Hello, King Spike Rules here and here is the next chapter to Lonely Wars. Kite's Crew start their journey to California to find out who wanted them taken out and why they were targeted, but they are not alone.

Chapter 7: On The Road part one.

John was in his room finishing packing his bag with his mother watching him from the door, smiling with a tear in her eye as he continued to put his clothes in the bag.

"I hope you enjoy your trip sweetie." she said watching him zip up the bag and turning towards her, walking up to her and placing her hands on his cheeks continuing, "Oh, sweetie. I will miss you on your trip."

"I'll miss you too mom." John said hugging her and she hugged him back for a few moment before pulling away, allowing him to walk down the stairs as she watched him leave. John's hand touched the door and waited for a few moments until he turned to look at her, "I'll call you along the way." Seeing her smile when she heard that, John turned back to the door and headed outside. He walked down the walk way to the van where Franky and Keith were waiting for her.

"Hey John," Keith said when John hopped in and the van started off when he continued, "Your mom is mighty pretty."

"Shut it before Lonesome Dove pops your head." John said in a serious tone and looked at Keith, making him shut up and turned towards the road. This whole thing made Franky chuckle as he continued to drive on in silence


At the hide out, the three others were waiting for the van to arrive with Kite standing near the door arms crossed and scanning the area for any one who was not meant to be there. While he was doing that, Doc was sitting cross legged on the ground tuning his guitar and humming as Mary Ann was standing with ann annoyed look on her face.

"Now, again." she spoke up turning her gaze to Kite before continuing, "Please explain to me why we are driving down to California when the Speedwagon Foundation offered you a plain?"

"The enemy could find a way up there and almost none of our stands are good in such a tight area." he explain causing her to sigh and turning down the street, huffing at him answering the way he did.

"Relax, a road trip would help us keep our heads clear." Doc added and continued to tune his guitar, gaining a glare from her when they all heard a horn. The van pulled up and the side door opened, John popping his head out and looked at all of them.

"So, I hope everything is set at home?" Kite ask looking at him.

"Yep, my mom thinks we're heading on a cross country trip before I leave for training." John explained hopping out of the van and looked at all three of them. "What's wrong with her?" John asked seeing Mary was annoy look on her face.

"Nothing really." Kite said watching Keith and Franky join them, the three of them packing all their stuff up on top of the van, and joined Mary and Doc once they were finished. "Alright, we are off. Franky, you will drive with Mary in the passenger seat. Me, John, Doc, and Keith will be in the back watching for any possible attacks from enemies understood?" Kite asked giving them all his plans and they nod in agreement as they all piled into the van, Mary and Franky putting their seat belts on. They then began to drive out of the doc area and headed down the busy streets of Chicago heading to the only straight road to California, Route ^^


As the van pulled into traffic and getting into the streets, two figures were watching them drive along the way.

"So, those are our targets?" one of them asked smoking a cigarette and looking at them from their car, seeing them pull away from them and headed towards the highway.

"Yeah, I'll take them out instantly with this." the driver said holding up a Tommy gun and smiling wickedly as the passenger looked at him with a concern look on his face.

"If that's the case, then I'll set a trap ahead in case they get past you." he said getting out of the car and the drive heading off down the street with a smile still on his face. "He enjoys this way to much." he said taking a drag of his cigarette and watching him leave while walking down the street in the same way.


The group had been in the van for a few hours now and where well on their way on Route 66, Franky having his focus on the road and his hands on the wheel, Mary leaning against the window seal bored as she looked out the window to the famr houses and cows they were driving past. In the back, Kite was seated by the back door and peering outside in look for anything troubling. John was sitting opposite side, looking at him and then at Doc, still tuning his guitar and humming happily as he did that.

"So, what do you expect when we arrive at California?" John asked looking from the window to Kite, seeing his eyes were clued to the road and he was watching for anyone that would seem to be heading for them.

"Not sure, we don't have all the info on who sent them or how many allies they have." Kite answered never taking his eyes from the road and John just looked at him, realizing that Kite was still planning it out as they went along and nodded out of respect returning to his window to watch with him. A few more hours went by on the road with everything seemed clear, Mary and Keith had fallen asleep with his hat laid over his eyes. Franky continued to drive, focusing all his effort on the road ahead of them and Doc had began strumming them a tune. John and Kite continued to have their eyes on what was behind them.

