Chapter 41: IAA On the Hunt
No More Hiding in the Shadows
Outside of Liberty City (3 Days Later)
The moon was shining down as this day was coming to a class in Liberty as a man of Middle Eastern descent found himself standing behind the counter of his store with an unamused look on his face. It was almost two in the morning and he knew there wasn't going to be much traffic leaving Liberty City so it was a quiet night. One of many to be exact.
His silence was soon interrupted though as a group of three men walked into the restaurant with yellow masks over their faces and one brandishing a Shotgun that he quickly aimed at the center of the man's head.
"Hand up now." He yelled out causing the man to raise his hands in the air while the look of fear spread across his face. "Empty the register, empty the fucking-." The Spanish Lord started before he was silenced as a bullet struck him in the side of the head and sent him falling to the side to the surprise of the other two men.
"What the fuck-?" the second man started before he two was hit in the head by a bullet while the Middle Eastern man looked on in confusion before watching the last man drop his pistol on the floor before eyeing him closely.
"Stop this shit man." He yelled out to the confusion of the man.
"I know nothing about this." He shot back with a thick accent while watching tears fall from the man's eyes before they both turned their heads and watched as two Asian women walked into the building with mixed wearing black sunglasses.
"That's enough John." Ana ordered over her Walkie Talkie before looking to the Spanish Lord member with her usual cold smile before drawing her P99 Pistol and shooting the man square in the head and watching as his body fell back with a loud thud.
"What is the meaning of this?" the worker asked with fear in his voice.
"You already know the answer to this Faryah Hassan." Ana shot back while eyeing the man coldly while he looked at her with a shocked look before reaching behind his back for the pistol he had tucked under his shirt. Before he could pull it out though he was stopped as Mai lifted her own M9A1 and fired a single shot that struck the man in the shoulder and sent him crashing backwards onto a shelf of overpriced electronics.
"Let's not do that again." The Vietnamese woman declared while Ana got on her cellphone and made a phone call.
"We've got him and are extracting him to sight bravo." She replied before hanging up her phone just as John walked into the room wearing an all-black suit and carrying a M60 Sniper Rifle in his hands.
"Don't worry asshole we aren't here to hurt you, we just want to ask some questions." He said while the man looked at him with fear in his eyes before he was yanked off the floor and forced out of the building.
New Arcadia (Hours Later)
As the sun started to rise on this day in New Arcadia Alison found herself on the last leg of her morning jog as she got back on the street her house was on before making her way towards it. As she looked around she quickly noticed that's Steve's car was nowhere in sight suggesting that he'd gone to work early.
The man had been a working extra hard these last few days after what happened in the 2nd and 17th Ward. Almost all the law offices were looking into Marcus Roman and the Roman Family and in one instance the youngest Roman was actually brought into the station for questioning. She knew he was gonna have a solid alibi along with all the BSU members but that's still not stopping people from believing it was them.
Locke and Sawyer even tried to convince a few people that the attack was a joint operation by the defected Roman Boyz and the Ward Gangs to rebel against the GA. Some people were believing it, but many weren't and that seemed to be the problem for Alison.
After a few minutes of fumbling with her keys the FIB Agent soon got her front door open and walked inside of her home only to be surprised by the sight of a familiar New Arcadia Creole sitting on her couch looking down at the floor before lifting his head to meet her gaze.
This was her first time seeing Mark since their last meeting before he carried out the attack on the 2nd Ward. In those days both seemed to be trying to avoid each other, she didn't know if she could face him and he didn't know if he could handle the look he knew she was going to give him. That disappointed look that he'd grown to hate over the years.
"You've been avoiding me." She greeted with little emotion in her tone while Mark responded with as little as he could muster.
"We've been avoiding each other." He shot back while moving to turn his gaze away from Alison. "You look good." He said while taking in the sight of her in her workout clothes which consisted of a dark blue training bra, a pair of tight blue leggings, running shoes, and a white sweatband that seemed to make her red hair glow.
"Don't give me that." She shot back while folding her arms over her chest and giving him a serious look.
"I told you what we were gonna do." He replied.
"Yeah but you failed to mention warzone level massacre in both the 2nd and 17th Ward." She shot back with anger in her tone. "Or hanging a man upside down after burning him with acid. Which I still want to know where you got."
"Sulfuric Acid isn't hard to make and there's a sulfur mine in a town not far from here." He replied with a small chuckle.
"It's not funny Mark." She shot back with anger in her tone.
"I know, the acid was mostly just to send a message though. I didn't intend for it to kill him, he was supposed to live just disfigured." He replied.
"And that's good?" she asked with venom in her tone.
"A facial deformity or being tossed headfirst from a ten-story building. You can only imagine what I would take and I did give him an option." He replied before watching the woman look away from him with anger still hidden in her gaze.
"I know this upset you, but you need to remember you got something out of it…two things to be exact." He shot back with while Alison rubbed her forehead as she inwardly debated the situation.
"When is this gun deal taking place?" she asked while not taking place.
"The truck should be coming into New Arcadia later today." He replied while the woman nodded her head. "And that female Apostle who took a liking to you in Metra is leading it." He added causing her to look up at him in wide eyes.
"She's a pilot so I think she'll either be leading the convoy by air so watch the skies and remember to stay behind cars." He replied.
"I can handle myself." Alison shot back with a seriousness in her tone that only seemed to upset Mark.
"I know you can handle yourself, but not for this." He shot back to her confusion. "That convoy consists of three Semi-Trucks filled with Apostles with enough guns and ammo to start two wars, the trucks are being escorted by four vehicles filled with more guys, and on top of that they have a chopper adding air support." He stated with venom in his tone.
"No matter how many officers your take with you for this you're gonna be heavily outgunned and these guys aren't just gonna stop because you tell them to. They're carrying enough guns to get life in prison…they got nothing to lose by killing some cops." He shot back while eyeing the woman closely before his cellphone started to ring.
"I gotta go, good luck today." He shot back before storming out of the room in a loud huff while Alison stood back in silence and tried her best to refrain from crying as Mark's words ran through her head like a record.
Alderny
Just on the outskirts of Normandy the sound of screams and grunts could be heard inside of a warehouse as Ana and Mai found themselves standing back and watching as John threw several blows to the face of the captured Hassan and then started to run his middle finger into the man's bullet wound causing him to let out another scream.
"You need to do that." Ana let out while Mai nodded her head. "Insert yourself into my business." She let out while Mai nodded her head.
"I didn't insert myself into your business, my associate inserted themselves. Things have been slow for them back in Los Santos and now they're just looking for a quick pay day." Mai shot back.
"Mark is weary of using outsiders." Ana replied with a half-smile.
"Which is why I'm asking you to convince him to include them. You mentioned he was planning something before you left and all I ask is for my associate to be involved. They may have some skills that may be useful to him." She replied while Ana chuckled.
"Unless they're coming to him with six pounds of C4 and over five hundred 5.56 Rounds I doubt that." Ana shot back while watching John throw another punch to the man's face. "I'll talk to him but I can't make any real promises." She replied while Mai chuckled.
"Liar!" she shot.
"Enough chatter." Came a new voice that caught the attention of Mai and Ana as they turned their heads and noticed Devlin walk into the room with the familiar blonde woman following close behind him with a smile on her face as they approached the trio.
"What's the status of this one?" asked Devlin as he looked to John who sent a look to Hassan only to recoil as the Arab man spit into his face.
"We're at an impass." Mai replied with a hint of anger in her tone as she looked to Devlin who only seemed to ignore her.
"Nonsense, every man has a breaking point." Said the blonde woman earning the attention of everyone as they turned their heads to her watched her approach the man with a struct.
"He's got some nerve bringing her here." Mai whispered causing Ana to keep her usual smile while turning to Devlin.
"He has a right to do as he pleases, with who he pleases." She replied while looking to the blonde woman and watching her approach Hassan with a smile.
"You seem to be in a quite the predicament." She stated.
"Fuck you, American Bitch you will burn all of you will burn." He shouted earning a slight smile from the woman as she eyed him closely.
"You mean just like your wife and kids." She shot back causing Hassan to go silent before watching as she pulled out a touch screen tablet and quickly showed the man a picture of his wife, son, and daughter outside of their home in Bohan. "They must really love you because they've made several calls to the police since you went missing, thanks to our cleaners though there's no trace of you. I wonder is walking out on your family a sin in your religion." She added with a sinister smile while Hassan gave her a low growl.
"You're with the US government you won't lay a hand on them." He declared while Devlin chuckled.
"Son that gives us more reasons to put our hands on them." He stated while the blonde-haired woman quickly took back control of the situation.
"Your family can disappear and nobody will ever go looking for them and you can live the rest of your life in a cell not knowing where they are." She stated before adding. "Unless you cooperate with us and tell us exactly what we want to know."
"I already told you I don't know anything about that bombing." He replied before the woman quickly grabbed him by his chin and forced him to look at her with his lips puckered giving him the image of a blowfish.
"Of course, I know your boss wouldn't tell you exactly Aabid wouldn't let all of his soldiers know his doing." She stated.
"If you know who Iman Aabid is why are you here?" he asked.
"Because we don't know the exact location of Aabid, but we know underlings like you are the quickest to break." She replied while continuing to constrain his cheeks. "So tell me where he is and where all the members of your cell are or…I make things a lot worse for you." She added before watching as the man went silent for a few seconds before finally speaking out.
"There's a compound in Algonquin, we go there from time to time to meet and pray. They're meeting there later today." He replied while the woman merely smiled at him.
"Good now was that so hard?" she asked with a slight smile before Ana and Mai watched as the man's eyes widen in surprise and pain before he looked down and noticed that the blade sticking out of his stomach.
"You said you would let me go." He let out with a hoarse breath that immediately caused the woman to merely giggle.
"I lied." She ended before pulling the knife out of the man's stomach and then swiping it at the man's throat slicing his jugular and watching as his blood pooled on the floor with a glee filled smile.
"See what you can do with a just a little kick?" she asked while turning to John, Ana, and Mai while wiping the blood off of her knife while Devlin eyed her with a smile.
"I knew you would be effective as always." He let out causing both Ana and Mai to roll their eyes before he turned to face them both with a smile.
"Suit up you two because you're gonna be going into this compound in a few hours." He let out before walking away with the blonde haired woman in tow. As she passed up Ana she couldn't help but to give a sideways smile to the IAA Agent who merely kept her gaze away from her.
"That bitch is just as sadistic as ever." Mai let out while John turned to face the two women.
"She's the one who recruited Patrick." Ana replied to Mai's shock and surprise as she turned to her. "The men we have working for us are a reflection of ourselves and the first time I layed eyes on Patrick I instantly thought of her." She added while John gave a low chuckle.
"I guess she isn't the only criminal here then." Stated John as he eyed Ana and Mai closely.
"Give it a rest Davis." Mai shot back while the man gave a low hmph before speaking out.
"Feel lucky she didn't bring that guys wife and kids in here." The former Navy Seal let out while eyeing the two women who turned to face him with raised brows. "There is a story going around the Agency that the last guy she had like this one wouldn't talk to her. So she brought out his wife, eight year old son, five year old daughter, even their dog, and lined them all up in front of a firing squad who was ordered to empty all fifty rounds of their Rifles into them while the husband watched." He stated to the shock of Mai who couldn't believe her ears.
"She then left him locked up in a room with their dead bodies for a week and forced fed him." He continued before trailing off. "She wasn't trying to get him to talk anymore, she was just fucking with him just for the fun of it." He finished.
"I knew she was always sick in the head but I never thought she was that bad." Replied Mai. "She sounds worse than Devlin, and I never knew I could hate anyone like him." She added while Ana spoke up in her usual emotionless tone.
"That's how she earned her reputation." She let out earning the attention of the duo. "Sofia Hunters, the Blood Covered Diploidal." She stated while keeping her eyes on the woman as she retreated with her husband.
Metra, Lincoln Parish
The drive to Lincoln Parish wasn't long for Task, Adahy, and Felix as they found themselves pulling up in front of Ernesto's safe house where they noticed Loka, Lady Joker, Angel, and three other Azteca members sitting out front with mixed looks on their faces.
"Where is everyone?" asked Felix as he approached the trio of women with a serious look on his face.
"Inside, they're talking about going after the last guy." Stated Loka to the surprise of the trio of men.
"Seriously, I thought that guy was hiding out somewhere far." Stated Task as he looked at the trio with a raised brow.
"He's not far, we know for a fact he's hiding out at the St. Louis Housing Projects. That's where those 4th Ward fuckers are at their strongest. It's their main headquarters." Replied Lady Joker.
"Which means they'll have that place on lockdown." Declared Adahy.
"You afraid skin, I thought you were gonna help us avenge Dede?" asked Lady Joker as she eyed the Creek Warrior closely.
"And I'm not saying I won't, I'm just adding an input." He shot back with a hint of venom in his tone before turning his attention to Angel and noticing the girl looking at the ground with little emotion on her face. He knew the girl was still in a rough place after everything she endured, but he could only guess just how far down the dark hole she was in.
The woman was almost like a hollow shell of who she used to be. She barely talked, hardly ate, and she was barely sleeping or maintaining herself. Some were even talking that she had dropped her flag and was no longer an Azteca. He didn't know if that rumor was true or if guys were just talking, but he didn't blame her if she did.
