Upon arrival, T-Bone announces he's unable to drive (burned his leg, ya know...), and since Fil and Mina can't drive, Fil rings up Dash who's always ready to go for a spin. Dash arrives and they lay down the plan. Dash is hesitant about driving in the Combat Zone, but T-Bone assures him he'll cover any damages.
So, they head out. Fil remembers a burned-out playground where he saw a couple of cars. Both are pretty sad. They decide to move on when they see a little old guy with a staff crouched on a dumpster watching them.
After cruisin' the Combat Zone and successfully avoiding most problems, they see a conspicuously-out-of-place black van with some commotion going on in the rear. T-Bone decides that's what he wants. Everybody else says no, but after circling the block a few times, they cave in. The plan is for Fil to create a distraction while T-Bone snags the van. Meanwhile, Dash and Mina wait in the car a block away.
Mina notices that the old guy's been following them around on the rooftops. Fil decides that his distraction will be to talk to the old guy, so he starts clambering up a fire escape. T-Bone hangs out in a nearby alley waiting for the distraction.
Fil's distraction fails to achieve any results, but the spontaneous gunfire from the building next to the van puts everybody on edge. Then there's a pause, followed by a couple of "POONK"s, followed by the third floor of the building blossoming out in multiple explosions.
Fil makes it to the roof unscathed only to find the old guy gone. After brushing the glass out of his hair, T-Bone takes the opportunity to walk up on the driver of the van. The driver pulls a pistol on T-Bone and fires. Misfire! T-Bone asks, "is that really necessary?" The driver cycles the slide, chambering a new round, and responds, "Yep!" T-Bone ducks around the front of the van and clears the bumper just as the driver guns it. T-Bone backs away from the van and backs directly into four Black Security officers in full black-op gear.
Fil, on his way back down the fire escape, sees T-Bone's predicament, sighs, pulls his biggest pistol, leaps into an open window, and fires on the Black Security. His target grunts as his armor absorbs the round to the abdomen. All four officers open up, spraying panic fire on the building Fil's in. How's THAT for a distraction??? Fil darts across the fourth floor, only catching a graze wound to the shoulder, and takes some rickety stairs to the roof. Once on the roof, he cracks his "acquired" Trauma Team card and waits for the fireworks and air-limo service.
T-Bone manages to escape in the confusion of gunfire. Unfortunately, the van driver sees him duck down an alleyway and decides to follow. T-Bone is stopped in his tracks by a stray dog, foaming at the mouth. He squeezes off a shot, grazing the dogs paw, but it's enough to distract the dog long enough for him to get by. The dog comes to an untimely death at the grill of the pursuing van.
Meanwhile, back at the car, Mina yelps and calls Dash's attention to the little old man clinging to the driver's side window. The old guy explains, "yo friend on roof? He okay. Yo friend in alley? Go get heem." Dash cranks it in reverse and floors it.
T-Bone whips out of the alleyway and breaks hard right. The van overshoots, slams on the breaks, cranks it in reverse, and re-aligns sights on T-Bone. About this time, Dash has turned onto the street, and Mina swings open the rear passenger door. T-Bone succeeds in getting in, just in time for Dash to drop it back into reverse. A chase ensues with Dash driving entirely in reverse.
Meanwhile, back on the rooftop, Fil is getting restless. The Trauma Team sirens in the distance just aren't getting close enough. He wonders what would happen if he tossed an activated green glow-stik into the path of fire of the Black Security officers. All it does is inform them of his position. There's a pause in the gunfire, then a couple of cycling sounds, and then several more "POONK" sounds. Fil leaps up, tears across the roof towards the elevator equipment shed, grabs hold of a drain pipe and makes a graceful swing behind the shed. And not too soon either; several concussions rip through the chunk of roof where Fil was waiting. Fil pulls out a pen and writes on his arm, "NOTE TO SELF: DO NOT TAUNT MEN WITH GUNS!" The hail of gunfire damaged the building structure and the 25mm grenades didn't help much either. When the Trauma Team AV finally arrives, the downward thrust is enough to force the inevitable. A throaty rumbling sound originates deep within the bowels of the condemned building. Two doors swing open on the AV; one with a minigun-armed officer suppressing the Black Security, the other with a medic with an outstretched arm reaching for Fil. Fil makes a running leap and is just barely able to catch the medic's fingertip, just in time for the building to disintegrate under his feet. Knowing this is a full-coverage rider, the Trauma Team officers spare no expense in letting the Black Security know the full complement of a fully outfitted Trauma Team AV. Amid the whirr of the minigun, the thumps of the 40mm grenade launcher, and the thunder of the 20mm chaingun, the medics slap a band-aid on Fil, give him a look, and ask him if daddy let him borrow the card.
As Fil is getting a first-class ride to the hospital, Dash is still driving in reverse, trying to evade the black van, and Mina and T-Bone have been taking fruitless pot-shots at the armored vehicle. The van driver does a good job of keeping up, including avoiding a drunk Dash clipped with his fender, but eventually slips up and allows Dash to pull a bootleg. Now that Dash is driving forward again, he has no problem escaping the van.
Just as they are in the clear, a food riot inhibits any further forward progress. Back in reverse again, this time with three additional passengers clinging to the hood. Momentum shakes off two of them, and Mina's well placed shot removes the third.
After a quick democratic vote, they decide to prowl the Combat Zone for the hapless black van and driver. After circling for a while, avoiding drunks and stray dogs whenever possible, they find the black van again. This time it's aiming straight for the side of Dash's silver Chevy Caprice Classic. The van accelerates. Mina plugs the radiator with a 10mm round. Dash looks, gauges, looks again. And guns it at the very last possible moment. The van careens into the side of a building knocking the driver unconscious. T-Bone leaps out, runs over to the driver's side, prods the limp driver with his gun barrel, and drags the driver out of the van. Dash arrives just as the driver stirs awake from all the jostling. Dash and T-Bone open fire, with T-Bone painting the street with the drivers brains. T-Bone hops up into the cab of the van and Dash goes to his trunk to look for some tow chains. Just as he gets the trunk open, Mina says loudly, "uh guys? Maybe we should get going." Dash shuts the trunk to see four Chromers who look like they have salvage rights on the van. Dash jumps in the car and peels out. T-Bone gets the van restarted on the first try, backs it up, and puts it in drive. The sound of bullets impacting armor ring through the van, T-Bone almost loses it a couple of times, particularly when the Chromers succeed in shooting out one of the tires. Once the van is back in control, T-Bone's home free. And the proud owner of an armored black van (albeit one that needs a new radiator, new suspension, and two new tires).
Everybody rendezvous back at All Saints Auto Repair, with Fil sitting in the waiting room with a big grin and a, "what took ya so long?"
Mina responds with a, "can we get noodles now?"