As Gold and Crystal landed nearby Mahagony City, they began to walk casually towards the shop where Green proposed a peace treaty, it now became an herbal medicine shop and acts as a front for the Neo Family, the two Neo key members followed the same procedure when they make a pickup at a Neo Family Front, Gold goes in to get the products while Crystal waits outside to warn Gold if there was some surprise Sting by the police. When Gold opened the door, he found that the shop was empty and the old woman running the shop resting her head on the counter out of sheer boredom.
The Old Woman then heard the sounds of a door opening and gave Gold a Glameow like look "The usual?" Gold nodded his head and the Old Woman bent down and grabbed a small white plastic box, she then grabbed a white plastic bag with a label saying 'Prescription Drugs,' and the irony of the name made Gold chuckle every time.
He reached for the bag and said "Thank you granny, we were running low on this... medicine, and our boss needs it for the party tonight" and the moment Gold took the bag and turned his back, the Old Woman held his arm desperately,
"Be careful, Gold" The Old Woman's voice was a mixture of fear and concern "Leave this town immediately and don't look back, there are new faces here in town and it is scaring us, that's why there's no business or not that many people outside" she then released her hand and gave him a worried look that says "Stay safe."
Gold exited the shop and went to Crystal immediately, the consigliere guessed what was on Gold's mind "Something's wrong here, isn't there"
"Yeah, apparently we got ourselves a new Family here" Gold began to crack his knuckles "Let's make a little detour, show these assholes a thing or two about taking over something that's not there's"
She shook her head disapprovingly "Not a good idea, we don't know these people and going in guns blazing usually ends badly"
"Don Birch did it, why can't I?" Gold asked, as he looked around for any signs of a new Crime Family.
"That's because she's a fucking psychopath and knew what she was doing" Crystal argued "She can go ahead and reign destruction on whatever the hell she wants, but unlike her, our reputation is actually important to us, we rule with an Iron Grip, not with a damn knife and slicing people up if they sneeze."
It was then when a man with a black suit outfit with a golden knit Lotus flower emblem walked pass by the two. His presence was something of a guy up to no good, and that's exactly who Gold was looking for, "We'll be quick, I promise" he then pointed at the man with his head "Let's follow him, he'll lead us to where those bastards are hiding." And without hearing an answer, Gold walked ahead and followed the man as he slipped the white bag into his pocket .
"Dammit Gold- at least call some back up...!" In the end, Crystal followed closely behind.
The Man that Gold and Crystal ended up following took the north exit of Mahagony town, which led them through route 48. Gold and Crystal then noted that he didn't go through the pay toll and sprayed himself with repel, he then took the grassy parts of route 48. The man then took the left pathway which led him deeper into the Lake Of Rage's harsh forest, the two Neo Family Members continued to tread through the forest carefully and was trying everything in vain not to alert any of the local Pokémon to attack and make any sudden attacks on them. After thirty minutes of stalking, the man finally reached his destination, it was a warehouse hidden deep in Lake of Rage's forest side, the man then knocked on a wooden door three times and whispered something over through the door, the door then opened and the man went inside.
Gold and Crystal looked at each other and nodded, the Consigliere then suggested "We'll have to remember this area so that we can send in some of our guys to take them out. But for now, it's too risky with just the two of us, we don't know how many people are inside of that warehouse and more importantly, we don't know who these people are."
"Relax, we've dealt with hot-shot new Crime Family's before, remember?" Gold chuckled softly "They stir up a lot of shit, we only send in two guys to fuck em up and disband them. It will be like every other time, alright?"
Crystal sighed and shook her head, "I just got a bad feeling about this..."
"Relax, we'll be back before the club opens." Gold then walked towards the warehouse, along with Crystal. Instead of the three knocks, Gold kicked down the door, along with the bodyguard that was standing behind it. He walked on top of the door with his hands in his suit pockets, all he saw was three men sitting around a table in a dimly lit room with a couple of other men and women in the suits same as the man they were following with looks of annoyance, Gold then said casually "Alright you shits, taking over a Family's territory isn't a smart idea, time to get your asses kicked." Crystal was leaning at the side of the door.
