Chapter 12
"Dammit!" Sollux reached for his handgun. "What are they doing now?"
He watched the other van door slide open. Hoping it wasn't an attack, he stuck his handgun out the window and took aim at anything coming out the right side.
"Three!" Someone yelled from inside the van. Four trolls, two on each side, lept out of the van.
Sollux pulled the trigger. One of them screamed and gripped their ankle as they fell.
"FEF!" A familiar voice yelled. Sollux looked at them, finally realizing what he was doing.
"What?" His eyes widened. The two trolls on the right splashed down into the river and the other two dashed into the forest. He pulled the car over.
Several police cars sped past to go in pursuit of the speeding van, the rest of them pulled over, having a number of police men run off into the forest.
Sollux got out of his car and looked down into the river. Magenta blood floated at the top, making a path going the opposite way of the van.
It wath FF. He fell down to his knees. I jutht thhot FF. He felt tears began to roll down his face.
"You four!" Karkat shoved his fingers at police still climbing out of their cars. "Get down the river and follow the other two!"
"Yes sir!" They shouted, then turned and ran the opposite way.
"Hey, Captain." Karkat placed a hand on his shoulder. "You alright?"
"Yeah." Sollux wipped his eyes. "I'm fine."
Gamzee spotted several police cars still chasing him.
"Alright, motherfuckers." He laughed. "You want something to chase? Chase after this!"
He swung the driving wheel around, making the van lurch to the side, then swung it back around. One of the police cars rammed into the swinging van, making it spin out of control. The other police cars rammed into the spinning one and created a huge pile of cars.
"Now that's how you get rid of the fuzz. Honk." Gamzee smiled and continued flying down the road.
Equius and Nepeta dodged trees as they continued to hear the trampling of cops following them. They had both started to run out of breath.
"Nepeta." Equius huffed. "You get to meeting spot and meet up with the others."
"Equius!" Nepeta gasped. "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to try and stop the police."
"NO! Equius, don't!"
"They're going to reach us before we even get there, Nepeta!"
"Please, don't do it!"
Equius turned and began running towards the police chasing them.
"EQUIUS!" Nepeta tryed to follow him.
"RUN, NEPETA!" She stopped, then turned back around and ran as hard as she could.
Eridan stopped under the part of the peir that reached over the ocean. He had just swam several miles carrying both the weight of Feferi and two bags of money. He had found a peice of cloth along the way and wrapped it tightly around Feferi's wounded ankle.
Feferi groaned. Eridan had hoped that her gills had worked on their own, her groaning was the first sign he had since he jumped out of the van that she was alive.
"Fef." Eridan's voice echoed softly through the ocean. "Quiet." She flinched, then went immidiatly back to being limp.
They floated several feet under water for about ten minutes, Eridan listening for anyone after them. After he was sure no one was their, he rose out from underneath the water and pulled himself and Feferi onto the peir. He threw the bags of money behind them and laid Feferi down.
Eridan looked down at her. "Fef." He shook her. She sucked in a breath of air and opened her eyes.
"Eridan." She groaned, pulling herself upright. "Ow! My ankle!" She gripped her ankle in pain.
"Are you alright?" Eridan sat down, breathing heavily.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just like gripping my ankle in pain." She snapped sarcastically. She looked down and noticed the cloth wrapped around it.
"Your wwelcome." He sighed.
They both looked out to the horizen. The sun had begun to rise out of the water.
Eridan turned his head to look at Feferi. "Wwhale, this seams familiar."
"Yeah," Feferi stared back at him. "We haven't been here together like this in forever."
"It's too bad," Eridan looked back at the rising sun. "that wwe arn't moirails anymore." He smiled and closed his eyes.
Feferi tryed to stand herself up. Eridan stood up and held her.
"Fef, you're injured. Sit dowwn."
"Eridan," She pointed behind them. "There are cops coming."
He looked behind them. "Oh," Eridan sighed. "Wwhale, here." He lifted Feferi up and placed her in his arms.
She looked up at him. What's going on? My heart's pounding like crazy.
Eridan kicked the bags of cash into the ocean and jumped in with them, carrying Feferi down as well.
Gamzee comferted Nepeta as she cryed. They had been sitting under the meeting spot for twenty minutes and Feferi, Eridan, and Equius still hadn't made it. Nepeta began to worry about Equius much more than she should.
"Come on, sis." Gamzee rubbed her back. "I'm sure there just running late.
"Equius." She sobbed.
Eridan stepped into the clearing, carrying Feferi and holding both bags of money in one hand. He dropped the bags.
Gamzee stared at him.
"Eridan!" Gamzee got up. "What happened to Feferi?"
"She wwas shot in the anlke." Eridan walked up to Gamzee and Nepeta. "Wwhere's Eq?"
"We don't know."
"He..." Nepeta managed to mutter. "He stopped the police from chasing us all the way to here. I don't know where he is now."
"I tried lookin everywhere for him. But it's like he dissapeared."
"And hopefully," Eridan layed Feferi down and sat next to her. "He wwasn't caught by police."
"Oh," Feferi sighed. "I hope not!"
"Poor Equius." Nepeta sniffed. "I do hope he's alright. I don't know what I would do without him!"