[MacGyverGod]

Welcome the eighth chapter of the story. Now we'll have the great climax of the story. 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 slow tense music)
Chapter Eight
Turning up the Heat
The Game Ends
Rescue on the Gold Rush

MacGyver slowly moved on the ground, his hand was rubbing on a painful spot of his head. It was the place where Mammon hit him with the barrel of gun. One of the men kicked him around. MacGyver had a painful expression on his face.
‘Alright, get him up,’ Nikolaus ordered.
Two men pulled MacGyver up straight by his arms and they held him down.
‘You’ve been unconscious for almost ten minutes, now, MacGyver,’ Erich said.
‘Really?’ MacGyver said. ‘Too bad for you it wasn’t longer, huh?’
‘That’s right.’
‘Not quite, MacGyver,’ Nikolaus said. ‘You awoke just on time, or else you would’ve missed the fun, we’ve been planning to do with you.’
MacGyver looked at the barbecue-like thing. A poker was sticking in it, the fire was burning.
‘Oh, right,’ he remembered. ‘We were going to have barbecue, right? There’s just a minor problem.’
‘What’s that?’ Nikolaus wondered.
‘I already had barbecue last night.’
‘Good, then you already had your last meal,’ Nikolaus laughed while he poked in the fire. ‘So, MacGyver, do you actually have the slightest comprehension of what we are about to do to you?’
‘Making me toast?’
‘Sort of. Let me demonstrate it to you,’ he said while winking to Erich.
Erich signed a henchman to come closer.
‘I’m sure the two of you have met before,’ Erich said.
MacGyver looked up to the man who slugged him out not so long ago.
‘Ah yes,’ MacGyver confirmed, ‘you gave me permission to take a look at your fist up close.’
The man just smiled at MacGyver. MacGyver smiled back.
‘You know,’ he said, ‘I just don’t happen to like you.’
‘I don’t like you either, MacGyver,’ the man said back while he playfully pinched MacGyver’s cheeks on both sides. MacGyver’s face looked like a mask that way. The man pats MacGyver’s cheeks then.
‘Alright, roll his sleeve up,’ Nikolaus said.
Mammon came closer to the bigger man. He rolled the man’s sleeve up.
‘Now take a close look, MacGyver. I only show you this once,’ Nikolaus said.
(The music becomes more tense)
They nearly dragged MacGyver closer to the man’s arm. One of the men grabbed MacGyver’s neck to push him closer. Nikolaus held the poker near MacGyver’s eye. The heat on top of it was very intense. MacGyver looked at it with fear in his eyes, he followed it while it went closer to the flesh of the man that slugged him down before. The top was pressed on the skin. The hissing sound of the burning flesh gave MacGyver goose bumps. The big man groaned a little while biting on his teeth, trying to ignore the pain. A big red mark appeared on his skin. MacGyver looked shocked around the room. Nikolaus had a sadistic smile on his face, just like Mammon and the bigger man had.
‘You’re all crazy,’ MacGyver exclaimed. ‘You’re all completely out of it.’
‘If you had five thousand million dollars, MacGyver, you would lose it too,’ Nikolaus said.
‘I don’t care about the gold anymore, I just want the girls back.’
‘Too late. Get him ready for it,’ he ordered his men while putting the poker back in the fire.
The men pulled him backwards again and took off his jacket.
‘Gimme, his arm!!’
‘No, no!!’ MacGyver protested.
The henchman at his left arm struck him in his stomach real hard. MacGyver kept struggling to keep his arm. Nikolaus took the red hot poker. He also grabbed MacGyver’s arm. He kept the poker near MacGyver’s face again. He took a few steps backwards and was ready to lay the poker on MacGyver’s arm. Slowly the poker came nearer to his arm. MacGyver couldn’t stand it anymore and with all his might he kicked the poker away from him. The sudden change of it’s course had one bad consequence for the henchman, who got brand before, because it got pierced in his stomach. It ended up coming out of his back. The man screamed this time. Shock went all over the room. (The music becomes extremely intense)
‘Can’t you pay any attention to what you are doing?!’ Erich screamed.
The two men who held MacGyver down, suddenly released him to help their stabbed down partner. MacGyver held them back instead and hits them down. Mammon came upfront and hits MacGyver in the face. MacGyver fell on a crate, he immediately fights back by shooting up, hitting Mammon again. Mammon fell backwards. The path to the door was now free, but Nikolaus came to stand in the way again. MacGyver simply pushes him out of the way and tries to make to the door. He succeeded. He ran up the stairs to safety. Well safe wasn’t it yet, but he was on the good way to escape.
(The music slows down here)
Sam and I were on the way of breaking through Mike’s door when MacGyver ran to us.
‘Dad?’
‘MacGyver?’
‘Yeah! What’d you guys have been doing?’
‘Well, we escaped,’ I said.
‘Yeah, and we caught two of them. They’re in the cabin,’ Sam explained.
‘What are you two up to?’
‘Mike and Marcus are in this cabin. We’re trying to get them out,’ I answered.
Sam recalled something.
‘Dad, give me your knife .’
‘Right!’
MacGyver searched his pockets but he didn’t find it.
‘I don’t have it,’ he said.
‘What?!’ Sam and I asked in unison.
‘That’s right. Nikolaus stole it from me when they tied me up.’
‘That’s just great, dad.’
‘What are we gonna do now?’
‘I’m going to get it back,’ MacGyver said and ran back to the engine room.
‘Hey, dad, what do you want us to do?!’
‘Just stay there and wait!’ he yelled back at us.
(The music turns up again)
MacGyver ran back to the engine room, when he was about the go down the steps, the ships alarm went off. MacGyver stopped startled for a moment but then continued to go down the stairs. While he looked in the engine room, everybody was cleaning up. Their back turned to MacGyver. He saw Nikolaus’s jacket on the floor. He searched the jacket while the others were still unaware of his presence. Nothing was in it. MacGyver goes “aw man”, silently. Nikolaus still must have it. Suddenly Mammon turned around. Short silence went through the room. MacGyver and Mammon shared a look together. MacGyver threw the jacket to Mammon as a diversion and ran away again after closing the door. MacGyver ran back to us.
‘What happened?’ I asked.
‘I didn’t get it.’
‘What?’
‘I almost got caught again, ya know.’
‘Now what?’ Sam asked.
‘I don’t know. We haven’t got much time, we need them if we wanna make a stand.’
MacGyver tried to think quick. ‘There’s only one way,’ he said.
‘Like what?’
‘Yelling through the door.’
‘But of course,’ I said but when I realized what he was really up, I rolled my eyes.
‘Mike? Marcus? Can you hear me?’ he yelled through the door.
‘Yeah, we can hear you!’ Mike screamed back.
‘Are you lose yet?’
‘No!’ Marcus replied.
‘Alright, try to find something sharp to cut your ropes!!’
‘Just don’t cut your wrists!’ I yelled.
After another short silence we heard glass breaking. We shared a look and MacGyver nodded in approval.
‘I think they’re free,’ Sam said.
‘Hey, you guys, alright? Are you free?’ MacGyver yelled.
‘Yeah, we’re free,’ Mike yelled back.
