Warnings: Errors, OOCness, and Cursing. Longer than it usually is.
I don't have much to say this time other than it's time to kick Robert's ass! Also, first paragraph is obviously a recap of the last chapter. Not all of the conversations between the henchmen will be shown in this story, but some will to provide a bit more dialogue. Also, some of the action in this fanfic is a bit different than what's in the game such as more enemies and etc.
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As soon as one of the men poked their head out from the cover, Daniella fired. She nailed him right in the shoulder and he fell back behind cover again, only wounded this time. The other man poked his head out and immediately started firing everywhere at them. Daniella ducked back down as Tess and Joel both popped their heads out, firing at the man. A few shots missed, but a bullet soon went through the bastard's head. The remaining man ran out of his cover, moving closer and towards a different crate. Nathan took a chance to poke his head out at last and he fired three bullets into the man, making him drop to the ground dead.
"Nicely done," Tess commented as she moved out of her crouched position, no longer behind cover. She didn't need to protect herself anymore, at least not at that very moment. Joel, Daniella, and Nathan followed suit before they all, Tess included, placed their weapons back where they belonged.
"You too," Joel responded. He walked over to the corpses of Adrian's men, searching one of them while Tess went to search the one across from him. They searched the corpses in silence. However, Joel did turn his head a few times to eye Nathan. He'd have to thank him later for defending his daughter verbally. Right now, there was a more important matter at hand so being thankful could wait a while.
"That was close," Daniella remarked. "Too close for my liking." She walked up to the corpse of Adrian and kicked it lightly. "Bastard," she mumbled under her breath. She was happy that he was dead, though she wished she had been the one to off him. Nathan strode up beside her and crouched down, searching Adrian's corpse for anything useful. "Find anything yet?" Daniella asked after a moment.
Nathan shook his head. "Nothing, but his gun." He looked to see how much ammo was within it, sighing once he saw. "Four rounds."
"He certainly wasn't ready for a fight," Daniella pointed out. "He would've had more." Nathan nodded in agreement as he removed himself from crouching position, putting Adrian's gun in his bag. Before Nathan started walking over to where Tess and Joel were, Daniella quickly gave him a kiss on the cheek.
Nathan looked at her, a bit confused and a bit surprised. There was no blush in his cheeks, none that Daniella could tell. "What was that for?"
"For defending me in more ways than one," she answered softly. She smiled at him. "In other words, thank you."
Nathan smiled back at her, the smile being a flirtatious one. "Well, you're welcome and all, but I believe you missed~" He spotted the white lily in her hair slightly out of its previous position and he quickly fix it, putting it back in place.
Daniella tilted her head in confusion until Nathan poked his lips with his index finger. She let out a laugh and pushed him away when he tried to lean in. "I don't think so, buddy," she stated heartily, still laughing a bit. "That is for another time and place. A kiss on the cheek is enough for you." She walked past him, heading towards Tess and Joel.
"Damn it," Nathan whispered. He shrugged a bit. "It was worth a shot." He followed after her. He eyed both Joel and Tess as they both became un-crouched. "Did they have anything?"
"Just a few rounds," Tess answered. She had already placed the gun, with the ammo within it, into her bag.
"How the hell did he get all these guys?" Joel questioned. He had finished up zipping his bag, having placed the corpse's gun and ammo in it. Joel looked at Nathan. "How the hell did he get you?"
"I saved his ass," Nathan answered. "He offered me a job I couldn't refuse, up until recently." Nathan's eyes went to look at Daniella before he looked back at Joel. He opened his mouth to speak again, but Tess spoke instead.
"If Robert's good at one thing, it's writing blank checks," she commented before she jogged down the tunnel ahead.
"She's quite correct about that," Nathan stated. "Took the words straight outta my mouth." He walked after Tess, taking Daniella's hand as he went by her and bringing her along with him. Joel huffed before he jogged after them.
