Falling Pieces

Pierced Nugget

"What happened next?"

"Jeez relax I'm telling the entire story man,"

"uh-oh," I yelled as a bullet soared past me. We were speeding through streets of Venice, breaking or crushing whatever came in the way.

"nugget, WHERE ARE YOU??" I yelled as loud as I could, I twisted and saw multiple black cars on our tail.

"I'm where we discussed blondie, keep driving," said Carrol. He ran towards the edge of the building and jumped. He went straight down grabbed the pole of the minaret swung on it landed down

"Hard right," he said focusing

"NOW!" he exclaimed and I made a sharp turn just missing the adjacent wall by a few inches. One black car collided with the wall and the remaining 2 continued chasing our neon green car.

"Looking back in hindsight maybe a bright neon green car wasn't the best option"

"Ya think?"

In the backseat, Mikayla and Brandon were sitting arm in arm. They gasped and closed their eyes at every turn or every stretch. 

"AHHHHH SLOW DOWN", "STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" they yelled constantly.

He laughed, "It was hilarious"

"PETER YOU NEED TO SLOW DOWN" Brandon yelled

"I hear a lot of backseat driving going on here.", I laughed.

"Hold tight guys." and I screeched to a halt the two cars chasing me continued to go with the same speed, went straight and collided with two pillars in front of us. 

"Okay" I looked back, "You two alright?" and I'll never forget the look on their faces, They were staring blankly on the cars and their jaw had dropped.

"I'm gonna take that as a yes. Yo nugget, meet me at rendezvous, I lost my tail."

"Roger that blondie". Peter drove for a bit and met Carrol just outside a farmers market. I took out a water bottle and drank some water.

"How did it go?"

"It's a confirmed kill,"

"Alright!"

Suddenly bullets started raining on the car. I looked back and two bikes came out of nowhere and started spraying the car. I blindly punched the accelerator

"Whatever happened to LOST MY TAIL!" Carrol yelled. they continued to drive and trying to dodge the bullets.

"Nugget," I yelled, "Do your thing".

Carrol pulled out a gun and started shooting towards the bikes. In front of us was a multi-levelled parking building we were supposed to meet Mummy at. I punched the accelerator again and near it stood two guards with a barricade, But that wasn't going to stop me, I wasn't going to stop and pay for parking or anything. We drove in and the bikes followed as the reached we the top level, there was a ledge hanging by the support of a rope, I took out a knife and as we passed I stuck my hand out and stabbed the rope, the massive ledge fell on the first bike and the second biker hit the first one and toppled over. "HAHA!" I said looking back but that was what I did wrong in that scenario.

I knew I made a mistake when I looked back. I turned back around and saw a massive speed breaker in our path. I stomped the break but it was too late, I shut my eyes tight, I knew what was coming

The car ran over the speed breaker and flipped. Glass flew everywhere. It continued to flip continually till it collided with a wall that sent a thick metal rod through the broken windshield, Making the car stop and Carrol let out a gasp. I looked to my side to see a horrific sight. The metal rod had pierced through Carrol's chest. His eyes had a glassy look and blood was oozing out of where the rod had pierced.

"I'm sorry Peter,"

"Its-fine..."

I was in denial for the first couple of minutes. This was not happening. Carrol and I were now like best buds. 

"NO!!" I tried pulling the rod out to no avail. I put the car in reverse and stomped the accelerator. It didn't work. I tried several times. I tried opening my door but it was stuck and then the worst thing along with it, The sirens came from below the lot. Brandon got out of his side of the door and ripped out my door and pulled me out.

I was numb. All I could do was say "No", I couldn't move I just sat there. I didn't want to leave Carrol's side. Brandon and Mikayla tugged me out and we got out on the roof of the lot, arm in arm running as fast as we could since we were all injured. I looked back and there he was, in the car still stuck in that passenger seat. Carrol, with all the strength he could muster, turned his head towards me and gave a faint smile, from afar for the last time and then his head lolled sideways. The car suddenly burst into flames and BANG! it had exploded. 

"NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I yelled crying. Honestly, I would have run towards Carrol if Brandon had not grabbed my wrist and pulled me back. Mummy was there in a chopper waiting for them. Brandon put me in, then Mikayla climbed in and Brandon got in last. There was deep sorrow on their faces and the chopper ride was had an eerie silence indicated that this was not something they had expected. I sobbed quietly as Mikayla had her head on my shoulder and her arm around my neck. It was real. We had lost a team member. Carrol was dead.