Chapter 26: The Body Count Rises

Sunbelt City, New Austin (6 Days Later)

The sight of flashing red and blue lights seemed to be illuminating as SCPD officers found themselves surrounding a diner with a 1950's design to it that looked like it had been the scene of a warzone.

"How bad is it?" asked a Mexican American Detective as she was led inside by her African American partner where she took sight of the shot out windows as she went inside.

"We got six bodies at that booth over there." He replied while the woman looked to a booth and noticed six Caucasian men lying dead with one man's face lying flat in a cup of spilled ice cream.

"Three more around back and this guy." He added before leading the woman into the back of the restaurant where the smell of death filled the air.

Upon walking into the room the woman instantly put her hand over her nose before looking up and noticing a blonde Caucasian man tethered to the ceiling by a large meat hook that had been embedded in the center of his back. The man also had a series of patches on his body where chucks of his flesh had been cut off while blood leaked from his mouth. Both of his hands were also cut off but his left hand was quickly located as the officers noticed it hanging from the man's face with all five fingers stuffed deep down the man's throat.

"What is that smell?" asked the woman as she struggled to keep her lunch down.

"His skin." Her partner retorted before pulling her to the back of the man and allowing her to see a six-pointed star, a pyramid, and a Chinese symbol branded into the man's back.

"Jesus who would do this?" she asked.

"These guys have a lot of enemies they're all members of Thunderskins, one of the biggest Neo-Nazi Skinheads groups in the country." Stated the man. "Six pointed star represents Jewish people, Pyramids are in Africa, and I'm guessing that Chinese symbol ain't nothing friendly." He added.

"This guy's got so many enemies it's hard to break them down, but whoever did this is one sick fuck." He finished.

No sooner had those words left his lips Mark, Lee, Link, and Jimmy found themselves walking inside the Clubhouse of the BSU Sunbelt Chapter in Northern Sunbelt with emotionless looks on their faces.

As they walked inside people quickly knew to step away from them especially after seeing the dried blood on their clothing. It was quite ironic a few months ago they had their paths at the funeral blocked by the same gang members but here they were now stepping out of their paths out of respect…but mostly fear.

"Did you do it?" asked Ryan as Mark, Lee, Link, and Jimmy approached him while Tasha stood next to him.

"Darcy wasn't there, but we did drop quite a few of them." Stated Mark earning a disappointed look from Ryan.

"We don't want this war to prolong any longer." He stated.

"You can always do this shit yourself." Replied Lee with a slight chuckle as he folded his arms over his chest and looked away from the man.

"He's got a point." Added Jimmy.

"It's your fault we're in this matter." Shot Tasha.

"No if you would have killed that guy like we knew you wouldn't then you wouldn't be in the mess." Stated Mark with an emotionless look in his eyes. "Now here we are, the strong defending their weak younger brothers." He added with a hint of venom in his tone as he reached into his back pocket and tossed a severed hand in front of the group causing Ryan, Tasha, and the other BSU members to take steps back.

"Let's go brothers." Mark replied before making his way out of the building with Lee, Link, and Jimmy in tow.

"I hate having them here." Stated Tasha.

"I know, but if we want to survive this war we'll need them." Replied Ryan as Mark, Link, Lee, and Jimmy made their way to their cars.

"Why are we doing this again?" asked Lee.

"Because I'm tired of them calling us." Mark replied before hopping in the passenger seat before checking his M1911 Pistol, while Lee did the same with his M9 Beretta, and Jimmy checking his P99.

"Westside Sunbelt, that dude Rooster having a little party tonight with his friends at a club and it wouldn't be a funny party if BSU ain't there." Stated Mark as Link turned a few corners before stopping his car at a hardcore club in West Sunbelt where the group noticed a two bald Caucasian man standing at the front door.

"Keep um busy." Said Mark as he reached into the back of his pants and drew his Bowie Knife while Lee screwed a suppressor on his Pistol while Link and Jimmy stepped out of the car and approached the two men.

"Hey who's performing tonight?" asked Jimmy as he smiled at the two men while Mark and Lee put their hoods over their heads followed by their mask and glasses before stepping out of the car.

"Whoa whoa whoa I haven't seen you two here before." Asked the heavy Caucasian man as he eyed the duo.

"Maybe because we're new to this." Jimmy replied.

"Nah you two look like a bunch of fags, so you better go take that shit across town." Yelled the Skinner man.

"Why does everybody think that?" asked Link while shaking his head.

"Alright but our boyfriends are behind you." Replied Jimmy causing the two men to turn around and be taken by surprise with Lee shooting the skinny man in the head while Mark put his hand over the man mouth of the fat man before bringing his blade down on the center of his throat and silencing him completely.

"We got the bodies you two go inside and find our targets." Ordered Mark as he and Lee grabbed the two men by their legs and started pulling them away from the door while Jimmy and Lee made their way into the club.

White was probably the best word to describe it because almost everyone inside was white and the only thing dark was the room itself and the dark colored clothes everyone was wearing as a hardcore Neo Nazi band performed on the stage.

Neither Jimmy or Link was familiar with them or their music mostly because it targeted their friends and idealized a madman like Adolf Hitler. The duo could honestly admit the American government has done some pretty fucked up things to its own people for years but the Nazi Germany would have done worse.

After a few minutes of moving through the crowd the duo quickly caught site of a table of six Caucasian men wearing bomber jackets with shaved heads.

"We see them." Said Link as Mark and Lee broke in through the backdoor and quickly swept through the bodyguards before looking out the curtains at the band performing on stage.

"Let's quell this poor excuse for music." Said Mark earning a nod from Lee as the duo checked their guns while Jimmy approached the table of Caucasian men.

"The fuck do you want faggot?" asked a man with a long black beard.

"I just wanted to say BSU stands united with our non-white brothers." He stated before reaching into his jacket and drawing his Pistol before quickly firing and striking the man with the beard in the head before moving to the others while everyone looked in his direction.

"Let's go!" Mark yelled as he and Lee jumped from behind the curtains and quickly took aim at the band members with their guns.

Mark fired the first shot and hit the lead singer in the head, before hitting the bass player in the throat while Lee executed the drummer with two shots to the back of the head.

There actions seemed to cause those on the dance floor to start running for their lives away from the new arrivals while the gang members posing as security started to go for their guns.

"Leave none of them standing." Yelled Mark as he, Lee, and Jimmy turned their attention to the guards who came running at them with pistols drawn while Link made his way on stage.

"Fucking niggers." Yelled one man before he was hit three times in the chest by Mark while Lee shot down another man with four shots to the chest and stomach.

"Fat fuck." Jimmy stated as he noticed a fat Caucasian man running at the group with a Shotgun. With one squeeze of his trigger though he quickly stopped the man's charge as he blew out his right knee and caused the man to fall forward and hit the ground hard.