Tess fumbled with the fence door, attempting to open it. There was a pipe lodged between two corners of it, keeping it in place. "Shit." She stopped trying and backed away from it. "Not goin' through here."
"Watch and learn, Tess. Watch and learn," Nathan boasted as he let go of Daniella's hand. He went against the wall beside it and turned his back to it, crouching. He winked at Daniella. "Come on, sweet cheeks." Daniella rolled her eyes, her smile remaining, and she stepped into his hands that he held out, getting a boost upwards. She grabbed onto the wall's ledge and pulled herself up. She turned around to see Nathan moving away from the wall. "Who wants to be pulled up first?"
"Does it really matter who goes first?" Daniella questioned. She reached down, waiting for anyone to grab her hand. "We don't got all day, you know."
"Right. Sorry." Nathan strode back to the wall and grabbed her hand. As she pulled him up, his feet connected with the wall and he took that time to walk up it a bit before grabbing the ledge, letting go of Daniella's hand and pulling himself up. He stood up and stood back as he watched Daniella help out Tess next before Daniella moved to be beside him, letting Tess get Joel up there with them. "Good work, beautiful."
Daniella blushed lightly. "Hush." She turned around and watched Joel climb up with Tess's help. "Let's get a move on, peoples."
"Peoples?" Nathan questioned.
"Yep, peoples. It's a word. Look it up in a dictionary whenever you find one," Daniella told him before she turned back around, jogging to the right as she moved through the alley.
Nathan chuckled. "She's something else." He jogged after her before Joel or Tess could have a word with him. Joel and Tess looked at one another, Joel had a frown on his face while Tess had a smile on her face. They didn't say a word to each other, but it was clear what each of them had in mind. The two of them followed after the lovebirds, turning right at the corner. They jogged onward, jumping over an air conditioner before moving right a bit more as they reached some stairs, heading down them. Nathan and Daniella waited by a hole in a fence. "Over here," Nathan instructed even though Joel and Tess were close enough to them.
Without a word, Joel went through the hole first, dropping down and landing in front of a long crate covered in a white blanket of sorts. Tess followed behind, Nathan and Daniella following right behind her one by one. As soon as all four of them were on the grounds of the courtyard, they heard talking and they all ducked down to hide behind the convenient crate, using it as cover. A dark skin-toned man and a light skin-toned man walked out of the building across from them, dressed in typical survival clothing.
"More of Robert's guys," Tess whispered. They were going to have to either sneak by them, kill them soundlessly, or kill them loudly. Whatever got them to Robert quickly.
"Yeah, no shit," Nathan whispered back. He rolled his eyes and reached for his weapon.
Daniella grabbed his wrist. "Would you stop that?" she whispered in question. "You can't always rely on your gun when trouble arrives. We can do this without making a sound." Nathan stared at her, his hand over his gun. "Trust me," she added. Nathan moved his hand away from his gun. "Thank you."
"How do you know they're coming?" the dark male asked his friend as they walked. The two of them were near where Joel, Tess, Daniella, and Nathan were hiding, but they had no clue the four of them were there, listening and waiting patiently to strike.
"Two of our guys died trying to take Tess and Daniella out. Nathan was with our men and seeing as he hasn't came back, he's teamed up with those women. I guarantee that he is leading them and Joel. I guarantee they are on their way here, right now, to get Robert," the light male told his friend.
"Jesus," the dark male stated. "We shouldn't a taken this job." The two of them were now at the far left of the crate the four hid behind, their backs to them.
"Not our call," the light male pointed out. "Let's spread out and make sure no one's creeping around in here." He moved away from the dark male, heading further down the courtyard. The dark male moved slightly before stopping his movements, standing underneath a shelter of sorts. Tess took that time to finally act, creeping up behind the dark man and grabbing him, her hand over his mouth as she shoved a shiv into the man's throat. She released him and he grunted as he hit the groaned, his hands reaching for his neck as he gagged before finally becoming motionless.
