It's Saturday morning in Beacon Hills, the day has finally arrived. Over at town hall, Armando discusses a plan with all of his top lieutenants in the meeting room; four figures sat before him at the conference desk, each with a strong personality reflected in their attire.

"Lydia, Cross, Zembra, and Rance…you four are the pillars of which my empire will grow; we'll expand this empire starting today."

A guy dressed in a blood red jacket, white t-shirt, and black boots with jeans yawned loudly. "Cut to the chase boss, exactly why have you summoned us again…you already gave us our objectives."-Looking around the room and seeing someone is missing-"where the hell is sea monkey boy?"

"Ah, Giovanni...He's not here…but it's fine. I know he's already on the same page as me, so I can count on him."

"Fine…but exactly why did you summon us?"

"Don't worry Cross, I already heard a little from Li…It has something to do with a girl" said Lydia, crossing her arms with disinterest and raising her right eyebrow with her eyes closed; she was dressed like a classic Mafiosa in a black suit and tie with a matching fedora, her vest slightly unbuttoned at the top, .

"Well it seems Li informed you on the correct topic…"-said a creepy man rubbing his hands together with malice-"I specialize in this field, what sort of nasty methods of torture are we talking?"

"There's nothing more revolting than hearing you speak"-the lady pushes her glasses up to her face, showing Rance a cold stare-"please remember there are others here."

"What's wrong, Zembra? You don't agree with my interests?" he said with his eyes bulging out as he stuck out his long and disgusting tongue.

"Don't come near me, stay over there or else I'll spill your blood across these walls."

"Now now, no fighting…"-he grows a mischievous smile-"Yesterday, A girl attempted to attack me here. Of course Li defeated her with ease, but I'm intrigued by her courage to try and strike me down."

"So what..."

"As far as I know, I have no previous interaction with her. It's very strange for just some random independent to attempt such a bold action. I just wanted to show you her before we continue."

"Bring her out!" Rance said with haste.

Armando called out to Li, who dragged Bianca with her; Bianca had bruises covered all over her body, handcuffed, with dark circles under her eyes and her mouth taped shut. She glared at everyone as she got to up to her knees. Rance walked over to her, slowly peeling the duct tape from her mouth. He exhaled, spreading his gross breath; she coughed in response, looking away.

"I had to roughen her up since she wouldn't spit out why she's here." Said Li; Armando took a good look at his lieutenants.

"This girl had foolishly tried to attack me, you see the results. Let this be a warning to any of you that plan to run away…you won't escape my grasp."

"What about Linguini? Haven't heard anything about him since his abduction…"-Lydia said, cutting Armando off before he could add any more empty threats.

"Well that is also an issue in its own way, but leave that to me."

"What do you plan on doing?" said Zembra, with slight concern.

"Well I plan on leaving the area today, since it should get bloody and brutal and I want no risk in it. I've left a massive load of G.P.A in your weapons locker at your different landmarks, so you should be more than fine with defending. And for my actions regarding Linguini…let's just say he has quite a beautiful family."

"I hope you don't plan on doing something unspeakable to that man's family." Cross said with a stern look, his arms crossed as he stared at Armando.

"Of course not!"-Putting his hands up-"I know how well of friends you were with Linguini and his family…I wouldn't dare want to upset you Mr. Army man."

"So is that all?" Zembra asked.

"Well, in the case that there should be any disruptions…I want you all to help and defend whoever is nearby."

The others don't look pleased with his decision to flee the problem that he created, and of the questionable action on Linguini's family, nor with the idea of helping one another. But they have loyalty to the family and therefore had no say in the matter. They all nod their heads and exit the building, each cursing Armando under their breath.

Armando walks over to Bianca and grabs her by her "hair" and then pulls her over to a wall, "I wonder who you must be…"

At Sally's house, she stares at the mirror with anger; she's still upset that Reice never told her the truth that was going on, it really hurt her to know that Reice would seriously hide something like that. She leaves the bathroom and goes to her room to polish her two guns, both of which she received from her father as a defense weapons in case a break in would happen if she was home; the two guns were her splatchine gun and SSG(small splatchine gun). Sally heard a rhythmic knock at the door and rushed over to answer, opening the door and seeing an ecstatic Hatsunika before her-dancing with a giant smile.

