Welcome to the fifth chapter of the story. In this chapter we'll have a crazy ride through the streets of Miami and we end up in a place, that's actually not there in that part of Florida. Unfortunately and mysteriously this chapter disappeared into thin air after our crash. So it means I have to do everything all over again.
(We fade in with tense music when we see the harbour)
Chapter Five
The Harbour shoot-out
High speed chase
The aftermathThe harbour was to be seen in the not-so-far distance and it came closer. Mike and Marcus were driving in front of us, leading us to it. We all agreed that this was getting dangerous, so we took our precautions. I still had that gun but that gun wasn’t important really. The Miami PD was responsible for us now so for safeties sake they gave us bullet proof vests just in case. Plus there was an extra back-up team a few blocks away. (The music fades away here)
‘Exciting, huh?’ I said trying to be funny when I wasn’t funny.
MacGyver looked at me through his sunglasses and then paid attention to the road again.
‘Exciting? We’ve been through this so many times before. This is not exciting anymore, this is a routine,’ MacGyver said.
‘Mario, we’ll get these scumbags,’ Sam said to me.
‘Yeah, lighten up. Be optimistic,’ MacGyver said. That’s what he always says when I’m down. Usually his advice works, strangely. You don’t meet a man like MacGyver everyday. If you need help or someone to cheer you up, he’s your man.
‘OK, then. I will, but I want to get this over with.’
‘Now, I hear you talking, kid,’ MacGyver said. ‘There’s the harbour.’
We parked our cars somewhere at the harbour and we all got out.
‘OK, stand by, Alpha team,’ Mike said through his earphone.
‘Copy that, Alpha leader,’ a voice said.
‘Who are they?’ Sam asked.
‘Back-up,’ Marcus replied. ‘They’re always in for these games.’
‘Just like to remind you, that I despise all those guns,’ MacGyver said.
‘Don’t use them then,’ Mike said. ‘They probably got a hundred men in there with guns. Well we got two hundred men.’
‘Two hundred?’ I asked.
‘Give or take a few. Those two brothers probably won’t have that much. Maybe they don’t even got the half of it. Neither have we, it just sounded cool to say it.’
‘Instead of babbling here, we better get going,’ MacGyver said.
‘Good idea,’ I said.
‘We’ll split up. Divide and conquer, Julius Caesar once said. Don’t waste time and get going.’
(The music where in MacGyver searches the ship in Ghost Ship comes up here)
So we each split up. In a matter of seconds we all took our own way in the harbour. Some people there were still at work, other parts of it were completely deserted. I went to a deserted part of the harbour. I opened a door of a big building and looked behind the door first, just like MacGyver would do. It was deserted but still I had the feeling someone was in there. I went in. In the far distance I could see a metal staircase. I ran to it and went upstairs. On the first floor there was nothing but empty offices for I don’t know how many years. Here and there I founded a few things left behind like dossiers and papers. I went into another office but couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched. I quickly turned around but nobody was there, now I --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ed up. (The music changes into the clockstore fight from The Assassin episode) Mammon jumped up from behind the desk and grabbed me again. He grabbed me around my waist along with my arms. We started to struggle. Like last time I used my feet to push myself from the wall, we both fell backwards over the desk, but he still didn’t release the grip. I tried to throw him over my back but I couldn’t, he was too tall and too heavy for it. I forced myself to smack him against the wall. With the back of my head, I head butts him against his mouth and nose. Then I smashed him on his foot with my feet. I struggled to get free. I gave him a few elbow blows in his stomach, a left hitter against the face followed by a right. He tried to hit me with his left hand but I ducked, the right one hits his target though. Right against my face. He grabbed my collar and hits me hard in my stomach and knees in it too. He pushes me against the floor and kicks me in the stomach twice. That hurt. I tried to get up but he hits me again. I grabbed the desk chair and slugged it against his body. He was hurt by it too and felled on his knees.
‘That was a good move kid,’ he said while getting back up. ‘But I’m still stronger then you.’ Suddenly really fast and really hard, he hits me with his right fist again. With that single punch, he lays me down again.
‘You’re pretty strong, Mammon. I feel that. Take this!’
I lifted my foot up and hits him in the stomach again. I got up and smashed him against the wall, hitting his stomach several times. He pushes me away, he storms at me again but I hit him in the stomach again. I grabbed him but he grabbed me too and both we jumped through the office window, just like the night before in the bar. We ended up in the hallway. I smashed his head against the wall. We started to wrestle. I pushed him down the metal staircase but he pulled me with him and both of us tumbles down to below.
‘That was painful,’ I said painfully.
I got up and smashed Mammon against the wall again. I hit him in the stomach followed by a right uppercut. A left one he blocked and hits me down again.
‘It’s been great fighting you kid, but at everything must come an end. We’ll end it right now,’ he said while taking his gun and pulling the trigger. I kicked the gun out of his hands and I took it.
‘Hold it.’ (The music slows down here)
‘What are you going to do?’
‘I oughta kill you. Get down on your knees.’
Mammon didn’t move.
‘I said get down. I mean it, get the --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE-- down. Get down.’ I forced him to get down. ‘Your hands on your head, fingers clenched.’
‘OK!’ (Music fades away here)
‘Now, I’ve got a few questions for you. A: where’s the gold and B: where are them girls?’
‘Will you let me go, if I tell you?’
‘--WATCH YOUR LANGUGE-- you! You’re coming with me. Get your bum up.’
I took him with me outside.
‘Bring me to the girls.’
‘Right, never.’
‘I don’t believe in never.’
‘Bring me to them and the gold, then I might let you go.’
‘Not a chance in hell, kid.’
‘That’s fine, then. Then I won’t let you go.’
‘It’s in that building over there.’
‘Good, now show them to me.’
Mammon saw a chance to get away from me and that’s what he did. All of a sudden, he hits me again in the face so hard that I fell over. My nose was bleeding. He ran away to the building we were going to, I grabbed the gun and fired several times but I missed him. I went after him but when I hardly entered the building someone pulled me back.
‘Shh, it’s me, it’s MacGyver.’
‘Oh, Mac.’
‘You, ok?’
‘I’m fine, it’s just a nosebleed.’
‘Are you sure it’s not broken?’
‘Yeah, Mammon did this.’
‘My thought exactly. I saw him running in here. I saw you going in that building. You find anything?’
‘No and I didn’t got the chance to look further because of Mammon. The man is strong.’
‘Gimme the gun.’
‘Take it. Where is Sam? And Mike and Marcus?’
‘They’re here somewhere too.’
I looked to see where they were.
‘Where?’
‘Over there by those crates,’ he said pointing them to me.
‘Ah, now I see them.’
‘And Sam is right there, a few crates in front of them.’
‘OK, so what’s the plan?’
‘They’re all in here now in this building. Von Leer, Mammon and a whole a bunch of henchmen. It depends now on what Mike and Marcus has in mind.’
‘Probably something against what you stand for.’
‘Yeah, but we can’t do it the other way. If this is how they work here, so be it then. I can’t change that. It’s not up to me to change it. Come on, let’s get closer to them.’
MacGyver and I snuck up at them.
‘Hey, fella’s,’ I said.
