“Can one of you tell me what that is?” She said looking at them in the rear-view mirror and then glancing behind them.
They both spun their heads round to have a better look. The road behind them was almost empty except for an odd wave-like motion centred in one area, an area that seemed to be getting closer to them. The wave-like motion suddenly rippled and the light around it scattered up into the air and turned into some kind of swarm of insects. Where the shimmering motions had been was now a sleek car. Its sights were set squarely on catching them, while the swarm of 'insects' flickered in the sunlight as they danced closer to them.
“Am I actually seeing this?” Olivia said surprised. She had never seen anything quite like this, it was some new technology. Who knew what this could do?
“What's the swarm guys?” asked Monique seeing the swirling mass snapping at the back of the car.
“I don't know” Sofia shouted, “They look like insects”.
Sofia wound down her window to glance out and have a better look. Despite the danger they were in, she was curious as to what they were. Monique sped up to get them away from the car that was hot on their tail and the swarm of reflecting sparkles. The swarm suddenly lurched forward and Sofia screamed. She pulled her head back in and wound the window back up, turning to Olivia in shock.
“They're some kind of tiny robots” She screamed confused.
Olivia screamed back as she noticed some of them had managed to catch up with them and had attached themselves to Sofia's hair. She pointed at them before quickly trying to brush them off her. Sofia screamed again, realising what had happened. She began to pull at her hair desperately, Olivia doing the same, but neither was able to grab them. The Nano-bots jumped into the air and swung themselves around, easily able to evade being swiped away, and then they all headed for Sofia's ears and nostrils. Olivia screamed as the hoard of Nano-bots dug themselves deeper inside of her, her breathing becoming hysterical.
“What's happening back there?” Monique shouted.
Sofia began to convulse, her arms and legs shooting back and forth, knocking the seat in front of her and making Monique swerve left and right. The swarm of Nano-bots were still circling close to the car, small red flashes blinking in and out, followed by small red flashes under Sofia's skin. Olivia began screaming in terror, she had no idea what to do; her friend was sat in front of her, an unknown technology ripping at her insides. Sofia began bleeding from her eyes, the horror and pain etched clearly on her startled expression. Olivia was now crying, confused, scared and feeling utterly helpless. The Nano-swarm smashed against the window next to Sofia, shattering the glass effortlessly and they dived in, every single one grabbing hold of Sofia. Olivia continued to watch, stunned into silence by this point. The swarm contorted Sofia's body into a shape no human should be, and wrenched her from her seat and out of the window, her blood-curdling screams bouncing round the car's interior.
“Jesus, what the fuck...” Monique screamed as she heard her friend’s last sounds as she was pulled apart.
If they thought they were pumped with adrenalin before, now was a whole new level. The swarm threw what remained of Sofia to the road and continued their assault on the car. Olivia saw them swirling back to Sofia's window and reached behind to pick up the fire extinguisher, pulled the safety catch and began spraying towards the window. The foam coated the swarm, causing a sudden stop to their attack, small sparks igniting the air around them. Monique took a sudden right turn to head down into a tunnel. She didn't know how they would get out of this, but she just had to drive, drive as good as she could. She couldn't see the Nano-bots when she checked her rear-view mirror.
“Did you get them?” She asked Olivia.
“I don't know, I saw them giving off sparks, so maybe. I didn't think that was going to work” She replied, the adrenalin now causing her voice to wobble.
They couldn't see the swarm, only the sleek car, still hot on their heels. Monique noticed the other cars turning towards her, all of them accelerating. She did her best to swerve in and out, avoiding each collision. What was happening? Why were all these people trying to crash into them?
“Monique” Olivia shouted, “Something is happening with that car”.
Olivia glimpsed behind to see it slowly transforming and leaving the ground. Its central core remained the same, but the wheels disappeared, wings formed, and it lifted off the ground.
“What the hell is that thing?” Olivia yelled, tears in her eyes.
It felt like her whole body was going to self-implode, the adrenalin thundering relentlessly through her veins. The now flying ex-car flew towards them with two gun turrets appearing near to where the wheels used to be. Monique was still too busy trying to avoid the cars that she never noticed it. The exit to the tunnel was up ahead and she took a deep breath, placed her foot hard on the accelerator and raced towards it, she had no other way to go. A few seconds later they emerged from the tunnel, still swerving left and right, avoiding the kamikaze drivers.
“Why are these people trying to drive into us?” Olivia wept.
The flying ex-car emerged from the tunnel too, keeping pace with Monique and Olivia easily. Monique saw it was still there and took another turn to the left. She took a huge sigh of relief as there appeared to be no cars on this road, just pedestrians.
“Do you know where you're going?” Olivia asked. She wasn't familiar with this part of the city. It looked a lot more run down than the areas she knew, “We don't want to break down around here”.
Monique looked at her with a raised
