The instant she felt his hand on her shoulder, she whirled around and
decked him in the jaw, forcing back a cry of pain as her fist connected
with its target. Bobby grabbed the arm that held the gun and sent the gun
spiraling out of his grasp onto the floor, and kicking it out of reach of
both Marc and Craig.
"Afraid to die?" Craig taunted menacingly at her.
"No, I am not afraid. For one simple reason." She replied firmly.
"Which is?" Craig asked in question.
"Death is no respecter of persons. If it were my time, I wouldn't fight it. But I know it is not my name that's being called, it's yours!" she hissed, seeing the look of rage cross Craig's features at her words.
Her words infuriated Craig and he lunged at the pair that was standing a few feet away. They'd strategically positioned themselves near a gasoline soaked box of dynamite. So when Craig charged at them, he'd hit the box and send it flying into the flames. True to what they'd planned out, Craig wasn't able to slow his momentum down and knocked the box into the flames and the two of them took cover as the box exploded, raining fiery pieces of debris down around them. Craig couldn't move out of the way fast enough and was knocked back across the warehouse from the shockwave of the blast into two unopened barrels of gasoline. The impact of his body slamming into the barrels caused them to rupture and leak gasoline onto the floor.
He sat stunned as the gasoline soaked through his clothing and began to run like small creeks across the concrete floor in various directions. Another large explosion ruptured on the 2nd floor of the warehouse, flaming debris cascaded throughout the room, landing dangerously close to the gasoline which streamed from Craig's clothing. As the gasoline finally reached the debris it quickly ignited the gasoline. Craig was instantly engulfed in flames as the gasoline caught fire. Milliseconds later, the barrels of gasoline exploded into flames, sending the vile excuse of a human being to his demise in almost a just manner so to speak. How could he have expected to go after all the pain he caused other. He learned his lesson from the saying 'Do unto others as you wish done upon you'.
Keira began to cry once more when another large explosion tore through the building, blowing out several windows.
"Sssh, its ok sweetie. Your parents are coming sweetheart." Faith said softly picking her up out of the car seat.
After a few minutes of gently bouncing her on her knee, she hadn't calmed down and she Faith spotted the diaper bag sitting in the floor. She reached and got a bottle out of the bag to see if she was hungry. That must have been what she wanted because as soon as she saw the bottle she stopped crying. Keira held the bottle on her own and contently drank, while she observed the flurry of activity that was taking place around her. Faith heard someone call her name and turned to see who it was.
"Faith!" Bosco called, jogging towards her; "Is the baby ok?"
"She's fine. Just wanted a bottle that's all." She replied as Bosco stood next to her watching her briefly before responding.
"She worried me there for a second when I heard her start to cry." He said back to her.
"Bos, kids will cry if they want something, especially at this age." She replied, having raised two kids of her own she's pretty muchly knew what to do to calm her down.
Tony managed to flee from the burning building, but in his haste to get away he plowed right into Jimmy as he made it outside, knocking him onto his back on the snowy ground. He didn't even bother to stop running but kept on, not wanting to stick around this place any longer. Ty began chasing the man who'd just fled from the building who wasn't heeding any warning to stop. He along with everyone else wanted to know who he was and what role he played in the events that had unfolded that night.
"Hey man! Stop! We just want to talk to you!" Ty shouted as he gained on the fleeing person.
"Like hell you just want to talk!" Tony hissed to himself as he turned down an alley about five blocks away.
"Where on earth does this guy think he's going?" Ty said aloud as he took the same path as the runner in front of him had taken.
Tony continued running till he was forced to come to a halt when he came to the end of a dead end alley.
"Damn it! Why the hell did I turn down this alley if it was a dead end." Tony fumed under his breath as he turned around to start running the way he'd come till he saw Ty come around the corner.
The alley was darkened with no light shining from the streetlights so he took out his flashlight and aimed it in the man's direction.
"Why'd you run? All I wanted to do is talk to you about the fire you just left from." Ty said, making a mental note of the mans apparent nervous posture.
Tony wasn't about ready to spill the beans about the real reason he was there and quickly made up a story to satisfy the officer's questions.
