Death in the desert ch. 14: Ghosts of the past and present
A/N: I do not own ECDB only my OCs. Any reviews will be nice and back to darkness we will go
As the group all pulled into the farm Juan sat back and lit a smoke and muttered
"Well I can't believe that we had leveled a building and made sure that the bridge across the river is now a floating heap of scrap metal" and Rita smiled but it quickly traded to fear as the gravel road started to crack warning them that a vehicle was coming and Indigo walked out with a bit of a hurry and two HK417s and a HBAR automatic rifle tossing them to Juan, Taylor and Randi while she slung her shotgun out as everyone else pulled firearms and hid except for Rita and Elis, both of whom at that point really could give a damn less what happened to them.
"Well Vato why the fuck did you show up here and really do you have a fucking death wish?" Rita spat as one of the attackers walked forward with a Husqvarna chainsaw and put it to Rita's neck yelling
"You have broken all the rules of natural order and think that the government will save you, you bitch?!" and Juan walked up and put a pistol to the man with the chainsaws head and thumbed the safety back and laughed saying
"Well if you really want your brain and skull to part company then you will try and activate that chainsaw but all I have to do is tap and goodbye puta" and seeing the chainsaw drop to the ground Rita took off and gave the others a clear line of fire and the HBAR started to talk and slowly the other guns got in on the conference which forced the attackers back. Seeing the chaos going on around them Juan muttered
"I swear to god I will help kill them all" as Rita started crying at her brush with death. As he loaded up the truck Taylor held Rita and whispered to her telling her everything would be fine and they would get revenge on the attackers. Quickly he turned the engine over and saw everyone jump in the back or in the cab, and he cranked up the radio on his Chevy pickup he had stolen after murdering the militia trying to convert it into a technical. Seeing the trucks bed full of pissed off gunslingers all geared up he slowly started prowling the roads until he found the perfect spot for an ambush. Quickly turning off the engine he grabbed the M2 .50 caliber machine gun and 2 M240 LMGs and helped the others get camouflaged except Rita, who he helped dress as slutty as possible. As she pulled her jacket open revealing her chest he asked
"Are you sure you want to do this because I could just create an interference to make them slow down before we mowed them down" and she said on the verge of crying
"My reasons for doing this are personal so please just understand" and he nodded and grabbed his iPod before sitting behind the .50 and slamming the charging handle to the rear dragging a M20 round into the breach and a M8 right behind it with the rest being APIT and explosive rounds and he watched and waited like an angel of death and pulled down a skull mask to further strike fear into any survivors, not that there would be many but just on the off chance. Seeing a truck that looked like a Mexican army convoy Juan signaled for the group to make ready and saw that they were in fact cartel when they tried to kidnap Rita and he screamed "FIRE!" and like that the gates of hell were opened on to the field. As he held the paddles on his 50 down Juan saw the explosions from ammo and fuel turn the sky around the convoy black as midnight. As they took off running Richard and Nadie both burned the bodies and the cars and she laughed saying
"I didn't get the chance to say my catchphrase" and she looked a little sad at that. Grabbing the gasoline he had brought Juan dosed the bodies and cars before writing in blood
"Ordo ad chao" on the closest car and took off with Nadie and Indigo, as well as nightshade being the last 4 to clear the one sided battle. Making it back to the trucks and seeing the 50 was already loaded up and safed, Juan smiled and jumped back into the driver's seat as Nadie hopped into her jeep and grabbed Elis before saying
"Gonna grab some ice cream for the group and meet back at the ranch" and Juan nodded before tearing off back to the ranch where the group would go back over the event and Juan would learn much more than he bargained for. As soon as he pulled up Juan slammed it in park and looked at Indigo and Taylor before asking
"Ok fucking spill why the hell you two were so open to death sabotaging a cartel convoy? And leave nothing out that's an order" and both girls lit up the pack of cigarettes Juan had passed them and having lit the smokes seeing the dull orange ember he snapped, instantly softening his tone
"Now what the hell lead up to your involvement because I care about you two" and what he heard hit him like a ton of bricks.
"I had been at school and I had gotten a call from my mom and it said I needed to come home right away" and Taylor took a breath and gulped down a slug of vodka and continued saying
"The phone call told me to leave right away and as I ran from school and started to hit my stride to get to the neighborhood I felt myself get picked up and thrown in the back of a van and driven to a darkened warehouse where I was tortured and left for dead." And Taylor slid her shirt up revealing a scar on her side and stomach as well has the aftermath of chemical burns. Seeing that Juan started to cry before saying
"I'm sorry I taught them those methods when they were Special Forces and it should have ended with a murder" and Taylor let a grim smile and said
"Well it would have had they not tried raping me and someone then burned the drug lab sending them running" and Indigo saw the half smirk of the day him and his unit burned the lab to the ground and Indigo started crying and said
"I was attacked by the cartel and was in the wrong place at the wrong time and when the tattoo parlor I worked at was shot up as the cartel was pissed at the guy for something and I was drugged and tortured in a similar fashion to my cousin and got dropped off in a field near the school that you guys found me in" and Juan slammed his fist onto the dash and yelled to Richard and Randi as well as Nadie
"We have a target and a very personal HVT and so gear up brother we have to get revenge for our family" and they all saw his eyes as hardened as granite and he grabbed his old Special Forces gear and said
"We know where he located so let's go torture and murder that son of a bitch" and with that a two vehicle convoy of a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a model 998 Humvee gun-truck, both of them bristling with enough firepower to ruin everyone's day and as they pulled over overlooking the area closest to the compound and loaded the crew from the Humvee, and the M939 which was doubling as a battering ram. Ramming the gate with the 'porcupines', which the heavily armed vehicles were dubbed by the unit, the dual .50 calibers on the 5 ton truck and the mini gun on the Humvee all blared as the other weapons including the MK47 grenade launcher all but leveled the compound.
"CEASE FIRE I SAY AGAIN CEASE FIRE!" Juan yelled before they all burst in and finished the attack with HK417s and other automatic weapons. Turning around as the victims were drug to the back and were tortured with acid on the hands and wire and electricity on the limbs all under the watchful eyes of Indigo and Taylor, both of whom wanted revenge. Putting a bullet into the men's heads as they screamed in terror the group all backed up and burned the compound. As the group all left a large crowd saw the cars the cartel had.
Mistaking them for police the civilians threw rocks at them and the group saw Indigo run up and place two pipe bombs under the cars and set them off causing the wounded to yell
"Just typical cops harassing the locals and breaking us to their will" and slowly the screams stopped and the dead were loaded into ambulances and as they drove away the group left and Juan smiled saying
"Fuck everything and send them all to hell" and simultaneously 6 ambulances exploded causing more deaths and the group said, pulling into the base
"Well it is done and Indi you know we could have just shot them all to death and had the same thing and yes I know they were all in on the attacks so lets go first rounds on Randi" getting her growling before smiling and Nadie saw the mood lighten and the others all get the best night of sleep they had in a while.