In the past few weeks the girl had seen more then enough death in her lifetime. Her older brother was killed in the war with Mark and BSU, her sister was killed by the 4th Ward in front of her, and she was beaten and raped daily by the gang. She'd experienced enough death and heart ache then anyone in the past few weeks then he'd ever known. If anyone deserved a step back from things, it belonged to her.
"About time you Vatos showed up." Miguel let out while walking out of the house with Beto and another much larger Azteca member of Mexican what looked like Comanche who must have stood about six foot one and with a shaved head and the letters VLA tattooed on the side of his neck and wearing a blue flannel shirt, khaki pants, and low top shoes. The man seemed to eye Adahy and Task closely with a menacing look on his face.
"We had to take care of somethings on our end." Stated Task as he looked the man up and down. "I see you've been actively recruiting." He stated while the man eyed him angrily.
"I ain't no recruit fool." He let out while eyeing the Lakota angrily.
"This mi amigo Gordo, he was with riding for the Varrio since '05. Spent that last couple of years inside though." Miguel stated while the man eyed the group closely.
"You keep bringing in guys from your old Varrio like this you're gonna run out of guys in there." Stated Adahy while Miguel chuckled.
"We deep as shit in Sunbelt and if you're forgetting we have a lot of power over a lot of Varrio's there. Numbers ain't hard for us to get." He let out.
"we have the numbers for this but it took a lot convincing." Came the voice of Ernesto as he walked out of the safehouse with a serious look on his face. "The Onda members in New Austin still have some lost faith in me and our roles here. If we don't bring them back results things could get a lot harder for us." He added while eyeing the trio closely.
"That explains why you're bringing us along for this one. You need all hands on deck and I bet Cruz and the Vagos won't be far from those Projects either will they?" Task asked with a slight smile.
"What Adahy is trying to say is that we'll help, we have no problems helping you." Felix stated while Ernesto nodded his head.
"Good, then ready up because we'll be leaving within a few hours." He let out while walking away from the trio.
"You're starting to get on my nerves with that mouth of yours mano." Stated Miguel as he eyed Task closely.
"Good that means I've got your attention." Said Task to the confusion of everyone including Adahy and Felix who eyed him closely. "After we do this and this guy is killed, I'm done helping you and your Varrio. If you want to buy guns you can do that or if you want to pay me to carry out hits that's good as well, but I ain't about to be fighting someone else's war for free." He let out while eyeing Miguel angrily before walking away and leaving both Felix and Adahy who watched him leave with raised brows.
17th Ward
The drive back to the club wasn't long for Mark as he walked through the front door and took in the sight of the interior of the club with a smile. Much of the building was complete and they were now painters and electricians inside working to get the building set before the furniture could come in.
At the speed it was going the club should be complete within a few weeks and Mark couldn't help but to feel like a kid whose birthday was approaching. Everything he was building was coming into fruition and it was only a matter of time before it was finally complete.
After a few seconds of taking in the sight of the building the Creole then made his way to the back office of the building where he noticed Lee, Jimmy, Link, Buck, Davey, Eddy, and Robbie sitting around the room watching a flat screen television that was broadcasting Weazel News to Mark's shock.
"I thought I made it a rule to never watch this shit?" Mark asked with a hint of seriousness in his tone as he eyed the group closely.
"We know but look at this shit brother it's beautiful." Said Lee with a smile as Mark looked at the television and noticed a reporter standing in front a burning building.
"A war-torn bloody killing field, those are the best words to describe much of the neighborhood of Rancho after a few short hours ago a series of gang attacks left dozens dead in the street and houses burning to the ground." the Caucasian woman let out while Mark looked at the screen closely.
"Nobody knows the exact level of damage but investigators have confirmed a number of corpse belonging to that of the local Azteca and Vagos street gang in the area along with members of the Ballas, Families, Da Nang Boyz, Marabunta Grande, and even the Madraza Cartel were involved in this gun battle." She added.
"Holy shit!" said Buck as he, Davey, and Eddy turned their attention to Lee.
"The kill count is this neighborhood is staggering and at one point officers actually ran out of body bags for the number of dead-." She continued.
"I think I just found my new ringtone." Said Lee as he pulled out his cellphone and started recording the woman.
"Is our friend amongst the dead?" asked Mark as he eyed the Chinese man closely.
"No and I think we got other problems." Stated Link as he changed the television station to New Arcadia's local new station.
"It's a sad day in the city of New Arcadia after just a few short hours ago the district in Los Santos dubbed Little New Arcadia found itself in the heat of violence as a car filled with Hispanic gang members rolled through the neighborhood and opened fire killing six people and wounding another nine in a grisly display of violence." The man on the television let out while Mark gave a low grunt.
"Those fuckers opened fire in a crowded area and blamed the shit on Marabunta." Jimmy let out with a hint of anger.
"And you remember Lyle?" asked Link as he looked to Mark who looked at him with a raised brow.
"No." Mark sternly shot back.
"Lyle from Sunbelt, he went out to LS and started up his own chapter of BSU." Link let out while Mark slowly nodded his head. "The brothers are scraping him off the pavement and the brothers in Los Santos, Sunbelt, Blackwater, and all over are calling us so much that we literally had to take the batteries out of our phones." Link stated while Mark looked away from the man.
"It's only a matter of time before that prick makes his way back down here Marcus." Manfred pointed out while Mark continued to look away from him before speaking out.
"They found out we were tapping their phones and are more than likely tapping ours." Replied Link.
"He is and right now he knows exactly what I want him to know." Mark replied to the confusion of Link.
"We came all the way to Los Santos and tapped his gangs cellphones, using a method that even his own hacker must have been impressed to see. You would think he'd be smart enough to know not to hack a hacker because you can either fuck up your own shit or find yourself in a tougher situation." Mark let out while holding his cellphone.
"Now we can move forward with the other parts of our assignment." Mark let out while pulling out a second cellphone and dialing in a number before presenting it to the group.
"You gonna tell us exactly what you got planned for those assholes?" asked Lee as Mark chuckled at him.
"Something that will do a lot of damage." Mark started before he and the others were interrupted as the doors to the club was forcibly opened and the group watched as a Caucasian woman with short brown hair that was tied into a ponytail, sparkling blue eyes, and wearing a dark blue leather jacket over a white t-shirt, and khaki shorts walked in with a serious look on her face.
"Jesus why don't people knock anymore?" asked Lee as he rubbed his ear while the group turned to the unfamiliar woman with a serious look on her face.
"Can we help you miss?" Link asked while the woman watched as Mark, Lee, and Jimmy noticeable reached behind their backs and put their hands on the butt of their guns. The group didn't take any chances when it came down to new faces. It was what kept them alive and it seemed to be working so why fix what wasn't broken.
"Those guns won't be needed." She said while Mark chuckled.
"Maybe not, but excuse us for being the paranoid types." The Creole shot back with a slight smile.
"My name is Jill, I'm a friend of Mai's you know her." The woman let out while sending a look to Mark who nodded his head and smiled before drawing his M1911 Pistol and pointing it at the woman while Lee and Jimmy did the same with their own Pistols.
"That doesn't make us feel any better lady." Mark responded with a seriousness in his tone.
"I appreciate the sentiment of all of you needing to pull a gun on me, but I'm guessing you didn't get Ana's phone call about me." Jill shot back while Mark chuckled before sending looks to Jimmy and Lee who kept their guns raised while he lowered his own.
"I got her message, this is my way of sending a message to you." He replied while approaching her with a smile. "Me and my guys have…a rocky history with people from LS and because of so we're always on the lookout for one that may come waving a flag of friendship but instead want to fuck us over." He stated.
"I'm not that close with that side of Mai's friends to do their dirty work for them." Jill shot back.
"But you are desperate enough to fly across the country to help us when you could have just done work in LS." Lee shot back with a chuckle.
"Look do you want my help or not?" asked Jill with a hint of anger in her tone that caused Mark to chuckle.
"Come on, I'll brief you on this job." Mark stated as Lee and Jimmy lowered their guns before following Mark as he directed Jill over to his desk. "I won't give you the full details, but let's just say we're a bunch of disgruntled employees who looking to steal the money our former boss owes us." The Creole stated with a slight chuckle.
"So you're looking to take it back from him?" she asked with a slight smile of her own.
"We've found out that he's keeping a large sum of his money and some drugs at a safe house near Bull Haven in Tamatha Parish." Mark stated.
"And you guys needed to bring me in for that?" she asked with a raised brow.
"No, we brought you in because we believe the moneys in a rather large safe and you have a lot of experience in lock-picking and we were hoping to make use of that skill." Link replied while Jill nodded her head.
"Alright but what's my cut?" she asked with a raised brow.
"Twenty Percent of the take." Mark shot back.
"Twenty-five, you maybe doing much of the work but you won't be getting that money without me." Said Jill as she sent a cheeky smile to Mark, Lee, and Jimmy.
"Fine, just get yourself ready. We're going to be moving in a few hours." Mark shot back while Jill nodded her head and smiled.
Algonquin
As BSU prepared for their heist in New Arcadia Ana and Mai found themselves strapping up for what they could best describe as being a raid. Both women had changed out of their usual clothing and were now dressed in all black with bullet proof vest covering their chest and ammo holsters strapped on their hips.
Mai was brandishing her usual M4A1 Assault Rifle with a M9A1 Beretta on her hip and Benilli Shotgun strapped across the back of her Bulletproof vest while Ana was carrying her T91 Assault Rifle with a mounted Grenade Launcher, an USP .45 Pistol on her right hip, and she was also carrying a backpack that was filled with explosives.
"Are you sure you're gonna need all those weapons?" Mai asked while looking to Ana who merely chuckled.
"Better to come prepared then be ill-prepared." The Chinese woman responded.
"For once you say something accurate." Said John as the two women looked to the man and noticed him looking through the scope of his Barret Sniper Rifle. "I'm seeing well over thirty people in that compound and no telling what kinda firepower they're carrying since this is their main headquarters." He stated while looking through the scope and noticing seven armed men standing just inside of the compound.
"I can pick some of these guys off with you but I doubt you're moving through that front door undetected." He stated.
"Where's the fun in that." Mai replied while cocking her Rifle before she and Ana made their way towards the front of the terrorist compound. The duo had to admit the men chose the right location for having a secret compound on American soil. It was just a few miles outside of Liberty City, hidden deep within the forest from prying eyes, and it was large enough to double not only as a headquarters but a training station.
"All of this without anyone knowing about it?" asked Mai.
"Nah we knew, the FIB also knows about this. We let them go undisturbed as a means to draw other terrorist to them. That way we knew who our enemy was without them knowing we already had them beat." Ana shot back as the duo found themselves crouching in front the compound where they noticed three men guarding the front door.
"Alright we'll need to move quickly if we want to take all these guys out-." Mai started only to hear the cocking of a gun and watching as Ana loaded a Grenade into her Launcher before aiming the weapon at the men.
"This ways easier." She shot back before pulling the trigger on her Rifle and firing a single Grenade that caught the men standing out front by surprise as it slammed on the ground before them and went up in a violent explosion that sent them all flying and was able to blow open the front doors of the compound.
"Let's move!" Ana yelled as she and Mai rushed to the front door while the six men on the otherside moved in front of it to assess the damage. This didn't seem to go well in their favors as both women fired a barrage of rounds from their weapons and struck down three of the men while the remaining three lifted their heads in surprise of what they were seeing.
"Get down!" one of the men yelled out only to be forever silenced as Ana fired a well placed shot that embedded itself deep into the center of the man's head while Mai finished off the last two.
"You think we got their attention now?" asked Mai as she loaded another magazine into her Rifle while Ana did the same before the duo noticed eight men rushing out the front of the compound armed with Assault Rifles.
"We've always got their attention." Ana shot back as the group of terrorist sent a barrage of rounds their way and caused both women to barrel roll to cover behind a parked car.
"Any bright ideas?" Mai asked while watching as Ana loaded a special black canister into her Grenade Launcher.
"Yeah cover your eyes and nose." Ana ordered before rolling from cover and firing the canister that hit the ground in front of the group before releasing an orange mist that caused all of the men to scream in pain and agony as they gripped their eyes and rolled around in pain.
"What the fuck is that?" asked Mai.
"Pepper Spray Grenades, I've been waiting for a chance to use them." Ana shot back before running out from cover with Mai following close behind her as they ran pass the screaming men and entered the compound.
"What is the meaning of this?" asked a man of Libyan descent with short black hair as he walked into the main meeting room of his compound where he noticed two Arab men looking at a computer monitor that was showing the feeds from various cameras around the compound. This man's name was Khalil Aabid, and he was the leader of this particular terrorist cell.
"We've got two intruders." One of the men yelled back as Aabid looked through at the computer screen and watched as Ana and Mai shot down three men as they came down the hallway firing off AK-47's at the them. A scowl then formed on his face as he watched Ana pull the pin on a Grenade and toss it into a room before stepping back as it went up in a violent explosion that killed the two men on the other side.
"Route everyone to those introduders and call in the heavy weapons." He yelled out as Ana and Mai arrived at a room and tossed two flashbangs inside before entering the room with their weapons raised.
