Chapter 24

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"Back up!, shit it's like there trying to trap us here" Kurt said, Jane signals to Mathew then hit reverse once he starts backing up "this looks bad Mitch the fires are out of control and those spiders keeps popping out at every other turn, if we try to stay here we're dead." Kurt said while reloading his shotgun and glancing over his shoulder at Mitch in the backseat.

    "I can't just leave, I have to find them!" Mitch replied, "your house is on fire man, its a good guess that their no longer here, they probably made it out already" Jane said, while turning the SUV around and following Mathew's police car.

    Mitch watches through the back windshield, as the fire engulfs his home, praying his sister had gotten their parents out, two years of putting off visiting them in Colorado, had cause them to come to him, dragging along his sister who wasn't a...

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Mitch watches through the back windshield, as the fire engulfs his home, praying his sister had gotten their parents out, two years of putting off visiting them in Colorado, had cause them to come to him, dragging along his sister who wasn't at all pleased with that out come, but like him could never say no to mom. The car wasn't in the driveway, so he could at least take some comfort in what Jane had said.

Sis would have gotten them out..why didn't she come to the station..unless..

The loud blast of Kurt's shotgun brought him out of his thoughts, he could no longer see his burning house through the back windshield. "You know, now would be the perfect time, for you to start using that gun on your lap buddy, but hey, no pressure, no sweat, it's not like we may die or anything, between you and me I've been daydreaming of that three tits chick since I first saw total recall too, not the new one the old classic." Calvin said in a conversational manner, has if they were doing nothing but discussing the weather.

    Mitch looks at Calvin, his face must have shown the confusion he felt, because the teenager's lips quirks into a wry smile. The sharp turn of the SUV throws him off balance slamming his right shoulder against the door painfully, at the same time Calvin crashes against his left with Kelly falling halfway across his thighs.

The gun on his lap slides foreword, Mitch grabs it quickly before it could fall off his knees. Looking up and out the window he was just in time to see the road breaking apart, the cracks spread rapidly, several of them making its way beneath the SUV. The front right tire hit a large crack that made the cruiser shake violently, Mitch's face slam into the back of Kurt's headrest, for the second time he felt pain, this one however was as unpleasant as a punch to the nose.

Releasing the gun he brought his hand to his face cupping his nose, the pain causing him to squeeze his eyes shut, Kelly's sudden outburst of screams, had his left eardrum ringing, son of a b— what the hell is wrong with that girl. The thought had barely left his mind when his door window exploded, sending shards of glass all over him with a few pieces piercing his skin. His eyes flew open just has a large beast rammed into his side door, the force of its charging almost flipping the SUV over, and probably would have if not for Jane's maneuvering.

     Mitch was in shock watching has, Shotgun blast after blast hit the thing but it was unaffected, Kurt was yelling something but for the life of him. His mind was just not processing it and for all he knew he might have just been speaking gibberish, it was Calvin who took the initiative pulling him backwards so he could reach around him with a flashlight in hand shining it directly at the beasts head, just has its muscular arms grabbed onto the broken window of the door, claws sinking in has the metal fold like paper from the force of its strength.

    It was about to rip the door off when its head exploded, Black blood and chucks of its head went flying, the spray of the blood hitting Mitch on the chest, his face missing the spray only because Calvin had pulled him back. The SUV sped foreword lurching side to side a little before going straight. Mitch was breathing hard has he sat back up in his seat, Kurt leaned over so he could have a better view of them in the back, he gave Kelly a gentle smile then a proud nod to Calvin before he looked at Mitch eyes going hard.

"I understand your worried about your family, but right now you're here with us, and if we don't work together there is no chance of us making it out alive, so can we count on you not to let what just happened, happen again?"

Mitch knew what Kurt meant he had froze, that thing would have killed them all if it had gotten in, and all he had done was sat there and looked at it. No he couldn't let that sort of thing happen again, dead weight was exactly what it was, just dead weight and he'd be damn if he became that.

Looking into the chiefs eyes he nods, speaking confidently "Yes sir, that won't ever happen again." Kurt looked at Mitch a moment longer, then nodded back at him and turned around in his seat, he watches the last of the Houses pass by outside his window as the cold wind fills the car from the broken one. Up ahead he could see the taillights of Mathew's car and for the first time since this all started he thought they would make it out, his stiff shoulders finally relaxing a bit with relief.

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