"Well, I was just walking by when I heard a large explosion come from the warehouse and heard people screaming. All I wanted to do was see what I could do to help get anyone who was alive out, but it was too late. Those inside were already dead from the fire." Tony replied sounding sympathetic as he spoke; "I had no choice but to run for my life or else I would have met the same fate as the poor souls trapped in the warehouse."
"Was it smoke inhalation that killed those inside?" Ty asked.
"No, it was the flames. It completely surrounded them till they were trapped and had no place to go. I can still see the faces of those caught in it distorted in pain as the fire closed in on them. I tried to help them but I couldn't so I had to save myself before I joined them." Tony replied.
"Can you recall how many bodies you saw?" Ty said, hoping the people this guy was talking about weren't Kim and Bobby.
"At least 2. There could have been more further back in the warehouse but there was no way I could get farther back to look for anyone else." Tony said back in response, starting to get tired of playing twenty questions with the police officer.
Ty went to radio the info about the confirmed bodies to Sully so he could pass it along to Jimmy and the rest of the firefighters.
"Hey Sul, tell Jimmy and the guys that there are at least two confirmed bodies inside the warehouse that's on fire." He said through the radio.
"You finally catch the runner?" Sully asked back, looking over at the firefighters spraying water on the roof and through the broken windows trying to contain the blaze as Jimmy and Alex prepared to go in.
"Yeah I did." Ty replied, keeping an eye on Tony as he relayed info to his partner.
"Could he tell whether the bodies were male or female?" Sully asked.
"No, he didn't say." Ty said in response.
"Ok, I'll pass the message on to Jimmy and the guys. Bring the guy back incase we have to have him tell us an approximate location of where the bodies were or ask him any other questions." Sully replied, moving towards where the firefighters were.
"We'll be there shortly," Ty said back, as he began to move towards the guy he'd chased down.
When he'd turned his full attention to Tony again he said, "I'm afraid I'll need you to come back to the scene incase we need you to help locate where the bodies were." Ty said, while clipping his radio back onto his shoulder.
Tony knew that if he refused to go it would make him look guilty as sin. The two walked on foot back to the location of the warehouse that was now about four blocks away. On their way back, the radiant orange glow cast off by the fire illuminated the sky as billowing smoke rose into the night.
Jimmy and Alex had proceeded into the almost fully involved warehouse, praying that their two colleagues were ok.
"Who was that guy that ran into you?" Alex asked as she looked around at the fire surrounding them literally.
"From what Ty told Sully, the guy supposedly showed up to try and help out. But I never saw another person here till you all showed up." Jimmy replied, scanning the fire covered building.
"You think he was in on this with Craig then?" Alex asked.
"He had to have been in on it with him because there wasn't another soul here other than me." Jimmy said in response.
Alex found one of the first bodies, charred beyond recognition but the facials that the skull was frozen at was enough to tell what had happened.
"Hey Jimmy, I've got a body over here!" she shouted.
Jimmy headed towards where Alex was crouched next to the charred remains as the loud groan of fatiguing metal reverberated through the warehouse.
"This building is going to go soon, we've got to hurry and find them." Jimmy said, scanning the rest of the warehouse.
Ty and Tony arrived back at the scene and headed towards Sully when the unexpected began to happen. As Tony looked at the raging inferno he'd fled from, watching the flames dance through the broken windows, strange voices began to fill his head. An evil cackle filled his head as a corrupt voice said in an iniquitous tone, "Why'd you run Tony? Don't you want to join us!"
"What the hell!" Tony said silently, not knowing where these voices were coming from.
The voices kept getting louder and louder and more commanding, to the point to where he thought his head was going to explode. Tony finally recognized the voice and in shock screamed to himself, "Marc? What in the hell are you doing to me!"
"Just making you pay for not following through with our plan!" the voice replied menacingly.
Next thing Tony knew he saw another explosion and through one side of the building, appeared Marc, floating eerily above the ground with flames surrounding him.
"This can't be happening to me!" Tony screamed as he watched Marc moving towards him.