‘Alright!’ I said.
‘But now this door!! That’s another pair of sleeves.’
‘Hey! Can you open the doors from there?’ Marcus asked through the door.
‘No, we can’t!!’
‘Damn it!!’ Mike swore.
Mammon and his men got upstairs and came running at us. Sam and I decided to take a walk from them and ran like hell to get out of there.
‘Get them!!!’ Mammon ordered.
Two of his henchmen went after us. Mammon and MacGyver shared a look.
‘Where are the Von Leer brothers?’
Mammon smiled.
‘Hehehehe. MacGyver?’
‘Yes?’
‘It’s time for you to die,’ he said while he pulled the trigger of his gun.
MacGyver nodded.
‘Well, there’s only one thing left for me to do, right?’
‘Oh, yeah? Like what?’ (Fighting music comes up here)
MacGyver suddenly pushes Mammon against the wall of the ship with a firm grip around the wrist that held the gun. Mammon tries to shoot MacGyver. MacGyver slammed the wrist against the wall several times. Mammon pushes MacGyver back against the door. MacGyver pushes him back. During the wrestling Mammon succeeded in grabbing MacGyver by the throat. He kept his arm around MacGyver’s neck and placed the barrel of the gun against his head. MacGyver tried to take the gun away from his head. He grabbed Mammon’s wrist again. He hits him in the stomach. Mammon had to release his grip. MacGyver grabbed Mammons hand that held the gun and made him fire on the door. He made Mammon shooting the door open. He kicked the door open and threw Mammon inside. Mammon fell against the chairs Mike and Marcus sat on.
‘Wow!! What’s going on?’ Mike asked.
‘Hurry up, we’re in the middle of our escaping,’ MacGyver replied.
‘Hey, we can’t do anything without our guns.’
MacGyver knocked Mammon’s lights out. (The music slows down)
‘Grab his guns and do your job your way. Your way and we’ll do it ours.’
Mike nodded, he searched Mammon’s unconscious body. Lucky for him they founded an extra gun. Mike took Mammon’s gun and threw the other one to Marcus.
‘Clips?’
‘We still have our own!!’
‘Mac, what are we going to do with the girls?’
‘We’ll better leave them in their cabin, they’re safer there then they’re with us. We’ll just finish this first.’
‘You the man!!’ Mike said.
‘I’m the man!!’ MacGyver said. ‘We’ll split up and take care of these guys, alright?’
Mike and Marcus agreed and they went on their way, just like MacGyver did.
(The music starts again)
Sam and I ran to the upper deck, to have enough space for our stand. The henchmen were still following us. We closed the door that led up to the deck.
‘What are we going to do?’ I asked.
‘I can’t see any other way then to make our stand and fight them,’ Sam answered.
‘In a case like this, I wish we had guns.’
‘We ain’t got a choice. There’s only two of them. We can handle them.’
‘I know.’
We both stood besides the door. I was on the right side of the door and Sam on the left. The door got open and we both grabbed one of the henchmen. Sam knocked his one with a single punch. Mine was a bit tougher. I hit him with a right-left combination. Another right followed. The man fell down dazed and confused. When he tried to get me, I kicked him in the face.
‘Go to sleep!’ I said when I kicked him.
Sam came to me. (The music fades away again)
‘You alright?’ he asked.
‘I’m fine, how about you?’
‘I’m alright.’
‘Good. Now, how are we going to get out of here?’
‘Not without my father and the girls.’
‘Right and we can’t forget Mike and Marcus.’
‘Or the gold. Hey, perhaps that boat is still around, we can use that to get out of here.’
‘Maybe.’
We looked over the railing but the boat wasn’t there.
‘It’s probably on the other side of the ship,’ Sam said.
We looked on the other side of the ship and there the boat was.
‘So now what? How do we get on it? If we jump, we might break our legs,’ I said.
‘Then we have to jump in the water first, but I don’t like getting wet right now.’
‘Neither do I.’
Sam sighed loudly.
‘Look, we both have scores to settle with these guys. I’d say, we split up and do our stuff. When we meet with your father again, we can still decide what we’ll do.’
‘That’s a good plan, but I think it’s better, if I go look for my father and you wait here by the boat.’
‘Why should I wait?’ I protested. ‘I have a score to settle with Mammon.’
‘I know.’
‘And who knows, maybe they’ve sabotaged the boat. If we do get away, we could sink.’
Sam thought for a few moments.
‘Then we’ll do it your way.’
‘Right, we split up and --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE-- these guys.’
‘Excuse me?’
‘Don’t take that --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ing latterly.’
‘Right!’
We split up as well and went our own way. Sam went looking for Nikolaus Von Leer and I went for Mammon. If we just hadn’t fought that day at the bar… well, maybe it’s better this way. Time to get it over with.
(Tense music comes up again)
MacGyver was roaming through the ship. He was going to the cargo hold to check if the gold was there or not. If it was, the better. Then he could give it back to it’s rightful owners. If the gold wasn’t there, he wouldn’t know what the hell else to do. Getting out of there with the girls, probably. He had to think about his moves. There was actually not much he could do, even if he got to the cargo hold, the door might be locked and he still didn’t got his knife back. He kept going through the ship until he got to the cargo hold. Occasionally he looked around him, to make sure nobody was following him. He checked the door, it was open.
‘Now, that’s what I called, having good luck.’
A gun appeared at his head.
‘Good luck, MacGyver,’ a henchman said.
MacGyver turned around and he saw about twenty more men standing behind him. Their guns aimed at his head.
‘Oh, guys, can we talk about this?’ he asked.
‘No way.’
‘Alright, then.’
‘Get in there.’
‘In where?’
‘In the cargo hold. Now there’s a good place for you to die.’
MacGyver smirked.
‘Yeah, right. I’ll escape anyway.’
‘Not this time.’
The henchmen pushed the door open, MacGyver walked in backwardly. (Now we hear the music from the fight in the restaurant of The Wasteland) When he was in, he slammed the door against the henchman’s nose. He immediately grabbed the man and threw him inside the cargo hold. He closed the door behind him and leaned against it so that they couldn’t get in. Now he and the henchman were in the cargo hold. (The music slows down)
‘Very clever, MacGyver, very, very clever,’ MacGyver mumbled in himself.
‘Hehehehe,’ the man laughed, ‘now you’re in deep, deep troubles.’
‘Yeah, but I have you in my power.’
‘Not for long.’ (The same music starts again)
The man tried to hit MacGyver but he ducked, then with a firm right hand he hits the man instead. Another left hand continued. With a right uppercut he floored the man. Now the others came in. MacGyver was trapped. All men came inside the cargo hold. (The music fades away here)
‘Looks like you got me!’
‘That’s right,’ one of the men said, when they started to surround MacGyver. ‘Any last requests, pig?’
‘I’m a pig?’
MacGyver’s attention got drawn by Sam who appeared in the hall.
‘That’s right, MacGyver! You’re a pig.’
‘I’m more something of an ape. You however looks more like a pig, you idiot.’
‘That was a bad, bad thing to say.’
