Excerpt: Daniel DaFoe and the Black Diamond

Lighting flashed across the night sky as Daniel and Jack wormed their way through the small forested area between their small suburban neighborhood and the local strip mall.
“Are you sure about this Daniel”, asked Jack.
“I am not really sure about anything at this point Jack, but we have to do something or that woman could die”, was Daniel's reply.
Just two hours earlier they had packed a couple of walkie talkie radios, their camouflaged rain suits that Daniel's father bought the both of them last Christmas, some soda's and some store brand cheese puffs for snacks. The cheese puffs was Jack's idea. That was Jack, always thinking of food first and girls second.
Daniel and Jack were crouching behind a row of redtip shrubs in the pouring rain watching the parking lot of the strip mall. There was a car parked under one of the dim lights in the parking lot. They could barley make out the outline of Macy in the car. I tall man was wearing a black trench coat and was approaching the car slowly from the east side the parking lot. It looked like he was pointing a gun at Macy. Daniel knew she must be really scared right now and he desperately wanted to help her. I knew that it was destiny some how to rescue this woman. He had do it before with others, just not so risky.
“Daniel, the dude has a gun. What are we going to do now? , Jack whispered.
“We will be saving her live tonight just like she asked us to do in her note. Just be calm. I have and idea.” was Daniel's reply.
The man carefully approached the car with his gun aimed at Macy Doreen sitting in the car. She did seem to be making any kind of move to escape. She seemed to know she was caught or maybe cornered by the assassin. The guy tapped the window with his free hand and made a motion with his hand indicating for her to let down her window. She did make any move the oblige the attacker.
“Jack, you see that stray buggy over there at the edge of the bushes?” Daniel asked.
“Yea, sure... what about it?” Jack asked.
“I want you to slide down there and push the cart at the car. Maybe it will distract the guy long enough for the woman to get away.” Daniel said.
“I don't like this idea at all DD. Why do I have to go and push the cart. The least you could do was come with me.” Jack sounded a little nervous now.
With a glint in his eye and a crooked smile that Daniel seemed to sport only when it thought up his most outrages ideas, “Because my friend, I will be here waiting to charge the guy if he gets too close to you.”
“No way DD, that is suicide. No way am I going to let you do that. That guy has a real gun dude. Come on. There has to be a better way. Let's just go back to your house and call the cops on the phone. Let them handle it DD.” Jack replied with a little more worry on his face.
“She could be dead by then. We have to act now Jack. Now.” Daniel wanted to help this woman because, she sounded so distraught when they accidentally meet at this very same strip mall that day.