Chapter 28 : A New Kind of Adventure - Part 12 : Hit & Run
"We have found another shard." Uncle Maxwell said, who has gathered everyone except Gary, Felix, Simon and Jennifer (Felix and Simon was still asleep back at the Hyphen Heights with Jennifer, who stayed there for a day to help 'Mother' with her works.) with all the kids in the base at 5 in the morning, again.
"Where is it sir?" Dunne asked, who got a promotion to Sergeant after the last mission.
"A large mansion in Falcon City owned by a rich businessman, Ethan Marshall. He's the one who bought the shard from the black market dealer at the Bullet Point Bayou, now we need to get it from him." Uncle Maxwell answered.
"So, we need to assassinate him?" Simon asked.
"Assassinate him is not an easy job, all of attempted murder against him failed because he's one of the Emperor's right hand man. He has tens of personal bodyguards and soldiers guarding his mansion." Uncle Maxwell explained, "And here's the plan..."
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Ethan Marshall personal mansion, Falcon City
18:25 PM Local Time
"Roach, this Soap. You're in position?" Sophia asked.
"Yep, ready when you are." Alex replied.
"That's your nickname?" Lily asked Alex.
"Yeah, and don't called it weird. Because Maxwell got weirder nickname." Alex answered.
"What is it?"
"Rooster."
Lily giggled silently, but she cannot hold her laugh any longer and burst out laughing, she tried to contain most of her laugh so they weren't spotted because of Lily's laugh.
"Shut up, the radio isn't private you two." Captain Frank said.
"Everybody in position?" Yusuf asked.
"Yes." Dunne, Maxwell, and Sophia answered in unison.
"Good, Yusuf let's go." Frank said.
Alex and Lily were hiding in a tree, Sniper Rifle aimed to the entrance gate of the mansion, keeping an eye to Frank, Yusuf, and Dunne. Who was tasked to infiltrate the mansion to retrieve the shard. Meanwhile, Maxwell and Sophia is tasked to disable every security cameras, by covering the lens with gum along the way to disabling them from the security post.
"Wait, that cheeky bastard got camera here." Yusuf said, cutting the wires of the security camera above him at the garden.
"Cameras everywhere." Dunne muttered, seeing a lot of security cameras watching at the garden.
"Security is down, I repeat, security is down." Sophia said to the radio as all the cameras were turned off.
"Good, let's go." Frank said, motioning the others to follow him.
"He's here." Alex said through the radio.
"Who?" Maxwell asked.
"That rich guy, he's here." Alex replied, seeing Ethan just exited the mansion from the back terrace and headed to his personal golf course at the backyard from his scope. He has tidy coffee brown hair, he wears a black suit and tie, a brown sunglasses, and an expensive looking black shoes.
"Keep an eye on him Alex, Lily keep watching the guard movement for us." Frank said.
"Roger." Lily replied.
"Come on Mr. Ethan, your gold club member is waiting for your arrival." Ethan assistant said to him.
"Alright, make sure you brought all of my golf equipment." Ethan replied.
"Don't worry mister, I brought everything with me."
"Good."
"Lily, snipe that guard in the front of us." Yusuf said, pointing to the guard at the front of him, standing next to the pool.
Within a second, the guard were shot in the head and fell to the pool, creating a large splash. Unfortunately, it attracted a nearby Empire soldier patrolling around the pool. But, before he could even walk to the dead guard spot, he already shot in the head. And fell to the pool.
"Nice shot Lily. Yusuf, Dunne. Let's go." Frank said.
Frank, Yusuf, and Dunne entered the mansion from the back door. Maxwell and Sophia headed to the garage to hide while the rest of the team finished their tasks. Alex still aiming his Sniper Rifle at Ethan's head, his index finger placed at the trigger, ready to fire whenever he was told to.
A few minutes later, a guard in the balcony was stabbed by a large machete from behind. After he fell, Yusuf raised his hand high in the air with the starite shard in his hand. Signing Lily to tell Alex to shoot Ethan now.
"Alex, Yusuf got the shard. You need to shoot Ethan now." Lily told Alex.
"On it." He replied.
Alex aimed for Ethan head and pulled the trigger, and everything went to slow motion. Ethan's head got blew up, the golf club and his assistant got panicked, and the guards and soldiers alerted because of the shot.
"Guys, Ethan's down! I repeat, Ethan is down! Get to the garage now!" Lily yelled to the radio.