MacGyver looked briefly at Sam, who slowly took the fire extinguisher near the door. (Slow tense music starts here)
‘You know,’ MacGyver started, ‘living your life this way, ain’t the right way. What are you going to do, if you don’t make it out of here?’
‘We’ll see.’
‘Oh, yeah?’ Sam suddenly asked. ‘See this!’
He pushed on the fire extinguisher and a white smoke-like screen appeared. MacGyver didn’t hesitated for a second to get out of there. A henchman tried to get on Sam but Sam swung the extinguisher in the man’s face. MacGyver and Sam went out of the cargo hold. (The music fades away here)
‘Hey, dad!’
‘What?’
‘On my way, here, I found these,’ Sam said showing him the keys of the door.
‘Thanks, son. Well done. Very resourceful.’
MacGyver locked the door up.
‘Son?’
‘Dad?’
‘Thanks for saving me.’
‘No problem. You would’ve done the same thing for me.’
‘Uh-huh.’
‘You know, dad?’
‘What?’
‘Your face looks white from the extinguisher.’
‘I know,’ he said and sneezed in Sam’s face. The white stuff fell partly of his face onto Sam’s.
‘You didn’t had to sneeze, you know but uh… bless you.’
‘That stuff’s cold,’ MacGyver said while making his face more clean again.
(Fast driven music begins here)
Mike and Marcus were shooting throughout the whole ship. In a hallway they were firing at a couple of men.
‘Marcus!!’
‘What?’
‘Let’s get the --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE-- out of here.’
Marcus shot his gun empty.
‘I’m out of clips.’
‘Here!’ Mike threw Marcus a clip.
‘Mike, there’s just one problem.’
‘What’s that?’
‘The exit is on their side.’
Mike shot a guy to death.
‘That’s one obstacle less. Come on, we have to continued through this hallway.’
Both men continued to walk through the hallway. They shot the other guy as well.
‘Coast’s clear!!’ Mike said.
‘Not quite!’ a voice of another henchman said that appeared behind them.
‘You’re not going anywhere!’ another voice said that came from the way out.
‘poo!’ Marcus swore.
Without any hesitation they both shot the other henchmen down.
‘Damn! Good shot, man!’ Mike laughed at Marcus.
‘When I’m good, I’m good, Mike.’
When nearing the exit another henchman with a shotgun appeared in front of them. Marcus was walking upfront. A little too late to react the henchman shot with his shotgun, hitting Marcus in the left shoulder. Blood splattered on the walls and the door. Marcus screams of pain while he grabbed his shoulder. Mike shot at the man but the man ran away. Marcus fell on the ground sitting, his hand got covered with his blood. (The music slows down)
‘Yo, Marcus, you ok?’
‘No, Mike, I’m not ok. I’m shot goddammit and it --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ing hurts like hell too.’
‘I know.’
‘Mike, leave me here and go get this --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--er. I’ll join in as soon as I can.’
‘You sure?’
‘Yes, I’m sure. Go on.’
Mike nodded at his injured partner and left.
‘Damn, I’m shot,’ Marcus laughed. ‘That’s not the first time though.’
An expression of pain was to be seen on his face when he tried to get up. He opened the door again but yet again another henchman appeared. Marcus received a kick in his chest making him fall again. The henchman laughed.
‘You don’t seem to get it, do you?’ the man asked.
‘What the --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE-- are you talking about?’
‘You can’t get away from this ship,’ the man said while he kicked Marcus in the face. ‘This ship will become your grave.’ Another kick followed. Marcus’s lip was bleeding. (The music becomes darker and more tense)
‘Not if it becomes yours first, --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--!!’
‘--WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--?’
That one resulted in a kick against his ribs. Marcus rolled over. He came near a dead body and founded his knife. He grabbed the knife and stabbed his attacker in the leg.
‘Ow, poo!’ he screamed.
He grabbed Marcus’s head and kneed him in the face. Marcus was now mad as pit bull. He rose on his feet again, grabbing the man’s clothes and knees him in the groin several times. A right hand went to the face, the left hand too, another right one went to the stomach. That same right hand hits the face again. The man tries to hit Marcus but Marcus ducks and hits his enemy again with a left hand. The man blocked another punch and head butted Marcus right over his right eyebrow. Blood dripped out from the opening. Marcus fell down again. When the man tried to kick Marcus again, he grabbed the leg and pulled the knife out of the leg. Blood splattered around again. Marcus kicked the man now and he fell backwards. The man struck Marcus down again. Marcus threw the knife at the man and it was bulls eye. The knife ended up in the man’s stomach but the man wasn’t dead. Marcus grabbed the first gun he got and shot the man in his other leg.
‘Goodbye, mother--WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--er,’ he said and shot the man in his head.
Marcus went looking after his friend Mike.
(The music speeds up again)
Mike chased his man down on the ship. He was firing his gun at him but couldn’t hit him. They appeared upon deck where their chase continued. I heard their gunfire and went to see what was going on.
‘Mike?!’ I screamed.
Mike emptied his clip.
‘Dammit!’ he yelled.
He threw his gun at the man and strangely enough, he hit the man with it. The man got the gun at the back of his head and he fell forwardly. I crawled over the railing and jumped on the man below me. I got up and I struck him in the face. Mike came to my aid and jumped on the man’s back. The man grabbed Mike and threw him of his back. He and I came eye to eye again. He hit me in the face with a left hand and a right hand. He pushes me against the wall. I hit him in the stomach and a left one in the face. He struck me with the back of his hand. He turned back to Mike and hit him. He tackled Mike and hit him in the face two times. With a lot of force, he hits the man back. The man grabbed a lead pipe and hit Mike against his head, hard enough to wound him. A big nasty cut appeared on his left side of his face. Blood dripped all the way down his face. I got hit as well but my wound wasn’t that big but it was nasty. Another strike came around but I ducked just time just like Mike did. Mike founded a piece of rope and wrapped it around the man’s throat. His next intention didn’t really went as planned. He tried to throw the man against the railing on the side of the ship, but the man fell over the railing and got hung up. When he got to a sudden stop, his neck broke.
‘Oops!’ Mike said.
‘Right, oops!’ I replied.
Mike decided to make a knot in the rope on the railing.
‘What are you doing up here?’ Mike asked. (The music fades away now)
‘Sam’s orders, I’m afraid. We could use that boat to get out of here.’
‘The boat we came on? Right.’
‘But I’m tired of waiting here. I’m going to look for them.’
‘No, no. Let’s just wait here for a while.’
‘Hey, where’s Marcus?’
‘Marcus has been shot.’
‘What?’
‘He’s not dead or anything. He’s injured. Took one in the shoulder. He’ll be alright.’
‘Where is he?’
‘I left him, where he got shot. He asked me to take care of this --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--er, here.’
‘Well we did it.’
‘We sure did.’
Mike and I high fives.

MacGyver and Sam appeared back on deck. The sound of the door they opened dragged our attention. We went up to see what it or who it was. MacGyver and Sam of course.
‘Is everybody alright?’ MacGyver asked.
‘Yeah,’ I said.
‘We’re fine,’ Mike replied.
‘Where’s Marcus?’ Sam wondered.
‘I’m over here!’ he said when he shot another guy down.
