SMOSH EXPEDITION: The Rainbow Lollipop (Book Five)

Chapter Ten - Trail Blazer

Olivia Sui

   It was a narrow escape. We were sitting in our van as Shayne drove, roaming the streets of Los Angeles while Noah and Keith waited for another signal. Courtney sat beside Shayne, knees to her chest staring into space. That incident back at the storage facility was scary as hell, we barely made it out alive.

"Courtney," I approached her and pat her shoulder. She slowly turned her head to look at me, "Are you okay?"

She nodded and smirked, "Aside from being covered in sticky frosting, I'm okay." She exhaled, "Who knew we would be pulled into this kinds of situations when we took the job as Smosh co-stars."

"I know, and after that brush with death, hearing Ian and Anthony's crazy adventures makes more sense than before." I scoffed, "Plus I've never sweated like this before." I looked at my armpits and they were stained with sweat.

Shayne laughed, turning the van right, "Same."

   "Guys, we got another signal!" Noah suddenly shouted, "He had just ended his call with Ian."

   "Where is it coming from now?" I asked, sitting beside them to look at the monitor.

   "It's at-"

   There was a loud bang coming from the right. The entire van shook sending Noah, Keith, and I flying to the opposite side. Something hit us. Then there was another loud crash, and we rocked violently.

   "WE'VE GOT COMPANY!" Shayne screamed, pushing the gas pedal deeper making the entire vehicle zoom faster. I ran to the back doors and saw a red pickup truck with tinted windows chasing after us.

   But it wasn't the truck that shocked us, it was the passengers at the back of it. There were at least a dozen donuts with red glowing eyes.

   "Not these guys again." Noah said, reaching for his Egg Roll hammer.

   "Hold on to your weapons, and don't let them take it!" Courtney advised, cocking her churro blaster. All of us scrambled to get ahold of our respective weapons.

"Hang on!" Shayne screamed, steering us into oncoming traffic, ramming through the orange plastic barriers.

The pursuers stayed on the other side but kept a close distance. The donuts wailed and roared, jelly donuts were firing their projectiles at us. Shayne drove straight letting the oncoming cars avoid us.

I glanced out back again and saw a harpoon flying straight at us.

"LOOK OUT!" I dived down taking Noah and Keith with me just as the arrow passed through the steel door, narrowly missing us by an inch. The back door flew open, tearing away from the vehicle.

   "This is some crazy Fast And Furious shit!" Shayne said steering away from them, but not until another arrow was shot; it pierced the side of the van, the head of the arrow acting as a grappling hook and there was a thick metal chain linked to the pursuing truck.

   Then came a powerful tug on the chain, sending me flying out the open door.

"OLIVIA!" Noah bellowed.

I screamed at the top of my lungs. My heart skipped a beat as I flew out, everything just went in slow motion; from the van being pulled to grin against the steel barriers, to Noah and Keith reaching for me.

The next thing I knew was that I felt my head dangling inches from the asphalt and my hair grinding against it. Keith had gotten hold of the end of my pant leg.