Joel started moving to take out the light man whom stood still beside an abandoned white supply carrying truck. As he moved to take out the light man, Daniella and Nathan were creeping towards the building labeled 'Spencer's'. They crouched by the first window of the building, watching as two of Robert's henchmen moved into the very room they were outside of. Inside that room were office supplies and an office desk. Both of the men were similar in color with the previous two, one standing in front of a shelf with his back towards them and the other standing beside the office desk, his back also towards them. Nathan creeped towards the man in front of the shelf while Daniella went for the other, both of them silently strangling the men as they tried to struggle.
"That was easy," Daniella commented out loud after letting go of the unconscious man. "And look." She picked up a key that had fallen from the man's pockets. "He has a warehouse key," she continued, holding up the key as she said it. Joel and Tess entered the building.
Joel looked at the two unconscious men on the floor and nodded. "You two did a fine job."
Daniella smiled, happy with the little bit of praise. "Thanks, Dad."
Joel walked over to his daughter and she held the key out to him. Joel took it and headed towards the door that was in the room. He unlocked the door before tossing the key aside, opening the door and heading through it with everyone following him, entering a garage. Once again, they were forced to hid behind something. Joel and Tess were able to hid behind sacks of supplies, but Nathan and Daniella were forced to quickly sneak across the room, heading by the divider wall and hiding behind a desk.
"Hey, we consolidated the crates in the south warehouse. Supplies are locked up," one of the henchmen in the area stated to another. He wasn't exactly near the four but he was loud enough that they could hear him.
"Good. Let's do another onceover and then head out. It's getting too close to curfew," another henchman replied, responding to the first one that had spoken.
Daniella nudged Nathan's shoulder with her own, making him look at her as she looked at me. "Have they always cared about the curfew?" she whispered.
Nathan shook his head. "No," he whispered in response. "Some of them usually sneak out to do drops and such. It's likely that they only care because they know we're heading this way."
"But we're already here," Daniella pointed out, still whispering. It would be better for them to sneak through the entire warehouse instead of having a shootout.
"I know that, but they don't," Nathan whispered, nodding towards the henchmen outside the building.
"I know that," Daniella whispered back, mimicking him. He glared at her lightly and she just smiled at him. "I was just being a smartass," she added quietly.
"What about Robert?" a henchman suddenly asked, making Daniella and Nathan both look away from each other and towards outside the building. They listened in, interested in hearing what would be said. "Who's he holing up with tonight? Guy's too paranoid to stay here by himself."
"Fuck if I know," a friend of his answered. "We'll check in with the others and come up with something."
Daniella held in a laugh. "I never took Robert as someone who'd ever get scared," she quietly stated.
"You'd be surprised as to how many men can become complete wimps when a certain enemy arises," Nathan quietly told her.
Daniella was about to say something else to him when gunfire sounded. They both looked to see that while Joel had managed to strangle one of the henchmen, he had been spotted doing so. "Shit!" she exclaimed, no longer quiet. She quickly pulled out her gun and moved out of her cover, moving to crouch by the open door that lead outside. She poked her head out as one of the three henchmen in that part of the area ran out in front of her, trying to run into the warehouse. She immediately fired a shot into the gun's neck, making him drop to the ground squirming slightly before he became still.
"Kill them!" one of the five remaining henchmen yelled as he ran behind some cover.
The gunfire did not cease, most of the shooting coming from Robert's men than from Joel, Tess, Daniella, and Nathan. It showed how reckless the henchmen were. Joel and Tess both took down a henchmen while a third headed straight for the side of the garage where Nathan and Daniella were located. "No!" Joel yelled, sprinting after the man. As the henchman prepared to either grab or hit Daniella, she quickly grabbed a bottle that laid by her and hit the man in the face with it, cutting the man with the glass as it shattered. The man fell and Joel got on him, beating the man to unconsciousness or perhaps even to death.