"We can't stay much longer we gotta go." Stated Mark as he shot another man in the throat before reloading his gun just as a shoe hit him in the side of the head.

"You niggers aren't invited here?" yelled a female Skinhead angering the youngest Roman who grabbed the Microphone before tossing it at her with the skill of a professional football player and hitting her dead center of the mouth with enough force to break her nose and knock out her two front teeth.

"Fucking bitch." He muttered under his breath in French while Jimmy and Link joined them on stage before they made their way out the backdoor.

"Man this is just like old times in Dockington." Yelled Jimmy earning a chuckle from Mark.

"Yeah kicking ass and taking names." Mark shot back as they hopped in their truck and drove off while the Nazi's gave chase.

Red Stick

As the sun was rising on this new day in the city of Red Stick Felix found himself sitting in the living room of Task and Adahy's home watching as the Creek Warrior took a drink of his water before struggling to rise to his feet.

Lucky for Adahy his vest saved his life, but he was still pretty badly hurt from flying back first out of a second story window and hitting an air-conditioning unit as he went down.

"I'm gonna fucking kill Lee for this shit." Adahy yelled out with anger in his voice.

"You have only yourself to blame for your injury you knew that when he and Mark showed up they were going to be bringing the pain." Stated Task as he walked into the room with the duo.

"I was expecting someone like Lee to have more honor and fight me man to man with no guns." Adahy shot back.

"I could have told you that wasn't going to work." Declared Felix earning the attention of the duo. "Lee's no idiot, he's not gonna get into a fist fight when he knows there's enemies all around him like that building. The smart thing to do was kill you then keep moving." He stated earning a low growl of anger from Adahy.

"So are you finally gonna tell me exactly why you were working with the Azteca's and the Vagos to hit us?" the Mexican American while folding his arms over his chest.

"First of all we didn't hit you guys directly we hit the Roman Boyz and we're working with them because we have a business relationship with the Vagos and Azteca's." replied Task.

"We had a business relationship with their old leader before Mark killed them." Adahy replied to Felix's confusion.

"When was this?" he asked.

"The night before we hit those Rednecks for those guns." Adahy stated.

"One of Joe's guys had killed a Vago named Raskal and that night they went to the club to kill Joe, but ran into Mark." Task added.

"How come I didn't hear anything about this?" Felix asked.

"You guys don't exactly talk about your kills and Lee hid the bodies by feeding them to the Feral family and in response they wiped the Feral's off the map." Task replied to Felix's shock.

"Jesus I didn't know." Felix shot back.

"Yeah Mark's keeping secrets from all of us." Stated Adahy earning confused looks from the duo.

"What do you mean?" asked Task.

"Where did Mark get his Grenade Launcher from Felix?" the Creek Warrior asked with a seriousness in his tone.

"I don't know I assumed Ana gave it to him like she did that Rifle." The man of Quechua descent replied.

"What are you getting at?" asked Task.

"Mark gets his guns from Ana, but the 3rd and 17th Ward supposedly buy guys from us.' He stated earning confused looks from the group. "In that attack they were using M4A1's Assault Rifles, G3C3 Battle Rifles, and Mark's brother had a M249 Light Machine Gun and I know for a fact we didn't sell any of them that because we can barely get our hands on that kinda firepower." He replied earning a slight nod from Task.

"You're right at the most we can get our hands on AK-47's, M16, MP5's, AR-15's, and Uzi's. It'll take months for us to get those kinda weapons and we'd have to jump through hoops." Stated the Lakota Warrior.

"Exactly, so tell me Felix who else is selling guns in New Arcadia that we don't know about?" asked Adahy causing a confused look to spread across the face of Felix before his cellphone rang out interrupting him.

"I gotta take this." He said before putting the phone to his ear.

"What is it Bucky?" he answered before his eyes widened.

"What do you mean they're missing?" he asked earning the attention of Task and Adahy.

Six Days Earlier

It had been a few hours since Mark, Lee, and Link had left for Sunbelt City and Felix was left in charge of the remaining BSU members. Unfortunately for them there wasn't much leading being done because Felix was never with them. They assumed he was with Task and Adahy because of so the BSU seemed to be almost leaderless and sticking to their routines.

Buck and Manfred were holding down things in Red Stick, Davey and Eddy were watching over Alison on Mark's orders, and as right now Viktor and Miller were making their way to the 17th Ward in order to collect more money from the dealers.

"Is it just me or is not having Mark around somewhat scary?" asked Miller to the surprise of Viktor.

"Yeah it is, but these guys don't know Mark's not here and as long as they don't know that we're fine." The Puerto Rican man shot back as they entered the yard of a home that was a drop off spot before knocking on the door.

As the door swung open though the duo were caught off guard by men putting bags over their heads, tasering them, and throwing them to the floor to tie up their hands and feet.

"Motherfuckers let us go." Yelled Viktor.

"Mark will have your heads." Added Miller before the duo were sat up and the bags were removed from their heads to allow them to see the dead body of a Vago whose stomach had been cut open.

"Jesus what the fuck is this?" asked Miller before the sound of boots hitting the group caused the duo to lift their heads and notice a man standing in the corner.

"This my friend is a proposition." He stated in a thick African Accent to both Miller and Viktor's shock.

"Now allow me to introduce myself, you can call me Muujai does that name sound familiar?" he asked while looking at the duo closely.

"Mark may have mentioned it once or twice." Replied Miller.

"And he won't be too happy to find out you kidnapped us BGA or not." Viktor added with venom in his tone while Muujai chuckled.

"My friends none of you are kidnapped." he shot back to the duo's confusion. "I want you to deliver a message to Marcus Roman." He added to the duo's confusion.

"Tell him that the man he fought yesterday is named Ernesto Santana Ocelotl and that he's a member of both the New Austin and San Andreas Onda." He stated.

"Alright what does that have to do with him?" asked Miller or Viktor.

"Tell Mark this is man the BGA has wanted dead for a while now, and if he wants to get back in good standings with us he'll kill this man while he's weak at a Health Clinic in Lincoln Parish." He replied to the duo's confusion.

"Why would he do this?" asked Viktor before he watched Muujai chuckle.

"Because you see that Vago on the ground?" he asked.

"Hard to miss him." Shot Viktor.

"Well that's Mark, and this is you." Muujai stated before looking to a man standing in the corner and watching him walk away before returning with a rather attractive Honduran-American woman with long black hair, sun kissed skin, and wearing a white wife beater under a plaid yellow and brown shirt, khaki cargo pants, and white shoes.

"No no no!" she said as the man bent her down in front of the man.

"If you know what's good for you sweetheart you'll do as we told you to do." Muujai stated while watching the woman tear up before he pointed a Pistol at her head. "DO IT!" he yelled causing the crying woman to dig her hands into the stomach wound of the man and pull out the man's intestines up to her face.

