A/N: Alright, so one more chapter to go for all my Lethal Weapon fans, and this entire franchise shall be completed! :) this next chapter is a tiny one compared to the others, but the net one will be slightly longer. I've wrote a lot today (all day) and need a much needed break for the rest of the night. Happy reading guys! Enjoy the cliffhanger. *evil smirk*
Ivy sighed as she held the gold watch in her hand, bringing it up for Emma and Regina to see as they were already at the factory, "They killed Hong, his uncle, and Uncle Benny too. Bodies are in there."
"Where's the rest of the family?" asked Regina, walking along with Ivy and Emma as they headed into another room.
"They're okay." Ivy assured them, "INS raided a Chinese sweatshop. Hong's family was being held there and they led them back here."
Both women greeted the two new cops as Ivy picked up one of the papers where money had been printed.
"Look at this. It looks like they were making funny money. The ink's still wet."
Emma took the paper as she studied it, noticing the missing faces from the Chinese presidents, "Where are the faces?" she asked.
"That's why I call it funny." said Ivy.
Regina held up the paper up against a light as she studied it.
"Why the hell are they making Chinese money?" asked Emma, her eyes looking at the two new cops, "Can they even exchange this stuff here?"
Ing shook his head, "No, only in China. Yanbenbi."
"Emma." Regina called out to the blonde as they walked away from everyone else, "Hong's uncle was an artist. Maybe an engraver. I mean, bringing over his family could've been how he was paid to do the job."
Emma's brows shot up at the realization, "Keep talking. What?"
"Benny said something about buying back his forefathers." replied Regina.
Emma nodded, "That's right."
Both women looked over at Ing as he had asked the brunette to repeat what she had just said about the four father's.
"You said ancestors." said Ing as Regina nodded.
"Yeah, ancestors, forefathers. What's the difference?" she asked.
Ing shook his head, "No, no. The number four. Four fathers. These guys were the top guys of the Hong Kong Triad."
"These guys disappeared from prison. They are gone." spoke the other cop.
"Yeah, Reds jailed them when they took over Hong Kong." said Ing.
"I bet you they're here." spoke Ivy, as she now stood next to the two women.
"Damn, we're good." Emma smiled, looking over at Regina.
"Hey, ten to one, I know where the money is." spoke officer Ing, "Twenty to one, I know where the Four Fathers are. Let me make a call."
"Go with them, but don't leave without us." Emma instructed Belfrey as she followed the other two cops. The blonde looked over at her girlfriend with a victorious smile, "That was good work. You must be a detective."
Regina nodded, playing along, "I have my moments."
Emma stood before two dead bodies that were covered up in white sheets as she uncovered one, looking down at Uncle Benny's corpse, "Uncle Benny. You know, I was actually starting to like the old goat. Bloody Marvelous." she covered him back up as she handed the gold watch back to her girlfriend, which she had been holding.
Regina lifted up the sheet of the corpse that was in front of her as she glanced down at Hong. Sadness taking over her eyes, "I'm sorry, Hong." her voice broke as her eyes watered.
"We gotta go, Gina." said Emma as she made her way inside the passenger side of Ing's car as he went with them. "Alright, Ing. Where are we going?"
"To the harbor." said Ing as Regina was making her way towards the officer's car.
"What's there?" asked the blonde.
"It's what they call a foreign trade zone." he explained over to the blonde as both Ivy and Regina made their way inside his car, as Ing drove off, "There are a lot of shady deals going down with the Chinese military. It's run by a corrupt Chinese general."
"Of course." spoke Regina, "Some corrupt Chinese general brought the Four Fathers here and the Triad's are buying their release."
"So, that's what Uncle Benny meant by buying them back." said Ivy.
Emma nodded, "That general's going to shit kittens when he sees the money's counterfeit."
Regina chuckled, "Yeah. Let's tell him."
Mulan stood before the general, calm and collected as the man ran two bills of the money she had taken over to him through a computer system that would determine if it was fake or not, when Emma came driving in Ing's car, leaving her hand pressed down on the horn as it sounded off, echoing within the harbor.
Head's suddenly turned to glance over at the four officers as they stepped out of the vehicle, Emma smiling sarcastically as she made her way out.
"Hi, gang!" she shouted as she waved in the air happily.
"N.Y.P.D." said Regina, looking over at Mulan as anger was displayed before her eyes, "I saw Hong."
