Pretend to give up

Vash raised his hands and dropped the gun.

"Ok, you win. If you let the hostages go, i'll come along quietly. You can take me in and get the bounty without any trouble at all."

The giant stared at Vash. It had to be a trick, he thought.

"Liar! I know better than to trust the likes of you!" Vash's eyes narrowed as the man with the giant gun pulled the trigger. In a split-second, Vash jumped so his body would shield the hostages as best it could. The shot slammed into him, ripping and burning as it passed through. His scream was lost in the noise of the blast. As the pain grabbed his nerves and tore his body, he looked behind him to see if the shot had hit anyone behind him. None, yet, it looked like. He landed hard on the floor, clutching himself and bleeding profusely. His screams were now loud and very likely audible to the people outside.

"That was Vash!!" Meryl gasped. "We have to go in there!"

"But Meryl, if we go in, we'll be killed! If mr. Vash couldn't beat them, we can't!"

"I don't care!!" Meryl's eyes filled with tears as she ran toward Vash. She stopped when she heard Vash's voice.

"STAY OUT OF HERE!!!"

The big man chuckled maliciously. "Who ya talkin' to? Yer wife? Girlfriend? Or maybe....yer husband? Doesn't matter. Whoever it is is about to be single again!" He raised his gun and aimed it at Vash. Even he couldn't recover from a point-blank blast from a gun like that. He closed his eyes, seconds before a loud bang echoed throughout the building.

Vash opened his eyes to find the giant bleeding from the chest. He looked up, but found no one else with a gun. He looked around, and saw the other two robbers bleeding from the arms and legs. Who, Vash thought.