‘Caught in a fight?’ Mike asked.
‘Yeah,’ I said while rubbing some blood away. ‘Son of a --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE-- made me bleed. Is it still bleeding?’
‘Yeah, a little,’ Sam answered.
‘What do we do now, guys?’
‘Wait until they least expect it and then…’, Mike explained but got interrupted by a gunshot from above us. The bullet drilled itself in the crate. (Tense music kicks in)
‘poo, our cover’s blown,’ Marcus said.
‘Now!’ Mike said.
He fired his gun at the guy above us and kills him off. It wasn’t the bullet that killed him but the fall was what finished him off.
‘Alpha Team, now,’ Mike said in his earphone.
‘Copy, Mike,’ the voice said again.
We stormed in a door where everybody was. Everyone in the room didn’t act so surprised because Mammon warned Von Leer. Weapons started to blaze everywhere in the room. I was looking for Mammon. Sam went after Nikolaus and MacGyver had to deal with Erich Von Leer. It wasn’t easy when you have to dodge so many bullets but hell really broke lose when the Alpha Team stormed in. With their cars they burst in through the doors and gates of the place. A whole shoot-out started. MacGyver went after Von Leer. He jumped over a few crates to get to his office. When Von Leer saw him come, he tried to lock his office door but MacGyver holds him back. He got into the office and slams the door behind him.
(The music changes over the fight scene of Squeeze Play) He flew at Von Leer but Von Leer knocks MacGyver down. MacGyver quickly got up and Von Leer took his gun aiming at MacGyver. MacGyver grabs Von Leers wrist to keep the gun out of his face. During the struggle they smash into bookcases. MacGyver makes Von Leer to point the gun down to the floor. Then he makes him to shoot out the whole clip. MacGyver’s elbow came in Von Leers face. Left-right in the face. Then Von Leer hits MacGyver in the stomach and in his eye. MacGyver held his hand against his eye.
‘This is it my friend,’ Von Leer said. ‘You lose.’
‘I do not think so,’ MacGyver spits back.
Von Leer tried to fire his gun again but it was empty.
‘Damn!’ Von Leer grabbed a chair and breaks his window to escape. MacGyver went immediately after him and disappeared in the shooting crowd looking for Erich.
Sam got tracks of Nikolaus and was running after him.
‘Nikolaus!!!’ he cried out.
Nikolaus turned around and shot a couple of times at Sam. Sam took cover behind a box.
‘Damn it,’ he swore and looked besides him. He saw something that could help him. ‘Red paint?’ he asked smiling. ‘That can be of help.’ He opened a jar of them and emptied a little on the floor and on his sleeve. His plan worked. Von Leer saw that red substance on the floor and thought that he hit Sam. Slowly he came towards the puddle of fake blood. Sam was laying there, with his eyes closed. Nikolaus placed his gun barrel at Sam’s head.
‘Now, son,’ Nikolaus said while triggering the hammer, ‘it’s time for you to die.’
Suddenly Sam grabbed Von Leers hand and pulled him down, he got up and slugged him three times in the face. They both rolled through those crates, they kept rolling over each other. At the final roll Sam was on top of Von Leer.
‘You son of a --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--,’ Sam cursed and hits him the face.
‘This one is for what happened last night,’ he said and hits him again.
‘This is for Andrea and Allie,’ he hits him again.
‘Where are the girls and where is the gold?’ he asked.
‘Go to hell,’ the answer came.
Sam hits him again.
‘You’ll never find out.’
Again Sam hits him big time.
‘And stop hitting me.’
‘No way.’
Sam hits him again but then Von Leer got up and headbutts him real bad over his left eyebrow. Sam’s head was bleeding, he also received a right hand in his face, knocking him down. Sam was shaken by the headbutt and remained down. A few henchmen came to the Von Leers. (Slow tense music takes over here from the nightclub scene in Bad Boys)
‘Hurry up, Mr. Von Leers. Your getaway cars are ready,’ one of them said, leading them outside to their cars. Mammon quickly followed.
‘Alright, that’s enough!’ Mike shouts. ‘Our three main targets has left the building. Get in your cars and get them.’
Marcus ran up to Sam who was still down.
‘Hey, kid are you ok? That’s a nasty cut you have there.’
‘I’m fine, Marcus. I’m just going to have a major headache.’
‘Can you stand up?’
‘Yeah. Have you seen my father?’
‘I saw him in that office fighting, then I lost him. Come on, let’s get out of here.’
Everybody went out of the building to their cars for a wild ride. I ran to the jeep and took place at the drivers seat. With screeching tyres I followed the rest. When I saw Sam, Marcus and Mike, I had to push the breaks.
‘Sam, are you alright?’ I asked.
‘I’m fine, it’s just a bruise.’
‘Seems more like a wound to me, get in.’
‘Wait, where’s dad?’
‘I’m right here,’ MacGyver said running to us. ‘Sam, are you…?’
‘Yes, dad, I’m alright,’ Sam said while getting in the car.
‘Move over, Mario, I’m driving,’ MacGyver said.
‘No, no, no, no, you just get in on the other side.’
‘Move it, tough guy. It’s my car.’
I sighed and moved over.
‘Alright, let’s get them,’ MacGyver said and pulled his car up to it’s speed limit. Mike and Marcus got in their car and did same thing. Before we knew it we were caught in the middle of a high speed car chase.
(The music changes here into the Miami Chase track from Bad Boys)
First we went to the city. It was hard to keep in the chase. Von Leer’s car were way ahead of us hunted down by the Alpha Team cars. We heard gunfire and lots of sirens around us. Twenty police cars came to help us. It was getting dangerous in those small streets. MacGyver held his steering wheel tight after he puts on his sunglasses.
‘Mac, we’re going awfully fast. What have you done with this car?’ I asked.
‘Last night, I took the liberty of messing with the engine,’ he answered.
‘That’s why we have this much speed,’ Sam said.
‘Yep, we’re going 110 miles per hour now.’
‘Whatever you do, dad, just push that gas pedal,’ Sam cheered.
Even MacGyver was having fun in this chase. Wind blew in our hair because of the topless and door less car.
‘Come on, MacGyver. We need to get them, the gold and the girls,’ I said.
‘I’m going as fast as I can.’
Sam looked behind him and saw a car come closer really fast. The car hits us in the back and again. MacGyver looked in his back view mirror.
‘What the hell?’
‘Dad, Mario get down!’ Sam yelled.
‘What is it?’
‘Shotguns!’
We ducked when the shotgun fired. Another shot destroyed MacGyver’s windshield.
‘Damn, my windshield.’
‘I’ll take care of this,’ I said.
‘What are you going to do?’ Sam asked.
I took out the gun again. The one I gave to MacGyver.
‘Shooting at their tyres,’ I said. ‘MacGyver, make sure, I got enough of firing space.’
‘Don’t do that, you’ll kill them,’ he protested.
‘Hey, I got gun training for a reason. With any luck they’ll survive.’
The car that was trying to get us came driving next to us. The driver was at my right side. We shared a look and then he smiled. I smiled back at him. Without any hesitation I triggered the gun and fired at their front tyre. The car started to slip and spin around. It flips over a couple of times until it lays still on it’s side. Other cars crashed into it. One car crashed partly into it and flipped over too, it slid right over the street making a spark rain.
