WALKING DISASTERS | Jack Thompson

32.

"ALRIGHT, ALL OF YOU! Let me see your hands!"

Sera got to her feet as instructed, a gun pointed at the back of her head, and caught Jack's eye from across the room. They figured this would happen, so the entire place was full of SSR agents posing as bank staff. Dottie Underwood had assembled her own team to rob the bank that Sera and her fellow agents were standing inside, and they were ready for her. This time she wasn't getting away.

She shifted slightly and the man behind her landed a hard smack to her ass. "Hey, I said don't move."

From across the room, Jack grit his teeth when he saw what happened, and made a mental note to punch the guy holding Sera at gunpoint when he got the chance. For now, though, he focussed on the task at hand, because he knew that Sera would never forgive him if he let this go wrong.

She saw Jack's fingers twitch, the signal they needed, and she threw her elbow back as hard as she could. The aim was to stop them all and pull their guns, but after the man's little display, Sera figured a broken nose was what he deserved.

As his head jerked backwards, Sera turned and punched him in the nose, wrestling the gun from his hands before watching his legs give way and his back hit the floor. Then she pulled out her own gun and pointed both of them at him, smirking as he let out a quiet groan of pain before falling unconscious.

"We are the SSR!" she heard Jack shout. "Lower your weapons."

A gunshot echoed through the building and one man reacted to it. Jack swung his gun and knocked the man clean out, straightening his hat as he stood over him. He looked over at Sera. "You gonna go help out or...?"

Sera grinned, stepping over the man who she had knocked out before making a break for the vault. Peggy had been shut inside to intercept Dottie, and she figured that the sound of the shotgun was her trying to stop Dottie.

She ran into the vault and saw Dottie slam Peggy into a shelf. Peggy turned with a roll of coins in each hand, throwing punches left and right. Peggy finally knocked Dottie to the ground before Sera could help, and when she spied the shotgun lying on the floor, she was quick to step on in and stop Dottie from grabbing it.

The woman got to her feet, fists clenched, but before she could take another step, a bag of coins slammed into the back of her head and exploded, spilling the currency all over the vault floor and sending Dottie to the ground.

Sera raised her eyebrows. "They say money can't buy happiness, but this is highly satisfying."

Peggy smiled. "Nice of you to help."

"You looked like you had it handled," Sera shrugged, as Peggy crouched down to handcuff Dottie.

"Love the hat," she commented.

"It looks better on you," Sera said, picking up the red fedora and spinning it around her finger. "Nice of her to dress up as you."

Peggy rolled her eyes. "Everything alright on the outside?"

"Yeah," Sera replied. "I knocked a guy out."

"Why does that not surprise me?"

"He slapped my ass, he had it coming."

"Touché."

Walking out of the vault with Dottie in their custody, Sera saw the rest of her men being arrested and carted out of the building. Jack was overseeing the operation, but when he saw Sera, he smiled and excused himself.

"Nice punch," he commented, gesturing to the unconscious man still lying on the floor. "Good thing you got there before I could."

"Hey, I am perfectly capable of defending my own honour," Sera said, as she watched Peggy lead Dottie from the bank. "Hopefully his nose is broken."