Alex and Lily got down from the tree and headed to the garage, while Frank, Yusuf, and Dunne rushed to the garage. After everyone gathered in the garage, Maxwell turned the lamp on. Revealing three expensive looking sports cars in the garage.
Frank whistled, "Looks like these car are our ticket from getting out from here, isn't it?"
"Yeah sir." Yusuf replied.
"But, all the cars has two doors and only fit for 6 person, and we are 7." Dunne said.
"Well, there's the trunk Dunne. We could put you there, or you could sit on the roof." Yusuf joked.
Everyone chuckled except Dunne, "Not funny Yusuf." Dunne said.
"Hey, this one has 4 seat!" Alex exclaimed, pointing to a white 4 door sport car.
"Good, Yusuf, Dunne with me on that white car. Alex, Lily. Get on that silver car. Maxwell, Sophia. Get on the red car. When we exited the mansion, we are going to split up into three and lose the cops." Frank told the group, everyone nodded.
After everyone except Dunne entered the car, Dunne opened the garage and rushed to the white car, he entered the back passenger seat.
"You don't want to sit in the trunk Dunne?" Yusuf asked from the front passenger seat.
"Shut up." Dunne replied as the car drove off with Maxwell and Sophia behind them.
Meanwhile, Alex got confused.
"What are you waiting for Alex? Let's go!" Lily said.
"There's a problem, I never drive a car before." Alex replied.
"Why?"
"I'm 13 Lily, what do you expect? We don't have 4 years to wait for me to get a driver license."
Lily snatched Alex's notebook from his pants' pocket and wrote an adjective to him, 'driver'. She put it back and told him; "Come on, let's go!"
Alex quickly hit the accelerator, the tires screeching and leaving a black tire mark at the garage as the car speeding into the road. Alex and Lily quickly catch up with the others until they met an intersection.
"Quick, split up! The cops are here!" Frank yelled to the radio.
"Roger!" Maxwell replied.
Everyone split up into three, with Alex and Lily turned into the right way and headed to the downtown. Frank, Yusuf, and Dunne went straight and followed the road, heading to the industrial area. Maxwell and Sophia just turned to the left way and had no idea that they were going deeper into the heart of the city, the worst part of the Falcon city, the business district.
"Alex, the cops are here!" Lily exclaimed, pointing to the police cars chasing the from behind.
"Warning, this is FCPD, pull over and surrender!" The police yelled from the speaker.
"Lily, we're going to lose them in any way. But remember, no weapons." Alex told her.
"Alright." Lily replied.
Alex pressed the accelerator harder and switched to a higher gear for more speed. He turned left and right to confuse the cops, but he arrived at a boulevard and smashed through someone's backyard fence.
"Sorry." Alex said, repeating the word every time he hit a backyard's fence, after a few moments. He finally got out from the housing complex and headed to the downtown.
The traffic wasn't too bad, Alex still could slip through the traffic cars to avoid the cops. And when the cops created a roadblock, they still not noticed the gap between their cars. Alex went through the gap and escaped the roadblock. He turned to the right when he saw a full roadblock with no gap at all.
"Stop, this is FCPD. Pull over!" The police warned.
"Damnit, they're everywhere." Alex muttered.
"Alex, look out!" Lily yelled, pointing to a full roadblock with SUV and police cars.
Alex quickly slammed the brakes and the car jerked violently to the front before stopping right in the front of the roadblock. When he switched to reverse gear, the police cars chasing them formed a roadblock behind them. He looked everywhere to find a way to escape but there's none.
"You are surrounded, please get out from the car and put your hands up." The police said from a speaker.
"Damnit!" Alex cursed, slamming his fists at the steering wheel, "There's no way out." He said, "Guess I'm going to back at that fucking prison again."
"Alex." Lily said, she put her hand at his shoulder, "Calm down. We're going to get out of here."
"But, there's no way out Lily." Alex protested.
"Get out from the car, you have 30 seconds before we shoot you." The police warned.
"Let's face this together." Lily said.
Alex nodded, the two nervously opened the door and exited the car.
"Release all of your gear and put them at the ground." The police said.
Alex and Lily released their bulletproof vests, ammo belts, and set their Sniper Rifle at the ground. The two raised their hands in a term of surrender to the cops. Two police officer grabbed their hands and putting them at their back, they slammed Alex and Lily's head into the car.
"Hey, careful!" Alex complained.