‘Oh my God, did you see that?’ I asked shocked.
‘Those cars just flipped over man,’ Sam said. ‘I only saw this in movies.’
‘I just can’t believe you did that,’ MacGyver said with devastation.
‘Well, we got rid of them, that’s what matters,’ I said.
‘It’s true, dad.’
In front of us several other cars started to flip over and over.
‘Look at them go,’ I said.
‘This is way too violent for my taste,’ MacGyver said.
After all his years of experience at the Phoenix Foundation he never gone through something like this. However watching those cars flipping over was somewhat spectacular, it was a pity for those who were in the cars.
Mike’s car was further ahead of us. Marcus was shooting at a car with a shotgun while Mike was shooting with his left hand and tried to steer steady in the chase.
‘Shoot them, Marcus,’ Mike ordered.
‘You just make sure, we don’t slow down,’ Marcus yelled at him.
‘Don’t you worry about that, partner.’
‘Mike, check this out.’
‘Check what out? I ain’t got time to check things out,’ Mike said.
‘Too bad, this is going to be spectacular.’
Marcus leaned over out of the window with his shotgun and aimed for the car in front of them. The tyres was the actual aim. The back windshield was blown away by the occupants of the car and started to fire an Uzi at Mike’s car. It hits his target on the windshield but there was nothing but a few holes. The windshield wasn’t completely totalled.
‘Jesus Christ,’ Marcus expressed.
‘Thank God for bullet proof windows,’ Mike cheered.
‘Don’t worry buddy, I’ll make them pay for this,’ Marcus said and aimed at the tyres of the car. (The music slows down a bit) In slow-motion the bullet of the shotgun is fired, flies through the air and drills in the tyre. The car slips, flips over twice and rolls into the window of a grocery shop. The window shatters when it went through. The guy who owned the shop was scared like hell and looked shocked after he saw what came in. Then an explosion followed.
‘My store!’ he cried. ‘--WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ing Miami PD!’
(The music changes into the track Helicopter Attack on Riggs's trailer from Lethal Weapon 2)
Mike and Marcus were much further again when we passed the store. Our eyes became bigger when we saw what happened to that store.
‘Did you see that?’ Marcus asked.
‘Yes and I heard the explosion too, but now it’s my turn to flip a car over.’
‘I don’t think so, Mike. The car next to you is way too close.’
Mike looked at his left and it was indeed way too close. They tried to make Mike crash. Mike did the same thing back, making them crash. The cars were now against it each other, riding at nearly 120 miles per hour in the city.
‘Son of a --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--, he won’t give up,’ Mike cursed.
Marcus loads the shotgun again.
‘Alright then, let’s do it this way,’ Marcus said.
‘What are you gonna do?’
‘Back up, Mike. Lean backwards as much as you can.’
‘Why?’
‘That’s why!’
Marcus shot again, Mike saw the bullet passing his face, missing it only nearly by an inch. The bullet crashed into the other car, hitting the nose of the person at the passengers site, blood and guts splattered around in the car. The bullet also hits the driver of the car right in the sleep. The car crashes into a parked car flips over and ends up on the sidewalk.
‘Those train tracks are coming, Mike,’ Marcus said.
‘So?’
Marcus points behind them.
‘There’s another car of them behind us, maybe we could crash them against the train.’
‘For once you have a good idea. Those bars are going down,’ Mike noticed. ‘There’s a train coming by.’
The car behind them bumped in on their back bumper. Marcus didn’t hesitate for a moment and started to fire at them. One bullet went through the window leaving a hole and a few cracks behind. He broke the back windshield with his feet, after kicking it several times and tried to shoot at their pursuers. He succeeded in killing the man at the passengers seat, but the car kept coming.
‘Hurry up Mike, hurry up,’ he said after taking his place at the passengers seat again.
‘Just you hang on to something. This is going to be fun.’
The train was closing in but so were they. At their speed Mike and Marcus drove over the ramp making their car going through the air and missing the train at only one inch but the car behind them got caught by the train. The car rolls over on the train and is dragged several yards away with the train. The car falls of the train and continues to roll over. Then it explodes
. The flame rose up mushroom clouded.
‘Damn!!’ Mike said. ‘What a special-effect.’
‘You got that right.’
We caught up with Mike and Marcus after we flew over the rails at high speed.
‘Where’s Von Leer’s car?!’ MacGyver shouted at Mike.
‘It’s way over there, the dark blue car!!’
‘Got it!’
We tried to get closer to them. It wasn’t easy but we got close enough at shooting range. Mike was on our tail. With a sharp turn to the right, Von Leers car went into another street.
‘Faster you dumb bum!’ Nikolaus swore, who was sitting besides the driver.
‘I’m going as fast as I can, Mr. Von Leer,’ the henchman said.
Erich Von Leer and Mammon were sitting in the back.
‘I can’t believe this brother. This is becoming way too risky,’ Erich Von Leer.
‘I know that, brother. We have to get out of here. We need to get to the freeway. From there on we are home free.’
‘Let’s get out of the city first. Mammon shoot at the police.’
‘But Mr. Von Leer, I…’
‘Shoot outside!!’
‘Yes, sir.’
Mammon opened his side window, leaned somewhat for over and started to shoot at us and at Mike’s car.
‘MacGyver, look out,’ I said.
‘Hang on,’ he said and turned his steering wheel to the left. We nearly crashed into another car. Lucky for that one that he got away in time. Mammon kept shooting at us and succeeded to fire a couple of rounds in MacGyver’s front side of the jeep.
‘It’s a good thing that metal can be easily fixed, huh?’ MacGyver laughed.
‘Why are you laughing, dad?’ Sam wondered.
‘If I couldn’t fix this myself, I would be --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--,’ he replied.
Mammon shot a few rounds in Mike’s car too. Along the side and in the windows.
‘Damn it. Damn that mother--WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--er. Marcus next time you remind me of taking a police car to those chases, alright?’
‘Whatever. I always liked this car, ya know.’
‘Don’t get sentimental on me and my car now, ya hear?’
We were going to a busy crossing point. Lots of peoples were crossing the street there.
‘Oh, my God, no!!’ MacGyver screamed. ‘Get out of the way!!’
‘Watch out peoples!’ I screamed.
‘Look out everyone!!’ Sam screamed.
The pedestrians weren’t aware yet of the bunch of cars coming at them and were slowly crossing the street. Everything was going according the book until some people looked at their right and saw the chase coming closer with Von Leers car upfront.
‘Mr. Von Leer, what do I do?’ the driver asked.
The Von Leer brothers shared a look at each other.
‘Run them over,’ Erich said.
Nikolaus had his doubts about this but decided not to argue with his older brother about it. The car gained some more speed again.
‘How much faster can they go?’ MacGyver wondered but his face just got this shocked look again. ‘Holy poo, they’re going to run them over. Those --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--s.’
‘Stop them, dad!’
‘We got to stop them, MacGyver. We just got to.’
We were going 130 miles per hour now.