"Say, this is what Benny must have meant by buying the Four Fathers back." spoke Emma, looking over at the four prisoners from before, "I mean look, gang's all here! It's Harpo, Groucho, Chico and Fucko. How are you, boys?" she looked over at the general as her girlfriend stood beside her with a stack of bills in her hand, "And who's a naughty general? Who's been lining his pockets, huh?" she smirked over at the man, "Naughty. Speaky English?"
"What do you want?" the general spoke in perfect English at the blonde.
Emma grabbed a stack of bills from a case that was before her, "See all this? I hope you need a lot of toilet paper back home, cause that's about all it's good for, wiping your ass with it."
Regina smirked, "Yeah, you can take the Four Fathers back to China. We don't give a shit."
Emma chuckled, "She's right. We don't want them here no more." she tossed the fake bills up in the air as they flew everywhere around them, "It's counterfeit. See? Triads never prosper when they try cheating a general." she smirked as she held out the printed paper she kept from the factory, "See for yourself."
One of the general's men walked up to the blonde as he snatched the paper from her hand, handing it over to the general as he inspected it with the bills he still held in his hands. Growing upset as he discovered that Mulan had paid him with money that wasn't money at all.
"There you go. Money losing face. General losing face. Very hard when Triad try to sit on it." she mocked them with her best Chinese accent. Smiling over at Mulan as she glanced at the girl, "I fucked you. I fucked you and it's beautiful." she laughed along with her partner as the other cops smiled at their victory. "Don't we get a hand?" the blonde clapped mockingly, "A round of applause-? Oh, here we go."
Gunfire was soon exchanged as the general shot and killed two of the Four Fathers. All while being shot and killed in the process by one of the cops as well. As Mulan's men shot against the general's men.
Emma ran by, taking cover as she shouted, "Keep your head down, Gina. Let them shoot each other!" she stood up as Regina stood before her, aiming her weapon over her girlfriend's shoulder as she shot down a goon that was about to shoot her in the back.
"Emma, watch out!" Regina shouted, aiming over the blonde's shoulder as another goon was about to do the same with her.
Emma smirked, looking over at the brunette as she realized she was about to get shot as well, had it not been for her, "God, I love you."
Both women took cover separately as shots were still being fired. Mulan took cover, walking in front of her brother, protecting him from any shots that fired their way as she now held out a gun.
"Do you really think this was a good idea?" shouted the brunette over at the blonde.
"Well, it was an idea." replied Emma.
Ivy grunted as she soon felt the impact as a goon jumped on her back, tackling her down to the floor. She headbutted the man by throwing her head back against his nose, as she quickly turned, punching him right in the face. Delivering another punch soon after.
"Eleven in the mag, one in the pipe. You?" asked Emma, still taking cover as she looked over at her girlfriend.
"Six shots." shouted Regina, she quickly fired two shots at a goon that was ready to shoot at her, "Four!" she shouted.
Ivy slammed the same goon she had been fighting against a pipe as she aimed her weapon upward towards another incoming goon, firing three clean shots as his body dropped dead.
Mulan ran up ahead as her brother followed close by. She delivered a high kick to an incoming goon, looking over her shoulder as her brother was hit in the back with a pipe. She kicked over the weapon that flew off his hands as it slammed hard right towards a third goon. She hit goon number 2 over the face with the weapon she held in her hands as she duck down, avoiding being stuck by the first goon as she delivered a hard strike of her own to the man's stomach with the weapon she held.
She sriked them again with her weapon across the face as she quickly delivered a round kick to the goon number one's face, wrapping her leg around his neck in the process as she brought him to the floor, snapping his neck as she kneeled.
"How many do you have?" Emma shouted over at the brunette.
"Two!" Regina shouted as she checked her ammo.
"Alright. I'm going to look for more ammo." Emma made a run for it as shots were fired her way. Taking cover the whole time as one of Mulan's goons was shot dead as he tried to flee, only for the car to end up in the water right after.
Emma aimed her weapon at one of the newest cops on the force, realizing it was Ing as they both took cover, "Hey, that guy with Mulan. Who is he? Why is she so interested in his safety?"
"He's her older brother." Ing informed the blonde, as he took cover.
"No kidding." Emma's brows hit her hairline.
Regina came out from taking cover as she kept her weapon on aim, looking around for anyone that might try to shoot her.
"Get down!" Ivy shouted as she spotted a goon ready to shoot the brunette in the back, leaping right behind her as she pushed her body down to the floor. A shot was heard as Ivy grunted in pain as she had now been shot.
