I woke up the next morning to see Jack sleeping on the floor and Alex staring off into space in the same place she fell asleep, I stood up and woke up Jay, Nicki, and Jade and told them to get dressed, I punched Jack awake before walking back outside and pulling our motorcycles out front. Jack walked out front with Alex and Jay behind him, Mark and Dylan came from their hotel room, with Mark's hair looking like a mess, and stood beside Alex. Jack told me that Nicki and Jade were getting dressed, Jay looked like he was only half awake so I signaled for him to come to where I was standing. When he got to where I was I told him to go sit on my motorcycle, pointing to which one was mine, and wait for everyone else to be ready. Dylan and Mark were talking to Alex, and judging from the glares she was giving them, they were making fun of her or something like that. Nicki and Jade walked out with Nicki blushing and Jade looking smug, and I did not need to know what they were doing in there, so I told everyone the plan, I would create a distraction while they got the trucks, and we would rendezvous back at the hotel to get everyone in the right cars. Jay would ride with me, Mark and Dylan would ride together once we got to the hotel, and everyone else rid alone, and when we got to the base they would strap the motorcycles on top of the trucks, we didn't have time to send them to the hotel through a hell hole. Once we got to the hotel we'd split up and take four different routes back home, two trucks per route, and once we got out of Arizona we'd rendezvous at Santa Fe in New Mexico, then finish the drive to Fort Worth as a group. We all agreed and I was reminded that the goal was to get the trucks and go and that they should only hurt or injure a soldier as the last resort. They understood and Jack, Nicki, Jade, and I got on our motorcycles, with Jay on mine, and Alex, Dylan, and Mark shifted into their wolves and everyone followed me to the base, luckily it wasn't too far away. We stopped about a mile out and I told Dylan to ride my motorcycle to the base after I went in, and that Jake would strap it to the car he would drive. Once I finished explaining I gave Alex a radio and told her to wait until I gave her the 'go ahead' to go in, and opened up a portal to hell above the base. I went through my end, called Jameson, and jumped in the other end, shifting on my way down so when I landed I was faster, had a pair of aviator glasses on, and my eyes and hair ablaze. Jameson charged right at the base commander, who looked like he was about to shit his pants, and I grabbed a nearby lieutenant and threw him at another grunt that was perched above us, that's when the sirens started. I gave Alex the go-ahead and jumped up to a sniper tower and tied my steel chain around the pussy's leg, tied it to the railing, and threw him off.
"Bye, have a beautiful time!" I said and jumped out of the tower, lighting up on my way down, and tackled the commander, who had started shooting at Jameson, and threw him out of the base, probably breaking a couple of his bones, and checked to see if Jameson was okay. I heard treads behind me and saw a tank coming out of the depot, but also saw Alex and everyone else loading into the trucks, and I knew that I had to keep everyone's attention. 'Let's steal a tank, that'll be fun.' I thought and jumped on top of the thing, ripping the hatch off, and throwing the two grunts inside into a nearby wall. I looked around and got an idea, opening a small portal to home, I tapped Miguel, one of our top mechanics and vehicle experts, on the shoulder. He jumped straight up and turned around terrified as if I had just murdered someone in front of him.
"WHAT THE FUCK, JACK?!"
"You can bitch at me later, wanna drive a tank?" I asked him and he looked at me like I had just offered to grant him a wish, he turned around and wrote a quick note, probably to his mate to tell her he was going to be out, and then walked through the rift into the tank. I pointed at the driving controls and told him to make sense of it while I took control of the big gun. He seemed to learn it pretty quickly because soon enough we were recreating the Indy 500, and I was shooting shit left right, and center, that was when Alex radioed in, telling me that everyone was waiting at the hotel.
"Tell Jack to turn on the beacon I gave him the other day, we'll see ya there," I said and a few minutes later I saw the blip from Jack on the radar "Follow that blip, Miguel!"
"Got it!" He said turning the tank around, he started off towards the hotel. We were about ten minutes out when I heard the familiar sound of helicopter blades and opened the hatch to confirm that there was a helicopter chasing us, and it looked like it had guns on it.
"This is gonna be fun..." I said and went back inside, telling Miguel to speed it up, I watched for the right time to shoot the chopper, and luckily it was given to me like a present on Christmas. The chopper went ahead of us and started shooting at us giving me a golden opportunity, I lined up the shot, and took it. I opened the hatch just in time to see the chopper crash to the ground, I secretly hoped the soldiers would survive but it wasn't super high on my priority list "Got em!"
"Nice! Good job, mate." Miguel said and a few minutes later we pulled into the hotel parking lot, much to the dismay of everyone else. Miguel and I got out of the tank and while Jack, Jade, and Alex liked the tank, not everyone did.
