Chapter 42: The Siege of New Arcadia

Deals with an Enemy

New Arcadia (One Week Later)

The sound of chatter from the television seemed to be the only thing Mark could hear as he found himself resting his head on the lap of Alison as the duo found themselves lying in her bed watching another episode of a show called Scrubs and Badges.

It was essentially a drama show about a female doctor who was secretly a serial killer and trying to hide that from her husband who is a homicide detective that's been following her since his rookie year when she killed his senior officer.

All in all Mark ranked the show a C minus because it had a good plot just poor execution on almost all fronts. The lead female actor is really pretty to look at and doesn't give off the vibe of being a competent serial killer and he often called bullshit on the fact that she stands at what must be five three and can take down grown men in hand to hand combat without being trained in anything.

He hated the leading male because he was a good actor but it was kinda hard to root for him because he made really stupid mistakes and often failed to catch his wife who anyone can easily tell had a second life just from some of the shit she did. Plus he figured the ending of this shit show would basically end with either the letting his wife go and committing suicide, sacrificing himself for her, or teaming up with her.

In the end, he will never take her to jail, their fake love was strong. It made a great romance story but not a really good crime thriller.

Despite that Mark and Alison were on season four episode thirteen and there were still five more episodes in this season and seven more seasons to go. He hated to admit it but he hated what TV shows were becoming everyone was either a super cop who drops more bodies than a suicide bomber in a crowded place or a cop with some super skill that makes him better than everyone.

Television could best be described as trash, but he would suffice because this was how he spent his time with Alison who seemed to be wanting to spend more time with him now than lately after he walked in on her going down on Steve. He knew she was basically trying to make up for it, but because she didn't want to betray Steve by having sex with him he had to suffice with this.

He wasn't complaining though it was kinda hard not to.

As Alison lifted up her hand he quickly gave a low moan as he felt her run her hand over his hair and slowly massage his scalp in a soothing manner. Aside from the head rubbing Alison was also giving him a lot more breathing room. Breathing room that he was quick to take advantage of as he ran his hand up her gown and started to massage her bare thigh.

She was allowing him to touch her a lot more than he could at first. In the seven days that Mark had spent time with Alison there was a lot of touching. He's grabbed her butt, massaged her breast, and even spent maybe two hours just fondling her pubic hair and massaging her vulva and in return she'd often brush up against his groin, give him small kisses on the neck and shoulders, she'd even shown him a great deal of skin even now as he rested his head on her lap he just so often rolled his head off her lap so that he could look under her gown and get a look at her uncovered flower.

He didn't know if she really liked this or if she was just trying to please him as much as she could without sleeping with him. That thought in mind, Mark quickly moved his head back on her lap. He didn't want to use what he walked in on as some reason to take advantage of her so he tried to minimize his advances.

Just as the duo were starting to fall back into each other though they were interrupted by the sound of Mark's cellphone ringing causing him to rise off Alison's lap, pull it out of his phone, and answer it to the dismay of the redheaded woman.

The last four days Mark has been getting phone calls from Lee and the others telling him that they needed him and this caused him to cut his time with her short and she was starting to get tired of it.

"I'll be there in a few minutes." He let out causing Alison's heart to sink as she watched him slide his phone into her pants and let out an annoyed sigh.

"Do you really have to go?" she asked while moving to sit on the edge of the bed and looking at him with sadness in her eyes.

"Yeah the guys need help at the club." He let out causing her to look down before he approached her and started to rub her on the right cheek.

"I'll see you tomorrow." He let out before moving to walk away only to be stopped as Alison grabbed him by the arm and pulled him back so that she could wrap her around him and lay her head in his chest.

"You can't stay a little longer?" she asked with a hint of sadness in her tone as she looked up at Mark with wide eyes while the Creole gave a low moan as he felt her brush her breast against the front of his pants and move his member in the process.

"I wish!" he said while continuing to stroke his cheek before he was interrupted by his cellphone starting to ring causing him to look down at it.

"Ignore it!" Alison let out seductively as she turned her head and rubbed her lips against his palm to plant a soft kiss on it while Mark continued to let his phone ring until it finally stopped.

"Stay!" she let out just as Mark's cellphone vibrated and flashed red causing him to look down at it knowing that it often did that when Ana called him with a urgent information. He then watched as a text message appeared on his phone that caused him to widen his eyes in shock and surprise.

"I can't!" he let out before letting Alison go and leaving her in shock and surprise. "This is…really important." He added before moving for the door as quick as his legs could take him while the woman stood by in shock and surprise.

Elsewhere

Things seemed to be going somewhat calm and slow for Manfred as he found himself sitting behind his computer screen in his man cave that was the groups warehouse in the 17th Ward with the song Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies playing in the background.

As Manfred started clicking through people's Vinewood pages though he quickly heard a loud ping from an email popping up on his screen.

"What the!" he let out before clicking it only for a large popup porn site to appear on his screen then start multiplying.

"Shit!" he yelled out before pounding his fingers on the keyboard only for another popup to appear that told him that someone was taking and uploading data onto his computer.

"OH HELL NO!" He yelled out before quickly reaching into his dresser and pulling out an orange box and connecting it to the computer. "Let's see you take this." He yelled out before activing the device and watching as all the popups were deleted and the computer was turned off.

The man of Indian Descent then grabbed the CPU and quickly threw it across the room causing it to break against the hard wall as he took a few deep breaths before starting to panic. "Let's see you hack me now you piece of shit." Manfred let out as Davey and Eddy came running into the room with their guns drawn.

"Jesus Christ what the fuck happened in here?" asked Eddy as the duo looked to Manfred and watched him pull out his cellphone and dial Mark's number.

"I think we're gonna have a problem." He let out while the duo gave confused looks before the sound of a series of car pulling up caught their attention along with yells from the gangsters who were outside standing guard.

New Arcadia Police Department

Things weren't just going from zero to a hundred for Manfred but also for Locke as he found himself sitting in his office filing paper work when Sawyer came barging through the door with a file in his hands.

"What?" Locke asked while Sawyer dropped the file on the table causing Locke to look it over and notice that it was the old file on Link when he went on that robbery spree.

"We knew that guy never left town, he just died his hair." Sawyer let out while Locke nodded his head.

"That's our secret." Locke replied while Sawyer pulled out a picture and dropped it on his desk of a redheaded Link walking into a convenient store

"It's not a secret anymore." Sawyer let out while Locke looked over the picture.

"Where'd you get this?" the officer asked with a serious look on his face.

"Alison's boyfriend." He let out causing Locke's eyes to widen even further.

Outside of New Arcadia

The sound gunshots going off in the distance seemed to be the only sound going on in the bayous outside of New Arcadia causing the birds to fly off to escape the sound.

"Alright I got one!" Hardcase yelled out as lowered his M4A1 Assault Rifle and noticed a dead bird lying next to a tree while Lee, Thire, Echo, and Link stood by with serious look on their faces.

"Yeah it only took you five tries." Samuel let out with a serious look on his face as he shouldered his AKM Assault Rifle across his back.

"Be honest whose gonna use one bullet in a gunfight that ain't a damn Sniper?" asked Hardcase with anger in his tone.

"You'd be quite surprised." Link replied while Lee chuckled.

"Well his shots gotten better than when I first met you. You all have." The Chinese man stated while clutching his Tactical Mossberg 500 and looking to Hardcase, Tup, Samuel, and Jesse. "Just remember to be smart with it." He added.

"Needs smarts when bullets are better than anything." Hardcase shot back.

"He's not the sharpest nail in a barrel." Jesse let out while Jimmy rolled his eyes before lifting his M14 and taking aim at a bird that was perched on a tree and firing a single shot that literally hit the creature between the eyes.

"When your guns a single shot that's when you'll need it." Jimmy retorted just as the group watched as an all-black Duke pulled up to their location and they watched Mark step out with a serious look on his face.

"Come to join in on the training brother?" Lee asked with a half-smile before noticing the serious look on the face of Mark.

"No I just got an emergency call from Ana telling me to meet you guys here." He let out to their confusion.

"Emergency what kinda emergency we're all fine." Link asked with a raised brow just as the Los Santos BSU members looked on in confusion as Mark, Lee, Link's, and Jimmy's cellphones each vibrated at the same time and started to glow red.

"Son of a-!" Mark yelled out before the loud bang of a gunshot caught everyone's attention followed by a slight choking sound as Mark fell back on his back with a gunshot wound on the right side of his chest.

"FUCK!" Lee yelled out.

"SNIPER!" Jimmy yelled out as well as he sent a barrage of rounds in the direction of the gunshot while Thire and Echo each pulled out their own M4A1 Assault Rifles and started shooting in the direction of the Sniper while Link moved to grab Mark by his shoulder and pull him into cover behind a tree.

"I'm alright!" Mark let out with a slight hint of anger in his tone as Lee noticed that the round had hit his vest and didn't get much penetration past that.

"Lucky you." Tup let out in shock as he watched Mark reach into his pants and pull out his M1911 Pistol and raise it in his direction.

"Wait!" Tup yelled as Mark fired a single shot that went past his head and struck an overweight Caucasian man with a long beard and sleeveless leather vest in the center of the head and blew his brains out across a tree.

"Stay on your guard." Mark stated as he slowly rose to his feet with his weapon raised and fired two more rounds that struck a skinny man with a Shotgun in the chest and easily dropped him while Hardcase and Samuel shot down the next man.

"Mark!" Link let out causing Mark to nod his head.

"I know fucking Dixie pieces of shit!" the Creole let out while lifted his Pistol and firing off two mores shots just as Lee fired a single shot from his Shotgun and struck another man that was running their way in the chest while Thire shot down another with shots from his USP .45 Pistols.

"Jimmy do you see the shooter?" Mark yelled out while Jimmy scanned the area and quickly spotted a man with an old-fashioned Sniper Rifle hiding behind a tree firing off rounds at the group causing him to move his head in order to avoid a shot.

"I do now!" the redheaded man shot back as he fired a single shot that struck the man in the center of his nose blowing off the tip and leaving a wide hole in the center of his face. "He's down!"