‘I’m almost at my speed limit, guys. 140 is the limit,’ he warned
‘Faster, faster.’
The steering wheel was shaking in MacGyver’s hands.
‘If I’m going over the 140, the car will explode!’
MacGyver had the car still under control but only barely. The crowd upfront was getting in a panic and started to run in every direction they could. Some peoples got trampled down the crowds feet. Von Leers car drove over peoples without mercy, also their other henchmen in their cars ran over those people. Lots of peoples were getting injured and badly wounded. Bodies were flying all around, arms, legs, even heads. It was getting a really bloody mess. MacGyver tried to dodge them and drive between them.
‘Jesus, --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--!’ Mike was devastated by what he saw, just like Marcus.
‘Holy Mary, mother of God. I can’t believe these --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ers just ran over them!’
When we were passed the crowds and way up ahead on the road again, we took another turn to the right, then suddenly we got ambushed. It wasn’t a dead end though. The freeway was in sight. When Von Leers car passed the street, a road block was suddenly set up at the beginning of the highway by waiting cars. MacGyver and all the cars had to break brutally. The tyres screeched over the road, making black marks. (The music slows down again)
‘Damn it!’ Mike swore and grabbed his police radio. ‘Central, the car got away, get those choppers in the air. They’re going on the highway, copy?’
‘Copy, that Alpha Leader,’ a female voice said on the other side.
‘Alpha Team, come in. Do you read me over? Alpha Team?’
‘Aren’t they answering?’ Marcus asked.
‘No, get out of the --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ing car and shoot these mother--WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ers,’ Mike snarled.
(The music speeds up again)
Marcus got out of the car with his shotgun and joined the others in another shootout.
‘Alpha Team?!’
‘We read you, Alpha Leader.’
‘Clear the road, make those cars go way.’
‘Got it, Alpha Leader.’
‘Check.’
Mike drove his car backwards so that the Alpha Team could crash in the roadblocks. Henchmen of the Von Leers brothers who were left behind started to shoot around. We had to stay low and hide behind cars, not to get hit. We saw Marcus shooting around with his shotgun. Mike was somewhere else shooting with two Beretta’s in his hands. We crawled to them. Occasionally I took a shot a someone until the gun was empty.
‘Mike, the gun’s empty,’ I said.
‘Check in my car. There are more guns in there.’
‘What happened?’ Sam asked. ‘Did we lose them?’
‘Not yet. This is not over yet,’ Mike answered.
‘No, he told the station to get the choppers up in the air,’ Marcus replied.
‘And with my tracking device of the Phoenix Foundation, we can track them down pretty easy,’ MacGyver said.
I crawled and rolled over to Mike’s car, when I got in his car bullets ricocheted all over the place making holes in the car ceiling. I ducked under the dashboard to be safe. I moved slowly around the car. There was nothing on the backseats. I opened the glove compartment where more guns where stashed in. I took two of them guns and extra clips. Then I went back to the rest, who were still hiding behind cars.
‘Mike, where’s the Alpha Team?’ Marcus asked while he reloaded his gun.
‘They were on the way,’ he answered while shooting another guy.
‘Tell them to hurry up, before the Von Leers are too far away,’ MacGyver said.
‘Got it,’ Mike said. ‘Alpha Team, this is Alpha Leader, where the --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE-- are you guys?’
‘Hang in there, Mike. We’re on our way to you. Is there enough space to crash into them?’
‘Yeah, sort of.’
‘Just hang in there, Alpha Leader. We can see you right now.’
‘Finally.’
MacGyver ran back to his car to get the tracking device, he held in his own glove compartment and then he ran back to Mike. The device made a bleeping sound.
‘I kept this thing on from the moment, we entered the harbour. Always useful in chases,’ MacGyver said.
‘Where are they?’ Marcus asked.
‘Well, they’re still on the radar, so we can still get them in. It’s not too late yet.’
(The music changes into the Sub Battle of The Abyss)
Suddenly the sound of an speeding engine was heard and there was the Alpha Team crashing in the two blocking cars, making the road free again. Von Leers henchmen went back in their cars or stole cars and tried to get out of there. The chase was ready to begin again and in a matter of minutes, if not seconds, we were caught up again in the chase which led us to the freeway of Miami, Florida.
‘Central, where are those damn helicopters?’ Mike barked in his radio.
‘They’re coming to you, Alpha Leader,’ the woman said.
‘Why is everybody always so --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ing late today?’
‘They probably made it too late last night,’ Marcus said. ‘Y’know, drinking, partying.’
‘What the hell are you doing inside the car?’ Mike asked. ‘Lean out of the goddamn window and shoot these --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ers.’
‘Aye, aye, sir!’
‘Alpha Leader, come in,’ a voice suddenly said.
‘Who the --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE-- is this?’ Mike demanded to know.
‘This is the Beta team, sir. In the choppers.’
‘Good, finally. Took you long enough.’
‘Who’d you want us to catch?’
‘Our target is way up head in a dark blue vehicle. Shoot at the people that are leaning out of the windows and shooting at us. Preferably shoot at their tyres and in the end use the heavy artillery. Then we’re sure, we have these guys.’
’10-4.’
In our car MacGyver was getting up his speed limit again.
‘Are they still on the screen, Mario?’ MacGyver asked.
‘Let me see.’
I took the tracking device.
‘They’re almost off screen, hurry.’
‘Dad, look, helicopters,’ Sam said and pointed to the sky.
‘I know, son. It says Miami PD. Looks like we got more back up.’
Sam looked behind him and saw more helicopters coming.
‘More helicopters?’
‘Cool,’ I said.
‘I don’t know, Mario,’ MacGyver said. ‘Those choppers doesn’t look like the ones of the Miami PD. These seems more like the ones of the news.’
‘The news?’
‘Yeah, look. Channel five news.’
‘We’re going to be on TV,’ Sam cheered.
‘Wow!’ MacGyver said sarcastic, rolling with his eyes.
The tracking device started to bleep louder.
‘MacGyver, we’re back on track. I can see them,’ I said.
‘Where?’ he asked.
‘They are right over there,’ I said pointing to them.
‘Good.’
We gained in Mike’s car.
‘They’re back in sight, Mike,’ I said to him.
‘Yeah, I can see them,’ he said while he started shooting again.
In Von Leers car they also noticed more back up came through the air.
‘Mr. Von Leer, look outside,’ Mammon said.
‘What is it, Mammon?’ Erich asked.
‘There are choppers out there,’ he replied.
‘I can’t believe this,’ Nikolaus said. ‘Time for the heavy artillery.’
‘What do you mean?’ Mammon asked.
From underneath his seat, Nikolaus took a box. It wasn’t a first aid kit, though. It was green box with a lock on. Nikolaus shot the lock off.
‘Nikolaus, what are you going to do?’ Erich asked.
‘I got a grenade launcher here,’ his brother answered.
‘So?’
Nikolaus looked at his brother and Erich realised what his brother had in mind, it made him smile evilly.
The chase was getting a lot faster again. MacGyver had his hands firmly around the shaking steering wheel.
‘Come on, MacGyver, faster,’ I said.
‘I’m already going at 138 miles per hour,’ he said.