"Jazz hands…!"-Hatsunika said, immediately doing the jazz hands-"Ready to go?" she asked; the two were going out to eat at the nice man's restaurant that they helped yesterday, but Sally's usual beaming aura had dissolved and been replaced by one with fury.

"What's wrong?" Hatsunika asked, tilting her head to the side.

"It's a personal issue…remember how I have a brother who came from a crazy family?"

Hatsunika thought for a second, "Yeah, his name was Reice…what about him?"

"He's involved in the war that's about to happen…"

Hatsunika leaned back with shock, "What…!? Then shouldn't we try to stop him?"

"It's no use, all I can hope for is that his resolve wont waver…"-staring off into the distance with her dead eyes-"because I surely won't."

Hatsunika stared at her with worry; she'd never seen Sally look like that. Sally notices Hatsunika's reaction and realized that she was showing too much heavy emotion. She placed her hand on Hatsunika's shoulder and gazed into her eyes, "I'll be fine…" she said with a gentle smile; Hatsunika breathed heavily as she backed away, blushing with a nervous smile. Sally's oblivious to Hatsunika's feelings, unaware that Hatsunika had developed feelings for her since they began hanging out. Sally brings her two guns with her, alarming Hatsunika, but reassuring her that the guns are for a safety measure since today was expected to be the day the war would begin.

Reice, his sisters, the old man and Jiudaus were packed in their car and ready to begin their mission: help wreak havoc on the town. Reice was sitting in the passenger seat this time, looking at his phone-ready to send a text message to the group chat; no one had been there for about a week.

Marigold peeked over his shoulder with dead fish eyes, "I hope you know that I told Big Sis Sally."

A shiver runs down Reice's spine, "W-what…?"

"I told her…" she said with a darkening face and devilish grin; Canary giggled.

Sweat dropped down Reice's face; he knew just how much honesty meant to Sally-especially when it came to their sibling relationship. Surely she must not be happy with my decision, he thought, After all, she hates my family.

Jiudaus was driving, "Hey, here's the plan. We'll plant the sticky bombs on a number of buildings and then detonate them all at once, and then we'll shoot-up a couple a stores and maybe a restaurant or rob a bank."

"They didn't say anything about robbing a bank…"said the old man.

"What's the point of me doing this unless I get a payday?" he retorted.

"Fair point…"

Since Reice didn't want Marigold and Canary to do anything too dangerous, they'd be tasked with planting bombs along with the old man; Reice and Jiudaus would do the shooting and robbing. They arrived into the southern town, the first of the two densely populated areas in Beacon Hills. Then, they stopped over at a mall; the first target. Marigold, Canary, and the old man got out and entered the mall. They planted sticky bombs all across the hidden and blind spots, making sure no one would spot them.

"So your parents…do you know how they're gonna attack?" Jiudaus said, tapping his fingers on the steering wheel.

"Well, they wanted to attack the Sororia's by striking down town hall. Dad feels like if the mayor is attacked, maybe it'll draw them out since the mayor is the leader o this to-"-His phone rings, the id is unknown-"Hello?"

"Is this Reice?" asked a male through the phone.

"Speaking…"

The male identified himself as a member of the S.I.A.T and told Reice what happened to Bianca and of the message that she had for him, giving him the location of where Armando was. Reice was stunned by the news! He did notice that Bianca hadn't returned to the hotel, nor did he get one of her flirtatious morning messages-he never thought that she might be in danger, though. He called his parents-who were still at the pub- and told them where Armando's location was, and his parents immediately took off to that location. Thatch told him that he and his unit would chase after Armando and rescue Bianca, and Reice told him that he'll meet up with them as soon as he possibly could.

"We have to go!" Reice hurried.

"Wait, at least let us shoot up some place first…we gotta reel em out right?"