"You guys haven't changed since Sunbelt." Echo yelled out earning a slight chuckle from Lee.

"Yeah we have we've added more list of names to the people that hate us." Lee shot back as he moved behind a tree to reload his Shotgun while Echo shot a man twice in the head and another in the center of the chest causing his blood to shoot out of his body in a mist stream like fashion and stain his white shirt in the process.

"You get up and start shooting." Mark yelled out to Tup who found himself hiding behind a tree in order to avoid the shots coming his way.

"I can't get a shot in." the young man yelled out causing Mark to roll his eyes before moving to jerk the M4A1 Assault Rifle from the man's hand and aim it in the direction of the charging Dixies.

"If you can't get in a shot force a shot in." the Creole yelled out as he barrel rolled from cover and fired off five shots that hit one man in the chest before firing three more shots that hit another in the arm and leg than throwing the gun back to Tup.

"Where's Buck, Davey, and Eddy when you need them?" Link yelled out just before his cellphone started to ring with Manfred's name appearing on the screen. "We're kinda busy at the moment brother." He let out before watching Jimmy shoot another man that charged his way in the head while Jesse and Samuel doubled up on another and struck him six times in the chest before needing to reload their Pistols.

17th Ward

"Really because we're kinda the same here." Manfred yelled out as he found himself ducking underneath a table for cover while Robbie, Davey, and Eddy found themselves outside with seven gangsters from the 17th Ward using various cars as cover as a group of Caucasian men fired on them from truck.

So far the group had lost four other men from the attackers who seemed to come out of almost nowhere and opened fire on their clubhouse with high powered Assault Rifles that put holes through the walls and blew out all the windows.

"Keep your heads down." Davey yelled out before watching as a 17th Ward gangster with long black dreadlocks was struck one time in the head by a powerful round that now left him dead on the warm concrete. "Damnit!" Davey yelled out as he loaded a fresh magazine into his G36C Assault Rifle while Eddy provided covering fire with his own.

"You BSU fuckers are gonna die for all your shit." Yelled a bald Caucasian man with a long black beard and firing a Sniper Rifle that struck the side of the car Robbie was using for cover.

"Kiss my ass you cousin fucking piece of shit!" Robbie yelled out before rolling from cover dual wielding two Mac-10's and firing a barrage of rounds that cut down two gangsters while the bald man with the Rifle sent a barrage of rounds in his direction causing him to run back into the warehouse for cover and to reload his weapon.

As Robbie slammed two new magazines into his Machine Pistols he quickly spotted Manfred sitting under the table using it for cover. Upon catching sight of the Indian man he couldn't help but to yell out "You know you can help at any time Manny."

"Some prick hacked my system and all my computers I can't get an explosive drone online." Manfred shot back while Robbie shook his head.

"Then pick up a gun and start using it because we need all-hands on deck right now." Robbie yelled out as he watched another 17th Ward Gangster get hit in the chest and fall to the ground with blood spewing from a wound in the back of his neck.

Elsewhere

The sound of a door opening seemed to what catch Muujai off-guard as he found himself sitting in the office area of the warehouse in the 9th Ward that he and Joe were using as their headquarters in the war against the Roman Family and the Azteca's.

As he, Joe, and Cake both looked up they quickly noticed that it was Doom standing in the doorway with three Apostles they had never seen before walking in behind with serious looks in their eyes and Rifles strapped across their backs.

"Doom what is this?" Muujai asked with a serious look on his face while Joe looked on with wide eyes and fear in his heart.

"This is the day we put an end to Marcus Roman and his family." The Carcer City gangster stated with anger in his tone while the group looked on at him in confusion. "I'm tired of waiting for you all to make a move and end that piece of shit so now I'm gonna go out and do it myself." He added while Muujai chuckled.

"Doom I get you're still angry about what happened with Lonzo and Queen but you're not thinking clearly." Muujai let out with a chuckle.

"No I'm thinking clear as a sunny day and the time for waiting is over and the time to finally get shit done is here." Doom let out with anger in his tone before he moved to walk away with Muujai and Joe both following after him.

"Nigga if you haven't noticed Mark got us down to our last man." Stated Joe earning the attention of Doom who turned to face him. "He's retaken the 17th, his family got the 2nd and the 3rd, and on top of that they got allies all over this bitch. While we struggling with the little shit we got. What make you think you about to just roll up and kill that nigga?" he asked with a hint of anger in his tone.

No sooner had he said that though Doom turned his head and caught both Joe and Muujai by surprise as they watched not one, not two, but thirteen black, green, and blue vehicles pulling up in front of the warehouse and park behind Doom who turned and watched as a dark skinned black man with dreadlocks wearing a black t-shirt and blue jeans with a Rock River Arms X-Series Rifle strapped across his back.

"Words come down out the pen from the boss himself 50K on any BSU member and 100K for any Roman so it's open season on they asses." Doom let out to the shock and surprise of both Joe and Muujai. "Them niggas been able to handle us one by one with them fucking hit and run tactics, but let's see how they can handle being on the defensive of a full frontal." He added while the duo looked on in shock.

"Even with these numbers do you think it'll make a difference?" asked Joe.

"Either I'm gonna come up dead but I know for sure that motherfucker dying as well." Doom finished before turning to walk away with J Bake following close behind him as the duo climbed into the first car and processed to drive away with the other vehicles following close behind.

"Fuck them niggas was cuz?" asked J Bake as he eyed Doom closely from the driver's seat of the car.

"The motherfuckers who supposed to be running this city." Doom let out while looking at J Bake with a serious look before looking back and noticing a female Apostle sitting in the backseat of the car. She was a rather unattractive woman if Doom could put it mildly. She had short hair that was dyed light brown, wide eyes, with a nose ring on the right side of her nose, wide lips, and a gap in her top teeth that seemed to reach out further than her bottom.

"You remember Shawndra don't you big homie?" J Bake asked earning a slight nod from Doom who noticed the girl holding a pair of Uzi's in her hands.

"Yeah you've grown since the last time I saw you." He let out while the girl gave a slight smile.

"In more places than one." She let out in a seductive tone with a wink as Doom gave a slight chuckle before looking to J Bake.

"How deep are we?" he asked with a seriousness in his tone that rivaled that of a five-star general.

"Shit we fifty deep son and we got extra muscle from the Mob." He let out to the confusion of Doom who watched as J Bake pulled his car alongside a dirt road where he noticed four dark blue Tornados pared outside alongside the road where they noticed a man of Puerto Rican descent standing outside of one of the cars wearing an all black shirt, black jeans, a green belt, and green shoes.

"Fast Eddie Zayas, the fuck he doing here?" Doom asked with a seriousness in his tone.

"He and the Loco Latin Apostles are here to watch our backs." Replied J Bake before he stepped out of the car with Doom in tow as the group slowly made their way to the Puerto Rican man who gave them a half-smile.

"Gloom and Doom himself, how's life big homie?" Zayas let out with a slight smile as Doom returned the smile and shook hands with the man.

"It's been better." The Apostle leader let out while Zayas nodded his head in response.

"Sorry about what happened with Lonzo and Queen. We're here to help you make that shit right." He let out while Doom nodded his head.

"Glad to hear it, because today we make all that shit right." He let out with a hint of rage under his breath as he thought about the Roman Family.

Outside of New Arcadia

"Can't these pricks take a break?" asked Samuel as he fired the last three shots in his magazine into the head of a Caucasian man with a shaved head that now resembled a dropped watermelon, before reloading the weapon.

"Would you?" Thire retorted before shooting another man in the chest.

The shootout had only been going on for just a little under ten minutes but when in a gunfight time seemed like it was going in slow motion and minutes were represented as hours to those in the conflict. It was these conflicts that Mark, Lee, Jimmy, and Link were getting used to as the smell of gunpowder, the sight of bodies littering the ground, and the sound of bullets clanging as they hit the ground filled their senses.

All together the BSU members must have dropped over twenty of the Dixie Mafia members but it seemed like they didn't make a dent in their attacking force and at the rate they were going it seemed like they were going to run out of ammo before they actually brought them completely down.

"Stay low and mark your fucking targets." The Creole let out with anger in his tone just as his magazine slid out of his pistol.

"They just keep coming." Link let out while Mark loaded his last magazine into his M1911 while looking to Tup who'd picked up his M4A1 and was firing single shots in the direction of the enemy. More importantly though he was moving to slow for Mark's liking.

"Come on Tup get off your ass." Mark yelled out causing the Filipino man to look back up at him and notice the serious look on his face. "Get up and fight." He yelled out causing Tup to nod his head before lifting up his Rifle and aiming at the attackers and beginning to fire off shot after shot in the direction of their attackers.

"That's it keep going!" Mark yelled out as he watched Tup shoot a man in the center of the chest and send him flying back before he lifted his Pistol and firing off two shots that hit a man once in the chest and again in the leg.

"Talk about real hands on training right Lee." Yelled out Jesse as he watched Lee load a magazine into his Pistol and fire off six shots that hit a charging enemy fives times in the chest and once in the head causing him to fall forward with a hole in the front and back of his head.

"Just remember to survive." Lee let out.

"You kidding I'm having the time of my life right now man." Hardcase yelled out as he fired a barrage of rounds that dropped three men with shots hitting them in random places on their torso, killing two men and slowing the last down with a bullet in the side.

"Last mag." Jimmy yelled out as he fired off two shots that skidded past one man and grazed his throat just deep enough to almost slit it and watch as his blood spilled out onto the ground.

"At least you have a mag." Mark let out as he drew his Combat Knife and prepared to face any more oncoming attackers.

Just as an overweight Dixie Mafia member with a Mossberg 500 Shotgun and white shirt with a confederate flag on the top of it started to charge him though he watched in surprise as the man fell back with a bullet hole in the back of his head and blood spewing from the wound so fast that it actually hit and stained the tan cargo pants of the youngest Roman.

"What the-!" Link started before he, Mark, Lee, Jimmy, Thire, and Echo watched in surprise as three more men fell to the ground with well-placed bullet holes in either the back of their heads or in their backs.

