"Are you texting Rose again?" Lance asked, seeing Sammy using her phone as he drove.
"No..."
"Give me the phone." Lance held his hand out.
"No!" Sammy leaned away from Lance.
"Samantha, give me the phone." Lance tried to keep his eyes on the road while he reached towards Sammy.
"No, you're driving!" Sammy slapped Lance's hand away. "Lancey, no!"
"Could you two not!?" Vickii snapped when the car swerved a little.
"I'm too young to die!" Hope cried.
"We're fine, now give me the phone!" Lance yanked his hand back when Sammy licked it. "Why do you always do that!?"
"It works, doesn't it?" Sammy closed her phone and tucked it away.
"That's the tenth time you've texted Rose in the past hour, they're fine." JJ said.
"You can't blame me for worrying. Emma's my baby and I know we just met Rose, but she's a sweet girl and I don't want anything to happen to either of them." Sammy stated. "Plus I was just letting them know we made it to California."
"That's why I made them stay back." Lance rubbed Sammy's shoulder. "They're a lot safer at home with the DWMA watching them than with us at the moment. Emma's been through enough in her four years and Rose wouldn't be able to handle something like this."
"Are we almost to the hotel yet?" Fabian asked. "I think I'm losing feeling in my legs."
"Thirty more minutes, think you can make it?" Lance raised an eyebrow when he saw that a truck was getting very close to the rear bumper.
"He's riding our ass." Rob scoffed. "Dumbass is gonna make us crash."
"I think that's their point." Lance pressed the gas and saw that the truck sped up as well.
"Not wanting to scare anyone or anything, but they're kishins." Hope said, kneeling on her seat and looking back.
"Shit!" Lance cursed.
"We're on a crowded highway! What the fuck are they thinking!? They're gonna get a lot of people killed!" Tori yelled.
"They don't care. They're probably hires of Gwen and were told to get us no matter what. Dead or alive." Lance looked around before taking in a deep breath. "Sam, cover your eyes and everyone else hold on."
"Why would I-" Sammy stopped herself and screamed when Lance suddenly slammed on the brakes and jerked the wheel to the left. She curled up in the seat and covered her whole face with her arms as Lance sped up in the almost empty lane.
"Do it again!" Vickii laughed, the rush getting to her.
"Be careful what you wish for." Lance said and yanked the wheel the wheel to the right, cutting off a car and ignoring the honking.
"The truck's next to us!" Tori said.
"Duck!" Fabian grabbed Tori and pulled her down with him, the others following suit as gunshots were fired into the van.
"This is not okay!" Jaxon yelled.
"Haley, reach under your seat." Lance ordered, honking the horn to tell the car in front of him to move.
"How long has this been here!?" Haley cried when she pulled out a gun.
"That's also not okay!" Rob said.
"At the moment it doesn't matter, shot their tires!" Lance honked more, the other drivers slowly catching on to what's happening.
"But they'll spin out, what about the other cars?" Haley asked.
"That's why I put them on the edge. If they crash it'll either be into the side of the road or into us and I'm ready for the second option." Lance said.
"I'm not!" Samm cried. "I'm not ready for any of this!"
"Everything's going to be fine, just stay down and calm. Haley, do it!" Lance stuck his upper half out of his window. "Move!"
"They're bound to reload any second now, do it then." Rob said.
"Someone better be buying me a large ass cookie when we're done with this." Haley made sure the gun was loaded correctly. She inhaled deeply before raising her head, yelling as she fired off several shots into the truck's tires. Haley quickly put her head back down and everyone heard the truck screech loudly before a loud crunching sound filled the air. "Did it really work?"
"Hope, are they dead?" Lance asked.
"I don't wanna look." Hope whimpered.
"There's no way anyone could survive that." Vickii said. "Car's totaled, flipped and..." She flinched a little. "There's fire."
"Should we call the cops?" Tori asked.
"Someone else will get it." Lance finally slowed the car down to the speed limit. "Looks like we shaved off ten minutes to the hotel." He chuckled weakly.
"And we've shaved off ten years of my life." Sammy groaned, body still curled up.
"We'll need to get her a cookie too." Fabian said.
"And I thought my driving was crazy." JJ grabbed a bottle of water and sipped from it. "Then again, I don't get chased and attacked by kishins when I drive."
"We should pull over and clean up the glass." Tori said, picking up a large chunk.
"We can wait till we get to the hotel. I'll look up some auto-shops and see if I can get the windows fixed soon." Lance glanced at the rearview window and sat that no one got hurt, but they were all obviously affected by the attack. "I know that there's a Waffle House near the hotel, we could hit that after getting unpacked."
"Waffle House! I want waffles!" Sammy said, perking up and forgetting about her fear.
"That didn't take much." Jaxon chuckled. "She's already back to normal."
"Their hash browns are really good too and they're all so nice and the entire place smells really good and-"
"Sam, breathe." Vickii cut Sammy off. "We get it, you like Waffle House."
"Guess that means none of us get a choice about this?" Tori chuckled. "Waffle House for everyone tonight."