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Chapter 7 – Temple
"Park da car here," Riley said up to Ed as they turned into the Wuncler Plaza parking lot. "We'll walk da rest of da way."
"Okay boss man," Ed said pulling the SUV into a parking spot on the edge of the lot.
Huey got out of the SUV once again and met the rest of his search team at the back of the SUV. Riley opened the hatch and pulled out three long grey coats similar to the ones Ed and Rummy were already wearing. He handed one to Cindy and the other to Huey. "Put dese on. We don't need to alert da common niggas to our business."
Huey listened and put on the long coat before Riley discreetly handed him his katana which he proceeded to hide in the flaps of his coat where he found small loops running along the inside of the coat. They normally would have been for guns or knives but they worked well enough for his sword. While he was putting his sword away Riley was opening one of the duffle bags and handing out the weapons Rummy had packed in it. He pulled out knives, rifles, and handguns all with suppressors along with different types of grenades and passed them around the group. Lastly he handed Huey an USP .45 Elite pistol with a flashlight attached under the barrel and a Ump45 submachine gun, both had suppressors on their barrels.
Next her pulled out head pieces and distributed them to the group. "Put dese in ya ears." Next he pulled out some sport style sunglasses and handed them out.
"What do we need these for?" Huey asked looking at his sport style sunglasses.
"Style," Riley answered putting on his orange and black framed sunglasses.
"Can we go now?" Huey asked impatiently looking across the plaza to a small and skinny three floor office building with the large red sign that read "Temple" near the top right corner. If he had not been looking for it he would never had noticed it among the tall almost sky scraper sized buildings around it. His daughter was in that building and they were wasting time handing out weapons and head pieces and especially putting on glasses.
"Ya but we have to be all special ops on dis one," Riley said pulling out the second duffle bag. "Give me da IPhone Huey." Huey handed over the phone as they began walking across the plaza. "We need to sweep each floor one at a time so we don't miss anything. Da first thing we needda do is get control of a stairwell and get a nigga up to da roof to make sure da don't have a heli or somethin' up dere to escape on."
"Let's just go. I can't wait anymore," Huey grumbled growing irritated. His brother did not sound like any mobster he'd seen in the movies. He sounded more military than mafia.
"Aight, aight nigga" Riley said picking up the pace to a face walk.
They crossed the plaza without incident and got to the front doors of the building. Looking in from the outside it looked like a normal office building with a lobby desk against the far wall and there was even a security guard sitting behind it. Riley knew that the lobby was the only thing that looked like an office. The upper floors had offices but they were not offices would ever find in a legitimate business but maybe in the movies like Scarface. Most of the space would look like an abandoned office building with these offices hidden in corners and on the top floor so anyone wandering in would think it was under construction, at least that was how he had set it up and he could not see why they would change it up since everything was already set up for them. He would not be surprised if his original furniture and supplies were still in the building.
Entering the Temple Huey groaned as he recognized the obese guard sitting behind the security desk. His dark blonde hair was receding and his beady light blue eyes were locked on the hamburger in his hand. He had his feet up on his desk and he was listening to a radio talk show.
"Yo Dan," Rummy said greeting the security guard they had tried to kill years ago. The obese security guard had never found out it was them trying to kill him but Huey kind of wished they had.
"Oh look its twittely fucking dumbass and twittely fucking bigger dumbass again. I thought I got rid of your dumbasses years ago," Dan the security guy said looking at the pair of ex-marines like someone had shoved something up his overly large butt. "What are you two doing here? This is an empty building."
"Don't fuck wit' me nigga. I know what dis building is," Riley said reaching across the security desk and grabbing the obese guard by his collar and pulling him over the desk, his muscles bulging under the strain. Riley pulled out his engraved Desert Eagle and put it to Dan's head. "Ya have two options nigga get da fuck out or die."
"Eat my ass," Dan spat.
"Have it ya way," Riley sighed and pulled the trigger, spraying Dan's head all over the security desk.
"What did you do that for?" Huey asked turning away from the near headless obese corpse.
"Nigga wuz fuckin' annoyin'," Riley said pulling out his other Desert Eagle. "We have da elevators now. Who's going up?"
"I will," Cindy volunteered heading for the elevators. She hit the up button and the door opened and she disappeared inside.
"Okay den da rest of us will take dis elevator," Riley said hitting the up button beside the other elevator. When the elevator came opened with a bing they stepped in and Riley hit the second floor button.
"Why aren't we taking the stairs it's only a one flight?" Huey asked and his answer came a moment later when bullets riddled the outside of the opening door.
"Wooden doors don't stop bullets," Riley said pulling out his Desert Eagle as Rummy threw a flash grenade into the room.
"You know you're not very mob like, flash grenades really," Huey said pulling out his own pistols as Ed sprayed the room with his Uzis.