"Son of a bitch!" yelled out a man with long blonde hair as fell to the ground with a bullet wound deep in the center of his back. He then looked up with eyes wide and in shock as he watched Mark bring down his Combat Knife with enough force that when it hit the side of his head the blade actually went all the way through and came out the otherside.

The group then watched as an all-red Ocelot F620 came speeding out of the tree line with a familiar red dressed Chinese woman wearing a pair of black sunglasses hanging out of the driver's side window with a MP7 Submachine Gun in her right hand as she let laid out a four Dixie Mafia members before slamming her car into another and leaving a red blood stain on the side of her car.

"Who's that?" asked Samuel as he and the others looked to Mark, Lee, Jimmy, and Link who merely smiled as they watched Ana gun down another three men before pulling the pin on a Hand Grenade and tossing it out the window in the direction of several more men than driving away as a large explosion overtook the gangsters including the BSU members who had to move behind the trees to protect themselves from the force of the blast as the several men were blown to pieces and another six were taken off their feet.

"Kyra mop up the rest." Ana ordered causing the woman of Afro-British descent to let out a slight smile as she lifted her RSASS Sniper Rifle from her perched position in a tree and begin to shoot the unsuspecting Dixie Mafia members as they started to flee while Ana stepped out of her car and started to make her way over to Mark and the others.

"You mind telling me why Manfred is on the terror watch list?" Mark asked to the surprise of Link and the other BSU members.

"We can talk about that later, right now you're all still in danger." She let out to the confusion of Mark and the others as they watched her open the trunk of her car and reveal his CM901 Assault Rifle, her T91 Assault Rifle, the M32 Grenade Launcher, and about eight Hand Grenades.

Elsewhere

"They just keep coming." Yelled out Eddy as the group watched another 17th Ward gangster fall with a bullet wound in the center of his forehead as more Dixie Mafia members started to drive through the gates of their warehouse.

"I need a Grenade, somebody get me a Grenade!" Robbie yelled out before looking to Manfred who ran to the back of the warehouse screaming "I got something better."

"Last one and only one." Davey yelled out while reaching into his backpocket and pulling out a Hand Grenade before rolling it over to Robbie who quickly pulled the pin just as he jumped up to throw it though he took a bullet in the shoulder that caused him to fall back and misdirect the Grenade that was tossed just under his target.

The resulting explosion did manage to kill three Dixie's but still left the full brunt of the group undeterred. "Madre de Puta." Robbie yelled out while clutching his bloody shoulder while Davey moved to put pressure on his wound and Eddy gave them covering fire just as the last 17th Ward Gangster fell with a bullet in the side of his neck courtesy of an overweight Dixie Mafia member armed with an AK-47 Assault Rifle.

"We clearing New Arcadia out of you fucking liberal numbnuts." He yelled out.

"Go fuck your cousin you piece of shit." Davey yelled back before blindly firing his Rifle over the car the trio was using for cover.

"Now what?" Eddy asked as final magazine ran dry in his G36C Assault Rifle just as the group watched with confused expressions as Manfred ran over to the side of the car with a large brick of C4 and stuck it to the side of the car.

"Start pushing." The Indian man yelled out before starting to push the vehicle from behind while Davey and Eddy did the same causing the vehicle to move forward in the direction of the Dixie Mafia members who started to barrage it rounds.

"Gotcha!" Manfred yelled out as he pushed a button on a detonator and sent the car up in a violent blast that left many of the attackers dismembered or charred in the explosion as Davey and Eddy watched in awe as one man's gun was literally ripped from a man's arms along with both of his hands while another had part of his face burned black, and another was missing much of the right side of his body.

"I think we've done something." Eddy let out as he watched a man who was missing a leg scream as he grabbed his stump.

"No sooner had they said that though a bullet quickly whizzed past all of their heads and they quickly noticed a Caucasian man with a shaved head and tattoos firing at them with a high-powered Rifle while five more vehicles started to pull up at their direction.

"Kill these sons of bitches." Yelled out the man with the Rifle as he fired another shot at the group.

"I think running is the best option now." Yelled Manfred as Davey and Eddy each nodded their heads as they grabbed Robbie by his shoulder and started to drag him into the warehouse where the men outside started to barrage the building with bullets shattering the windows, putting holes in the walls, and causing the group to run with their heads down as they climbed into the white truck that was parked inside.

"Get in get in!" Manny yelled out as Davey and Eddy pushed Robbie into the backseat before they hopped in the tail section just as three men armed with Assault Rifles forced open the doors of the warehouse and started to make their way inside.

"GUN IT MANNY GO GO GO!" Robbie yelled out as Manfred slammed his foot down on the gas pedal and sent the vehicle flying forward and slamming into one of the men who was thrown over the hood of the truck and actually landed in the tail section to the surprise of Davey and Eddy who kept their heads down to avoid the bullets coming their way while Manny drove past the sea of attackers and made his way out the gate and slamming into the side of a pickup truck in the process as he hit the main road.

"We're clear for now." Yelled out Manfred as Davey and Eddy each gave a sigh of relief as they looked down at the corpse of the man before them and noticed that he had a Swastika tattooed on the side of his neck.

"Since when did the Dixies get into the Neo Nazi thing?" asked Eddy earning a shake of the head from Davey.

"So are we gonna be calling Mark now?" asked Robbie as Manfred quickly pulled out his cellphone and dialed a familiar number.

Metra, Lincoln Parish

A whooshing sound followed by a silent thump seemed to fill the ears of Ernesto as he and Adahy found themselves sitting in the backyard of his safehouse watching closely as Task loaded a fresh arrow into his Quiver and fired it into the head of a dummy that was hanging from a tree.

"He's really skilled with that." Ernesto let out earning a nod from Task.

"He's been doing that since he was a kid. His grandfather always told him he wouldn't be seen as a real warrior until he was perfect with it." Adahy stated to the surprise of Ernesto. "He's good but he won't see it that way." He added.

"Self-criticism is the best medicine for improving." Ernesto let out while watching as Task fired another arrow that quickly embedded into the chest of dummy. "How'd you get him back here?" he asked.

"He may not like what we did but we both need the money and your business enough for him to swallow his pride over it." Adahy replied.

"What you're doing is that important?" asked Ernesto. "I know the money you make goes back to the reservation and support everyone there but is it really enough that you have to sell your souls just to get it?" he added with a seriousness in his tone.

"When the fate and lives of everyone you grew up with and care about hangs in the balance than you learn that having a soul is pointless." Adahy added while watching Task fire another arrow into the dummy.

As the trio found themselves outside Miguel found himself inside cleaning his Pistol when Lady Joker walked into the safehouse with a serious look on her face.

"You okay chica?" he asked with genuine concern in his tone that seemed to go on deaf ears to the girl.

"Yes I'm still wondering why the hell we haven't hit those 4th Ward Pendejo's back after they shot up the place." She let out while Miguel nodded his head.

"Si mon we have a plan chica and we're working on something that will give us a better edge against them than last time." He let out causing her to let out a low growl.

"You've been saying that for a while now and I've yet to see results Cabron." She yelled out before storming off while Miguel lowered his head and sunk in his seat.

He still blamed himself for everything that happened to her and Angel. It all still weighed heavily on him, almost to the point where he contemplated doing the unthinkable.

Outside of New Arcadia

It had only been a few minutes since the group had staved off their attackers with the help of Ana and Kyra's arrival and now most of them found themselves readying themselves for the coming assault that would soon be coming their way.

"Mind telling me how you knew where to find us?" asked Link as he watched Mark, Lee, Jimmy, Echo, and Thire put on new sets of bulletproof vest and loaded fresh magazine and slugs into their weapons while Tup, Jesse, Samuel, and Hardcase did the same.

"You're really asking how I was able to find you?" Ana asked with a slight smile while Link rolled her eyes.

"Point taken." He let out while Mark turned to Ana and started to question her.

"How'd you know we were being targeted you find out from Manny that we had guys coming after us?" the Creole asked.

"No and someone hacked Manfred's system." She let out to the shock of the entire group.

"Impossible nobody can get past his level of security that guys got more firewalls than the NSA." Lee let out with a raised brow.

"Well someone did and I'm guessing some of your enemies see opportunity." She let out while Mark loaded a fresh magazine into his Rifle.

"Then let them come." He stated before the sound of his cellphone ringing caught his attention and caused him to pull out the device and quickly notice that he was receiving a call from Manfred.

"Manny are you okay?" he asked.

"Not really we just survived an attack from the Dixie Mafia and are now we're on Avocado Street trying to get the Aryan Vanguard off our backs." Manny let out from his drivers seat while Davey and Eddy found themselves shooting from the back of the truck as Robbie clutched his shoulder. "And Robbie took one in the shoulder, he's losing a lot of blood as well." He added while Mark gave a low growl along with the others.

"Are they still chasing you now?" Mark asked before the sound of a windshield breaking caught his attention as Manfred ducked his head down along with Davey and Eddy as an Aryan Vanguard member armed with a Mini Uzi hung from the window of a truck and fired a barrage of rounds at the truck.

"I think that answered your question." Manny let out while Mark rubbed his lips in anger.

"Alright Manny listen carefully. I want you to turn the truck around and drive down Willard Blvd until you reach the Cul-de-Sac on Rethink Ave. Lay low there until we come to get you." Mark stated.

"Alright but I don't think that solves our Vanguard Problem." Manny let out.

"That's covered as well now head that way now." Mark let out just as Ana noticed a red dot appear on the forehead of Marcus.

"LOOK OUT!" she yelled out as she pushed Mark to the ground just as a shot was fired that sailed over the head of Mark and caused the others to spring into action as Jimmy and Kyra both turned their guns on a man who was using the treeline for cover.

"I got him." Jimmy yelled out as he pulled the trigger four times on his M14 Rifle and struck the tree with each shot but the sheer force of two of the rounds were easily able to go through the weak timber and pierce the man on the otherside who fell back with blood leaking from his mouth.

