A/N: Happy 2013! Just wanted to give a shout out to Doctor-Hamato. Thanks for your help. ;)
Chapter 14
Robbie fired two shots and both men who exited the home went down. The three rushed them and knocked them unconscious with the butts of their guns. Pixel and Robbie grabbed their weapons and made for the front door when a bullet whizzed over their heads. The three hit the deck. They were still halfway to the house and completely exposed.
"Shall we return fire?" Robbie asked.
"No. We miss and we hit somebody we didn't mean to hit," Pixel said. Stingy rolled over onto his back and aimed his weapon at the fence. He fired two more shots and this time they heard footsteps heading toward the door.
"Well done Stingy," Robbie smirked as two more men exited the house and quickly Pixel and Robbie took them down with shots to the lower legs. Again they knocked the men unconscious and grabbed their weapons.
"I think we need to split up. Those two left inside might start shooting hostages," Pixel said.
"Excellent thought. How do you want to do it?" Robbie asked.
"Stingy, go for help. Find anyone you can and try to get the police over here. We have wounded and we need assistance," Pixel started. The miser nodded and quickly took off running.
"Robbie would you like to go in the front door or the patio door?" The Gizmo Guy wanted to know.
"No offense but I think I'm a better shot than you. I best go in the front," Robbie replied.
"All right be careful. I'll go around to the patio," Pixel nodded as they quickly split the extra weapons between them before he headed for the patio door.
"Boy if I ever needed the Master of Mischief, Loki, it would be now," the former villain muttered as he quickly made it to the wall near the front door. Unsure if the door was where they were focusing their guns or on the hostages, Robbie slowly and carefully turned the doorknob. When the knob was back all the way, he flung the door open, using the butt of one of the hunting rifles he retrieved off the wounded men. No shots came and he was a little surprised by that.
"All right! If you two idiots want to come out with your hands up, nobody else has to die!" Robbie shouted trying to convince the two left inside that their buddies were dead. That's when he heard Pixel crashing through the patio door. The former villain rushed in, gun raised, ready for anything.
Stingy was in luck and did not have to travel far as someone had heard the shots and had come to investigate. The police were patrolling as best they could but it was tough as they did not have an adequate number of snowmobiles and were often forced to commandeer them from homes that had been abandoned for warming shelters.
"Stingy?" Officer Callahan asked as he pulled the snowmobile over; surprised to see the young man with a rifle.
"We need help at Pixel's place. Hostage situation with people wounded," the miser rushed and the police officer quickly radioed for backup while Stingy climbed onto the vehicle. Then Officer Callahan revved the engine and took off for the Gizmo household.
As they pulled up, in the distance, sirens could be heard. Someone had set off the firehouse siren, which was the alert for all available personnel to head in the direction of the radio call that had gone out over the radio.
"Help is on the way," Callahan smiled as he and Stingy dismounted. They quickly came upon the first pair of shot invaders and checked them over.
"They're still alive but we need to get them out of the weather. Get them into the garage," Callahan said. Stingy nodded and started to drag one of the men over to the building while Callahan approached the other two that were down. They were alive as well and he was about to drag one of them to the garage when he suddenly heard from inside the house,
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
To Be Continued…