‘You can go to 142 at least,’ Sam said.
The car was almost out of control. The needle at MacGyver’s dashboard was going unsteady to the 142 miles per hour.
‘I got to slow down a little,’ MacGyver said.
‘No, dad, don’t slow down,’ Sam said almost begging.
‘But we only got ¼ of gasoline left.’
‘MacGyver, we did a lot more with a lot less, remember?’ I reminded him of what we did on our last few assignments together.
‘Yeah, yeah.’
Guns were firing all over the road and bullets ricocheting, it wasn’t easy to be in the chase, riding at 142 miles per hour and dodging bullets at that speed. Then the helicopters joined in with their weapons firing at the cars.
Mike and Marcus were also firing their weapons. Mike took his radio.
‘Alright, Beta team, these guys aren’t giving up, get ready for the bombardment,’ he said.
‘Bombardment?’ Marcus asked.
‘Latest invention for a situation like this. Our helicopters can bombard the road.’
‘Mike, you can’t bombard the road, what about all those cars behind us, that aren’t involved?’
‘If there are any tourists out there, they got something to tell about, when they come home.’
‘I can’t believe this.’
‘Latest trick, Marcus.’
The helicopters flew over low.
‘Wow!’ Sam expressed. ‘I wonder what they’re up to.’
‘What are those things hanging under those choppers?’ I asked.
‘It looks like…,’ MacGyver couldn’t see it right. He lifted his sunglasses a little up and peeked from under it. ‘Bombs?’
‘Bombs?’ I and Sam asked at the same time.
‘They’re going to drop bombs on the road,’ MacGyver said with dead seriousness in his voice.
‘You can’t mean that,’ I said.
‘They will. I heard they do stuff like that with the Delta Force,’ he explained.
‘Sick poo,’ I said.
We were still driving near Mike’s car.
‘Mike!’ I screamed at him.
‘What?’ he shouts back.
‘Who are those guys in the choppers?’
‘That’s team Beta.’
‘Are they going to drop bombs?’
‘Yeah.’
‘Sick, man.’
‘They are also known as the members of the Delta Force.’
‘Thanks for notifying us,’ I said and started to shoot again.
One of the choppers started to fly over near Von Leers car and dropped one bomb on the road. MacGyver, Sam and I started to scream.
‘AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!’
Mike went to his right to dodge the flame, MacGyver went to his left.
‘Jesus Christ!!’ he yelled.
‘Oh my God,’ Sam screamed.
Another bomb was dropped but only blew another car away. The third bomb hits almost it’s target. It was a car with some of Von Leers goons in. The left side was blown into the air, the car falls over to his right and lands on his rooftop. It exploded into bits. More bombs were dropped. One car was blown of the freeway and lands on the road below. Cars from the road under us crashed in on it, causing a big pile-up. The bridge we went on had a part of the ocean going under it. Another bomb blew more cars away, making them flying of the highway and falling into the ocean. The second helicopter took over. The helicopter dropped a bomb on the road, which almost hits our car.
‘Whoa!’ MacGyver exclaimed.
It hit the right side of the car next to us. It almost had the same effect as the car that exploded just before. The car tipped and rolled over on to the next lane, where the cars were going to the opposite direction. Also there the cars crashed into each other.
‘This is getting way out of hand, this is out of hand, Mike,’ Marcus said.
‘Shut up, Marcus and --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ing concentrate,’ Mike said. ‘Do your --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ing job and shoot the --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE-- outside.’
‘With those --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ing bombs out there?’
‘Yes. Look at MacGyver’s car. No roof, no doors, do you hear them complain? We almost have them, Marcus, believe me.’
‘Yeah, right.’
We passed the bridge and came back on the normal roads again, but we remained on the highway. A few highway exits passed us by. One of those exits said: Last exit to Disneyland.
‘Disneyland?’ I asked.
‘Oh, I had that in mind to go there,’ MacGyver said.
‘Yeah, right, dad. That’s a good one,’ Sam said.
‘I’m serious,’ he said.
‘Right,’ I said.
‘OK, then, you’ll see from as soon this is all over, we’ll go to Disneyland.’
‘Yeah, right,’ Sam and I said at the same time.
‘Oh, shut up you two,’ MacGyver said laughing.
We came on another bridge again where another part of the ocean was streaming under again. In Von Leers car, Mammon got the grenade launcher pushed in his hands.
‘Here!’ Nikolaus said and pushed a button in the car’s ceiling to make the window of the rooftop open. ‘Get out there and fire those grenades at those choppers.’
Mammon didn’t bothered to protest and did what he had to do. He stood straight up in the car with the grenade launcher in his hand. He started to aim at one helicopter. MacGyver saw what he was about to do.
‘Oh, god, no!’
‘What is that?’ Sam asked.
‘That’s a grenade launcher,’ I said. ‘He’s going to blow those helicopters out of the sky!’
‘That’s what he has in mind, yes,’ MacGyver said.
The second helicopter dropped another bomb on the road. BOOM!! Then Mammon fired a grenade out of the launcher. The grenade was send through the air with massive power. It made a whistling sound when it went through the air. Bulls eye! The helicopter exploded in the air and fell on the road, where it explode again. The helicopter crashed on the other lane, on all those cars. People got killed inside their cars. Others got crushed. The propeller blade fell off the helicopter. We could feel the road shaking under all those explosions. In one the news helicopters, people got shocked of what they saw. (The music slows down a little)
‘Once again, the Miami PD is in full pursuit. Cars are flipping over and over again, as usual in our beautiful town. Crime is being fought over here. Apparently they are in pursuit of a dark blue vehicle, more vehicles are involved. What really happened is unclear at the moment. Who they are following is also unclear, not to mention the why. We’ll have to wait for that when we have more information at our studio’s. Just now a Miami PD helicopter got blown out of the sky. Whatever these guys did, they’re using heavy artillery on us and the police department. Even during the chase, they are involved in a shoot-out. Whatever is going on around here, we’ll find out later. Over to the studios.’
(The music speeds up again)
Mike and Marcus were also astonished of what just happened.
‘Did you see that, Mike? Some backup, huh?’
‘I’ve never been through something like this. This is the sickest chase I’ve ever been into.’
‘Well, if you didn’t ask for those helicopters to come over, this didn’t had to happen.’
‘Are you sayin’ this is my fault?’
‘This is your fault. It’s always your fault.’
‘Why is it always my fault? I’m the one who’s doing the actual cop work. You on the other hand… stop being so --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ing lazy.’
‘I’m not lazy.’
‘Why aren’t you shooting outside, then?’
‘Because I’m out of bullets, you dumb son of a --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--.’
‘There are more bullets in the glove compartment.’
Mammon fired another grenade at the first helicopter and also that one exploded in the air and fell on the highway. It was awful to see how these choppers got blown out of the sky.
‘Do I have to shoot these news helicopters too, Mr. Von Leer?’ Mammon asked.
‘Yes, Mammon. I do not want that this gets on the news,’ Erich said.
Mammon shot the other helicopters down too. The highway was one big mess. Several people got killed in the process. Cars were turned upside down, fire was everywhere. Over the last one hundred yards, helicopters lays just on the freeway, on the cars. The Von Leer brothers were pleased when they saw this but they couldn’t believe that we were still after them.