Regina dragged Ivy to the nearest cover as the girl grunted in pain, feeling her skin burn from where she had been shot, "Hey, Ivy. Ivy?"
Ivy grunted, "Now you call me by my first name." her eyes tightly shut as she broke into a sweat due to the pain, "I've never been shot before."
Regina looked over at Ing who was running towards their direction, "Hey, Ing!" she looked down at Ivy as the man ran towards them, "Take care of my daughter in law." she ran off as the officer stayed with the younger brunette.
Mulan pushed her brother out of the way as giant containers were pushed towards them, as the blonde drove a forklift, surprising them both. Mulan's brother was hit by one of the containers as the girl was quick enough to take cover as she held piles of blanks over her head. She quickly rolled her body against the forklift as Emma rammed her body against more containers.
The blonde quickly dismounted the forklift as Mulan quickly jumped out from behind the fallen containers as she delivered a hard kick to the blonde's face. Emma's body flying back against the floor.
Emma blocked another incoming kick this time as she threw herself against Mulan, grabbing a hold of the girl's waist.
Regina aimed her weapon right at Mulan from afar, as she witnessed her fighting against Emma. The blonde grunting in pain as Mulan striked her twice as she fell to the ground.
Regina fired the shot. Only to miss as Mulan moved back, quicker than the bullet itself. That being her mistake as her eyes grew wide at the sight of that same bullet hitting her brother's heart. She ran quickly up to him as his hand pressed down on his wound.
Regina fired another shot, only for her gun to click as it was now empty. "Emma!" she ran up to the blonde as she was still lying on the floor, head looking up at the brunette as Mulan and her brother made a run for it.
Regina reached for her girlfriend's hand as she pulled her up to her feet, "Are you alright?"
"No, I'm not alright, I got my ass kicked again." said Emma as they walked towards the same direction Mulan had with her brother.
"I shot one of them. I thought I had missed, but I hit him. Where did they go?" asked the brunette.
Mulan was dragging her brother along as he was badly injured, while Emma and Regina weren't far behind as they stopped in front of three different ways they could have gone through.
"Alright, so we have door number one, number two, or number three." said Emma, pointing towards all three directions as Regina looked down at red drops of blood, leading towards way number two.
"Looks like door number two." said the brunette as Emma nodded.
"Let's go."
Mulan had worry in her eyes as her brother collapsed on the floor before her. She held onto him, not allowing his body to hit the floor as he passed away in her arms from the gunshot wound.
Emma and Regina were now soaking wet as it began to pour rain around them. Both women looking over at Mulan who was still kneeling by her now dead brother.
"Well, now you've done it." Emma spoke, her eyes focused on the girl, "Now she's really pissed."
"She's going to be a handful, Emma." Regina looked over at her girlfriend, "Since I met you, I've done some pretty crazy things. But, this is not going to happen." she continued as the blonde looked into her eyes, "Henry might make me a grandmother, and we are having a new baby soon. She's not worth dying for, Swan. She's just not worth it."
Emma nodded, looking into the brunette's eyes as she knew Mulan was a tough one. She really didn't want to do this. She wanted to be cuddled up with the brunette anywhere but here.
"Yeah, you're right." Emma looked over at Mulan as she continued, "Hell, if she gets away later, we'll track her down like we always do. Ivy is bleeding after being shot. We should really go check on her and just get the hell out of here. Plus, it's raining."
Regina nodded as she walked a few steps away with the blonde, "Yeah. The girl's too damn good anyway."
Emma stopped in her tracks as she looked over at the brunette before her, "Well, yeah, she's damn good. I mean, how the hell did she do that thing with the gun? How?" she looked over at Mulan who was now standing on her own two feet, ready and willing to kill them both for the death of her brother, "I mean she took my gun apart with one deft move. How did she do that?"
Regina looked into the blonde's eyes, seeing the determination in them to finish this job once and for all so they can just go right home after. Wherever that may be now. She knew the blonde didn't want to allow her to get the best of her. Not like this. She wanted it to end just as well.
Regina quietly sighed, nodding, "Let's go ask her."
Both women began walking up to Mulan as she walked up to them a few steps, giving them both a deadly glare as she was ready to end this whole thing as well.
And, Regina, well she didn't learn to fight for nothing. It was going to be a tough fight, but at least her and Emma were together, and if she has learned anything after years of being partnered up with the love of her life is that together, they could win this.
They had to.
