Family Ties part 7

Who:- Jay,Vanessa, Amber
Where:- Phoenix 
 
On the other side of the rift, back in their home dimension, Vanessa was again at tactical, Amber stood behind Jay in the pilots seat.  “He’s trying to hide from us in the asteroid field”
“How can you tell?” asked Amber
“That’s what I’d do.”
Slowly Jay piloted the Phoenix into the asteroid field, Vanessa spoke from the tactical station “These rock’s are packed with hundreds of different ores, they’re throwing off the sensors.”
“Then we hunt him down”
“LOOK!” Amber shouted “Over there!”
Jay looked up, and could just see the wing of Wildfire in a crater in the surface of a nearby asteroid.
In the Wildfires cockpit Kingsley believed himself to be safe, until, over the edge of the crater the Phoenix slowly rose. There was a crackle on the comm. system 
“Give it up Kingsley,” came Vanessa’s voice, “You got nowhere to run, we got no choice but to take you home for court-martial”
“Think again sis!” Kingsley replied as he fired the upward thrusters, launching the Wildfire straight upwards, where he blasted off over the top of the Phoenix. It slalomed between the asteroids at an incredible speed.
“That shuttles got some manoeuvrability, gonna be hard keeping up with that” Jay said as he set off in pursuit.
The Wildfire was a much smaller ship to the Phoenix, and due to its experimental engines it was A LOT faster.
“There’s no way I can catch him, at least not in here” Jay said
“Kelly, give me the heads up” On the cockpit view port, just in front of Jay a heads up display appeared.
“What are you doing?” asked Amber
“I’m gonna take out his fuel tanks” he said “Target locked”
“We don’t wanna kill him!” Vanessa said, worried 
“Not gonna, he’ll be forced to slow down, probably even land”
At that moment Jay fired the gatling guns, The hull of the Wildfire was perforated like a teabag as the bullets hit, the ship itself tumbled for a few minutes until Kingsley managed to right it.
The Wildfire suddenly changed course heading for a nearby planet.
“What did I tell ya!” said Jay “Vanessa, what’s on that planet?”
“Uninhabited, but capable of supporting life.”
“Ok I’m taking her in.”
A few minutes later, The disembarkation ramp was again deployed, Jay had landed a few metres from the Wildfire. Which was smoking heavily.
The three Blue Dwarf crewmembers slowly walked towards it.
The Wildfires cockpit hissed open.
“Ok. I gotta admit Jay” said Kingsley, his hands in the air “You’re good.”
“Well, I had inspiration” 
“So what now? You gonna arrest me?”
“That’s the plan, you haven’t exactly left me with a lot of choice”
“There’s always choice” he said “one of my favourites involves you DYING!”
he pulled a gun seemingly out of nowhere, Jay, Amber and Vanessa dived in all directions. Amber and Jay managed to avoid being hit. Vanessa wasn’t so lucky, and took a shot to the leg, Kingsley seeing an opportunity fired again, and again, and again. Each shot plunging into Vanessa’s chest, she fell to the floor, blood flowing across the ground. Running out of ammo, Kingsley dropped the gun and ran into the nearby forest. “AMBER!” yelled Jay, gesturing towards “Help me get her into the shuttle,”
“Jay” said Amber
“We gotta stabilise her..”
“JAY”
“until we can her back to Dr. Keto”
“JAY”
“I don’t like the guy, but if anyone can save her it’s him”
“JAAAAAAYYYYYY”
“What?”
“She’s already dead.” She said, fighting back the tears for Jays sake.
 
Dead. His sister….was dead.
 
Jay Chrysler, usually a fairly laid back guy, for the first time in his life felt anger taking over. He reached into the Cockpit of The Phoenix and pulled out a shotgun.
“Get her body in the shuttle, I’ll be back” He told Amber. Then headed off into the forest. He sighted Kingsley, and chased him on foot, Jay; being fast on his feet didn’t take long to catch him.
He dived at his legs, pulling him to the ground. “How could I have ever called you my brother?” he said, the words fierce as they left his throat.
Kingsley, took Jay by the collar and threw him off him, and again took to the ground, running as fast as he could. Jay took after him, loading the gun as he did so. Kingsley stopped as he reached the edge of a cliff top, jagged rocks facing up from the bottom.
“Nowhere to run bro.” Said Jay
“I’m not going into custody Jay, not a chance” he said and leapt at Jay, throwing his younger brother to the floor, and making him drop his gun. Atop Jay, his hands around his throat Kingsley spoke. “I gave you a choice, you could have joined me, now I’m gonna have to widow you’re wife” he said “Shame..poor girl, I’ll see you in hell brother”
Jay still struggling to muster any strength, never an easy task whilst being strangled, suddenly felt a burst of adrenalin through his body.
Screaming like a demented banshee he summoned all his strength and threw Kingsley off him, then stood, trying to catch a breath, Kingsley got back to his feet and once more lunged at Jay, who this tiem avoided him and rolled picking up the gun as he did so. Kingsley regaining his bearings again went for Jay, who swung the shotgun hard into the side of his brothers head. Kinglsey dazed, staggered near the edge of the cliff, seeing an opportunity Jay unloaded the gun, hitting Kingsley in the arm, not intending to kill him. The force of the shot knocked Kingsley off balance, and he slipped, falling over the edge of the clifftop, Jay ran to catch him, to pull him to safety, but he was too slow. Kingsley fell.
Walking to the edge of the cliff Jay looked over and saw the limp body of his brother hundreds of feet down on the rocks.
Back at the landing site Amber watched Jay emerge from the trees.
“Come on, lets go home,” he said. “I got a funeral to arrange”
 
 
< Well Vanessa’s dead, and you thought we’d end up with ANOTHER Chrysler!>
Andy, with lump in throat!