Reice sighed heavily, shaking his leg with anxiousness. The others returned and they drove off, detonating the bombs and blowing up the mall. Fire blasted high as debris flew everywhere, the terrified screams of hundreds of people in the burning building forced Reice to close his eyes; he didn't want to do this, but he had to for Violet and now for Bianca. He looks down at the car floor and saw the lethal weapons: a pistol and splattershot loaded with G.P.A bullets. Jiudaus steps on the gas pedal and the cars screeches as it burns rubber and speeds off, making a sharp drift as he exits the plaza.

Santiago got a message from one of his underlings that the mall was bombed; the mall was on his turf, and so whoever did this was looking to pick a fight with the faction. He initially thought it was Armando, but he realized that Armando wouldn't blow up a mall-he'd do way worse. He looked around his crowded house and saw the large numbers he had with him, added with Linugini and his family as new recruits. Linguini had no choice but to tell his wife the truth, but luckily she already had an idea and accepted it; she and her kids had already made friends with the various friendly family of the Sororia's.

"It's the Galloway's! They're here!" he yelled, "I want Violet, Fuchsia, Marco and Mario to go to the South point mall and check out what happened."-He pointed at some other men and then called out to Nina -"We'll take down Armando ourselves, so let's head over to his house and finish this mess; Giovanni, your unit are to take down the G.P.A location. The rest of the units are to take down their smaller assignments! Linguini, you'll lead the attack against their artillery!"

Everyone scattered about and hopped into the cars and filed out, everyone splitting up to do their own detailed mission. Mario was the driver with Marco sitting next to him; Marco was manually assembling his gun. Violet and Fuchsia both were stone faced; this was the moment they'd been waiting for since they got here.

"It looks like we won't be able to stop this from happening…" Fuchsia remarked, turning her attention to Violet, who stares off into the distance.

"As long as that drug doesn't get used on the civilians, then it will be a huge success…" Mario said, speaking to her from the rear view mirror.

"Yeah, that 'drug' is quite the destructive one. It's a miracle if it doesn't show up today."

They arrive at the mall a few moments later, seeing the entire place burned to complete ashes. They look around, seeing that many were being tended to by the ambulance and fire department. The fire chief gave them the thumbs up and told them that they rescued everyone. Violet looks around for any clues and finds tire marks on the ground, "They're fresh…" she said, calling her uncle over afterwards.

"So the culprit must not have gotten far, we can still catch them." Marco said, feeling the hot asphalt and looking up at Mario.

"I found more over here!" shouted Fuchsia over by the exit, "It looks like they made a sharp turn before they exited, making a right turn after!"

"So they must be heading north toward the main town…we need to get there!" Mario said, telling everyone to get back in the car.

At the restaurant, Hatsunika and Sally were sharing a smoothie while they waited for their food to come; the two were sitting next to each other with Hatsunika trying her best to get cozy with her, Sally misinterpreted it as Hatsunika just being very friendly. The restaurant had glass windows all around; the interior was fancy with leather red booths and polished mahogany wooden tables. The two girls were sitting at a booth next to a wall that blocked them from the windows.

The owner of the restaurant passed by them and asked them if they were enjoying themselves. He told them a joke, making the girls laugh, and then he told them that their food will soon be ready.

"So where are you going after this?" Sally asked.

"More than likely I'll be heading back home to Coral Reef County on the east coast. My manager's probably going to want me to be back there soon…I'm supposed to be working on a new album, we'll be collaborating with a bunch of artists."-Puckering her lips-"you could still join us if you want…"

Sally put a finger on her lips and pushed her away-giggling, "Sorry, but that's a no. I have to be with my friends."

Hatsunika snapped her fingers, "darn it…"

Sally smiled gently and closed her eyes as she thought about her friends, about how it would be to compete again with them. She heard the sound of a car suddenly pulling up into the parking lot.

"Get down!" she told Hatsunika, bringing her under the table with her; Hatsunika asked her why, but she didn't get an answer.

