77 The Fast & The Furious V : Death Race (1/2)
The old spy movies got it right, right to the changing of the steering wheel, the massive laser cannon that was now sitting on the bonnet of the car, and the big shiny red button that looked like a prop out of a men in black movie. I really wanted to press it, but it seems this night wasn't really hoping to let me enjoy even the little things around.
*RATARATARATARATARATA!*
Sparks lit up the side of Pegasus as Bug and three other cars came up from behind us, pelting us with a shower of bullets from sub-machine guns. Maliascreamed and ducked down, but there was no danger ad the bullets bounced off the nanite shield coating Pegasus.
I turned his steering wheel left, barely evading a pillar that came up in front of me, soon enough there were more and more pillars in front of us, serving as obstacles and as defender against the idols shooting at us from behind. The pillars were tightly clustered together, and it wad taking all of my concentration at the speed we were going, to easily navigate through it.
*BANG!*
Another rockets head exploded close besides us, this time it was a little too close for comfort and it shook the entire car, forcing my head towards against Pegasus's had steering wheel. It didn't take me long to notice that I wad bleeding from my head, but even then the bad news were not yet at an end.
(DEFENSES AT 27% AND FALLING! PLEASE BOSS IF I TAKE ANY MORE HITS, I'M GOING TO BE FEELING IT IN THE MORNING ????????????????)
I looked forwards and noticed an open area before another cluster of pillars. I pulled on Pegasus's hand brakes, turning around until we were facing the direction we just came from, along with the people trying to shoot us. Pegasus seemed to. Read my mind as the massive cannon on his bonnet began to glow a sickly green light.
*PEW!* *BANG! BOOOM!*
(RECHARGING CANNON....TIME TO NEXT VOLLEY 70 SECONDS!)
It was not that surprising that the cannon needed to be recharged, I had no idea what it ran on, but one shot from it had completely stripped one of the trucks chasing us down to it's frame, before it exploded, leaving nothing behind in the shower of flames that ensued. I shuddered, to the normal eyes, they would not have been able to see what had happened to the car, but I could, it was as if millions of insects had pounced on them and ate them all. Honestly it was quite jarring.
I put Pegasus in reverse moving backwards the next section of tightly clustered pillars rapidly coming up behind us. I tightened my hands on the steering wheel, Bug and his final lackey were drawing close, and turning would leave us exposed to them. I pointed my gun out of the side window, but I didn't shoot immediately, there was not enough time for us to wait for the cannon to charge, this shot had to count.