Last chapter in this short series, to wrap everything up! Once again, thanks to Dreamy Loner for the review :)
Disclaimer (For the last time): I don't own anything.
Update: Text formatted, epilouge edited to make the flow more clear.
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A single UH-60 utility helicopter circled around the early morning cityscape with the orange sunrise masking its metallic gray figure. Slowing down at one of the highrise buildings, the pilot pulled the rotorcraft to a hovering halt as their passengers deployed a fastrope, allowing three SWAT officers to quickly slide down and intercept the point of conflict.
Taking cover behind a radiator and peering back up again, the element lead officer observed the crime scene: over a dozen dead bodies and almost half a dozen rouge security guards about to apprehend a wounded bear, who twitched weakly on the spot. There was so much blood flowing from the corpses that the officer thought that they were linking up into one river.
Giving a couple of hand gestures, the officers followed their element command orders, popping out of cover at the same time and training their rifle barrels towards presumed hostiles and cocked the charging lever, ready to respond with deadly forced if threatened.
"Police, drop your weapons!" the lead officer explained through his black ski mask, with one eye cramped into the view of a red holographic sight.
All five security guards in the process of incarcerating Flipqy looked up in surprise, not expecting airmobile police forces being able to be deployed that quickly. While the both of them had a common enemy, neither of them agreed to share the cause and much less trusted each other- as a result, the security refused to let down their weapons, instead keeping it trained at the officers.
"Forget it… stay back!" the officer warned, drawing up the last straw to them. Reluctantly, the guards complied, still keeping their weapons ready as they backed up slowly, not wanting to give up the fight.
Flipqy, bu now, regained conscious as he looked around. Seeing the helicopter in the sky with the fanning of its rotor blades kicking dust and dirt into his eyes, he looked over to the side, regaining some hope and vengance as he saw Splendont at the staircase access, giving him a quick nod while loading a fresh magazine into his M4.
The officers and security guards spotted the terrorist leader a second too late, as re took down in a crouching position for optimal firing accuracy. Looking through the sights and holding in a deep breath, Splendont rammed his index finger down onto the trigger, sending over barrages of carbine ammunition into the bodies of the SWAT officers and security guards alike. Being extra generous, he managed to land several shots into his targets, strewing them with extra holes and making sure that they got their dosage of metals as the stopping power of the munitions threw them off balance and onto the ground.
Watching as the last officer succumb to his injuries, the red squirrel didn't hesitate to step right into the leaking trails of blood that matched his colour as he went over to check up on his wounded comrade. Kneeling down to Flipqy's level, he observed that his bullet wounds were already clotted up, but he was still far from fighting condition.
"You ok?" Splendont asked, carrying him over on his shoulder
Splendont looked up at the horizon behind him, watching as the helicopter pop back up from the highrises and onto their position. As if in response to Splendont looking at it, the crew on board began to fire its minigun, spinning up the barrels and whizzing round after round from their ammunition belts and towards their ground target.
Acting not a moment too soon, Splendont picked up the pace and began a sprint for the edge of the building. Stepping one foot hurriedly but elegantly onto the gutter ledge, he gave himself a forceful push and jump, allowing him to transverse across the alleyway and onto the rooftop of the next building as the rotorcraft recklessly fired its miniguns at their miniscule target.
A police sniper within the helicopter by now, already began to set up his armaments as he zeroed in with the scope of his M24 sniper rifle, steadying his scoped view as he prepared to get the killing shot. Splendont, with his amateur sixth senses, quickly turned around while transversing the rooftop of the structure at the same time, used his non-dominant left hand to aim his rifle at the general direction of the helicopter and went in loud as he squeezed the trigger in a quick volley of burst firing, managing to strike the sniper at his position and sending him over to meet the floor, while another volley managed to get the co-pilot to buy his farm, crippling the on-board crew.
One of the last SWAT members on board looked down at the now deceased sniper, and proceeded to take off his ski mask and Kevlar helmet, revealing himself to be a blue flying squirrel, Splendid, who also happened to be the other half of Splendont. Watching as his other half ran down the balcony access of the building, Splendid quickly jumped out of the helicopter and grabbed a weapon from one of the already rotting bodies left on the rooftop before beginning to chase down his twin.
Jumping down the balcony access and onto a window cleaner lift, the occupant, Handy, was quite surprised at their sudden appearance while he was still trying to reach for the squeegee. As surprised as he was, Splendont didn't hesitate, and gave the handicapped beaver a hard boot and knocked him off of the lift, while taking the other hand to shoot his rifle at the at the lift controls, causing the joint to snap out loose so they can descend the highrise quickly. Once nearing the bottom, Splendont leaped off at around the third floor, landing in a pile of garbage bags as he ran off out of the alley and towards the streets, where a crude U-Haul truck was waiting for his arrival.
"Come on, hurry up!" Shifty declared through the open sliding door, waving an arm with Lifty and resting down their AK rifles.
