Chapter 4-Cars go boom, guns go bang
7:35-Financial Dist. slums area [Drug market]
Blake drove to the location, on the way he saw a large pile of burnt police vehicles on the sidewalk, a sign that he is getting closer. He got interrupted by one of the criminals, he seemed to be asking for help from Blake. -"Oh dude you're here, we need backup quick! The cops are calling in for more people and we need a machine gunner, you are one right?"-The criminal yelled, the sounds of explosions and loud gunfire made it hard to hear anything so yelling was the only way to make Blake hear him.
-"Yeah I got an ALIG, is that good enough?"-Blake replied, yelling as well.
-"Hell yeah, follow me and I'll tell you where to stand at"- The criminal waved at Blake, showing him where to go. Blake got out of his car and took out the ALIG from the trunk- an ALIG was considered as a slow, yet a powerful machine gun, mostly used against enemy vehicles. The two ran towards the main area where the enforcers started to fight back, the criminal signaled Blake to take cover. -"You see that group of Vaqueros next to those guys at 12 o'clock? If you blow them up with your ALIG it'll give the rest of our team a chance to strike while they are trying to recover themselves. Just stay hidden and don't let them see or hear you, or else they will know what we plan to do"- The criminal said to Blake in a silent tone, the two were hiding behind a wall 20 meters away from the enforcing team. A bunch of other remaining criminals hid nearby as well, in case Blake won't make it they would have to fight their way through , with weaker weapons but at least they had something to fire. -"Our backup unfortunately just got cancelled, they had to attend to more important missions, so right now you're the only hope we got to get rid of those rats from here. The cops tried to take down one of our drug dealers..Sadly they killed him before we got the chance to save him, and now they are trying to take us down too..The name's Shawn, and you must be Blake..Anyway, good luck with those guys, I'll try and distract their view from your point temporarily, when you get the chance shoot the engines and make the enforcers blow up!"-Shawn smiled at Blake, then he walked to his post and waited for the right time to distract the enforcers.
Meanwhile the enforcers stood around the area where they killed the drug dealer, his body was laying next to them, they circled it and looked at every possible direction a criminal could pop up. 5 of them were close enough to get hit by the explosion, but the other 4 were less likely to get seriously hit, so those 4 the hidden criminals will have to take on after Blake blows up the engine and kills the first 5 enforcers.
-"See anything yet?"-An enforcer said to his colleague while looking around
-"Nah..Not yet"-He replied with a sigh, using his Binoculars for a possible sign of a criminal around. "-Why won't they strike already..What the hell are they waiting for, the Messiah?"-He laughed, once again patrolling around with the Binoculars.
-"Hey! Over here scrubs! If you want to catch me so bad, come and get me!"-Shawn taunted them, attempting to lure the cop's eyes away.
-"What the hell is he trying to do, get himself killed?"-The first said to Shawn sarcastically.-"Well, let's not keep the poor man waiting, after him!"-The enforcer signaled the others to fire at his command. While the enforcers aimed at Shawn, Blake took a run for it and hid closer to the vehicles to get a better angle, only trying to lock a target with this heavy machine gun was hard already. When the enforcers locked their eyes at Shawn, Blake took it as the signal when Shawn gave him a quick wink, he started to fire bullets to the Vaquero's engines. In a matter of seconds the engines began to leak and smoke from the heavy fire, the surrounding enforcers took a massive hit in the legs, a common targeted weak spot. Before they had a chance to escape the engines started to set fire, and BOOM the enforcers nearby exploded with them, leaving traces of blood, fire and the Vaquero's remaining skeleton. The surviving ones were still after Shawn, he lead them to a meet up point where the hidden criminals patiently waited to kill on sight. Before Shawn got away without a hit from the battlefield, a dying enforcer had the chance to shoot him in the head while laying down on the pavement, bleeding to death. Like a piece of plastic Shawn fell on the ground and bled from the bullet, dying quickly with the same enforcer who killed him. Blake showed up to the scene when he finally got rid of all the enforcers in his spot, he looked at Shawn's dead eyes and lowered his head to respect him, so did the criminals surrounding him.
-"He was a great planner, if it wasn't for him we would all be in prison by now"- One of the criminals said with his head lowered and his weapon drawn forward like a general respecting his fallen soldier's death. -"But I bet the rest here agree with me, if it wasn't for your ALIG Blake, we would have been dead anyway. We'll take his body from here and bury it somewhere, you can head on to your next job if you'd like."- The mourning criminal added.
Before leaving the area, Blake took a gander around him. He saw burnt and shot bodies that laid around the pavement covered in blood and empty bullets. He felt like he was leaving from war, only looking at the scene made him a little shocked, but not too much. It's not the first time he got to saw a bloody battlefield, but it still gets him every time he sees it after a mission, whether successful or not, it still made him feel terrible. Only after mere seconds of looking at his surroundings again, he left to the next mission as if this never happened. The ambulance siren was already on its way to pick up the deceased enforcers, once hearing it he hurried into his car, pushed on the gas pedal and drove off quickly. Criminals like Blake tend to experience trauma after seeing this many bodies, blood and other gory scenes in their jobs, but eventually you get used to that emotional reaction. Many criminals actually stopped showing emotion to their killing, to prevent a random mental breakdown, and to show the rest how tough and cold hearted they really are. Blake sometimes acts cold hearted and cruel as well, but in some cases he can break down with rather unpleasant side effects. He has been this way ever since he joined the Bloodroses 7 years ago, feeling under pressure, and the fear of getting caught almost always chases his mind.