(Two days later)
In the mourning of Roanapur, Rock is walking through the streets with a bag of unknown fruits. Most eyes were on him but paid no attention to them and was just minding his own business and kept walking. He then walked into an apartment build and walked up to the stairwell and then see Dutch walking towards him.
"Going out?" Asked Rock.
"Yeah, for a while." Said Dutch as he reaches his hand into Rock's bag and grabs a fruit from the top.
Dutch walked out of the building and he took a bite out of the fruit he got from Rock but then got disgusted by the flavor and spit it out of his mouth.
"The hell is this?" Asked Dutch to himself.
When Rock walked into the room, he sees Revy is lounging on the couch reading a magazine and Aaron is next to the wall reading a bible.
"Revy."
"Hmm." Revy answered in a bored tone.
"Just saw Dutch leaving. Where's he going?"
"Who knows? It doesn't matter what Dutch does when he's off. It's none of our business." With a slightly disgusted look on her face she puts down her magazine. Once her hand is free, I toss her one of the fruits inside the bag.
"I was just curious."
"Curious types don't get popular." Revy took a big bite of the fruit and her face contorted and suddenly sat up and spit the fruit out of her mouth. "What the fuck is this? Taste like it came out of your ass. I don't know how much you paid for this, but I think you got ripped off."
When Aaron took a fruit and tasted it, he showed no disgusted look on his face.
"It's not bad." Said Aaron and he was still eating the unknown fruit. "Taste actually alright. Not good, not bad but just neutral."
"Meaning that you been eating ass yourself."
"No but Revy since you know what ass taste like, you must have been eating ass yourself."
"Fuck you."
"Just saying."
Rock then noticed that Aaron is wearing glasses.
"I didn't know you wore glasses, Aaron." Said Rock.
"Yeah but these are for reading."
"I still say that you look stupid in them." Said Revy. "You probably get bullied in school."
"Well I was actually the smartest kid in school. Cause I graduated college when I was 14."
Then all of the sudden, Revy and Rock gave Aaron a stare and their jaw dropped.
"Bullshit." Revy commented.
"I'm not bullshitting." Said Aaron. "I really did graduate from my college at 14. I was a student of University of Virginia."
"How the fuck someone like you graduated college at a kid age?"
"Cause I'm smart. That's why. I can tell that you had no education."
"Don't push it. I will kill you right now."
"Like to see you try."
"Hello there, it's me. So, how are you doing? ... Yeah, go ahead. International number 10013...Right. Send me 120,000 to the name "Flyer's Company"... Yeah."
Then suddenly a car drove up to Dutch. In the car are four Chinese men wearing suits.
"Yeah we'll talk later." Dutch hung up the phone and then gave out a sigh. "Fuck me."
"Hey Dutch. Nice weather we're having. Business going well for you guys?" Said an Chinese man in the shotgun passenger seat.
"Hey Mr. Chin. Can't complain on our business since we're still alive."
"Well that's great to hear. Tell me something...how long do you plan to work with that Fry Face bitch, anyway?"
"Who your mother?"
"Balalaika asshole. Ever since she and her men got here, our business had gone down the tubes. Taken all the hotel rights, our whores and the heroin routes. Which is bullshit. If they even take our sea routes then we're fucked. Understand? So walk away...quickly before it's too late."
"Let me give you some advice, Mr. Chin. Even bad guys have commonsense. When you're ships jump to the NPA, we did it. It wasn't even close to a 'no problem' situation, but who pulled out then?"
"Don't fuck with me, Dutch. Don't bring that shit up."
"I don't know much. But, at the very least, Lindy has more honor than you do. We'll ship our goods at our rate, we're done talking."
"You'll regret this, Dutch."
"You don't get second chances with us. Use your head to survive, Mr. Chin."
After that, Dutch starts to walk away leaving Mr. Chin and his men. When Dutch was far, Mr. Chin pulled out a phone out of his pocket and made a call.
Back at the building, Rock has fell asleep on a chair and Revy was still laying on the couch and was smoking a cigarette and Aaron was still on the wall reading his bible. Revy turns to him and start to speak to him.
"Are you serious believe that religion shit?"
"I'm keeping it to myself." Said Aaron.
"You should already figure out that it's a waste of time and it's all bunch of bullshit. Should you be the smart one and already know that?"
"Still I'm keeping it to myself. I believe what I believe in and you believe what you believe in."
"Not gonna even try pull me into it, huh?"
"Cause you probably gonna say no."