"Holy shit!" said Mai as she and Ana looked around the room and figured that it must have been their armory because of its large stock of weapons. From small handguns to even Rocket Launchers this room was filled with even more weapons then the duo was expecting.
"You have any idea on how they got this many weapons here?" Mai asked as Ana moved to look over an AK-101 Assault Rifle.
"No…but we're gonna find out today." Ana shot back just as the wall to their right side blew open as a vehicle came plowing right through it.
The duo then looked on with mixed looks as they noticed that the vehicle was a military grade Insurgent with a Heavy Machine Gun mounted on the top of the vehicle and a man moving to aim it towards them.
"MOVE!" Ana yelled before grabbing Mai by the back of her shirt and pulling her out of the room as the man opened fire and sent a barrage of rounds in their direction causing both women to quickly speed down the hallway as the powerful bullets literally ripped through the walls like it was tissue paper.
"Damnit where did these guys get an Insurgent?" Mai asked with anger in her tone.
"We can ask them after we get out of here." Ana shot back before the bullets stopped coming their way and they found themselves running through the doors of a back exit that led them to an outdoor training facility.
They didn't have much time to look around the compound though as they lifted their heads and noticed that they were surrounded by masked men armed with Rifles aiming at them with angry looks on their faces.
"Glad you could join us." Came a new voice that caused the women to turn their heads and notice Aabid walking in between the men while two Insurgents came rolling into the building behind them. "I admire your tenacity for making it this far, but it's over." He stated while Ana chuckled.
"Glad you said it first." She shot back just as the men noticed a loud whistling sound coming from over their heads before a powerful explosion caught them all by surprise as they turned their heads and noticed that one of the Insurgents was now a flaming wreck and the seven men who were standing by it now lay scattered in many pieces across the area.
"Drone!" Aabid let out as he lifted his head and noticed a rather large attack drone passing over their heads while the familiar roar of its engine sounded across the battlefield.
"NOW!" Mai yelled as she and Ana rolled from cover and fired a barrage of rounds striking one of the men in the head and another in the chest before hitting one more man in both of his knees then watching as he tumbled to the ground with a loud thud.
Aabid then watched as another Drone Strike slammed into the side of the second Insurgent and with it took another ten of his soldiers with it in its attack. Before he could do anything else though he was taken off-guard as a bullet slammed into his right shoulder with enough force to send him falling backwards as Ana and Mai run up to him and started to handcuff him.
"I guess we know how this ends now." Ana let out while Aabid lifted his head and watched as the drone came around for another pass and with this strike wipe out the remainder of his forces as they tried their best to flee the area.
"Why not just kill me now?" he asked with venom in his tone.
"Because you've been busy and we want to know who helped you get busy." Mai shot back with a hint of anger in her tone.
New Arcadia Police Department
The sound of guns cocking seemed to fill the air in the back of the New Arcadia Police Station as Alison found herself strapping on her bulletproof vest and tying her hair back into a ponytail when she noticed Steve approach her with a serious look on his face.
"Are you sure this intel is really legit?" he asked while eyeing the woman closely.
"Yeah, the information we got is one hundred percent crediable." She shot back while Steve gave a low huff.
"That's what scares me about all this." He shot back while moving to rub his chin. "Military grade weapons in the hands of street gangs given to them by veterans who steal guns from bases and sells them to the highest bidder. This entire case is one big PR nightmare for all involved." Steve stated while Alison nodded her head.
"And we're gonna be at the front of all this." She replied while Steve moved to put his hand over her own and give it a gentle squeeze.
"You don't have to come with me on this one." He shot back while Alison looked into his eyes and smiled.
"I know, but I need to be there." She replied as Locke and Sawyer walked into the room with their own bulletproof vest on.
"You two ready for this?" Locke asked while Steve and Alison sent each other looks before both nodding their heads as they walked out of the locker room and noticed the other officers who would be helping them on this bust. Most of them were NOOSE officers but she could spot a few other New Arcadia Police Department Officers, Arcadia Parish Sheriffs, and FIB Agents in it as well.
It was must have been thirty of them in total and a lot of them were wearing full body gear with their faces covered. Some were carrying Mossberg 500's, some were carrying MP5 Submachine Guns, and others were carrying M4's. This wasn't the usual force they would use to serve a warrant. This was them using everything they had to survive what could be their last day alive.
Mark warned her that the GA wasn't going to giveup their guns without a fight and all she could do was hope that there wouldn't be much bloodshed and that everyone was safe. For some reason though she figured that it would take a lot more then wishing them safety. Their time was coming, whether she liked it or not.
Outside of New Arcadia
The drive to the town of Bull Haven wasn't long for Jill and the BSU members. This group was mostly composed of Mark, Lee, and Jimmy. The group wanted to go in quietly and get out quickly and figured that they could do that better with it just being the four of them.
The sun was still out, but that didn't damper their spirits on pulling off this job. It just made things a little more interesting for them.
As Jill found herself sitting in the back of the groups black van she couldn't help but to run her hand over the M4A1 Assault Rifle the group had given her for this job. They didn't believe she was really worth a shot, but after telling them that she didn't pull jobs without one they gave her one. And she had to admit she liked the weapon, it looked almost new and thanks to a number of modifications she could tell the group had made on the weapon it felt amazing. It wasn't too heavy, the butt stock had a lot of padding for less stress on the recoil, and it just felt really good in her hands.
As she sent looked to the three other BSU members, she couldn't help but to watch closely as Lee loaded a few shells into his Shotgun before putting several more in the holsters on the butt of his SPAS-12 and loading the rest in an ammo pouch he had on his right leg.
She then turned her gaze to Jimmy and watched as the man loaded 7.62 Rounds into four Magazines for his M14 EBR then loaded one into his weapon and sticking the rest in his pockets. She then watched him pull out his M9A1 Pistol and load a fresh magazine into it.
Her gaze then finally rested on Marcus who she noticed was wearing a bulletproof vest with a series of magazine holsters. She then watched him load three of them into the holsters while also sliding his Combat Knife on a holster on his left side before cocking his CM901 Assault Rifle.
"I thought this was just another in and out. What's with all the firepower?" she asked while looking at the trio closely.
"If you don't go into a job prepared for a war you might as well be waiting for a massacre." Mark pointed out while Jill gave him a raised brow.
"We're robbing some pretty dangerous characters and we want to be prepared for anything." Jimmy shot back as Robbie pulled the van up in front of a rather nice house in a rural suburb.
"This the place?" he asked while looking back at Mark who nodded his head.
"Yeah, don't let looks fool you this place is where all the magic happens in New Arcadia." Mark shot back while he, Lee, and Jimmy pulled their half face mask over their mouths and noses while Jill pulled out a dark blue scarf and wrapped over her own face.
"Let's go!" said Mark as Jimmy opened the door to the van and watched as Lee, Mark, and Jill jumped out with their weapons raised before he followed suit.
"Lee you and Jimmy take the front while me and Jill circle around and take the back." The Creole ordered causing both men to nod their heads before rushing to the front door and taking up positions on both sides of it while Mark and Jill made their way to the back of the house.
"You have any experience sweeping a house?" Mark asked while Jill shook her head.
"I mean I've done a B and E before but not like military level shit." She replied as she and Mark entered the backyard and noticed that the house had a sliding glass door that led into the kitchen.
"Just keep your eyes open and remember I'm watching your back and it would be nice to return the favor." Mark replied while the woman chuckled.
"Not my first time on a job." She let out while rolling her eyes as Lee aimed his Shotgun at the doorknob and fired a single shot that caught everyone inside by surprise as they turned their heads and watched as the Chinese man kicked open the door and came storming through with Jimmy in tow.
"Everyone on the ground now." Lee yelled out as he noticed three African American gangsters sitting down in the living room while the song Down South Hustla by Carolina Slim played on a radio.
"We got a runner." Jimmy yelled out as he noticed a skinny African American man running towards the exit before giving chase while Lee kept the other men at gunpoint.
As one man moved to grab his gun Lee quickly responded by firing a single shot from his Shotgun into the man's chest and watching as his corpse fell back into the couch with a smoking hole in the center of the man's chest.
"Anyone else want to do something stupid?" he asked as Jimmy chased the man into the kitchen and watched as he headed for the sliding door but before he could get there he watched as the glass exploded in his direction and watched as a large man stepped into the room followed by a young woman.
"No runners." Mark stated causing the man to turn his head and watch as Jimmy slammed the butt of his gun against the top of his head and successfully knock him out.
"Well that wasn't too hard." Jimmy pointed out with a slight smile only for the group to hear the loud cracking of shots being fired from what they could tell was a Pistol and an Assault Rifle.
"You had to say something." Said Jill as the trio took cover behind the cabinets only to watch as two gangsters came rushing down the stairs with one carrying a Glock 23 and the other firing an AK-47 Assault Rifle.
The duo quickly turned their guns on Lee who quickly dove behind one of the couchs for cover as the men fired wildly and actually hit one of their own with six shots that left him almost unrecognizable.
"You killed junior dogs." Yelled out the last surviving gangster as he went to draw his Pistol.
"He was in the way, now dump on this bitch." The man with Pistol yelled out as the other man went to draw on Lee only to be shot in the side of the head courtesy of Mark as he and Jimmy made their way into the living room and hit the man with the AK each with five shots to his chest, stomach, and neck before hitting the other man with shots to the stomach and shoulders.
"Brother you okay?" Mark yelled out before watching Lee slowly rise up with a half-smile on his face.
"Next time you're taking point." The Chinese man said while the trio turned their heads to the gangster with the pistol and watched as he started to crawl away from them.
"You motherfuckers are dead, do you know whose fucking place this is?" he asked while Mark, Lee, and Jimmy moved to stand over him while Jill stood back and merely watched the trio. "Them mask don't mean shit, when Joe find out who the fuck you is ain't no hiding from him." He said while Mark merely chuckled before pulling his mask off his face and eyeing the man closely.
"Whose hiding?" he asked with a chuckle.
"Damnit, I got popped by the same nigga I was talking about popping earlier." He said while Mark nodded his head.
"How the tides turn." The Creole shot back with a chuckle. "Why don't you save yourself the trouble of talking and just tell us where the safe is and we'll let you bleed out in peace." He stated while the man chuckled.
"You know what we're capable of and bleeding out or not doesn't mean shit when we're carving you up like a turkey." Lee shot back while looking to Mark who drew his Combat Knife as the gangster merely chuckled.
"That shit in the backroom in the closet. I don't know how to open that shit though." He stated while Mark nodded his head.
"Doesn't matter we got that covered." Mark shot back while sending a look to Jill headed into the bedroom where she quickly opened up the closet and noticed a rather large safe on the floor.
"Jackpot!" she let out before moving to open it up.
"Thank you for your time." Mark said before slowing stabbing the man in the stomach with his knife causing a low gurgling sound to erupt from the gangster who struggled to breath and let out his dying breath with blood starting to shoot from his mouth.
"I guess he technically is still bleeding out." Said Lee with a slight chuckle as he watched Mark pull his knife from the man's body before moving to wipe the blood off the weapon before catching something out the corner of his eyes.
"HEY!" he yelled out to the shock of Lee and Jimmy who turned their heads and watched as an African American woman with her hair in cornrows started to run out the back door of the house only to trip on the blood of the man who was shot in the kitchen and hit her head hard on the kitchen floor with enough force to leave her dazed.
As she hit the ground though the group quickly watched as she dropped a cellphone from her grasp and it slid across the room.
"Damn!" she said while slowly lifting herself up only for Lee and Jimmy to knock her back to the ground.
"You should have run when you had the chance sweetheart." Lee let out while the woman kicked and screamed.
"Let go of me now." She yelled out.
"Well we've got a new problem now." Mark let out as the duo noticed him picking up the phone and noticing that a phone call had been made to an unknown number.
"Looks like we're gonna have company soon." Lee let out while Mark and Jimmy nodded their heads and cocked their guns.
Elsewhere
The drive to the 4th Ward wasn't long for the Azteca's members as four dark blue Glendales pulled up just a block away from the St. Louis Housing Projects. The last remaining headquarters for the 4th Ward Gangsters and the only place their leaders could be hiding out.
As Ernesto stepped out of the car he watched as Miguel, Felix, Task, Adahy, and Lady Joker followed suit. Along with them there were about nine other Azteca members. Some he'd seen before but never really acquainted himself with. One of them was a man of Honduran descent with short black hair, dark brown skin, and bright brown doe like eyes.
He instantly caught the attention of Ernesto because he looked like he was no older than the age of sixteen, hell he could have been younger. When it came to recruiting guys from what was left of the Azteca's in Lincoln Parish it seemed they were almost at the bottom of their barrel. Much of the older members were dead, in prison, or had been deported. They were taking too many losses, even if their last few battles had been victories it could be argued by all what good was a victory if they lost mostly everything.
Mutual Assured Destruction!
That's the game they were playing with the Ward Gangs. They could walk into their hoods and laydown twenty guys and lose five in the process. At the end of the day though they took the bigger loss because they already had the smaller numbers and that's five bodies that they can't be filled whereas the Ward Gangs seem to replace people like nothing.
