... and then Shooting Mad catches up with them.
Blonde Bimbo

Alice :
neckbrak and incineration: Katja

Karin
“Here he comes now,” said Karin, pulling back on the cocking handle. Beside her Katja turned the ignition key and the engine purred into life. She’d spent a lot of time on that engine and it hardly made any noise as it ticked over. There was a quiet whine as the window rolled down and let in the heat.
He had company. Some blonde bimbo in a gold lame dress slit to the top of her thigh was hanging on his arm and laughing at whatever he was saying. Still if she had her arm trapped against her boob it couldn’t be grabbing her ass. Good tactics on her part. It was a shame she hadn’t had more sense than to get tied up with him.
“Can’t see anyone else,” said Katja quietly as she checked the area from her driving seat.
“Another thirty seconds,” said Karin, keeping her eye on the man. Not very imposing. No more than five-seven and one hundred and fifty pounds. Glasses yet! Still his little gang of nerdy hackers had given her more trouble than she’d expected. Time to discourage them.
“Go,” she ordered. Katja eased the car into motion quietly and smoothly, doing nothing to spoil Karin’s aim. Then the car was travelling along the road accelerating up through the automatic gearbox.
Karin smiled coldly as the simple sights revealed her targets. She squeezed the trigger on her weapon. The old German Schmeisser was lovingly maintained and performed perfectly.
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The man surprised her dropping to the sidewalk and rolling back towards an alleyway.
Nothing could save the blonde bimbo though. Karin laughed as she saw the gold dress change colour as four bullets tore into her.
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Her mouth opened in shock and then she fell back against a door before bouncing forwards to lay face down on the sidewalk, her legs kicking spasmodically.
Karin emptied the rest of the magazine in the man’s direction and saw him jerk twice as bullets hit. He kept rolling though.
“Stop or go?” demanded Katja. “Go,” ordered Karin. She’d love to stop and make sure he was finished but it was a well travelled area and the chance of a police cruiser being nearby couldn’t be ignored.
‘I hit him at least twice,” she said as the car accelerated away harder now.
“How about the bimbo?”
“Never did like blondes that much,” said Karin dismissively.
‘Poor bimbo,” said Katja unsympathetically.
He stood unsteadily as the car roared out of sight round a corner. He patted himself down. “Ruined my jacket,” he muttered. He’d have a fair slew of bruises come tomorrow. Mostly they’d come from rolling over a couple of stones, but two big ones were where the Kevlar had spread the impacts of the bullets.
His phone was undamaged. He hit the speed dial. “You were right,” he said. “Karin just tried to machine gun me. She’s headed back to her side of town in a red Suburban. Let you know who loose.”
Important things done he walked over and looked down. The blonde lay front down on the sidewalk. Blood was pooling beside her upper body. Her face was turned to one side with her eyes open and unseeing. There was a tear in the dress by her right knee showing flesh. He considered her for a moment.
‘Nice ass,” he said in epitaph before setting off. No-way did he want to pick up a cab anywhere around here. He peeled off the torn jacket as he walked. Beneath that and the Kevlar vest his shirt was undamaged. He paused to brush down his pants and then headed on until he got to the station. On the way he tossed the jacket and Kevlar vest into a dumpster. Then he finally took a cab.
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The Guy they called ‘Shooting Mad’ took the call with satisfaction. Things had been quiet for too long. “Vamos, muchachos!” he called. The four men picked up weapons and ran to his big open topped Cadillac. It looked old fashioned but it had power to burn. The open top gave good fields of fire. Especially for the rocket launcher he’d been looking for a chance to use.
Ric had learned his driving skills on heist getaways. The engine roared and they were away. Following orders he took a left and then a right. The suspension bottomed and a shower of sparks flashed away as the cornered.
‘Do I get to use the LAW, boss?” asked Pete.
“How do I know? Shaddap and get ready.”
Pete drew a long knife from its sheath and then returned it. He was ready. Beside him in the back Jim the Brit was opening the box from beneath the front seat. He lifted out the Thompson and then fixed the fifty round drum into place.
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‘We’ve got company, boss,” said Katja. ‘Big Caddy just turned in behind us. Three or four guys in it.” The engine noise rose slightly and the speedo showed the suburban accelerating hard once more. Karin swore and fetched out the Schmeisser from beneath the seat and slipped in another magazine. It looked like she might need it again.
