The Terminator - 01 by Randall Frakes

Author:Randall Frakes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-28T17:31:57+00:00

120 THE TERMINATOR

Reese didn’t waste any time. He stuffed Sarah into the front seat of the gray LTD, then climbed over her to the driver’s side and slammed the door shut. The fireball was still blocking the alley when Reese reached for the ignition wires and sparked the sedan’s engine into life.

Suddenly a silhouetted figure erupted from the flames and rocketed over the roof of the burning car. Terminator, his hair and clothes engulfed in flames, impacted onto the hood of Reese’s LTD with a thunderous crash. Reese slammed the car into reverse and nailed the pedal to the floor. The tires smoked and screamed as the LTD began barreling backward down the alley. Sarah sat in open-mouthed shock; the man on the hood was staring directly into her eyes through the windshield and drawing back his fist. Reese fought the wheel of the slewing car as Terminator brutally punched through the windshield. Exploding glass shot through the interior of the car. Sarah opened her eyes and saw the bloody hand emerging through the window, inching its way toward her throat. She screamed as Terminator’s fingers grasped the front of her blouse and pulled her toward him. That hand was about to drag her over the dash and right through the window when the LTD

cleared the alley and charged, tail first, onto Pico Boulevard.Reese cranked the wheel hard, and the big sedan slewed sideways, all four tires smoking, then plowed across the street toward the far curb.

Officer Nick Delaney, who had just passed Crescent Heights, heading east on Pico, when he got the call to respond to a shooting at Tech Noir, was reaching for the patrol car’s mike when he saw the LTD come barreling out of the alley. Some asshole was crouched on the hood, using it for a surfboard, which was weird enough, but the asshole was also on fire. He watched, amazed, as the sedan plowed broadside into a parked car and the smoking surfer sailed over the roof and smacked hard onto the sidewalk. DOA, Delaney knew instinctively. He locked brakes on his black-and-white cruiser and skidded to a nose-first halt at the THE TERMINATOR 121

curb. The LTD gunned its engine and one eightied in the street, then screamed down Pico, heading for the ocean.

Delaney was out of the car in a flash, shouting into the radio mike as he stared at the unmoving body on the sidewalk.This is one-L-nineteen. I’ve got a hit-and-run felony!” Trying to get a description of the rapidly disappearing sedan, he looked away from the inert smoking body. He didn’t see it shudder, then slowly get to its feet and look around. When he finished calling in a description of Reese’s car and finally did turn back, the vision he saw took a few years off his life. The big man was moving toward him. Delaney dropped the mike and reached for his service revolver. It never even left its holster. Terminator brutally slammed the door that Delaney was standing behind.

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