"Could you at least try?"
"Do you want to-"
"Fuck no." Said Revy while giving Aaron the middle finger.
"Ok."
Suddenly Dutch and Benny enters the room.
"Hey guys get ready. We're leaving at five." Said Dutch.
"So what's the job, Dutch?" Asked Revy.
"Got a job for Donnie Yen. We are receiving a package from the Vietnamese military at Phu Quos Island. So let's get going."
Aaron and Revy were getting their stuff together before they could leave. Benny was even bring a box full of equipment. Revy noticed that Rock was still asleep and decided to walk up to him and kicked his chair and made him wake up.
"WAKE UP, SAILOR!" Yelled Revy.
Later, Lagoon Company were heading out of the safe harbor that they were in and now out in open waters. They are on a torpedo boat which is a PT 109 and called the Black Lagoon. Aaron, Revy and Rock are on the main deck, Benny is in the technical room and Dutch is in the driver's seat driving the boat. It is still sunny and the skies were mostly clear with no clouds for now. On the main deck, Aaron was watching the view, Revy was teaching Rock how to tie a knot. Rock have been trying to make the rope into a knot but it fell apart instead of holding like it was supposed to.
"Crap. Mess up." Said Rock to himself.
"Are you so fucking clumsy, or aren't you even trying?" Asked Revy.
"I'm sorry."
"You're not cut out for this. A monkey could do this." Said Revy as she took the rope and ties the knot that Rock been trying to tie.
"You don't have to be hard on him you know." Said Aaron.
"He's right." Said Rock. "I never did this at work."
Revy then gave out a sigh and looks at Rock.
"Rock, what did you do at work?"
"I was in the raw materials research department. So I went on business trips, wrote reports… made phone calls, but I think being a subordinate was my real job. I don't really get much breaks nor do I have any friends."
After hearing Rock's story, Aaron was feeling bad for what Rock been through. As for Revy
"That's fucked up, Rock." Said Revy. "What a disgusting story, putting up with all that crap. Are you really a whipping boy for them?"
"Part of the job." Rock answered. "No one wants to be jobless...and everyone survives like that."
"Pathetic."
Rock then became very curious and start to ask Revy a question.
"Revy, what did you do before coming here?"
"What I did hasn't changed from then to now."
"So you were always swinging around a Cutlass, as a kid?"
Revy had this haunted look in her eyes, but there were things in her past that even she couldn't deal with.
"I've got no complaints if I can kill who I can kill and steal what I can steal." She said in a whispered and sad tone. "It was beyond fucked up."
Revy then turns toward Aaron and got curious of him.
"Hey Aaron...I really want to know something. What were you? What made Balalaika chose you to work with us because outsiders mostly get killed here."
Aaron was still not looking at Rock nor Revy and his face was still emotionless. Aaron just took a sigh and began answering Revy's question.
"I'm just a former assassin running away from other assassins I work with."
"Like...you were in a mafia?" Asked Revy.
"Much worst then them since I was the one eliminating a lot of mafia gangsters in the US."
"So why left them and why are they after you?"
Aaron then starts to have a short flashback of him killing unknown men without any hesitation with a sidearm pistol. Few were Russians and few were Americans. Aaron still had his emotionless look on his face and continued answering Revy's question.
"They're corrupted...I'd killed most of them because I knew the truth and they want to put me down. Main reason I had to leave."
Revy was still unsure about what Aaron was but got a hint that he's some kind of assassin. She still doesn't trust him and trying to know more about him. Sudden they were almost thrown around by the increased speed of the ship.
"Dutch!" Revy screams into her earpiece.
"Hold on." Said Dutch.
"Oh shit Dutch there three more, which makes a total of six! The first three started accelerating from the island we just passed! The three on the port side came from behind a different island!" Said Benny into his earpiece while looking at the radar.
Rock climbed up into the crow's nest of the boat with binoculars around his neck and his earpiece snug into his ear. Through his binoculars he could see that the three boats were all gunships. Benny was still giving directions as he was keeping an eye on the radar.
"Changing course to the left is dangerous: the ones there will get us, the same with the right."
"A basic hunting pattern." Said Dutch.
"They're fast too Dutch."
Revy chimes into the conversation.
"Hey Dutch."
"Huh?" Dutch questioned.
"I smell it."
"You too?"
"It stinks all the way up to here. They aren't cops nor military. This is the stink of blood and smoke."
