Chapter 8: The Getaway

It was incredibly risky of Tadashi to just load up a random chem-ball like he did. Not only that, he didn't know what setting he had it on. If it was grenade mode, and he had loaded up the expanding ball… well it wouldn't be fun.

But, by some miracle, Tadashi had chosen the perfect ball on the perfect setting.

The cop car was still right on their ass, and didn't look like it was backing off any time soon, and then Tadashi pulled the trigger.

A pink chem-ball flew out of the barrel of the chem-gun, and landed right square on the windshield, causing the chem-ball the explode, and cover the entire windshield in a sticky pink substance.

The cop car swerved, and stopped dead in the middle of the road. Unfortunately for the rest of the cop cars, they didn't break as fast, and all ended up crashing into the side of the stopped car.

Tadashi could hear screams, and the sound of air bags popping open, and popping in general. Tadashi should've felt bad for those officers. Some of them could've been injured, or even dead.

But Tadashi felt nothing. Not even the strange feeling he couldn't describe. All he knew was that the police were in the way of completing his goal, and he stopped them.

"Tadashi that was badass!" Fred yelled as Tadashi closed the back door of the van and sat down.

"Yeah," Tadashi said breathing heavily. "Yeah it was."

"There's bound to be more cops on the way," Gogo said as she made a sharp turn, causing everyone in the back to slide to the right of the van. "You guys better be ready to protect this van."

"Are you sure?" Fred said looking out the back window. "Cause I don't see any-"

"Gogo, up ahead!" Honey Lemon yelled pointing over the seat. Tadashi couldn't see it at first, but as he moved closer to the front of the van, he could tell what the concern was about. About four blocks ahead, there was a roadblock consisting of three police cruisers, with armed officers standing in front of them, ready to fire.

"I see it," Gogo said calmly.

"You need to turn!" Wasabi yelled.

"I know what i'm doing."

"Gogo, we're gonna crash!" Tadashi yelled.

"Oh I plan on it."

Gogo wasn't slowing down. In fact, she was increasing the speed of the van, and heading straight for the roadblock. About two blocks away, the police realized this as well, and they opened fire.

Bullets bounced off the hood of the car, and even off of the windshield. Was that bulletproof glass?

When the cops realized there wasn't anything on God's green Earth that was going to stop the van, they did the sensible thing, and jumped out of the way just before the van made impact with the front of one police car, and the back of another.

CRASH!

Tadashi had his eyes closed, with the thought of death sticking in his head. He expected that they would all be dead because Gogo decided to crash into a cop car, and that all of this was ruined.

But Tadashi opened his eyes when he realized, one: that he wasn't dead, and two: the van continued to drive down the road as if nothing had happened.

Fred still had his eyes closed though. "Are we dead?" he asked.

"Nope," Gogo said.

"Why?" Wasabi asked, just as surprised as Tadashi that they were unharmed.

"Before we left, Mr.S showed me that that he fitted the front of the van with bull bars. Made it as if we didn't even hit anything."

Tadashi looked out the back window to find that the cop cars the van had hit were no longer blocking the road, and had very large dents where the van had collided with them.

"Why didn't you say that before we all thought we were going to die?" Wasabi asked.

Gogo let out a chuckle. "Just so I could watch you all freak out.

"Man," Tadashi said as he pulled his mask off of his face and ran a hand through his hair."

"Yeah," Honey Lemon replied. "Mr.S thought of everything-"

"No," Tadashi said. "It feels like he didn't think of enough. How did they get a roadblock set up so fast?"

"Tadashi, it's the SFPD," Gogo said like Tadashi wasn't thinking clearly. "They don't mess around, and come prepared. Especially when something like this happens."

That would've been nice to know. Mr.S had acted like he'd done stuff like this a million times. But, when it actually came down to the end results, it felt as if there were things he didn't know. But here they were, still on course with the plan, and weren't close to imprisonment… yet.

The cops didn't seem to appear again. Surely they hadn't been defeated by Tadashi's one chem-gun shot. The van was moving on the highway now, with Gogo trying to find a way to get under it.

"There's too much traffic," Gogo said. "The cops will be on top of us by the time we can get off the highway."

"Or now," Fred said as he looked out the window. Sure enough, there were five police cars directly behind the van.

"I've got this," Wasabi said like a cliché action hero as he stood up.

"Don't do that," Tadashi said.

"Do what?"

"Don't try to act all tough. It's weird."

"This isn't acting."

"Is that right?"

"Whatever." Wasabi opened the back doors of the van and fired of his chem-gun at the front police car. He fired the blue one, the one that created a mist. Tadashi didn't know why that would be useful in this particular situation, then he saw the chem-ball break through the glass of the car's windshield. The entire car was filled with a blue mist, making the driver swerve to the right, and crash into a wall that prevented the car from falling off of the highway. The other cars simply drove past there allies and were still chasing the van.

