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Bonnie had filled the vehicles on the transporter as well as the back of the Land Rover.
She and Kev were now in a stand-off as he stood in front of the car he had driven in.
"But there is heaps of room!" she argued, exasperatedly throwing her arms up. They had clearly been arguing for some time.
"Bon, this is his vehicle not ours" Ianto said softly, "Perhaps he does not want to share room, or he wants his own things in there?"
"But there are four sewing machines in mint condition, we really bloody need them!" she spluttered as she swung to look at Ianto, "everyone else is full!"
Ianto sighed and turned to look at her efforts.
"I see tons of room" he pointed at the carrier, "Space between vehicles for crates to stack and there are a shit load of those in the Plastics Barn over there."
"Oh my god, I didn't think of the space under them either, shit!" Ebony took off and Kev relaxed as Ianto turned to look at him and cant his head.
"All that you have chosen, you have stacked in the back of Rolling Thunder. What do you have in the vehicle that makes it dangerous?" he finally asked and Kev's eyes lit up as he motioned him closer.
"This little beauty is charged!" he whispered, "A final hurrah. Gelignite!"
A rolling bomb" Ianto grinned, "I get it. OK, so the kids can come in Rolling Thunder, we can explain that it is the only vehicle that is bullet proof in case of ambush. I know what you have now, this is a brilliant idea!"
Kev grinned, "I knew you'd get it. She seems a bit too…mother earth to forgive what it is possibly fr."
"Agreed" Ianto sighed, "I love Ebony and she is a wonderful nurturer, but she hasn't a malicious bone in her body and unfortunately the only way to survive is to be able to react without compassion at times."
They were relieved that the storm had blown over and the boys set off at first light on the bikes to scout the way out of the city, Ianto nervously waiting by the large doors as everyone did last minute checks or that one more snatch and grab they had been thinking about.
"OK" the coms crackled with Billy's warm voice, "All Clear Tad."
Ianto raised is arm and then dropped it, signalling their intent to move out and Kev was pleased to find everyone moving in unison. A squad again, it felt good to be part of a team.
Rolling Thunder sat behind Kev who took the lead with Ianto sitting beside him. The other vehicles followed with the transporter at the back. As they neared the turn onto the main road the coms cracked again, "Passing the third marker Tad. All quiet here."
They put on speed and were soon hooning along with the windows down listening to the music of a long since dead group, tapping in time when Ianto frowned and reached to to turn it down, then reaching for his coms, "Billy? Sweetheart, check in please."
Kev glanced at his watch and saw it had been half an hour exactly. Freaky, he hadn't checked a watch or anything but had known the time to the second?
"Billy?"
A dark shadow passed then and Kew turned his head with surprise as some bees or something swarmed past and he turned to say something to Ianto but found the door swinging and Ianto gone.
Now, you might say that's no big deal but when travelling at 80ks an hour is it pretty damned weird to have your companion suddenly leap out and disappear.
They rounded a bend and Kev slammed the breaks on, cursing as he saw some sort of barrier across the road made up of two felled trees, some fencing and a vehicle jammed in what would have been the only space between trunks. It looked freshly made, new and was clearly the way the group had come, so it had been put there by someone since.
There were several men dancing around and he wondered if the bee swarm had been in one of the trees.
Then he saw Billy and Stephen calmly walking amongst them firing at their heads and the men would fold gracefully to the ground as each was assassinated.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any creepier this huge…I mean motherfucking elephant sized wolf thing appears and started swiping his huge paws about, splattering men as well and then there is this weird silence, broken as Stephen calmly shoots a writhing man in the face and then checked his weapon before holstering it without showing any emotion.
Kev is out of the vehicle watching as Stephen turns to the beast and grins, then turns to examine the vehicle that is wedged firmly in their path. Billy is checking the beast for injuries and talking softly, as Kev approaches he hears, "Ok Tad?"
"He on coms?" Kev asked, "Tell him I can clear this with the car."
"OK" Billy nods as the black beast seems to shrink back into the trees and is gone.
Kev would have like to get a closer look at the mythical style creature but there were more pressing matters. He jacked the front of the car up and then put it in gear. He had aimed the car for the obstruction and then jammed the piece of wood down on the accelerator so the tyres spun in the air and he then tugged hard on the rope attached to the jack, watching the car slam down and take off with a hiss and a roar.
It plunged into the roadblock and the whole thing went up in flames as he watched with delight.
God he loves blowing shit up.
Mickey's crowing in the background reassuring him there was a kindred spirit amongst them and he swung to grin at the man. A glint of something shiny had him instinctively stepping on front of Billy, barking a warning.
The bullet hit him before he even registered the gun shot from the other tree line.
Shit.
Stupid that, should have done a secondary sweep for back-up.
Kev went down hard.