Survival, стр. 128

I saw as they sped up even more, and thensuddenly, they turned a corner onto the main street and blocked theentire street. I kicked it into sixth gear and brought my speed upto 96 mph and left the cops in my dust. I could see the guards exittheir vehicles yelling at me to stop, but just before I reachedthem, I decelerated, and maneuvered right between their cars,nearly running them over. I noticed the drivers remained in theircars and immediately took off after me.

Once I passed them, I decided to have alittle fun. I pulled the clutch in just enough as I brought myRPMs to rise up to the torque peakand then quickly released, the front tire lifting and bringing meinto a fantastic wheelie as I tore off down the street.

With my headlights still off, I quickly speddown another street with fewerlights, hoping to conceal myself better. Darren couldn’t have madeit easier with the bike completely blacked out. The only thing thatreally gave me away was that my engine was loud as fuck. I headeddown another street that ran parallel to the main road, stillhoping to make it to the city.

I could still hear the sirens and the roarof the BMWs in the background until my GPS signal finally revealedthe street I was on. But then something magical happened as I felta searchlight come over my bike,with the whopping sound of helicopter blades above. I looked up atthe giant newscaster helicopter and smiled. Bingo.

But now my location was completely givenaway and stealth mode quickly became obsolete.

I turned my lights back on and took off,popping another quick wheelie, but only to suddenly find threeblack BMWs ahead of me, with the cops closing in behind me. Fuck,they might actually box me in.

I was going too fast to make a quick turn,and if I slowed down, the cops behind me would definitely box mein. If I sped up, the three BMWs would prevent my advance.Shit.

The three BMWs ahead of me were flanked in atriangle formation and all at once, they all started to hit theirbrakes with the cops no more than ten feet behind me, way too closefor comfort. But then, eventually, everyone got too close andsuccessfully blocked me in. I hit my brakes, both BMWs that nowflanked my sides pulled in so close that they were less than a footaway from me.

As soon as we were at a dead stop, the BMWswere close enough to me that I was able to reach out with my legsand press their car doors closed with my feet. They pushed andjammed on the doors, yelling at me to knock it off, but I didn’tknow quite what they were thinking. There was barely any room fortheir doors to open anyway with bike successfully wedged betweenthem. One of them finally got smart and started to roll down theirwindow while one of the guards in the driver’s seat got out.

In a rush, I kicked off one of the doors andmanaged to leap out between the cars, landing on the top of the BMWto my right, jumping off the hood, and taking off at a dead run.All sorts of lights were on me as more adrenaline pumped through myveins while the cops ran after me, shouting my name along withorders I did not intend to follow.

One of the cops finally caught upwith me and made the mistake ofgrabbing my upper arm. I turned and side kicked him in the gut andthen retracted for a second kick right under his chin. Another copadvanced on me, attempting to strike my face, but I quickly spunlow, knocking his ankles out from under him and dropping themotherfucker to the ground. I then quickly slammed an axe kick right down on his throat. A third copcame up behind me and grabbed both my arms, while another came upin front of me and tried to hit me in the face.

I instantly moved my head to the side and heended up punching the cop behind me in the mouth. I kicked the guyin front of me in the face and sent him back a few feet while Iswiftly brought my heel up between the legs of the cop who held meand shot it up into his groin. He loosened his hold immediately,allowing me to slam my elbow into his face several times before hefinally loosened his grip. I was then able to take hold of his arm,lock it, and then tossed his limp ass over my shoulder, slamminghis body into the ground andforcing another axe kick into hisgut.

By then, the rest of the cops made it to thescene and basically dog piled me to the ground. I screamed inabsolute rage as I felt something prick the side of my arm. A waveof dizziness quickly consumed me as it dawned on me that my handswere now being cuffed behind my back. I was then yanked to my feetand held up by my upper arms as my mind fought against the drugthey had pumped me with.

All kinds of shouting was going on, but Icouldn’t make out a single word. Flashing lights blurred togetherin a storm of red and blue as I was dragged to a squad car. Ilooked on to the distance to find Darren’s guards leaning upagainst their cars, one of them smoking a cigarette as they watchme get carted off with the cops. Two of them I didn’t recognize, asthey were both dressed in black suits and actually looked like thesame person. I gave them all a cocky smile and laughed. I was surethey were in just as much trouble as I was.

The ground beneath me felt like it wascrumbling with each step I took. It felt like I had downed anentire bottle of tequila on an empty stomach … in an hour. Myvision blurred, sounds were nothing but noise, and my stomach feltlike it was on a roller coaster.

Eventually, I realized I had been tossedinto the back of a cop car and was now on my way to wherever