‘Jesus, Marcus,’ MacGyver said when he saw Marcus’s injuries, ‘are you alright?’
‘Yeah, it’s just my shoulder. I think it went through on the other side.’
‘Then you’ll be alright?’ Sam asked.
‘Yes.’
‘Yeah, but you still need to go to the hospital,’ MacGyver said.
‘I’ll live. What about the gold and the girls?’
‘I think, they’re alright in there.’
(Slow tense music comes up again)
Laughter was heard behind us. We turned around and we saw the Von Leer brothers, Mammon and a few more henchmen coming on deck.
‘You still think, that you can get out of here, even if you defeated most of our men?’ Nikolaus asked. ‘Well, then. If you think you’d won, didn’t we forget something, then? Mammon!’
Mammon went inside and brought the girls out.
‘We didn’t won at all yet,’ I said.
‘And we certainly didn’t forget about them,’ Sam continued.
‘Right,’ Erich said amused.
‘So what do we do now?’ I asked.
‘I think the best thing, we do now is kill you all,’ Nikolaus said, ‘and we first start with the girls. They’ve been bothering us since the day we caught them.’
‘You know, you never really needed them in the first place,’ MacGyver said.
‘That’s right!’ Erich said. ‘It made things a little more fun, didn’t it?’
‘I just hate seeing people getting hurt in a crossfire.’
‘Ah, don’t you like that part of MacGyver’s reputation, Nikolaus?’
‘Yeah, his humanity will become his death one day.’
‘Funny, you’d say that. A long time ago Murdoc said the exact same thing to me.’
‘Goodbye, MacGyver!’
‘And that one too.’ (The music kicks in again)
Nikolaus took a shot at MacGyver but he got away just in time. Erich tried to shoot MacGyver as well. Chaos came to existence. Sam walks up to Nikolaus and presses him against the wall. I took on Mammon while Mike and Marcus started a gunfight between the henchmen and their selves.
Sam tried to keep Nikolaus against the wall.
‘Girls, get back to that cabin, it’s a lot safer there!’ he yelled.
Allie and Andrea didn’t wasted another minute and went back inside.
Sam got a knee in his stomach and got thrown against the ground. Nikolaus kicked him against his chest. He picked Sam back up to his feet and hit him in the face with a hard right hand. Sam fell against the railing of the ship. Sam kicked him back, making Nikolaus going back a few steps. Nikolaus tried to hit Sam again but Sam blocked the punch and hit him back with a left hand. The right hand went to the face again. Nikolaus hit him back with three shots to the head. Sam grabbed Nikolaus’s head in a headlock. By making a 360 degree turn he threw Nikolaus at the ground. They rolled over each other until – and pity for Sam – Nikolaus got on top of him. He hit Sam in the face three times. Sam began to bleed from his eyebrow down. The fourth one broke his nose. Nikolaus grabbed his head and banged it against the ground three times. Sam’s brains got dashed in his skull. Then he started to choke Sam. Sam tried to choke Von Leer back. He tried to get Nikolaus off of him. It was as if Sam started to win but Nikolaus wouldn’t let go. When there was enough space between them kicked Sam Nikolaus off of him. Sam started to cough heavily trying to regain his breath while he grabbed his throat to ease the pain. Nikolaus laughed at him.
‘I guess, we both got what we wanted, now,’ Nikolaus said.
‘What do you mean?’ Sam asked dryly.
‘You wanted the fight me to the death, remember?’
‘Yeah.’
‘Well, I guess you lost,’ Nikolaus said while grabbing his gun.
Sam looked up, his painful throat was immediately forgotten. He was now in the middle of getting up, sitting on one knee.
‘Goodbye, Sam!!’ Nikolaus said while pulling the trigger.
There was a moment, when it seemed, everything was standing still until the sound of the gunshot was heard. Sam was blown away and lays on his back, laughing.
‘Hahahahahaha!!!!’
Nikolaus was wondering what the hell so funny was.
‘What are you laughing about?’
‘You idiot. Hahahaha!! You just… hahahahahaaaaa, you just shot in my bullet proof vest.’
Nikolaus couldn’t laugh with this at all.
‘Oh, you think that’s funny, Sam?’ Nikolaus asked and kicked him hard in his chest again. ‘What if suddenly your bullet proof vest was gone, huh?’
Nikolaus tore up Sam’s jacket and took the vest away that he was carrying over his T-shirt.
‘This time a bullet proof vest wouldn’t safe ya,’ Nikolaus said and shot him again in his stomach on the right side. The bullet drilled itself in Sam’s body.
‘Didn’t hurt!’ Sam lied.
It hurt bad.
Once again Nikolaus kicked Sam but this time on his wound. Sam grabbed to his wound with his both arms and screamed of pain.
‘This is the end my friend,’ Nikolaus said while he aimed his gun at Sam’s head. ‘I told you, you would lose this fight.’
Sam looked in the barrel of the gun.
‘I wouldn’t be too sure of it, just yet,’ he said and kicked the gun away, out of Nikolaus’s hand. The gun slides over the ground a few feet away from the two fighting men. Nikolaus tried to go after the gun but Sam tripped him at his feet. Sam got up painfully but Nikolaus got up as well. He tried to hit Sam but Sam blocked the punch and hit Nikolaus down with a firm left hand. Sam went after gun and grabbed it. (The music becomes more tense again)
‘Don’t get up!’ Sam said. ‘Stay down.’
Nikolaus sat on his knees.
‘I should kill you for this,’ Nikolaus threatened.
‘No, I should be the one to kill you,’ Sam snapped.
‘You can’t! You’re too much a coward for it.’
‘Oh yeah. If it wasn’t for my father, I’d kill the man who assassinated my mother.’
Sam placed the barrel against Nikolaus’s head.
‘You feel that?’ Sam asked dangerously. ‘You feel that fear, when your life is threatened? You make people feel like that everyday?’
‘Only if I want something, nothing more, nothing less.’
‘And you want the gold, right? Then you made a stupid mistake by taking us. You thought if we capture them and kill them, we are rid of them. It’s the same mistake the bad guys always makes, they never learn.’
‘What are you going to do, now?’
‘I don’t know. Keep you alive until the police gets here.’
‘Police? We’re in the middle of the ocean. There is no police. Just us and that’s all there is to it, Sam. You can’t get away from here.’
‘Oh, yes, I will, even if it takes to kill you.’
‘Then why don’t you try me.’
(Fight music starts again)
Suddenly out of an impulsive reaction Sam hit Nikolaus with the barrel against his head making a bloody cut. Nikolaus hit him back in his stomach and pushes him out of the way. The gun fell out of Sam’s hands.
‘No!’ he screams.
Nikolaus went after it and grabbed the gun, when he tried to aim at Sam again, Sam jumped on him. They rolled over each other, struggling for the control of the gun. When Sam almost had the gun, the gun went off and again. They didn’t move anymore. A moment there again it seemed that everything stood still until Sam pushed Nikolaus’s body off of him. Only Sam didn’t had the gun. Apparently Nikolaus shot himself during the struggle. Sam was breathing heavily. He was surprised that he survived that. He lay there for a couple of minutes before getting up again.
