Snippet #1400333

Toby jarred his head up at Aiden when she mentioned about meeting someone who knew something about the Jackal. For a moment he wondered if the men who were advancing were actually after him...or at least whether this 'Aaron' would be safe when the approaching squad made it to the bar. This had the potential to turn very bad...but turning around to go back was not an option.

"Really?" he said. But there wasn't time to ask anything else, a white truck was on their tail. They must have been pretty quick off the mark to have followed them off road. The foliage gave way to another dirt track which seemed to circle around a punch-bowl in the landscape which had been completely stripped of trees and shrubs, and turned into an extensive lumberyard. There were plenty of abandoned buildings around, but it didn't look like they were being used as safehouses by the factions. Probably too exposed, Toby figured.

He looked back. The pursuing van was a heavy looking vehicle, and he wasn't sure taking the tires out would be so easy. Haeger was the only one who had a suitable weapon to try.

Then, he spotted something that gave him an idea.

"Johnny," he said, "put some fire on 'em, try and get a shot at the tires if you can, but mainly try to force them to keep their head down. Aiden, take the next right...make it a sharp turn and do a loop of the yard. Try to make 'em chase you back around to this point."

Without waiting for a response, he put his hand on the door handle, and when the car turned - the back wheels skidding around in a circle - he opened in and launched himself out of the car into the bushes. He stayed prone until the white van roared past, still chasing the jeep with Aiden and Johnny.

He heard the two cars move away around the circumference of the yard, and the sound of rifle fire. Once he was happy they were far enough ahead, and ran across the track and scrambled up an embankment, to where a piled of huge logs was set ready for trimming. He picked up a long-handled axe and wedged it halfway into the pile of logs, then watched the road for the two vehicles coming back around.

This was going to take good timing....and a whole bunch of luck....