Chapter 4: DC
"DON!" Kevin shouts, as him and Lukz stammer out the front door.
"What the bleedin hell happened to you!" Don replies, lifting Lukz's half decapitated arm over his shoulder, spilling blood down his navy-blue jacket.
"I got my 100th kill. That's what happened!" Lukz replies as he tries to smile but ends up clinching his face in pain.
"Well, if I hadn't come to save your ass, you would have been the dead one?" Kevin says, smiling at him.
Lukz scowls back, "Like I said before, I've never seen you harm those things, let alone kill one? So, I thank you for being the bait." He weeps, letting out a painstaking grin.
Kevin's mouth partially gapes open, "It was a direct hit, and you know it!"
Don holts them all, turning towards Kevin. "Did you say, a direct hit?" He asks, confused.
"Yeees." Kevin murmurs.
Don shakes his head while looking down to the ground.
"What's up, Don?" Kevin asks.
He sharply looks back up, "Huh? Ow, never mind. For Christ sake, let's get Lukz to the hospital so DC can sort him out?"
"Wait?" Kevin flips out his phone, scrolling through its screen, "is DC working tonight?" He asks. anxiously.
"Yes?", Don replies, with a quizzical look imprinted on his face.
"Look at his arm! She needs to use more than hospital equipment, don't ya think?" Kevin says, pointing at Lukz's flesh seeping wound, as it spills a pool of blood beneath them.
Don nods, "But there isn't enough time to get them somewhere quiet? He's bleeding out!" he says fearfully, pulling his blood-soaked hand away from Lukz's arm.
"Ahhh, dahm it, okay." Kevin stutters.
A pair of paramedics rush over with a stretcher, Kevin and Don gently place him on. They dart off, shoving him into an ambulance. Lukz lays silent, barely conscious, dangling half off as they slam the doors shut, hastily pulling away with their sirens blaring!
"We need to get to the hospital before them. DC can't expose her powers in front of people?" Kevin harshly whispers.
"Okay, but how will we find her first? Even if we beat the ambulance?" Don replies, concerned.
"Don't worry, I have an idea? Just let me drive!"
Don nods, handing him the keys. They both dash over to his crystal white car, jumping inside.
Kevin slowly turns his head smirking towards him, as he shoves the key in it sparks a clean rumbling noise. "Hold onto your balls! Or you might end up having testicals for dinner!"
"What?!" Don shouts.
Kevin quickly snaps his gaze ahead, then smashes the accelerator pedal, spiralling its back wheels, causing the car to charge away. "WAIT, WAIT WAIT!" Don screams out, as his voice slowly drowns into the distance.
Chapter 5: 4 Minutes.
A pair of sirens blare out across an open grass terrane, with only a single road splitting its centre. Suddenly, a thundering roar wails around the countryside, followed by a mud battered, bumper less, grungy white car as it flies over the top of a small hill, landing right outside the hospitals entrance. Skidding vigorously, it stops only centimetres away from a pair of crystal-clear glass doors, Kevin rushes out the cars now battered and lacerated door!
"Come on Don, I think we overtook them!" He shouts out, bounding towards the hospital entrance. Don slowly staggers out the passenger's seat, grasping tightly to his roof while constantly puffing at his cheeks,
"I'll, bleh, I'll be with you in a minute, just got to shake of the fact you drove my brand-new car through a load of farmers' fields!!" He says getting progressively louder and more annoyed!
"Your just like Lukz with your bloody cars, come on!" Kevin replies, bursting into the hospital.
He quickly darts his eyes around the room, then sprints over to an assistance desk,
"Where is DC?" He blurts out, slamming his hands down.
A large, dark toned woman slowly lifts her head towards him, with an unamused expression painted across her old, leathery skin. Lifelessly, she asks, "Excuse me sir. Can you please calm down?"
Kevin stands there panting frantically, baffled by the women's lack of enthusiasm.
"Now, who is DC?" She asks, lazily.
Kevin scrunches his face, "Sorry, brother is sort of dyeing, and I'm a bit frantic. Dr Darcie Charm! Where is she, it's an emergency!" He asks, powerfully.
The woman slowly looks towards him, followed by rolling her dark brown eyes downwards. She types onto her computer, leaving a moment of awkward silence between them.