The three men looked at each other and smirked while the few that were leaning back at the walls looking entertained. Gold, who was now pissed at the way the assailants were taking his threats, decided to walk slowly towards the table. In an instant, Gold grabbed the man's head on his left side and slammed it on the table, hard enough to have the body ricochet to the floor. He then gave a hard hammer fist back hand to the man on the right, the sound of the man's jaw being broken was loud enough for everyone in the warehouse to hear. Gold then kicked the table towards the last man, the sounds of him choking were heard.
It was then when the people inside the warehouse took the two trespassers seriously. A man and woman charged towards Gold, the Neo Family Underboss cracked his neck, ready for a workout. The female came in first with a flurry of lunging kicks that struck towards his ribs, out of twenty of the kicks that the female inflicted, eighteen out of the twenty kicks landed directly to Gold's ribs. The man then intervened with grabbing Gold's shoulder, who was struggling to walk backwards, and pulled Gold into a devastating punch.
Gold fell to his knees, he spat out blood and grunted angrily. The two fighters waited for Gold to stand up, the Neo Underboss then took off his jacket and growled furiously. Gold then charged at the man by jumping and landing a strike to the man's neck and began to land punch after punch on the man's head, he then pulled the man close and gave three sharp knee kicks to the rib cage and the man was on his knees due to the punishment Gold was giving him. Finally, Gold finished with a right hook, causing the man to fall to the right unconscious. The woman then greeted Gold with a jumping round house kick, she missed by a hair and gave Gold another flurry of fast kicks. However, Gold's senses were now sharpened and managed to dodge and block most of her kicks, he then attempted to strike back but failed completely due to her superior agility. Then when the next kick the woman landed on Gold's shoulder, the Neo Underboss grabbed her foot and struck the knee cap very hard, she dropped to the floor yelling out in pain, and Gold spun her around and threw her to the floor.
Three other men looked at each other and nodded, the three then ran towards Gold, ready to take him on...
Crystal saw how Gold was extremely tired and knew that he may need a helping hand. She spotted the three men charging towards Gold and took action, she sprinted and jumped on one of the men's back and struck multiple times on his jaw with her fist, when the man fell face first to the floor, the two turned to see Crystal jumping to her feet and tripping them. Crystal waited for the two men to get up, and when they did, one of them came lunging first and Crystal kicked at their waist twice and a skillful strike at the chin. The man remaining threw a sloppy left and right hook and left his lower body exposed, Crystal dodged the two strikes and kicked his waist and jumped to land her two feet onto his chest, she landed safely on the floor where the man tripped on one of the fallen men fell.
It was then when the entire warehouse guards attempted to apprehend their assailants, one after another, the guards gave Gold and Crystal a challenge. Gold found his arms being grabbed by one of the men and the woman striking lighting fast strikes at his chest. Gold then struggled hard enough to feel one of his hands freed by the man's grip, he then grabbed the man's back neck and squeezed it as hard as possible and his other hand was free. Gold and the female bodyguard were now engaged in each other, Gold struck at her ribs while she struck lethally at Gold's chest. It ended with Gold lunging towards her, grabbing and lifting her up and slamming her body onto the floor.
Crystal continued to attack the bodyguards with her near lethal kicks, however was quickly surrounded. When one of the woman let out an opening, Crystal slipped through the circle and ran towards the wall, knew the group was chasing after her and ran faster to the wall. When she was close enough, she jumped at the wall and used her speed to spring herself from the wall and kicked one of the bodyguards. She used the momentum to strike with her lightning fast fists and struck the bodyguards unconscious before anyone could ever hit her.
When Gold and Crystal saw that there was no one else to fight, they were almost out of breath, they knew that these people were tough, and if there were more of them, they knew they would eventually be defeated. Crystal walked tiredly to Gold and fist pumped, attempting to catch their breath. However, their victory was short lived, they stared in horror as the bodyguards that they knocked out, began to get back up.