"That tough enough for you?" Wasabi said smugly.

"Oh shut up."

"I wanna try!" Fred yelled as he stepped up to the back of the van with his chem-gun raised. Tadashi noticed that he had the metal embrittlement chem-ball loaded into his gun. Probably for the best no one gave him anything that exploded… actually, he'd probably still find a way to hurt himself.

Fred fired his gun, and although he didn't hurt himself, he definitely screwed up.

When he pulled the trigger, a popping noise could be heard, and Fred's gun rusted until it was nothing. Great.

"Fred!" Honey Lemon yelled. "What did I tell you!"

"You told me not to put the purple one on the second setting!" Fred argued.

"Well I thought you would understand what else not to put in there!"

"Obviously not! Why would you even have a setting like that when have the tuff could hurt us?"

"I thought it would be cool!"

BAM!

A bullet had zipped right past Fred's head and right into the window of one of the opened back doors of the van.

"Holy shit!" Fred yelled as he stumbled backward and fell to the floor of the van.

"I got it!" Honey Lemon yelled in annoyance. She stepped up to the back and fired off an embrittlement chem-ball into the cluster of three cop cars. It didn't land on any of them, but it it the the road in the center of where they were driving, exploded, and a green substance that looked like rock salt was propelled onto each of the cop cars.

Tadashi watched as the substance seemed to melt and eat away at the metal of the cars. The one in the front looked as though it had it back axle embrittled, causing the back tires to fall off, and the car stopped dead in the road.

The other two cars were hit in the front. The trail of embrittled metal was leading under the hood, most likely embrittling in engine, because like the first, the last two cars stopped moving, and didn't make any attempt to move.

"Nice shot!" Tadashi yelled.

"Someone has to be around here," Honey Lemon replied.

"Hey, I don't hear any more sirens," Fred pointed out, I think we're home fr-"

"Guys!" Wasabi yelled in distress, "look at the floor!"

Tadashi looked, and what he saw made him think We were so close.

When Fred dropped his gun, it must've spread embrittlement chemicals, because the metal floor was being eaten away by rust, and there was already a large hole.

"What's going on back there?!" Gogo yelled. "I can't turn!" Gogo wa vigorously turning the steering wheel to the left.

Tadashi looked to the hole. The back axle was was also hit with the chemical. Unfortunately, the van used it's back tires to turn.

Wait, why was she trying to turn?

Tadashi turned his head toward the front of the van, and saw that there was a sharp turn coming up. This wouldn't have been as bad as a situation if they were on the road, but they were on the highway, and were about a hundred feet off of the ground. Shit.

"Everyone hold on!" Tadashi yelled just before the van rammed right through the four foot cement wall that was supposed to keep cars from falling.

Everything was in slow motion now. The van was now falling to the ground, and the plan was going to shit. Wasabi was screaming his head off, as was everyone else. But Wasabi's scream seemed to drown everyone else's out. The hole in the floor stopped getting bigger. but the damage was done. They were all going to die. Tadashi could almost get past being arrested, but dying wasn't something he wanted his family to live with.

Than God Tadashi was a quick thinker.

He reached for his chem-gun, and he grabbed a chem-ball from his belt. He had full knowledge what the ball was, and he knew this was probably the only thing that could save them.

He fired the ball through the hole in the floor, and prayed that it would reach the ground before they did.

Luckily, it did. And luckily, Tadashi hadn't already used the only purple chem-ball he had on his belt.

The purple ball hit the ground, and upon doing so, it expanded into a large ball about fifteen feet tall. Tadashi wondered what would have happened if they tried to use one of these on a cop car. Now he wondered if that ball was going to hold them.

The van landed on top of the expanded chem ball, and sunk in a bit. The way you would if you stepped into a bouncy house. That made Tadashi think that the van was going to bounce back up to the highway, but instead, the van sunk a bit more, but not too much, and just sat still.

At that point, everyone had stopped screaming… except of course for Wasabi.

"We're gonna die!" he screamed as the van settled.

"Wasabi." Tadashi said to calm him down.

"Ahhhh!"

"Wasabi!" Tadashi yelled, causing Wasabi to stop screaming, and open his eyes.

"We… we made it?"

"I think we did," Gogo said from the front seat. She was breathing heavily. "But how?"

Gogo stuck her head out the window to find that the van was sitting on a giant purple ball.

"Uh Tadashi, what's that?" She asked, still sticking her head out the window.

Honey Lemon looked through the hole in the floor only to see purple. "Oh, you used the purple chem-ball. And you said it wouldn't have any use," she said to Wasai smugly.

"I asked if it had any use." Wasabi argued.

