Chapter 1

Ellie's P.O.V

"C'mon, hurry up Homer! They're gaining!" I yelled. I looked behind us and just as I did a bullet came screamed by my window and smashed into the passenger side mirror of the Ute.

"What do you think I'm trying to do, Ellie?" he yelled back. Suddenly he yanked the wheel and the Ute pitched to the right, almost tipping over in the process. Fi, in middle in the back, screamed and I have to admit I screamed a bit myself. Well wouldn't you if you were in an old Ute going at 80ks an hour with bullets flying everywhere with every chance of killing you or your friends and then the lunatic driver yanks the wheel sending the Ute into a turn that made it tip precariously?

When the Ute had all four of its wheels back on the ground again Kevin called out from the back "Bloody Hell Homer! We have the soldiers here to kill us, not you!"

By now Homer was starting to react to the stress. I could see his knuckles, white; gripping the steering wheel like it was his lifeline. Not only was hit his lifeline but it was ours too. All that was kept those bullets from shredding us to pieces was this old, rusty, pathetic Ute. Just then a dozen bullets hit my door, scaring the hell out of me, but fortunately didn't go through the metal. Suddenly I didn't think the Ute was so pathetic.

"How far away are they now," Homer asked Lee who was in the seat directly behind me.

"'Bout a couple hundred metres," he replied.

I groaned but Homer did nothing.

"Can't we go any faster?" Kevin asked.

"Well, why don't you take over the driving and try to get this old truck to go any faster. I'll just leave the lives of everyone on your shoulders instead. I'm happy to swap."

That shut Kevin up.

"They're getting closer," said Fi.

Another round of shooting started up. It seemed like they were gaining confidence as well as ground. By now all of our windows had been shattered and it was amazing that we hadn't, both mentally and physically.

"We have to do something," I said to Homer.

"No, really? I thought we would just drive around waiting to be shot," he replied, his tone dripping with sarcasm though how a tone can drip at all is beyond my knowledge.

I ignored Homers comment and continued talking. "We can't just let them catch us, wed be killed on the spot…"

"Ah, well thank you Captain Obvious"

Once again I ignored Homers comment. "…on the spot, especially if they knew what else we've done."

"So what's the plan?" asked Lee.

"Well actually I don't have one. I was hoping you did."

"Well that's just great." Kevin said. "We might as well just jump out of the Ute right now and get our deaths over and done with." Kevin was always like this. He always complained about the way we were doing things and never lifted a finger to help anyway. Maybe that's a bit harsh, but by then I'd had enough of Kevin.

"Is there anywhere we can ditch the car and hide?" asked Lee, who in situations like this was always calm and always had a suggestion.

"No," I answered. "There's clear land for miles." I don't know why people say that here in Australia. We don't use miles we use kilometres and metres and the like.

"Fine, then it will have to be a shootout. Ellie you shoot from that side and Ill swap places with Kevin, unless he wants to do it himself." Lee glared pointedly at Kevin, who had no objection.

"But there's no way we can win!" said Fi.

"We'll have to try and hope it's enough to fend them off long enough to get into the closest cover."

"But that's miles away! Ellie said so!" Fi argued but it was no use as Lee was already clambering over her and I had the safety off my rifle and was pointing it out the window.

"Homer, zigzag wider!" I yelled.

And just as he started to we hit a tree that no one had seen.

"What the hell?" I thought and Homer said. He yanked the wheel hard to the right, away from the tree and we crashed straight into another.

"I thought you said there was no cover for miles!" Lee yelled at me accusingly. We all had to yell over the noise of the Ute and the soldiers that were after us.

"There wasn't!" I snapped back at him.

"Well there is now and since trees can't just magically appear you mustn't have looked hard enough!"

Before I had the time to snap my next retort, "Oh so now it's my fault!" which sounds kind of lame to me now, Fi said "Oh would you two give it a rest and listen?"

Even though I would've loved to keep arguing with Lee I stopped and did what Fi said because something in her voice told me she thought something was up. I listened intently, I realised later that I shouldn't have needed to listen intently for noise because there should have been guns blaring behind us but…

"There are no bullets," I said.

"No cars either," said Lee looking behind us.

"It doesn't sound like they're following us at all," said Homer. He stopped the car, pulling up beside a huge elm, or at least that's what I think it was.

"Good spotting Fi," I complimented her.

She didn't reply because just then we heard another noise, something that we shouldn't have heard and haven't heard in a long time…honking car horns and lots of 'em.

Hey so that was the first chapter of my first fan fiction. I hoped you liked it. Sorry if there's any spelling or grammar mistakes but I tried my best. Let me know what you think.