Three more henchmen remained, them being inside of the warehouse. Without a word to one another, the four creeped into the warehouse; Joel and Tess entered the warehouse at the bottom level while Nathan and Daniella went up the stairs, entering the warehouse's upper level. Nathan had entered before Daniella and was immediately attacked by one of the remaining henchmen. Before the man could lay his second punch on Nathan, Daniella pushed the man off of him and raised her gun, pointing it at the man's head and pulling the trigger. The man dropped dead on the ground and Daniella helped Nathan to his feet.
"Thanks," he quickly told her before he pulled himself and Daniella behind cover.
In the lower level of the warehouse, Joel and Tess took turns popping their heads out to located the remaining henchmen. After several moments of looking and no gunfire, Joel and Tess both spotted the men cautiously walking down the stairs to where they were. They looked at each other and nodded before they both jumped out of their hiding place, firing one bullet each into one of the men's head. The men both fell down, sliding down the stairs and landing ungracefully on the solid floor.
Nathan and Daniella moved to another part of the upper level and, after making sure no more henchmen were lurking around, gave Tess and Joel a thumbs up. Tess and Joel lowered their weapons. "We shoulda brought more people," Tess commented.
"More?" Nathan questioned as he walked around the upper floor until he reached the stairs. He headed down them. "I'd say that the four of us did just fine by our lonesome." He looked at the dead men at the end of the stairs, stepping over them. "Glad that ain't me."
"Where's Daniella?" Joel asked. She hadn't came down the stairs yet.
"I'm coming!" Daniella yelled as she jogged around the upper floor. She had been searching for supplies, anything useful. She slowed down when she got to the stairs. "I found a health kit and a shiv. Put 'em in my bag. Nothin' was on the dead guys so we'll need to be more careful with our ammo."
Upon hearing that, Tess checked the two men she and Joel had killed moments ago. She held up two packs of ammo. "Problem solved."
"Slightly," Daniella said. "We'll have to split that as evenly as we can."
After the ammo was evenly handed out, Tess pointed to the overhead door. "The docks are this way. Let's do this." Joel nodded and he gripped the chain to the right of the door, pulling the chain downward so that the door started opening. Once it was opened up enough, the four of them crouched under it and entered the wharf zone. They immediately hid behind a broken wall.
Down below them were quite a few henchmen of Robert's and the man himself. The man in question was wearing a gray jacket with a black button shirt underneath it that was slightly shown due to the jacket being slightly unzipped. Robert's hair was short and brown, his eyes being brown as well. He seemed to be talking to one of his men before he nodded and turned away from the man, revealing his short hair to be in a short ponytail. Robert headed further into the wharf zone.
"There's our boy," Tess commented. "That cocky son of a bitch."
"Let's go wrap this up," Joel commented.
"About damn time," Daniella commented impatiently. "Let's kick his ass."
"And you call me the reckless one," Nathan remarked.
"I never said I was going to be reckless," Daniella pointed out.
"Hmph," Nathan grunted.
The four of them dropped down into the shipyard. Many trailers and crates of supplies were within the area, giving them plenty options of hiding places. Out of unluckiness, their drops down made a loud enough noise that alerted the men closest to them. They wouldn't have been detected but Nathan had pulled his gun out quickly and left the cover, firing multiple shots into each of the men in seconds before he hid within one of the trailers. The men, though wounded, moved behind cover as well.
"You idiot!" Daniella exclaimed. He may be her lover and good friend, but he was still an idiot. She raised her gun that she never put away and began firing at the approaching henchmen. Joel and Tess did the same, moving to different covers.
There were about ten henchmen in the area. Nathan had wounded three of them. Out of all the henchmen, two of them had wooden planks for a weapon. As Joel and Tess fired at the henchmen aiming for them, which was a total of four, one of the men with a melee weapon went around, trying to flank them. Daniella easily took him down with one shot to the head before she quickly went back behind her cover as two henchmen fired at her. Nathan quickly and easily took out the three henchmen he wounded, though it took some time as they constantly moved back behind cover. He looked to see that while one of the men firing at Dani continued to do so, the other stopped and picked up his melee weapon as he moved around cover to cover. Nathan ran at the man and punch him, making the man let go of the wooden plank. Nathan picked it up and beat the man in the head with it until it broke, not caring that the man had died long before he finished beating him. The man firing at Daniella turned his gun to fire at Nathan, but Daniella fired a shot into the man's head, killing him. Finally, Joel and Tess finished off the last of the henchmen.