Behind them the Cadillac’s engine roared as Ric floored the gas pedal. It had a slightly better power to weight ratio and began to close the gap, then lost ground as the suburban screeched into a turn. More sparks flew as the Cadillac followed.
Shooting Mad pushed his big automatic round the side of the windshield and fired a couple of shots. “Gimme the Thompson,” he ordered. Reluctantly Jim obeyed, then fished out his own automatic.
“I need a straight stretch,” said Karin.
“That things faster than us on the straight,” replied Katja.
“Can’t be helped if I’m going to get a good shot.”
“Okay, “ said Katja as she overrode the gears and cornered again. “Another few seconds.”
Shooting Mad could see the straight stretch of road extending ahead and pulled himself upright, resting his elbows on the windshield as he took aim with the Thompson. He squeezed off a short burst and then another. Behind him Jim leaned out and added a few shots of his own.
The suburban swerved across the road giving Karin a better firing angle. She squeezed the trigger and saw sparks flashing as several hits spoiled the radiator grille on the Cadillac. At the same time Karin heard a couple of thumps from the back of the suburban and saw the flare from the Thompson’s muzzle.
The suburban was fast running out of road and so Katja swerved back towards the opposite side.
“Getting a bit hot,” she yelled.
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“They didn’t know what to do with a woman deputy so they parked me out here to catch guys doing 56,” muttered Alice as she sat in the usual place beside the big advertising billboard. She took another sip of coffee. At least that was good, although she passed on the donuts from the Police diner.
Then a suburban came past doing at least ninety. Moments after a big Cadillac roared past. Was that a Thompson the guy half standing was holding?
Alice tossed the cup and started the motor and lights. “S.O. 12 to control. Two vehicles in high speed chase. Possible automatic weapons. Pursuing Code Three East on Bessemer. Request backup.”
“Roger S.O.12. Backup on its way.”
As soon as the big cruiser had bumped on to the road Alice started the siren. Then she reached across and grabbed the crash helmet from the seat behind her. As soon as she had that in place she buckled up. In moments she was passing one hundred mph.
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“We got a cop behind us,” yelled Ric. He could see the flashing lights in his mirrors. Shooting Mad sat and then turned round to look. He thought for a moment. No-one was going to stop him taking out that puta Karin this time. He looked over at Pete.
‘When it gets closer take it out with the rocket,” he ordered.
Karin leaned her weapon out as the suburban made another zigzag. She could see the flashing lights beyond the Cadillac. She fired another burst.
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“Cops behind,” she yelled across at Katja.
“We’ll have to turn in another mile,” Katja yelled back. “They’ll have the road blocked up ahead at Firkin.”
“Ayiyi!” shouted Ric as two holes appeared in the windscreen and something whizzed past his ear. He swerved in reflex, losing several yards. As he did so he gave Jim a better target and he fired again emptying his automatic.
The thumps were closer this time. Katja jerked. “I’m hit,” she gasped, keeping both hands on the wheel.
“How bad is it?’ called Karin, looking across in concern.
“Hurts like hell,”
“Okay when we make the turn stop and block the road. I’ll shoot them up as they turn in.”
“We’ll shoot them up,” gasped Katja.
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Alice was trying to crowd the Cadillac without getting into good firing range. She was passing on reports as she drove. If she remembered right there was a junction about half a mile ahead. Would the van turn off? She got ready to report.
“Okay,” shouted Shooting Mad, over the noise of the wind. “Jim you steady Pete when he lets that cop have it.”
Jim had just finished reloading. “Got it,” he said.
Pete stood, glad to have Jim hanging on. He had to aim down so the back blast would go above Ric and the windscreen.
For his part Ric scrunched down as far as he could and still see to drive.
Convulsively Pete pressed the firing button. The tube jerked and then the rocket ignited.
Instinctively Alice twisted the wheel as she saw the rocket flare coming at her. At a hundred and eight mph the power steering wouldn’t allow her much of a swerve, but it was still too much for the tires. The car started to tumble.
The swerve took it out of the track of the rocket, which hit the road and exploded. White hot metal tore into the back part of the cruiser.
The patrol cruiser made four complete rotations before it stopped. Fuel dripped from the damaged tank. After about a minute it encountered shrapnel still hot enough to ignite it.
Alice didn’t stir. Her head rested forward as if she were sleeping. Despite the helmet and the belt the impact had snapped her neck.
She never felt it as flames engulfed the vehicle.
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