"Motherfuckers just killed Junior fuck they asses up." Yelled a new voice followed by a barrage of rounds that came from the treeline and caused everyone to duck for cover.

"I don't think we're dealing with any more cousin fuckers brother." Lee let out while ducking his head down along with Mark who looked to the treeline and noticed a man of Mexican American descent with a black beanie with a star on the top of it, a black t-shirt, red shorts, and red shoes.

"Condados?" he asked with a raised brow before noticing another man of Mexican American descent with a silver grill shooting at them. "You motherfuckers gonna pay for trying to fuck us over son." He yelled out while Mark took a look around and noticed that they were somewhat surrounded.

"Any bright ideas boss?" asked Samuel as Mark looked to Ana and noticed her reaching into her back pocket and pulling out a Smoke Grenade.

"Cover me!" she let out while Mark nodded his head.

"Cover Ana and while they're distracted make your way to the cars." Mark let out to the anger of Hardcase.

"We can't be running?" he yelled out.

"I don't think it's running if they're gonna be chasing us afterwards." Link let out as Mark looked to Lee, Jimmy, Thire, and Echo and nodded his head at each of them who simply returned the gesture.

"COVERING FIRE!" the Creole yelled out before jumping up in a firing position and letting off a barrage of rounds along with Lee, Jimmy, Thire, and Echo who managed to strike down the man with the grill with a shot that blew off his lower jaw while another man dressed in white and black was hit three times in the chest and again in the head. His spilled blood soon quickly started to cover his shirt and forever dye it pink.

This display caused two Condados to turn their heads and look at the scene before one of them was hit in the back of the head by a powerful 5.56 Round that literally "Took a little off his top."

With the BSU members providing covering fire Ana saw her chance and quickly jumped from cover and pulled the pin on her Smoke Grenade before tossing it at the treeline than watching as it exploded and a cloud of red smoke started to surround their attackers.

"You had to go red?" asked Kyra earning a slight smile from Ana.

"Alright let's move!" Mark yelled out as the group rose to their feet and started to run back towards their cars with Mark hopping into his Duke with Link and Echo while Ana slid into her car with Kyra, and Lee, Thire, and Hardcase jumping in Lee's Dominator and, Jimmy, Jesse, Samuel, and Tup splitting up and jumping into his truck.

"Don't damage my baby brother." Mark let out while looking to Link who hopped into the drivers seat and started his Duke while he took the passenger side and Echo took the back seat and fired from their weapons from their positions at the men Condados who were still blanketed in the smoke.

"Hang on!" Ana said as she slammed her foot on her gas petal and sent her Ocelot F620 flying out of the swamps with Lee's Dominator following then Mark's Duke, and Jimmy's truck.

"I think we might have lost them." Said Tup before the back window of Jimmy's truck was blown out raining glass onto Tup's back and cutting into his right arm as they noticed seven vehicles following after them with armed Condados firing out the windows.

"You piece of shit you had to say something didn't you." Jimmy yelled out. "That's gonna take a fucking arm and leg to get fixed." He added with anger in his tone as he lifted up his M14 and fired off three shots at the first car that bounced off the hood of the car and only caused the gangsters to return fire again.

"Damn!" said Mark as he looked back and watched as Jimmy shot a Condado armed with a Mini Uzi in the head and splatter his brains over the side of the car before falling out the passenger side window and leaving a red streak on the pavement while another Condado in the backseat of an all-red Baller armed with an M16 fired out the window and managed to blow out another window as Jimmy ducked for cover only to find his forehead was split open and his vision was now somewhat blurred from the blood in his eyes.

"Link drop back, Jimmy's taking a pounding back there." Mark ordered to the shock of Echo.

"What makes you think we'll fair any better?" he asked just as Link stepped on the brakes and Mark loaded a fresh magazine into his CM901 Assault Rifle.

"Because you're sitting in a car that's got over eight thousand dollars worth of bulletproof metal, off-road tires, a heavily armored muffler, transmission, and gas tank." Mark yelled out with a sick smile as he slid his torso out the passenger side window of the car and fired off several shots that struck the driver in the Baller in the head, chest, and stomach and causing the masked man in the passenger seat to grab the wheel to keep the vehicle steady but what he failed to stop was the dead driver from slamming his foot down on the gas petal and sending the SUV accelerating and flying past the truck before slamming into a tree on the side of the road.

"Thanks for the save." Jimmy yelled out from the driver's seat as he and Link raced alongside each other.

"At the next exit I want you to take it and head to Manfred and the others." Mark yelled out as loud as he could pass the gunfire.

"I won't leave you brother." Jimmy shouted back.

"I'm not giving you the option brother so get ready." Mark yelled out before turning his Rifle back on the approaching vehicles and went to grab the trigger for his Grenade Launcher attachment only to stop as realization hit him.

He only had one explosive and right now wasn't the best time to use it. The Creole then quickly took his hand of Launcher and back on the side of his Rifle where he went back to unloading round after round at the Condados who weren't giving up their attack as the group watched as three more cars came from out of the woods and quickly replaced the lost ones.

"Dump on them motherfuckers." The driver of a car yelled out as the passenger hopped out of the window of the vehicle and fired an AK-47 Assault Rifle at the back of Jimmy's truck putting holes in the vehicle and blowing out one of the back tires causing a loud sputtering sound as Jimmy fought to keep control of the vehicle while Mark, Link, Lee, Echo, Thire, and Hardcase looked on in shock.

"BRACE YOURSELVES." Jimmy yelled out as he slammed on brakes but this only seemed to cause the truck to turn on its side before flipping over and rolling onto the middle of the road while Link, Lee, and Ana each slammed on brakes and came to a halt in a circle around the overturned truck.

"Get them out of there." Mark yelled out as he took a firing stance with Lee, Thire, Hardcase, and Kyra and fired on the approaching Condados while Link, Echo, and Ana pulled Jimmy, Tup, Samuel, and Jesse from the wreckage.

"Son of a bitch!" Samuel yelled out as Ana noticed that he took a bullet in the right leg while Jimmy climbed out the broken window with blood still leaking from his forehead and now blood leaking from his mouth after he split his lip in the crash.

"I'm alright!" Jimmy yelled out in anger as he forced himself on his feet with his M14 in his hands. He seemed to be the most unaffected as the group pulled out Tup who was left unconscious with a head injury and Jesse who had a piece of glass stuck in his back.

"Shit!" Lee yelled out as he ducked for cover behind his Dominator just as a Condado wearing a red do-rag under a black hat and carrying an M4 unloaded in his direction and put several holes in the door of his car and blew out the windows.

"You're paying for that with your life you piece of shit!" Lee yelled out as loud as he could before jumping up with his Tactical Mossberg 500 already cocked and unloaded a slug that hit the man square in the center of his chest and sent him flying back with a piece of his rib actually launching out of his chest and barely missing the next guy who was hit twice in the liver by Thire who was dual-wielding his two USP .45's.

"We can't hold like this forever brother." He yelled out looking to Mark who was loading a fresh magazine into his Rifle.

"You're right!" the Creole let out with a low growl before he snapped back into reality and barked another order. "Alright listen up this is where we split up." He yelled out to everyone's confusion.

"Link take Thire, Echo, and get Jimmy and the others out of here and to Manfred and the others. Me and Lee are gonna lure them away." He yelled out.

"I can still fight!" Jimmy yelled out again with rage in his tone.

"I know you can and I'm gonna need you later, but right now just go and get patched up." Mark yelled out as the group heard another loud scream and watched as Echo was knocked back with a bullet wound in his right arm.

"Can we get out of here now." He yelled out as he clutched his bullet wound before Kyra ran over and noticed that it was a clean through and through. "They're getting more tenacious." She yelled out.

"You have field medic training you think you can keep them alive on the way?" Mark asked earning a nod from the Afro-Britain woman.

"I can handle that." She let out as Mark, Lee, Ana, and Thire provided covering fire for the group as Link, Hardcase, and Kyra loaded them into Lee's Dominator.

"I don't think all of them are gonna be able to squeeze in there…without bleeding on my seats." Lee yelled out with anger in his tone as he loaded more shells into his Shotgun before cocking it.

"Price of driving a sports car brother." Mark yelled out. "Besides they need speed and you got the most of it." He added.

"Yeah while she's sitting on a piece of Italian Muscle." Lee yelled back before looking to Ana who took the head off a Condado with relative ease before shooting another three times in the chest.

"I'll buy you a new car, so just shut up and shoot!" Ana yelled out as Lee jumped from cover and shot a Condado in the leg causing him to fall backwards and land on his shoulder with enough force to break his collarbone as he hit the asphalt. "All of you aren't going to fit in Lee's so you can take mine just don't scratch my paint." She added.

"We're loaded." Link yelled out as he climbed into Lee's drivers seat while Samuel, Tup, Kyra were in the back seat as Jimmy, Thire, and Echo slid into Ana's car.

"I guess I'm with you guys and the fun part then ha." Hardcase yelled out with a slight smile.

"You wanted action you're about to get it." Mark yelled out as he, Lee, Ana, and Hardcase jumped in Mark's Duke with the IAA Agent in the driver's seat and putting the vehicle in reverse so that they could cover the others.

No sooner had they jumped in their cars though the remaining Condados seem to do the same as they prepared to follow the group.

"Alright go!" Thire yelled as he slammed on the gas pedal and sent Lee's Dominator's flying while Ana's Ocelot brought up the rear.

"Keep them off me." Ana yelled out as she slammed on Mark's gas petal and sent the muscle car flying forward with the Condados shooting at them as they went by.

"Get those sons of bitches!" a Condado yelled out as he fired three shots from is Pistol at the fleeing car before climbing into a dark blue Tornado while the others jumped into their cars and followed the group.

As the group noticed the next exit coming up Ana quickly went wide eyed as she noticed that they were about to pull up on a tanker truck that was a few yards in front of them. This caused somewhat of a half-smile to form across her face as an idea ran past her head.

"These motherfuckers aren't giving up and I like it." Hardcase yelled out as he fired off eight shots and managed to hit a Condado in the chest and watched him try to rest his torso on the top of the car while his blood leaked from the sunroof onto the men inside the car.

