1.1.1 The Kidnapping



By Portalkeeper87





NINE



Marco stared stonily into space. The two thugs around him, Joe and Grease, were trying to taunt him, anything for an excuse to have "fun". Marco tried to ignore them, but it was hard with the blood trickling down from his various wounds and the impending threat of even more.

Marco! Marco, are you somewhere around here?

Marco jerked upright and Joe and Grease narrowed their eyes.

"Don't even try to escape," Grease warned.

Marco didn't care. He recognized the voice! Jake was here, probably the others as well. But how to respond?

"I thought I heard someone moving around outside," he tried, trying to appeal to the slightly slow thugs.

"I'll go check," Grease said, getting up right away.

Marco counted to 15 after he left and then said, "I'm hearing more noises, like maybe faint gunshots."

He braced himself, wondering if Joe was dumb enough to go for it.

Apparently he was.

Two minutes later, a seagull flew out of an abandoned trailer and joined five birds of prey flying above.