adds, and Suki nods. "Low slung, skeletal frames," Riley describes.

"We'd be very interested to find the man who bought those." Zenna tilted her head, looking down at him. "Why should I help you?" He queried, looking her up and down. She sighs, pulling back the urge to punch him in his disgusting face, Suki sets a hand on Zenna's arm, speaking for her before she said something she was going to regret, "because we're asking you nicely.

"Because you're asking me nicely? What can you offer that I can't get from a thousand other girls? Hmm?" The man goes to brush Zenna's hair back so she grabs him arm and pulls it back, lifting it back again into an arm lock. "Stop, stop!" She flipped him over and brought his arm into a lock, her knee pushing his face into the concrete. "Don't ever touch a black woman's hair. Who the fuck raised you?" She scoffs, holding his arm to inflict more pain.

Giselle smirks, bending down in front of the man. "You look like a man who likes it rough. My friend's here can give you heights of pain you've never experienced before." Suki smiles, standing next to her girlfriend, she tilts her head, "do we have a deal?" Zenna dug her knee in deeper and he grunts in pain. "Deal! Deal! Deal! Please, let me go!" He pleads.

Zenna shares a smirk with her two best friends and released her hold on the man. She brushed herself off with a disappointing sigh. "And for your information, you incompetent piece of shit, I'm not a girl. I'm a woman. I expected to be treated as such." Zenna brushed her hair back and glanced over her shoulder at Han, shooting him a wink before turning her attention back to the man Riley was pulling up.

"I take it back." Roman snatches the chip bag from Han and tosses a chip into his mouth. "Me likey."

"Lead the way." Riley pushes him towards the building. He leads them to his workshop, Zenna following close behind him, Giselle and Suki behind her with their hands intertwined, and Riley behind them. "So I, um, I got information in here." The blonde goes to sit on a chair, clicking something on his computer. "May I ask why you're looking for Shaw?"

"He took something from us, we want it back." Zenna said, looking around his office as the others paid attention to what he was doing.

"We'd like to talk to him about it," Suki rebutted.

"Let's see what we've got." A few minutes later, Zenna looked up, hearing doors of a car slam shut. The blonde looked up, "sorry girls," he mumbles. "Get down now!" Zenna pulled Riley down just as bullets were being shot through the place. Suki groaned, holding her bleeding shoulder that got hit when she tackled Giselle down. Zenna looked down at Riley and handed her a gun, "go get Letty, don't let her get away!" Riley nods and takes the gun, Zenna moves off of her, watching as she ducked out of the office.

"You got her?!" Zenna shouts over the gunfire, Giselle nods, holding her hands over Suki's wound. Zenna crawled over to the blonde man, seeing he had gotten shot down but he was still alive. "Stay with me. Stay with me. Tell me where to find Shaw, and I'll make him pay for this." He reaches for his phone and Zenna quickly grabbed it and tossed it to Giselle who caught it and tucked it into her pocket. "Braga," he choked out before going unconscious and presumably dead.

"Did he just say what I think he said?" Giselle asks with wide eyes.

"I think so." Zenna quickly runs out with her gun, hearing someone start up a bike. He tried to shoot at her but she remained unfazed, taking one shot that clipped him in the chest causing him to fall down. Zenna walked over and kneeled down in front of him, grabbing him by his collar as he coughed out blood. "In just seconds, that bullet is gonna hit your heart, you'll choke on your own blood and you'll die. But if you tell me where Shaw is, I'll save your life. Don't die for a man who won't do the same for you."

Ivory coughs, "if you kill him, they'll come for you."

Zenna furrowed her brows in confusion, wondering who he was talking about. "Who? Who's behind this?!"

"Cipher and...De-" his eyes rolled back, blood spilled from his mouth and he fell unconscious, officially dead. Zenna dropped him and stood up, kicking the bike in frustration. "Who the fuck is Cipher?" She asked herself, walking back over to the office. "Yo, she good?" Zenna kneeled down in front of them, Suki wincing at the pressure. "She just needs to be stitched up. It went straight through." Giselle informed.