‘Dammit!’ Nikolaus swore.
‘Don’t worry, Nikolaus,’ Erich said laying a hand on his brothers shoulder.
Mammon sat down again.
‘Why not brother? We blew those helicopters out of the sky and they are still after us. Look at all those damages. The helicopters are burning on the road and still they don’t give up.’
‘Let me explain something to you brother. Not so far from here they’ll get a surprise they won’t expect.’
‘What is it, then?’
‘I can’t tell you that. Or else it wouldn’t be a surprise.’
MacGyver was still driving at his top speed but he wished he just could’ve done something.
‘I wish I could’ve done something for those people in the helicopters,’ he said.
‘Like what?’ I asked.
‘I don’t know. Something,’ he said.
‘Dad, there was nothing you could do,’ Sam said. ‘The only thing we can do is to get these guys, for those who died today, for our girls, for the gold.’
‘We can’t give up now, you’re right, Sam.’
Marcus was still firing at the dark blue vehicle but he couldn’t get a clean shot at their tyres.
‘I can’t get a clear shot.’
‘Dammit,’ Mike said.
(The music changes to something more dramatic and than goes slower and darker)
The chase went on for a time until suddenly the road blew up about fifty yards in front of us. Not only the lane we were on but also the other street blew up. A big… and I do mean a big part of the road just got blown up in the air and ended up in the water below us. Cars that were driving on that part of the road got blown with it and landed in the water. Sixty cars got blown off the road. A big oil tank blew up too, making the explosion even more intense. The explosion was ear deafening. Cars were flying through the air. Because of the sudden obstacle we all had to break hard. Other cars were to late and went through the flames of the explosion. Whatever the charge was, it was big and heavy enough to literally blow a piece of the street away. The road that was build there in the early fifties just got blown away. Parts that survived the explosion collapsed not much later and fell into the ocean. MacGyver and Mike really pushed hard on their brakes. We all screamed. The tyres screeched over the road again making those black marks. Also Mike and Marcus screamed like hell. Cars in front of us that couldn’t break in time flipped over when they started to slip and disappeared in the flames. Also cars from behind us started to flip over and went into the fire. MacGyver’s car stopped right in front of the flames. We all got out of the cars, mad as pit bulls. Marcus got outrageous out of the car and smashed the shotgun at the hood several times.
‘No! No!!’ he screamed.
‘We lost them!’ I yelled. ‘We can’t get through here!! They outsmarted us.’
‘Talking about an imaginative surprise,’ MacGyver said with approval for their ingenuity.
‘I never saw this one coming,’ Sam said.
‘--WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--s!!’ I screamed at them. Their car wasn’t out of sight yet, but I swore at them. I tried to follow to see where their car was. ‘MacGyver give me those binoculars from the glove compartment.’
He took them and threw them to me.
‘Catch!’
I caught them up and looked through it, trying to follow their car to see where they were going to.
‘Alpha Team, come in,’ Mike said. ‘Alpha Team?!’
‘We read you, Mike, what’s up?’ the voice said.
‘We got us a situation here with the road.’
‘We can see that.’
‘Do you still see the dark blue vehicle?’
‘Negative.’
‘But I have,’ I said. ‘I can still see them, they’re way over there.’
‘Wait, hang on, Alpha Leader. We have visual.’
I took the tracking device out of MacGyver’s car.
‘It looks like they’re coming back,’ I said. ‘They’re coming back?’
‘Back?’ Mike asked confused. ‘Alpha Team, according to our assistant here, they’re coming back. Is that an affirmative?’
‘That’s affirmative, Alpha Leader.’
‘Where are they going?’
‘They took the next exit and apparently, they’re coming back this way via the street near the beach. They’re going back to where they came from.’
‘The question is why.’
‘I think I know where they are going,’ I said.
‘Where?’ MacGyver asked.
With the binoculars I tried to follow their way.
‘Maybe it’s just a hunch and we can’t loose them with our tracking device but there could be a possibility that they’re going to Disneyworld.’
‘Disneyworld?’ Marcus asked.
‘Why not? It’s such a beautiful day and it’s crowded. Easy for them to disappear in.’
‘Then why didn’t they took the last exit back there?’ Mike asked.
‘How would I know? To play with us? To have their fireworks and hundreds of people to kill at the same time?’
‘He could be right about the Disneyworld thing, though,’ Sam said. ‘I think we should check it out.’
‘Alpha Team, do you still have that visual on them?’ Mike asked.
‘Yes, Alpha Leader.’
‘Good. Where they’re going?’
‘Disneyworld!’ the answer came and we all shared a look again.
‘Alpha Leader, turn around and go to Disneyworld we’ll be right there,’ Mike said.
(The music changes over to where Julie is kidnapped in Bad Boys)
We all got back in our cars again, turned around difficultly but we managed to do it and we went on our way to Disneyworld. Mike notified the paramedics through his radio.
‘Central, could you please send the fire department and lots of ambulances and coroners to the Miami highway.’
’10-4. How’s the pursuit going?’
‘You’ll find out, when you get here. We’re still in pursuit, over and out.’
It was not easy to ride over a good as well destroyed road but we managed to get back at the exit where the sign stood with: Last exit to Disneyworld. Back at our high speed again we went to the amusements park. Von Leers car and two more of their henchmen cars were right on their tail. Inside Von Leers car they were laughing of the obstacle.
‘How did you do that, Erich?’ Nikolaus asked laughing.
‘Lots of C-4 and a remote control, my brother. I arranged this last night, when I was making that phone call for this getaway car,’ his brother answered.
‘Where to now?’
‘In case they find us again, we got to switch cars but they’re on the other side of Disneyworld, so we’re going through there all the way to the end of the park. It’s easy to blend in and disappear, there.’
The entrance of the park was getting closer when we saw Von Leers car coming. They saw us coming too.
‘Blast!!’ Nikolaus swore, he opened his window and started shooting at us. Mike and Marcus didn’t hesitated for a second and started to shoot back. The windshield broke almost entirely, but no one got hurt. Marcus was back hanging out of the window shooting at the tyres of Von Leers car and their henchmen. They took a turn left and crashed into the gates of the park. We also crashed within them and continued our chase.
‘Get out of the way!!’ MacGyver screamed and honked with the car.
(Here we hear the drums in Mark Mancina's style)
Disneyworld was crowded up. People started to run and scream, mothers were taking their children into safety. The expression on their faces where shocking. The fathers also had looks like that when they saw Von Leers cars and the Miami PD going in there with the Alpha Team.
‘Son of a --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--!’ Mike said.