"Pirates! We're being targeted by Pirates?! Dutch, what's the background on our client?!" Asked Rock.
"Rock, that observation hurts. I've been neglecting checks on Donnie Yen's financial situation."
"He's right, Dutch." Said Aaron. "This might have been a set up. Someone probably screwed us."
Suddenly a voice breaks into the radio communications.
"Hello! ...Hello! ...Can you hear me, Lagoon?!"
"Oh, I see. It's Luak." Said Dutch as he picked up the radio mike. "There's no prey here. Go home before you get lost."
"There's prey right here. An old torpedo ship."
"Six on the right, Dutch. If it's Luak, then he brought everything."
"Goddamn motherfuckers." Over the radio Dutch asks. "Did Chin get you into this, Luak? God must feel sorry for your stupidity."
"Once you have a lead in you, maybe you'll shut up."
In the crow's nest, Rock had a good view of what the other ships were trying to do. As he looked from side to side, he noticed that they were trying to box us in.
"Dutch, they got us on both sides."
"I know Rock. Get down from the nest."
I make my way inside just in time as Arisa has a death grip on the throttles. The moment she heard gunfire, she killed the throttle effectively stopping the boat before the bullets could hit us. Instead, the shower of bullets went right past our bow and made mincemeat out of the boat on the other side of us. The screams are heard from the pirates on that boat that was becoming Swiss cheese scream. As Rock run back up to the crow's nest, he was amazed by the scene.
"Nice it worked."
"Its common sense to position yourselves out of reach of each others line of fire. Such amateurs. They're not even worth the time of day." Said Dutch to himself.
"Don't get too excited, asshole. I'll send you straight to hell!" Said Luak.
"They still have five ships. Arisa they're coming in again." Said Benny over the earpiece.
"Revy, it's your turn. Give them the wraith of 'Two-Hands'."
Standing on the deck, Revy is loaded up with a PM-63 RAK and a M79 Grenade Launcher.
"Leave it to me." Said Revy with a evil grin on her face. "I'll even make them dance to my tune."
"Revy, what are you going to do?" Asked Rock.
"Rock, take a break from talking about your world. I need to concentrate on this world."
With that said, she hit a button on something on her hip. It almost looks like an iPod and she looked like she was getting pumped from whatever she was listening to.
"Benny-Boy, there are two on the left, and two more on the right just behind us right?"
"And one more right behind us too, Dutch." Benny answered.
Revy was walking across the deck listening to Benny and Dutch on how many targets she had.
"Showtime, Revy." Said Dutch
"Hell Fucking Yeah." Revy said as she was now standing on the port side of the ship not far from the bow. "Then let's start with this shit on the left."
Lifting up the M79, Revy takes point-blank range and fires the grenade launcher blowing up the engine. She then pivoted around and headed for the other side; the starboard side of our ship.
"Let's dance the jitterbug baby!" Yelled Revy.
Taking a running leap, Revy flew over onto the other ship on our right side.
"She flew!" Rock screamed in astonishment.
"Well damn." Aaron calmly commented.
Revy took the crew of that ship by surprise as the moment she landed; she opened fire with both her submachine gun and her grenade launcher. The back of that ship exploded just like the first one she had targeted. The group that was on the ship behind it decides to open fire. Revy was jumping from the back of that ship straight for the one behind it.
"Kill her! Kill her! Kill that crazy bitch!" Yelled a pirate.
Revy landed and started to open fire on her new victims. The way she moved again was a ballet of death. Her bullets never missing as she kicked and shot her way through another group of men. The victims were getting killed instantly. Revy was even shooting at the dead bodies to make sure that they're dead. It was like she wanted to make sure that none of them came back. Aaron was a little impressed of Revy's skills. Inside Aaron was waiting for something for him to do something because his pistol is out of his holster.
"Rock, which ship is Revy on?" Dutch asked through the earpiece.
"She's on her fifth." Looking through my binoculars Rock spot something. "Wait, the third one is still alive. How I don't know, but it is."
Rock could see the third ship pulling up to the port side of the ship that Revy was on and the pirates were trying to kill Revy but Revy fired the grenade launcher straight into their engines and the ship blew up instantly.
"Dammit! My ships…" Said Luak on the radio.
Lagoon Company picked Revy up from the next to the last ship. Dutch over the radio said,
"It's a dead-end. The one who ended up dancing with hot lead was you, Luak."
Luak must have been terrified as he took over the controls of the ship.
"Dammit! Get the hell out of here! We are not dealing with those demons anymore!"
