Chapter 4: They Shoot Aliens, Don't They?

Suddenly, Jack stopped the taxi and turned behind to look at the boy and the girl in the back seat. "Where did you come from?" he asked them, as we were hearing a choir of honking horns from the cars behind us.

"O-outside." the boy said.

"Yeah, I figured that part out on my own." Jack said sarcastically. "How did you get in the car?" still looking at the two in the back seat.

"Through that portal," this time the girl answered, as she and her brother pointed the car's door

While honking was continuing to sounding outside, the boy introduced himself and his sister, saying "I'm Seth and this is my sister, Sara. We require your transportation services immediately." as he too was looking at Jack.

'Seth and Sara..?' I thought as Jack spoke again, looking at Seth. "Really? Well, I require..." Sara cut him off, saying "a current transaction." as she looked at her brother.

Seth held up a pack of money and said "Will this amount suffice?" as he looked hopefully at Jack.

Both Jack and I looked at the money like something wasn't right. "What did you two rob a bank?" Jack asked the two siblings, still looking at them with inquisitive eyes.

"Is this acceptable Jack Bruno?" Sara said, as she looked Jack with a hopeful look.

Jack looked at the young girl curiously, while saying "How did you know my name?"

Sara pointed at Jack's driver's license on the dashboard on the front of the car. I rolled my eyes at the obviousness, but as I turned back again to face them, I realized that their names and voices sounded familiar, but I couldn't remember from where.

Still looking at Jack, Seth said "If we have a deal for your services, then we must move forward rapidly. It is urgent we get to our destination without delay."

It looked like Jack finally noticed the honking cars, as he shouted "Alright, alright, I'm going!" at them. He then started driving the car down the road as he asked our passengers "Where to?"

Immediately, Seth pulled out a small device from his pocket as I realized that the device looked familiar too, but I couldn't place it. As the car was still moving, Jack said impatiently "I need an address.", while Sara responded right at the next moment "You must travel in that direction." replying to Jack, as she pointed to the right direction.

"Well, I need something more specific than just that direction." Jack said back, as Seth looked at the device and added "We must locate latitude 40.54 cross-intersecting longitude-" but Jack cut him off, saying "We're just gonna stick with that direction." and started driving to the direction Sara pointed out.

As I kept looking at Seth's device, I continued thinking 'Seth...Sara, from where do I know these names from?' Suddenly, I felt Jack shaking my arms, as he said "Emma? Emma, are you here?" getting me out of my daydream.

"Yeah, sorry." was the only answer I could manage before I looked for one last time to rear view mirror, only to see Seth staring at me, and then turning to his sister, as it looked like they were discussing something with only glaring at each other. After a minute, or so, I turned my attention to my window, only to see an endless desert, thinking this will be a long ride...

After some time, Jack asked the two siblings "Are your parents going to be okay with you spending all this money?"

As I was watching the conversation between the two, I wished I could remember how to control my powers. One of them is controlling the elements of the nature, like I wished I could move the earth and make the car arrive to the right destination already. But, my thoughts and wishes were unfortunately cut off by a voice coming from the radio.

"Jack, you better be getting dessert miles on that fare and they better be able to pay and you better get me an EAT! Capish? And...is the gorgeous Emma with you today?" said Jack's boss, Dominic, making me want to vomit as Jack picked up the radio and answered "I'm losing reception Dominic." as his boss was shouting Jack's name before the radio was off and Jack put it down.

"Thank you Jack." I said to him. After that and for a long time, I was only paying attention to the scenery outside, but then, I heard Sara saying "Jack Bruno, the vehicles behind us are indicating a pattern of pursuit." "There's no vehicles following..." Jack said as he looked t the rear view mirror, only to discover how wrong he was.

As I looked back, I saw three SUVs, the same to the one these two men had.

"With your current speed versus theirs, they will over take our vehicle in less than a minute." Seth managed to say, before Jack said "Relax kid, I'm just gonna let them pass." as he opened his window, slowed the car's speed down and waved his arm shouting "Open road, people. All yours." As one of the SUVs was driving at our left side, a little bit longer than normal and then passed us, I felt Sara's hand on my arm squeezing it. Jack started smiling, as he closed his window and said "See, what did I tell you? I'm the king of these roads...", but was interrupted when suddenly Sara shouted "Jack Bruno!"

As the SUV that passed us, stopped a few meters away from us, I scream as I ducked down, trying to hold myself from jumping out of the taxi and start running towards home, wherever that was.

As I came back to this world, I heard Sara asking "Who is Mr. Wolfe, Jack Bruno?" I asked her how did she know that, but I was cut off when one of the other SUVs hit us from behind. Me, Seth and Sara ducked down again, covering our heads with our arms, like this was going to be any help. Then, Sara spoke again. "Jack Bruno, it appears that we have not eluded them," as I then heard Jack saying "I'm so over this. Stay down, stay down!" to the three of us. When I turned my head back to see what Seth and Sara were doing, I saw them whispering and suddenly Seth disappeared. When I got up to ask Sara where he was, I saw him in the middle of the road, about to be hit by the last SUV. But, instead of getting himself killed, the SUV was the one that broke into pieces. Last, but certainly not least, I saw Sara doing something with her hand, and then I figured out that she was controlling what the car was doing, as suddenly the car started going backwards, until we reached the place Seth got hit.

As I saw Seth getting back in okay, Jack asked if we were okay, something that Sara replied "We are..." with Seth adding "Fine. We should just...keep...moving." as he was out of breath.

Then, Jack unbuckled his seat belt and got outside to the SUV that crashed into Seth, as I turned to the two twins and said "That was amazing, guys." When, I saw them both looking me with a weird kind of look, I added "I saw what you did. Both of you. And...nevermind. Just, it was awesome." I smiled to them and turned to watch at the front window as Jack got back in. He started the car again, and we continued our road, as if nothing happened...

This chapter's title comes from the 1969 film: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

The 7th episode of the 3rd Season of the 2000 premiered TV series "Gilmore Girls": They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They?

And the 9th episode of the 3rd Season of the 2007 premiered TV series "Gossip Girl": They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They?