"Oh God!" said Miller with a hint of disgust in his voice as he and Viktor watched the woman slowly left the man's intestines to her mouth and start to slowly chew them while Muujai stood by laughing.

"That's right keep eating him, be sure to eat his heart to get his strength." The Somali man added with a tone similar to that of a psychopath while watching the woman cry as she pulled out one of the man's kidney and started to eat it.

"That guy is Mark and she is you, eating your friend just to get a few more minutes of life." He stated with a sick smile. "Mark is still greenlit by the BGA and will die by our hands, but if he kills Ernesto's things may change in his favor." He added with a sick smile.

"Be sure to tell him that." Muujai stated before cutting the ropes that bound the BSU members then allowing them to walk out of the house where both Miller and Viktor quickly went to throw up in the trashcan.

"Oh god, Mark was right that guy is fucking insane." Replied Viktor.

"What are we going to do, Mark and the others are still in Sunbelt and this guy seems serious?" asked Miller while Viktor remained silent for a few seconds before speaking.

"We do what we must, to protect our brothers." Viktor replied earning Miller's full attention.

Later that night the two men found themselves wearing dark colors and driving through the streets of Metra in Lincoln Parish before stopping in front of a health clinic in the cities north side.

"Alright let's do this." Said Miller as he and Viktor drew their pistols before stepping out of their cars and making their way towards the clinic and breaking down the glass door before making their way inside. This did sound the alarm but the duo was doing a quick in and out assassination so it didn't matter if the police were coming.

"Head to the back." Ordered Viktor before he and Miller made their way to the back of the medical clinic.

"I found him." Replied Miller as he looked into a room and noticed a familiar Mexican man lying on a bed fast asleep.

"Let's do this." Said Viktor as he kicked opened the door but when he made his way inside he was struck over the head the butt of a gun knocking him out while Miller eyed him before he too was knocked over his head.

"Fucking Chavalas." Said Miguel as he and Primo stood over the two unconscious BSU members.

"What should we do with them?" asked Miguel.

"We tie a bow on them and hand them over to Santa Muerte when he gets here. I'm pretty sure he'll love them." The Azteca OG replied while looking to the downed men.

New Arcadia FIB Headquarters

As Felix and Task made their way to New Arcadia Alison found herself sitting at her desk looking up more information on her possible serial killer.

She tracked the number on the phone that called her and it came back as a burner phone that was purchased all the way Tennessee. Along with the phone though, she also discovered seventeen more unsolved murders in the area with the same MO as her serial killer.

So far she can count over fifty bodies this killer has offed in the past two years. It was disturbing to her and left her with a sick feeling in her gut at what this person was capable of.

After taking a few seconds to stop texting Alison sent a look to her cellphone and notice she didn't have any new or missed calls or texts. She hadn't heard from Mark, Lee, or Link since the day he left for Sunbelt and she was beginning to worry. Mark lived a dangerous life and that could be the end of him and that worried her.

Speaking of the BSU members Alison remembered the order Mark had given them before he left, to protect her. This serial killer seems to have taken an interest in her and he knows that so he's risking his own men to protect her. These last few days Davey and Eddy have been watching over her, but something seemed off about them like they were hiding something from her and they were worried about something else.

"Morning." Greeted Steve as he approached Alison with a smile causing the woman to return the smile. Since Mark's been gone these last few days she and Steve have been sharing a bed again, and each other along with it.

She couldn't explain it but she felt like she was cheating on Mark by sleeping with Steve despite being in a relationship with the FIB Agent. It was strange to her and she tried to push it out of her head every time it came up before she had more problems.

The sound of her cellphone ringing caused her to jump up though and notice she had a text message from an unknown number that read: "LET THE GAMES BEGIN!"

Her cellphone then started ringing loudly as Davey called her but she shrugged it off as a loud scream could be heard from outside the building that caused her to jump from her seat along with the other FIB Agents before rushing out of the building and into the warm outside air.

"Oh god!" said Alison as Steve and Jenna took stands beside her with disgusted looks on their faces.

There on the steps of the New Arcadia FIB Headquarters was a dog lying in a pool of blood. The dog itself wasn't the mortifying part that made the Agents feel uneasy, it was the fact that it's right back leg was missing. It looked like it had been cut off by a bone saw and blood was spewing from the stump of where it once was and staining the dark brown fur on the creature.

"Shit!" said Steve as he took off his jacket and approached the dog before tying it around the creatures bleeding leg.

"It's still alive maybe we can get it to a vet." He shot out while Alison examined the scene closely.

"Steve look!" she said before pointing out a picture and a blood covered white sheet of paper of map next to the dog.

As Alison picked up the picture she noticed that it was of a fully nude woman who was missing her own right leg. This caused her to cringe as she looked at the white piece of paper and noticed that it read "Time is Running Out Muscles" in blood red ink. There was also a well-drawn map under the title that caused Alison's eyes to widen.

"STEVE CALL IN OFFICER SUPPORT!" she ordered with fear, anger, sadness, and determination radiating in her tone. She refused to lose another person to this psychopath, she refused.

Sunbelt City, New Austin

The day was finally starting to for Lee as he gave a loud yawn before rolling off a living room couch and then popping his neck as he awoke.

"You know I hate that." Yelled Heather from the kitchen causing the Chinese man to turn to her with a smile.

"Ah you making me breakfast?" he asked with a half-smile.

"No Mark cooked it before he and Jimmy left out this morning." The woman of Chinese descent replied to Lee's surprise.

"Left out where are they going and why didn't they take me?" he asked.

"He said Sniping wasn't your specifically?" she replied while scooping up a few eggs and eating them.

"Well he's right about that." The Chinese man shot back. He preferred fighting up close that's why he mostly used Shotgun, but he was also somewhat skilled with a Rifle. He lacked the patience of being a Sniper though it wasn't his calling.

"Good morning." Greeted Lee as he and Myra stepped out of the woman's room with half-smiles on their faces.

"Brother you lay down that thug dick New Arcadia style?" Lee asked with a chuckle causing Link to blush.

"Fuck you assclown." Myra shot back while Lee continued to chuckle. "So who's your target today?" she asked while moving to fix herself a cup of coffee.

"Darcy is still our main target we're only offing all these other guys just to draw him out." Stated Lee.

"Which shouldn't be too long, we've wiped out damn near half the skinheads in this city these last few days." Added Link.

"Don't worry that snake will show himself sooner or later." Replied Lee as the group watched Brooke step out of her room with a tired expression her face.

"She still pissed at us for not telling her about her boyfriend?" asked Link.

"What do you think." Shot Heather.

"It's not our fault, who's to say she'd believe us anyway." Lee replied while continuing to eat his breakfast.

Elsewhere

While Lee, Link, and the others were eating their breakfast Mark and Jimmy found themselves lying on their bellies on a hill that overlooked the New Austin Department of Corrections. The duo were both armed with M90 Barret Sniper Rifles.

