The Cooper X Gang
By Mutitoon90
Chapter Nine: Rumble in the Jungle, Day 2
India, 9:00 a.m.
"This is it." Rad said as the van pulled up to the starting line.
"Yep." Justin confirmed in the driver's seat.
"Let's do it!" Luna agreed with the others agreeing with her.
"START YOUR ENGINES!" An announcer yelled.
All the racers did what they told and proved that they were ready to race.
"READY!"
Justin's grip tightened on the stirring wheel. Rad held on the Cooper Cane. Mar grabbed his staff. Murry ate the last doughnut before the race.
"SET!"
Luna had her hand on her harpoon. Sam held on to her whip. Belle placed her goggles over in her eyes.
"GO!"
The racers sped off with great speed with the Cooper X Gang's van as one of the fastest.
"Hold on tight!" Justin announced.
"Too late!" Justin's teammates yelled at the driver. Murry, however, was enjoying the speed.
"Go faster!" Justin's father demanded.
"Not yet." The son answered.
"I might be asking a dumb question, but can he go faster?" Sam asked Belle.
The mouse answered with a grim look on her face.
"Yes."
Then, a racer bumped into the van, pushing it to the side.
"What the-?!" The husky exclaimed as he looked into the rearview mirror. He saw the occupations of the car that bumped the van with weapons.
"We're in trouble!"
"Trouble!?" Belle exclaimed in fright.
"Then, let's give them trouble." Luna announced.
"Right!" Sam agreed as she grab for some explosives.
Gunshots entered the van. The six riders and the driver were almost hit by the bullets.
"Time to fight back!" Rad announced, while grabbing his shock rifle.
Sam opened the back windows and climbed out of it to the roof.
"Time to blow away the competition!" The cat declared.
Gunshots whizzed by the feline as she prepared to attack.
"If that's the best they can do, then this will be easy!" Sam told herself.
Once the bullets ceased firing at her, Sam started firing fireworks from her hands. The rockets hit their mark, destroying the wheels.
"One down!"
Then, the van hit a bump, causing Sam to fall off the van.
"Whoa!"
The cat would have fallen to her death if Rad had not used his cane to grabbed Sam and pulled her into the van.
"Thanks!" The feline said gratefully.
"Don't thank me just yet!" The raccoon replied, "The race just gotten started!"
Then, another racecar appeared.
"Boogie at six o'clock!" Rad yelled as he saw the racecar reveal a rifle.
The raccoon aimed and fired, hitting the car. It stopped in it's tracks.
"Whoa!" Luna exclaimed, very impressed, while Mar gave a low whistle.
Then, a rocket was heard overhead the van.
"That's not good." Belle announced meekly.
Then, the group heard an explosion.
"It didn't hit the van?!" Rad asked out loud.
"A rock slide!" Murry exclaimed upon seeing the event.
"Your turn, Belle!" Rad told the mouse.
"Right!" Belle responded.
She hopped onto a seat and pressed a button, which activated a specialized ray gun. The top of the van opened to allow Belle and the weapon to be outside.
"Ready!" The mouse yelled.
The rocks rolled to the van.
"Now!" Belle yelled as she fried at the boulders, turn then into pebbles.
"What happened!" Sam exclaimed, no longer seeing the boulders.
"She shrank them." Rad answered.
"Why?" Luna asked.
"I don't know." The raccoon shrugged his shoulders.
Then, Belle returned into the van as it retuned to normal.
"Cool!" Mar exclaimed in amazement.
"Yeah!" Luna agreed.
Then, something hit the roof.
"Trouble!" Rad yelled.
"Our turn!" Mar announced, "Come on, Luna!"
"Right behind you!" The white wolf announced.
Then, the two climbed out of the window and onto the roof. Once there, the duo saw a dhole in battle gear.
"Looks like trouble." Mar said, preparing to fight.
"That's fine with me!" Luna announced, popping her knuckles.
The red dog attacked Mar first, but Mar's staff blocked it.
"Nice try." The rat said, before attacking his assailant.
"Don't think so." The dhole growled in a British accent before trying to slice Mar with a battle knife, but Luna kicked the knife out of the attacker's hand.
"It is a nice try." The wolf announced, but the dhole was not hazed by the lack of weapons.
"You're a tough filly." The red dog commented, wiping the saliva off the side of his mouth.
"Thanks, but I'm already spoken for." Luna countered verbally.
Then, Mar swept the dhole's legs at the back of the knees, causing the dhole to fall off the van.
"That's going to hurt." Mar said, imaging the pain the red dog must have been in.
"Fine!" The wolf said cruelly as she started climbing back into the van.
"A dhole!?" The mouse exclaimed loudly after hearing Luna and Mar's story.
"Yeah." The white wolf answered, " What's wrong?"
"It's a dhole! If we have to fight dholes, we're dead were we stand!" Belle yelled.
"Can you explain?" Sam asked before Justin hitting a bump, causing everyone to bounce up and landing hard.
"Dholes are supposed to be every tough." Luna explained rather apathetic about the seriousness of the dholes.