"Alright, I'll take her back on the bike. Take Rome's car and pick the boys and Riley up." Zenna orders, carefully picking up Suki's body and carrying her over to their bikes. "Hang in there, baby. Zenna's gonna take good care of you." Giselle pressed a kiss to Suki's head before running over to Roman's car. Zenna tied Suki's body against hers to prevent her from falling in case Suki fell unconscious.

"Good to go. Hang it there, I got you." Zenna sped off towards HQ.

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Zenna looked up from her phone, she had been looking for a street race to go to, so she was calling up her old contacts, mostly Leon. She spotted Giselle and pointed over to the hallway where the rooms where. Giselle nods thankfully and separated from the group to go and see Suki. Zenna walked over to Han, immediately wrapping her arms around him, glad he was safe. "You good?" She examined his face seeing some cuts and bruises.

"I'm okay." Han pressed a kiss to her lips, not wanting for her to freak out any more than she already was.

"What the hell happened?" Brian questions, seeing the group looking a mess. Zenna hadn't told them anything yet, too focused on making sure Suki was okay. "We met Dom's girlfriend. She's...lovely." Riley answers, bruising on her face courtesy of Letty. "You all right?" Hobbs asks. Riley nodded, glancing over at Zenna for a split second. "Yeah."

"Tej, what have you got? Footage, CCTV? Talk to me." Hobbs looks over to Tej expectantly. "I just went through all of it. Believe it or not, everywhere Shaw's team is, the cameras are down." Tej answers. "That's a hell of a coincidence. All right, we're going to pay CCTV a little visit. Let's roll." Hobbs and Riley take off to the truck as Tej walks over to the table where Han sets down the grappling hook he had taken. "What is that?"

"That, is a new toy for you." Han answers, picking up his jacket and standing next to Zenna.

"So, what happened?" Dom questioned.

"Shaw's goons showed up and started shooting up the place." Han explained in short terms. "But we got something big." Giselle speaks up, walking into the room with Suki on her arm looking way more better than before. "What?" Dom asks. "Braga," Zenna spoke, not looking up from her phone as Giselle tosses the phone onto the table. "He's working with Shaw," Suki adds, moving to sit down on a chair.

Brian and Dom seemed a bit surprised that an old enemy of theirs was involved in all this. "What are you talking about?" He questioned in disbelief. "It's true. That phone's filled with coded payment transactions that lead straight to Braga's cartel." Han adds as Giselle had him look it over on the way back. Roman looks between them in complete confusion. "Who the hell is Braga?"

"He ran one of the biggest cartels in Mexico." Dom answered. "And my old boss." Giselle says, Suki leaned over to rub her back in a comforting manner, knowing Giselle wasn't proud of her time with Braga. "We used codes just like that to move money out of the country," she added. "It all makes sense. Braga was running Letty, now he's working with Shaw. It would explain how the two of them met." Brian concluded, still taking it all in.

"Wouldn't necessarily say they're working together. Maybe just common interests," Zenna mumbles from where she was, her mind still on what Ivory said to her before he died. She had no clue who Cipher was, and their relation to all of this, let alone what else he was trying to say after that. I mme, who's name starts with D and E? And why would they come after them if Shaw got taken down? She didn't know, but she was determined to figure it out. Not to mention she didn't want to tell the team yet until she knew.

"Okay, so you all know all this information about him, where do we find him?" Tej questioned.

"He's sitting in a prison in Los Angeles." Brian states, a glint of frustration in his tone.

"How do you know that?" Suki spoke up, she hadn't known too much about the previous jobs of the team so she was quite confused right now. "Brian put him there," Dom answers. "All right, so this is the break we were looking for. If the two of them were working together or as Z said, had similar interests, Braga will know what Shaw's up to. I'm going to pay him a visit." Brian concludes, feeling responsible for this.

"Are you serious right now?" Roman perked up, knowing what this would mean. "Think about what you're saying. You're wanted, Brian. The moment you step foot off that plane, it's a wrap. You're not coming back." He points out, the team silently agreeing with what he said. "Coming back? How are you going to get in the country?" Tej deadpanned, finding this all ludicrous.

