PROTECTOR Episode 2

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EPISODE 2
Can’t stay out of the limelight

     “This is unit 32!” shouts an officer taking cover behind a car into the radio in his hand. A metallic slug shatters the front window of the car, lodging in the inside of the door he is leaning against. “Bank robbery in progress at the intersection of 23 and 21; Suspects wielding high caliber fully automatic weapons,” A teenager with wolf ears can be seen standing in the middle of the street, walking toward him reading a book, causing the officer to wave frantically, trying to get him to take cover.
     Chris just continues walking, apparently oblivious to the gunfire and bullets slamming into the armored police car in front of him. The man in the ski-mask sees him and pulls his trigger, only to have a click echo from the chamber.
     “Empty?” The wolf asks, two feet away from the perpetrator. The man jumps back and begins waving a knife, “dude… you’re going to cut yourself…”
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     “You almost finished B?” an armed thug asks, his pistol pointed towards the hostages they had taken.
     “Yeah, almost through the firewall.” The monitor in front of this one clicks away, trying to hack away at the advanced security program that has locked every single part of the building down.
     “I can’t believe how idiotic K was, getting locked outside like that.” The glass door opens, causing the armed thug to spin and face the invader.
     Chris whistles, looking through his blue tinted shades at the book in his hand. His hand presses down on the counter as he looks at the fearful teller cringing behind her chair, “I would like to withdraw five hundred from my account.”
     A shot punches a hole in the concrete he is resting on, “On the floor, NOW!”
     The wolf smiles and nods to the teller, “oh I see you’re busy, I’ll come back later…” He walks back to the far wall, where a white lever in a red box is. A bandaged hand is placed on it, “Hey? Do you guys know what the charge for a false fire alarm is?”
     “No I don’t.” The thug asks himself why he can’t pull the trigger and kill this idiot who had the dumb luck to open up the only unlocked door. It should be easy, that was their plan, they were trained.
     So why not?
     “Neither do I; let’s find out.” A quick pull makes the sprinklers come on, the computer in front of ‘B’ sparking.
     “DAMMIT!” the ski-masked freak screams while spinning and popping off shots at Chris.
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     Police officers storm the building an hour later, finding all the armed guards tied up on the vaulted ceiling.
     All the reports they acquire from the crime scene show nothing of a black-haired teenager with wolf ears ever being there..
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     Kara taps her foot as Chris walks into the apartment building they are staying at, “You’re late…” She points to the clock, showing it to be 7:00 pm.
     “I know, I said we would head out for the beach earlier this week, but at least I wasn’t late for school. Perhaps we could set out seeing as it is fri-”
     “Run.” She cracks her knuckles.
     A step backwards follows, “What!?”
     “I said…” The cyan haired girl pulls out a white fan, “run.”
     Chris turns, “…right…” then takes off screaming for his life, Kara in pursuit.