In an instant, guns blazed. The windows were melting from the bullets that shot them down, with many people getting killed. Glass flies everywhere as the sounds of the guns reloaded; people were screaming in agony as their skin burned. Another round of shots was fired with many of the expensive furniture melting. Chaos and panic filled the room with everything beginning to melt, and the suspects fled right afterwards, leaving everyone to die.

Sally was holding Hatsunika the entire time, protecting her; the poor girl was shivering in fear. As Sally got up, she saw the piles of bodies scattered across the floor with severe burns and wounds. As Hatsunika got up, tears began to fall after seeing the mess; Sally runs into the kitchen and saw most of the chefs and other workers were fine and asked for their assistance. The owner was also unharmed; he'd just call for emergency services. Sally's gentle expression changed, and was replaced with one sought after revenge.

"Stay here…" she told Hatsunika in a serious tone.

"Where are you going?"Hatsunika asked, concerned; Sally's eyes were filled with fury.

"I'm following them; I'm going to make whoever did this pay!"

"B-but the people here…"-pointing around to the many injured victims.

"Please aid as many of them as you can, help is on the way. I can't let those dudes get away with this!"-sprinting off and getting into Hatsunika's car and driving off in chase after the suspects, her hands firmly grasping the steering wheel as the red convertible roared its engine, picking up speed. She reaches behind the seat and grabs her SSG, getting ready to shoot the car once she found it.

She noticed one old black car swerving through traffic, in-and-out. "Gotcha!" she said with a glint in her eye, pressing the gas pedal harder and speeding up.

"Hey, some Red car is following is us!" said Jiudaus, maneuvering around a transit van.

"I'm on it…" said Reice, sticking his head out the window and shooting the Red convertible.

Sally avoids the bullets, driving around the transit van and getting within a good distance to shoot; Reice looks harder and saw the scary person sitting in the driver's seat, quickly sitting down with his heart racing.

"What's wrong?" Jiudaus said, but Reice didn't answer; Reice was having a panic attack.

Marigold and Canary looked back to sneak a peek and saw the same scary figure as Reice. Both girls' faces turned white, and their bodies got cold.

"That looked like Reice, Marigold and Canary…those idiots better not have been the ones!" Sally drove even closer and saw all three of them hiding their face and trembling; she yelled their names loudly with authority and all three reacted, burying their head in their arms. A massive vein grew out her head as she glared at them, ramming the car into the back bumper.

"YOU GUYS ARE SO DEAD!" she yelled, ramming the car again; she no longer was showing mercy. Reice and his sisters were all making prayers to the Great Kraken, all thinking they're about to die.

Juidaus made a sharp turn and swerved into oncoming traffic, and then drove off road; Sally followed them immediately, ignoring all the honking horns. "We're going to die!" cried Riece, burying his head in his hands-"I've never seen her so angry…she's as scary Azule!"

"Azule…?" everyone said in unison.

"He's another scary person like the one chasing us."

They kept driving through the rough trail and found themselves even closer to the main town. They unknowingly took a shortcut and were now back, but sally was still hot on them.

Violet and her team passed by a restaurant that had a bunch of ambulance's there treating people and they pulled over. They all got out and saw Hatsunika Miku standing there, helping some of the victims. They all wanted her autograph, but knew the seriousness of the situation. Violet and Fuchsia decided to approach her since she was around their age.

"Um…are you Hatsunika Miku?" they said together; she nodded her head, staring into her eyes.

"What happened here?" Violet asked; Hatsunika looked so traumatized that she didn't want to answer.

"I-it happened so sudden, bullets were flying everywhere…people were dying. I've never seen anything like this…"

"Do you know who did this?" Fuchsia asked.

"Sadly no, from where I was sitting, I couldn't even notice a car had drive by…Sally noticed instantly and told me to get down. "-putting her hand to her chest-"Then after the chaos, she went off after them…I hope she's safe."

Violet and Fuchsia looked at each other, and then raised an eyebrow at one another. "Sally…?" they said together, tilting their heads to the right.

"Yeah, Salmona Walleye…she's got Salmon pink tentacles, beautiful eyes and a cute laugh." Hatsunika said; the two looked at each other wide-eyed.