He watched as Marc held out what remained of his right hand as a ball of fire formed, floating right above where the palm of his hand would be. A boned finger with bits of flesh hanging from it motioned for Tony to come towards him but out of fear and confusion he didn't move an inch.
"Come on Tony, you think your own friend would hurt you?" The hallucination taunted.
"Leave me the hell alone!" Tony shouted as the ball of fire that was once floating in Marc's hand was hurled right at him.
In a spectacular explosion the fireball blew up, sending small fiery fragments in his direction and causing him to catch on fire.
Ty was talking to some of the other cops not to far away when he heard the man scream something and immediately turned and headed back to where he was.
"Hey man, you ok?" Ty asked noticing the panicked look on his face.
Tony watched the sleeves of his shirt and pants catch on fire and began to howl in pain, and tried to put out the flames. He looked up at Marc's now charred hand as reached for him. The bony hands in a formation like he was going to strangle him.
"I'm on fire! Please help me!" Tony begged as he batted at the flames trying to extinguish them.
"Sir calm down. You're fine. You aren't on fire." Ty said calmly trying to figure out what was going on.
In another explosion a horde of pink rabbits came pouring out of a hole in the side of a building. A look of horror crossed Tony's face as he saw them coming at him, some carrying chainsaws, machine guns, pointy knives and ones with whips wearing leather outfits, all having the same devilous look on the furry faces. The rampaging horde of rabbits surrounded Marc as if they were his followers and he sent two of them towards Tony. In an instant he let loose a blood curdling scream as he watched one of the rabbits begin to pull out his intestines while the other rabbit began to eat it as if it were a piece of sausage. A thoroughly panicked Tony whirled and grabbed Ty's gun and began to start shooting at the two rabbits in front of him and then began aiming at Marc and sea of pink rabbits beside the flaming building.
"Why don't you just fucking die!" Tony screamed unloading round after round at Marc.
His sinister laugh filled the area and said, "Too late my friend, I'm already dead and soon you shall be too!"
As flames poured through the whole in the side of the warehouse another pink rabbit emerged from the building, but began to grow in size to the point where it was gigantic. As it stood on it's hind feet, the muscles which at first were minute became more pronounced and toned till it took on a heavily muscled appearance. This rabbit however wasn't like the others. Its head was nothing but a skull with sharp teeth and instead of eyes resting in the occipital sockets, balls of fire were housed there. In its pawed hand, it held a battle-axe with a pike and on the end of it rested the head of Craig. The head was screaming at Tony incoherently, as blood began to pour out from his eyes, mouth, ears as well as from the jagged serrations on his neck.
Tony then turned the gun towards the massive mutant rabbit he was seeing and began to unload the rounds once more. The bullets hardly seemed to phase the monster as it moved forward to where the shots were coming from. It's fiery eyes locked on to Tony and it's mouth curved into a sinister grin as an apocalyptic battle cry erupted from within its throat and resonated through the area. Ty was at a complete loss for words at what was going on with this guy and tried to get him to stop firing. Luckily no one was in the area of where he was firing the gun so no one was in danger, unless a bullet would ricochet.
"Sir, put the gun down. Everything is going to be fine." Ty said, cautiously moving towards the obviously shaken man.
Tony began to wave the gun around dangerously and screamed aloud, "No everything won't be ok!"
"Why don't you tell me what's going on? Maybe we can all work this out peacefully." Ty suggested, seeing the other officers on the scene preparing to take the offensive incase things got further out of control.
"The son of a bitch made me help him with his cousin's plan. I didn't want to but I had no choice!" Tony replied angrily, as he then began to shout at the hallucination of Marc.
Inside the burning warehouse Alex and Jimmy jumped at the sound of the gunshots being fired outside the building, and got as low to the ground as they could to avoid being hit incase a bullet would come through a window or something.
"What in the hell is going on out there?" Alex asked.
"I don't know, but I hope it resolves fast because we can't stay in here forever till they settle down, that's for sure." Jimmy replied, accidentally stumbling over another set of charred remains.