"Shit!" Lee yelled out as he threw down his Shotgun and picked up Thire's MP5 Submachine Gun and fired off six shots out the window that struck a tire and sent the car swerving off the road and into a ditch that was filled with water from the rainy-day prior.

"Shotgun Mary needs range now." Ana yelled out with a slight smile.

"Forget you." Lee yelled back while Ana chuckled.

"Mark I think it's time for you to use that Grenade Launcher." she let out causing the Roman to turn his head and notice the tanker truck in front of them.

"Get me close, I don't want to kill the driver." Mark yelled out as Ana gave a slight chuckle.

"I love your humanity." She let out as Mark prepped his Grenade Launcher just as Ana started to come up alongside the truck.

"That's gonna make a big bang." Said Hardcase with a sick smile.

"NOW!" Mark yelled out as Ana slammed into the side of the truck as hard as Mark's Duke would allow and watched as the youngest Roman.

"Yanky ass road hogs I'm tired of this shit." He yelled out before turning his head and noticing an African American male pointing a Rifle at his head.

"Detach the damn tanker or I'll blow your hat off." Mark yelled out causing the driver to lift his hands to the air before following his command as he pulled a lever and detached the tanker.

This sight drew a smile from Mark and the others as they watched the truck bed fly forward at incredible speeds after letting go of its added weight while the tanker slowed itself in the middle of the road. Ana then proceeded to slam into the side of the tanker causing it to swerve so that it would turn horizontal and putting fear in the hearts of everyone as they thought about the tanker going up in an explosion that would more than likely kill them all.

"Easy with that." Lee yelled out as the group noticed that the first wave of Condados vehicles were speeding towards the tanker with enough speed that they could barely stop themselves.

"NOW MARK!" Ana yelled out causing Mark to shoulder his Rifle and quickly squeeze his Grenade Launcher and fire a projectile in the direction of the tanker truck.

BOOOM!

That was the best way to describe the resulting aftermath as Mark, Lee, Hardcase, and Ana looked on with the orange fires painting their faces as a mushroom cloud of black and orange quickly engulfed the road and took five of the Condados vehicles with it as it scorched the earth and left an ear ringing explosion that the group may have left a few of them who survived deaf and disoriented.

The group even caught sight of metal from the cars flying and falling from the skies including the side view mirror or what was left of it after the explosion shattered the glass as well as half the object.

"We should get going." Mark let out as Ana nodded her head before driving off as the flames started to damper down and the group noticed that three of the cars were completely engulfed in flames and the men inside them were fighting to put the flames out while two more cars were blown off the road and to the side.

What made them all go wide eyed though was the sight of four Condados who had gotten out of the burning car and were now running around trying to put the flames on their bodies out. The sight of them seemed to freeze up the surviving Condados as they watched their brothers in arm flay about and scream at the top of their lungs as the fire ate away at their skin.

One member seemed the smartest for he remembered the stop, drop, and roll technique but the fire was too strong and all he seemed to be doing was peeling his skin off against the asphalt.

"That won't hold them off for long." Lee let out with a hint of disgust in his tone.

"Assuming that's not all of them." Ana added while Mark nodded his head.

"I know, but I have an idea that should get us another ally in this fight whether they want to help us or not." Mark let out to the confusion of the group.

"Takes us to Metra." He ordered earning more confused looks from the group.

17th Ward, New Arcadia

"STEP ON IT MANNY!" Davey yelled out as he and Eddy found themselves ducking from bullets AV members hung out the windows of five cars and fired on them with automatic weapons and blew more holes into their truck with one striking Davey in the right butt cheek and causing his to scream like a bat out of hell.

"I'm pushing her as fast as I can brother." Manny shot back with anger in his tone. "We're almost there just keep ducking."

"You're not the one with a bullet in the ass." Davey yelled back as Eddy layed on top of him and shielded him from the coming barrage as Manfred made a quick turn down a street that only led down a Cul-de-Sac that all of them knew was a one-way street.

"Okay we're here-." Started Robbie before the sound of both of his back tires exploding caught all of their attention as the back of the truck hit the ground hard and caused sparks to fly as it slammed into a street light on the side of the road with enough force to leave it shaking back and forth and causing the air bags to deploy knocking back both Manny and Robbie who both wanted to rest their heads on the soft cushion as their blood started to stain them white.

As reality started to return to them they quickly caught the sound of car doors slamming, feet stomping, guns cocking in their direction. This caused both Davey and Eddy to lift their blood covered stained heads and notice that the AV members had lined up in a firing squad and were now pointing their guns directly at them.

"Damnit!" Eddy said as he licked the blood that was leaking from his lips before wiping away the blood that was staining his forehead letting out a low cough as the smell of gunpowder covered his body.

"You boys held out well, but now it's time to end this shit." Said a tall Caucasian man with long blonde hair that was covered in white supremacist tattoos as he looked at the truck with a smile as Davey and Eddy looked at him with blurry eyes while Manfred and Robbie looked back to catch sight of him.

"Light them up!" he yelled out causing the group to close their eyes in anticipation of their coming deaths. Then the sound of gunfire came and somewhat engulfed them but to their shock none of them seemed to be getting hit and when it ended they all heard a loud scream as they each lifted their heads and watched as ten gang members started to walk from behind the houses in the Cul-De-Sac with AK-47 Assault Rifles in each of their arms.

Then to their surprise they watched as a familiar African American woman started to make her way over to the downed bodies and stop in front of the man who was doing the talking. He had taken two bullets in the chest and another five in both of his legs as he looked up at her with blood leaking out of his mouth as he watched her pull back the slide on a Glock 19 in her hands.

"Wrong turn." Courtney let out as she fired a single shot into the man's head and splattering a few drops of blood on her dark blue jeans and black t-shirt that they all knew would leave a permanent stain as she turned to face the BSU member with no real emotion in her eyes as she walked over to the truck and stopped in front of them.

"Get them out!" she said before watching as the Balla members moved to the truck and started to carry out each of the BSU members who couldn't help but to send looks back at the group.

Liddell

The sound of typing seemed to be the only Gwen could here as she found herself sitting alone in her apartment typing up a new article for the paper. She had recently taken up a job as a journalist for the Louisiana Dated. They didn't get many readers but she never found herself short on a check especially since it was a job for the state.

She must have been typing for what felt like hours though as she felt her stomach start to growl before and decided that it was probably the best time for her to go out and have lunch. With that she quickly grabbed her car keys and started to make her way out of the building and downstairs where she noticed the doormen Todd talking with four men of Mexican descent.

"I'm sorry sir but I can't just let you in here without someone signing you in." he let out to the anger of the men.

"Maybe you didn't hear us clearly but we're friends of Ms. Gwen Roman and would like to go up and see her." The lead man let out in a thick Mexican accent and a Z tattoo on the back of his neck to the shock and confusion of Gwen whom they failed to notice was slowly starting to walk past them.

"And I'm sorry but I can't do that." He let out to the man's frustration.

"And I'm tired of hearing that." He let out before pulling out a Pistol and firing a single shot into the head of Todd that caused Gwen to jump in fear as she noticed the bullet wound in the head of Todd while his blood and brain matter was splattered on the flower picture behind him.

"Hey that's her." Yelled one of the men causing Gwen to go wide eyed as she noticed the men looking at her with anger in their eyes. With the sight of Todd still burned in her head she quickly ran out of the building with the men giving chase after her. Many of them didn't know it but Gwen ran track in Junior and High School so she was almost easily able to put some distance between herself and the gunmen.

That distance though was soon met as the man with the gun fired a single shot that whizzed over head and caused her to slow down in her stride before quickly turning a corner in fear as he fired off two more shots in her direction.

"Get that puta." He yelled out as they turned a corner and watched as Gwen ran through the back door of a restaurant and started making her way pass the chefs and waiters with some of them dropping their food and plates as she sped past them and out of the kitchen as the men came through and started questioning people on her where she went.

It was until a man in a chef's hat pointed in her direction and the group of gunmen followed after her as she ran out the front door of the restaurant and started to circle the block with the men following after her as she ran into the parking garage that was right across from her building.

The building was dark so none of them could see each other, only hear the others foots steps. With that in mind Gwen quickly found herself moving to hide behind a car while the men stopped in their tracks and started to speak to each other in Spanish. She wasn't fluent in the language as she was with French but she got the general message they were giving as she watched them split up and start to search the parking garage.

"Hey you can't be in here." Yelled out a security guard for the building but before he could say anything else he was forever silenced as the lead man drew his pistol and shot him once in the head with a point blank shot to the head.

"Oh god oh god." She said as she slowly started to creep down a row of cars in her quest of getting to her own while the men searched each car with Gwen who had to roll under one just to get to safety as one of the men moved to look at the row of cars.

"Oh god!" she let out with tears in her eyes as she noticed the feet of one man as he approached her location before moving on.

As they started to make their way around the parking garage Gwen found herself rolling from under the car and making her way out the front of the building only to run face to face with one of the men. He was a somewhat slim man of Mexican descent with dark brown skin and bright brown eyes and shaved head.

"Hey!" he yelled out before moving to pull his gun on her but before he could fire a shot Gwen rushed him and managed to get him from firing his shot at her. He then gave her a quick punch to the side of the head that left her staggering but she quickly shot it off and gave him a sharp kick between the legs that left him doubling over in pain and with his momentary stunned state she quickly grabbed his gun and started to run away as fast as her legs would take her.

Metra, Lincoln Parish

The sound of grunting seemed to be what caught Felix off-guard as he walked pass the kitchen and noticed Loka trying to grab something from the top shelf but finding it rather difficult while in her chair.

At first the man of Quechan descent wanted to step in and help her but instead he decided to watch her. He knew she would get angry at him if he did step in to help her because it denied her the independence she wanted so much of.

As he continued to watch her for about two to three minutes he was then caught off-guard by a loud crashing sound as Loka fell out of her chair and on the tiled floor with a loud thump.

"Shit!" she yelled out with anger in her tone as she started to pound the floor as hard as she could before feeling a pair of arms wrap around her and lift her up.

