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Chapter 20 - Salutations, Officer Copper

"We are screwed!" Lobo yelled, as they ran. While they had to walk around trees and walk down hills, the Tyrant could simply knock them down and jump off the small cliffs without getting hurt in the least.

The dock was close, but the Tyrant was closer.

Everyone began having doubts they would make it. The town could blow up at anytime and they had a monster hot on their trail.

"I don't think we're going to make it!" shouted Kevin,

The Tyrant knocked trees out of the way as it ran. It was coming closer and closer to its prey.

"We have to make it!" Dan yelled back.

"But there is no way in hell we can outrun this thing!" Lobo yelled back. Officer Copper looked back at the monster and than looked at Lobo, Dan and Kevin.

He was silent for a moment.

"You three run ahead. Get out of here while you still can." said Copper.

"What?" asked Lobo. "What about you?"

"...Forget about me." Copper replied. "I'll stall the beast."

"B-but!" said Kevin.

"It's my duty," Copper began, "as an officer of the law to protect." He smiled at them. "Goodbye, my friends."

With that he turned around and ran in the opposite direction.

"COPPER!" Kevin yelled back. But they kept running. "Get back here!" But Copper didn't come back.

Copper fired his pistol at the Tyrant. "Over here you freak of nature!" Copper yelled.

The Tyrant stopped chasing the other three. Its eyes met Copper's.

Copper fired again. "Catch me if you can, you bastard." Copper than ran the opposite direction at Lobo, Dan and Kevin. Leading him away from them.

The Tyrant forgot all about the other three. It wanted to kill Copper. Now.

Copper rushed past trees the monster didn't knock down already. It wasn't long before it came knocking those trees down, too.

He wasn't sure where he was going; he just had to get the monster away from them. He ran right past a zombie of Kitty and Gracie. They tried to bite him but Copper was too fast. Soon the Tyrant came and tore through the zombies like tissue paper.

He ran and he ran, past Lobo's house, past Dan's house, past Kevin and Hades' homes too. He had to get that monster away from them. At all costs.

Meanwhile, Dan, Kevin and Lobo all reached the dock. They were all still alive.

"Yar, ye wishin' to be goin' do Delfino Island, do ye?" Kapp'n asked with his gruff voice. I already escorted yer' mayor and old Blathers. Seemed to all be in quite a rush to-"

"No! Farther than that! We need to get the hell away from here!" Lobo barked.

"So… Blathers is okay." said Dan, a little relieved.

"There be too many of ya. Ye all can't fit in me boat." Kapp'n said.

"You CAN and WILL fit us in your damn boat!" Kevin yelled.

"Yar, yar. Very well then. No need to get yer feathers in a twist, laddie." said Kapp'n. "But don't be balmin' me if we start to sink."

Dan put his Gyroid in the boat. "Now we can finally get out of here!" Dan and Lobo climbed in. Kevin looked back, hoping Copper would be coming. He saw no sign of him.

"Kevin! Hurry up!" Lobo yelled.

"But! But Copper!" said Kevin.

"I'm sorry, Kevin. But we have to get out here. You heard Copper! We wants us to leave!" Lobo replied.

He was right. Copper did want them to leave. Kevin climbed in the boat and Kapp'n began to start rowing.

The sun was starting to rise. And the bomb came closer and closer to zero.

Copper had led the monster far away from the boys. He knew there was no way out of this, but he felt satisfied. Than he saw the monster behind him, and to the far right he saw the bomb. His keen vision could see the timer and how much time was left before the explosion. Could he make it?

Ten... nine... eight... seven... six... five... four... three... two...

"Burn in hell." said Copper to the Tyrant.

one...

Then the explosion occurred. While rowing away they saw the town they loved so dearly, they town where they made some of their best friends, the town where they created popular fashion designs at the Able Sister's shop... they saw it all go up in a huge explosion in an instant.

The town had blown up.

The bodies, all the zombies, the train, the homes. They were all vanishing into dancing flames right before there very eyes.

The sun continued to rise.

Sometimes it's darkest just before dawn.

A/N: The story is drawing to a close. The next chapter will be the final chapter.