"That's our Sally!" they said in sync.

"Huh?" she replied with confusion.

"How do you know Sally!?" Violet asked.

"Are you friends with her?" added Fuchsia.

"Yes, we met almost a week ago…who might you two be?"

"I'm Violet and she's Fuchsia."

Hatsunika gasped with a huge smile and her eyes shaped like stars, "You're Violet and Fuchsia!?"-Jumping and hugging them both-"I've heard so many wonderful things about you!"

"It's great to be in a small world, but we need to find out who did this!" Violet said, forcing her off.

"I saw Sally chasing after them, they went north…"-she paused and then grabbed them both by the arms-"can I come along? I want to know if Sally's safe."

"Sure, I don't see why not…" said Violet, and Fuchsia nodded in agreement. They all got in the car and went north in the direction of Reice and Sally.

Somewhere in town, Li drives Armando and Bianca to the home of Linguini in search of his family. As they arrive at a nice cream and white suburban home just outside of town, Armando got out the car and left Li and Bianca-who's still handcuffed, but no longer had tape on her mouth since she hadn't made any attempt to resist anymore. Armando walks up the three steps and knocks on the door, but he gets no answer; he does so repeatedly. After getting no response for a couple minutes, he puts on brass knuckles and punches through the white door-unlocking it from the inside.

"Excuse the intrusion…" he whispers, entering the home.

He looked around and saw everything was gone with no furniture, pictures, or even a TV in sight! He walked through all the rooms and saw each cleaned out, not a single trace. He went upstairs into the bed rooms and saw not a single thing left in any of the rooms.

"Damn it…" he said under his breath, "That bastard skipped out! He knew I was after him!"

He rushed back to the car and ordered Li to head out of town. They need to escape to Flounder Heights, he said, explaining to her that if Linguini was alive and with the Santiago faction, then he'd more than likely give away the location of both his home and the town hall and try to turn the tables.

"But I heard from news reports of a shooting and a bombing already…I'm sure the Galloway's have arrived and are making their presence known."

"So that makes it all the better to escape; we'll leave the work to the others…"

Bianca laughed with excitement, "What's wrong? Are you getting cold feet?"

Armando glares at her, "Shut up! I'll wipe that smirk as soon as we get into Flounder Heights! You'll be pleading for mercy when I'm done with you."

Bianca shot back a cold glare, "You won't get the chance to. You'll be stopped long before you can touch me."

The two exchanged glares as they took the route to get to Flounder Heights; they were closer to the bottom of the main town of Beacon Hills, and in order for them to get to Flounder Heights, they'd have to cross through town and possibly pass through the hills.

At an old warehouse deep in town, Lydia is with her unit organizing the entire inventory; Cross was with her as back-up with his team. Lydia was guarding the G.P.A drug, the most important task out of all the lieutenants in the Armando faction. Cross was there after receiving orders from Armando to assist Lydia, much to her displeasure. They both were towards the back of the warehouse, watching the workers pack up the drugs into crates to put into the big trucks that sat right at the entrance.

"So it seems like things are starting to pick up…The Galloway's are in town and the Santiago faction is also making their presence known." Cross said, sitting on the hood of his hot rod of a classic candy green sports car. "I've been meaning to ask you, exactly why did you take our side?"

"Who cares?" Lydia responded-leaning on the railing, "It shouldn't be of your concern."

Cross raised an eyebrow while peering at her, "Oh really? I just thought it'd be nice to know why you chose this faction. I remember back before Santiago was imprisoned that you had quite the close relationship with many of the current members of the enemy faction…including that annoying pretty boy. "

Lydia sighed and rolled her eyes, "I picked this side because it had more rewards to offer, much more power and leverage than Santiago's faction…"-taking out a cigarette and lighting it for a smoke-"But all of my friends, my true comrades…are aligned with Santiago. But to me, none of that sappy stuff matters…what matters is gaining wealth, power, and immortality in this place. If I stay by Armando's side long enough, I'll reap the benefits."

