Lina's Gambit
Lina was walking to the office when she caught sight of them. She hid in the bushes and watched Dr. Gombell and his men drag Angelica to a van. Another group of men took her father separately. Two and two quickly clicked in her mind.
"No…" Lina whispered. No matter what happened she couldn't let them get away with this. Carefully she made her way to another parked car and hot-wired it. She decided to follow Angelica from a distance.
"Great along with being an accomplice in arson I've now just stolen my second car for the evening," Lina grumbled to herself. "Well so much for going to Harvard!"
Carefully she followed the van and two cars taking Angelica for what seemed like hours. Soon they were in the mountains. That's when she noticed one of the cars dropping back slightly. Soon it stopped and blocked her path. "I think they noticed me…" Her mind scrambled for a plan.
Two men in black came out of the car, guns drawn. "All right out of the car you…" He motioned with his gun. Lina got out. "Well here's the other freak. Saves us the trouble of hunting you…UHHHHHGHH!"
Without thinking Lina spewed the string from her mouth onto them, covering up the weapons so that they couldn't be fired. "You little…" They shouted. Lina tried to run past them but one of them grabbed her by the arm. "Gotcha ya little…"
Lina kicked the man hard in the groin and ran like hell. She jumped in their car and found the keys in the ignition. She drove off. The men tried to fire their guns but by the time they could discharge their weapon, she was safely away. "Call Trask and tell what happened!" The first soldier shouted as he tried to take the stuff off.
"You call him! You have the communicator!" The second one said.
"No you have it! Remember I gave it to you ya idiot!" The first one snapped.
"No I put it in your briefcase! Remember?"
"My briefcase? You mean my briefcase…in the car?"
"Yeah that's…" The other one quickly realized what had happened. "Oh damn it! That's just great!"
"Uh we have bigger problems," The first one gulped. A huge bear was lumbering toward them. "We are in big trouble…"
Meanwhile Lina managed to find a tracking device in the car and figured out how to use it. "Car number three…" Lina moaned as she drove wildly. "And speeding on top of it all! Why is this happening to me? Wait…" She then noticed the coordinates for a hidden base inside the car's on board computer. "State of the art tracking system…Computer in a car…Oh no! I stole a car from a secret government agency! Can this night get any worse?"
Then something hit the car from behind. Lina nearly went through the windshield. Then she saw it was another one of their cars behind her. "Of course it can," She moaned. "Come on! There's got to be some kind of rocket boosters on this thing!" She punched several buttons wildly.
Fortunately what she did hit was some oil, which forced the cars following her to spin out of control. However something also caused the car's controls to smoke. Lina dove out of the car just before it exploded. The next thing she knew, she was running for her life in the woods.
She could hear shouts and gunfire behind her. She was sure something exploded. Just how many people are chasing me? She thought, panicking.
Lina felt exhausted. Her back seemed to be on fire. Her head was throbbing in pain. She tripped and tried to get up, but then she felt like gagging. A gush of silky thread spewed out of her mouth. She just couldn't hold it in anymore. As hard as she tried to stand up, the strange substance entangled her legs, making it impossible for her to stand.
She started spewing out more of the silky thread from her mouth. Lina tried to stop but couldn't. The last thing she could think of was how tired she was and how nice it would be to take a nap right about now. Then she passed out unaware that those who were pursuing her had caught up.