‘I have to find my father,’ he said.

Mike and Marcus were somewhere on the ship firing their guns at some henchmen again. They shot the last one down together.
‘You alright, Marcus?’
‘I think, I’m losing a lot of blood, Mike. I need to get to hospital as soon as possible.’
‘Don’t worry, Marcus. I’ll get you outta here. OK, partner?’
Marcus looked at Mike when he said “partner” and smiled.
‘Let’s go then.’
Another henchman showed up. Marcus couldn’t react on time to safe his partner and Mike got shot in his right leg. Mike fell against Marcus and both men went to the ground. Both cops were hurt now. Marcus tried to get up but got slugged down again from the henchman’s fist. The henchman grabbed his knife and tried to attack Mike with it. Mike hit the man in the face trying to get him off of him. The man grabbed Mike’s hand and stabbed the knife through it. Mike screamed of the pain that went through his hand.
‘AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!’
Marcus saw what happened and tried to look for something that could help him and Mike. He didn’t find anything fast enough to help them, so he pulled the henchman of Mike. Mike pulled the knife out of his hand, blood gushed out of it. Marcus received an elbow blow in his face. Marcus fell again but his fall was caused by something that could help him. Despite the pain in his hand and leg, Mike decided to fight back. He had the knife, now properly in his hand. He sliced the henchman’s face making a bloody cut. The henchman kicked the knife away. It ended up near the edge of the deck. Mike limped to it trying to get it but the henchman jumped on him. Mike pulled him over his back. He hit him twice with his right injured hand. The man hit Mike back. Mike grabbed the man’s head and hit him five times against the railing of the ship. He kneed him the face. The henchman slugged Mike down, he grabbed the knife again and went on top of Mike. He tried to push to blade against his throat to slice it. Marcus joined in the fight again by hitting Mike’s attacker with a lead pipe. The man rolled off of Mike. Mike got up hurtfully.
‘Stabbing a knife through my hand?’ he asked and kicked the henchman.
Marcus hit the henchman again with the pipe. He hit him right on his chest.
‘You mother--WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--er!!’ Mike yelled and kicked him again.
He yanked the pipe out of Marcus’s hand.
‘This one is for my hand!!’
Mike raised the pipe over his head.
‘No!’ the man screams helpless.
Mike hit the man right on the nose with end of the pipe. A sickening crack was heard when his nose bone got send against his brains. The man died immediately.
‘And that’s all she wrote!’ Mike said.
‘You alright, Mike? You look like poo.’
‘I feel like poo too. Come on, let’s go find the others.’
(The music changes into something more suspenseful)
MacGyver was going after Erich. The man who let MacGyver tied up on a sarcophagus and lowering a pendulum to his lower half to cut him in two. MacGyver escaped that time with some good footwork. Erich was a sleaze ball to him, he let his men doing the dirty work. Nikolaus Von Leer had at least the decency to do it himself. But not this time. This time Erich will do it on his own. MacGyver caught Erich by jumping on him. They rolled over the deck of the ship.
‘I gotcha,’ MacGyver said.
‘You won’t get me without taking any blows,’ Erich said back to him.
‘I don’t care. It would be just like last time in the harbour.’
‘Yeah but I was winning that time. I wonder who’ll win now.’
Both men got up.
‘I will,’ MacGyver said.
‘Oh yeah?’ Von Leer asked not so certain. ‘Can you win with a bullet through your hand?’ Von Leer smashed MacGyver against the wall, he grabbed his hand, placed the barrel against his palm and shot him through it. MacGyver felt the bullet piercing through his flesh, it came out on the other side.
‘Argh, agh!!!’ MacGyver screamed. ‘You son of a --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--.’
‘How about that? MacGyver’s injured.’
‘It’s not the first, you idiot. In fact, I’ve been injured so much that it don’t bother me anymore.’
‘Tough words, man. Are your fighting skills, the same?’
‘We’ll soon know, won’t we?’ (The fight music from Squeeze Play kicks in again)
MacGyver lifted up his foot and kicked Von Leer in his stomach, with his other leg, he hit Von Leer by his ankles, making him fall over. MacGyver got up but Von Leer as well. MacGyver hit Von Leer with a left-right combination. Von Leer grabbed MacGyver with his collar and pressed him against the wall again. MacGyver broke Von Leer’s move and hit him in his stomach and kneed him there too. A left hand to the face followed immediately and a right uppercut to the chin. Von Leer fell against the ground. MacGyver grabbed him, pulling him back to his feet. Another right hand followed. MacGyver pushes him away and another right collisions on Von Leer face. His lip began to bleed. Von Leer was able to give MacGyver four shots to the head and two to the body. With the back of his hand he hit MacGyver in the face again which made him fall backwards. MacGyver got up again. Erich tried to hit him but MacGyver ducked and tackled him down. They rolled over each other but MacGyver got back on top of Von Leer and hits him the face three times. Erich hit him back and threw MacGyver of off him. Erich got up and so did MacGyver. MacGyver hit him with a right hand which Erich replied with a left. The men got in a clinch. A few head butts followed. MacGyver gave them. Blood was flying around. MacGyver was bleeding from a cut above his left eyebrow. Erich, who was bleeding badly on his right side of his face, hit MacGyver with another left against his mouth corner. His right mouth corner was bleeding now too. MacGyver blocked another punch and hit Von Leer with a left hand. A right hand followed. Erich slugged him back, but MacGyver slugged Von Leer too. Von Leer tried to attack MacGyver but he kicked him in the face and threw him against the wall. MacGyver ran to him and hit him in the back, another shot to the body and a left-right hand combination. MacGyver got a right hand to his face and a kick against his chest, making him fall backwards. Erich now ran up to him, ready with a left fist but MacGyver ducked. He grabbed the arm when he got back up and hit Von Leer in the face with an elbow. A left hand to the face again. (The music changes over to fight music of Black Rhino) Erich spun around on his feet with swinging the back of his right fist at MacGyver. MacGyver got hit by it. Erich grabbed MacGyver’s collar and pushed him against the railing on the side of the ship. He grabbed MacGyver’s leg and tried to throw him of the ship. MacGyver held himself on the railing a little unsteady but he had a good hold. MacGyver was now hanging several feet above the ocean, holding to the ships railing. Erich came standing in front of him, laughing.
‘Oh, MacGyver. Look in what a mess you got yourself into. Now you’re hanging here several feet above the ocean with hungry seafood below.’
MacGyver didn’t respond, he just gave Erich a nasty look.
‘It’s time to finish this once and for all!’ Erich said and took his gun.
‘Are you just going to shoot me?’ MacGyver asked.
‘Why not? It’s the easiest way out.’
‘That’s tacky.’
‘Tacky can be fun too. Goodbye MacGyver.’
When Erich tried to shoot the gun clicked.
‘Oh, right. I fired the last bullet in your hand. Forgot to reload.’
Von Leer couldn’t reload because he was out of clips.
‘Out of clips?’ MacGyver asked.
‘Yeah!’
MacGyver thought it was funny.
‘You think that’s funny, do you?’