As he prepared to radio to D.K that they'd found two bodies he heard Alex yell out to him and move quickly forwards. He rushed after her to see what she'd found, waiting to radio to D.K after he knew what Alex had found.
"Afraid to die?" Craig taunted menacingly at her.
"No, I am not afraid. For one simple reason." She replied firmly.
"Which is?" Craig asked in question.
"Death is no respecter of persons. If it were my time, I wouldn't fight it. But I know it is not my name that's being called, it's yours!" she hissed, seeing the look of rage cross Craig's features at her words.
Her words infuriated Craig and he lunged at the pair that was standing a few feet away. They'd strategically positioned themselves near a gasoline soaked box of dynamite. So when Craig charged at them, he'd hit the box and send it flying into the flames. True to what they'd planned out, Craig wasn't able to slow his momentum down and knocked the box into the flames and the two of them took cover as the box exploded, raining fiery pieces of debris down around them. Craig couldn't move out of the way fast enough and was knocked back across the warehouse from the shockwave of the blast into two unopened barrels of gasoline. The impact of his body slamming into the barrels caused them to rupture and leak gasoline onto the floor.
He sat stunned as the gasoline soaked through his clothing and began to run like small creeks across the concrete floor in various directions. Another large explosion ruptured on the 2nd floor of the warehouse, flaming debris cascaded throughout the room, landing dangerously close to the gasoline which streamed from Craig's clothing. As the gasoline finally reached the debris it quickly ignited the gasoline. Craig was instantly engulfed in flames as the gasoline caught fire. Milliseconds later, the barrels of gasoline exploded into flames, sending the vile excuse of a human being to his demise in almost a just manner so to speak. How could he have expected to go after all the pain he caused other. He learned his lesson from the saying 'Do unto others as you wish done upon you'.
Keira began to cry once more when another large explosion tore through the building, blowing out several windows.
"Sssh, its ok sweetie. Your parents are coming sweetheart." Faith said softly picking her up out of the car seat.
After a few minutes of gently bouncing her on her knee, she hadn't calmed down and she Faith spotted the diaper bag sitting in the floor. She reached and got a bottle out of the bag to see if she was hungry. That must have been what she wanted because as soon as she saw the bottle she stopped crying. Keira held the bottle on her own and contently drank, while she observed the flurry of activity that was taking place around her. Faith heard someone call her name and turned to see who it was.
"Faith!" Bosco called, jogging towards her; "Is the baby ok?"
"She's fine. Just wanted a bottle that's all." She replied as Bosco stood next to her watching her briefly before responding.
"She worried me there for a second when I heard her start to cry." He said back to her.
"Bos, kids will cry if they want something, especially at this age." She replied, having raised two kids of her own she's pretty muchly knew what to do to calm her down.
Tony managed to flee from the burning building, but in his haste to get away he plowed right into Jimmy as he made it outside, knocking him onto his back on the snowy ground. He didn't even bother to stop running but kept on, not wanting to stick around this place any longer. Ty began chasing the man who'd just fled from the building who wasn't heeding any warning to stop. He along with everyone else wanted to know who he was and what role he played in the events that had unfolded that night.
"Hey man! Stop! We just want to talk to you!" Ty shouted as he gained on the fleeing person.
"Like hell you just want to talk!" Tony hissed to himself as he turned down an alley about five blocks away.
"Where on earth does this guy think he's going?" Ty said aloud as he took the same path as the runner in front of him had taken.
Tony continued running till he was forced to come to a halt when he came to the end of a dead end alley.
"Damn it! Why the hell did I turn down this alley if it was a dead end." Tony fumed under his breath as he turned around to start running the way he'd come till he saw Ty come around the corner.
The alley was darkened with no light shining from the streetlights so he took out his flashlight and aimed it in the man's direction.
"Why'd you run? All I wanted to do is talk to you about the fire you just left from." Ty said, making a mental note of the mans apparent nervous posture.
Tony wasn't about ready to spill the beans about the real reason he was there and quickly made up a story to satisfy the officer's questions.