"You're in big trouble kid." The police officer grinned.
Several race cars appeared and slammed through the blockade, distracting the cops into chasing them and forgetting about Alex and Lily. Alex used this opportunity to released himself from the officer grip and swung his fist into the officer's face. The officer managed to grabbed the fist but Alex slammed his head into the officer stomach, sending him flying at the car and fell unconscious. The officer holding Lily was distracted and she kicked him in the balls, she grabbed the officer's back and threw him to the ground.
"Quick, to that alley!" Alex shouted to Lily.
The two quickly ran into the alley, chased by three police officer. They ran as fast as they could but the police are much faster, Alex spotted a pile of boxes and wood planks close to where he is. He kicked one of the box and made the rest of the boxes and wood planks fell to the ground. The first two police officers tripped and fell. But the third one manage to jump over it and continued chasing them.
When Alex and Lily spotted a wall, Alex crouched and faced Lily, he lowered his hands at the ground.
"Come on Lily, I'll give you a boost." Alex said.
Lily nodded and put her foot at his hands, Alex threw his hands up the air and Lily jumped through the wall and landed safely at the ground. As the police officer getting closer, Alex quickly climbed the wall, but the police officer manage to grab one of his foot. Alex managed to free his foot from the police officer and kicked him at his face, he fell to the ground and Alex climbed through the wall. Unfortunately, he landed on Lily, who was brushing the dust off her shirt. They ended up overlapped each other.
"Sorry." Alex apologized.
"Yeah, thanks for smearing my shirt with the dog poop and mud here." Lily replied sarcastically.
"Wait, dog poop?" Alex asked himself, seeing his surrounding. There was a dog charging at him with high speed.
"Ah, dog!" Alex said, he manage to grabbed the dog and threw it at a wall. He helped Lily to stand and headed to a white door next to them.
Alex was busy finding a way to open the jammed door while Lily busy cleaning the mud and dog poop from her shirt, luckily her star necklace wasn't dirty as her shirt does.
Finally, Alex got frustrated as the dog awoke and charging at them again.
"Open damnit!" He yelled and kicked the door open, he grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her inside. Alex closed the door while Lily blocked the door with a chair. The wandered through a store and find some hat to disguise themselves, not even bothering to pay it.
The two headed out from the store. But there's a police car heading toward them. Alex pushed Lily out from the way and jumped, he kicked his foot at the police car and bounced himself at the road as the car crashed through the store.
"Go! Find a place to-" Alex was cut off when a car headed toward him, he dodged out from the way as the car crashed at the police car.
"Lily! Hide!" Alex exclaimed, she nodded at hid in the nearby alley.
Alex dodged another car as a white container truck was flipped over because breaking too much. The container was snapped off from the truck and rolled over toward Alex. He ran as fast as he could to not crushed by the container, it crushed the police and traffic cars as it continued to rolled to him. Alex let out a battle cry as he slid down the road to avoid the container. It passed above him and landed in the front of him.
Alex got up as fast as he can and headed to the alley where Lily was hiding, a hand grabbed his arm and pulled him into the alley. Lily hugged Alex tightly and she looked up to him, because Alex was an inch taller than her.
"Lily, what's wrong?" Alex asked.
"I'm fear of losing you again, I don't want the event at the mine happened again." She said, crying.
"Hey, don't worry. I'm here now and okay, I'm still at one piece. That event won't happened again, okay? Forget everything that disturbed you. It only made problems for your life." Alex tried to comfort her, "But now let's get out from here before the cops know what we have done, it's a quite mayhem we made in this road."
Lily nodded, and the two ran inside the alley. Lily teleport Alex and herself to somewhere else.
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"Maxwell look out!" Sophia yelled, pointing to an police SUV that almost hit their car.
Maxwell tried to avoid the police SUV cars chasing him and Sophia. He headed to lower district to avoid them. But an SUV manage to hit their car from the right side, sending the car rolling a few times to the left. After it stopped, Sophia checked Maxwell if he's okay.
"Hey, you're okay?" Sophia asked.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Maxwell replied, "Now let's get out from here."
They quickly exited the wrecked car and entered the nearest building, followed by several cops. The two climbed the stairs until they reached the roof, a black police helicopter arrived at the roof and pointed it's searchlight at Maxwell and Sophia. The pilot proceed to shot the gun placed under the nose of the helicopter, every bullet missed an inch from Maxwell and Sophia's foot, giving them a chance to run and escape. They covered their heads as the bullet hit many junks, wooden planks, and glasses around them. They kept running until they reached the end of the roof.