As he moved for the trunk of his car he quickly pulled out his Beretta AR6 Assault Rifle. His .44 Magnum was tucked under his shirt at all times but he was also carrying a Glock 19 just in case he needed to use more bullets. As he loaded a fresh magazine into his gun he was watched as Task pulled out his MP5 Submachine Gun, Adahy took up his AK-47, and Felix his SR-556 Assault Rifle.
The duo had gotten a recent order to replace their last so the Azteca's were good on bullets, and a lot of them were itching to use them. As he looked to Miguel he couldn't help but to watch the man slide an extra magazine for his M16A2 in the back of his pants while moving to pass a Chola a Mac-10. She was another one that caught the eyes of Ernesto.
The girl looked to be around the age of eighteen or nineteen with long black hair that hung to the center of her back. Wide dark brown eyes that seemed to somewhat sparkle and full kissable lips. The girl gave off the image of a Chola from the way she walked to the way she dressed, but as Ernesto looked her over he could tell she was scared shitless.
He'd learned to pick up on that rather quickly while he was in prison. Whenever Onda ordered new inmates to carry out hits for them, they all had the same look in their eyes. Some were tough and overconfident on the outside, but on the inside…they were emotionally tearing themselves apart.
"Let's makes these Mayates pay." Miguel let out while looking to his father who merely nodded his head before leading the group down the block where they took in the sight of the St. Louis Housing Project.
To say it was project was one thing, but it didn't look like any of the housing projects they were familiar with. The building had the tradional style of a New Orleans home with second floor patios and even chimneys, but the main thing that made them different was that many of the buildings didn't actually looked run down like most housing projects. This place was nice, better than any of them expected.
"It's a good thing there's a graveyard around here." Said Miguel as the group sent a look down the street and noticed the rather large cemetery that was outside the front of the building that was adjacent to an empty park.
"I don't like the way this looks." Said Task as he looked at the housing project and noticed that unlike most Housing Projects that were composed of high rise buildings this project was made up of a series of three story houses that seemed to stretch on for miles.
"You guys do any recon on this place before today?" asked Felix.
"Yeah we payed a few crackheads to walk up and down this place. I know the layout of it." Stated Miguel as everyone looked at him with a raised brow before watching as he pushed past them with a few of the Azteca's following him as they made their way down an alleyway that let out on the side of the building where they noticed that they were now in between two building with a third around them.
"God damn this place more like an apartment complex then a housing project." Pointed out Felix.
"Dumb Mayates don't know the difference." Yelled another Azteca member. This one was of Mexican descent that was a little on the shorter side and appeared to be close to Miguel's age. He was carrying a Remington 870 Shotgun that Ernesto noticed he was clutching tightly. He was afraid and he didn't blame him. Everything about this place seemed…off.
As they made their way down another alleyway they quickly spotted three 4th Ward gang members standing in front of an apartment talking and laughing amongst each other with smiles on their faces.
"There some of them fools go." Yelled Miguel as he turned his gun on the trio with the young Azteca member.
"No wait!" Ernesto yelled out but his words only seemed to catch the attention of Miguel as the young Azteca member squeezed the trigger on his rifle and hit one of the man with three shots to the chest and another man with a shot to the shoulder before Felix stopped him from shooting.
"Fuck they got me mane." Yelled out the man who got hit in the shoulder as the Azteca members watched the last man drew a Pistol of his own and fire off three shots at the group forcing them into cover.
"These Mexican out here try to roll on us." He yelled out while firing another three shots before moving to cover as the Chola returned fire his way.
"What are you doing?" asked Miguel as he looked to his father angrily.
"This is a setup." Ernesto yelled out as the group watched an all-black Baller come speeding down the center of the housing project with gangsters firing out the windows at the Azteca members.
"Shit!" yelled Task as he lifted his MP5 and fired off five shots that hit one of the shooters six times in the chest and watching as his body fell out the window of the car.
"Damn it move!" Ernesto yelled out as the group started to run deeper into the projects that they quickly realized was built like a maze with buildings on all sides of them.
"You motherfuckers fucked with the wrong ward." Yelled a 4th Ward Gangster as he came running from the second floor of a building with an AK-47 in his hands and firing down on the group and catching one of the Azteca's with a round in the back and watching as he hit the ground face first while the others broke apart to find cover.
The gangster then rained down more shots on the fallen Azteca quickly shredding him to pieces and leaving him lying in a pool of his own blood.
"Damn it!" yelled Task as he, Felix, and Adahy sent a barrage of rounds in the direction of the shooter causing him to retreat to cover as a well-placed shot from the man of Quechan descent struck him in the right shoulder and sent him reeling backwards screaming in pain.
"They're trying to box us in." yelled out another Azteca as the group watched the Ward Gangster quickly use their cars to block off an opening at the end of the housing project.
"You motherfuckers are dead now." Yelled a Ward Gangster as he came out firing two Mac-10's and forced the group into further cover before being hit in the side of the head from a well-placed round courtesy of Lady Joker.
"Damn it move." Yelled Ernesto as he made his way down the alleyway with the others following after him as the Ward Gangsters continued to lay down gunfire in their direction.
"Get those motherfuckers." Yelled out a Ward Gangster as he watched five gangsters make their way down the alleyway firing off a barrage of rounds from their Assault Rifles striking an Azteca member in the back and causing him to fall forward screaming.
Felix, being the closest to him, quickly moved to grab the man by his arms and drag him down the alleyway while Task and Adahy layed down covering fire.
"Lookout!" yelled Lady Joker as the group turned their heads and watched as a Silver Pickup truck pulled up at the end of an alleyway with two gangsters in the back armed with AK-47 in the tail of the truck. The crackle of their Rifles seemed to be deafing as the Azteca two more Azteca members were cut down by the weapon and left screaming in the dirt.
One of those hit seemed to be the Chola Ernesto was looking at earlier and as the round tore into her stomach and sent her flying backwards something seemed to snap in the Veterano as he turned and lifted his Rifle at the truck and quickly fired a barrage of rounds from his Assault Rifle and struck one of the men in the head before hitting the driver of the truck with five rounds to the side of the head while the last man ducked in the bed of the truck for cover.
"Put that puto in the ground." He yelled out while continuing to let off rounds with Felix, Miguel, and Adahy joining in. The force of their rounds seemed to blow out all the windows of the truck, flatten all four tires, and to their effort pierce the tail of the truck and hit the guy in the back.
"There they go!" Ernesto yelled out before feeling a sharp pain in his right shoulder as he was struck from behind by one of the five 4th Ward gangsters who was chasing them through the alleyway.
"Damn they trucking to swarm us." Said Felix as he let off a barrage of rounds before moving to reload while Ernesto with rage in his eyes pulled out his .44 Magnum with his left hand and swung around with a speed that left almost everyone in a daze and fired off a single round from the weapon that actually blew through the skull of the first man and hit the second in the cheek sending them both falling to the ground with one dead and one missing much of the side of his face.
"They're trying to force us deeper into this fucking maze of a project. We need to find some place to lay low." He yelled out while firing off four more shots with the first striking a gangster in the mouth and actually blowing a few of his teeth out the back of his skull. His next to hit a heavyset man with a Shotgun and wearing a white t-shirt. The first shot hit him in the chest, the next in the shoulder, and the last could best be describe as what split his skull completely open.
"We can't just hide." Miguel yelled out.
"I don't think we have much of a choice." Lady Joker yelled out while clutching the Chola from earlier as she lay on the ground with blood oozing from her mouth as Felix held up the man who was shot in the back.
"Whatever we do we can't stay out here to do it." Task yelled out as he fired off three shots that hit a 4th Ward gangster in the chest as he charged at him.
"I see a spot." Adahy yelled out to the confusion of the group as they watched him turn around a clear corner in front of the apartment complex and quickly kick in the door of the home. "Come on!" he ordered before watching as everyone followed his lead and headed inside of the well-furnished house.
"We can lay low here, those bitches are probably gonna be looking for us up until the badges come here and maybe we can sneak out after that." The Creek Warrior stated with a half-smile.
"I don't think we have time to wait." Said Lady Joker as all eyes in the room fell on the dying Chola who coughed up blood as Lady Joker applied pressure to her bullet wound.
"I think we got more problems than that." Task added causing the group to look into the next room where he was in and notice a young African American woman lying on the floor with her hands over her head and her son and daughter lying down next to her.
"Well this complicates things." Stated Felix as the group quickly ducked down as they heard a few Ward Gangsters running outside the apartment in search of them.
Elsewhere
The sound of footsteps approaching seemed to quickly catch the attention of Jill who whipped her head around and noticed Mark standing behind her with a serious look on his face and a cold expression in his eyes.
"You still haven't gotten that thing open?" he asked with a seriousness in his tone.
"Not since the last five minutes you asked me that." She shot back causing the Roman to curse under his breath.
"I was hoping we could do this job without a fight, but I guess we're getting one with whoever Joe decides to send our way." He stated while Jill gave a slight chuckle.
"You sound afraid, I thought you were prepared for a fight?" she asked while moving to look back at the safe.
"I fear nothing especially anything Joe has to come at me with." He shot back with a seriousness in his tone. "Just large scale gun battles in a neighborhood like this won't go too unnoticed. I'm surprised we haven't had the local sheriff's come our way after earlier." He replied while Jill gave a loud scoff.
"I'll continue to work, just try and keep those assholes away from me. Cracking this safe isn't exactly easy. I wasn't expecting your old boss to have the same kind of safes used by millionaires." She shot back.
"He's a drug dealer and a paranoid one at that." The Creole shot back. "Un gros a cela." He added in French causing Jill to give a slight chuckle.
As the duo talked amongst themselves Lee found himself standing in the alleyway across the street from the house where Robbie had parked the groups van so they could make a quick escape out the back.
"If you hear shooting don't leave this spot only if you see us coming out the back or the police show up." The Chinese man stated while Robbie nodded his head.
"I remember protocol brother." Robbie shot back while Lee nodded his head before he and Lee noticed a Caucasian man wearing a sweater vest over a white button up and khaki shorts walking down the street.
"Hello Hipsters man." Said Lee as the man walked around the front of the house where he quickly caught the eye of Jimmy who was looking out the window in the front of the house watching as the man went by. He then watched as another man wearing a black jacket with the hood over his head slowly approached him.
"Good morning man." He said only to go wide eyed as he watched the figure lift his head and noticed that he was wearing a white hockey mask. Then before he could make a move watch as the masked man lifted up a chrome M9A1 Beretta and fire off a single shot that struck him once in once in the right shoulder and sent him falling on his knees clutching his wound.
The gunshot was loud and quickly caught the attention of almost everyone in the neighborhood as Lee nodded his head to Robbie before rushing back towards the house while Mark looked to Jill and simply told her to "Hurry" before heading up the stairs.
"Don't die on me." She yelled back as Mark made his way to the front of the house where he noticed Jimmy cocking his M14 while Lee ran through the backdoor carrying his Shotgun. The trio quickly watched in horror as the masked man moved to aim his weapon at the center of the man's head and fired a point-blank shot that forever silenced the Hipster while an old gray van came speeding down the street.
"Get to your positions." Mark yelled out as Jimmy quickly moved to run upstairs while forced open the front door and ran out with his Shotgun raised and fired a Single off a single slug that hit the man in the chest and sending him taking a few steps back while giving a low grunt in pain.
"Shit body armor." Lee yelled out in rage as the group watched the sliding door of the van swing open and five men each wearing Balaclavas and either black leather jackets or green bomber jackets over bulletproof vest. Two men were carrying G36 Assaults Rifles, another was carrying an MP5K Submachine Gun, and two more were carrying Tavor Assault Rifles.
"Shit get down." Mark yelled out before forcing Lee to the ground as the five men opened up on the house in a hail of gunfire that split wood, shattered glass, and tore through the couch causing the feathers inside to fill the air.
"Who are these assholes?" Lee asked while Mark gave a low growl as he looked out the door and noticed that the men had taken up a firing position side by side each other in their Assault of the house.
"Don't know but whoever they are they're well trained, more so then the average Ward guy." Mark shot back while the man wearing the hockey mask sent a look to the man carrying the MP5K and ordered him to charge inside the house.
He quickly complied and rushed through the doors but as he scouted out the room he failed to notice Mark and Lee laying on the ground next to him until Lee fired a single slug from his Shotgun that hit the gunmen in the ankle with enough force to actually sever his foot from his leg leaving a bloody stump that caused the man to scream out in pain while Mark fired off four shots that hit the man in his body armor with only two successfully breaking it and causing him to fall backwards and wildly fire off shots as he fell.
"You motherfucker." He yelled out only to be forever silenced as Lee put another slug into his body this time in the skull.
"Pieces of-." One of the men with the Tavor yelled out before he two was hit by well placed round that caught him in the top of the head courtesy of Jimmy who found himself taking up a Snipers position on the second floor of the home.
"Boom Headshot!" Jimmy yelled out as he fired another round that was aimed at the second man with a Tavor but before the round could hit the man barrel rolled out of the way while the other two with rolled backwards over a car that was parked across the street and used it for cover.
"No escape bitch!" Mark yelled out as he fired off five more shots at the man Jimmy tried to hit and managed to strike him in the back of the legs and the asshole while Lee fired a well-placed shot and got him in the shoulder.