Revy was reloading the grenade launcher. She took aim at the ship as it veered away from us trying to escape. It then was exploded. A gunshot was ranged behind Revy a bullet must have hit a barrel that have flammable signs on them which was kind of stupid for Luak to be carrying on his boat. Revy turns around and see it was Aaron who caused the boat to explode and killed Luak with his pistol and did it when Luak was in a far distant from Lagoon Company. Aaron lowered his down his pistol, look at Revy and gave out a grin. Revy gave out a pissed off look on her face and her hand was gripping her grenade launcher and machine gun.
"I DIDN'T ASKED FOR ANY HELP, ASSHOLE!" Yelled Revy.
Aaron could only chuckle. Rock was looking at Aaron and Revy. He was amazed of how those two took out the pirates.
Meanwhile back in Roanapra, Mr. Chin gets news of the bungled trap and now he's in a panic to escape their wrath. He's shoving money and valuables into a suitcase so that he can still live comfortably after he escapes.
"Dammit! Luak you fucked up big time! You fucker. I'd need to get the fuck out of here!"
As Mr. Chin starts to turn around and head for the door to make his escape the handle slowly turns, and the door creaks open. There stands one of the most feared groups of Russians in all of Roanapra, Hotel Moscow. Stepping into the doorway was Balalaika herself.
"Well, well, well. Moving out so quickly Mr. Chin? Such hard work, shall we help Mr. Chin?" Her voice was pleasant and did not give away her true feelings, but her face and body language said something else.
Mr. Chin steps back in surprise.
"M-M-Miss Balalaika...Y-You must have something mistaken. I-It's a pathetic rumor running around." Mr. Chin continues to step backwards as Lindy walks into the room with a smirk on her face. "If we sit down and discuss it over lunch...no dinner we'll get it sorted out."
With a round house kick to his head, Balalaika glares down at him with murder in her eyes.
"Listen here, you little shit. We've got nothing to ask you. We all know what we want to know." Said Balalaika as she Grabbed a hold of Mr. Chin's shirt and jacket and pulls him up to her face. "Now pray to whatever God you believe in...that's all you can do while you're still alive."
Back at the office Revy is lying on the couch again. Her head is on the head rest, her arms and legs both crossed. She gives a sigh as if she's disappointed.
"Geez. We busted our asses for nothing. Waist of goddamn ammo."
"Still mad at me for saving your life?" Asked Aaron as he continues to read his bible.
"Do it again and I'll blow both of your balls off and don't ever bring that up again nor do you tell anyone."
Suddenly the phone started to ring and Rock walk over to the phone and picked it up with his right hand while his piece of pizza in left hand and answer the phone.
"Hello, Lagoon Company."
"Oh, Rock! It's been a while. Is Dutch around?"
Rock walked up to Dutch handed the phone over to him before he takes it.
"Who is it?" Asked Dutch.
"It's Ms. Balalaika." Rock answered.
Dutch takes the phone cautiously and puts it up to his ear and answered it.
"Hello?"
"Hello Dutch." Balalaika answered. "I heard you went on a wild goose chase and you got stuck playing with Chin."
"Who told you?"
"Chin himself. He's a bit of a loud by the mouth. He was dead from the start. We'll make sure that this doesn't happen again. It was a pain for you, wasn't it?"
"No, it was fine. We don't even need aspirin."
"Thank you, Dutch. It's not much of a return but I'll let you hear something cool."
"Oh? Is it cooler than JB?"
"Of course."
Balalaika is somewhere outside next to a car with her men. She is holding a trigger device and when she clicked the trigger button, there was some bomb set off at a building behind them.
"Yeah. That is cool."
"We'll have a real job for you soon. I'll call you then."
Dutch pulled the phone away from his ear and hung up.
"Job?" Benny questioned a guessed.
"Something like that. She told me some gossip. Revy, Rock, do you have somewhere to go after this?"
"Not really." Revy answer in a bored tone.
"Yeah same here." Said Rock.
"How about you Benny?" Dutch asked Benny.
"Just the maintenance on electronics, but there's no rush on it." Benny answered.
"Aaron." Dutch asked Aaron.
"Was thinking about going to my apartment, read more, have a couple of drinks and sleep, but I can stay a little while."
"Well then. Considering the mental anguish incurred due to external interference as your employer, it is my duty to provide entertainment as compensation. Therefore, I propose a trip to the YELLOWFLAG to drink away our pain. Of course, it's on me."