They were going through the small paths of the park at 135 miles per hour, just as we did. Mike’s car bumped Von Leers car in the back. The paths were getting wider, while we proceeded to go through the park. The second car of Von Leers men got next to Mike’s car. Marcus looked at them and fired another bullet in the window on the driver side. The glass got in the driver’s face making all cuts, the car crashed into a stall, flipping over. A few passengers still got out and started to shoot at the Alpha members that got out of their cars. The third car started to bump in on us. MacGyver bumped back on them but they got away. They went next to Mike again. Mike took his Beretta and fired at them. The car started to slip, just like all those other cars before. He shot again in the tyre this time without looking. The car was shaking. The left tyre went over a big rock, making the left side going down, but the right side got catapulted in the air. The car flips over and crashes into an entrance of an attraction, where people were waiting. A powerful explosion
followed. The Alpha Team decided to stay behind and they told this to Mike. The reason was to help any injured or wounded peoples. Mike acknowledged that. We were still into it with only one car in front of us, we could’ve handled this. Von Leers car gained some speed again.
‘We’re almost out of fuel,’ MacGyver said.
‘Just a little longer. We have them,’ I said.
The park was big and huge, lots of attractions left and right of us, many parades were held. We went through them. Everybody was screaming, kids were crying from all the shooting.
‘Don’t these guys know, when they have to give up!’ Mike yelled.
We chased after them through the whole park.
‘Alpha Leader, this is Alpha Team, come in, over,’ Mike’s contact said.
‘What is it?’
‘We got the last ones, sir.’
‘That’s affirmative.’
‘You are going to the farthest eastern wall of the park.’
’10-4.’
MacGyver, Sam and I were right on Mike’s tail.
‘Where are we going?’ Sam asked.
I looked at the tracking device.
‘To the eastern side of the park,’ I said.
Suddenly another dot started to bleep on the device.
‘Two dots?’ I asked confused.
‘They got another car waiting,’ MacGyver answered. ‘It can’t be anything else.’
MacGyver and I shared a look again.
‘Let’s stop them before they get the chance,’ I said.
‘It won’t be easy. But let’s remain optimistic, shall we?’ MacGyver suggested.
‘You know us, dad. We’d never give up,’ Sam said.
‘Apparently, they won’t give up either.’
‘They’ll better give up or I’ll go interfere,’ I said threatening.
‘Stop it,’ Sam said sarcastic. ‘You’re scaring the poo out of me.’
I gave Sam a yeah-right-look. MacGyver couldn’t let it to smirk. We kept driving around in Disneyworld for a time, we just weren’t able to catch them. Mike was getting annoyed by this. ‘I just can’t believe, we can’t catch these guys,’ Mike said.
‘I ain’t shootin’ outside no more, Mike. Them kids are already upset of those two cars that crashed in those attractions and I won’t take the risk to shoot. I might hit a kid.’
‘All those cars flipped over. Cars with them henchmen in, cars without their henchmen in, but we just can’t get their car to flip over.’
‘Mike, enough cars flipped over, today. How do you think Captain Howard is going to respond after he finds out that the highway is destroyed and that all those helicopters have crashed? I hope he doesn’t fire us for this. This the heaviest poo we ever pulled through.’
‘Don’t, I know.’
‘How much longer is this going to take?’
‘As long as it takes, I’m afraid.’
‘Damn it.’
‘I know, partner. I know.’
In Von Leers car, the atmosphere seemed to lighten up a little now they were coming closer to their goal behind the perimeter wall of the park. Everybody was whooping there.
‘I can’t believe it,’ Nikolaus said. ‘We are going to make it, for a moment there… I thought, we weren’t going to make it.’
‘It’s just around the corner, then we are at our meeting point with the other car,’ Erich said.
The car took a turn to the right where the path ended in a dead end.
‘Behind the wall!!’ Erich said.
‘Alright, stop the car, in front of the wall,’ Nikolaus ordered the driver.
The driver did like he was told and stopped the car in front of the wall. The Von Leer brothers, Mammon and the driver got out fast. They opened the trunk and took the heavy bag with the gold in. They stood on the hood of the car and with a powerful throw, Mammon threw the bag over the wall, then they all crawled over the wall, to another waiting car. They quickly got in and were willing to take off but the car wouldn’t start anymore.
I looked at the tracking device and saw that their dot wasn’t moving anymore.
‘MacGyver, we lost them,’ I said.
‘What?’ he asked.
‘No, wait. Not quite yet. Both dots are still on the screen but they don’t appear to be moving.’
‘They went around this corner, dad,’ Sam said. ‘Come on, hurry up. We can still catch them.’
MacGyver really had pushed on the breaks not to crash into Mike’s car. We saw that Von Leers car was empty. MacGyver was the first one to get out of his car and I followed him. (The music changes over to where MacGyver goes after Zavros in Lost Treasure of Atlantis) We climbed over the wall on the moment their car started again. MacGyver ran after them really fast and got on top of the car before it took off.
‘MacGyver!!’ I yelled.
I ran after the car with the others on my tail. MacGyver was still on top of the car but slid of the roof and landed on the hood. The car was swinging to every direction to get MacGyver over the hood. He was holding himself onto the windshield wipers. Suddenly the car breaks and MacGyver falls backwardly of the hood. He rolls over a couple of times but wasn’t hurt. The car was now behind him. He looks over his shoulder and saw the car coming at him at high speed. He gets up, fakes a move of going to his left but then goes right to dodge the car. The car scrapes a wall making all sparks and takes off again. We went after them. Mike, Marcus and I fired our guns but were unable to hit their car. This time they really got away. We weren’t able to follow them anymore. We lost this time. (The music slows down and fades away) I was furious. After all what happened today, we came so close in catching them and still they managed to get away. Hundreds of people got killed today, the highway is almost completely destroyed, helicopters crashed, cars flipped over. An attraction entrance got destroyed. There’s a lots of damages in the city of the shooting. That’s going to be a massive bill to pay to this city. Traffic got stuck since the explosion on the highway. I ran to MacGyver who was getting up from the ground.
‘I’m alright,’ he said a little hurtfully.
I just nodded. I was too angry to speak. My blood was really boiling.
‘--WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--, these mother--WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ers, got away. I can’t --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ing believe this!!’ Mike shouted really angry. ‘We almost had these --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ers!’
‘After all what happened, the Miami population took a serious nose dive because of these --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--s!’ Marcus yelled also angry.
‘We should’ve been able to catch these guys,’ Sam joined yelling, the two men who were arguing. ‘Why, after all those guys we caught, did these guys got away?!’
‘Maybe because they run this --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ing operation!’ Marcus snarled.
‘Maybe you should’ve kept firing like I told you!’ Mike snapped.
‘Are you saying this my --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ing fault?’ Marcus snapped back at Mike. ‘I’m sick and tired of you looking down at me like this. You think you’re all big and bad. You the man? You the man? I did like you told me.’
‘Should’ve kept firing, man. You’re pathetic.’
That did it for Marcus.
‘Now, that does it, Mike,’ Marcus said and hits his partner with a hard right hand in the face.
Mike stumbles backwards and ends up against the wall. Mike roars while he gets up and steams at Marcus. With a swinging right fist he hits Marcus hard in his stomach. Marcus coughed while he got to his knees. He was trying to get his breath.
‘That makes us even, now,’ Mike said.
‘Not quite, Mike,’ Marcus said and while he got up, he gave Mike such a massive uppercut against his nose that he fell over. I heard his nose crack but it wasn’t broken though. Blood was dripping out of his nose. Mike looked at the blood coming out of his nose. With a sickening crack he placed his nose back where it belonged.