"Well, I was just walking by when I heard a large explosion come from the warehouse and heard people screaming. All I wanted to do was see what I could do to help get anyone who was alive out, but it was too late. Those inside were already dead from the fire." Tony replied sounding sympathetic as he spoke; "I had no choice but to run for my life or else I would have met the same fate as the poor souls trapped in the warehouse."
"Was it smoke inhalation that killed those inside?" Ty asked.
"No, it was the flames. It completely surrounded them till they were trapped and had no place to go. I can still see the faces of those caught in it distorted in pain as the fire closed in on them. I tried to help them but I couldn't so I had to save myself before I joined them." Tony replied.
"Can you recall how many bodies you saw?" Ty said, hoping the people this guy was talking about weren't Kim and Bobby.
"At least 2. There could have been more further back in the warehouse but there was no way I could get farther back to look for anyone else." Tony said back in response, starting to get tired of playing twenty questions with the police officer.
Ty went to radio the info about the confirmed bodies to Sully so he could pass it along to Jimmy and the rest of the firefighters.
"Hey Sul, tell Jimmy and the guys that there are at least two confirmed bodies inside the warehouse that's on fire." He said through the radio.
"You finally catch the runner?" Sully asked back, looking over at the firefighters spraying water on the roof and through the broken windows trying to contain the blaze as Jimmy and Alex prepared to go in.
"Yeah I did." Ty replied, keeping an eye on Tony as he relayed info to his partner.
"Could he tell whether the bodies were male or female?" Sully asked.
"No, he didn't say." Ty said in response.
"Ok, I'll pass the message on to Jimmy and the guys. Bring the guy back incase we have to have him tell us an approximate location of where the bodies were or ask him any other questions." Sully replied, moving towards where the firefighters were.
"We'll be there shortly," Ty said back, as he began to move towards the guy he'd chased down.
When he'd turned his full attention to Tony again he said, "I'm afraid I'll need you to come back to the scene incase we need you to help locate where the bodies were." Ty said, while clipping his radio back onto his shoulder.
Tony knew that if he refused to go it would make him look guilty as sin. The two walked on foot back to the location of the warehouse that was now about four blocks away. On their way back, the radiant orange glow cast off by the fire illuminated the sky as billowing smoke rose into the night.
Jimmy and Alex had proceeded into the almost fully involved warehouse, praying that their two colleagues were ok.
"Who was that guy that ran into you?" Alex asked as she looked around at the fire surrounding them literally.
"From what Ty told Sully, the guy supposedly showed up to try and help out. But I never saw another person here till you all showed up." Jimmy replied, scanning the fire covered building.
"You think he was in on this with Craig then?" Alex asked.
"He had to have been in on it with him because there wasn't another soul here other than me." Jimmy said in response.
Alex found one of the first bodies, charred beyond recognition but the facials that the skull was frozen at was enough to tell what had happened.
"Hey Jimmy, I've got a body over here!" she shouted.
Jimmy headed towards where Alex was crouched next to the charred remains as the loud groan of fatiguing metal reverberated through the warehouse.
"This building is going to go soon, we've got to hurry and find them." Jimmy said, scanning the rest of the warehouse.
Ty and Tony arrived back at the scene and headed towards Sully when the unexpected began to happen. As Tony looked at the raging inferno he'd fled from, watching the flames dance through the broken windows, strange voices began to fill his head. An evil cackle filled his head as a corrupt voice said in an iniquitous tone, "Why'd you run Tony? Don't you want to join us!"
"What the hell!" Tony said silently, not knowing where these voices were coming from.
The voices kept getting louder and louder and more commanding, to the point to where he thought his head was going to explode. Tony finally recognized the voice and in shock screamed to himself, "Marc? What in the hell are you doing to me!"
"Just making you pay for not following through with our plan!" the voice replied menacingly.
Next thing Tony knew he saw another explosion and through one side of the building, appeared Marc, floating eerily above the ground with flames surrounding him.
"This can't be happening to me!" Tony screamed as he watched Marc moving towards him.
He watched as Marc held out what remained of his right hand as a ball of fire formed, floating right above where the palm of his hand would be. A boned finger with bits of flesh hanging from it motioned for Tony to come towards him but out of fear and confusion he didn't move an inch.
