Chapter 6 Countdown to death

From the time God Ravel called Truck-kun to the ambush set by car-kun and Truck-kun's arrival a total of 3 minutes have passed. Truck-kun did not have much time left, however he did not panic. The cars which were moving at top speed had long slowed down thanks to car-kun's ambush and from the fact that there were constant smoke coming from the under the bonnet the car's performance had long reached its limit. Now all truck-kun had to do was to crush his target to death. Carie who was to the left of the truck saw the truck target Phoenix started to lower the window and aimed his assault rifle at the truck and started spraying the bullets at the window while Wolf who was in extreme left slightly slowed down the car and changed lane to arrive behind the truck as Mutumbo who was inside Wolf's car opened the small retractable portion at the roof of the car and started shooting from behind the truck aiming at the tyres of the truck.

All over the truck sparks were flying as the truck was completely unscathed as most bullets ricocheted while some even hitting their cars making holes. Though they heard from Phoenix and Helen about not being damaged by bullets they were still shocked to see the actual scene. The cars of Helen, Wolf and Sergey started to press hard at the truck as Sergey was towards the left of the truck, Wolf was behind the truck and Helen was towards the right of the truck. However truck-kun continued to press forward without any worry.

Just as Phoenix was taking a high speed curve up ahead in the expressway the truck bumped him from behind at the side of the car. "Shit, this bastard aimed at the worst possible time. This is bad, the truck is going for the kill" shouted Sergey as he saw the scene where Phoenix's car was on the verge of spinning and getting hit by the guardrail placed to split the road. At this speed if he gets hit by a guardrail the best possible outcome is damage to tear end of the car and the most common outcome would be falling on the other side of the highway while rolling followed by car catching fire and exploding as the car is filled with grenade, ammunition and turbo filters. Phoenix who was inside the car however had a calm expression as if he had expected the truck to do this and instead of fighting the oversteer of the car allowed it to pull him as he pressed brake and accelerator to drift the car at high speed as he cleared the corner without any problem and the people who watched this scene had chills behind their backs. "Amazing" shouted Wolf as he watched the scene, especially the rear end which missed the guardrail by 3 inches. "Haa" Helen breathed out with relief as she had almost forgotten to breathe. "What" shouted truck-kun as he could not believe he was able to escape from that. Truck-kun however did not panic as the last 5 Kms road to the airport will be just a 4 lane traffic with many S sections as he continued to press forward.

Phoenix continued to press the gas pedal fully despite the smoke from under the hood of the car. The engine of the car has long overheated and supercharger has stopped giving it's output. Every time he accelerated the engine gave the sound of a howl signifying the stress to the engine. Phoenix though calm on the outside knew that these 5 Kms were his dead line, if he managed to get away run away from the truck he would win and if he manages to loose control or the car stops functioning it would mean his death.

At this time truck-kun made his move. Instead of aiming at Pheonix truck-kun swerved his truck to the left and bumped at Sergey's car as he spun out and bumped into the sidewalk and at the immediate next second he swerved to the right and bumped into wolf's car and made him hit the guardrail. Both cars were damaged, however they were still alive with slight scratches which was a miracle in itself as they announced in ear piece of their safety.

Helen sighed relief once again and then she heard Phoenix's voice " Fall back Helen and ensure their safety and pick them up in your car. Once I outrun him we will meet at the airport". "But Pheonix, it's dangerous" shouted Helen as his team mates agreed by shouting their concern. "Helen, I won't take no for an answer, I repeat, fall back. The danger has started from the day we took this job. Once I survive this I'll treat you guys to an expensive meal" said Pheonix. "Ok, I'll take you on that. So you better survive" said Helen as she knew that Pheonix was only saying it to assure her and make her fall back. In fact everyone knew the chance of Pheonix making it to the airport was extremely slim as his car was already at its limit and the truck while in best condition and is completely unscathed while getting by assault rifle.

Pheonix started to pull away while truck was close to his bumper. Truck-kun did not hit him from behind as even if the back of the car is damaged the target would probably be unscathed as the target was also moving at high speed. Only when the target's car stops can it squash him to death. Pheonix was planning to make its move in the next S section where there was a right curve to make a full side press along the guardrail and crush the target along with his car.

At this moment a car came from the opposite direction straight to the target at high speed and truck-kun who saw it laughed while saying "Nice, Car-kun you son of a bitch you came at a perfect time. Now what will you do. From front you have car-kun while from back you have me. Even if you try to dodge him he will follow you". Pheonix who was in this predicament laughed as he shouted "Till this day how many times do you think was I in this type of situation. No matter when I was in Afghanistan suffering an ambush from the local terrorist or against assassins who used machine gun to turn my car into Swiss cheese I survived. You think you can challenge me to a game of chicken. This does not even qualify to be in my top ten dangerous scenario" as he took his handgun and shot at the front mirror of the car which broke within seconds. As Pheonix saw inside the car he did not find anyone at the driving seat, however he did not care. Pheonix pulled the safety pin of hand grenade and just as they were about to collide head-on he made a sharp cut towards his right and threw the hand grenade inside the broken glass of the car.

Car-kun who was already been humiliated once was shocked once again as just when he was about to crash into the target's car it escaped once again and truck-kun and car-kun who took possession of another car were now facing each other. " Fuck" shouted car-kun as he and truck-kun collided head-on while the grenade in the car blasted. Though nothing happened to truck-kun, car-kun's entire car was totalled effectively removing him from the game of tag. Truck-kun did not let the failure to get to his head as he continued to chase the target by taking a reverse to get himself away from the debris caused by car-kun.

Truck-kun once again started to speed up and just as he followed the target in the S section Pheonix who was still going hard by drifting to make the right turn suddenly heard a bang followed by black smoke coming from under the hood. He knew his luck has run out as he immediately released his leg from brake while allowing the car to spin out by pressing the clutch to avoid the dangerous engine lock. Pheonix's car was now completely toast as he watched the front to see truck-kun coming at high speed towards him. Pheonix tried to release himself of the seat belt, however it was stuck and the truck was already before him. "Shit" muttered Pheonix as the truck crushed him along with his car against the guardrail.

Pheonix felt intense pain in his chest and leg and new that his ribs and legs were crushed while he felt that he could not breathe as his face was burries in the airbag. He felt the truck take a reverse and it once again banged the already crushed car as he felt his lungs get punctured as he caughed out blood and again banged the car as he took his last breath in this world.