"Why are we out here again?" asked Mark as he sent a look to Jimmy who was adjusting his Sniper.

"You complaining about a chance to show off your Sniper Skills?" the redheaded man asked while Mark gave a light chuckle.

"Of course not, just thought I figure why we're here." Replied Mark.

"Well, these Skinheads kick up dirt for the Aryan Vanguard of New Austin and they have two of their Generals at that prison right there and in a few minutes they're gonna walk out those doors to get to the cafeteria with the other major gang leaders on locked down." He stated earning a slight nod from Mark.

"Killing him will cause problems for the Skinheads in the area." Mark replied.

"Yup and get the AVA off our backs." Jimmy said while looking back out his Sniper while Mark did the same. As a few minutes of silence passed over the duo Mark couldn't help but to take a deep breath and strike up a conversation.

"Hey Jimmy you ever…cared for someone you knew you it wasn't wise to be with?" the Creole asked to Jimmy's confusion.

"Ana's got your heart in a vice brother?" the Military cadet asked while Mark drew his cellphone and showed the man a picture of Alison.

"Whoa she's cute, never pictured you liking white meat though. I know you fucked a few of the girls at the shows but that was just sex, and you sound like you really care for her." Jimmy stated.

"I do, despite race I…love her, but at the end of the day I know we're bad for each or I'm bad for her." He declared while Jimmy gave a half-chuckle.

"You're bad for anyone brother with the way you live your life." He shot back. "If you want my opinion if you truly care about this woman you need to make a choice this or her and we both know it's harder to give this up then not seeing someone anymore." Jimmy shot back earning a few seconds of silence from Mark.

"Targets acquired." He said causing Mark to look out the scope of his Rifle and notice two bald muscular Caucasian men walking in front of twelve other inmates. Mark knew when it came to the New Austin SHU inmates were on lockdown 23 hours a day and were only allowed out for an hour of yard time they had separate from everyone else. This was designed to keep the prison gangs disorganized but it didn't work.

"On my Mark." Said Mark as he lined up his shot with a Caucasian man with a Swaastika tattooed on the side of his head while Jimmy did the same to a man with a mustache.

"Drop um." Mark let out as both he and Jimmy pulled their triggers at the same time and fired two .50 Caliber rounds that rocketed towards the prison before colliding with the two men. Mark's shot struck the bald man in his head right in the center of his Swastika and had enough force behind it to blow a chunk of the man's skull out through his face while Jimmy's shot struck a man right behind his ear and blew a large hole clean through the man's face while his blood splattered over the face of the guard next to him.

"Alright let's go." Said Jimmy as the duo noticed the guards start to panic along with the inmates before standing up and shouldering his Rifle and then looking to Mark who fired another shot to the man's surprise and followed it up with another and another before he rose to his feet.

"Alright now let's go." He replied before jumping on his feet, grabbing his Sniper Rifle, and then walking off with his weapon in his hands.

"Who'd you kill?" Jimmy asked while following behind the man.

"Some people who deserved it." Mark replied while the guards looked to the two dead AVA members before turning his attention to a BGA member who had been shot in the throat, and two New Austin Onda members who'd both been shot in the chest.

East New Arcadia

"What do you mean Miller and Viktor are missing?" asked Felix as he stood across from Buck and Manfred with Task by his side.

"They've been gone for almost six days." Replied Manfred.

"And they aren't answering their phones and nobody has seen them." Added Buck.

"Maybe they went back to New Austin, don't they both have family there?" asked Task.

"We called them already they said they haven't heard from neither of them since the day they left for here." Stated Manfred.

"I'm getting worried brother." Declared Buck.

"Does Mark know about this?" asked Felix.

"No we didn't want him to come back rushing here, if he's needed in Sunbelt." Replied Manfred.

"Alright, I think I know someone who may be able to help us. I'll go talk to them, you guys stay here in case you hear anything." Stated Felix as he walked out the door of his home with Task in tow.

"I don't suppose your new friends have got their hands on our own?" asked Felix.

"I wouldn't be able to tell you, they don't tell me or Adahy anything unless it concerns us and this war only concerns us if they need guns." Replied Task.

"Yeah, but if Viktor and Miller turn up dead this is gonna cause problems for all of them and you two as well." Shot back Felix before he started to walk back to his car. His threat to Task was somewhat empty, he hadn't told anyone about their involvement with the Azteca's and Vagos and probably wouldn't but he did want to meet them first hand.

Metra, Lincoln Parish

Things were finally coming to reality for Ernesto as he slowly opened his eyes and lifted himself up to look around his surrounding and notice that he was in a small hospital bed with bandages wrapped around his chest.

"About time you got up." Came a familiar voice causing the man to turn his head and notice Miguel standing beside him with a half-smile.

"Uh how long have I been out?" he asked while rubbing his sore chest.

"A few days, that Mayate damn near broke all your ribs and collapsed a lung." Miguel shot back.

"Thank you for saving me then Mijo." Ernesto stated with a smile.

"You should be thanking her." Replied Miguel as Ernesto turned his head towards the door and watched as a Mexican American woman who stood about five foot six with long brown hair, sun kissed skin like his own, and wearing a white doctors jacket over a blue scrub quickly entered the room.

"Carmen." He said before watching the girl tear up before running to wrap her arms around him while Ernesto sent a look to Miguel.

He didn't want his eldest daughter to see him like in such a state, especially after being put in that state because he was out being himself. It sent a bad message to her and he didn't want her to have any more bad messages to his name in her mind.

New Arcadia

The sound of police sirens filled the air of New Arcadia as Alison found herself sitting in a car with Steve and two more FIB Agents following the map that was left to them by the serial killer. It took a few minutes for people to decipher exactly the location at the end of the map and the group had to call in NOOSE Teams in case.

Their journey had led them to an abandoned home in the 9th Ward that the officers quickly surrounded before locking down the streets while Alison, Steve, and the other FIB Agents took up positons.

"Be on your guard in there." Steve yelled out while watching a Noose Team with a battering ram knockdown the front door of the home before rushing inside and beginning a sweep of the area.

"Hey Detectives you may want to get in here." Yelled a NOOSE Agent causing Alison and Steve to walk inside of the building where they quickly noticed the smell of death in the air before entering a room where they noticed a severed leg lying on the floor.

"Jesus Christ." Said Steve as the duo looked at the leg while Alison felt herself getting sick at the sight of it.

"Is there another map attached to it?" she asked while watching Steve slowly move the leg around.

"Nope we got nothing." He replied while the woman inwardly cursed.

"No he has to have left something here a clue or something." Alison shot out while looking around the room for anything out of the ordinary. Until a metaphorical light bulb went off in her head.

"Muscles." She said to the confusion of Steve who watched the woman kneel down beside the leg.

