#39 - extending intensity

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Jamal and Mary-Lee set up a simple base in a home's sun-porch of the yard they drove into. Miles skills are put to work right away having to stitch up two wounded in the initial gunfire. One more hobbles in under his-own power, badly wounded.

Slowly Manuel and the others advance on Hoss's hilltop home.

The two that encountered Ella, after her change, Louie and Bert have climbed onto a flat top roof of an old coffee shop. Utilizing their scoped rifles pick out targets. Louie can't quite get a solid shot on the Hummer's machine gunner so he targets the driver.

Ducking back in the Hummer Jerry needs to exchange gun magazines.

Loaded and ready Jerry sticks rifle and body out the window shooting at two racing for closer cover. BANG, BANG, BANG!

Making sure of the shot Louie squeezes the trigger. BANG! His bullet strikes Jerry square in the head.

Seeing Jerry taken out Hoss figures they've a sniper set up and yells to Bob, "check the roof tops for a shooter!"

"Okay," Bob sets his rifle aside to bring up the binoculars.

As Bob surveys the village rooftops Louie and Bert spot him. Bert grins at Louie saying, "this ones mine."

"Okay," Louie chuckles back as both of them sight up Bob.

As Bob finally locates them he begins to report it to Hoss, "on the..." Ending the thought Bert's bullet dives through the binoculars and into Bob's brain ending his life.

Watching Bob go down Hoss' eyes go wide and scans the village seeing a quick muzzle flash from a roof top, immediately the sent bullet skips off the Hummer's body next to his own head. Hoss ducks behind the Hummer yelling at Wyatt, "on the coffee shop!"

Turning the gunfire that way Wyatt yells back, "on it!" BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM!" Wyatt empties the rest of the guns bullets on the target. Chewing up the building's brickwork forces Bert and Louie to shelter their faces. Wyatt's final dozen rounds connect with Bert and Louie ending them, "got 'em Roy! But I need some cover fire while I reload."

"Okay," Hoss sights anything moving down in the village and sends a few bullets that way, BANG, BANG, BANG!

Squealing pick-up truck tires into the main intersection Floyd races in. Barely hanging on Shane's near fully out the passenger window shooting at those he can see. BANG, BANG, BANG! Shane manages to kill one man and wound another.

Figuring this should be easy Floyd decides to make a quick drive up and down Main Street. As they go Floyd shoots a handgun out the driver's window while Shane keeps at from the passenger side. BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!

Past the village center Floyd spins the truck around and stops so they can safely re-load.

Machine-guns in hand and re-loaded, Manuel, Ned and Jim take up positions, between buildings, waiting for the pick-up to return.

Peeling rubber Floyd tromps on the gas racing the truck east up Main Street to Hoss's place.

Reloaded too Wyatt sights up targets and opens up the machine-gun, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM!

Hoss has to duck behind the Hummer to reload himself.

As the pick-up races through the village center again Manuel, Ned and Jim shred the truck with bullets as it passes. BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!

Shane and Floyd fire back, BANG, BANG, BANG! But two of their tall tires are shot out sending the truck off course clipping the curb then bouncing onto the sidewalk. Floyd scrambles to keep the truck on the road sharply turning the steering wheel. Smacking the corner of a building the truck veers back onto the road toppling into a barrel roll. Shane is thrown from the truck, his head hits pavement killing him but the body skids to the other sidewalk leaving a bloody trail of shredded clothing and flesh.

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