Erich angrily hit MacGyver’s fingers with the barrel of his gun, then with the back with of his gun, he hit MacGyver’s fingers again on both hand. MacGyver heard his bones crack and screamed of pain. Von Leer just broke three of fingers in his right hand and two of his left. When Von Leer tried to finish it off, he got interrupted by two gunshots in his back. He turned around and saw Mike and Marcus above him, they were on the deck above the cabins shooting at him. They both emptied their clips and Von Leer got hit by at least thirty bullets. Von Leer fell backwards over the railing into the ocean full of hungry sea food. This was the end for Erich Von Leer. (The music slows down)
‘Quick, let’s get down there and help him,’ Marcus said.
‘Hey,’ Mike said, ‘remember the leg?’
‘Oh, right, sorry, Mike.’
Marcus ran up ahead and Mike followed him only a few feet away.
‘I’m coming, MacGyver,’ Marcus yelled.
‘Yeah, well, hurry up, I can’t hold on much longer,’ MacGyver yelled back.
Marcus reached MacGyver and pulled him back onto the safe side of the ship. They sat down. (The music fades away now)
‘You should stay on this side of the ship, man!’ he said.
MacGyver laughed a little.
‘If he didn’t threw me over it like that, I would’ve stayed on this side anyway.’
Mike limped up to him.
‘You alright?’ he asked.
‘No. The --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE-- broke my fingers and shot in my hand, but I expect I’ll live.’
‘You got shot in your hand?’
‘Yeah.’
‘Well, I got stabbed in it.’
Mike showed his injury. There was hole in his hand just like with MacGyver. MacGyver looked through the hole.
‘I can see you,’ MacGyver said joking.
Marcus just shook his head.
‘Come on, let’s get out of here, I got to find Sam,’ MacGyver said.
‘There’s no need for it, he’s right there,’ Marcus said.
‘Dad?’
‘Sam?’
‘Dad!’
‘Son!’
‘You alright, dad?’ he asked while he came up close.
‘Do I look alright?’
‘No and neither do you.’
‘We all look pretty messed up,’ Mike said.
‘Yeah and we all need to go to the hospital too,’ MacGyver said. ‘We got to notify the authorities as well.’
Everybody who sat down… MacGyver and Marcus specific moaned when they got up.
‘Hey wait a minute,’ MacGyver said.
‘What?’
‘Where’s, Mario?’
(The fight music from Squeeze Play starts again)
Mammon grabbed a hold on me, pushed me against the wall and slammed me in the face real hard with his right hand. He laughed.
‘Well, well. It looks like you’re bleeding, Mario,’ he said.
‘Yeah,’ I laughed back at him, ‘but that wasn’t from your fist. I’d been through a lot more then just this.’
‘I bet.’
I kicked him in his stomach followed by a shot to the body. Now I slammed him against the wall and hit him with my right hand. His lip was bleeding now.
‘Well, well. It looks like you’re bleeding too.’
‘Jerk!’
Mammon tried to hit me again, I ducked. Mammon was just hitting in the air. He tried to hit me and I ducked again. When I came up again, I hit him in the face. Another left to his face. Suddenly Mammon does a double front kick, which send me flying backward. He came towards me. I tried to tackle him but he was way to firm on his feet for it. I hit him against his side. He kneed me in my body. I fell down. He came on top of me and hit me and again. I tried to get my arm around his head. I succeeded and pulled him off of me. We both were laying on our backs now. A few elbow blows from my side came in his body hard. I crawled upon him and now it was my turn to hit him several times in the face. His face become messier. The blood from his lip increased. I hit his nose as well, blood appeared from his left nostril. Whack! He hit me again. We both got up and I hit him with a right-left combination. He hit me again with a left hand and two shots to my body. With a solid right hand he slugged me down and kicked me there several times. I grabbed his leg when he tried to kick me again. I kicked him in the groin but I didn’t let go his leg. With my other foot, I kicked against his heel making him fall over. An elbow drop followed. He tried to grab his gun when he got up again. He was willing to shoot me. I grabbed both his wrists forcing him to point his gun to the air. I made him shoot a few times, wasting bullets. We began struggling for the gun. The struggle continued, now we were pointing to the ground. I forced him to shoot in the deck. I tried to take the gun from him but then he shot in my foot. An elbow blow followed and a punch by the back of his fist. I fell backwards again. I looked up to him. He was going to finish me off. If I reacted too late, it would’ve been all over. On the moment when I thought the end was near, I became impulsive. Despite my blood aching foot, I jumped up and tackled him once more. I grabbed the wrist of his hand where he had hold of the gun. I began to slam his hand against the deck of the ship in hope that he would let go of his gun. My foot hurt as hell because it was burning. He wouldn’t let go of his gun. I hit him right in his chest twice. Then on his face again. He tried to shoot me again but I got a hold of his arm and broke it like twig on my leg. His elbow made a sickening cracking sound. Mammon screamed of pain and let go of the gun. The gun fell out of my reach. He was definitely shaken of the pain. The pain was very intense. He slugged me down with his left hand. He tried to run away but I tripped him, making him fall over again on his broken arm. We shared a look then I went for the gun. He had the advantage of running, I had to limp after him. I tried to shoot him but my aiming wasn’t what it used to be, thanks to my shot wound. The gunfire was heard where MacGyver, Sam, Mike and Marcus were. They all shared a look.
‘It came from over there,’ MacGyver said.
‘Let’s go see,’ Sam said.
They ran up to where it came from.
I tried to go faster. I got closer and hit him right in the back of his head making him fall again. I jumped on him, which didn’t go well, due my foot. He threw me off of him. He grabbed the gun and slammed it in my face with back of it, causing an opening on my left side of my face. Blood ran out of it. I hit him again with a right hand and a left one. He had just his left hand left. With a firm left hand he hit me right on my eye. He decided to make another go for it.
‘What’s happening?’ Mike asked. (The music becomes more tense again)
‘Mario’s dealing with Mammon,’ Sam answered.
I took the gun again. Mammon ran in the direction where MacGyver, Sam, Mike and Marcus were. He pushed them out of the way.
‘Freeze!!’ Marcus yelled aiming his gun at him.
‘Freeze!!’ Mike yelled and also aimed his gun at him.
When they tried to shoot their gun clicked. They were empty since they shot Erich Von Leer. I came up limping with the gun in my hand.
‘You ok?’ MacGyver asked.
‘I’m fine,’ I replied limping by. ‘Hold him back. I think he’s going to that boat.’
We all went after him, but Mammon was a little too fast. MacGyver, Sam and Marcus went after him. Mike and I limped up a little behind. MacGyver jumped on his back. Mammon tried to get him off and succeeded. He threw MacGyver over his back and then kicked him in the face. Sam forced Mammon to turn around and hit him in the face twice with both hands. Mammon kicked Sam against his wound sending him way back. Marcus tackled Mammon and forced him against the wall. He kneed him in the body. Both men started to struggle. Mike and I came to Marcus’s aid. Marcus got pushed against the ground. Mike got kicked against his hurt leg and Mammon slugged me down with the back of his hand. Mammon started to run again for the boat.
‘Mammon, you son of a --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--!!’ I yelled.
