Rat-tat-tat!
A burst of bullets raked the windows. Amid the shattering glass, the horrified passengers realized the GCPD had not come to save them at all.
"Speed up! The cops are killing people!"
Hearing the passengers' terrified cries, the driver floored the accelerator. The bus shuddered, then abruptly picked up speed.
But the pursuit continued. As the bus pulled away, a black rocket launcher poked out of a car window. The armed man fought back desperately, but his repeated shots left only a string of futile bullet marks on the police car's bulletproof windshield.
At that critical moment, a rust-covered pickup suddenly charged out of an alley.
Rattling all over as though it were about to fall apart, the pickup slammed into the speeding police car at full throttle. Unable to dodge, the police car was flipped over, rotating ninety degrees in the air before its roof struck the ground in a dazzling shower of sparks.
But the pickup had no intention of letting the police car off there. A grenade flew out of its window.
Boom!
A vivid explosion bloomed across the black-and-white scene. For the moment, the pickup had won this street fight.
But another police car soon came looking for trouble with the bus. It swung around a street corner and attacked from the opposite direction with a clear target, blowing out a front tire with a burst of gunfire in an attempt to overturn the bus.
The out-of-control bus twisted to the right, its left wheels lifting completely off the ground. Two passengers were thrown out through the windows, hit the road, and screamed as they died beneath the pickup's wheels.
Having just claimed two lives, the pickup immediately went back into the rescue business. Seeing the bus about to overturn, it accelerated, rushed up against