"Team Takedown!" Jimmy yelled out as he added two more shots of his own that hit the gunmen in the back of the head and left him lying in a pool of blood on the street.
After seeing another one of his men fall the gunmen in the hockey mask quickly ordered the two remaining gangsters to press their attack. The duo quickly followed their orders and let off more rounds into the house putting bullet holes through the wall just above the heads of Mark and Lee who lay prone on the floor. He then nodded his head towards the van and watched as man with another MP5K came rushing out.
"Get in there." He yelled out as Jimmy caught sight of the man along with Robbie who continued to sit in the van.
"You got a guy coming from around back brothers." The redhead yelled out as loud as he could to get the attention of Mark and Lee.
"I'm on it!" the Chinese man quickly volunteered as he crawled across the floor into the kitchen while Mark blindly fired shots out the broken window before moving to reload.
As Jill heard the rounds going off around she quickly sped through trying to open the safe. Her father had taught her a lot of ways to pick the locks on safes but this one was digital and on an interface that made things a lot harder for her. So she was going through just about everything she knew.
"Damnit I knew I should have kept that Grenade Launcher." Mark yelled out as he noticed that the gunmen outside had now shot a wide hole into the front of the house just a few inches from his feet.
As Lee made it into the kitchen he quickly watched as the doorknob was blown off the door that was seconds later kicked open with the gunmen coming inside with his weapon raised. Before he could fire off a shot though the BSU member was on him and quickly moved to wrestle the gun out of his hands.
"Get off!" he yelled out before sending a headbutt to Lee that sent the Chinese man stepping backwards before responding with a knee strike to the man's right hip that caused him to buckle before his gun was thrown from his hands by Lee who watched it slide across the floor.
Before Lee could celebrate though the man had sent a hard right jab that caught him directly in the mouth and sent him taking a few steps back. As he went to follow up with another punch Lee quickly lifted his right arm and blocked it before responding with two punches of his that caught the man in the face. He then went to finish him off with a kick but before he could hit him he watched in shock as the man trapped his leg in place with his right before grabbing his throat with his left and sending him backwards until he collided back first with the cabinet just above the sink.
"Die Motherfucker!" He yelled out before drawing a knife and moving to stab Lee in the throat only to be held back as Lee grabbed his arm and struggled to keep the blade away from his neck.
While Lee struggled with his attacker Jimmy was carrying out a trick he learned in the military. He slowly crept out of the room he was once in and moved to another and fired off two shots in the window. This soon caught the attention of the two gunmen on the ground and the man in the hockey mask who quickly lifted their guns and sent a barrage of fresh round into the window without realizing that Jimmy was moving to another room.
The gunmen on the ground didn't really have an angle to shoot at Jimmy who they thought was well-covered, so as one of them moved to get a better angle the Army Cadet struck and fired off five rounds that caught the man in his vest, neck, and face and sent him falling backwards with a loud thud.
As the last sent his remaining rounds at the room Jimmy was in he quickly realized he'd run dry and went to change magazines without realizing Mark was watching him. The Louisiana Creole took his chance and fired a barrage of rounds out the doorway of the home striking the man all over his body and watching as he hit the ground with a thud before turning his attention to the man with the hockey mask.
"You're next." Mark yelled out before lifting his Rifle only to be taken-off guard as he was shot in the side by another man firing a Pistol from the gray van. "Jesus Christ what are you clowns, how many people did you fit in that damn van." Mark yelled out while gripping his side. He'd given his best vest to Alison for her to be safe with and he was a cheaper one and he was already regretting it. The bullet didn't go all the way through the vest but it did lodge itself in the vest and the hot tip of the round was burning into his side.
"Enough!" the man in the hockey mask yelled out as he drew a Knife and charged Mark who quickly moved to evade him while the man at the van quickly climbed in the drivers seat.
"Stop fighting it." The man with the knife to Lee's throat yelled out as he inched it closer to the Chinese man who grunted in pain as he struggled to keep the man's knife back.
As the Chinese man struggled the sound of a gunshot quickly caught his attention as he watched the side of the man's mask be ripped off as a well-placed round actually blew off his ear and caused him to scream out in pain. This momentary distraction quickly gave Lee the edge as he sent a chop to the man's throat before getting from under him and forcing his head into the sink.
"Who's dying now." Lee yelled out before forcing the man's nose down the drain of the sink and quickly realizing that it had a garbage disposer. This drew a smile from the Chinese man as he quickly flipped the switch on it and heard the loud wails of a banshee mix with the metallic clanging as the man's nose was shredded to pieces by the blades of the machine and filled the sink with his blood.
As the man struggled to fight Lee, who could feel his grip slipping the Chinese man quickly ended the fight by picking up the man's knife and stabbing him repeatedly in the back of the head until he lodged the blade so deep that he could pull it out any more.
"Damn!" he said while taking a few seconds to breath before looking back and noticing Jill standing behind him with a smile on her face.
"I got the safe open." She said while holding up a duffel bag that Lee could see was swelled.
"Took you long enough." He let out with a chuckle.
The sound of gunshots had faded but the sound of blows being landed seemed to be getting the attention of everyone as Mark battled it out with the hockey mask wearing man.
As he went to throw two punches at Mark the Creole easily blocked them before moving to give a sharp kick to the man's knee only for him to take a step back. Mark then responded by moving throw a chop at the man's throat but he easily ducked it and tried to shoulder tackle Mark who firmly stood his ground and moved to knee the man in the face catching him three times in the mask before he responded by throwing a punch to Mark's thigh and sending him limply stepping back angrily.
As the duo stared each other down Mark wondered exactly who this guy was. He wasn't Doom because he doubted the Carcer City Gangster wouldn't be hiding his face and he wasn't a Ward Gangster because he wouldn't be able to hold out this long against him. While in Mexico, Mark was trained in Krav Maga, a military self-defense fighting style. This guy seemed to be trained the same and that left the youngest Roman exactly who this asshole was.
Before he could think more on the matter though the man charged at him with his knife and quickly swung at Mark who drew his own knife and prepared for him. The duo didn't get the chance to clash though as a loud crashing sound caught the attention of Mark as he noticed a familiar black van slam into the side of the man and send him flying across the street.
"What's up with you and fighting with your fist?" Asked Robbie as he eyed Mark angrily from the front window.
"What's up with you and not following orders?" Mark yelled out.
"I'm a maverick fuck orders." Robbie shot back while Mark shook his head before looking at the door and watching as Jill rushed out of the house with Lee and Jimmy.
"We got the money let's go." Jill yelled out as Mark sent a look to the man with hockey mask before rushing over to him and quickly forcing the mask off the man and seeing the African American man with a prominent neck tattoo lying on the ground.
"Mark come on!" Jimmy yelled out before the Roman gave a low growl then hopped into the back of the van as Robbie drove away from the scene of the massive gunfight.
"Well that was fun." Said Robbie as Lee flipped him the bird.
"Did you see anything of value on that guy brother?" Jimmy asked while looking to Mark who nodded his head.
"On his neck he had 2-7-1 tattooed on the side." He let out while Jill and Robbie gave him confused looks.
"The fuck is that the name of a street?" Robbie asked.
"The correspond to the letters in the alphabet that match the number, B-G-A." Jimmy let out.
"Muujai." Lee stated. "Fucking Somali piece of shit must have called in for some support against us." He added while Mark nodded his head.
"Seems that way." He said before taking a few seconds to breath.
Meanwhile
The sound of helicopter blades spinning seemed to fill the ears of Queen as she found herself sitting in the pilot seat of her chopper as she flew overhead the convoy of vehicles as they used the freeway to make their way into Lincoln Parish in the city of Jenner, Louisiana.
As she flew overhead she couldn't help but to smile as the Apostles drew closer to their drop off location for the guns. Travelling cross country with guns has a lot of hazards and she was happy they didn't receive any interference and the final leg of their journey was approaching.
Before she had time to celebrate though she quickly noticed that the traffic around the freeway was starting to backup and converge into one lane. As the trucks below her moved to stop in the traffic she quickly flew overhead and noticed that instead of seeing one of the usual mid-afternoon wrecks there was actually a police checkpoint with five uniformed officers from the Arcadia Parish Sheriff's Department stopping people and checking their identifications.
"Shit!" Queen yelled under her breath as she looked down at the convoy of vehicles with the thought in her mind that a few of the guys driving may have had warrants back in Carcer or the police may wish to check the trucks.
"Queen what you want us to do about this shit girl." Came the voice of one of the drivers over the Walkie Talkie as she gritted her teeth in anger.
"Motherfuckers." She said with anger in her tone before grabbing the Walkie Talkie and yelling out. "Fuck them badges slam right through those fucking pigs."
Her order was quickly complied with as each driver of the moving trucks and escort vehicles turned their wheels, slammed on the gas, and sent their vehicles speeding onto the empty roadway and towards the officers checkpoint.
"Lookout!" yelled one officer as he jumped out of the way with three others while one was unfortunate enough to not make it out in time and be slammed hard by the lead vehicle as it rammed through the roadside barricades with enough force to tear them to shreds with one getting stuck underneath it.
"They didn't stop!" yelled out one of the Sheriff's over his Walkie Talkie.
"Ten-Four we're on the move." Yelled Locke over his Walkie Talkie as he found himself watching as Sawyer and a few other Noose Officers were starting to setup a spike strip in the middle of the freeway while Alison was directing a few of the officers to block the end of the freeway with their vehicles while a more NOOSE Officers stood side by side with members of the NAPD, Arcadia and Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Departments, and a few other FIB Agents.
"I don't care if these assholes surrender or not, I'm shooting me a nigger today." Stated a Lincoln Parish Sheriff who looked to be in his late twenties. His statement seemed to catch the attention of Alison who watched as the man cocked his Tactical Mossberg 500 with a wide smile.
"Jesus!" she let out under her breath. Mark often warned her about how racist many of the Sheriff's department in Louisiana were. With Lincoln Parish being at the top of the list in his books. She often thought he was just exaggerating but now to be able to see just what he meant up close in personal made her stomach turn.
"Stay focus people here they come." Yelled Locke as he raised his Pistol before a side with Sawyer who had his Remington 870 at the ready while Alison lifted her USP .45 and took a stand behind her squad car as she noticed the convoy of vehicles coming over the horizon.
"THERE's A SPIKE STRIP, STOP NOW!" Queen yelled out over her Walkie Talkie causing all of the drivers to slam on breaks and earning a sea of mixed looks from the officers who watched as the two escort vehicles in the front slammed on breaks but were still pushed into the spike strip by the heavy trucks plowing into their backs and then moving to their sides.
"Damn!" said Queen as she looked at the scene with an angry expression on her face as she noticed her convoy had now come to stop in the middle of the road and there was now a standoff taking place between the police and her Apostles. She then watched as an elderly Caucasian man wearing a Arcadia Parish Sheriff's outfit stepped up with a megaphone raised in his hands.
"This is the State Police and we're asking that you step out of your vehicles with all of your hands raised." He ordered with the authority of that of a drill sergeant as Alison and the others sent looks to the various vehicles and noticed that nobody seemed to be stepping out of them so they had to remain on their guard.
"I said-!" the officer started before the loud Crack of a gunshot going off left everyone stunned and in a state of shock as they watched the man fall backwards with a bullet wound in the center of his chest.
The officers then watched in surprise as a man wearing two black bandannas wrapped around his face hopped from the backseat of one of the escort vehicles with an AK-47 Assault Rifle in his hands. Then to their surprise watch as the doors of the escort vehicles open up along with the backdoors of the slide open and a wave of gangsters armed with various weapons come pouring out of it.
"Fire!" Locke yelled out as loud as he could. Despite the big talk of the Lincoln Parish Sheriff the first person to fire off a shot from their weapon was Sawyer who pretty much threw away the rulebook on warning shots and fired a single shot from his Shotgun that struck the Apostle with the AK in the center of his chest and sending him tumbling forward.
The other officers soon followed suit as a NOOSE Officer armed with an MP5 Submachine Gun unloaded a barrage of rounds at an Apostle member armed with two Mac-10's only to miss the gangster who took cover behind one of the trucks before firing off a barrage of rounds at the NOOSE Officer with seven of them hitting the side of the car he was using for cover and three more hitting the NOOSE Officer in the chest and getting lodged in his vest.
"Shit!" he screamed out while grabbing the bullets as they burned through his vest and into his skin just as another Apostle with long black dreadlocks hopped from the back of one truck carrying an M4A1 Assault Rifle and managed to finish the man off with a shot to the center of his neck that caused a geyser effect as the fallen officers blood splashed into the face of the female officer standing next to him.
"Motherfucker!" she yelled out while trying to wipe the blood from her eyes only to be knocked to the ground by Alison as the man with the M4 fired a barrage of rounds her way.
"Keep your head down." Alison yelled out as she looked to a NOOSE Officer who was hit in the arm and angrily gritted his teeth before lifting his MP5 Submachine Gun and firing off six rounds at the gangster with the M4 only to watch him move to cover.
"How we gonna arrest them like this?" asked Alison as she looked to Sawyer who just finished loading another salvo of shells into his Shotgun and smiled at her.
