Gish looked inside and saw a silhouette of a person.
“Dad!” The boy exclaimed, rushing towards his father, completely forgetting about Connor. He hugged his father so tightly.
“What happened to Connor?” Kent rushed out from a corner and went to his son’s body. Connor’s chest was still slightly rising up and down.
“He got shot in the chest,” Sarah explained, pulling away from her father’s grasp. Kent seemed very worried.
“Kate’s gonna kill me… I never should’ve sent Connor by himself,” The children’s uncle said, examining the wound. Ruco let go of his son.
“Is it bad?” Gish’s father asked. Kent nodded.
“We need to take him to the hideout,” Ruco said, beginning to walk out of the shed. Gish and Sarah followed him.
“I’m not sure how long he’ll last like this.” Kent looked extremely worried about his son. “He’s always had a frail body.”
“Well, the hideout is the safest place to go. You know that Kent.” Ruco speeded up his pace, careful to not crunch any of the leaves under his feet. Kent suddenly stopped. His companions looked at him quizzically.
“What’s wrong?” Gish asked. Kent raised his fingers to his lips.
“Shhh…” There was a clinking of metal. Ruco pushed his two children down onto the dirt ground.
“Oomph!” Gish felt his father’s glare. After a while, Kent gestured for the children to get up.
“What was wrong?” Sarah questioned, as they continued to hike on to their destination.
“Well, we suspected that the enemy was searching for our bodies.” Ruco grimaced.
Three hours later, the group finally reached a white van.
“It looks like those white vans from the movies,” Gish whispered to Sarah.
“Shut up,” his sister responded. Kent looked inside. No one seemed to be inside. Then, Ruco knocked a mysterious combos of rhythms and the back door opened. Kent sprinted inside with Connor in his arms, with Sarah right after him. Ruco pushed Gish in and jumped into the driver’s seat. Turns out, there were people inside.
“Connor!” It was Kate. She quickly placed him onto a cot. She was very worried and her mascara was slightly runny. Kent took a medical kit out and began helping Kate with some stuff. No one seemed to notice the twins.
The small room at the back of the white van was illuminated by blue lights. There was a cot, which was nearest to the back of the car. On the walls, there were cabinets full of weapons, bullets, bullet proof vests, dried and canned food, lighters, medical equipment and batteries. Gish watched a large screen, which was showing live footage of an empty truck. Then, the van accelerated, throwing him onto the ground.
“What the…” Gish began, but he was pulled up front, to the 8 seats in the van.
“Dad! He was just in the back,” Sarah said, pushing her older brother into a seat. Gish immediately put on a seatbelt. His sister rolled her eyes.
“Seriously? We’re only going seventy miles per hour,” she said, looking at the dashboard.
“It’s a good idea to put on your seatbelt Sarah.” It was their grandmother, the former successful business tycoon. The girl rolled her eyes before putting on her seatbelt. A few seconds later, there was a hard brake.
“See?” Gish said to Sarah. She scowled and glared at him. The boy shrunk back into his seat.
A few minutes later, they were in a bustling town.
“Put these on,” Ruco said, giving the children caps and sunglasses.
“It’s just like the movies!” Gish exclaimed, putting on his sunglasses and looking at his handsome reflection. He put his cap on backwards. Ruco took it off Gish’s head and put it back on forwards.
“We can’t attract too much attention,” his father said.
“Speaking of attention, where’s Mom?” Sarah asked, putting her pistol into the waistband of her jeans.
“She’s waiting for us in the extraction point,” their grandmother responded, slowly getting out of the car. The two children got out, leaving Connor, Kate and Kent into the car. Ruco locked them inside and they walked right into a large fair.
“Fresh pastries right here!” a vendor yelled. Another vendor was advertising her teddy bears. Ruco pretended to examine a book, while Sarah looked at umbrellas. Gish’s grandmother was nowhere to be seen and Gish was stuck in the large crowd. Many tourists and villagers jostled him around. He finally found his way to a random stall, which sold playing cards. He examined some Batman patterned cards. A few minutes later, he noticed that Ruco had disappeared into the crowd once again. Gish pulled himself back into the crowd and was jostled around once again, before he heard a yell.
“Hey! You! Get back here!” A man dressed in black was chasing after Ruco, who was running away. Gish pushed his way through the crowd and pursued the two from a distance, followed by Sarah. Sarah eventually caught up to him and ran past him, intent on keeping Ruco in sight. Soon, they were in an empty grass clearing when the man in black pulled out a gun and began firing rapidly. Ruco fell onto the ground and rolled to the side, before taking out a gun. He began firing at the man, who collapsed onto the ground.
“Hurry,” Ruco said, running over to the children. They nodded.
“Follow the trees with the yellow markings if you don’t see me. Got it?” Ruco asked. Gish and Sarah nodded.
Eventually, they reached the area where Coco was supposedly waiting. There was nothing in sight.
“Do you think they took off without us?” Gish asked.
“Of course not!” Sarah bickered. Ruco looked at the children.
“Stop arguing… Please. Right now, we are in a very tense situation,” he warned. The twins nodded. Then, there was a loud sound of a car. Then, people in kabuki masks jumped out of the car and began firing into the grassy plateau.
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