Kevin starts tapping his fingers upon her desktop, "I'm sort of in a rush here, please hurry up!" He asks impatiently, when emergency sirens start blurting out around him, followed by the glass doors flinging wide open with a pair of paramedics rushing in a completely lifeless Lukz.
A male paramedic stops the stretcher, then places two fingers on his neck,
"His hearts stopped! We have a max of 4 minutes to get it started again!" He shouts over to his female companion!
Kevin's eyes burst open, "Ow hell no!" He blurts out, rushing over to the stretcher, shoulder barging both paramedics to the floor.
"Sorry lad.. and lass, but I want the bragging rights for saving his life!" Kevin says, pulling an excited smile as he looks towards a clock above him, "22:30, okay." He grits his teeth while planting his left foot firmly into a shiny patchwork tile floor, then begins rapidly spiralling his legs as fast as they can go.
A morbid voice calls out from behind him,
"A&E, room 5". The unamused help desk worker calls out.
"Thank You!" Kevin shouts back, as he launches Lukz and himself down a hallway with A&E department labelled in bright red.
Kevin starts drifting round corner after corner, following an array of red arrows painted across the floor. His vision stays direct and focused, while his legs flail around behind him as he flies all over the place!
"Move out the way!" He screams out, stampeding towards a group of people! They all immediately throw themselves against the wall, startled by Kevin's erratic speed. He takes a few more turns then looks through an internal window to see a bright A&E sign glowing like the golden gates of heaven, only one more turn away. He pauses, looking down towards Lukz,
"Don't worry bro, normal people can survive without a heartbeat for about four minutes, but you haven't got a brain, so you'll probably have at least ten?" Kevin lets out a small smirk as he grips Lukz's stretcher tight, then begins dashing towards the A&E entrance doors.
Smashing them wide open, everyone sat silently immediately gets surprised and turns to stair over at him. Without a seconds delay, Kevin flicks his eyes around looking for room number 5, when he spots Darcie's Long brownie blond locks flowing behind her as she leaves her appointment room. He immediately charges towards her with Lukz still laying completely motionless! Darcie waves goodbye to her last patient, oblivious to Kevin storming towards her! She goes to close her door,
"DARCIE!!" Kevin cries out. She quickly turns towards him as he rams the trolley into her, firing her back into her appointment room. Slamming the door behind him, Kevin locks them both in.
A startled Darcie slumps to the floor, holding tight onto her stomach cringing in pain, gently weeping out,
"What the bloody hell did you do that for!"
He quickly turns towards her, shaking with a concoction of fear and excitement, "I'm sorry, I panicked! But look, he's dying!!", His frantic voice blurts out.
"What!" Darcie looks up, to see a stream of blood dripping from Lukz's arm as he lays completely limp. She bounds to her feet, then turns towards Kevin with her eyes burst wide open, "He's never been this wounded before?" She places her fingers on his neck, "Crap! No pulse as well! We need to stop this bleeding, then re-start his heart", She bellows out!
Kevin nods.
"Close all the blinds, we can't let people see me do this." Darcie says, pointing towards four windows surrounding her room.
Kevin quickly rushes over to the first window, erratically pulling its cord causing it to rappel downwards, blacking out part of the room. A crowd of people start to gather and stare through, trying to get a glimpse of what's going on. He rushes towards the other windows, yanking their cords down to release their individual blinds, but one jams halfway! He twists his body towards it, tugging rapidly at its cord, he yells out,
"Darcie, WAIT! It's stuck! They can all see in!" Kevin continues pulling it vigorously.
"Just do something Kevin, I need to heel him, now!" She reply's frustrated, quickly tying a proper tourniquet around Lukz's arm. She turns towards Kevin, noticing him pulling repeatedly on the jammed cord, trying to tear it loose,
"Kevin! Do something! NOW!" Darcie howls out, as she begins to mystically hover her hands over Lukz's flesh pulsing wound.
"Ahhh, sh*t, SH*T!", Kevin starts panicking, frantically looking around the room.