‘That’s better!’ he said while getting up again, but received a left hand in his face. Then Mike gets the chance to give Marcus three shots in the face. Left-right-left. Marcus was bleeding out of his mouth corner. Marcus hits Mike again and Mike hits Marcus again. I was about to explode and I did but not entirely.
‘Alright, that’s enough!’ I yelled. ‘Stop it!! They got away. Instead of fighting each other, you got to work together.’
‘Stay out of this, man. This is between me and him,’ Marcus said.
‘He’s right,’ Sam said. ‘We gotta work together to pull this off.’
‘If he kept firing at the car, we had them,’ Mike spitted back.
‘What if he hit a kid, huh? Ever thought of that?’ Sam said raising his voice.
‘Next time I’ll drive,’ Marcus said to Mike.
‘You drive?’ Mike asked.
‘Yeah, and you’ll do the shooting. Then we can see who’s the best in shooting. You’re not one hair better then me, Mike. Not one.’
Both men started arguing again and Sam got involved too as well as me. We started to argue under each other. MacGyver couldn’t hear this anymore.
‘Alright, will everybody just settle down, now?’ he asked in a heavy raised voice. ‘They’re gone, they still got the girls and the gold. Hundreds of people have died today and we are still not one single step further. This was our only clue and look what the results are. A destroyed highway, a damaged city and a ruined gateway of Disneyworld. Not to mention a destroyed attraction entrance. We had a hard day, today, I know. But look how this is turning out. We shouldn’t fight each other, we should get back to our senses and find these guys. First of all let’s get out of here, alright? Let’s get back in the park. Then we’ll sort things out.’
MacGyver spoke and we did like he said. We climbed back over the wall into the park. Everybody was a little in panic. Peoples who were sitting in attractions had absolutely no clue of what was going on in the park. Peoples started to gather around the three cars that were parked at the eastern wall. I was still boiling with anger. I went to Mike’s car and grabbed the shotgun out of it. I slammed the car door real hard making the window cracking a little.
‘Hey, man!’ Mike said irritated. ‘What the hell do you think you’re doing? Take it easy with my car, ok?’
I didn’t pay any attention to him. I loaded the gun and went to Von Leers car. I started shooting at the tyres. All four flat. Then I really exploded. I started banging on the hood with the back grip of the gun. I smashed the four windows and the front and back windshield. I kicked the car three times with my right foot. I dropped the gun on the ground and started to push the car several times in anger. MacGyver came to me to calm me down.
‘Hey, kid. Whoa! Stop it.’
Somehow he managed to grab my arms and pull them behind my back, but I kept struggling.
‘Take it easy, son.’
‘They’re gone, Mac. We should’ve caught these guys. They’re gone.’
‘I know, kid. But there’s not much, we can do right now. We gotta sort out what happened.’
‘It’s just, those girls. We need to get them back.’
‘And we will.’
Suddenly I got loose and started to kick the car again. Then the park security came to us and grabbed me by the arms. Also the manager was there. Walter Elias Disney.
‘OK, kid, that does it,’ one of the security members said.
‘Hey! Let him go!’ Sam said.
‘He’s with us,’ Marcus said.
‘Yeah, right!’ the man responded. ‘And Walt Disney is dead, right?’ he laughed while he putted me in handcuffs.
‘Well actually he is,’ Sam said with a frown on his face. ‘Or, he is at least supposed to be. How come he is here alive?’
‘This is a magical place of child innocent fun,’ Disney said smiling.
‘Um… Mr. Disney, can I have a word with you?’ MacGyver asked.
‘Sure,’ he said friendly. ‘What can I do for you, Mr… uh?’
‘MacGyver.’
‘Mr. MacGyver.’
‘Let’s talk over there.’
MacGyver led the man away from the cars to a more silent place to talk.
‘Sorry about the mess we made.’
‘Mess? There are injured children here, Mr. MacGyver. This is not good for the park.’
‘I know. I work for the Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles.’
‘Phoenix? Never heard of it.’
‘Yeah, well, we’re working together now with the Miami PD. We were chasing the bad guys and we ended up here. Now, that kid is with us. You can let him go.’
‘OK, if what you say it’s true, I’ll let him go. It’s such a pity there are so many scoundrels around here.’
‘It’s not just around here. They’re all over the world.’
‘Disney World exists for children to come and enjoy their lives, but if those bad men even come here, to get away… What other safe place is there left for the kids?’
‘It’s terrible, Mr. Disney. I’ll make sure that the Phoenix Foundation pays for the damages.’
‘Oh, no, Mr. MacGyver that’s not necessary.’
‘Oh, yes it. We pay what we destroy. Standard procedure I’m afraid. Don’t worry, the big boss, Peter Thornton is my best friend.’
‘I understand,’ Disney said smiling. ‘Can we be of assistance in helping you of whatever is going on?’
‘No, Mr. Disney. We can’t let you get more involved then you are now. It’s too dangerous. We just want you to let the kid go free.’
‘Alright.’
‘Oh, one more question though.’
‘Yes?’
I saw MacGyver talking to Walt Disney and when they were finished, they came back to us. Mike, Marcus and Sam were still trying to convince the security that I was with them.
‘Now, let him go,’ Marcus said.
‘If you just take these cuffs off, I can show you my ID. I work for the Phoenix Foundation and we’re working with the Miami PD,’ I said but the security just wouldn’t understand.
‘Look, we got a badge and we got guns,’ Mike said showing it to them. ‘I believe that makes us cops.’
‘Mike, put that gun away, there’re children here,’ Sam said.
‘Larry,’ Disney said. ‘You can let him go. He’s clean. Let him go, now!’
Larry took the cuffs off.
‘Sorry, kid.’
‘These are friendly peoples, Larry.’
‘I understand, Mr. Disney.’
‘Go on,’ he responded on it, making the security go away. ‘I’m sorry. We just hired him here. He’s only a beginner, looking for some action.’
‘The action we’ve been through today wasn’t very memorable, though,’ I said.
‘You can handle it from here on?’ Mr. Disney asked.
‘We’re alright, Mr. Disney,’ MacGyver said. ‘It was a pleasure.’
Both men shook hands like friends and said goodbye.
‘Nice man,’ MacGyver said.
Suddenly the Alpha team called in their leader.
‘Alpha Leader, this Alpha Team come in.’
‘I read you,’ Mike said. ‘What’s the problem?’
‘Captain Howard is here.’
‘Oh, poo!’
‘What is it, Mike?’ Marcus asked.
‘The captain is here.’
‘I guess, we’re in a lot of troubles, now,’ I said.
‘Alright, 10-4, Alpha Team,’ Mike acknowledged.
Mike took out his earphone and sighed.
‘Ready to get our bum whipped?’ he asked.
‘Despite everything that’s destroyed, we’re not fully responsible for it, is it?’ I asked.
‘Maybe,’ Sam said. ‘We didn’t destroyed the freeway. Von Leer did that and that’s at least one thing, they can’t accuse us.’<
I think the poison that was used was applied to this knife, passed to the mutton when it was cut and then activated by the wine. - MacGyver.
Sometimes you just have to die a little inside to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you.
It's better to be a little sad than to be fake content.