"Steve hand me your knife." She replied to the man's confusion before he reached into his pocket and pulled out a Switchblade before handing it to the woman.

"What are you about to do?" he asked before watching the woman draw the blade before inwardly cursing herself and holding her breath as she slowly plunged the blade into the back of the leg to the surprise of everyone there.

"Ali what are you-?" started as Alison continued to cut into the leg before finally reaching her hand inside of the wound.

The warm wet squishy feeling inside of the leg made the female FIB Agent want to vomit everything in her stomach. The smell seemed to be worse than the feeling but Alison knew she had to push through everything because a life depended on it.

She'd seen enough dead bodies in her life and even helped pull a bullet and glass out of the body of Mark but she'd never had her hands in the body of a person or thing before so this experience seemed to be one for the money.

'I got something." She said to the surprise of the group who watched her pull out a plastic bag with a letter in it.

"Jesus Christ." Said Steve as eyed Alison closely before watching the woman jump away from the leg and move to a corner where she quickly vomited up her breakfast while looking down at her blood covered hands.

"You gonna be okay?" he asked while rubbing the woman's back.

"I'll be fine when we save this girl." Alison shot back with a hint of fear in her voice as Steve gave her a towel to wipe her hands.

"How'd you know that was inside?" he asked.

"Because this asshole's testing our resolve." She shot back with anger in her voice as she looked down at plastic covered note and seeing that it was another map.

"Maybe you should sit this one out." Steve stated.

"NO!" Alison shot back with anger in her tone. "I have to see this through, I have to." She replied before walking away from the man who looked at her blood stained hands then down at the knife and leg in wonderment at the things Alison was becoming capable of doing.

Sunbelt City, New Austin

The drive back to the clubhouse wasn't long for Mark and Jimmy as the duo stepped out of their car and quickly made their way inside past the other BSU members to see Lee and Link sitting at a table away from the others by themselves.

"Glad you're back, how was the sniping?" asked Lee as he eyed Mark with a smile.

"Fun as usual." Mark replied.

"Mind telling me why you shot two Onda members. I get why you shot the BGA guy with everything they've done us but why Onda?" asked Jimmy.

"We're at war with the Azteca's and Vagos in New Arcadia and they dispatched an Onda member and his bitch ass son to help them." Stated Link as Jimmy sent a look to Mark.

"Yeah we took out a good deal of them last week, but I doubt I killed that Onda member." Stated Mark. "Really I just shot those two guys just because I wanted to keep shooting that Barrett, that is one hell of a Sniper." He added with a sick chuckle.

"You guys need any backup with that?" asked Jimmy.

"Nah, New Arcadia ain't like here there are more black then brown and no Onda in our prison system, so those pricks don't stand a chance against us." Replied Lee with a chuckle.

"Hey guys look." Whispered Lee causing the group to turn their heads and notice Tasha looking at the group out the corner of her eyes while sitting at a table with a few other BSU women.

"I guess she's still got eyes for you brother." Link replied.

"If you know what's good for you you'll stay away." Added Jimmy.

"Don't worry about that Mark's got someone new." Lee shot out with some bass in his tone so Tasha could hear him and it seemed to get the desired result as he noticed the woman go wide eyed at the statement.

"Mark told me about her, what's she like?" asked Jimmy.

"She's a good person a bit naïve to how this world is but she's a good person." Replied Lee earning a nod from Jimmy.

"Glad to see you found another heart." He shot out earning a slight chuckle from Mark before the group was approached by Ryan who eyed the group closely.

"I just got a call from Nathan, he's got eyes on Darcy hiding out at a club with some more Thunderskins." he stated.

"Good let's get this bastard so we can go home I'm sick of the water in this fucking state." Mark shot out while rising to his feet with Lee, Link, and Jimmy before pushing pass Ryan for everyone to see as they watched the four boys make their way out of the clubhouse.

"Why do you keep letting him treat you like that?" asked Tasha as she kneeled down beside Ryan who looked out at Mark angrily. "Mark maybe a skilled fighter but you're a leader here and he needs to treat you with respect." She stated.

"I think he threw my respect aside we he caught us in bed together." Ryan replied while Tasha continued to look at the group.

Red Stick

"I hope you're right about this?" asked Task as he watched Felix knock on a familiar set of double doors before taking a step back and watching as the door swung open with a man in his mid-forties standing on the other side.

"Yes." The man asked with a strong Russian accent.

"We're here to see Ana." Replied Felix causing the man to give the duo confused looks.

"Nobody by that name is here." He shot back before being cut off by a familiar voice.

"It's alright Vasily let them in." Ana ordered causing the man to open the door and allowing the two men to step into the room and quickly notice Ana sitting at a table with a smile on her face.

"Chayton and Felix, what do I owe the visit?" the IAA Agent asked.

"We're here to see if you can find two people for us." Stated Felix earning a confused look from Ana.

"Who's missing?" she asked.

"Miller and Viktor they disappeared six days ago and we were wondering-." Felix started before Ana cut him off.

"If I can help track them down." She finished while smiling at the duo. "You know in my experience if someone has been missing for longer than forty-eight hours they're usually dead." She added.

"We're not trying to think work case scenario." Replied Felix.

"Hey you're doing this for Marcus to you know." Added Task.

"Alright I'll see what if I can dig up anything, but more than likely I'll be digging up a body." She replied earning nods from the duo.

"Thanks, we really appreciate it." Felix shot out.

"Are you sure about that, Mark tells me about your little…disagreement with Viktor over race." Ana stated while looking away from Felix.

"We have our disagreements but I don't want to see him dead for it." Replied Felix while Ana looked him up and down with Vasily.

"Why are you looking at us like that?" asked Task.

"No reason, just getting a read on you. I do it with everyone, including Marcus when I first met him." The Russian man shot back.

"Vasily is just like Mark another one of my hired guns. You two can go now and I'll let you know if I find anything." She replied earning nods from the duo who slowly walked out of the room and closed the door behind them.

"It doesn't seem like those two sold out Mark's guys to the Azteca's." stated Vasily.

"I know they didn't Miller let me a message on my phone to give to Marcus the day he and Viktor went out to carry that hit for Muujai. I guess their hit didn't go so well." She replied to Vasiliy's surprise.

"Why didn't you stop them?" he asked.

"My job is to look after Marcus, not his interest and not his wars." She replied. "Plus, if Muujai was telling the truth then I could use that. Mark would be back in the circle of the BGA and able to bring me more information about them, so it was chance I was willing to take." She added.

"You play with their lives like chess pieces, but you wouldn't do the same with Mark because of your general love for him." He stated earning silence from Ana.

"You know your feelings for him is clouding your judgment." He shot back.

"My judgement is clear and my relationship with Mark or anyone is none of your business Vasily." She shot back earning a roll of the eyes from the man.

