The Runaways

Chapter 2 (Part 1) - Sewers, Smells, and Absolute Chaos: Jack

I sit there in the car staring out the window. Lily is babbling on and on about her "amazing" plan.

"okay we get it you can tell us your brilliant plan once we are safe and sound at head corridors" Amanda says clearly annoyed. Lily lets out an exaggerated sigh but thankfully is quiet after that. No sooner does she stop talking a bullet cracks through the window hitting her thigh. She screams.  I look out to see a large man holding a smoking revolver. Reese grabs Muffin and shoves her in her hoodie pocket, her little head poking out. I kick open my door hoping to hit him, but he is already on the roof of the car. Three more shots come through our roof and one hits Iris in the leg. Reese swerves the car and the man falls off. Landing behind us. Then I realize It's the man they called Nova. The one who shot me, but he now has something a bit more dangerous. He has, a much larger gun and he is aiming it at our car! "turn!" I scream to Reese! Reese turns and the car jumps as a wave of fire comes behind us. Flipping the small vehicle like a beetle. I grab Lily and Iris and pull them out of the flaming wreckage. Once Iris is laid on the soft grass, me and Lily dive in rescue Reese and Amanda and drag them out Muffin somehow still safely in Reese's pocket. As soon as we do, I hear someone shooting. Shots dig into the ground all around us Reese who regained consciousness is hit. I look up to see Nova's grinning face over a giant gun. A giant gun which he is firing very rapidly at us. Now I am hit again lily is too and Amanda is as well. The five of us scramble away from the raging death stick, Amanda dragging Iris over her shoulder while Lily helps Reese who is still groggy from previously being knocked out. Iris is still unconscious with blood gushing out of her leg. Geez, this guy is so relentless, first he shoots at us, then, he blows up our car. Then he shoots at us again. We hide behind a park bench for a while until the bullets rip that to shreds too. So, we run to the nearest statue. A couple shots later there is no more statue. It seems like all is lost until I see Lily pull up a gun and shoot everywhere and Amanda pulling up a sewer drain cover. she shoves Iris and Reese down while Lily covers us. I jump down and soon Lily jumps down behind me pulling the sewer cover over us to shield us from the many bullets ricocheting around us. We dive into the smelly water. which wakes Iris up pretty quick. She grabs my waist. The gun had shot her in the leg so she couldn't swim, and I was having trouble too with the shot in my foot, so we paddled together. I could see the water around us turning a dark gruesome red. 

"MUFFIN" I hear Reese screech "Muffin where are you" She dives under water "I can't find her" she says frantically after coming up for breath. I could see tears forming in her eyes. "muffin" she yelled again

"Reese you might have to let her go" I said sadly

"NO, I'm not giving up and I'm NOT leaving without muffin." We swim around calling her name. it seems like Muffin is lost forever. Sadness hangs low around the five of us screeching the name of our pet squirrel. Now I know, when someone tells you they have a pet squirrel you think that it must be a bad pet or that they must be really weird but believe me Muffin was the best pet EVER. She was loyal and helpful and easy to carry around. I mean when Reese first told me she was keeping Muffin as a pet I was not thrilled but the longer we kept her the more I started to like her and now she's as much of a pet to us as a cat or a dog. And right now, for us it was like losing your dog.

"Muffin where are you" Reese says finally.

"Reese, I'm so sorry" lily says swimming over to her and patting Reese's arm

"muffin? MUFFIN!" Reese shouts joyfully finally spotting her beloved squirrel. She swims like a torpedo over to where muffin is fighting the water to stay afloat. "muffin don't ever do that again. I was so scared" She says scooping her up and placing the shivering squirrel on her head so that she won't drown.