Chapter 92

92 Night Find

We were now on the road, with no absolute idea where we were even going. Perfect, just perfect. “I think we need to find a place to stay for the night,” Nikki said, and I nodded in agreement.

“But where?” Tisiah asked, and no one had an answer. “Well, I’m not sure about the rest of you, but I’m pretty tired,” Greg said.

“It’s literally just 4 pm,” September said. “Why would you even be tired?”

“What do you mean, ‘why would you even be tired’, who wouldn’t?” Malachi argued, and I had to agree.

“Well, I’m not really tired,” Nikki said. “I don’t think any of us are, but we are stressed. We need to start leaving this place.” We all nodded, and September began to drive again.

After a few minutes, Nikki said, “I think we should go to Canada.”

“Canada?” she asked.

“We can escape from the FBI there, although the TSA would still be following us. We can go to Russia from there without any disturbance hopefully,” Nikki said, and we all agreed.

So, that’s where we’re headed now.

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To Canada.

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We drove for an hour, which I’m quite positive we got nowhere, but it was still good to be on the road. We were making surprisingly good time, but our luck couldn’t last forever. “Hey, we need somewhere to stay for a bit,” Malachi said, “I’m getting a bit tired.”

“The last time we did that, the FBI busted into our room,” September said, “I think it’s better if we just keep driving.”

But immediately when she said that, a flashing light shone behind me. I quickly turned around to see multiple headlights, that was following us. I couldn’t see the body of the car and I wasn’t sure how many there were, but it was enough to make my stomach drop.

“Uh, anyone sees this?” I asked, trying to stay calm.

“Yeah,” September said, her voice shaking, “What do we do?”

“I’m not sure,” I said, trying to think of anything, but all we could do is drive.

September turned the corner to a straight road, and soon enough it was all revealed to me.

Dread jumped within my heart, and my hands shuddered in caution. I was unable to move, couldn’t think, and could not attempt to reason what was occurring. I was frightened. I was terrified. I was in a position of frightfulness. My eyes put complete focus on something that froze me, shook me, and stunned me.

Five cars, with heads peeking out of them, followed us. And they had tasers, and other equipment that could bring us down in a second.

“What do we do?” Malachi said, his voice as panicked as a cat. September sighed, “We drive.” She suddenly pushed on the pedal, and the car lurched forward. The wind howled as we drove faster and faster and it didn’t feel like it was slowing down either.

But it wasn’t fast enough for those cars. They were going to catch up with us very soon. And even though we were moving as fast as we possibly could, we still had no hope against those vehicles behind us.

We had to get somewhere fast. Anywhere fast. But where could we go? Where would it be safe? The only place I knew for certain was Canada, but if we went there then it was inevitable we’d be found by them again. But at least there we wouldn’t be shot to death for sure.

The other cars began to trail behind us, moving in on the sides and rear of our vehicle, but not trying to catch us yet. We all sat in silence in the backseat as we tried to figure out what to do. But we were so far from Canada, there was no way we were getting there in time before those other cars caught up to us.

If we got rid of those vehicles, then we might have a chance to escape into the woods and try to hide from them somehow. But how could we get rid of them? I knew that if one of those vehicles had a gun on top of it that they might just start firing at us.

“Use your wands!” September said as Tisiah began getting his wand out. But as he did, his face melted into fear. “Guys, it’s not the FBI. It’s the TSA, and more specifically, Rocke’s men.” Fear rushed through my veins and my body stiffened with worry and anxiety. But the worst part was that there were too many of them for us to get rid of them all. They could just follow us until we ran out of energy and they could just pick us off like flies.

Tisiah started shooting bolts at them at full speed, but they were so many and they were dodging them so easily that it was doing nothing. And as I turned around to see, the cars were starting to move in closer to us.

“They’re going to surround us!” Malachi said, his voice full of terror. And he was right. The cars were starting to form a box-form-like structure. Terror shook the vehicle as we all realized that we were going to be captured.

“We have to do something!” September said, her voice full of desperation. But there was nothing we could do. We were surrounded and outnumbered. There was no way out. Fear shook my heart, and my mind was racing with thoughts of what was going to happen to us.

They were going to kill us. There was no doubt about it.

What could we do? What could we possibly do to get out of this situation alive? There was nothing. Absolutely nothing we could do.

The only thing we could do was keep fighting, and wait for a miracle. But even miracles couldn’t help us now. We were as good as dead.

But then, Nikki did something, and I’m still not entirely sure what she threw at them. It was a blur of black, and it was going so fast I couldn’t even see it. But whatever it was, it caught the men off guard and they were momentarily distracted.

My heart brightened as I saw it, and my eyes widened with hope as I realized what it meant. Nikki had given us a chance. A chance to escape.

And we took it.

When it hit, the pursuing vehicle was pushed back at a high velocity, like at least fifty feet, and it hit another car head-on. The driver of that vehicle was killed instantly, and the other men were scrambling to get into formation.

“Keep shooting, keep doing what you’re doing Nikki!” Tisiah shouted, as a feeling of bravery coursed through everyone and we all fought with newfound vigor.

The other vehicles were trying to get back into place, but we were already ahead of them and pulling away. September turned the corner, and we were now in an alleyway, heading towards the woods.

“What did you throw at them?” I asked Nikki, as September turned into another road. Nikki didn’t answer but she looked at me with seriousness in her eyes that I hadn’t seen before.

“It was a spell,” she said, finally. “It was a spell.”

No duh, Sherlock.

But what kind of spell? And how did she know how to do it?

“I don’t have time to explain,” she said. There were still three vehicles behind us strong, and they were still in hot pursuit.

“Well, make time,” I said. “September, can you lose them?” But as I looked forward, I saw a roadblock of the same vehicles in front of us.

“Jump out!” Malachi shouted as we all jumped out of the car seconds before it crashed into the roadblock at high speed.

The impact was massive, and the explosion sent debris flying in all places. My bones felt destroyed, and I was sure that I had at least a few broken bones. But I didn’t care. We were alive.

For now, that was all that mattered.

I slowly got up, as I looked at the others who seemed confused, and kind of shocked at the same time. Who knew a car could be so explosive, I guess we’re just lucky.

“Come on,” Nikki said, as she started running towards the woods. “We have to get out of here.”

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We were now in the thick of the woods, safe from the vehicles that were chasing us for now. We needed to find a way out of this city though, but where could we go?

We were currently in the middle of nowhere. Nowhere! Not a single person around for miles. I didn’t even see anyone anywhere near us for at least ten miles.

“Hey um, someone got the pieces?” Greg asked. Tisiah raised the pieces of the Cybertron and Greg noddingly said, “Oh, nice work.” Then he gave us a thumbs up and walked away with his phone in his hand.

I wondered what he was doing with it at this moment but didn’t ask. He must’ve been checking some social media or something.

September said something into her watch, and the screen lit up and showed a map of the city with our location marked on it. We were right in the center of it, and there weren’t any buildings close to us other than this warehouse. “What’s this place?” I asked her.

She put her finger on it and said, “Abandoned warehouse.”

“What does that mean?” I asked her, not really knowing what she was talking about.

“Something I guess,” September returned. She then tapped on her watch again and said, “I think we should head inside.”

Nikki looked at her watch as well, and then looked back at us.

“I’m not sure about that,” Nikki fumbled with her words. “It looks weird.” Malachi sighed, but I think he already knew that she wouldn’t want to go into it.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Malachi said, looking at Nikki with wide eyes and a disgusted face. “You don’t want to go inside? What’s wrong with you?” He looked at her with shock and confusion, and his face became a mask of utter disbelief.