"Well then you also said there wouldn't be any situation where we would need it."

Wasabi became silent.

"That's what I thought."

"Come on guys," Tadashi said, kicking down the back door, which had also been caught by the embrittlement chemical. "We gotta get outta here."

"What about the van?" Fred asked. "Weren't we supposed to destroy it?"

"Right. Gogo, is all that gasoline and stuff up there?"

"Yup," Gogo replied. "I got the gasoline, matches, and the backpacks in the passenger seat."

"Okay, then we'll load the money into the backpacks, drench this thing in gas, light it up, throw the masks, jackets, and guns in the fire, and get out of here."

"Wait we're throwing my masks in?" Fred asked, rather shocked.

"Fred, we need to get rid of all the evidence. If anybody finds us with those masks, the cops will be on to us.

Fred stayed silent for a moment. He took his mask off and stared at it like it was his lost soul mate. "I'll miss you, Fred whispered to the mask.

"Oh for the love of God," Gogo sighed. "Let just torch this thing already."

So the team went to work. Luckily Tadashi and Wasabi's duffel bags didn't fall through the hole. They began loading the money from the bags evenly into the backpacks that Mr.S had supplied them.

"Uh, Tadashi," Honey Lemon said looking into his duffel bag while she was grabbing money. "What's this?" Honey Lemon pulled out the japanese pistol Tadashi had taken from the fourth deposit box.

"Did you seriously take that gun?" Wasabi said irritably.

"Well… yeah. I thought it looked cool… and I mean, why would Mr.S have put its box number on the list if he didn't want what was inside?" Tadashi was trying to find a good reason for taking the gun, but he really didn't have one.

"Because he messed up," Wasabi complained. "Because of him we were only able to hit five boxes, and because of him, one of them didn't have any money in it."

"You only hit four boxes?!" Gogo yelled.

"You can yell at Mr.S when we get there, it's his fault." Wasabi was in a hurry to get out of here. He didn't have time for arguments.

They all continued to put the money in the back packs, and Tadashi put the gun in his. When all the money was moved, everyone exited the van while Gogo was pouring gasoline on the inside. They all had to slide down the purple chem-ball because Honey Lemon didn't know when it would shrink back, and they no one was sure if they could pop it. Everyone had slid down except for Wasabi, who was afraid of heights.

"Wasabi," Tadashi said, "just slide down."

"Well, how do we know for sure this thing won't shrink-"

"Just get out!" Gogo pushed Wasabi out of the van, and he landed on his chest.

"See that wasn't so hard." Tadashi was smiling down at Wasabi."

"Let's just get out of here."

"Gogo, is that gasoline tank empty yet?" Gogo poked her head out of the back of the van. "Yeah, now we just need to light it up." Gogo slid down the chem-ball, and pulled a box of matches out of her pocket. "Throw the masks, jackets and guns in."

Everyone pulled off their masks, and took off their jackets. The jackets were thrown into the back of the van first. They all wore T-shirts under the jackets. And then went the masks. Gogo had to tear Fred's mask out of his hands. The guns were thrown in last, and Honey Lemon had no problem with that. The belts were also thrown in, and they were all assured by Honey Lemon that none of the chemicals would react to the fire. Gogo then let up a match and tossed it into the van, and it was set ablaze.

They all watched as the van burned on top of the giant purple chem-ball. It was actually more funny looking then it was cool.

"We better get out of here," Tadashi said. "This thing's gonna blow pretty soon, and the cops would probably put two and two together if they found us here. We need to split up now.

Everybody nodded in agreement, and they all went their separate ways, each of them carrying a backpack stuffed with money.

As Tadashi walked back to the port, he couldn't stop thinking of how they had pulled this off. They had robbed a bank, and on top of that, they had gotten away with it. Tadashi expected to be stopped by a police car, but he just kept walking without being disturbed.

Tadashi wondered what was next. He had the money now. But how was he going to use it. He couldn't just tell Aunt Cass and Hiro he had just stumbled upon thousands of dollars. And he sure as hell couldn't tell them that he had robbed a bank.

What to do.

The answer wouldn't come as easily as he had hoped.


(A/N) Sorry if this chapter seems a little short, but I wanted to get it done before I have to go camping… again. I'll admit, I was rushing because of time, and this might not be the best chapter i've ever written. But the next chapters are what i'm really excited to write. I have a question for anyone out there who has read my two stories "A Darker Path" and "Oblivion." Would you like to see another sequel? I have a great idea for a sequel in my head, but I also would like to think some people like how the ending of "Oblivion" turned out, and wouldn't like to see it changed. If nobody answers, i'll just write it, because I REALLY want to. But if enough people don't want to see it, I won't. That's DaydreamDepartment out of your hair! )