"Hey I'd like to come in here wit' da kiss of death and shit but we don't have time for dat shit," Riley said reaching his Eagles around the edge of the opened door and firing off a few rounds himself before ducking back inside.
"Kee-yah bitch!" Ed shouted suddenly jumping into the elevator door way still firing off his Uzis until a series of bullets hit him in the chest throwing him back into the elevator wall.
"Motherfuckers!" Rummy shouted firing his shot gun into to the room while running out of the elevator before sliding behind some piping.
"Come on," Riley said reloading his guns and standing up. He stepped out from his hiding place, his guns echoing loudly in the near empty room as most of his shots found most of their targets. Once he was empty he shoved his special Eagle back in his coat and tossed the other before pulling out two MP5s and continued shooting. "Huey check dose rooms over dere for Rosa."
Huey edged out of the elevator but no bullets came his way, everyone was too occupied with Riley and Rummy who had all but killed or maimed the men on the floor. He approached the first door and cautiously swung it open. When no bullets flew out he quickly stepped out fanning the room with his guns for any targets but there were none. The room was empty, completely barren not even a chair so he moved onto the next one and the one after that but they were all completely empty. The fourth one had a single crate inside piled high with silver square bundles. He knew what was in those bundles but they were not what he was looking for.
"She's not here," Huey said walking out of the last room on the floor.
"Den we're going to da next floor," Riley said kicking the door open to the stairwell open. "Ed get da fuck up."
"I got fuckin' shot again," Ed groaned picking himself up off the elevator floor and grabbed the duffle bag while he was at it.
Riley led the way to the next floor putting himself directly in front of Huey. He already knew the first floor would be an open shooting range, but the next floor would be more clustered offering them more coverage. They quickly ran up the stairs and Riley kicked in the second floor door as well. The floor was just a straight narrow hallway from their stairwell to the stairwell at the far side of the building as he had planned it and that stretch of hallway was empty.
"Clear all da rooms niggas," Riley said standing up against the wall beside the nearest side door. Putting away his reloaded MP5s he pulled out his Desert Eagle and replaced its empty magazine with a full one from one of the pockets of his coat. With his Eagle in one hand he opened the door with the other and quickly stepped into the room checking all its corners with his gun before yelling, "Clear."
Huey once again made his way down the hall checking every other room as Ed checked the others on his side of the hall. These rooms actually had stuff in them, they looked like real offices with desks and computers and some even had filing cabinets. He never thought organized crime needed this much organization. Many of them could have been fake offices to help with their cover but most looked used. Once again he made it all the way down the hall and found no one on the floor.
"We only got da big boss's office now. I don't think she is here Huey," Riley said coming out of the last room of his side of the hall way.
"She has to be here. We're out of leads," Huey said not wanting to believe him, but he knew there was truth in his brother's words.
"Maybe she is up dere," Riley said seeing his brother's dejected face.
"Let's just go," Huey said righting his face into a look of determination.
There was only one stairwell up to the next floor as he had attended. Anyone who wanted to come see the boss had to reach his office through that single stairwell that only connected to that floor and the boss's office.
As he came to the door he heard feet shuffling on the other side and Riley held up his hand to halt his comrades. "Dere's someone in dere?" he whispered to Huey. "We have to be careful in case Rosa is up here. When I get to three open da door and I'll go in."
Huey nodded and Riley began counting. When Riley got to two he turned the doorknob and at three he pulled it open and Riley stepped through the door way before suddenly turning and grabbing him and jumping down the stairs pushing Ed and Rummy down before him. Surprised by the sudden backward movement Huey lost his grip on his pistols. Up the stairs Huey heard, "Say hello to my little friend" and the doorway exploded.
"What the fuck was that?" Rummy said his legs hanging over his head on the landing separating the two staircases as it levelled out to accommodate the height of each floor.
"Da nigga's got a grenade launcher on his rifle," Riley said. "We're gonna need da big stuff Rummy."
"Finally," Rummy said grabbing the duffle bag from Ed who was all twisted up in the corner of the landing unconscious from hitting his head. He unzipped the bag and pulled out a DSR-Precision DSR 50 sniper rifle. Standing up Rummy fired two entire three bullet magazines into the boss's office, each bullet tore through the office leaving near fist sized holes in anything they went through. The devastating power of the rifle forced the occupant of the room into cover and gave them the chance to get into the room.
Riley was the first in putting himself directly in front of Huey so anything flying their way would hit him and not Huey as he had done every time they got into a fire fight that day. Being the first in the room Riley headed directly for his old heavy red mahogany desk where the grenade launching occupant had taken cover.
Huey entering the room right after Riley left the room's known occupant to Riley and looked around for his daughter. It was a massive office, nearly the size of the floors they had already cleared and yet he could not see Rosa anywhere. There was only the large desk Riley was running toward, an open glass cabinet full of guns, a few chairs around the desk, one high back leather black chair with the letters RS on it in gold, and a large 52 inch flat screen on the wall, but no Rosa.