"What are we going to do now?" Maxwell asked desperately.
"We have no choice, jump!" Sophia replied, grabbing Maxwell's arm and jumped from the roof, they landed safely at an open dumpsters below them.
Maxwell and Sophia manage to got out from the dumpster and hid behind it as a police car stopped not far from the dumpster they were hiding. Two police exited the car to checked their surrounding. Maxwell got out from his hiding and swung his fist into one of the officer face, unfortunately the officer grabbed Maxwell hand and kicked him in the gut. Sending him toward the ground. Sophia quickly reacted with kicking the police officer in the face, it easily knocked him out. The other police officer was too slow to react as Sophia punched him in the gut, she kicked his foot from behind, making the officer fell to the ground. Sophia proceed to finish him off by punching him in the face, the officer was instantly knocked out.
Maxwell was speechless when he watched the fight between Sophia and two police officer, she turned to him and offered her hand to help him. Maxwell accepted it and asked her, "What was that?"
"I know martial arts, so most people won't messed up with me." Sophia answered.
"Okay." Maxwell replied, now he really learn to not put a prank on Sophia, unless he want to get beaten and hospitalized.
"Now, let's get out from here before more cops arrived." Sophia said.
The two entered the police car and ran away with it. They headed to the construction site and followed by the helicopter, the pilot pointed the helicopter's searchlight to the police car that Maxwell and Sophia drove. The car headed to the unfinished construction of road and tunnel.
Maxwell turned the car into the half-finished tunnel to cover the car from the helicopter's helicopter, he turned to the left and right side of the road where the tunnel has been built.
"Maxwell, look out!" Sophia yelled, pointing to the end of the road ahead.
Maxwell was too late to pressed the brake, the car crashed through the barrier and rolled to the nearest railroad, the two fell unconscious. Meanwhile, the helicopter pilot believed that they are dead.
"Alpha 2-1, we have visual on Target heading to Industrial Area." A voice told the pilot.
"Roger, heading there now." The pilot answered, he turned and drove the helicopter to Industrial area.
A few minutes later Maxwell and Sophia were awoke by a horn of a train, Maxwell looked behind the flipped car, he saw a train coming from the distance and heading to his location fast. The two released their seatbelts and landed on the car roof with the back of their head first. Maxwell spotted a cracked door window next to him, he punched the window a few times, but it didn't work and he clutched his sore hand.
"Excuse me." Sophia said, she gently pushed Maxwell aside.
Sophia manage to break the window with one kick, she pulled Maxwell out from the door and got away from the car as far as possible before the car was hit by the train.
A bright yellow light appeared in the front of them, after the light faded. Alex and Lily was standing in the front of them. Before they could said any word, they were teleported by Lily.
...
"Goddamnit Frank! Where the hell are we going?!" Yusuf yelled, Frank just bust through a gate to the Industrial area.
"Shut up Lieutenant, I'm not bringing you to yell at me." Frank replied.
Three police SUV and a helicopter followed them from behind, Frank turned the car to the railroad, where many trains are abandoned with red explosive barrels and propane tanks. The helicopter shot the barrels and it was ignited, one of the SUV hit the barrels and exploded. This made Frank to switch the route and headed to a warehouse, where more explosive barrels are placed.
Frank dodged the giant shelves where the barrels are stacked, and the helicopter is shooting it through the window. The barrels wrecked the remaining police SUV and damaged the car a bit. He made a sharp turn and headed to a window.
"Frank, what are you doing?" Dunne asked nervously.
"Don't worry Dunne, I know what I'm doing." Frank replied confidently.
He hit the accelerator harder as the car speeding through the warehouse, he hit a ramp and crashed through the window. Where the helicopter quickly greeted them from the right side.
"HOLY SHIEEEET!" Yusuf and Dunne yelled as Frank hit the helicopter's tail and sent it smoking to the ground.
The car landed with a loud thud and creating some sparks on the ground. Frank hit the brake and the car stopped with a loud tire screech, he checked everyone else. Yusuf was breathing heavily and Dunne passed out in the back.
"What, the hell was that?" Yusuf asked.
"You never been into this kind of action before? I gonna take you to more mission if you want." Frank replied.
"No please." Yusuf said sarcastically.