"So you chose this faction out of greed…you chose greed over your relationships? How disgusting!" his eyebrows slant with repulse to her comment.

She takes a deep puff, "Didn't say I was proud of it. But I chose to do what I had to do."

"I always knew you were one with a bad attitude…you never smiled. When you did, it was with that shady Giovanni. You do the complete opposite of what's expected of you, always going against orders. And to top it off, you're only in this for greed!? The others and I work our asses off for Armando because we firmly believe in his rhetoric of destruction! He's got a vision that's too enticing to turn away from…but you show no interest in that either!? Exactly why are you here?"

She looks at him disdainfully-throwing her cigarette on the floor and stomping it out, "Since when have you become my dad?"-putting her hands in her jacket pocket-"Keep in mind that we're equals, and I have no problem in blasting your military-sergeant head straight off! So shut up and do your damn job instead of playing friends with me."

Cross stares at her with a sharp glint, "My years in the army taught me that there are many things that we as inklings shouldn't ever see…watch your mouth, or else I'll wipe it clean with my own two hands."

"Hey, don't give me a life lesson. I don't need it." She said holding her hands up and closing her eyes with disinterest.

At that very moment, a bunch of cars pulled up at the entrance; the cars looked very familiar to the black cars that were already parked there except that the windows were tinted black. Lydia and Cross look on with curiosity as to who the driver of the first car might be more reinforcements? Rance and Zembra? No, couldn't be them since they were at guard together for the artillery and both drove very distinct cars that reflected their personalities; a white pant leg stepped out the passenger seat. Lydia's face turned stone as she saw who it was, seeing a very familiar face with one very smug look on his face.

"Oh honey, I'm home!" said Giovanni in a teasing tone, growing a huge smile as he saw the flustered expression on Lydia's face.

"What the hell are you doing here!? Where've you been you idiot!" she said, her voice growing louder with emotion as he approached them with a bright smile-closing his eyes and nodding his head from side to side.

"Did you miss me?" he said in a mocking tone, brushing past Cross and going right into Lydia's face.

"Damn right I did!"-Slapping him across the face-"Things have been boring since you decided to take a ditch and skip out!"

Cross studied Giovanni carefully, observing the cars parked in the entrance to the warehouse-seeing no one else exit the cars. He turned toward Giovanni, "Who's in the car…?"

"No one important…" he replied, slightly glaring at Cross.

"So you don't mind if I check it out?" coldly looking at Giovanni; Giovanni smiles slightly-laughing under his breath.

"By all means, go ahead." Making a gesture with his hands; Cross got up and slowly walked over to the car that Giovanni emerged from, his gun in hand.

At the same time as Cross approached the car, Lydia got a call from Zembra; the only person in the faction that she liked. She answers, and gets a frantic Zembra on the other line; gunshots can be heard in the background accompanied by howling of dying men.

"We've been attacked…!" Zembra screamed, shots firing afterwards; Lydia's puzzled, standing still with shock as Zembra continued. "They've attacked us! First, Rance and I were quarreling…then out of nowhere…a gas bomb released the drug! Now we're struggling!"-More gunshots are heard-"Stay safe! Some might be heading your way!" abruptly hanging up; Lydia stared at her phone, trying to process everything.

She looked up suddenly, realizing what was going on. But before she could scream the warning to Cross, Giovanni already covered her mouth and wrestled her to the floor, alerting all the workers before them. A gunshot is heard, and it's Giovanni who's been shot dead in the chest; all the workers and members of the faction are in disarray as multiple members of the Santiago faction emerge forward, followed by Chase Galloway and his huge unit of men. The shootout ends quickly as the alliance kill all the workers and members with the G.P.A bullets, burning the flesh off their victims.

Lydia lies on the floor, in horror as she hears all of her men dying a slow and painful death. She trembles as Giovanni brings his lips closer to her ear-whispering, "Make one noise, and you'll be sorry."-In a very frightening voice, putting his cold and hard hands on her soft face.

Chase walked over to them, holding a wooden bat. "You might be asking in your head why this has happened, yes…?"

