Thursday, February 21, 2019

Kharon - Part 17

Kharon Chapter 17

   Elsewhere Jacob and Luke emerge from the sewer system. They look around them and see that the inhabitants of the island are standing perfectly still like they are frozen in place. “What the hell!?”, cries Luke seeing everyone not moving.
   “They must have locked everyone down.”
   Luke shoves someone off their hover-board. “Well good thing we don’t have any microchips.” Luke speeds away on the hover-board.
   “Hey come on wait for me!”, cries Jacob shoving someone off their air-scooter and following Luke on it.
   A hover-car then descends on the two men as they race through the streets. From the loudspeaker on the hover-car a voice blares, “Pull over now or all necessary force will be used to make you comply.”
   “Shit!”, yells Jacob as the hover-car begins firing its lasers at them.
    Another hover-car joins in on the pursuit. A vehicle that looks like a giant chrome big wheel is coming down the street in the opposite direction of the two men. The chrome vehicle pulls to a stop sideways in the road to try and block the two men from escaping. Luke and Jacob go on the sidewalk mowing people down to avoid the chrome vehicle. The chrome vehicle now joins in on the pursuit along with the hover-cars.
   Luke begins slowing down on his hover-board in the middle of the street. “What the fuck are you doing?!”, yells Jacob.
   Luke doesn’t answer and instead manages to get alongside the chrome vehicle during a bend in the road. He takes out a knife and throws it at the front wheel locking it up and the vehicle flips over.
   “You always did have good aim with a sharp object”, says Jacob.
   “It’s the simple things. But I gave the other knife to Emma so we are going to have to figure something else out for the hover-cars”, says Luke.
   Jacob spies some biofuel cells up ahead. “I might be able to come up with something.” He slows down and maneuvers near the cells drawing the hovercrafts fire to hit the cells. The biofuel cells explode and take out both hover cars. Luke and Jacob hold on tight as they are pushed forward from the blast behind them. “The people here have grown soft with their technology. They forgot how to improvise.”
   “Don’t get cocky ass wipe”, says Luke as they speed on ahead taking a sharp turn.

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