The silence in the room was so thick you could cut it with a knife for a few moments. And then...all hell broke loose. Vinny saw one of the men grab the girl and drag her closer to him as he whipped out a long, thin, but insanely sharp weapon and press it against the side of her face just under one of her eyes threateningly while his buddies decided to try their luck in taking him.

It didn't work of course. Not with his extensive military training.

But hey, if they had a death wish and wanted to try their luck- who was he to say no? Besides, he was pissed enough at the whole lot of them for what they had been doing to the kid that if he didn't get the violence out of his system now- he might do something truly horrifying.

Like keep them alive as prisoners and torture them for a few weeks, months, or years. Hell it made no real difference to him. All he cared about was making the punishment fit the crime. And if that took a little more than the average work to do so, well, whatever.

Keeping his eyes on the kid, he didn't dare look away just in case the asshole holding onto her tried something while he made quick work of the other thugs. Dropping each one like the first. The only real difference was he had decided at the last minute to let them all live, for now.

Thinking that killing anyone else in front of the girl just might do far more harm than good.

Once they were all on the ground, either unconscious or whimpering in pain, Vinny then gave the brute handling the kid his complete and undivided attention as he lifted one of his bloodied hands to his mouth and licked his thumb and index fingers clean.

Tasting the sickly coppery taint of several of the human males together. Their taste made his stomach lurch dangerously as bile burned the back of his throat.

He could taste how sick they were. How one or more was even dying of disease.

And this is how they choose to spend their final days, He thought as he let his lips curl back away from his teeth in a strange sembalace of a disdainful sneer as he growled out, "Let. The. Girl. Go. Now." While leaving the words, And maybe I'll only break every pathetic bone in your body once, to hang unsaid between himself and the guy holding the kid hostage as he slowly advanced on him so as not to spook him when he heard the heavy foot steps of his older brothers and inwardly sighed.

Damn.

Of all the times the two had to decided to actually act like his brothers- it would of course, be now. When he was stuck in a potentially life threatening situation with some ass hat hurting a kid.

Ya know, just once he wished they could be typical brothers and go to a ballgame or Disney World or something.

The thug not only disobeyed Vinny's demand to let the girl go, but he moved his hand up from her neck to cover her mouth and nose. Causing Vinny to still as his yes went wide with understanding as he recalled some of the research material he and his brothers had gone through on different ways to kill humans without leaving a mark.

This was one of them. A suffocation technique. A slow and torturous form used to kill.

Vinny could see the girl struggling to pry the man's hand from her face. Could see the frightened/wild look in her eyes as she struggled, and he froze up for a sec and stopped breathing. Unsure of how to reach her and get her away from the guy without hurting her or killing her in the process.

He was stuck. He knew it, and the second the guy started grinning like the lunatic he was- he knew it too. But maybe...maybe there was something he could do- Vinny thought as he quickly relayed a message to his brothers who were just outside.

Hostage situation. Young girl. Scared. Dying. Can't reach her. Can one of you?

He waited for a heartbeat. Then another and almost sank to the floor in relief when he got two distinct messages, one from each brother.

Throttle- I'll distract the guy.

Modo- I'll put the bastard down.

Vinny- And I'll grab the kid and make sure that she's okay. Vinny thought as he felt himself slowly start to smile, obviously confusing the guy. The girl's struggles were getting weaker now. Her body so heavy that she could no longer move it as she tried desperately to remove the hand killing her.

Vinny's heart went out to the poor thing. But the whole ordeal would be over soon- About the same time he thought that Throttle came crashing in through the window in the back where he hit the glass strewn pavement on his back and rolled until he was in a better position to use his momentum to get back to his feet quickly.

Right about then Vinny felt something burning hot nick his left shoulder and knew that no matter what his training and reflexes screamed at him to do- he had to stay still. Otherwise the laser his brother had just fired would take off a good portion of his body and likely kill him while several feet away he watched with a sort of morbid satisfaction as the thug dropped the girl to the floor at his feet in surprise. Just in time for the entire upper part of his body to disappear.

Raining blood, organs and other things all over everyone in the room and causing Vinny to inwardly cringe slightly as he made a soft huffing sound, well, now they had a shit load of crap to clean up. Seeing his eldest brother kneeling over the girl, checking her vitals- he stayed put until his brother looked up at him and said, "She's alive. Just in shock."