"A dirt nap is the same as a cell in my opinion." He shot back before jumping from cover and racking his Shotgun striking one gangster in the leg and another in the arm causing them both to fall to the ground screaming in pain while Alison kept her head down and occasionally blind fired without any of her bullets hitting a single target.
"Bring out that artillery." Queen yelled over radio as she did another pass over the battlefield and watched as five Apostle members ran to the back of a truck and pulled open a weapons crates to reveal that it contained four PKM Light Machine Guns.
As four of the five gang members went to grab one of the LMG's, the fifth member went to another crate and quickly opened it to reveal something that made his eyes widen and smile.
"Keep them boxed in." yelled out Locke as he fired three shots from his Pistol that struck an Apostle in the chest and sent him falling forward as the round exploded out of his back in a bloody display while three more Apostles moved to cover behind one of the stalled Ballers and only jumped up to blindly fire.
"Shield move up!" yelled out one of the NOOSE leaders as he watched five officers armed with Riot Shield start to make their way up towards the Apostles who merely watched in frustration as their bullets ricocheted off the heavy shield.
One of the Apostles even tried to charge one of the officers but as he got close the man quickly struck him in the center of his body with his shield forcing the man to fall forward with a bloody nose before striking him over the head and knocking him out.
"We got this now." Said Locke before the crackle of gunshots were interrupted by a series of shots that could be best described as small explosions as the four men with LMG's ran from behind the trucks and quickly opened fire on the men with the Riot Shield forcing them to stand their ground and give low grunts of pain.
Their shields were holding out against the hail of gunfire but they knew it wouldn't last for long as the powerful 7.62 Rounds started to dent the shields and do damage to the arms of the officer who fought with all their might against the force of the rounds that seemed to just keep coming thanks to each having a 100 round drum magazine.
"FUCK!" yelled one of the Shield Officer as he struck in the foot by a stray bullet and fell to the ground leaving himself exposed to the gunfire.
Like cheese!
That was the best statement Alison could make as she looked to the officer after he was hit by what must have been over twenty rounds. His entire body was covered in holes, some that went all the way through and some that didn't. As his blood stained the ground underneath him she found herself frozen in fear.
She'd seen so many bodies in her lifetime, but never like that. Never enough for her to truly be stopped in her tracks and left in utter shock and disgust.
"Damnit!" yelled Sawyer as he watched the other shield officers follow similar fates as the other man as the gangsters with the LMG's pushed forward and barrages a police car with so many rounds that the car alarm was set off and the three officers who were using it for cover also fell with it.
"Fuck you bitches." Yelled an Apostle as he sent a barrage of rounds Locke's way and forced the man into cover along with the others. "We getting off this bridge and we popping your asses to do it." He added while Sawyer blindly fired from cover before looking to Alison who seemed to still be frozen in fear.
"Now ain't the time to space out red." He yelled to her breaking the woman from her trance just long enough to watch an African American NAPD officer take several rounds to the chest before watching the group move to reload while the other Apostles sent fire their way.
"At this rate we're all going to die." She let out.
"Thanks for the moral support." Sawyer shot back while Locke took a peek along the side of squad car and noticed the Apostle members with the LMG's struggling to load their weapons.
"She's right if we want to put an end to this we're gonna need backup." Locke said before the loud scream that they thought belonged to a female but upon looking they saw that it was the same officer who made the racist joke early on.
"is that an RPG?" he yelled out causing the group to turn their heads in the direction of the Apostles where they quickly spotted an overweight gang member with an RPG-7 running from behind the truck and raising the weapon towards the group.
"HOLY SHIT!" all the surviving officers seemed to say at once as the squeezed the trigger on the weapon and sent the explosive speeding towards them before watching it hit a squad car and a violent explosion soon followed suit.
17th Ward, New Arcadia
The sound of the police scanners sending reports of a violent explosion and gunfight involving the police and gang members seemed to instantly catch the ears of Manfred and Link as the duo looked at their television and noticed a new report on the incident with live coverage from a new chopper.
"We calling him?" Manfred asked while looking to Link and watching him pull out his cellphone.
"Yeah and get Buck, Davey, and Eddy here. We need all guns on this one." Link added while dialing a familiar cellphone number then looking back at the television where he watched the gangster with the RPG lift his weapon and fire a Rocket in the direction of the chopper only to miss it.
"You better move fast brother." He said under his breath with worry in his tone.
Elsewhere
The sound of muffled whimpers seemed to fill the air of the small apartment as Felix found himself standing over the woman and child they'd discovered living in the apartment. Both had been tied up, blindfolded, locked in the bedroom closet for…their own safety.
It had been almost an hour since the shooting stopped and the police arrived. They didn't seem to stay to long though or do any real work for that matter. They seemed to be preoccupied with something else and the 4th Ward Gangsters knew that.
The Ward Gangsters must have known that there was no way the Azteca's would have slipped out of their hood unnoticed. So they figured they must have been hiding in someone house or that someone was hiding them.
They weren't going door to door to check everyone's home instead they were waiting with guys on almost every corner at every turn of the maze like neighborhood. With that in mind the Azteca's knew it wasn't safe for them to stay on the streets so they decided to stay put and just wait for backup to come their way.
"Fucking Mayates are crawling all over the place." Said Miguel angrily as he looked to Ernesto and the others.
"They know we're still here and they can't go door to door without disturbing people and having them call the police on them. So they're just waiting for us to poke our heads out." Ernesto stated with little emotion in his tone. "My Varrio back in Los Santos did something similar when a bunch of Vagos came into our hood and got stuck." He finished earning the attention of everyone.
"And how did you get them out?" Task asked while Ernesto took a few seconds to respond.
"We waited them out and struck." He finished before looking to Miguel. "If we're gonna get out of here alive, we're gonna have to wait for backup." He added before walking away while the others continued to sit in silence with only the sound of the whimpering people and the gangsters outside filling the air.
"Say we got one coming this way." Reported Felix causing everyone to turn their heads and look through the blinds of the window where they noticed an African American man with a shaved head, gold earrings, and wearing a wife beater, baggy black jeans, and brown boots making his way towards the apartment.
"I guess this must be his casa." Said Miguel as he watched Ernesto and Adahy moved to stand alongside the door as the gangster moved to unlock the front door of his apartment.
"Yo Alicia where you at-." He started while walking into the apartment only to be tackled to the ground by Adahy who moved to put his hand over the man's mouth while he struggled to break free from his grasp.
"Motherfuck-." He started while throwing a punch only to be stopped by Ernesto who raised his .44 Magnum to the man and aimed it at his head.
"Don't move or say another fucking word Pendejo." He ordered before watching as the man went silent before any angry expression spread across his face.
"The fuck you do to my girls?" he asked with anger in his tone only to be silenced as Task struck him over the back his head with his SMG successfully knocking him out.
"What we gonna do about this fool?" asked the young Azteca male.
"I say we put a bullet in him now." Lady Joker replied while pulling the handle back on her pistol only to be stopped by Felix.
"If we shoot him it'll only bring everyone down on top of us." Replied Task. "I think we should just tie him up and-." The Lakota started before a loud cracking sound caused him to shut up along with the others as they looked to Adahy and noticed him holding onto the man by his head before tossing his limp body down on the floor.
"There no noise at all." The Creek Warrior stated as he spit on the body of the man while Felix, Task, and the others looked at him with wide eyes after he'd just broke the neck of the gangster.
Before anyone else could speak on the matter they were interrupted by the sound of Ernesto's cellphone ringing and the sound of an explosion in the distance that caused them all to turn their heads and notice members of the 4th Ward gang starting to make their way towards the sound of the noise.
"Our rides here." Ernesto said while looking to the others who each nodded their heads before following him out the apartment with Task taking a few seconds to look back at the dead gangster who lay on the floor and remembering the woman and child in the closet. He wanted to go back and let them out, but he didn't know how either of them would react to seeing the dead man on the floor. So he decided just to leave the door wipe open for anyone to see him from outside and call the police who would find the duo in the closet it seemed to be the best option.
"This way!" Ernesto yelled out as the group ran out a series of alleyways where they noticed nine 4th Ward Gangsters shooting at six Vagos who were using Glendales as cover.
"Come on!" Cruz yelled out with as he waved to Ernesto and the others who ran towards his car while sending rounds in the direction of the 4th Ward Gangsters and striking one man in the chest and another in the top of his head shaving off a piece of the Mohawk that was on the top of his head.
"Talk about taking a little off the top." Said Miguel as he fired another four shots and struck a Gangster in the side before moving for one of the Glendales the Vagos were driving and hopping inside with Ernesto and the others as they noticed twelve more gangsters making their way towards them.
"Let's go!" Cruz yelled out while climbing into his car with Ernesto, Miguel, and a Vago with a shaved head and with tattoos of teardrops on his face.
As he drove out of the area with the other two vehicles following close the gangsters seemed to stop giving chase as they turned a corner and started making their way back to Irish Point.
"Thanks for the save carnale." Ernesto let out while Cruz gave a slight chuckle.
"Next time you want to do a hit on the 4th Ward in their own backyards you better talk to me first because I could have told you that you were walking into a deadzone." He stated while Ernesto eyed him closely. "A while back when the 4th Ward and the 3rd Ward were really at each others throats some of the Roman Boyz tried to storm that place…most of them in those cemeteries around the corner." Cruz shot back while Ernesto sat in silence before looking back at Miguel who also sat in silence.
Today didn't seem to go the way any of them wanted it to and neither of them could blame nobody but themselves for that.
Meanwhile
The sound of muffled ringing in her heads seemed to be what brought Alison back to reality as she started to lift her blood stained head and fell around her chest only to instead notice something that literally made her widen her eyes in shock, sadness, and most of all fear.
There lay on the ground just a mere few feet away from her lay the severed head of the same Sheriffs Officer who earlier made the racist comment. Aside from being forced from the man's shoulder his head was also bruised, bloodied, burned, and looked somewhat dented. It was something she wasn't used to seeing, it was almost like a full-scale war was happening right here and here she was apart of it. Watching it unfold in all the gory details.
No sooner had she said that she couldn't help but feel a sharp pain in her side and look down to notice that she'd been hit by a piece of shrapnel. Mark's vest seemed to hold out rather well against much of the force of the explosion and a large portion of the shrapnel but she knew it wasn't impervious to everything. There was blood coating her, she suspected most of it wasn't from her wounds though instead it came from the dozens of bodies that surrounded her.
"Damn!" she let out while moving to rise up only to feel someone grab her by both her shoulders and force her behind one of the few police cars that wasn't in flames. As she looked back at the man she quickly noticed that it was Locke who was pulling her back. The man looked worse for wear with his own bloody head injury that looked almost like a dark red crater on the top of his bald head.
"Well look whose still in the world of the living." Said Sawyer as he looked to Alison who clutching his bleeding shoulder with a few other officers who'd been dinged up in the rocket attack.
"I think they're getting ready to leave." Said Locke as he looked back and noticed that a few of the Apostles were moving to clear the spike strip from the road while another group were trying to push the cars with the flats out of the way while the men with the LMGs stood back with their weapons raised on the officers.
"I say let them go, there's no way we can stop them with what little we have." Stated Sawyer while Alison forced herself up.
"We can't just let those guns end up on the street." She let out with pain her voice.
"I don't think we have much of a choice as of this point Ali." Stated Locke as Queen flew her chopper over the groups heads with a smile on her face.
"We've cleared the roads and are ready to go." Came the voice of one of the Apostles on the ground causing the woman to give a light chuckle as she looked down at Alison and the remaining officers with a smile.
"Good, you got a few cops behind that last cop car down there though. Slaughter them pigs." She let out with a sadistic smile while the man with the RPG lifted his weapon and aimed at the final police car.
"See ya-!" he started before a loud splotching sound went off and the man fell backwards and fired the RPG into the skies causing Queen to look on with a confused expression as the rocket gave out in the explosive and it fell from the skies into the waters alongside the bridge.
"What the fuck was that?" Queen yelled over her radio while the gangsters with the LMG's turned to look back at the man with the RPG and quickly noticed that he lay on the ground with a gunshot in his right eye that was just squirting blood on the ground.
"The hell!" said Sawyer with a raised brow as he looked at the Apostles with a raised brow.
"I was wondering when he'd show up." Locke let out causing everyone to turn their heads and notice a an all-black Moonbeam and a white Bison speeding towards them with men firing off shots at the Apostle members who could only move to take cover.
Locke figured Mark and the rest of BSU would show up and for a rescue if Alison was put in any real danger and it seemed his hunch was correct.
"Took him long enough." Said Sawyer as the group watched both vehicles came to screeching halts alongside their police car and almost everyone inside piled out with their weapons raised.
"Take these fuckers out!" Mark yelled out as he hopped out of the van with his CM901 Assault Rifle raised while Davey and Eddy jumped from the back tail of the truck tossing homemade tear gas canisters at the Apostle members who were completely engulfed in the white smoke and started to cough.
"Mind telling me why we're here?" asked Jill as she fired a barrage of rounds at an Apostle and struck him several times in the leg before watching him fall forward screaming in pain.
"Long story we can't go into, just shoot and we'll throw in a couple of extra dollars." Lee replied while firing a single shot from his Tactical Mossberg 500 that hit a Carcer City thug in the shoulder before doing the same with one of the men carrying an LMG.