Splendont quickly hauled himself and Flipqy's body inside the cargo box of the truck, where the driver took off onto the road as quickly as possible, heading for the nearest highway access for their escape.
"Hey, have a smoke man," Lifty offered wearily, lighting a cigarette and handing it over to the veteran, which he gladly accepted.
"Do you have the diamond?" Splendont asked.
"Check the bag, sir," Flipqy reassured, taking the cigarette out of his mouth as he blew a smoke ring.
Unzipping the bag, Splendont rummaged through its contents before he retrieved a piece that was unmistakably the glint of the diamond as he took it out. Satisfied, the bandit leader put the diamond back inside the backpack.
"Good, who's driving?" Splendont wondered out loud.
Pulling open the window leading to the cab, a mouse with a brown greatcoat looked from the cab view and turned around at him, greeting him quickly as the window was closed again.
"Hello sir!"
"Hey, who's that?" Spledont asked, trying to confirm the identity of the foreigner.
"Oh, that's the rat, he's an associate of ours," Lifty reassured.
The truck soon pulled up into the freeway, where the rat began to take the run down the six lanes of traffic for the nearest shipping port for their escape, as an escape through airplanes would prove to be near impossible with their status. Unfortunately for them, however, the police helicopter and several additional motorized units homed in onto them, in an attempt to stop them in the vastness of the freeway.
"SHIT, here they come!" Splendont cursed, tensing up along with Lifty and Shifty as they got into their fighting stances.
The Rat took note of their opponents coming up to challenge them with their superior numbers as he saw them through his rearview mirror, swivelling the wheel to the right so he has more room to evade their moves to go in and cut them off.
A Humvee mounting a machinegun closed in the distance on them, with their gunner sweeping open with his machinegun onto the U-Haul truck. The Rat floored the accelerator pedal down all the way, but the worktruck refused to move at a faster pace, as it's underpowered powerplant refused to work at any higher workloads. Splendont and the twins ducked down as the machinegun bullets shredded right through the truck's cargo compartment and the crew compartment, leaving a bunch of holes in various areas.
Regaining the posture to fight again, Shifty took aim and fired over his own barrage, but quickly realized that his munitions failed to penetrate the bulletproof glass, only managing to partially crack it, leaving the impression of re-pieced shattered glass. Thinking quickly as their machinegunner on the Humvee started to load up his second belt, the raccoon sprung up to a standing position to challenge their gunner face to face, firing his Soviet constructed firearm again towards the gunner, tapping the trigger once and dispatching the soft target with ease. The Humvee driver took note of this and looked over, leaving him distracted as the passengers on-board the truck opened fire at the jeep's mechanical hood. The driver was surprised, when he turned back that his vehicle refused to respond to his input and began to slow down. Quickly noticing the smoke emitting from the hood and vents inside the car, the officer hauled over at the side of the road and bailed out of the effectively disarmed vehicle.
Taking note of the second Humvee closing in on their blind spot, The rat knew that his passengers cannot fire their guns at the jeep to disarm it- In turn, he approached the civilian vehicle that was the closes in front of them and gently tapped them on the bumper while pitching the steering wheel into their direction, allowing the heavy weight of the truck to push their car out of balance and throw it as an obstacle in front of the Humvee in pursuit. The jeep driver wasn't able to react quickly enough to get out of harm's way, and ended up crashing into the sedan, disarming both vehicles and ejecting Cuddles and Giggles from the sedan into the opposite six lanes of traffic.
Lifty tracked down the presence of the last vehicle, a SWAT van approaching from their left line flank. He took note at one of the officers that peeked out of the roof hatch to toss over a grenade, which flew straight into his direction. Coordinating his focus onto the green apple shaped object, a quick bat managed to send the rounded explosive straight back to the sender and down the hatch, detonating inside the van and blowing its contents outwards catastrophically.
"WATCH OUT!" Shifty nudged Splendont, reminding him of the helicopter popping up for another gun run.
Disregarding the driver within the vehicle, Splendont hastily aimed at an oil tanker as the helicopter flew overhead, causing the gas tanks to rupture and throw shrapnel into the Blackhawk, with the gasoline fire as a tip off by incinerating any possible survivors and Lumpy, who happened to be the driver of the gasoline tanker.
Driving down the freeway for another five miles, the crew got onto the nearest exit and went for a shipping port, where they parked their truck down at a flat strip of land as everyone disembarked with their weapons. Unfortunately for them, the police have already determined their path of escape and already sent in fast reaction units to cut them off. Within the mix, Splendid has already managed to get there before the looters, along with a partner of his, Flippy, being there to back him up.
"Come on, this way," The rat declared, leading the way while carrying his pistol.
"Where are we going?" Splendont declared as the group walked past some cargo containers and a warehouse.
"To the cargo ship, it's just around the corner…" the mouse informed.
"You ain't going nowhere!" Lifty snapped harshly as the group split up into ambush points upon noticing the SWAT team arriving.