"Hmmm, what's this?" Kite said seeing a car speeding fast past the others cars and seemed to be heading for them, "I think we have trouble on the way." Kite and John looked closer, seeding a man with dark skin and blue eyes, cornroll hair, and a scar on his cheek wearing what they can see as a tan over shirt and a blue under shit. They watched him getting closer and then they saw him pull out a Tommy gun. "Shit, Franky speed up." Kite yelled and Franky pushed his foot to the peddle

"Hey, what's the big idea?" Mary asked being startled awake from the sudden increase of speed.

"This is going to be fun." the guy said aiming the gun towards them and began to fire at them, shattering the window in front of him and raining bullets into their van. Franky and Mary ducted under their seats to hid from the bullets that broke through the back sindow, and was hitting the front window. Kite held his head down and peaked out, seeing the guys laughing as he continued to fire at them.

"He'll be out soon and then we can attack him." Kte said ducking back down and waited a few seconds, but he soon noticed something happening to the door. He looked closely and saw that little holes began to form in the doors. Seeing this, Kite realized something and grabbed John to pull themselves away from the door saying, "That's not a normal gun, its a stand." John looked at him with a confused look on his face and then looked back at the door, seeing that the holes began to get larger with sunlight shined through them.

"Ha, take this from Bad Things." the guy yelled taking a few seconds on his stand and fired more bullets towards them, hitting the back door more and making it melt away causing them to panic. Kite watched the bullets form even larger holes, sweating heavly thinking hard on what should he do.

"How about I use my Stand?" Keith asked holding his hat to his head and having one of his revolvers in hand.

"No, we can't risk showing the enemy all of our Stands so soon on our journey." Kite said looking at the doors and new soon they would be gone, leaving them at the mercy to their enemy.

"I got this." Franky said as Graceful Door appeared and began to throw punches towards the onslaught of bullets, hitting many of them and knocking them to the ground.

"Franky, no. Don't do that." Kite yelled out and reached to try to stop him when they all heard Franky yell in pain Mary looked up from her hiding place behind the passenger seat, gaping seeing that Franky's hands were smoking and holes were shown thought out them.

"D-damn it, that was stupid." Franky said wincing and forcing his hands to hold onto the wheel, seating fromt he pain shooting through his body from his action. Kite sees the pain he's in and turned to look at the doors, which were now nearly gone from the amount of holes made by Bad Things.

"Shit, we're pinned down and have no back up plans." Kite said sweating and taking a deeper breath, thinking carefully before opening his eyes. "I'll handle this, Renegades." he said forming his suit stand and placed his hands in front of him, putting his focus in his hands and then his stand moved from the rest of his body to form a large sheet of metal where the was. John was in shock as were the others and watched as the sound of metal hitting the sheet echoed through the back of the van. The sheet seamed to be working and they all breather a sigh of relief from what was going on. Suddenly the can began to steer oddly and saw around, nearly causing Kite's shield to vanish and he truend to look at the front, "Franky, what's going on up there?"

"M-my hands." he said wincing and looked down at his hands, seeing they were shaking and ignoring his brains orders to hold steering wheel, "I-I can't hold the wheel." They all gasped and sweat formed, their minds racing on what to do and none of them could think as Kite was mainly focused on his shield wincing from feeling the bullet's hitting the metal Suddenly, the van stabilized and they all looked at the front where Mary was sitting on his lap.

"I'll focus on driving and you guys focus on that asshole." she said and they nodded, John turning towards the doors where Kite was still protecting them from the attacks of Bad Things.

"Alright, we need to figure out what to do and get this guy off backs before we become road kill." John said out loud putting his back to the wall of the van and taking in a deep breath looking at the front window, riddle with holes and taking another deep breath before seeing something. "Kite, there's a motel in five miles. We need to take care of Franky's hands." John said seeing the sign they passed by and looking at Franky, still doing the peddles of the van and Mary continued on steer.

"I know, but we need to take care of this guy first." Kite said wincing from the bullets hitting the wall and John nodded, getting an idea in his head and then summoned Lonesome Dove next to him.

"Alright Kite, let's do this." John said looking at the wall and taking another deep breath, getting read to fight back.

TBC.


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