"If that were true you wouldn't tell him about his side hopping Native Americans and the potential traitor in his ranks." Vasily stated before walking out of the room and leaving Ana to herself.

New Arcadia

After going through the second map Alison found herself again moving through the streets of New Arcadia with a convoy of cops but unlike the first time things were different…she was different. She'd never done anything like she did back there before and it seemed to be haunting her with each passing second.

Steve could also feel it on the woman the anger, sadness, and disgust Alison was feeling was radiating off her like a light in a dark room. He'd never seen her like this before and hoped they could end this case soon before it took her down a deeper darker place.

"We're here!" he said as the group finally arrived to at an abandoned warehouse just outside of the city limits.

The officers quickly surrounded the building and as Alison, Steve, and the other FIB Agents stepped out they watched as a NOOSE TEAM took a battering ram to the door and rushed inside while Alison and the others waited patiently for confirmation.

"She's here!" yelled one of the men causing Alison and Steve to rush inside of the building where they noticed two Noose Officers cutting down a legless redheaded Caucasian woman who was chained to the ceiling.

"Is she alive?" Alison asked.

"It looks like it." A Noose Officer replied bringing smiles to the faces of Alison and Steve.

"Then call and ambulance to our location and fast." She replied with a slight chuckle

Sunbelt City, New Austin

"There he is." Said Link as he, Mark, Lee, and Jimmy watched as a car bald muscular Caucasian man stepped out of a house with six other men walking beside him.

"Alright me and Lee will clear out the guys, Jimmy give us covering fire." Said Mark as he looked back and watched the redheaded man cock his M14 Socom Rifle.

"I got you brothers." He said before watching as Mark and Lee stepped out of the car and cocked their Pistols before making their way up towards the group of Skinheads.

"Oh shit!" yelled one of the men as Mark drew his Pistol and fired three shots that struck the man in the chest while Lee drew his own and fired two shots that hit one man in the leg and chest.

"Fucking niggers and gooks." Yelled Darcy as he started to run away only to have his knee blown out by a bullet that knocked him to the ground courtesy of Jimmy.

"No escape." The man said before firing four shots at a Skinhead using a car door for cover. The force of the powerful 7.62 Round easily tore through the car door and struck the man down and left him lying in a pool of his own blood.

"Fucking-." Started a redheaded Caucasian man before he was shot in the right eye by Mark who moved up and fired his remaining magazine into a final man while Lee shot a man who tried to run five times in the back.

"Target down let's go." Mark yelled while Jimmy hopped back into the car and drove towards the downed Darcy who Mark and Lee quickly picked up and threw into the trunk of the car before hopping inside.

"GO!" Lee yelled before driving off.

Later

"You motherfuckers are dead for this do you hear me dead dead dead." Yelled Darcy before the trunk door opened and revealed a Chinese and Black man standing over him.

"Yeah but you are first." Stated Mark before he punched the man in the face with enough force to knock a tooth from the man's mouth.

"Come on!" Lee yelled before pulling Darcy out the trunk of the car and caused him to hit the ground hard before blindfolding him.

"What is this Mark?" asked Tasha as she, Ryan, Heather, Myra, and the other BSU members eyed Mark, Lee, Link, and Jimmy closely.

"All of you have probably figured it out, but I'm here to tell all of you to your face…you're all a bunch of fucking pussies." Mark yelled out earning a sea of mixed looks from the group.

"Pussies all of you, you see you can handle a fist fight because you all jump in, but when she gets real you ball up and cry to the people whoever can save you." Mark added with anger in his tone. "Some of you have never even see real blood first hand so…that changes today." Said Mark as he kicked Darcy in the back and knocked him forward before going into the trunk of his car to grab a few things.

"Marcus what are you-." Started Ryan before he fell silent upon watching Mark pull something out of the trunk.

"What what's going on?" asked the blindfolded man.

"Shut up!" yelled out Lee as everyone fell silent for five minutes before Mark finally spoke up.

"Alright then Darcy, your free to go." He said to the man's confusion.

"Bullshit you niggers, gooks, and race traitors will just shoot me down the second I bolt." He replied while Mark chuckled.

"Nope it's all on you, if you can make it to the road from here you're free to go." Mark replied while looking at the blindfolded man who was unaware that he was standing in the middle of twenty homemade Bear Traps Mark had bought from a hunting store not far from him.

"Stupid nigger." Darcy yelled before taking a step without realizing that he was touching down on a bear trap until the mechanical trap snapped on his right leg with enough force to create a loud cracking sound that startled everyone as they heard him scream before falling forward and getting both his arms and free leg trapped in a few more bear traps.

"Well it looks like you failed, so we're just gonna leave you here." Replied Lee while Darcy screamed for one of them to kill him.

"Nope that's up to one of them." Mark shot back before walking away with Lee, Link, and Jimmy in tow.

"Let's go home." Mark replied while the group continued to watch Darcy scream in agony.

Metra, Jefferson Parish

Things seemed almost peaceful for Ernesto as he found himself lying flat on his back with Carmen lying down next to him. It's been a while since the last time he'd seen his Hija. She grown into such a beautiful woman with looks somewhat similar to that of her mother.

As he went to lean closer to her he gave a low grunt of pain that caused the girl to jump up and look at him.

"You shouldn't move to much Papa, or you may hurt yourself worse than you already are." She explained earning a low groan from Ernesto who took her advice and kept still while the memories of Mark beating him in the chest with the butt of his broken Assault Rifle seemed to flash throughout his mind.

"Pinche Mayate's gonna pay for this." He shot out earning a serious look from his daughter.

("Mira Tu Boca Aqui.")

"Watch your mouth here." She shot out earning a slight disappointed look from Ernesto. He hated speaking out in such a manner when she was around. He tried his best to shelter her from his gang life, but there were somethings that he couldn't shield her from.

"Lo Siento Mija, I'm just speaking out loud again." He replied.

"Maybe you should rest up before trying to plot anything, you're not like you used to be." She shot back with a seriousness in her tone.

"I can still take a punch." He shot back.

"Yeah, but how many more bullets do you think you can take?" she asked. "You've been doing this for so long and you've missed out on so much Papa. Don't you think it's time to walk away from all of this?" she added.

"It's not that simple Mija." He shot back.

"But dying is easier?" she replied with a hint of sadness in her tone. "Mom blamed you for Luis's death, but I didn't. I didn't blame either of you for what happened, because I knew you had our best interest at heart." She stated while Ernesto watched her closely.

"I didn't blame you, because I knew after you got out of prison you'd come back home and we could start over again despite mom's divorce, despite what happened to Luis, and despite Miguel, but it seems like you just want to go back inside with everything you're doing now." She shot back while looking away from Ernesto who merely reached out towards her and pulled her into his arms for a hug.

"It's okay." He said while the words of his daughter seemed to sink into him as the memories of his life seemed to flood his mind and made him contemplate everything that was going on in his life.

