​ The bus came to within six feet of the bus stop in front of The Fours Inc.

​     A man who sat behind where Trevor stood got to his feet, removed a handgun from his pocket, aimed it at Niki, and pulled the trigger.

​     Also, though, he aimed the gun right at Trevor, although he didn't know that because Trevor was invisible. Trevor slapped the gun as it went off. The bullet missed Niki completely, then continued rocketing forward until it blasted through the bus driver's neck, then through the front window of the bus itself, shattering it. The bus driver's blood splattered the windshield where the bullet had gone through. The bus driver convulsed. He could no longer ​breathe. He certainly could no longer drive the bus.

     In other words, chaos.

     Nike grabbed a pole to keep from falling. A guy hollered as he fell up against what he thought was empty air. It was Trevor struggling to stay on his feet. The bus went completely off the street and on to the sidewalk. As fate, or Dann O'Keefe, would have it, this all happened right in front of the entrance to what, the year before, had been an amusement park and was now the sprawling headquarters of The Fours Inc.. The bus slammed into a twenty foot abstract statue of Infini-only-knew what, stopping the bus dead. The now unconscious driver slumped out of his seat into a pool of his own blood.

​     Trevor kicked at the second door he'd reached, then rolled through it as it opened momentarily. He rolled out onto the sidewalk as the door slapped shut again behind him.

     Niki went to get to the door, but a young woman her age got in the way. She kicked at Niki with tapered leather boots.

     Oh please, Niki thought. I so have no time for this right now. Niki blasted her with a few rapid punches, which sent Leather Boots stumbling back into the other panic stricken bus riders. Niki ran to the second door to slam into it with her back and butt. As with Trevor, the door opened just enough to let her through, then slapped shut again behind her.

​     She hit the sidewalk on her side, then rolled to her feet.

     "Trevor?"

     "Right here," he replied. He stood next to her.

​     "Run?"

     "For a start."

​                                                   CONTINUE