As they searched the mens's corpses, Nathan went over to Daniella and kissed her cheek. Daniella smiled and tilted her head. "What was that for?" she asked.
"For saving me from being killed. Twice," Nathan answered. "In other words, thank you."
Daniella laughed a bit. "Oh, so you're copying my words now?"
"That's right," Nathan answered with a sly smile.
"Well, in that case, you missed," Daniella told him. She quickly leaned towards him and laid a kiss upon his lips. Surprised, Nathan didn't kiss back or try to keep her close to him as she pulled away just as quickly as she kissed him. "You're welcome," she whispered before walking away from him, heading across the shipyard.
"I. You. Wow," Nathan babbled out, blush slowly appearing in his cheeks. He placed his right hand to his lips and touched them lightly with his fingers. He didn't notice when Joel and Tess approached him.
Tess let out a small laugh. "You alright there, tiger?"
"Huh? What?" Nathan blinked and looked at her. "Uh, yeah. I'm fine. Uh, um, we should be going. Robert might run off if we don't hurry." He quickly moved away from them, heading across the shipyard to where Robert's office was.
"She kissed him," Joel commented. He wasn't pleased.
"That she did, Joel," Tess stated. "Don't give the boy a rough time when he wasn't the one who kissed her first."
"I wasn't going to do anything," Joel denied.
"I'm sure you weren't," Tess said, not believing him for a second. She sprinted after Nathan with Joel following her. Daniella was already at the door and Nathan had only just got to her. "You two ready?" Tess asked them.
"Been ready," Daniella stated.
"Let's do this," Nathan said.
Tess opened the door and entered the small room. At the end of it and towards the left, there was another door and she opened it, immediately moving to take cover against the wall as shots were fired into the room she, Joel, Nathan, and Daniella were in. "We just wanna talk, Robert."
"We ain't go fuckin' nothing to talk about!" Robert yelled as he fired more rounds at the door.
"Put your gun down," Tess instructed calmly. She made sure not to get in the way of gunfire.
Robert attempted to continue firing but he soon realized he was out of ammo. "Go fuck yourself!" he yelled as he ran out the back door of his office after tossing his gun at them.
"He's running!" Tess yelled.
"I can fuckin' see that!" Daniella yelled. She took off after him, followed by the others. Daniella slammed the door open and followed after Robert, keeping up with him as he yelled insults and knocked things in her path. She followed him through the alleyway, into another building, and out of a window. He had been a little bit ahead of her and the others, but they were still able to catch him. He was shaking a fence door, unable to get it open and he had no time to climb over it. Daniella smirked as she watched him attempt to open the fence door a few more times, crossing her arms as she watched.
"You aren't going anywhere, Robert," Nathan stated, smirking as well. He stood beside Daniella.
Robert let out a grunt as he attempted one more time. "Come on." He hit the fence when he finally came to terms that he wouldn't be able to get to the other side of it. He rubbed his face.
"Hello, Robert," Tess greeted, smirking.
Robert turned towards the four of them. "Tess. Joel. Nathan. Daniella, darling. No hard feelings, right?"
"None at all," Tess stated sarcastically as she bent over and picked up a pipe.
"Don't call me darling," Daniella told him.
Robert opened his mouth as if he were going to respond when he broke into a sprint, trying to bolt past them. Tess, having seen that coming, clubbed him in his kneecap causing him to fall over. "Ah, goddammit!" he yelled in pain as he placed his hand on his knee.