"AHHH, I need something to cover up this gap!!" He yells out, glimpsing Lukz's leather weapons belt as Darcie flings it off his arm. He flicks his head slightly backwards, partially pulling a savvy smirk,
"Don't worry, I got an idea! Cover your ears." Kevin shouts out, as he pulls a cloud smoked black revolver from the left side of his hip, tearing it from a leather studded holster. He points it directly at the window of crowded people.
"Kevin , Now!" Darcie bellows out!
*BANG! BANG! BANG!* Kevin blasts three shots directly into the ceiling above him, everyone outside the room screams in fear, stampeding away. He gently blows away some lingering barrel smoke, then slots it back on his hip while spinning towards Lukz and Darcie.
"Well, I think I did my bit, now its your tuuuuuu.." Kevin is abruptly stopped by a blinding ray of yellow light being casted from Darcie's hands, it pulses inside Lukz's arm as it radiates throughout his entire body, lighting up the room around them!
Kevin flinches, throwing his hands over his face, "Dahm it girl, you could have warned me you was going to harness the suns light!" He blurts out.
Darcie completely ignores him, cringing her fingers as she tries to pulse as much light energy as she can, straight into Lukz's wound! All his skin starts to combine and repair at an impossibly fast rate! Fibres start to stretch out to one another, binding back together. Muscle tares begin to close back up, intertwining with one another as all the damage done, is reversed! Her hands suddenly fire backwards, rays of light dissipate around the room, leaving it slightly tinted a golden white. Kevin rushes over to the entrance door, flicking on the main light.
Darcie and Kevin both stair towards Lukz, his immense gouge is completely sealed up, leaving only a large protruding scar where the skin has collided back together.
"Quickly, grab the defibrillator off my desk or all of this will be for nothing!" Darcie unconvincingly calls out. Kevin dashes over, tossing it towards her while unclipping the case as it leaves his hands. She reaches out, grabbing both paddles in mid-air, then slams them onto Lukz's chest, "CLEAR!" She yelps out.
*VDOOF!*
Lukz's whole body shudders, shaking his metal stretcher. Darcie pulls the pads away, then twitches her gaze towards a clock, "22:33:59." She whispers, looking back down at Lukz as his body lays motionless.
A single second takes a lifetime to pass by, the room dies of noise, Kevin and Darcie both stair at him, filling with pain and anguish, just wishing he would take a single breath.
*Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock.* The sound of seconds flutter by, passing the four-minute deadline. Darcie and Kevin both pause, staying fixed upon Lukz's corpse,
"GAAAASP!", Lukz's eyes flash open as he rapidly lifts his head.
Darcie's face explodes with glee, "OW LUKUS!" She calls out while jumping on top of him, squeezing him tight in her arms, "Don't you dare do that to me again!" She says, clinching his face whilst staring into his alluring eyes.
Lukz rapidly blinks, gently pulling Darcie's hands away.
"Are you, getting fat?" He asks in a wispy tone.
Her mouth gapes open, she immediately jumps off him while forcefully frowning.
"*Tut.* A simple, thank you for saving my life, again. Would be nice?" She asks in a bitter tone, folding her arms and turning away.
Lukz sit's upright, then leans back onto his muscular arms. Rolling his eyes, "Okay, thank you." He replies, unamused.
She immediately spins back around with a huge smile glued to her face, then Lukz continues, "For getting off me, because I couldn't breathe." He adds, Letting out a small smirk. Darcie boils with rage, lifting her hand up then flattening its palm, Kevin gently grabs onto her wrist.
"Ha, ha. Very funny bro. Now shut up and get some rest." He says, staring blankly towards him.
"Okay... but one last question, Why the hell are we in an empty hospital?" Lukz askes, confused.
Suddenly, a thundering thud of propellers followed by an extremely muffled megaphone voice bellows from outside,
"WE HAVE YOU SUROUNDED, PUT YOUR WEAPONS DOWN AND LET THE HOSTAGES GO!"
Kevin turns to look at the others, "Great?" He says, in an extremely sarcastic manor. Lukz bursts out laughing!
"AHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH!! Have they come for Kevin!?"
Darcies shakes her head, "Yes, the idiot shot his gun in a hospital?"
Kevin plants his hand onto his face, "Hey, you said get rid of the crowd. I did exactly as you asked!" he replies, aggravated.
Abruptly, a SWAT team come smashing in, grabbing Kevin and pinning him to the floor!