While Ernesto sat with Carmen Miguel found himself sitting outside of the room leaning against the wall with Primo standing beside him before moving away as the man's cellphone started to ring.

"Who is that?" asked Miguel as he sent a look to the Azteca OG.

"The Mayate and the Mayatero didn't break and give up any information about Mark or Joe." Stated Primo earning nod from Miguel.

"Chavala's got them loyal to the death." He replied.

"Yeah, but Santa Muerte's gonna say how loyal he's gonna be tomorrow when they pop up." Primo replied to the group's surprise.

East New Arcadia

The drive back home wasn't long for Alison. Despite not catching the serial killer and cutting into that severed leg the woman saw today as being a good day. She saved a life, that what made up for everything. In her mind, she conquered a portion of the world today and would do the same tomorrow.

After watching Steve make his way into the house she couldn't help but to take a look back and notice a familiar car parked across the street from her home. To her surprise the lights on the car blinked causing her to quickly approach it and knock on the window.

As the window rolled down she quickly caught the familiar smiling faces of Davey and Eddy on the otherside sitting down.

"Hello there big sis, you had a nice day at work?" greeted Davey with a smile.

"You two need to tell me something?" she asked while looking to the men.

"Yeah we just got a call from our Mark, Lee, and Link. They're heading back as we speak and should be here tomorrow morning." Replied Eddy causing Alison's eyes to widen in happiness.

"That's good thanks for telling me." She shot back earning nods from the duo.

"No problem." Davey shot back before Alison called back to them.

"I need to ask what's going on with you two, every time I speak to you you've been off?" she asked causing the duo to lower their heads before looking to her.

"What's going on?" she asked.

"Miller and Viktor are missing?" Davey replied to her surprise.

"What do you mean they're missing?" Alison asked with a raised brow.

"We mean we haven't seen either of them since that morning after Mark left. They went to go get collections and never came back." Davey stated.

"We thought they might have gone to their parents or out of town but they haven't seen them, they haven't used their credit cards, and they didn't take anything with them." Eddy added to Alison's shock.

"You don't think-." She started before Eddy interrupted her.

"We're hoping now, but we're more afraid of what Mark and Lee are gonna do when they get back tomorrow." Replied Eddy while Alison's eyes widened. "Neither of them handle death well." He added.

"Jesus, call Buck or Manfred and tell them whenever Mark gets home tomorrow to call me and not to let him out of their sights. He's gonna want to find them and it's too dangerous to let an angry Mark on the streets." She replied earning nods from the duo.

"You got it." Replied Davey.

"Hey!" she said again earning the attention of the duo. "You two have been watching me these last few days right?" she asked earning nods from the duo.

"Did you see-." She started.

"If you had sex with that prick?" asked Davey causing Alison to blush. "We knew you were sleeping with him that first night we could hear you through the window." He stated causing the woman to turn a shade redder.

"Don't worry we won't speak about this to Marcus, I doubt he wants to hear about another guy getting in your pants." Added Eddy.

"Thank you." She said before stepping away from the car just as her cellphone started to ring.

"I see you played my game well today." Came the familiar distorted voice of the serial killer that made Alison smile at his statement. "I must be honest, I didn't think you had the stomach to actually cut into that woman's leg." He replied to Alison's confusion.

"How'd you know I cut into the leg." She asked.

"Because only you would be able to figure everything out in time." He replied to Alison's confusion.

"I don't like playing with human lives." She replied.

"You don't but I do, so enjoy this little win of yours because I will ultimately win this game and you will be the in the same position as that woman except nobody will be coming to help you." He replied before hanging up while Alison looked down at her phone.

"No somebody will always come for me." She replied with a hint of confidence and fear in her voice.

The Next Day

The drive back home to New Arcadia seemed to take all night for Mark, Lee, and Link as they stepped out of their car and quickly made their way for the door just as Mark's cellphone started to ring.

"I gotta take this." He said before watching as Link and Lee made their way inside only to be greeted by Felix, Buck, and Manfred.

"Hey you!" Mark answered with a smile.

"You know I'm getting tired of you blowing me off." Came the familiar voice of Courtney causing the youngest Roman to chuckle at her statement.

"Yeah I know, I'm back home now so I might stop by your house later to see you, maybe get a dance." He replied. Seeing his ex-girlfriend caused a silent anger with the youngest Roman that he needed to do away with, and he was hoping seeing the body of a stripper may help him.

"You better, but you'll have to come to the club I'll be working all day." She replied.

"Alright I'll see you later." Mark replied before hanging up his phone and then making his way back inside of the house where he noticed Lee with a look of anger and Link with a look of fear in his eyes while Buck, Felix, and Manfred looked away from them.

"What's going on?" Mark asked while eyeing the group closely.

"Miller and Viktor are missing." Stated Link to Mark's confusion.

"What do you mean they're missing?" he asked while eyeing the group closely.

"We haven't heard from them since the day after you left. They went to go collect our cash and we haven't heard from them since. They aren't with their parents, they aren't answering their phones, and nobody has seen them for days." Stated Lee causing Mark to look to the group.

"They've been missing for days?" he asked while looking to Buck and the others.

"Why didn't any of you call us to tell us?" Mark yelled with venom and anger in his tone that shot out like fire from the mouth of a dragon.

"We didn't notice they were gone until a few days later when they were supposed to switch with Davey and Eddy to guard Alison. We thought they were-." Started Manfred before he was taken off-guard by a set of powerful hands wrapping around his throat and lifting him into the air causing him to strain out for air.

"YOU THOUGHT!" Mark yelled before slamming Manfred back first against the wall with enough force to knock pictures off it while the Indian man struggled for air.

"MARK STOP!" yelled Buck as he ran at Mark who easily pushed the smaller man aside before turning to Manfred who was still struggling for air.

"Let him go Mark." Came a familiar voice that caused Mark and the others to turn their heads and notice Ana standing in the doorway with a serious look in her gaze. "You heard me let him go." She repeated before watching as Mark gave a low growl before finally letting Manfred drop to the floor gasping for air.

"Did you know to?" he asked while eyeing the woman angrily as Buck helped Manfred to his feet.

"Yes, and I can tell you what happened to them." She replied to everyone's confusion.

"Miller and Viktor came to me on the day they went missing. They said they'd been given an assignment…from Muujai." She stated to the group's shock and surprise.

"He reached out to them?" Lee asked with a raised brow.

"Snatched them up while they were on their pickup to be precise." The IAA stated. "He offered them a way to lift the greenlight on you Marcus. You were to kill that Onda member you met the other day while he was resting at a clinic in Metra." She added.

"We weren't here." Shot Mark.

"Yes so the two of them decided to take the matter in their own hands and went after him…they weren't heard from again." She replied in an emotionless tone.

"Why didn't you tell us this yesterday?" asked Felix.