"There is no way in hell that we are taking a fucking tank with us, Jake!" Nicki said and Jade turned around looking sad.
"Why?"
"It'll attract too much-unwanted attention, duh!" I considered what she had said then did the showing off Will Smith pose at the tank.
"We have a fucking tank! Let's use it!" And got a roar of approval from Alex, Jack, and Jade. Nicki didn't like it so I linked to Jade and told her to try and convince her. Jade got on her knees and looked up at Nicki with puppy eyes, and even though Nicki was the submissive one in their relationship, she caved in and said we could have the tank. Nicki and Jade let their demons out, and the four of them each took one of the trucks, Jack, Mark, and Dylan got in another three. Alexandria was about to get in hers before she asked about Jay, that was a good point, we couldn't leave the kid here and pick him up later.
"Who do you wanna ride with, Jay? Me or Alex?"
"Ummm...You! I wanna see a tank on the inside."
"Hell yeah you do, Alex just follow the rest and we'll see ya when we get to New Mexico," I said and helped Jay climb on top of the tank, and opened the hatch for him to get inside.
"Alright, see ya there, bitch," She said and I rolled my eyes, getting in the tank I saw that Jay had sat next to Miguel, who was explaining to him what the controls did, and that he was ready to go.
"Alright, it's been agreed that we can keep the tank!"
"Really!?" Miguel turned around and asked me, probably in shock, he hadn't expected to be allowed to keep it.
"Yep, just talk to Demi about where ya wanna park it and you'll be fine," I said and got into the gunner's seat, and turned on some music to listen to while we drove. I liked the mental image of some kid and their mom walking around and seeing us in a tank, and the kid's in awe over it and the mom is freaking out like it's World War fuckin Three.
"Hey Jack, can you see us from up there?" I asked Jack over the radio, I didn't want him to get too far ahead of us and then they move on without any firepower, or we get overrun.
"Yep, you're good, just keep driving the same speed and we'll be close to the border of New Mexico and Texas by the end of the day."
"Alright, cool," I said and turned off the radio, I plugged in my headphones and started listening to Green Day to pass the time. It was probably a couple of hours later before we ran into any trouble, we were about twenty minutes into New Mexico when the cops started following us, and I didn't feel like stopping, so I opened the hatch and crawled on top of the tank, nicely enough the cops had a megaphone.
"Please pull over the tank!" 'That's something I never thought I'd hear over a megaphone' I thought and pulled my own megaphone from thin air. I cleared my throat and coughed a bit before calmly, and full of sarcasm, giving my response.
"No thank you, officer."
"Then we will be forced to open fire on you, sir."
"We're in a fucking tank...covered in ballistic armor...with a huge gun on it...and you're threatening us with pistols?"
"Yes."
"You're a first-class retard," I said and climbed back into the tank, taking the gunner's seat, I lined up a shot at the engine of the first cop and took it before he could get away. It hit and the cop crashed into a building we were passing, I grabbed an M16 from the corner of the tank and climbed back out of the tank, and started shooting at the other two cops, I didn't care enough right now to kill them, I just wanted them to fuck off. After two clips of ammo and a lot of useless threats from the police, they abandoned the chase and we kept on our way towards Texas. When I got inside the tank again, Jay was dancing in his seat and bobbing his head to "Peacekeeper" by Green Day and Miguel was humming the song. I walked over to where they were sitting and gave ruffled Jay's hair, making him blush and stop dancing, he was embarrassed and I don't blame him, I get embarrassed and shy if someone catches me singing or dancing all the time "Alright, we're about an hour and a half from a stopping point for some grub, I'm gonna go to hell and talk to Lucifer, I'll be back soon."
"Alright, mate, see ya soon," Miguel said as I opened a rift to hell, I walked through, closing it behind me, and made my way towards Lucifer's palace, it was a nice little place, and you could always make a bet as to where he was.
"Pull!" I heard from the roof and saw a skull flying through the air, only to be shot down by him, raining dust and pieces of the skull all over my hair. 'Gross' I thought as I ruffled it out and took the elevator up to see him, the elevator music was death metal, no surprise there, even though half the people in hell hated it. I exited the elevator and walked over to where Lucifer was readying for another shot.
"Pull!" He yelled and a demon launched another skull, only to be shot down again by him.
"Nice shooting there, Old Man."
"Thanks, kid, but why are you here, you're doing a mass theft of military tech, I should not be high on your priority list."
"Normally you wouldn't, but I need your help figuring something out, and it's been bugging me all day."
"Alright, what's up?"