"Huey duck!" Riley shouted running toward his brother as the man behind the desk pooped up holding an AK-47. Riley hit Huey full on as the man unloaded a clip at them. Riley's body convulsed as the AK's bullets bounded into his back tearing through his coat.
"Riley!" Huey shouted as his brother slumped off him his eyes wide in shock.
"That was easier than I thought it would be. The great Riley Escobar was nothing after all. I guess we all have our weaknesses," the man said advancing on Huey. His brown hair was slicked back with grease and he wore a white suit with a pink dress shirt that had its top two buttons open. "I was told to try and stop you when you got here. They never thought I would be able to get rid of you. This could save us all the hassle of kidnapping your daughter and coercing you out of the mayoral race."
"You kidnapped my Rosa to get me to drop out of the race," Huey said angrily looking at the business barrel of the AK-47.
"That's what I was told. They didn't give all the details. A ransom note should be arriving at your house soon, it's too bad you won't be there to get it," the man said with a sick smile.
"Where is Rosa?" Huey asked staring up at the man with blank eyes.
"She's not here that's all you need to know," the man said his smile widening. "I'm Pablo Reice and I'll be your executioner."
Pablo suddenly arched his back as a gunshot ran out through the office. "I'm not too sure about dat dawg," Cindy said stepping out of the door leading to the roof.
Pablo looked at Huey with surprise just before a second suppressed gunshot from a sniper rifle rang out and Pablo was left with a giant hole in his chest. Pablo collapsed in a pool of his own blood he was dead before he hit the ground.
With the threat eliminated Cindy dropped her guns and ran to Riley. "Reezy are ya still alive?"
"Barely," Riley whispered coughing up blood before passing out.
"Where did you come from?" Huey asked Cindy as Rummy joined them in the room carrying the disoriented Ed of his shoulder.
"First we need to get Reezy out of here," Cindy said grabbing Riley's Desert Eagle.
Huey looked at equally worried at his brother who had taken those bullets in his place. With his daughter not in the building they were back to square one again, but this time they had a little hope since a ransom note was coming and as Rummy said that meant they would not harm his daughter as long as they needed her as a bargaining chip to get what they wanted from him. He had time to worry about his brother.
Cindy quickly made a small stretcher from her coat, Rummy's sniper rifle and a second similar rifle from the duffle bag to support Riley's back. She and Huey lifted him onto the stretcher and headed for stairwell.
"Rummy go get da car," Cindy shouted at the ex-marine and he ran down the stairs with Ed still over his shoulder.
"So you had good timing there," Huey said quickly walking backward down the stairs supporting Riley's upper half on the stretcher that was only long enough to fit the top half of his brother's body, his legs dangling down from Cindy's side.
"Nah when I got up dere, dere were a few guys waiting and I took dem out. I waited up dere for ya'll to come out and den I heard the explosion so I decided to come down. Both doors were locked so it took me a quick sec to shoot dem open, but by den Riley wuz already down," Cindy said and Huey could see what he thought was a tear roll down her cheek from behind her sunglasses but it could have been a bead of sweat, Riley was heavy and having to use their own force to keep the stretcher together was not helping either.
"Lucky you came when you did," Huey said as they nearly ran through the second floor to the elevator. Huey manoeuvring himself awkwardly around the stretch rapidly hit the down button to Cindy's elevator with his pinkie finger while still holding onto the butt of the sniper rifle.
"I should have been dere sooner," Cindy said as the elevator opened.
"You can't blame yourself for this. It was my fault. He was protecting me," Huey said. "I don't know why he was doing it though."
"Because you are his big bro and you have a family. He believes ya'll life is worth more den his and he would give his life a hundred times to save ya once so little Rosa does not have to grow up wit'out a father," Cindy said to him as the elevator opened on the lobby floor.
"How do you know that? My life is not worth more than his," Huey said pushing open the main doors and carrying his brother outside.
"Reezy told me before we went to jail," Cindy said as Rummy pulled up in the Escalade with Ed slumped over and barely conscious in the passenger seat and popped the hatch.
"Why would he think that?" Huey asked lifting Riley into the back of the Escalade where Rummy had lowered the back seat to make more room before they both climbed in beside him and he closed the hatch.
"He said and dese were his exact words ya going places and he was a glorified drug lord, scum," Cindy said.
"That's bullshit utter bullshit," Huey said as Rummy sped out of the Plaza dialling the number of their doctor on the phone. They could not take Riley to the hospital; he would be sent right back to jail.
"Where are we going Huey?" he asked.
"Go to my house," Huey said Rummy feeling his brother's pulse which was too weak. He would check his back but he was too afraid to move his brother again. He would have to pray for the second time in his life, this time for a more important prisoner's life.
Is Riley going to be okay? What will Huey do now that their big lead turned out to be a bust?