Shifty got onto a cargo container while Lifty got behind a wooden crate, while Flipqy got into a corner to hide. Splendont and the rat were both out in the open, ready to take the full brunt of the attack as they crouched down behind some hastily stacked crates.
Waiting as the law enforcement members got closer towards Splendont and the rat, Lifty suddenly jumped up from the cargo crate and shot a nearby oil barrel, blowing up the barrel and sending objects and two officers flying like rag dolls into surrounding objects. Splendont and the rat quickly dispatched another three oncoming officers from their direction before splitting up and running off, while Shifty threw a Molotov cocktail at a machinegun crew threatening to cut them down, incinerating their occupants.
Splendid and Flippy moved out together following Shifty, Firing bursts at his direction as he jumped to prone near some crates, where the raccoon rolled over and fired back his own volley from his AKM, making a rapid succession of a sharp clattering sound as he managed to dispatch an unfortunate officer caught in the crossroad of his shooting. Splendid quickly caught his wounded comrade and set him down quickly as he returned fire with his much lighter submachinegun, only able to force Shifty back into his cover as his bullets lacked the stopping power to penetrate.
Lifty, while trying to take advantage of the officers being distracted by his brother, hopped out of cover to saber rattle his own volley, only to be spotted by Flippy. The good half of the war veteran fired back at the armed thief, knocking over a metal slab being held in position by a wooden bar. The metal slab was sharp enough to slice Lifty's head off clean from the force of the fall, leaving the decapicated body to twitch around as the fingers still gripped onto the trigger in rigor mortis, enabling the weapon to keep of firing until it ran out of munitions.
Shifty, enraged at the loss of his brother, charged out of his protected over watch position to kill the veteran and avenge his fallen partner. While he caught Flippy off guard, Splendid gladly jumped in Shifty's direct line of fire, ready to take in every shot that Flippy was supposed to receive.
Shifty didn't hesitate, pulling the trigger and madly fired his rifle while clenching his teeth and grinning madly. The flying squirrel took hit after hit, with every single shot he received creating another orfice in his body, up until the distinctive clicking sound was heard.
Shifty, staring at Splendid in astonishment and fear, slowly backed up before running off and throwing away his own weapon- the flying squirrel took at least a dozen hits, with blood and other fluids pouring from his body like a hot spring, while his pantigams were completely shredded and hung like loose tissue paper- it was raw courage and determination that still kept him alive.
While still keeping a steady hand and dropping a single shot out of his MP5, Splendid gave Shifty a coup de grace to his head, knocking him over and sending him to the place of no return.
While the rat still remained hidden in cover, Splendont waved at Evil Flippy, where he limped over from his crack to his partners safety as the police passed by. However, another officer saw him in the middle of the crossing, prompting Splendont to give him the special treatment with his rifle as he ran off with the police still on their trail.
Sprinting off back to their truck, Splendont blind fired his rifle in the direction opposing him, merely as a diversion as all of the shots missed. Quickly getting back inside the U-Haul truck and firing up the engines, Splendont charged at the SWAT members with the truck, intending to use it as a battering ram. All of the officers, including Splendid and Flippy, opened fire at the truck, hoping to stop it before it hits them by focusing their firepower. They were, however, unexpecting their own indigenous diversion.
"HEY SHITBAG!" The Rat called out, firing his own AK rifle and wounding a fellow officer in the knee.
In response to the new threat, all officers except for Flippy and Splendid diverted their firepower away to the single target. The flying squirrel and the bear both jumped out of the truck's path in time, right before getting run over unlike some unfortunate officers that went down with the truck and into the water.
Getting up, Flippy and Splendid checked the water, looking at the bubbles coming up to the surface. Both of them merely looked at each other before walking off.
'No way they could've survived that one...' Flippy and Splendid thought to themselves.
Unknown to their senses, Splendont managed to escape the sinking truck wreck, along with Evil Flippy, managing to carry the both of them above the water line, giving them a much needed breather as they swam for the cargo ship nearby to complete their escape.
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EPILOGUE
A figure walked into a coffee shop, picking up the morning newspaper to read the yesterday news, morning news and the bad news in the cover page story. He skimmed through the Yesterday news headline, which read out loud, "The mole's dead body was discovered in the back alley, and is currently being used for police analysis."
Rolling his eyes as he picked up his cup of coffee, he quickly fumbled to the next page, where bold newsflashes covered the whole page in a wall of text with a large headline picture of a police team carrying automatic firearms breaching into an apartment building, which stated, "The terrorist stronghold in the city center was attacked by both opposing terrorists and gangs, along with SWAT team units."
Following along the next two headlines as the man gulped down the whole cup in one go as he quickly read the Ongoing news and the Bad news headlines, which read "A gunfight broke out at the local harbor, resulting in 21 police fatalities and 35 casualties in total," and "Police killers managed to escape, and officials have declared that they have already escaped their reach..." respectively as he tossed the paper out, walking onto the street and towards a bus stop at an early morning sunrise.
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