"Because coming from any of you this story would look bad. It would sound like you let them both go do an assassination with no backup, but none of you knew so none of you are at fault here." She replied.

"Why didn't you tell them then?" asked Lee with venom in his tone.

"Because I actually tried to steer the two away from carrying out the assassination but I guess they didn't listen." She replied before looking to Mark who remained silent.

"Marcus-." She called out to him while noticing the man clinch his fist.

"Miller and Viktor are gone, but until I find a body they're aren't dead so we're gonna-." Mark started before being interrupted by his cellphone ringing from the number of Miller.

"It's Miller." He said to the relief of everyone as they watched Mark quickly put his phone on speaker mode.

"Brother where the hell have you been, did you take care of it, you've got us all here worried." Mark asked with worry in his voice.

"I'm sorry, Miller can't come to the phone right now. He's a bit tied up at the moment. But if you'd like I can take a message and have him get back to you at your earliest convenience." The voice on the other end wasn't that of Miller, instead it was sounded like that of a Mexican man, someone who was born in Mexico but probably spent a few years in the US. The man spoke in a psychotic tone that sent a cold chill up the spines of the BSU members as they looked at the phone with mixed looks.

Despite that though Mark pushed forward and yelled out. "Is this Ernesto?"

"No, I'm afraid this is his secretary. Your two guest didn't make an appointment with Mr. Santana so they had to be put on timeout." The man joked like that of a psychopath and the more he joked the more it seemed to bring anger into the hearts of both Mark and Lee who seemed to both be in a state of silent fury.

"You son of a bitch…did you kill them? I swear…-." The Creole started before the man interrupted him.

"You're gonna what? Kill me? You didn't have the balls to come here and try and kill Ernesto. You fuck with Onda you get run over. You go against the wave you drown. You have no right to be pissed off. You sent these two amateurs to do what you don't have the Juevos to try yourself and they failed. But they're not dead. And that's the point. If you get home quick enough, you can take them to the hospital." He stated. His words angered Mark but he did find some truth in them his men did fail not because he sent them but because he wasn't there to keep them safe.

"Bullshit. It's a trap." Yelled Lee with venom in his tone.

"Okay, fine. It's a trap. Just don't blame me knowing you could have saved them, It is a trip but it won't kill you. Only them if you don't get here in time." He stated leaving Mark in a state of confusion. On one hand he wanted to go save his brothers, but on the other he knew he would be more than likely walking into a trap. In the end he made his choice.

"You gonna be there, because I'm on my way?" Mark shot back with the anger of a demon while Ana lifted her head and eyed him closely.

"If I could, I would. Give you a hint though. Takes minutes to kill you but it takes hours to undo." He stated.

"A bomb." Mark said before hanging up his phone.

"It's a trap Marcus you can't go there." Stated Ana as she watched Mark dial a number on his phone. "Who are you calling." She asked while Mark turned to Manfred.

"Manfred where'd that call come from, he said at my home but he's obviously not here." Mark yelled before watching the Indian man pull out his cellphone and track the signal of Miller's phone.

"Last call, was at a home just off Latoyah Avenue." The Indian man yelled out to Mark's confusion.

"Courtney lives off Latoyah Ave." Mark replied to the group's confusion before they watched him dial a new number on his phone.

"Who are you calling now?" asked Ana.

"Ali, I need you to get the bomb squad to an address off Latoyah Avenue." He stated. "I'll explain later, just get them there." Mark yelled out before making his way out the door with Lee and the others in tow.

Later

After running a few red lights and probably getting a few speeding tickets Mark and the others had finally made it to Courtney's house in the 3rd Ward where they noticed the place was surrounded by police officers belonging to NAPD and their bomb squad.

"Mark don't get too close." Yelled Ana as she watched Mark, Lee, Felix, Link, Buck, and Manfred jump from their car and quickly push pass through the cops to see Davey and Eddy both looking angry and standing away from the house with Alison.

"ALI!" Mark yelled causing the woman to slowly lift her head to face him and allowing him to see the tears that had formed in the woman's eyes.

"NO!" Mark yelled before quickly running past the police tape with Lee and Felix in tow while the officers yelled at them to get down as they burst through the living room door and quickly noticed beaten lifeless bodies of Miller and Viktor lying on the living room couch while a strong stench was in the air.

"NO NO NOOOO!" both Mark and Lee screamed out while the officers pulled them out of the house as they continued to scream out in anger.

Authors Note: And there you have it people I have caught up with Onkwehonwe with the deaths of Miller and Viktor. I wanted to show just the effects of both of their deaths on Mark, Lee, and the rest of the group and I'll show more of that next chapter.

I also wanted to explain exactly why Miller and Viktor would do a hit against Ernesto and get caught without Mark being with them and one of the reasons for that was the fact that he and Lee were gone and that's one of the things Mark's group has a big disadvantage at. Without Mark and Lee they don't really have much under their belts in the sense of fighting. Manfred is the computer guy, Miller, Viktor, Davey, and Eddy are just extra guns with no skill level like Mark or Lee and Felix has more gun training but he's just above them but still below Mark and Lee.

Without their two heavy hitters they're pretty much weak.

Mark, Lee, and Jimmy doing hits against the Skinheads for BSU in Sunbelt was actually supposed to be a longer war but since I needed Mark and Lee away I decided to give them this as a reason to leave.

Task and Adahy talking about where Mark and the 3rd Ward gang members got their guns from will be shown next chapter. Since both Mark and Lee have lost their weapons in the last chapter they'll be needing new ones and this will cause some problems with Task and Adahy.

The wild goose chase that the serial killer sent Alison on was based off an idea for something me and my sister had. We've both always had strong fascinations with serial killers and we looked up some of the most notorious killer in North America.

One of the things we decided to do with this killer is give him traits of other killers, not really make him a copycat but make him like that hybrid killer that likes to toy with his victims in a manner similar to Jigsaw. And later on you'll see more of how he's Jigsaw.

That thing Mark did to the skinhead of blindfolding him and placing him in the center of an area filled with bear traps was something Catman did in a Secret Six comic.

Alison cutting into the leg of that woman to find the note was something I got from a Saw Movie. One of the reasons why I had her do this was because this killer will push Alison to do things she never thought she was capable of doing and that will have an effect on her in later chapters.

Ernesto's daughter Carmen is based off America Ferrera. She another character from Sunbelt City they will play a major role in the life of Ernesto during his time in New Arcadia.

Stick around for next chapter as Alison tries to comfort Mark in his loss, Task goes to Ernesto about the deaths of Miller and Viktor, the Cheetah and Cruz reach out to a new ally to help them in the war, and Mark and his remaining BSU members and the 17th Ward launch an attack on the Azteca's that will have the Concrete Soldier Marcus against Santa Muerte himself Neto.

Thank you all for reading have a nice day. Zilla Out.