"You better!" Jill shot back before shooting another one of the men with the LMG in the center of his neck and blowing his voicebox literally out of his mouth.
"Hey we need to arrest some of these guys asshole." Sawyer yelled out as Mark rolled his eyes and responded by shooting a man with an LMG in the kneecaps and then another in his right arm with the powerful 5.56 Rounds blowing much of his flesh off.
"We're putting a risk on ourselves for being here brother." Said Jimmy as he shot another gangster in the thigh and watched him fall down but try to raise up with his gun in the air.
"I know, that's why if you want to leave you can do so. I'm not stopping you." Mark shot back while the redheaded man chuckled.
"I would but I'm having too much fun brother." He shot back while firing a single shot that hit an Apostle in the ass just as the remaining men with the LMG's sent a barrage of rounds in their direction and forced Mark and the others into cover as the other Apostle members started to add their own bullets into the salvo.
"Forget about them, just get the guns out of there." Queen yelled over her Walkie Talkie as a few of the Apostle members stopped shooting at the group and made their way back towards the trucks.
"They're trying to leave." Yelled out Jimmy.
"Can't kneecap this guy." Said Buck as he jumped from cover and fired off twelve shots in the windshield of the lead truck and managed to hit the driver five times in the chest and once in the throat causing him to slam his foot on the gas petal and send the vehicle speeding their way.
"That went better in my head." Buck said while Mark cursed under his breath.
"Everybody move!" Mark yelled out as he, Jill, and the other BSU members jumped out of the way of the truck while Locke, Alison, and Sawyer struggled to move out of the side just as the truck started to turn forcing the trio to move closer to the edge of the bridge.
"Kill those motherfuckers." Yelled one of the GA members as he sent a barrage of rounds at the BSU members and the officers including Alison who found herself starting to lose her footing near the edge of the bridge.
"ALI!" Locke yelled out causing everyone to turn their heads and notice the redheaded woman fall backwards over the railing while Locke and Sawyer moved to grab her.
"Ah fuck!" said Buck as Jill watched in awe as Mark darted across the bridge with speeds not many of them knew he was known for before leaping over the railings and diving in the murky waters for the woman.
"You motherfuckers are dead now." Yelled out Lee as he and the other BSU members fired a barrage of rounds at the remaining vehicles while Queen flew overhead with an angry expression on her face.
"Mother-!" she started before a loud explosion caught her attention as she looked at the controls of her chopper and noticed that she was starting to lose control of her plane.
"Nice one Manny!" said Link as he stood back with Manfred who was holding the controllers of one of his drones in his hands.
"Feel lucky she got low enough for me to detonate the bomb." The Indian man shot back while the duo watched as the helicopter started to spin out of control earning the eye of the officers who looked up and watched as it started to move closer and closer to the ground before finally crashing down on top of the water.
"That's taken care of but I think we need to move, there is an entire wave of badges on the way." Manfred stated while Link nodded his head before pulling out a road flare and firing it up into the sky earning the attention of the BSU members, Locke, and Sawyer.
"Cops are on their way we gotta go." Jimmy ordered.
"Not without Mark or Alison." Lee shot back before moving to the edge of the bridge with the others who looked down at the waters and noticed Mark swimming to shore with one arm while an unconscious Alison was in his other arm.
"I got you." Mark let out while continuing to paddle his way to shore with Alison bundled tightly under his arm. After a few minutes of striding to shore though he quickly watched in surprise as Queen crawled out of the water soaked in water and gasping for air.
Upon noticing the youngest Roman and Alison she quickly drew her pistol and fired off three shots at Mark with two of the shots hitting the water and another striking Mark in the shoulder as he curled himself around the body of Alison to shield her from the rounds.
"You punk ass bitch you fucked up everything." She yelled out while Mark lowered his head as she fired off two more shots that managed to strike him twice in the back of his bulletproof vest. The Kevlar was holding up but he didn't know for how long it would be that didn't matter to him though as he clutched Alison closer.
"Now you about to join the other cops." She yelled out before preparing to fire her last few rounds at the youngest Roman before being stopped by the sound of guns cocking and turning around to notice that she was surrounded by twelve men and one woman.
"Not all of us are cops so remember that when you fire that last shot." Said Lee as he walked up to the woman and pulled off his mask to reveal his face to her while Davey and Eddy moved to pull Mark and Alison out of the water.
"I'm sorry brother." Said Buck as Mark quickly flipped him the middle finger before lying Alison on the ground and making his way over to Queen while drawing his Combat Knife.
"You a cop what you gonna do to me pig?" she asked with a sick smile that quickly faded to a pain filled expression as Mark grabbed her by her neck and started to slice into her right cheek causing her to scream out in pain as the sharp blade dug into her skin.
After seeing him do this Locke and Sawyer couldn't help but to cringe at the sight along with Jill who was still confused by what was going on before her. The trio was cringing but Lee, Jimmy, and the others seemed like they were enjoying the scene as they each looked on with slight smiles on all their faces.
"I ain't no cop, but I do punish those that tries to hurt a particular cop." Mark let out before pulling off his mask and revealing his face to the stunned woman.
"You fake ass cop saving mother-." She started before Mark threw a hard right hook that hit her in the side and left her falling to her knees winded.
"You a mouthy Carcer bitch and I don't see why because Doom ain't here to save you and I think these cops won't save you with all their buddies you killed today." Mark let out while pressing his knife to the woman's throat and watching her whimper in pain. "Don't worry though he'll see you soon, well what's left of you." Mark let out.
"Stop!" Alison ordered causing everyone to turn their heads to her and notice her looking at Mark with sadness in her eyes and exhaustion in her breath as she started up at him. "Don't kill her, she'll get what she deserves Mark…but you don't have to be the executioner anymore. So please let her go and walk away." She let out while giving a slight whimper of pain as Mark turned back to Queen and took his blade off her before sliding it back in his holster.
"Let's go brothers." Mark let out while pushing Queen into the arms of Locke before moving to turn away from Queen with the other BSU members and Jill in tow as the sound of police sirens going off could be heard in the distance.
"Put that one in a cell made of stone." Mark let out while keeping his back to Locke and Sawyer before walking over to Alison and kneeling down beside her and running his hand over her face.
"Can you move?" he asked with concern in his tone while the woman gave a slight chuckle.
"Yeah, I'm just gonna lay her and rest until an ambulance arrives." She let out while Mark nodded his head before moving to stand up only to be stopped by Alison grabbing his right hand and forcing him to look back down at her.
"You did the right thing." She said with a wide smile that caused Mark to nod his head.
"I'll call you later." He replied while Alison nodded her head before watching him walk off with Lee, Jimmy, Jill, Link, Manfred, Buck, Davey, Eddy, and Robbie in tow.
"That was shocking, I wasn't expecting him to just let her go." Stated Sawyer.
"I wasn't expecting him to dive in the water after her." Locke shot back while sending a look to Sawyer as he forced a pair of handcuffs on Queen.
"I can, you haven't seen the two of them actually together." Stated Sawyer earning the full attention of Locke as he forced Queen on the ground. "She with pretty boy but she loves him and Mark really loves her, almost to the point where you could say they a perfect match if it wasn't for their professions." Sawyer stated while Locke nodded his head before looking to Alison who turned her head to the side and quickly passed back out as the fatigue from the battle finally hit her like a series of dropping bricks.
Liberty City
The sun was finally starting to set on this day in the city of Liberty but in the finical district the sun never set on the money of companies as they traded stocks and forged money for what they called an advanced investment.
Just in the center of the district though stood a high building and on the thirtieth floor a middle aged Caucasian man standing at about five foot nine with short brown hair, dark blue eyes, and an all-white black suit made his way into an officer room before moving for the window and looking out the window at the people down below.
"One day I'm gonna watch this city burn." He let out in a deep raspy voice that showed off parts of his Liberty City accent.
"That's a strong statement to make." Came another voice that seemed out of the blue as Ana and Mai found themselves stepping out of the shadows with mixed looks on their faces while the man kept their backs to them.
"You know you could have just used the door my secretary would have let you in." he let out while Mai chuckled.
"Sorry but we figured the waiting list to see Aiden Pierce the CEO of Bioware Industries would be too long for our liking." Said Mai as she eyed him closely.
"Well I am a very busy man." He shot back before turning around and facing the two women with a smile on his face.
"Do you know why we're here?" Ana asked with her usual smile.
"You're the Angels here to tell me I've been a bad boy for supplying terrorist on US soil with weaponry to use against this country. Then you're gonna threaten to smack me around, put me in jail, and throw away the key but in reality you're not gonna do any of that." He shot back while eyeing Ana with a sick smile.
"Is it because you think you're rich that we'll leave you alone?" Mai asked with an angry expression on her face.
"No it's because I was smart enough to know when you want to rise to power you need to make investments to friends in high places." He shot back with a sick smile.
"The IAA and the FIB for instance." Ana shot back.
"Exactly, I know how hard it is for all of you to make money with all the…internal conflict going on between your two departemtns so I made sure to bring you together and get a few get out of jail free cards along the way." He replied with a smile. "Besides you got what you wanted didn't you, you brought down a terrorist cell you claimed was behind the explosion in Liberty when we both know that was bullshit." He shot back with a wicked smile that seemed to bring an angry expression to the face of Mai.
"Just because you have money doesn't make you untouchable." She shot back.
"I think it does, besides who are any of you to judge me with your track record and I'm not just talking about the IAA but you two personally." He replied while sending a look to Ana and Mai. "Don't think I haven't been present to a few meetings discussing people like you." He shot back.
"Hell I'm the guy they call to make people like you disappear with my contacts." He shot back with a slight smile.
"If you know who we are then you know trying to make us disappear will be easier said then done." Ana shot back.
"If you're discussing the circle of men you two surround yourselves with you should know that they are no threat to me. Just a bunch of gangsters, thugs, hitmen, and a dinosaur form a forgotten time. You may think there's more to all of them other than that but trust me…there isn't." he shot back with anger in his tone while eyeing the two women closely.
"Now get Devlin on the phone and ask him what's his price for me." He shot back with a sick smile while eyeing the two women closely before they yielded and reached for their cellphones.
New Arcadia
The sun was finally starting to set on this long day in New Arcadia as Jill found herself sitting down watching the BSU members talk amongst themselves about their latest victory against the Apostles, Joe, and the BGA.
In terms of all the celebrations she'd been to with gangsters over their victories she found the BSU members to be amongst the strangest people. Whereas most gangsters would be celebrating with drinks, drugs, and partying they seemed to be celebrating in an almost childish manner with laughter, hooting, and shouting amongst each other.
To call them professional would be the going too far for her.
Before she could think more about them though she watched as Mark approached her with a smile and quickly took a seat across from her.
"You earned your pay." He let out while the woman nodded her head.
"I think I've earned more by helping you with that little thing as well." She let out while he nodded his head. "That cop, you and her got something going on between you don't you?" she asked while eyeing Mark closely.
"I love her." He let out to the shock and surprise of Jill who couldn't help but to raise her brow at his statement. Not many men would come out and declare their feelings for someone even to other women it was something she figured that came with being macho. "I know I'm...what I am and she's a cop, and that will lead to a lot of complications…but I'm willing to make changes and better myself for her." He let out with a half-smile.
"You're really willing to change yourself for her?" she asked with a raised brow.
"Everything, you see around you is a part of my changing myself for her." He said while pointing to the interior of the club. "It's legit." He added.
"But you're still dropping bodies?" she shot back while Mark chuckled.
"Rome wasn't built in a day and I know changing won't come quickly, but I want to her…for her sake." He let out while looking to the ground only to be stopped as Jill grabbed both of his hands and pulled him onto his feet so that he could look into her eyes.
"If you love her like you say you do, don't call her…go to her." She let out while Mark eyed her closely before nodding his head and smiling.
"Thanks…you're alright in my books." He let out while Jill smiled at him.
"Just treat her right." She let out to Mark's confusion. "I know what it's like to have someone claim they love me but hurt me…don't do the same to her." She stated while Mark nodded his head.
"Never." He let out before walking away while Jill stood back with a smile on her face before watching as Lee pulled out his cellphone and put it to his ear.
"What's going on Sonny?" he asked before hearing the man shouting and screaming from the otherside of the phone.
Metra, Lincoln Parish
The drive back to the Barrio seemed to almost last forever for Ernesto as he stepped out of Cruz's car with the Vago leader and Miguel while the tattooed vato from earlier drove off as Felix, Task, Adahy, Lady Joker, and the remaining Azteca's stepped out of their own vehicles and made their way for the safehouse.
"Thanks for this Carnale." The Onda member stated while Cruz nodded his head.
"No problemo mano." He shot back with a half-smile while Miguel sent a look to the departing car.
"Who was that vato?" he asked while Cruz turned to face him.
"That was my nephew Ramon, most call him Baby Sinner." Cruz shot back while Ernesto and Miguel each nodded their heads. "He just got out of Parish Prison, he on parole but he down to do shit." He finished while Ernesto nodded his head.
"You bring in more muscle as well?" he asked.
"Some of the homeboys from New Austin been hearing about our troubles and have been coming here to help us out." He let out with a half-smile. "And with the way things are down here I can't really afford to turn any of them down." He finished while Ernesto nodded his head.