"Let me worry about that."

Han looks over at the occupied Zenna, surprised she hadn't made any objection about Brian leaving. He assumed she would be the first to argue with him about it seeing as she was very protective of everyone on the team. "You're being awfully quiet," he pointed out. Zenna sighs softly, closing her eyes for a few seconds. "I know, but I can't stop Brian, he feels guilty and when someone feels guilt, it's almost impossible to argue with that. Besides, if I were him, I would feel guilty too."

Han rested an arm around her waist, bringing her closer to him. "Wasn't really talking about that. You've been quiet since we got back. Something happened back there." Zenna looked up, moving her laptop out of the way so he could stand in between her legs. "Honestly, I don't really know what happened. The guy I shot down, he said something to me before he died."

Han squint his eyes, that made more sense about why she was acting so fidgety and quiet. "What'd he say?" Zenna inhaled sharply, looking down at Han's hands that laid on her thighs. "I'm not entirely sure. He didn't really say anything, he just said a name and what was almost a name. Cipher and D E. The first one sounds really familiar, I just can't put a finger on it."

Han furrowed his brows, finding the first name very familiar. "I think I know where you're getting." Zenna looks at him hopefully, watching as he grabs her laptop and begins to type something on it. "I remember hearing about it from a friend about a decade ago. They tried to recruit my friend to find some device. It's like a terrorist organization." Han pulls up a file on Cipher and the file was mostly, or well completely empty, it had nothing notable on it. "You think they recruited Shaw?" Zenna queried.

Han sets the laptop back down with a shrug. "I don't know, I feel like it's too early to say. We haven't been given much reason to believe that Shaw's working with a higher power." Zenna sighed, feeling hopeless, "so basically what you're saying is, it's a dead end?" Han frowned, pressing a kiss to her head, "I'm sorry, babe. I know you're doing everything you can." Zenna lays her head on his chest, wrapping her arms around his torso as he comforted her.

"If it's a dead end, why do I feel like something really bad is gonna happen? And why do I feel like one of us isn't going to make it out of this mission alive?" Zenna smiles, but it held no sort of happiness in it. It was a hopeless and draining smile. "I don't know, baby. All we can do is pray that your wrong." Han pulls her closer feeling her hold tighten around him. He felt hopeless, and useless. He wished he could do more for her. He wanted to help her. He hated that she was feeling like this.

It's almost like Zenna knew exactly what was running through his head. Cause her next words took him off guard. "Don't beat yourself up, love. You being here is plenty enough to help me." She mumbles into his chest before pulling away to press a kiss to his lips. Han smiled into the kiss, moving his hands to her waist as he deepened the kiss.

"Y'all know we got rooms for all that, right?" Roman spoke up with a grin.

Zenna only pulled him closer, sliding her hands around his neck and flipping off Roman. Tej snickers, shaking his head in amusement. "Man, mind yo business. You just jealous cause you couldn't bag Zenna." He teased. Roman shoots him a look, clearly offended by his comments and Suki and Giselle's laughter. "That's not cool man. How would you like it if I pointed out you fumblin' Suki every five minutes!" He retorts.

Tej waved him off, unaffected by this. "See, I can take the loss cause I don't got no fragile masculinity. You just can't accept that you were never in the playin' field," he replies with a smirk and Roman frowned in offense. "Now why am I always getting ganged up on! Y'all always do this to me. It ain't right man!" Roman exclaims, gesturing to himself in a dramatic manner.

"Cause you got the biggest mouth," Suki deadpanned.

"Who invited you? Seriously though?" Roman questions incredulously.

"You just mad cause they actually enjoy my presence, megamind," Suki retorts effortlessly.

"Damn, now even I didn't call you megamind," Zenna laughed.

"Y'all are wrong, man."

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a/n: obsessed with everyone roasting romans forehead 😭😭 i want what han and zenna have 🥲

sooo, who y'all think De is? 🏃‍♀️

bro y'all peep zenna saving rileys life??? and suki actually saving giselles? 🤭

zenna keeping in touch with leon?? my bae might make an appearance who knows?? 🤸‍♀️

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