The Death Cure

The Death Cure is the thirty first chapter in the Wombles Eight.

Letty was chasing the DIE trucks hard.  The three trucks were travelling at dangerous speeds slewing around each bend like racing drivers were at the wheel.  In fact the drivers were vomble soldiers.  The last of the Von Vombles army.

The trucks charged on and had almost reached the port when Letty finally caught up with the back of the convoy.  She revved up to the back of the truck, pointed her Colt 45 at the back right tyre and fired.  The tyre exploded loudly as she raced past the stricken truck.  The back of the truck slid round blocking the road as Letty charged on to the next one.

She only just made it in time as the truck with the missing tyre turned a full 360 degrees before it screeched to a halt.  A motorbike came out of nowhere and the trucks lights went out.  Letty just saw a figure in a green hoodie as she sped forward. They were in sight of the harbour now and the trucks showed no signs of stopping.  Letty smiled as the two remaining trucks drove on straight into the water.

The smile stopped when they didn’t sink.  Long skis had come out of the sides of the DIE trucks and the tyres inflated to supersize. The vombles shouted in triumph as they charged across the water towards Gotham.

“Dom it’s Letty” she said on her communicator.  “Did you stop those trucks?” asked Dom.  “One but the others can drive on water.  We need some help.  They’re heading to Gotham.  Two of them.” Letty told Dom. “It’s Queenie, I can help you” said Cathy “Go back to the other truck and finish the job!”  Letty raced back to find the black uniformed vomble tied up with the man in the green hoodie pointing a sharp arrow at his head.

“Who are you?” asked Letty. “I am the Green Arrow!  And you are?” asked the man.  “Letty, I’m in Toretto’s team.” Letty replied.  “I’ve heard of it.  You must be good then.  What’s in the truck?” asked the Green Arrow.  “Poison, enough to kill thousands” replied Letty. “Stand back!” ordered the Green Arrow.  Letty was about to object to being bossed but saw the explosive on the loaded arrow. He fired it at the middle of the trailer and the whole thing erupted into a fireball.  Letty said “Good job!” but the Green Arrow was already speeding away. The sound of sirens was getting nearer. Letty climbed back into her car and headed back to the team.

Cathy raced around trying to find Aquasam.  Eventually she found him in New York at the foot of a highrise in some sort of trance. There was no time to talk to him so she just whisked him over to the trucks crossing to Gotham.  Aquasam woke up with a start.  “What?  Wh, where am I?” he stammered.  “Gotham Bay and we need to stop those trucks.  They’re full of poison.  Remember what I told you earlier?” Cathy replied.  “Holy Rasputin!” said Aquasam without knowing why before speeding through the water and grabbing a truck.

Aquasam burst the tyres and hauled it down to the bottom of the bay burying it in the soft sand.  He rejoined Cathy as she was chasing the next truck.  The last truck was now on land entering the city heading to the airport.  Aquasam left it to Cathy as it was clearly a job for a landlubber.

Cathy reached the last truck but it was already stopped.  A lady in a purple costume was holding the vomble soldier. “Batgirl!  Thank you!  Can I take the prisoner back to London for questioning?” Cathy asked.  “No problem.  What about the cargo?” Batgirl asked.  “Poison” replied Cathy.  “I’ll destroy most of it and keep some to create an antidote” Batgirl replied. Cathy thanked Batgirl again and raced back to London with the vomble prisoner.  On the way she removed the remaining poison from the DIE factory.

“OK people!” shouted Johnny the Horse.  “We are up and running again!  Let’s make people ride and die!”