"I got you." Said Felix as he moved to set her back down in her chair only to be stopped as she slapped him away.

"I can do this myself." She let out with anger in her tone as she moved to pull herself back into her chair while Felix looked at her with a seriousness in his eyes.

"You know you don't have to do this alone." He replied causing her to let out a loud scoff. "I want to help you Loka."

"Idiota if you want to help me then go put a bullet in the man who put me in this chair because that would put me at peace." She yelled out while Felix looked away from her in anger. "Oh right he's your Carnale you're not gonna do that."

"How can you say that shit when I've been here helping all of you wage a war against Mark." He let out.

"You've helped up, but when it comes down to actually killing him will you be there fighting and helping us or will you be on the sideline just waiting to see how it played out." She yelled back causing Felix to go silent as he bit his tongue after hearing her.

"Mark was…my friend, I'm not afraid to admit that, but with all of the hurt we've caused each other these last few months. I know there's no going back for him or me." He let out with a hint of anger in his tone. "I chose all of you over him, I chose you over the guy who got me to where I am. I think that says a lot about me and if you can't see it then to hell with you." He added causing the Chola to go silent for a few seconds before watching as Felix moved to turn his back on her and start to head for the door.

"Wait-." She started causing Felix to turn his head and look back at her with a serious look in his eyes that soon faded as he noticed the saddened look in her own.

Before the duo could say anything to the other though the sound of gunshots in the distance seemed to catch all of them by surprise as Felix found himself springing into action as he ran out the front door and noticed Miguel, Ernesto, Task, and Adahy running down the street.

"What happened?" he yelled out with concern in his tone.

"We're gonna go see." Adahy yelled back as Felix moved to follow after them as they made their way down the street and quickly noticed that one of their Soldados was lying dead on his mothers' front porch with five gunshot wounds to his chest while the woman stood over him screaming as loud as her lungs could.

"What happened?" Ernesto yelled out as a Pee-Wee gangster approached him with a saddened look in his eyes.

"Somebody just came through spraying." He replied earning confused looks from the group before another wave of gunfire caused them to drop for cover as they looked up and noticed a convoy of five vehicles rolling up and men of Mexican descent jump out of each vehicle with guns in their hands and begin to unload on the crowd of people.

"Fuck these motherfuckers up." Yelled out a Condado with a Pistol as he fired off several shots in the direction of Ernesto and Miguel who dove for cover behind the car in front of the home while Felix and Task moved around the side of the house for cover.

"Condados?" Miguel said in confusion as he and Ernesto sent each other looks before Ernesto lifted his head and noticed that the mother of the dead man had taken a bullet in the head and was now lying dead on top of him.

"How'd they'd find out where we were?" Miguel added as Ernesto continued to look at the dead woman with wide eyes before a feeling of rage passed over him.

"It doesn't matter let's just, but let's show them why even outside of New Austin they still can't fuck with us." Ernesto yelled out as he drew his .44 Magnum stood up and fired a well-placed shot that hit a Condado in his right eye and then watched him fall back and hit the ground hard.

"Fucking Azz-Takers." A Condado yelled out as he fired a barrage of rounds in the direction of Ernesto before letting out a loud shriek as he turned around to grab at a wound in his back only for everyone to notice that he had an arrow sticking out of him.

"Wrong place wrong time." Task let out as he pulled back the string on his quiver and fired another arrow that finished the man off with a shot to the eye.

"Can't you use a gun like everyone else." Adahy yelled out as he fired three rounds from his pistol in the direction of a Condado who quickly jumped for cover behind a car just as a dark blue Tornado pulled up and quickly came to screeching halt at the end of the street.

"Backups here." Felix yelled out as he watched five Azteca's step out of the car, with one moving in a hurry to the trunk and the others laying down covering fire for him as he popped the trunk and revealed an arsenal of weapons which he quickly started tossing to the Cholos.

"Senor!" the Peewee Gangster yelled out as he tossed Ernesto an MP5 Submachine, then Miguel an M16A2 Assault Rifle. The father and son duo then quickly layed down a barrage of covering fire for Felix, Task, and Adahy forcing the Condados behind their cars.

"Jefe!" the Peewee yelled out as he tossed Ernesto a Hand Grenade to Ernesto that the Onda member easily caught one handed before pulling the pin and tossing it in the direction of the first Condados vehicle and then watching with a smile as the resulting explosion blew away five Condados and leaving a bloody smear on the side of the road as one man was slid across the pavement on his back with enough force that the hard asphalt tore through his clothing and cut deep into his flesh.

"Holy shit!" said Felix before he was almost hit on the side of the head by Adahy who tossed him his P226 Assault Rifle.

"Don't get squeamish, start laying these pieces of shit out." Adahy yelled out as he fired a barrage of rounds from his AK-47 Assault Rifle and struck down two more Condados while Task let another one of his arrows fly and struck a man who was shooting from the behind a car door in the neck and then watching as his blood started to pour and stain the ground.

"They've called in for backup!" Miguel yelled out as the group noticed three more car loads of gangsters starting to make their way into the neighborhood just as four more car loads of Azteca members also entered the fray.

While this was happening Mark, Lee, Hardcase, and Ana found themselves sitting in Mark's Duke that was stealthily parked alongside a house where the neither the battling Azteca's or Condados noticed them.

"To say you wouldn't kill that driver yet you would gun down a man in front of his own mother makes me question your humanity Marcus." Ana let out while Mark gave a low growl.

"Scold me later, we needed the distraction and this way we can kill two birds with one stone." He let out with little emotion. "It won't be long before the Vagos and Marabunta show up to assist Ernesto. The Condados will be cleared out and hopefully they will do enough damage to the three gangs that'll make them less of a pain in the ass for us." He stated while Lee nodded his head.

"And since it's not us we don't break the truce." The Chinese man let out as Mark started up his car and processed to drive away from the neighborhood while the Condados and the Azteca's continued to trade shots with each other with the Condados facing heavy losses but still managing to put a dent in the Azteca's as Ernesto loaded his .44 Magnum before looking up and noticing that the Peewee gangster who had arrived with the others had taken a round in the throat and was now lying on the ground dead.

The group then watched as a grey jeep pulled up behind the Condado vehicle and then watch with mixed looks as a muscular man of Mexican descent with a shaved head and wearing all black jumped from the back of the truck armed with an M4A1 Assault Rifle with a Grenade Launcher attached to the underbarrel and a belt of Grenades for the Launcher wrapped around his chest.

"EVERYBODY MOVE!" Ernesto yelled out as the man fired a single Grenade from the launcher then watched as it slammed into the side of the dark blue Tornado that had arrived earlier and took the four remaining Azteca's out in the resulting explosion while also leaving Miguel, Ernesto, Task, Adahy, and Felix stunned and disoriented.

New Arcadia General Hospital

Silence that seemed to be the only thing Alison could hear as she found herself sitting on the edge of her bed with her head looking down at the floor as she thought about the youngest Roman. He'd left a few hours ago but the way he left her seemed to have a lasting impact.

The more she thought about it, the more she wanted to cry. Those thoughts were soon interrupted though by the sound of scurrying feet and yells from outside her door as she lifted her head and noticed doctors running around the hospital floor frantically as patients were wheeled in left and right.

As she looked around the floor she quickly caught two of the nurses, one of African American descent and the other Caucasian with short blonde hair, talking amongst each other and started to listen in on their conversation.

"Jesus from what they say this is a lot worse than that gang shooting on those projects in the third." The Caucasian woman let out.

"It's so fucking bad Arcadia West had to send some of them here and to the Damage Center." The African American woman let out as Alison then turned to a television and noticed a news report that was broadcasting.

"Another bloody hour in New Arcadia that seems to just be getting bloodier. This morning started off with a massive gang shooting involving gangsters from the 17th Ward and members of both the Dixie Mafia and Aryan Vanguard that left over twenty people dead. A mere hours later a shots fired report led to the discovery of another gun battle involving the Dixie Mafia and Aryan Vanguard that left another thirty dead, and a highway shooting that with the New Austin based Prison Gang the Condados dead."

"Police are ruling this as the result of the ensuing gang war, but many people are willing to call this a mass suicide amongst the gangs-." The reported started while Alison put her hand over her mouth as she thought about Mark and the others without realizing she was being watched by an all-to-familiar man.

Elsewhere

The drive to the Rethink Cul-De-Sac wasn't long Kyra, Link, and the others as they pulled their car up in front the house on the middle of the street where they noticed five African American men standing out front with angry expression on their faces as they moved to grab their guns.

"Whoa it's just us." Link said as he climbed out of the car with Kyra and Thire while the men moved to help them take out the wounded Jimmy, Samuel, Tup, and Jesse then take them into the house where they noticed Eddy and Manfred talking with Courtney.

"Brothers you're safe." Said Link as he moved to slap hands with Eddy and Manfred before looking around and noticing that Robbie and Davey weren't with them.

"Where are Davey and Robbie?" asked he asked with worry in his tone.

"Your Dominican friend took a bullet in the arm and the other white boy took one in the shoulder and his ass." Courtney stated causing the group to look at her closely. "My homegirl live here and she a nurse, so they in good hands. She can even look after the rest of them." She added earning a nod from Link.

"We appreciate that." Link let out while Courtney merely nodded her head.

"Just let Mark know that we need to talk." She stated before the sound of a car screeching outside caught all their attention.

"I think you're gonna get to tell him that yourself." Link stated as he Manfred, Eddy, Kyra, and Thire made their way outside the house and noticed Mark, Lee, Ana, and Hardcase stepping out of the car with relieved looks in their eyes.

"Glad you're still in one piece brother." Said Mark as he moved to greet Manfred and Eddy who nodded their heads.

"Come on you know better than to doubt us, we've been doing this long enough now." Eddy let out while Mark chuckled before patting him on the shoulder.

The Creole then quickly noticed Courtney standing in the doorway of the building then stepping her way out with a serious look on her face as she started to approach Mark.

