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Kade on the shoulder.
    “We—”
    “Look, I’m coming. That doesn’t mean I’m taking orders. I brought you an ambulance.
Be happy.”
    Kade watched X disappear into the night, wanting to be mad at him, but unable to
be anything but happy. His friend had turned up after all, complete with a stolen
ambulance.
    * * *
    At 1:15 a.m. X returned to the group, as promised, with a shiny silver sports car.
By 1:45, with X’s added manpower, they had finished packing the vehicles with everything
they’d looted from the sporting goods store. By 2:00, they had taken the time to
eat, but were on edge because Mick and Victoria hadn’t returned from the police station
and weren’t responding on the walkie-talkie.
    At 2:02 a.m., Kade decided to go to the police station. At 2:03, X refused to let
him go alone. At 2:05, Kade conceded, and told everyone else to head to a gas station
north of town and wait no more than two hours before commencing the journey. At 2:07,
X drove Kade in the shiny sports car to the police station.
    Kade held out a set of spiked knuckles that had a long curved blade.
    “Would you stop waving that in my face?” X said, shifting into fifth gear.
    “It’s a predator knife,” Kade said. “And it’s all yours if you take Ash with you.”
    “No. I’m a solo act,” X replied.
    “Just until we get to the campus.”
    “I’m not babysitting for you.”
    Kade let out a sigh and slid the predator knife back into its guard. “I’m not asking
you to babysit. I’m asking you to make sure she gets there alive. I trust you more
than myself.”
    X snatched the blade from him. “Fine. But I’m only signed on till we get to Houghton.”
    They rode in silence the rest of the way, but Kade was breathing easier. He had just
bought Ashton the best bodyguard he could. X slowed the car as they passed the police
station.
    Mick’s cruiser sat in front of the station with the doors open. Kade figured things
hadn’t gone exactly as planned and his cop got arrested. There must have been an
officer around who didn’t get the flu shot. X circled the cruiser once and then parked
the car on the street.
    They got out and looked around to see if anyone was watching them, but it appeared
they were alone.
    “Let’s go get the little piggy back,” X said.
    “How?” Kade asked.
    X picked up a handful of rocks from the shrub line.
    “Still got an arm?”
    X explained his plan and Kade went to the far end of the parking lot, while X moved
into position.
    Kade aimed his shoulder at the door. He wound up and released the first rock. It
cracked off the door. He wound up again and launched the second, and then the third.
After the third a cop opened the door, his pistol free of its holster.
    “Keep your hands where I can see them,” the officer said.
    Kade launched the fourth rock, which contacted the cop’s boots. The officer lifted
his pistol, but X came around the building and hacked his arm, sending the gun skidding
across the macadam.
    In a flash, X grabbed the handle of the cop’s Taser as he pushed the safety release
button on the holster with his other hand. The terrified police officer reached for
X, but he chopped the cop’s arm away and shot the handheld lightning onto the man’s
chest. The cop fell to the ground like a fallen tree as the volts poured through
him. X followed him to the ground and took the handcuffs from his belt. Rolling the
officer over, he cuffed his hands behind his back. The officer’s body was serving
as the door prop.
    “Smells like bacon,” X said as he pulled a key ring off the man’s belt and handed
the Taser to Kade. “Watch him. I’ll go get our poe poe.”
    Kade was stunned to silence but was thrilled to have X with them, if only until Houghton.
    He didn’t have time to enjoy his happiness, as the police officer attempted to get
to his feet. Kade pulled the trigger again, sending a crackle of electricity through
the man’s body.
    “Please, just hold still,” he said.