"I can see that, maybe with the combined force we can put those 4th Ward Mayates in the ground." Miguel shot back.
"I'm not going after the 4th right now." Cruz shot back to the confusion of the duo. "The 4th be a problem but nothing we can't deal with but who I'm going after…it's personal." He added while Ernesto looked at him with wide eyes and a look of shock on his face.
"I helped you today with a favor Ernesto, I expect you to do the same when the time I need one comes." Cruz let out while Ernesto eyed him closely as he walked back to one of the Glendales climbed inside and drove out of the neighborhood.
Elsewhere
The moon seemed to be looming over the head of Buck as he rode his bicycle down into the Holly Park Neighborhood of the 17th Ward where he quickly noticed Andre sitting on the front steps of a house with three other 17th Ward Gangsters talking amongst themselves before stopping as they noticed the young BSU member ride up to them.
"You guys got the package?" he asked before watching as Andre rose from the steps and walked over towards him and quickly pulled a brown paper bag from his jacket.
"How'd that lick go?" Andre asked while Buck shrugged his shoulders.
"Don't know what you talking about homie." He shot back earning a chuckle from Andre and the others.
"Right…you guys don't talk about your shit but tell me though white boy why you riding up here acting you like run shit here when you ain't even out of diapers?" Andre asked with a hint of venom in his tone while the other 17th Ward members laughed.
"Because dudes like you are too pussy to stand up to my brothers so you have no choice but to kiss his ass and those that affiliate with him including me." He shot back earning an angry expression from Andre. "I get you want to hit me I do, but you and I both know you aren't so why don't you just hand me the money so I can go." He let out while Andre eyed him angrily before handing the bag of money of the the young BSU member.
When it came to situations like this Buck was all too familiar with them. He knew most of the Ward gangsters didn't really see guys like him, Lee, Jimmy, Link, Davey, and Eddy as equals but many didn't have a choice with Mark taking point for them. Even without Mark though Lee, Jimmy, Davey, and Eddy had all proven their points to the New Arcadia Gangsters that they were worth just as much fear as their Creole brother.
He was the exception though, seeing as he was the youngest of the group he always seemed to have assholes in his face trying to test him and sooner or later he was gonna give them what they wanted, in the form of hot shells.
"Thanks for doing business-." Buck started before the loud crackle of gunshots caught the attention of the young man as he turned his head and noticed one of the men standing next to Andre falling back with a bullet wound in the center of his chest and another being hit in the side of the head.
"Shit!" yelled Andre as Buck turned his head and watched as an all-red Bison with the confederate flag painted on the side slowly pulled down the streets with a man of Caucasian American man of Serbian descent firing an MP5K out the side of the vehicle and striking most of the gangsters.
Soon Buck too felt himself falling back with a sharp pain in his right shoulder as he looked over and noticed that he'd taken a round in the arm and was now falling back off his bike as the jumped from the vehicle and emptied his clip into Andre who tried his best to run away only to be stopped as the gangster let off his remaining twenty-two rounds into his back, head, and legs.
"Damn!" said Buck as he painfully gripped his shoulder only to be kicked back on the ground courtesy of the gangster who looked down on him with a sadistic smile.
"You tell your nigger and chink friends that we're coming from him. The Dixies don't forget shit and they'll be seeing a lot of us." The man let out before stomping down on Buck's leg with enough force to shatter it and leave him shrinking like a bat out of hell as the man hopped back into the Bison as the driver sped off.
Meanwhile
Things were finally returning to Alison as she found herself finally opening her eyes and noticing that she was lying on a comfy bed within a white room of the hospital with the sheets around the bed covering her and preventing her from being seen from prying eyes.
"Damn!" she said while giving a low groan. She couldn't feel any pain and figured that they must have given her medicine for that, but she knew the second it wore off she would be in immense pain with everything she'd been through today.
"Don't strain yourself too much." Came a familiar voice as she watched Locke pull back the curtains and reveal himself and Sawyer to the woman.
"Kinda hard with everything I remember." She let out while eyeing the men with a smile that soon faded as realization hit her. "How many did we lose?" she let out with pain in her heart.
"Prior to Mark's arrival twenty eight, after he left another three." Sawyer let out. "Those fucking Apostles were fighting almost to the last man, but a few of them gave up when they saw we had them surrounded and some support." He added while Alison nodded her head.
"They maybe the least of our problems though." Locke let out while Alison eyed him confusingly. "The Apostles with everything they did and all the firepower they almost brought into the city the Governors talking bringing the National Guard back into the city." He let out while Alison shook her head.
"That may only do more harm than good." She replied.
"Exactly which is why we gotta cut the head off this thing and put an end to this shit in New Arcadia once and for all." Sawyer let out while Alison nodded her head.
"We'll talk more about this later, we got more cases to investigate…a couple of more actually." Locke stated while Alison looked at him confusingly. "We'll talk to you tomorrow." He said before making his way out of the room with Sawyer while Alison gave them both confused looks before turning her head and noticing a familiar Creole sitting on a chair in the corner of the room.
"How long have you been here?" she asked while Mark chuckled.
"A while!" he said while eyeing her with an emotionless look on his face before standing up, approaching her, and moving to run his hand over her bandaged head.
"It's okay just a scratch." She let out while Mark nodded his head. "I would probably be dead right now if it wasn't for you." She let out while pushing Mark away from her.
"You're mad?" he asked.
"Of course I'm mad Marcus because both Locke and Sawyer know exactly what you're capable of. You should feel lucky you're not in handcuffs right now." She let out.
"I know, but I wasn't gonna sit by while you were in danger." He let out while looking away from the woman.
"I can handle myself." She shot back.
"Yet you're in a hospital bed." He replied while Alison gave a slight chuckle before patting him on the arm and causing him to wince in pain.
"Says the guy with the bullet wounds." She retorted while Mark rubbed his wounds before hearing her out. "You were scared." She let out to Mark's confusion as he turned to face her.
"When we were in the water and you were getting shot at, I could feel you tense up every time a bullet hit you. You were afraid." She let out while Mark gave a slight chuckle at her statement.
"I've been doing this for so many years, but no matter how you slice it nobody ever gets used to getting shot even with a vest." He let out. "Hell sometimes a vest is worse. When you get hit you know you're hit and going to be hurt but when you're wearing a vest you become careless and that shot that does hit you maybe the one that actually kills you." He stated while looking to Alison who moved to take her hands in his own.
"Are you okay?" she asked while he merely nodded his head.
"Always." After responding the duo was quickly interrupted as Locke walked into the room and eyed them both closely.
"Steve's on the way so whatever you two have to say to each other you better say it fast." He shot out while Alison nodded her head before turning to Mark and watching him stand up while Locke made his way out of the room and closed the door.
"Will I see you soon?" she asked while Mark nodded his head and smiled at her.
"Of course." He let out before moving to head for the door only to be stopped as Alison grabbed him by his arm and pulled him down towards her.
"Please!" she whispered out in a pleading manner that seemed to pull at the strings on Mark's heart as he leaned down and pressed his lips to hers.
He at first intended to make the kiss short, but after that initial lip contact he found it hard to pull away from her and neither did Alison as she found herself running her hand across his cheek in a soothing manner that made him want to refuse to pull away until he heard the sound of Steve's voice outside the door with Locke's.
"I gotta go!" Mark whispered out as he pulled away before giving Alison another quick peck on the lips and then making his way out the side door of the room.
As Alison watched him leave she couldn't help but to feel her heart skip a beat as Steve walked into the room and quickly wrapped his arms around her in a soft manner while he whispered his thanks to God that she was alive after everything she'd been through.
New Arcadia International Airport (The Next Day)
The fly back to New Arcadia's Airport wasn't long for Ana and Mai as they stepped off their plane with mixed looks on their faces. Ana kept her usual cold demeaner while Mai seemed to have a troubled expression on her face that almost everyone could easily detect as they watched her grab her bags.
"You're on edge." Ana let out while Mai chuckled.
"I am, and I damn well should be with all of the shit we just went through." The Vietnamese woman shot back with anger in her tone. "We took down a goddamn terrorist cell and discovered that they're being supplied by an American Company and the prick whose running it gets a free pass just because he has money. That's bullshit if you ask me." She let out with anger in her tone.
"No that's capitalism and it's how the world works, money buys you anything even a get out of jail free card." The IAA Agent shot back while Mai scowled.
"Even a get out of jail free card for someone who's putting bombs in the hands of people who would use them against women and children?" she asked while Ana nodded her head.
"The world is a fucked up place Mai, it's just one of those things we have to deal with." She added before the duo quickly spotted Jill approaching them with her duffel bag in her hand and an confused expression on her face.
"Glad to see you're still in one piece." Mai let out with a half-smile. "Did they treat you well?" she added with a serious expression as she looked to Ana.
"Yeah about eighty five thousand well." She let out earning a nod and a smile from Mai. "But I think we're having an extra someone coming back with us." She let out to Mai and Ana's confusion before they turned their heads and noticed Lee walking up carrying a duffel bag in his arms.
"Well, what's this about?" Ana asked as she eyed the Chinese man with a slight smile.
"Sonny took a hit last night from some fucking Tiny Psycho pricks came all the way from Los Santos to hear just to fuck with him. So I'm going there to return the favor." Lee shot back with anger in his tone.
"How do you know it was the Psychos?" Mai asked with a raised brow.
"They were speaking in Hmong, Sonny made that perfectly clear." Lee replied with anger in his tone.
"Well then I guess one of mine is going back with you then Mai." Said Ana as she looked to Mai with a slight smile.
"That's alright by me, as long as he stays away from Neto and the others?" she let out while Lee chuckled.
"Yeah like that's gonna happen." He shot back only to be cutoff by Ana.
"Lee you know how I feel about this." Ana let out while eyeing the Chinese man closely. "You will go after the Psychos and get answers but you will stay out of Rancho and all of South Central." She stated before grabbing him by his cheeks and squeezing them tightly.
"Do I make myself clear?" she asked with a seriousness in her tone.
"Yes sister." He let out earning a smile from Ana who quickly moved to give him a quick kiss on the cheek before letting him go.
"Then be safe out there and comeback in one piece." She let out while Lee rubbed his cheeks angrily.
"Always." He let out before making his way over to Mai and staring into the eyes of the woman. "I guess we're about to become friends aren't we?" he asked with a slight smile while Mai eyed him angrily.
Authors Note: And there you have it for this chapter people. Sorry for the late update but work has been tough and school has started back up and that's taking a lot of my time. I've also been struggling with writing this chapter because going back and forth between Ana and the group in New Arcadia was kinda difficult in my opinion.
That beginning scene of Ana and Mai taking the terrorist store owner was based off a scene from the Unit and them going throw the hideout of the cell was based off a mission in the Mafia 3 DLC Stones Unturned where Lincoln and Donovan are running through the CIA hideout after it's hit by terrorist.
Also I've shown Sofia Hunter in a past chapter with Marco and Charlie hitting the Russians in Liberty but I never went into details about her but basically she's visually based off Sasha Alexander who played Lips teacher Helene on Shameless and Gretchen on Dawson's Creek. As you can tell there's a bit of tension going on between her and Ana with Devlin at the center of thing and later you will see conflict between the two that should make for an excellent plot in my opinion.
Thanks to Onkwehonwe's blessing I was allowed to feature Jill in this chapter mostly because we want to show more on what she's doing in the year 2014. She's a side character but she hasn't been featured doing much in 2014 unlike his other characters. So we decided to give her something to do in New Arcadia and helping Mark on a heist is a good way of doing that.
That house shootout was based off the house shootout in the movie Four Brothers and the bridge shootout between the Apostles and the Police was taken from one of my Rivergreen Stories where Mark and a few guys from his gang hit a weapons supply truck that a Mexican Cartel was bringing into their town to be used by the street gang fighting against them. Unlike that shooting this one was kinda less intense because on that one they were on motorcycles and the vehicles were stopped so I had to down it down a little for this story.
The Azteca's going after the 4th Ward at their main headquarters has been something I've been planning for a while and it failing was sorta something that's been on my tongue mostly because most Housing Projects are large high rises but this particular Housing Project is different than most because it's mostly a maze of small three story houses which should make for an interesting challenge for them to get around.
The return of Cruz is also something a lot of people have been wanting to see because I believe he hasn't been featured for a while now and that's causing a lot of people to wonder what he was doing and if you didn't guess it from his conversation at the end with Ernesto and Miguel I can reveal that he's not giving up his war with Mark and the Roman Families. You should already figure that seeing as Mark did kill his son so I doubt he or anyone would be giving up on getting revenge for that.
The hit on Sonny, the reason for Buck being attacked, Andre being killed, and Lee going to LS were revealed in Onkwehonwe's last couple of chapters of Concrete Jungle and if you want to know what's going on I suggest you read them to keep up with the story.
Also how do you all feel about Lee in next chapter I don't want to spoil too much but let's just say bodies will drop.
Stick around for the next chapter people as Ernesto follows Cruz on his revenge mission against the Roman Family, BSU deal with the fallout of what happened to Buck, and Lee invades the West Coast with a literal bang that will be heard around the country.
Thank you all for reading have a nice night. Zilla 2000 Out.
