In the midst of a high-speed chase in which the president's life is on the line, the driver shows his professionalism by staying focused and thinking of a plan as soon as he sees something. He slows down the car just a little to give the chasers a chance to get near, then accelerates straight towards the scaffolding. The vehicle runs straight through the scaffolding structure, destroying it and causing the entire structure to collapse behind them.
The debris of the scaffolding has completely blocked the street, making a large barrier that the chasers are unable to pass.
The president is so stunned by his brilliant plan that he has to give applause: "So that was your idea, great job!"
"Nothing Sir, it's my duty, we're lucky that that thing is there."
The secretary breathes a sigh of relief, the president smiles, and the driver keeps rolling the steering wheel. They have completely defeated them, however...
"Report, report, we lost them, they are heading East, send in the Gorbath."
"Copy!"
The driver is making a call to the military, requesting an armed helicopter to rescue them. When the nation's fate is in their hands, they must act quickly. The military commander told the driver that he could send a team to save them, but they had to assemble somewhere with no high buildings.
"How about the Central Park?" The secretary offers a suggestion.
"The Central Park? Isn't that place like a forest?"
"Not the whole Park. I have been there before and there's a flat area with no trees or obstacles, The Sheep Meadow, wide enough to hold ten choppers. I can show you the way."
"OK... you hear that?" He asks the commander.
"Got it, Sir! We are on our way." He responds.
The driver puts the phone away and then focuses on listening to the secretary's instructions, constantly turning left and right, speeding and drifting like an F1. During the run, the driver was wondering why they hadn't seen any chasers for a while after they escaped, maybe they had given up or they had failed, or...
"Turn right onto West 67th Street and continue straight; we'll be there soon."
"Got it. Get out of the way people!!"
He yells to anyone he's about to hit, and they all panic and flee as if their lives were in danger because of his "professional" driving skills. He got so fast that some people were just a second away from becoming his victim. After a while, they heard the sound of the blades, an armed Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk had arrived and was hovering above the Sheep Meadow. As its name suggests, The Sheep Meadow was previously used to herd sheep in the 1800s.
A 61,000-square-meter field, free of trees and obstructions, is often used as a gathering place for the public, but it will now be used as a helipad.
"Look! That's our flight!"
The driver points to the hovering chopper, telling the other two that they are about to be rescued and they only need to get through the crossing to be safe. But I wish life was that easy, from the left of the intersection a truck with an armed front CRASHED their car with all force. The car gets thrown away by inertia, spinning multiple times before landing upside down.
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The president was unconscious for a moment, he woke up with dizziness and severe headache. After he regained consciousness, he discovered that the driver had stopped breathing and also had a piece of glass lodged in his forehead.
He was dead.
"Run..."
From his side, a weak, fading voice spoke up, it was the secretary and blood was all over her body, she seemed unable to move and open her eyes.
"Run..." She whispers weakly.
"No no! You can't die now, we are almost there!" He said with a hoarse voice.
They heard footsteps nearby, getting closer and closer to them, their instinct told them that danger was coming and they needed to flee now.
"Don't worry, our men will take care of those bastards."
The hovering UH-60 Black Hawk carries out its machine guns and rockets, aimed toward the enemy and ready to fire. The man who came out from the truck and was walking to the president's car turned to the Black Hawk, he raised his arm up to do something.
The Black Hawk pilots are unconcerned about him because he has just made himself an enemy of the United States. They opened fire and the machine gun started spinning, each rotation they fired dozens of bullets traveling faster than the speed of sound, and were capable of instantaneously killing a normal person with only one bullet.
The machine gun makes such a loud noise that everyone in the area panics and flees for safety. No one could hide from their demise with such a strong armory...
"WHAT?!!"
To their surprise, the machine guns, however, do no damage to the man. A curved hexagonal magnetic shield deflect all the bullets in other directions, originating from a metallic hand band on his forearm, the shield protected him from the firepower coming from the UH-60.
When they learned that machine guns are useless, they decided to switch to rockets. But before they can do so, the man quickly draws an RPG from his back and fires it at the Black Hawk, blowing the entire vehicle up.
The pilots are panicking as their vehicle has lost control and flying everywhere, they have no idea what happened because they were just distracted for a single second.
"Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!"
But no matter what they do, it's useless when the Uh-60 keeps spinning and finally crashes into the ground and explodes, burning in a fire. The man deactivated the shield and proceeded to confront the president's SUV. Inside the automobile, the president is so astonished by what he has witnessed that he has no choice but to run with the secretary.
"Oh no, come on we have to run, let me help you."
"Take...this..." She pulls a handgun from the drawer and hands it to him. "Now go..."
"No no I can't leave you here, we have to run."
"I won't make it, please just leave me here..."
"No, I'm not going to do that I'll..."
"GOOO!!! Please...just...go...!" She takes her arm to cover her eyes, trying to hide her tears and emotions.
The President didn't want to follow, but due to the sincerity of the secretary, he had to grit his teeth and obey. He unbuckles his seat belt and falls to the car's ceiling under gravity, crawling out through the broken window. It was hard to stand up and walk normally when he was injured, but he managed to take the first steps and started running.
The president of the United States, a man with all powers, who has the most powerful military arsenal, the strongest and largest army in the world to protect him, is now running for his life. He feels helpless to be unable to do anything and watch every single person important to him die. He wanted to cry but he couldn't, he couldn't let his people see the pathetic face of the most powerful man in the world.
The man had arrived at the car wreck, he heard nothing, no voice, no sounds, there were some small fires on the car bottom but they were not an issue, he kneeled down to look inside the car through the window and saw...
"Eat this!"
The secretary is holding an unlatched grenade in her hand, in a matter of seconds he is startled and immediately turns on the shield to cover himself, but the grenade detonates right before he does it and explodes the car! The secretary sacrificed herself to give the president more time to run. The man was blown away and collided with a car on the same street; the shield activated just in time to protect his body, but not quickly enough to cover his face.
Stands up with a burned and deformed face, he's enraged. After being pushed off by the blast from the explosion, the president collapsed and dropped his handgun. He becomes so weak that he can't stand up straight, yet he keeps moving, crawling toward the handgun.
A foot stepped on his hand as he was about to touch it, crushing it cruelly. With a low voice, he screamed.
He raised his eyes to see the man with the burned face staring at him furiously, and he moved his other hand to grasp the pistol but was stopped by the man's other leg. He continued to move, but was brutally kicked in the face and passed out.
The man cooled down by spitting at the president and began pulling him away. Another man stepped out of an armed truck with the Eagle Symbol and came to see what had happened, he confirmed that the president was completely unconscious before turning on the radio.
"Report! We got him."