"God dammit!"Tyler cursed out loud as he noticed his prey getting away right under his nose.
Bursts of gunfire came at him from both the rival and the prey, which only regained power moments ago for its escape. The light arms fire they had could not put a dent in his reinforced boat, obviously, but the combined firepower still pinned him down. Tyler peered at the other pirate and emptied the remainder of his magazine at him. The fully automatic shotgun spat a hailstorm of buckshot at its target, drilling small holes in the thin hull of the old boat and forcing its combatant duck behind what little cover he had. When the weapon clicked empty, Tyler quickly ejected the drum and slapped on a fresh one. He listened, the sound of gunfire stopped. The only sound that broke the silence was the sound of the prey's engines.
The pirate was no longer returning fire, after taking almost all of Tyler's firepower at point blank range. Tyler quickly rose and aimed at his booty, which was joyously escaping his weapon's range. He lowered his shotgun and looked at the plasma launcher below him. "If I'm not getting that loot," Tyler clenched his teeth and murmured to himself, "then nobody is!" He picked the launcher up and prepared its targeting module to compensate for a moving target. Then he found the escaping boat in its optics and began charging the weapon.
Just as the energy charge level reached 83%, Tyler heard the sounds of sirens. He determined the distance and, in horror, found it within a 2 mile radius. 'The cops are getting smart these days, they must have been watching us all along.' Tyler thought. It was impossible to escape now, as the police most likely detected the huge energy fluctuations from his plasma launcher and mobilised since then. His only options were to take his shot and get arrested for possession and discharge of destructive energy weapons or...
Or... He could play a reckless bounty hunter with a criminal record who wanted to make some quick cash by taking this pirate, who most likely has a price on his head, into custody - getting to go free and whatever the reward along with it.
Tyler dropped his launcher and raised his hands to welcome the searchlights and sirens of the surrounding police patrol boats.
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