"Come on Tony, you think your own friend would hurt you?" The hallucination taunted.
"Leave me the hell alone!" Tony shouted as the ball of fire that was once floating in Marc's hand was hurled right at him.
In a spectacular explosion the fireball blew up, sending small fiery fragments in his direction and causing him to catch on fire.
Ty was talking to some of the other cops not to far away when he heard the man scream something and immediately turned and headed back to where he was.
"Hey man, you ok?" Ty asked noticing the panicked look on his face.
Tony watched the sleeves of his shirt and pants catch on fire and began to howl in pain, and tried to put out the flames. He looked up at Marc's now charred hand as reached for him. The bony hands in a formation like he was going to strangle him.
"I'm on fire! Please help me!" Tony begged as he batted at the flames trying to extinguish them.
"Sir calm down. You're fine. You aren't on fire." Ty said calmly trying to figure out what was going on.
In another explosion a horde of pink rabbits came pouring out of a hole in the side of a building. A look of horror crossed Tony's face as he saw them coming at him, some carrying chainsaws, machine guns, pointy knives and ones with whips wearing leather outfits, all having the same devilous look on the furry faces. The rampaging horde of rabbits surrounded Marc as if they were his followers and he sent two of them towards Tony. In an instant he let loose a blood curdling scream as he watched one of the rabbits begin to pull out his intestines while the other rabbit began to eat it as if it were a piece of sausage. A thoroughly panicked Tony whirled and grabbed Ty's gun and began to start shooting at the two rabbits in front of him and then began aiming at Marc and sea of pink rabbits beside the flaming building.
"Why don't you just fucking die!" Tony screamed unloading round after round at Marc.
His sinister laugh filled the area and said, "Too late my friend, I'm already dead and soon you shall be too!"
As flames poured through the whole in the side of the warehouse another pink rabbit emerged from the building, but began to grow in size to the point where it was gigantic. As it stood on it's hind feet, the muscles which at first were minute became more pronounced and toned till it took on a heavily muscled appearance. This rabbit however wasn't like the others. Its head was nothing but a skull with sharp teeth and instead of eyes resting in the occipital sockets, balls of fire were housed there. In its pawed hand, it held a battle-axe with a pike and on the end of it rested the head of Craig. The head was screaming at Tony incoherently, as blood began to pour out from his eyes, mouth, ears as well as from the jagged serrations on his neck.
Tony then turned the gun towards the massive mutant rabbit he was seeing and began to unload the rounds once more. The bullets hardly seemed to phase the monster as it moved forward to where the shots were coming from. It's fiery eyes locked on to Tony and it's mouth curved into a sinister grin as an apocalyptic battle cry erupted from within its throat and resonated through the area. Ty was at a complete loss for words at what was going on with this guy and tried to get him to stop firing. Luckily no one was in the area of where he was firing the gun so no one was in danger, unless a bullet would ricochet.
"Sir, put the gun down. Everything is going to be fine." Ty said, cautiously moving towards the obviously shaken man.
Tony began to wave the gun around dangerously and screamed aloud, "No everything won't be ok!"
"Why don't you tell me what's going on? Maybe we can all work this out peacefully." Ty suggested, seeing the other officers on the scene preparing to take the offensive incase things got further out of control.
"The son of a bitch made me help him with his cousin's plan. I didn't want to but I had no choice!" Tony replied angrily, as he then began to shout at the hallucination of Marc.
Inside the burning warehouse Alex and Jimmy jumped at the sound of the gunshots being fired outside the building, and got as low to the ground as they could to avoid being hit incase a bullet would come through a window or something.
"What in the hell is going on out there?" Alex asked.
"I don't know, but I hope it resolves fast because we can't stay in here forever till they settle down, that's for sure." Jimmy replied, accidentally stumbling over another set of charred remains.
As he prepared to radio to D.K that they'd found two bodies he heard Alex yell out to him and move quickly forwards. He rushed after her to see what she'd found, waiting to radio to D.K after he knew what Alex had found.