A Series of Unfortunate Events Part: 46

[The car continues to travel about half a block before turning into the lot of a corner market and crashing into another parked car. ]

The two fall to the pavement and the pistol scrapes across the ground to the left of them almost falling off the curb. The thug thrashes to push Nic off of him and retrieve the gun. Seeing what he intends to do Nic grabs a hold of the thug’s outward stretched arm and pins it to the pavement with his left hand and begins to administer a pounding to his face with his right hand. Nic only successfully landed two punches before he had a palm pressed into his face in an attempt to push him away. He is shortly knocked over as the thug leverages himself and attempts to get to his knees in an effort to work his way closer to the gun. Nic tries to maintain his balance but is unable to stop himself from falling backwards nearly tearing the collar off of the thugs shirt as he tries to hold onto anything to keep himself up. The thug seizes the opportunity to lunge for the gun.

Upon getting the pistol in hand he turns to fire upon Nic and is met with a shoulder in the stomach that lifts him off his feet for about 7 feet carrying him between two parked cars to be deposited on the hood of a passing patrol car. The two boys entangled in each other roll almost onto the roof of the patrol car before the officer slams on the brakes casting the still brawling mass onto the asphalt where the smack of flesh hitting pavement, grunts of struggle and jingle of loose change being lost concerted with a muffled bang to bring an almost rhythmic end to the fight.