“Throw your rifles out the window and get out keeping your hands where I can see them! I’ll shoot anyone who looks weird! Do what we say, and we’ll let you go! We’re just looking for some medical supplies.” Drew yelled. He was standing up in the truck bed aiming at the occupants of the cab of the U-Haul. The occupants of the cab were looking back at him from point blank range. They knew they were screwed based on the petrified looks on their faces. They rolled their windows down and began carefully pushing their rifles out.
A loud shot rang out. The side view mirror beside where Yue was standing shattered throwing glass everywhere. A woman was standing by the end of the U-Haul with a pistol aimed at Yue. The woman was yelling something. Yue and Drew couldn’t hear the woman over the sound of their own return fire. That single poorly aimed pistol shot earned the U-Haul riders a combined forty shot volley in return. The return shots were much better aimed.
Drew had shot holes all along the windshield of the U-Haul. He was pretty sure he’d gotten at least the driver and one of the passengers. The middle seat guy had dropped almost instantly out of sight as soon as the first shot rang out. Yue stopped firing long enough to look at her own handiwork. The woman who’d fired the pistol at her was lying motionless in the street in a pool of her own blood.
Drew jumped down from the bed of the truck. Together they moved up to the driver side window. Drew yelled at the general area of the window that if anyone inside wanted to live they should just go out the other side. Yue stood behind him covering his back while they gave anyone left alive in the cab a few seconds to comply. A man shouted not to shoot and opened the door on the other side of the truck. Drew ran around to the other side and caught the man lying prone on the ground aiming a rifle at Yue’s legs.
Drew shot the man in the head then picked up the dead man’s rifle off the ground. Without putting his head too close to the open door he fired a few rounds into the cab. Not hearing anything he climbed quickly into the cab and verified he’d gotten the other two men already. The keys were still in the ignition. Having checked all of that Drew climbed back out of the cab and ran around to meet Yue.
“Now what?” She asked after she got over the relief of seeing him come around the cab. She’d been worried the shots she’d heard may have meant Drew was the one on the ground.
“We need to get the other two out of the back if they haven’t already taken off. Then we drive this bad boy back home like bosses.” Drew said. This was going way too well. He couldn’t believe they were actually going to be able to claim an entire U-Haul full of supplies. He kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. The fact that they’d just killed four people hadn’t sunk in yet.
“Ok.” Yue said.
Drew looked over at her noticing a tremor in her voice. He could see that she was shaking all over. He kept his eyes on the back of the truck.
“It’s going to be just like paintball. Except I’m going to put some holes in the side of the truck to flush them out. You cover me. It’ll all be good in a few minutes. We’ll be on our way home with everything we need.” Drew said. He didn’t bother looking behind him. Freaking out or not he didn’t have the slightest doubt in the world that his sister would have his back.
Drew walked at a steady pace towards the rear of the truck. He stopped a couple of times to shoot holes through the side of it. The third time he started to do it he heard voices yelling from the back of the truck.
“Hey! We’re unarmed! You can have the truck! We’re going to run! Don’t shoot us!”
“You have ten seconds to get out of range!” Drew yelled back. He counted off five seconds in his head and swung around the end of the truck leading with his rifle barrel. Yue came right behind him. Two people in camouflage coveralls were running like their pants were on fire through the parking lot on the other side of the street.
The people who’d been in the back had positioned a few boards to keep the door from locking on them. Drew threw those boards out and pulled the sliding door down on the back of the U-Haul to secure it. Yue ran back over to his pickup truck and climbed in ready to go. Drew liked how she’d picked the vehicle without a bunch of broken glass and corpses in it to drive. He jumped up into the cab of the U-Haul and fumbled around with the seat belt in the front to let him pitch the driver out onto the street. If the idiot hadn’t been wearing a seatbelt then he might have ducked faster and avoided getting his brains blown out the back of his skull. Drew reached over and undid the other guys belt and tossed him
