Chapter 17: The Chase

Millie looked out the back window of the car that she was riding in. Anna sat in the passenger seat and Amber was driving. "Are we being followed by a yellow HUMV?" Millie asked.

Amber groaned. "Yes for like 40 miles now. Remember that leisurely drive through the market place in that last town, they were right behind us the whole way."

"Really? Why am I just noticing?"

Anna laughed. "Because you're about as observant as Ethan is. We keep you around for a good laugh every so often."

Millie frowned. "My mind just wanders easy, I can't help it. So who exactly is in that vehicle that they would be following us so closely?"

Anna glanced out the back window and said "The HUMV is my sister Jade's, she's such a goodie goodie, try as I may, I never could get her to participate in my schemes. Having an identical twin even if she is the evil one isn't any fun if she doesn't help with my trouble making."

Amber asked "So Jade is the evil one?"

"Well its not me!" Anna replied. Amber just rolled her eyes and continued to speed down a busy sidewalk. "What, are you trying to tell me something?" Amber shook her head.

Millie again spoke up. "It looks like Jade isn't alone either."

"If Jade is in hot pursuit, she must have Ethan and Nikki with her."

Millie kept staring out the back window. "I think I see some cats sitting on the dashboard, one's flipping me off."

Amber groaned. "I thought you told me that you took care of the cats already Anna!"

"I did, I left them off at the lawyer's house. He is easily manipulated, I think he thought by taking the cats off my hands for a couple days, he would earn a new client. Foolish at best. I thought that his security systems would prevent escape and detection."

"Well you thought wrong, this complicates things."

"Most likely Cleopatra figured a way to get a message out to Ethan and Nikki. How was I supposed to foresee that happening?"

"This is Cleopatra we're talking about. Did you remember to check to make sure that Zane didn't have any toasters available" Amber asked suspiciously.

Anna looked down at her lap, "No I forgot."

"YOU FORGOT!" Amber screamed. She lowered her voice a little bit and added "And maybe I'll forget to NOT eject you and your seat from the vehicle" as she put her hand on the ejector button for the passenger seat.

"Sorry, I'll pay better attention next time."

Amber moved her hand off the button. "Well I guess I'll need you to use the key anyway but don't screw up again! We're in a tough spot now. They've got an obvious advantage with the cats, but I think we can still manage to pull this off."

Millie inquired "Doesn't this vehicle have any kind of weapons equipped?"

Amber thought for a second and then commented "Most of the weapons are on the front part of the vehicle but I did have a rapid fire crazed weasel launcher installed in the trunk. That might do the trick."

Amber reached down between the seats and yanked the trunk release. The trunk hood moments later ejected high into the air flying way over the pursuing HUMV. She then turned a switch on her dashboard activating the rapid fire crazed weasel launcher. The launcher raised out of the back of the trunk and started to auto-fire. Millie stated "Those weasels don't look very crazed."

Amber frowned. "I guess since I installed that system a couple weeks ago the weasels didn't fair so well since then in the trunk. Weasel have no shelf life at all."

She was cut off by the sound of rapid machine gun fire. Checking the rear view mirror, she saw that the black cat, Suki, was manning the mounted machine gun and was doing a pretty good job of fending off the onslaught of weasels.

Amber turned the switch back to the off position which lowered the weasel launcher back into the trunk. "Worth a shot, we're almost there though, ready your weapons."