"What the fuck...?" Gold shuddered, he saw how injured they look and how weak they may be, but the look that each of the body guard had was completely terrifying, they want blood. He decided to end this, "Fuck this shit, time to die." He then took out his Pokeball,
It was then when all of the warehouse lights turned on. What Gold and Crystal saw was a large amount of bodyguards standing at the second floor of the warehouse, they were surrounded. They then saw how all of the bodyguards were ready to release their Pokeballs as well, ready to fight. Just when Gold and Crystal were about to attack, loud claps were heard.
A man with a cane walked down the iron stairs of the warehouse and was now standing in front of the two, "Well done. It has been a long time since someone has actually gave us quite a scare."
Gold and Crystal looked at each other, Gold then spoke "Are you the Don of these people?"
"Me? the Don of these people?" The man repeated Gold's question, which irritated Gold, "Oh, no no no... not even close."
"Then what are you?" Crystal asked, she looked around to see the well dressed bodyguards of the establishment.
The old man chuckled "Allow me to introduce myself... my name is Pryce, and I am a Soldier of the Lotus Family."
"Wait... so-... y-you're saying that these that we just fought aren't Made Men?" Gold tried to keep his cool, but his nerves got the better of him.
Pryce chuckled darkly, he looked to see who were badly injured and snapped his fingers "These filth who have managed to actually fall before you?" He quickly released a Piloswine, the Pokemon then used Icy Wind on the injured bodyguards, who's bodies then fell to the floor, causing their bodies to be shattered, "Are just mere Enforcers and Associates, as well as everyone else here."
Crystal was shocked to hear this as well. For Gold and Crystal, the level of which the people that they just face were very powerful when it came to hand to hand combat, almost combating their own, thinking that their ranking was a Capo
"Exactly what right do you have to come inside of my territory?" Pryce then asked "You two are probably Enforcers as well, judging by how sloppily you battled, also, give me one good reason why I shouldn't send your bodies below the Lake of Rage."
The ignorance of Pryce pissed Gold off to no end "You old mother fu-"
"What he means to say is," Crystal interrupted Gold, trying not to make the situation worse, "That he is the Underboss of the Neo Family, and I am the Consigliere of the same Family." She then calmly stated "You took over another Family's territory, offending us... which is why we had to come here and try to take it back," Crystal then attempted to threaten Pryce "By the looks of it, you guys are very good fighters, but there is power in numbers. Kill us, and you'll have all four families tearing you apart, and judging by the amount of people you brought, this is your only Front, isn't it?"
Pryce chuckled by how perceptive Crystal was "You're quite right, we thought that the amount of people that was guarding this area was some weak ass family, seeing how we killed them with ease." Gold was almost ready to attack, "We apologize for the trouble we brought, but we need this territory more than you know."
"Our Don and the three other Family's will decide whether or not you keep this part of the Johto Region" Gold spat out, "If you want to survive in this world, you gotta follow the rules, otherwise, not only the four Families will tear you apart, but so will the Anti-Crime Organizations, you got that?"
Crystal sighed at Gold's words, "What he means to say is, bring your Don to Golden Rod City, we'll debate whether or not your Don can stay in the four Regions."
"Our Don is a busy person, come back to this area in two days and we will give you our answer" The Soldier of the Lotus Family said suspiciously "I cannot guarantee whether or not the Don will say yes or no to your offer."
"Take all the time you need" Crystal's voice was slightly grateful of Pryce's suggestion. She walked over to where Gold dropped his Suit and threw it to the Underboss.
Pryce nodded, "Alright, I'll see what I can do" he then began to walk back to the stairways "Let them go, they mean no harm now."
Gold and Crystal then heard the sounds of Pokeballs minimizing back to their small sizes and the remaining of the warehouse Bodyguards following Pryce who was going through a door. The two Neo Family Members looked at each other and immediately fled the scene and back to Saffron City.
Author's Note: I-I hope y-you are all enjoying t-this new s-series I'm m-making /... reviews and critiques are appreciated because never before have I considered making a series out of something I've been obsessed with for some time now =w=~... a-anyways... h-happy new years everyone~! 3