Mammon looked at us but there was nothing more that could be done. He nearly reached the railing on the ship. I got up again and with a lot of pain in my foot, I limped to him.
‘Mammon!!!’
I began to limp faster and came closer to him. I finally reached him and when he was about to step over the railing and jump ship. With all my power I used my arms to hit him in the back. He fell over the railing and screamed when he fell several feet down into the ocean. It took a while before he came back up. MacGyver, Sam, Mike and Marcus joined me at where I was standing. Mammon came back up and crawled upon the boat that brought us there earlier. I shot my gun empty on the boat but it didn’t sank.
‘The son of a --WATCH YOUR LANGUGE-- gets away!’ Mike yelled. (The music fades away now)
‘Dammit!!’ I said. ‘And I’m not going to jump in that salt water.’
‘Neither will I,’ Sam said.
‘Me neither,’ Marcus said.
‘Don’t count on me,’ Mike said.
‘Totally out of the question,’ MacGyver said. ‘We’ll get him next time.’
‘Next time?’ I asked.
We all looked at the boat the was slowing going away from the ship. When it was a couple of yards away from us, the boat suddenly exploded and sank. A shockwave was caused through the part of the ocean. The ship was rocking heavily.
‘Wow!’ Sam exclaimed. ‘If we used that ship to get away, we would’ve been dead by now.’
‘Well, lucky us, then,’ Mike said.
‘When we came aboard earlier, today, I noticed Mammon going back on the ship,’ I explained. ‘Apparently he planted a bomb in there, in case we escaped.’
‘And when did you had the intention to tell us that?’ MacGyver wondered.
‘When in good times.’
‘Right,’ MacGyver nodded.
‘So now what?’ I asked.
‘Well, both Von Leer brothers are dead,’ MacGyver said, ‘the girls are safe now and the gold too. I guess we solved the case now. It’s just a shame so many people got killed for it.’
‘That’s the way we work here,’ Mike said.
‘That’s your way, Mike. I don’t agree with you methods either and neither does Captain Howard but it does the trick.’
‘Well, what do we do, now?’ Sam asked.
‘I guess, we better radio, Miami for help,’ MacGyver said. ‘We all need to go to the hospital.’

Once we got our girls back from their cabin, we went to the cockpit of the ship to look for a radio and signal for help.
‘Did you find anything yet, dad?’
‘There’s a radio, right over there,’ he said.
MacGyver went over to the radio to try it out. He putted it on the right frequency.
‘Mayday, mayday, mayday, this is Gold Rush, come in, over.’
Silence. MacGyver looked at us.
‘Miami Coast Guard, this is the Gold Rush, come in, over.’
Nothing again.
‘Are you sure this is the right frequency, dad?’ Sam asked.
‘I think so,’ MacGyver replied. ‘Is it?’
Mike checked the frequency.
‘Yeah, it’s the right one.’
‘Try SOS,’ Marcus said.
‘SOS, mayday, what’s the difference?’ MacGyver asked.
‘Try it.’
‘Coast Guard, this is the Gold Rush, SOS, over.’
‘Gold Rush, this is the Miami Coast Guard, state your position,’ a voice on the other side said.
‘Great! We are in great need. Several people got killed and some of us need to go the hospital. This is an emergency. We need helicopters, boats and the Miami PD as well.’
‘What are your coordinates?’
‘I don’t know, just look for the ship Gold Rush.’
‘Copy.’

Some time later, boats of the coast guard where all around the ship and helicopter were hovering over it, waiting to land with men on. Out one of the choppers Captain Howard appeared. He set foot upon deck.
‘Alright, let’s get everybody to work!!’ he said.
He came towards us.
‘My God, look at you all. What happened?’ he asked.
‘It’s a long bloody story,’ I said.
‘This is your fault, Captain,’ Mike said.
‘My fault?’
‘If you let us have some back up, this didn’t happen.’
‘OK, I admit it, I made a mistake, it happens. But you solved the situation, didn’t you?’
‘Yeah,’ Marcus said. ‘We got them mother--WATCH YOUR LANGUGE--ers, and the girls and the gold are alright.’
‘Excellent.’
‘So does this mean we still are getting fired?’ Mike asked.
‘You solved the case, didn’t you, maybe you get a promotion for this.’
‘Yeah, right,’ Marcus said.
‘We don’t want “maybes”, we want a raise and a good raise for this,’ Mike said.
‘You’ll get it,’ Howard assured him. ‘So where’s the cargo?’
‘In the cargo hold,’ MacGyver answered, ‘but be careful. I locked several men up down there. They still have their weaponry.’
‘Everybody to the cargo hold!!’ Howard ordered.
‘Yes, sir!’ some men replied.
‘Just watch out, down there,’ MacGyver warned.
‘I think it’s better, we go with you,’ Sam said. ‘After all we know the way.’
‘Captain, if you go down there, take this,’ one of the men said and gave him a gun.
‘Alright, come on everybody let’s go,’ Howard said.
We and some of the police and the coastguard went below to the cargo hold.
‘This is it?’ Howard asked.
‘Yeah, that’s it,’ MacGyver answered.
‘Let’s open it, then.’
‘Wait, I got the keys.’ (Now we hear the track Amid The Chaos Of Today from True Romance)
MacGyver placed the key in the keyhole. He slowly turned the key around to his left and opened the door. The door got open but just barely. MacGyver looked at the men behind him. He opened the door completely now. Then suddenly one of the bad guys jumped in the door.
‘Gotcha! Whoops!’
The other men jumped in as well.
‘Freeze, Miami PD!’ Howard said holding his gun. ‘Drop your guns, drop them!’
‘You drop yours,’ the man upfront said.
‘It’s over, drop them and we can sort this out in court. Drop them now!’
‘Do like he says,’ MacGyver said,’ it doesn’t have to go this way.’
‘I rather die, then to go to jail!’
‘That’s your opinion but everybody else is the dead. The Von Leer brothers, Mammon, everybody is dead. You’re all that’s left.’
‘I said, I rather die. Shoot them,’ he ordered his men. (The music increases now)
MacGyver ducked immediately away when the gunfire started. Howard followed his lead and they hid behind a couple of boxes and crates. Everybody was shooting everybody down, blood flew around and bodies counted up.
‘Aw man!!’ MacGyver yelled.
‘Is this how’s it been going?’ Howard asked.
‘Sort of. But this is nothing compared to what happened earlier.’
Gunfire kept going. Some men tried to find some cover behind boxes and crates. Sam and Marcus were hiding somewhere else in the cargo hold and me and Mike too.
‘Man, we’re going to need a lot more of body bags,’ Mike said to me.
‘As long they’re not meant for us, that’s fine, by me,’ I replied.
Marcus and Sam kept their heads down as much as possible.
‘Oh man, what a day,’ Marcus said.
‘Tell me about it,’ Sam replied. ‘I came here to Miami for a break of work and look where we ended up. In the middle of a gunfight.’
‘I’m going to ask to transfer me over to another department,’ Marcus said.
‘Seriously?’
‘Yeah, but Mike wouldn’t agree with me and I can’t do that to Mike.’
‘Why not?’