"Courtney, I-." he started before the familiar rat tat tat tat of gunfire caught his attention followed by a hard force as he was struck three times in the back and knocked to the ground by the force of the bullets as everyone turned their heads and noticed three more car loads of Condados coming their way.

"I thought we gave those assholes the slip. How did they find us that fast?" Thire asked with anger in his voice.

"We can ask them after we kill most of them." Mark yelled out as he lifted himself up while feeling the heat of the bullets as they tore into his bulletproof vest.

"TAKE UM OUT!" the Creole yelled out as he and the others got into firing positions and started to barrage the vehicles forcing the Condados inside to hop out of their cars and engage them lead for lead.

"You fuckers are too easy!" Hardcase yelled out as he shot down two Condados on his own before needing to reload while Mark watched as Courtney fired off three shots from her Pistol that hit another twice in the chest and once in the neck.

He then shifted his focus to Ana who had shot another in the leg before finishing him off with a headshot that left his brains splattered across the side of his car and forever staining the vehicle.

"That's it let um have it we've got them on the ropes." Mark yelled out before a loud screeching sound caught all their attentions and caused them to look up and notice a light brown jeep making its way in their direction before coming to a screeching halt behind the Condados vehicle.

"Holy shit!" Manfred yelled as the group noticed that the jeep was filled with four men of Mexican descent who were each carrying M4A1 Assault Rifles, bulletproof vest, baseball caps, and boots. In a way they gave off the image of many members of Merryweather Security but instead of flying the logo of Merryweather many of them had the letter Z tattooed on the side of their necks.

"ZEROES!" Kyra yelled out as both she, Link, Mark, and Lee went wide eyed at the sight of the men.

"This just got more interesting!" Ana added as one man jumped from the side of the jeep and tossed a Hand Grenade in the direction of the group.

Liddell

The sound of loud rap music blasting through a stereo seemed to be the only thing Hakeem Roman could hear as he found himself rapping in his studio in Downtown Liddell with a smile on his face while his so-called entourage of six people watched him "flow".

"Alright that was good H." let out a heavy-set African American man in designer shades from behind the glass of the studio room as he watched Hakeem pull off his headphones and smile at him.

"Shit I know it was great it was written by the King of Louisiana himself." Hakeem declared before looking to his girlfriend who also smiled at him. He couldn't help but look at the Puerto Rican woman and lick his lips as he took in the sight of the dark blue dress shirt she wore that left her cleavage exposed.

"Alright let's take it from the top again then." The heavy set man started as Hakeem moved to put on his headphones though he was taken off-guard by the sound of the door being kicked open and watched as five men of Mexican descent ran into the room.

"Hey you can't be up in here-." Started the heavy set man before the lead man lifted up a Sawn-Off Shotgun and fired a single slug that struck the man in the center of the chest and caused him to fall back in the chair.

"This also caused the two women and four men in the group to also scream before they were lit up as well in front of Hakeem who could do nothing other than watch in horror as the lead man moved over to Alana and grabbed her by the hair before slamming her head on the glass.

"Hakeem!" she said with fear in her heart as the man lifted his Pistol and pointed it to the back of her head.

"HAKEEM!" she yelled out as he squeezed the trigger and blew her brains all over the glass while Hakeem looked on in horror.

3rd Ward

The sound of loud shouting seemed to be the only thing that was being heard within the 3rd Ward as Maurice and Marrick Roman found themselves sitting in their living room watching as the Los Santos Panic play the Liberty City Penetrators in basketball.

Both father and son were both cheering at the moment as the Penetrators were leading the game and talking amongst each other as Yolanda entered the room and eyed both men with a serious look on her face.

"So this how you two niggas want to spend your day when there's shit that needs to be done?" she asked earning a roll of the eyes from Maurice.

"What you talking about now woman?" he asked with venom in his tone.

"Them fucking Mexicans took a shot at your son and that shit been unanswered for a week and from what I see Joe and that fucking African nigga are still walking around." she yelled out.

"And we're gonna handle it." He yelled back earning a louder response from Yolanda that caused Marrick to roll his eyes before making his way out of the living room and onto the front porch where he was quickly noticed by a short African American man with frame glasses and buck teeth.

"What's good Stanley." He let out before waving to the man who went to wave back before the sound of automatic gunfire ripped through the air like a life through butter.

As Marrick's eyes widened at the sound he quickly lifted his head and noticed a two dark blue Emperors and a Baller speed down the street before coming to a screeching halt in front of the house. Upon seeing them stop the middle born Roman quickly jumped over the railings of the front porch as he watched four men step out of the Baller armed with Assault Rifles and begin to fire upon the house shattering the windows, riddling the wooden walls with bullet holes, and forcing Maurice to knock Yolanda to the ground in order to shield her while a bullet grazed his right arm in the process.

"Son of a bitch!" he screamed out while Yolanda looked over his shoulder wound.

"Nigga that's just a scratch get yo ass up and start shooting." She yelled out while Marrick, who was still taking cover beside the house, reached into the back of his pants and pulled out to M9A1 Beretta's. He'd been carrying at least two guns with him since the last attack on him so he was well prepared for this fight with two guns and five magazines of ammo on him.

As he noticed a man of Puerto Rican descent start to lower his M16A2 Assault Rifle he struck with the quickness of snake and fired off two shots from both guns that struck the man dead in the center of his chest and knocking him back before firing another two shots another more dark skinned Puerto Rican man once in the leg before hitting him again in the stomach.

"Get that motherfucker." Yelled out an African American man in dark blue who was with the group as he lifted up his AK-74U Assault Rifle and fired a barrage of rounds at Marrick who returned fire and shattered the glass of a window on a car, then firing off three more shots that dropped another man.

"Yeah motherfucker." The Roman let out as he fired off three more rounds that hit one man in the leg and caused him to tumble downward before the others sent a wave of rounds his way that forced him to roll to cover behind the house before crawling underneath it to avoid the shots.

Upon crawling under the house though Marrick started to regret it as he looked up and noticed the wooden floorboards were covered in a rather thick spider web, there was a heavy amount of trash underneath it, even a few lost toys from his childhood. Still though he knew he had to push on because just a few feet away from him was a dark blue duffel bag that he knew was filled to the brim with the family's guns just for situations like this one.

"He's under the house shoot that motherfucker." Yelled out the lead Apostle as Marrick dropped to the ground as more bullets flew across his back and embedded themselves in the wood.

"Get your ass out there." Yolanda yelled out to her husband as she watched Maurice pull out his cellphone and start dialing for his youngest son.

"The fuck!" Marrick yelled out as he felt something bite into his shoe covered foot and looked down to notice that a rather large Possum biting into his shoes.

"MAN GET THE FUCK!" he yelled out trying to kick the animal and in the process turning himself over and looking up to notice a rather large spider hovering just over his head.

"SON OF A BITCH!" Marrick screamed out before lifting his gun and firing a shot that hit the spider and went through the floor of the house startling both his mother and father with the latter still trying to call Marcus.

17th Ward

"Take cover." Link yelled out as Ana sent her gaze to Mark and watched as he lifted his CM901 Assault Rifle and took up aim before firing five shots at the Grenade with one finally hitting it and forcing it to detonate mid-air. The resulting explosion didn't kill anyone but it did leave them startled and disoriented as Thire lifted up a middle finger at Mark.

"I forgot you could do that." Link let out while looking to Mark and notice him give a slight smile before taking aim and striking one Condado in the chest with a clean shot that knocked the man off his feet and sent him flying back.

"I hope that broke your goddamn neck." Lee yelled out with venom in his tone as he shot a Zero member in the chest, thanks to his vest though the slug didn't get much penetration but the force of the round did knock him back and cause him to hit his head on the side of his car.

"I LOVE THIS CITY!" Hardcase seemed to add as he shot down two more Condados before wounding a third with a shot to the stomach that left him falling and leaking blood on the pavement.

"Why is shit never easy." Eddy yelled out as he slammed a fresh magazine into his G36C Assault Rifle before laying down covering fire for Courtney as she and three more 17th Ward Gangster hit three more Condado members with one man being hit in the lung and beginning to cough and wheeze blood on the bullet case covered ground.

"Motherfuckers!" yelled out a Condado as he pumped his Shotgun and fired a single shot that hit one 17th Ward member in the leg and caused him to fall to the ground screaming before sending a slug in the direction of Courtney who was forced down into cover by Mark who quickly nodded to her before rolling from cover and managing to strike another Condado member in the chest.

"Hijo de Puta." Yelled out a Zero member with an M14 EBR as he lined Mark up in his sights but before he could fire the shot that would take the head off the youngest Roman he fell to the ground clutching his side as Ana fired a single shot from her Rifle that struck the man right in the liver and left him screaming his head off.

"Goodbye!" she let out before firing a final shot that caught him in the center of the head and sent his head jerking back in a painful motion that left one shocked before Kyra repeated the process and put one in his head.

"Fucking piece of shit!" yelled Mark as he and Lee turned their fire on the Zero members and watched as the remaining three men rolled to cover.

"Damnit I don't have a shot!" yelled out as they watched one man jump from cover and move to fire on the group before being hit once in the neck and falling with his hands on his throat.

"The fuck-." Both Creole and Chinese men started.

"HIGH GROUND MOTHERFUCKERS HIGH GROUND!" Jimmy yelled out from his position on roof of the house catching everyone by surprise as they watched him fire his M14 with increased accuracy from the elevation and strike down another member of the Zero's with relative ease despite his injuries.

"He's clearing the way for us." Mark yelled out before vaulting from cover with Lee and Thire in tow as the trio quickly unloaded on the remaining Condados who were left in a debacle of either being shot by the trio or Jimmy from above.

"Pinche-!" started the Zero member before he was shot in the thigh courtesy of Ana who quickly smiled at him before Kyra shot him in both of his arms and forced him to drop his gun while cursing in Spanish.

"We got a live one." Said Lee with a sick smile as he and Mark shot down the last Condado member with Thire shooting another in the leg and then moving to shoot him once in the head before being stopped by Ana.

"We finishing off this one?" asked Hardcase as he moved to stomp on the bullet wound of the injured Zero before Mark pulled him off him.

