Free The Adventures of Kid Combat 3: Jones Strikes Back by Christopher Helwink

Jones snapped.
    The Boy in Blue looked back to where he saw
the two kids entering into the train car. “They were right there,”
he said as he pointed towards the doors. “They must have ran. They
must have seen you coming,” the Boy in Blue answered. Jones didn’t
like that answer. His face distorted and anger was stretched across
it. He pointed harshly at the Boy in Blue.
    “You have failed me, again,” Jones said and
walked off with his men, hoping to keep on the trail.
    “Get this door open, Sam – it’s our only
hope!” Kid exclaimed to Samantha. He referred to the side door that
led off the train.
    “I’ll try, but I don’t have any tools,”
Samantha replied. She walked over to the circuit box that housed
the controls for the door. With a quick tug, the panel opened up.
In it were an array of wires and screws leading to the doors. A
short circuit, Samantha thought, could override the controls and
force the doors to swing open.
    As Samantha tinkered with the wires, Kid
Combat went to the inner door and peered through the window –
looking for Jones. Still gaining ground, Jones was in the
neighboring car and walking faster than ever.
    Kid turned and spun towards Samantha.
    “Sam, you have about three seconds to get
that door open!”
    As Kid Combat said that, he looked out the
exterior window – the train was slowing.
    “Next stop, downtown,” came a voice over the
PA system.
    “We might have caught a break here, Kid,”
Samantha said. “I can see the platform approaching.”
    “Keep working on the door, Sam,” Kid said
back to her. “This is going to be a close one!”
     
    Jones was in the next car. The train was down
to a crawls pace as the platform for the train was mere feet away.
Jones and his men made it to the doors. Almost simultaneously, both
sets of doors opened. Within a nanosecond of those doors opening,
Kid Combat and Samantha were off for the races.
    Walking through his set of doors, Jones saw
the backsides of the two figures running out of the train.
    “Follow them!” he barked out to his men. One
by one, each man filtered through both sets of doors – and after
the children.
    Kid Combat and Samantha had a good two
hundred feet lead on the men to begin the chase – and they would
need ever inch of it. The two flew down the dark platform. There
were on platform 12 of the downtown station. The long sheet of
concrete was starting to fill as passengers of the train they were
just on started to file off of the train. Being smaller, Kid and
Samantha had an easier time navigating through the crowd then the
men following them.
    Kid and Sam made it to the end of the
platform and made their way through the revolving door – leading
them into the train station building.
    A large open building presented itself to
them as they made their way though the door. Passengers from many
other platforms were coming into this building and there were many
different ways to go.
    “Which way? Which way?” Sam asked of Kid.
They both turned their heads in many directions as they made their
way deeper into the building.
    “This way. Follow the largest crowd,” Kid
answered back. He grabbed Samantha’s hand and led her down an
escalator. The two fought their way through the crowded, small
walkway.
    Just then, Jones and his group of men filed
off of the platform and into the building themselves. Jones and his
men too stood in the large open room and wondered which way to go.
Jones scanned back and forth around the room saw a small commotion
on the escalator leading down.
    “There,” Jones said to his men and pointed in
the direction of the escalator. “Go!”
    Kid and Samantha made their way off the
escalator and out the doors – leading to the streets of downtown.
The first thing Kid noticed was the noise. The city was loud in the
morning as commuters made their way off to work. Taxis, cars, and
busses whizzed by him and Samantha.
    Kid led the two to the right of the building
and continued to run