It all started a few hours ago when the Galloway's were on their way to the two locations, learning of the locations of where the target hotspots might be after doing some skillful recon. Chase and Ryan led the way for their units, each picking their assignment: Ryan chose the artillery, and Chase took the Drug warehouse.

When Ryan arrived about a mile from the hidden artillery base deep in the woods, he found a bunch of cars parked nearby and a large unit of men ahead of them sneaking through the bushes and trees. He spotted the guy that might be their leader and then threw a rock at him to get his attention, hitting him in the back and alarming the men-taking aim at Ryan while the bikers of the Galloway's aim back.

"Hey, you aren't with them guys over there?" Ryan said, tilting his head and glaring at Linguini, who was holding his back.

"Hell no, I've got a beef to settle with these bastards!" Linguini responded, lifting up his splatchine gun and showing the G.P.A drug; Ryan smiles wide.

"Hey, you don't happen to be part of that faction that I been hearing from some of my pals?"

"We're the Santiago faction…we're looking to take down Armando Sororia. He's the one who triggered the war, the one who stole your goods."

Ryan laughed, "already know all the stuff, simply asked if you were one of 'em. You plan on taking down the artillery too?" pointing a finger at Linguini; Linguini looked at him with irritation.

"Why else am I here?"

Ryan laughed once again and then took out his gun, "Let's take down this place together…whaddaya say?"

Linguini had skepticism, but the better the numbers…the easier; at least that's what he thought. They shake hands and then shared information, learning from one another that they had similar attacking strategies and deciding to team up; they notified their bosses and fellow leaders to let them know of the alliance, with both Joseph and Santiago agreeing to it-for now at least.

Ryan and Linguini got behind cars as some of their men threw gas bombs of G.P.A, starting the deadly shootout. Zembra and Ranc-e, who'd been bickering as usual, realized the sudden situation-covering their mouths as they run from cover from the acid gas, with many of their men screaming in pain as the gas made contact. Gunshots began to fire as the alliance made their attack, weakening the defense rather quickly; its here that Zembra makes her desperate call, seeing the cars and men drive closer and make their presence heard. Shortly after calling, they knock Rance unconscious and tie Zembra to a chair to interrogate, but come away with nothing and knock her unconscious as well.

"And that's how we got here…" Chase said; swinging his bat at the air.

"So my goddess…"-Giovanni picks her up and throws her on the wall, quickly putting a knife to her throat-forcing a drop of blood to surface-"Tell me, where's Armando? I know he has no plan to stay here…"

Lydia's filled with disappointment, shock, and fear all at once that she can't respond. Giovanni slightly presses the knife on her throat, forcing another trickle of blood; Lydia's face twitches as he played with face, gently rubbing the back of his hand along her cheek. A tear falls along her face, prompting Giovanni to halt.

"I-I…he's going to probably make way to Flounder Heights. He wouldn't be dumb enough to stay here…" she said, her tears wiping away the blood on her neck as they traveled down her shirt.

"Are you happy now?" she said in an upset tone, suddenly jerking forward and glaring at Giovanni. "Kill me! Kill me you damn traitor!" she screamed with tears beginning to fall; he lets her go, and dropped his weapon to the floor.

"My work here is done; Chase, send the info to our bosses." Giovanni said casually.

"Yeah, doing that right now; I'll be over there if you need Me." he said, walking away to give them some time alone.

"How could I possibly kill you? You know better than to say such stupid things!" Giovanni yelled; Lydia snaps and punches him in the face, yelling 'don't play with my emotions!' and then getting on top of him and punching him repeatedly.

He smiles as she punches him with more force in each punch, "You killed Cross you frigging moron! What the hell…!?" she yelled, punching him so hard that the sound of the impact of the punches could be heard from a distance; she bloodied his nose and her knuckles by the time she was done, rolling off of him and crying-covering her teary face with her arm.

"I just did what I had to do…It's none personal." He said, getting up with a smile and stretching, then exiting the warehouse and passing through the many dead bodies lying around.

"Hopefully you'll see the light when this is all over."