Tess tossed the pipe aside as she strode to stand behind Robert. Nathan and Daniella leaned up against the wall, ready to enjoy the show. Daniella had wanted to deal with the bastard herself, but watching her father and her close friend do the job instead was fine by her. Joel remained where he was, waiting for the signal he knew Tess would give him. "We missed you," Tess told Robert.
"Look, whatever it is you heard, it ain't true, okay?" Robert tried to get himself out of the mess he was in. He wasn't ready to die. Daniella scoffed at his attempts and Nathan rolled his eyes. "I just want to say-"
"The guns," Tess interrupted him. "You wanna tell us where the guns are?" she asked him.
Robert gulped. "Yeah, sure, but..." He hesitated to continue for a few seconds. "...It's complicated. Alright?" Tess looked at Joel and nodded. Joel moved towards Robert. "Look, alright, just hear me out on this. I gotta-" Joel kicked him in the face and stood poised to break Robert's arm. Robert's nose bleed and began to purple, showing that it was obviously broken. His right eye was bloody at its corner, bruising immediately appearing as a result; he had a black eye.
"Fuck..." Robert groaned. "Ah, stop, stop, stop!" He panicked when he realized what Joel was doing. It would hurt like hell, he knew that for sure, and he definitely didn't want that just as much as he didn't want to die.
Daniella laughed. "This is going to be fun to watch. Well, more fun." She was really enjoying the moment.
"Can't wait to hear him scream," Nathan commented. "He deserves it."
"Mhm," Daniella agreed.
Tess walked around Robert and Joel. She crouched so she could be in front of Robert's face. She mentally sighed as she noticed he was squirming, trying to get out of Joel's tight grip. "Quit your squirmin'," she told him. "You were saying?"
Robert answered after a few seconds. "I sold 'em."
"Excuse me?" Tess questioned, not liking the answer.
"He's dead," Daniella whispered. Nathan nodded in agreement.
Robert started to explain or at least tried to explain. "I didn't have much of a choice. I owed someone."
"You owed us," Tess pointed out. "I say you bet on the wrong horse." She was clearly angry with him.
"I just need more time. Just gimme a week," Robert begged. He wanted to buy time to get away. Like hell would he give them what they wanted. He just wanted to live.
"You know, I might've done that if you hadn't tried to fucking kill me," Tess stated. She wasn't letting him get away with this like all the other times.
"C'mon, it wasn't like-" Robert tried again to get out of the mess he was in. He had absolutely no chance of surviving the shit he was in.
"Who has our guns?" Tess asked.
"I can't," Robert said, trying to avoid answering the question. "Just gimme a couple days-" He let out a yelp as his arm was broken by Joel. "Fucking..." He let out pain filled grunts. Daniella and Nathan smiled in satisfaction; they quite enjoyed seeing that.
"Who has our guns?" Tess asked again, a bit more aggressively.
"It's the Fireflies," Robert finally answered. "I owed the Fireflies."
"What?" Tess questioned. She definitely didn't like that answer.
"Look, they're basically all dead. We can just... Just go in there, finish 'em off. We get the guns. Whaddya say?" Robert, once again and for the final time, was trying to get himself out of trouble. He was desperate, he wanted out of that mess some way and somehow. "C'mon. Fuck those Fireflies. Let's go get 'em." Nathan and Daniella removed themselves from the wall, scoffing. Tess, Joel, Nathan, and Daniella looked at one another as they stood beside one another again. Robert gulped, hoping that they were considering the idea.
Tess shook her head and looked back at Robert. "That is a stupid idea," she told Robert before she pointed her gun at him, shooting him in the head twice...
Leave a review and stay fabulous, loves! I know that my descriptions in this story aren't very, well, good but I am working on that. It's kinda hard for me to describe the locations and objects within the game, plus the directions in where the characters are going. I'm doing the best I can. Same goes for the looks of characters.
I have a new fanfiction out. "Awakening of the Savior" is an Once Upon A Time fanfiction. If you like that show, feel free to check out that story.
This chapter is about a little over 5,000 words long. I did a good job this time. Worked on this all day long. I really hope you enjoyed it.