‘He’ll never find another good partner, like me.’
‘Show off.’
The gunfire suddenly stopped. It became silent in the cargo hold. (The music fades away now)
‘Is everybody alright?!’ MacGyver asked out loud.
‘A lot better, then you,’ one of the henchmen said. ‘Come out.’
MacGyver and Howard stood up.
‘You know, this is really not necessary,’ MacGyver said.
‘I don’t care.’
‘Well, we don’t care either,’ Marcus said.
‘And I agree,’ Mike said.
They shot the man to death with guns they found on the ground. A painful silence went through the room, now it was over.
‘Now it’s over,’ Mike said.
MacGyver nodded.
‘Alright, who’s still alive?’ Howard asked.
A few hands went up.
‘OK, let’s get moving, then.’
MacGyver went to the cargo and opened the green bag. The gold was in there.
‘We got it,’ MacGyver said.
‘That’s terrific, dad.’
‘Captain Howard, get some men down here, to pick up the cargo and bring it up on deck.’
‘Alright.’
‘The girls and the gold are alright now. The Von Leer brothers are dead, just like Mammon. It’s over,’ MacGyver said.
‘All the things we’ve been through for this,’ I said. ‘From a ship’s explosion to an all destroying chase to have it fought out on a… ship. It started on one and it ended on one.’
‘Incredible, huh?’ Sam said.
‘Pete is never going to believe this when he gets back from Russia and Asia.’
‘Now you remind me of it,’ MacGyver said, ‘I’m going to call Pete one of these days to tell him, that we’re staying here, until we’re fully recovered.’
‘Now, I hear you talking,’ I said.
‘After all, this was supposed to be vacation, right?’
‘Yep,’ Sam and I said in unison.
MacGyver smiled.
(Uplifting music is heard now)
On deck a helicopter landed and people were running around. Howard signalled the pilot of the helicopter.
‘Take this green bag to the Miami Police Department and tell them to put it in my office until I get back, alright?’
‘Yes, sir, right away!’ the pilot acknowledged and did what he was told.
Howard came back to us. We were all sitting on stretchers with doctors and nurses around us. They were trying to take care of our injuries as much as they could.
‘So how are they doing?’ Howard asked to a doctor, definitely worried about his men.
‘They’re badly injured and they need to go to hospital as soon as possible.’
‘What are their conditions?’
‘Mr. Burnett suffered severe blood loss, but I’ll expect he’ll live. He’s the first one who need surgery. Mr. Lowry’s leg was nearly blown off but amputation is not necessary.’
‘What about the others?’
‘Mr. MacGyver will be alright, his hand just need some fixing, just like Mr. Malloy. Mr. Mario has a bit the same problem as Mr. Burnett, he also suffered some blood loss. Everybody had blood loss. But he and Mr. Burnett both needs to go to surgery first, they going to need a refill of blood.’
‘I understand,’ Howard said worried.
‘Don’t worry, captain. They’ll survive but they can’t work for at least six weeks. They were all very lucky.’
‘Can I talk to them?’
‘Sure,’ the doctor said and left.
‘Hey, fellas. How’s it hanging?’
‘Alright,’ we acknowledged.
‘So what did he say?’ I asked.
‘You’ll be flown over to the hospital as soon as possible, but he said you’ll make it. All of you. It’s just, that you can’t work for another six weeks.’
‘By the time we can walk again, we’re three months further,’ Mike said.
‘Terrific,’ I said.
The only one who wasn’t too badly injured was, MacGyver, just his hand and that nasty cut over his left eyebrow. He had a bandage on his head and a bandage wrapped over his hand. Sam had the same thing around his hand.
MacGyver putted his jacket back on.
‘Alright, thank you,’ he said to his doctor.
‘What did he say, dad?’
‘They still want me to go to hospital. I’m going to need a small surgery at my hand, but I’ll make it.’
‘That’s good.’
‘Yeah. So, they’ll take us to the hospital as soon as the choppers are ready.’
‘Yo, Marcus, you heard that?’ Mike asked but didn’t got any answer. ‘Yo, Marcus, you alright, there?’
Marcus opened his eyes.
‘Yeah.’
‘You sure.’
‘Yeah, it’s just that these drugs are kicking in.’
Mike smiled.
‘Alright. Just think of all those beautiful nurses, that are going to take care of you.’
‘I will, but Theresa is going to kill me if I do.’
‘Well, she’s going to kill you already for getting hurt in a crossfire.’
‘Perfect.’
A man came to Howard and whispered something in his ear.
‘Thanks,’ Howard said. ‘The choppers are ready.’
Sam and I got set in the first chopper, Mike and Marcus in the other one. Howard was standing near Mike’s and Marcus’s chopper.
‘You’ll be alright, Marcus. The two of you’ll be alright, ok?’ Howard said.
‘Do we still get a raise,’ Mike asked.
‘Yeah,’ Howard nodded. ‘I’m proud of you two. You did an excellent job and you did Miami a major favour for solving this case, even though you destroyed almost the entire city for it.’
Mike and Howard shared a smile for once. Marcus didn’t. He was completely drugged out. Howard closed the door of the helicopter. He turned around and saw the girls coming to him.
‘Captain Howard,’ Allie said.
‘Yeah, what can I do for you?’
‘What’s going to happen to us?’
‘I don’t know, that depends on you, I guess. Perhaps you can fly along with them.’
‘Sure,’ MacGyver said. ‘You can join us, if you want.’
‘Really, that would be so great,’ Andrea said.
Allie and Andrea entered our helicopter.
‘So what are you going to do?’ MacGyver asked to Captain Howard.
‘I’ll stay here and help around, I think, but what are you still doing here?’
‘One of the Von Leer brothers, took my knife and I still didn’t got it back.’
‘Well, they’re taking Nikolaus away, is he the one who took it?’
‘Yep. Hey, guys hold up,’ he said to the coroners.
‘What?’
MacGyver unzipped the body bag.
‘Hey, what’d you think you’re doing?’ one of the men said.
‘This man has something that belongs to me.’
MacGyver’s hand went deep in the body bag.
‘Alright, I got it,’ he said when he took his Swiss Army Knife out. ‘Thanks for the knife, pal. I always wanted to have something like this. Take him away.’
‘You got it.’
‘I got it.’
‘Then go ahead, your chopper is waiting.’
MacGyver came to our chopper. The pilot was a little annoyed by him for coming at the last minute, but he didn’t show it.
‘Hey, dad, what took you so long?’
‘I had to go and retrieve something back, that belonged to me.’
‘What then?’
‘This!’ he answered and showed his knife.
‘That’s so typical you, dad. You can’t go anywhere without your knife.’
‘I know, that’s because it’s useful, just like ductape.’
MacGyver closed the door of the helicopter.
‘Alright, pilot. You can go now.’
Our helicopter took off and the other helicopter followed. In a matter of only a few moments we were airborne. The helicopters took us to the hospital of Miami where are injuries were been taking care of, thanks to all those doctors and their pretty nurses.
(The music reaches it's peak and we fade out here)

[MacGyverGod]

Unfortunately the originale date of post, the hour and the replies of the members went lost after the crash.