Wanted Recovery

Ch. 4 Escaping Fate

Fox pulled up to the front door of the house with a new car. They had decide to first try to find Sloan's new hideout. They read in Cross's file that he had an old family home just north of the city.

They didn't get far before Fox noticed they were being followed. Fox never likes being tailed so she slowed down to see who it was. When Wesley's door was even with the other car's front door the window rolled down, and young man quickly aimed a machine pistol out the window. Fox's extreme reflexes kick in, and she slammed on the brakes. She quickly turn her car into the rear quarter panel of the other car. The driver never got a shot off before we was spun around, and facing back the way they had come from. Fox then smashed her accelerator to the floor.

She got about six blocks before another car turned along side them, and slammed into them. The other driver was not as fast as Fox. She started making sudden turns to avoid the cars. Then she noticed that more cars had started to join their pursuit.

"We might have a real problem here" she told Wesley. "Sloan must have hired a gang to kill us, and they are persistent."

"Well we can keep running from some punk kids, or we can do what we do. And kill 'em" was Wesley reply.

He pulled out two pistols, and rolled his window down. "This time I'll shoot while you drive, OK?" he asked her.

"Sounds good to me" was her simple reply.

Wesley climbed half way out the window, and turn to aim at the lead car. A young man leaned out the passenger's window, and tried to aim at him. He never hesitated, he took one shoot, and hit the man right in the head. The man twitched, and fell back into the car.

Wesley quickly place three shots into the driver's side of the car, and watched as the car swerved to the right, and hit a parked car.

The next car started to swerve before he could aim his first shot. He opened up on the car hitting the windshield, but the car kept coming. "Alright, enough of this" he said as he reentered the car, and pulled several grenades from his pack.

He climb back out, and held one up as he pulled the pin. The car continued its crazy tactics, but Wesley was good. He timed the throw just right, and the grenade landed right in front of the car. It exploded just under the engine. Throwing the front of the car up, and spinning it over. It landed upside down.

The rest of the cars backed off, but they knew they were not out of danger yet. Fox turned another corner, and noticed several cars blocking the road. With several guys holding AK-47s. They quickly opened fire. Fox turned the car into a sliding stop. Wesley and Fox knew it was grim, but Fox managed to crash through some parked cars. They stopped on the sidewalk, and in unison they jumped out. They each dove behind one of the parked cars. Wesley turned to take aim at the road block, anat Fox turn to aim at the chase cars, which stopped half way down the block.

Wesley got off several shots, and killed one man before the man's partners let their bullets fly. They didn't bother to aim. They pulled their triggers, and sprayed the parked car he hid behind. Fox was able to kill three men as they jumped out of their cars. Then they too began to spray her parked car full of bullets.

Wesley and Fox took their time, and then the guys started to try to move closer. As the men came out from their cover behind their cars that is when Wesley and Fox shot them dead. After four more men were dead they stopped trying to get closer.

Then another car came up behind the chase cars, and Fox saw one man bring out a bazooka. She decided not to wait. She quickly crawled over to Wesley, and tugged his shoulder. He turned to look at her, and she pointed at the bazooka. Wesley turned toward the builds, and shot out a deadbolt on a brownstone home. He nodded toward it, and Fox nodded in approval. He tipped the end of one gun three times. He stood up, and shot one gun in each direction. While Fox ran for the door, and smashed through it. She spun around, and began to shoot both directs. Now Wesley sprinted for the open door, and dove through it.

He jumped up, and scanned the rooms he could see. A living room, a hallway that lead to a kitchen, and a set of stairs that went up to the second floor. He turned to Fox, and asked "Go up, or fight here?"

"We can't stand and fight. Two more cars just showed up, and these guys won't give up. We need to get out of town." she said.

Wesley replied, "alley or roof top then."

Fox waited a moment. Then said, "they probably have the alley covered, but the roof will have stuff we can use for cover. We can work our way past the road block, and search from the roof for a better car."

They went up all three sets of stairs, and found the roof access. Fox easily shot the padlock, and unlatched the door. When they climbed out they thought they would find some men waiting, but they beat them up to the roof. They both ran across several roofs before someone shot at them. Wesley dove behind an ac unit. While Fox ran behind a roof access door. While Wesley shot the man behind them someone came through the door Fox was hiding next to. She instantly placed her gun against the man's head, and pulled her trigger. The man collapsed to the ground, and Wesley was running right past him as he did. She turned, and followed him.

They reached the last house, and looked over the cars they could see. Fox spotted a convertible Corvette. She nudged Wesley, and pointed to it. He nodded, and jumped over the siding grabbing the fire escape ladder as he did. As Fox started out down the ladder a bullet ricocheted off one of the handle bars. It just missed her head. She jumped down about three rungs of the ladder, and yelled to Wesley, "Move! They are coming."

Wesley started skipping rungs, and jumped from ten feet off the ground. When he hit the ground he popped right up, and pulled both his guns. He looked for anyone running toward them. Once Fox hit the ground they started running for the Corvette.

They were a hundred feet from it. When gun shots rang out from behind them. Wesley turned, and kill two men in a blink of an eye. Fox pulled her gun, and smashed the drivers window of the Corvette. Then immediately got in, and began to hot wire the car. Once she got it started she popped the latches for the roof, and lowered it. Then slammed it into gear, and drove over to where Wesley was now pinned down. Wesley jumped in, and Fox floored it.

They got six block before they spotted the gang's car chasing them again. This time Wesley was not restricted by windows or frames, and he made perfect shot every time. The first two cars crashed seconds after being spotted. The next vehicle was a large Ford Excursion. It's driver was better, and it could take more punishment. Wesley put three rounds through the windshield where the driver should have been, but it was still chasing. He then put three into the engine block, and still it kept coming. Wesley tried one last chance by shooting out the tires. It worked. The truck swerved, and smashed right through the front window of a shop.

Fox kept her foot glued to the floor until they were on the interstate several miles from the city. She continued to check her mirrors. Looking for any sign that they were being followed. After they were twenty miles out she slowed down to the speed limit.

Wesley calmly said, "Well if this was easy I would think Sloan gave up on me."

Fox replied, "He won't ever give up. You took everything from him."

"I didn't take his father" was Wesley's reply.

"Well, least we can figure he is still around, and waiting for us" was Fox's reply as she drove toward Sloan's family home.

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