"How do you know?" Belle asked very surprised.
"When your mom's a headmistress of a boarding school, you tend to learn a few things the other students won't learn." The wolf answered, rolling her eyes.
"She has a point there, Belle." Rad admitted.
"Thanks." Luna grinned.
"But, Belle also has a point." The raccoon said, causing Luna's grin to disappear.
"Belle, can't you just shrink the dholes?" Sam asked.
"I can't do that." The mouse answered.
"Why not?" Mar asked.
"Because I can only shrink non-organic matter."
"That's one plan down." Rad said, disappointed about the lack of plans.
"Looks like we have to fight." The cat said, seeing no other way.
"You're kidding!" Belle accused Sam, hoping she was joking.
"Nope." The feline admitted.
The mouse laughed nervously, but no one else was laughing with her.
"Speaking of fighting…" Rad started, while looking out of the window before bullets started to pierce into the van.
All of them, including Justin and Murry managed to avoid getting hit by the small projectiles.
"That was close!" Murry said, a little shaken from the bullets.
"Too close." Justin yelled as he saw that the racecar drove up next to them.
Another car drove up to Murry's side.
"Now, you'll feel the Murry's wrath!" The hippo announced to the racer.
The car on Justin's side slammed into the van, almost causing Justin to lose control.
"This is bad!" Belle yelled.
The car on Murry's side slammed into the van.
"Let's knock them down!" Murry yelled as he removed his seatbelt.
"Dad!" Justin yelled, but Murry ignored him and opened the door.
"Come get me!"
The racecar tried to ram the hippo, but Murry punched the hood of the car with his fist and the car started to lose speed.
"Whoa!" Sam yelled in amazement after seeing the feat.
Murry grinned, seeing that he still had some punch left in him.
"What about the one on Justin's side?" Belle yelled.
"Leave that to me." Rad said, climbing through the back window.
"Be careful." The mouse yelled.
"Don't worry, Mom." Rad joked.
Once outside and on the van's roof, the heir of the Cooper clan aimed his rifle at the opponent racecar.
"Don't miss with my friends."
The raccoon fired. The shot hit the car, blowing out three of the four tires. The car lost speed and disappeared from Rad's sight.
"All right!"
Rad climbed down and re-entered the van.
"Great job." Mar said to the raccoon.
"Thanks." Rad grinned.
"The seven of us against an army of dholes." Belle thought, "I guess I'm wrong."
"Don't say that." The rat said.
"Yeah." Luna agreed, "Then, we won't have a reason to prove you wrong."
Belle glared at the white wolf, who was laughing.
"So, are we near the finish line?" Sam asked.
"Yes." Justin answered when a projectile crashed into the van.
"What the-?!" Belle yelled.
Then, Sam threw it out of the window.
"Sam!" Exclaimed Justin.
"What?"
"You're nuts!" The mouse yelled.
"What could happen?" The cat asked, aloof about the object.
Then, an explosion came from behind the van.
"You want us to explain now?" Belle asked.
Sam shook her head.
"Here we are!" Justin announced.
"Careful!" Rad said.
"I know." The husky answered as he slowed the van down.
The van stopped.
"Why do I know this place?" Murry asked out loud.
Then, several lights turned on and pointed at the van.
"What do we do?!" Belle screamed.
"Calm down!" Rad said.
"We're gonna die!" The mouse yelled in fright.
"We're not!" Luna announced, "But if we are, we'll die fighting.
"Agreed." Sam, and Mar said, siding with Luna.
"Now, that's an idea!" Murry agreed.
"Let's do it!" Justin said.
Then, everyone exited the van, expecting a group of thugs to surround them.
"What's going on?" Justin asked Rad after a few seconds of waiting.
Then, a dart flew and hit the husky on the arm.
"What?!" Justin said, becoming dazed until he passed out.
"Tranquilizer darts!" Belle yelled, "Look out!"
It was the last thing the mouse said before a dart hit her on the shoulder and submitting to the serum in the projectile.
Luna was next to submit to the serum by being hit on the thigh. Mar held his ground for a small while until a dart hit him on the chest. Murry was hit in the backside and fell to the ground, leaving Sam and Rad by themselves.
"This is not good!" Sam said loudly before deflecting a dart by using her whip.
"Tell me something I don't know!" Rad said, while hitting a dart away from himself by using his cane.
"We have to leave!" The cat announced.
"What!?" The raccoon exclaimed, almost getting hit by a dart in a middle of dodging another.
"We have no choice!"
Rad was furious.
"I refuse to do it!"
"How are going to save them if you get captured?"
The raccoon thought while dodging and deflecting the darts.
"Let's go!"
"Right!" The cat grinned.
The two started running off into the jungle with the darts chasing them.
"After them!" Rajan's voice echoed through the jungle.
The dholes gave chase while the last two members of the Cooper X Gang ran.
"We got company!" Sam announced, almost out of breath.
"I don't need to know that!" Rad snapped, still upset about leaving his friends.
Then, Rad felt a sharp pain in his back, and the last thing he heard was Sam calling out his name before his world went black.