"Nah he's gonna tell us what we need to know." Mark replied as he grabbed the Zero member and slammed him back first against the side of the his car with his knife pressed to the man's throat.

"I know a little Spanish and my Chinese friend here is fluent so are you gonna be nice and tell us what we want to know or am I gonna have to get medieval?" Mark asked only for the Mexican National to respond by spitting in his face.

"Yeah!" Mark let out before taking his knife and dragging it across the man's face and in one motion slicing off a piece of his bottom lip in the process to the disgust of many of them. "I'm gonna pop your eyes out and put ice picks in your balls if you don't start speaking." He added while the man looked at him with tears in his eyes.

"Don't waste your time on him Marcus." Ana let out to Mark's confusion as he watched her and Kyra move to the Condado Thire had shot in the leg. "Zeros torture their own so that they don't break over it so it'll be a while before you can get that guy to talk." She stated. "This one though-." She finished before eyeing the man and then stepping on his leg wound.

"You just saw what Mark is capable of, so if you don't start talking soon I'm gonna let him go medieval on you." She let out while the man cowered as he watched Mark plunge his knife into the top of the Cartel gunmen's head and before kicking him off his blade and knocking him away.

"Alright I'll talk." He said earning a slight smile from Ana as Mark and the other BSU members approached him.

"Why are you here and why are the fucking Zero's, Aryan Vanguard, and Dixie Mafia also after us?" Mark asked with venom in his tone.

"I don't know about them white boys dog, but you got enemies everywhere and them Zero's ain't forgive that shit you was doing to them in Mexico for Madrazo just like we didn't forget what you did to us at our drug deal." He let out while Mark rolled his eyes.

"Well how did you know where to find us?" Link asked.

"A text message we got a text message from an unknown number telling us where all of you lived, where you operated, and where your family lived-." He started before giving a violent scream as Mark stomped down hard on his injured leg.

"My family…did you go after my family?" Mark asked with venom in his tone as the group watched him eye the man with rage and venom and noticing the fear filled look in his eyes.

"Not your older brother Marrick and your parents, but the Zeros…they're going after your sister Gwen and Hakeem. They've probably gotten to them by now." He said causing everyone to turn their attention to Mark who gave the man an angry growl while the injured Condado went wide eyed at the sheer fury in Mark's eyes.

"MOTHERFUCKER!" Mark yelled as he slammed the butt of the gun into the head of gangster to the shock of everyone watching as they took in the sight of Mark starting to pound into the skull and chest of the gangster with enough force to shatter his nose, break his ribs, split his lip, knock out a few teeth, and begin to convulse a large amount of blood.

"Awful lot of blood for a skinny guy." Hardcase let out while Lee looked in with anger in his eyes as Mark continued to beat the man until his face was literally a red splatter on the ground.

"Enough!" said Ana as she put her hand on the shoulder of Mark who turned to look at her with an angry expression on his face that soon faded as he noticed the calm look in her eyes.

"These motherfuckers are dead." He let out while Lee and the others each nodded their heads.

"Damn right brother." Jimmy added while Mark looked to the BSU members who each had looks of rage in their eyes.

"What would you have us do boss?" Thire asked with a seriousness in his tone as Mark gave an angry growl just as his cellphone started to ring from a familiar number that caused him to quickly answer it.

"What is it?" Mark let out.

"Mark get your ass over here and take care of these Apostles shooting up our house." The voice of Maurice yelled out as Mark took his ear away from the phone just as it started to ring again from another familiar number that caused Mark's eyes to widen as he answered it.

"Gwen are you alright?" he let out earning the full attention of all the BSU members.

"Mark…I need you." the female Roman let out with a whimper.

"I'm coming to get you where are you?" he asked with worry in his tone.

"A parking garage in East Liddell, these guys…they've been chasing me all over the city and I don't know how they keep finding me." She let out while Mark gave a low growl only to be taken by surprise as Ana pulled the cellphone from the youngest Roman's hands.

"Listen to me Gwen, we're coming for you just know that but you need to hang up your phone and smash it. They're tracking you by your phone so you need to get rid of it now." The IAA Agent let out to the confusion of Gwen who started to yell something back only for Ana to hang up on her.

"Why'd you do that?" Mark asked with a hint of anger.

"She got the message, the longer she's on the phone the more danger she's in and the more danger you're in." Ana let out while Mark gave everyone a confused look. "The Condados, the Zeros, and the Aryan Vanguard…they aren't just finding us by coincidence or because they know where we live they tracking us by your phone Marcus." She let out to the surprise of everyone.

"But how I didn't let any near my phone." Mark shot back.

"Did you get a phone call this morning from an unknown number." Manfred asked causing Mark to go wide eyed as he remembered the first time his phone rang when he was with Alison.

"Damn it, so I gotta smash it." Mark let out while moving to pull out his cellphone.

"No, maybe we can use it to our advantage." Ana let out while Mark gave her a confused look. "We know they're coming now, so we can be better prepared for it." Ana stated while taking Mark's phone and looking over it.

"I'm guessing the Apostles will be coming your way next. That means Doom will more than likely be leading the charge." She stated causing Mark's eyes to widen.

"I'll go and save your sister, Kyra can go for your brother, and you can send someone to save your mother and father while you and another team take out the Apostles and end this war once and for all." She added while Mark eyed her closely with anger in her his eyes.

"Make sure they're safe." Mark let out earning a nod from Ana rubbed his right cheek before looking to Kyra who nodded her head.

"You can count on us." The Afro-British woman let out while Mark nodded his head.

"Me and Eddy will go save your parents." Jimmy let out to the surprise of everyone as they watched him walk up from behind with a serious look on his face and a bandage on his forehead.

"You good to fight brother?" Mark asked.

"Always." Jimmy shot back.

"I got his back, plus I want to hear what your father has to say when a couple of white boys roll through and save his ass." Eddy let out with a slight smile while Mark nodded his head.

"I'm going with them as well." Said Courtney as Mark sent her a look before nodding his head and then looking away.

"Alright me, Lee, and Thire will lead our Apostle friends out of the city." Mark let out to Hardcase's dismay.

"Whoa whoa whoa what about me?" the Vespucci BSU Member let out while Mark gave a slight chuckle.

"Link and Manfred are gonna take you to our new friend." He let out to the confusion of Hardcase and a few others.

"If they can track my phone I'm pretty sure you can to Manny, when we find a spot I want you to come riding through." The Creole leader stated earning a nod from Manny.

"Alright, and while I'm in it I might as well see where this hack came from." The Indian man let out while Mark nodded his head.

"I think we've all got a big hunch." Mark let out before watching as the three teams moved to their respective vehicles with Ana moving to her car, Kyra moving to Lee's, and Jimmy, Eddy, and Courtney moving to an all-black Peyote.

"Good luck brothers." Mark let out to Jimmy and Eddy who both nodded their heads.

"No need we were born lucky boss." Eddy said as Mark sent a look to Courtney and noticed the woman trying to avoid his gaze and with this sight in mind Mark quickly stepped away from the car and allowed them to drive off before moving to Kyra and giving her a wave, then finally approaching Ana.

"You gonna be alright on your own?" Mark asked earning a chuckle from the woman.

"Just worry about yourself soldier." She let out while Mark moved to give her a quick kiss on the forehead that caught her a little by surprise.

"Bring her back and be careful." He whispered out earning a nod from Ana who responded by giving him a quick peck on the cheek.

"Be safe." She finished before climbing in her own car and driving off while Link, Manfred, and Hardcase drove off and waved at Mark in the process as he approached Thire and Lee.

"I know I volunteered for you two for this without your consent and I'm sorry for that." Mark stated earning a low chuckle from Lee.

"I'd much rather be saving your sister, but I know with Ana she's in good hands and I got your back all the way through brother." Lee responded as Mark turned to Thire.

"I asked for hands on training and I guess this is as good as it gets." Thire replied as Mark nodded his head. Just as he went for the car though he was taken off-guard by his cellphone ringing from another number that caused him to quickly answer it.

"Who is this?" Mark yelled out with anger in his tone.

"It's good to hear your voice again Marcus."

Metra, Lincoln Parish

Things were slowly starting to return to Ernesto as he found himself slowly starting to rise to his feet and notice Felix, Adahy, and four more Azteca's trading shots with the Condados and recently arrived Zero members while Task took cover behind a truck.

"Miguel!" Ernesto yelled out, unable to hear his own voice from the ringing in his ears, as he looked over and noticed Miguel slowly starting to pick himself up off the ground. The young man like his father had his face covered in ash from the resulting explosion and had also blown off the blue bandanna that was wrapped around his forehead.

As a Condado member started to charge Miguel Ernesto slowly drew his .44 Magnum and fired off a single shot that hit the man once in the chest and left a large exit wound out the center of his back. He then fired off another shot that caught the man in the center of the head and sent him flying backwards with only one eye.

"Pieces of shit!" Ernesto yelled out as he lifted himself off the ground and fired off another shot from his Magnum that managed to strike a Zero member in the side of the head. "Madre de Puta!" he added before firing off the remaining three shots and striking another Condado in the leg of another Condado who screamed as loud as he could as he fell to the ground with blood gushing down his pants leg.

Ernesto then watched as the Zero with the Grenade Launcher attachment turned in his direction and fired off a barrage of rounds that forced him to take cover behind a car that the man quickly started to spray with rounds while Ernesto loaded more rounds into his Magnum before loading down and noticing a dead Azteca member with an AK-47 Assault Rifle in his hands.

"Damn!" he let out while moving to close the eyes of the gangster before taking the gun from his hands and checking it for ammo.

"Ernesto!" Adahy yelled out earning the attention of the Veterano who watched as the Creek Warrior tossed him another magazine of ammo to which Ernesto nodded his head before watching as Adahy ducked for cover as the Zeros and Condados turned their guns on him and actually hit the man with a shot in the side that was weakened because of the vest.

"Motherfuckers!" Task yelled out as he lifted himself from cover and fired another arrow that struck a Condado member in the center of the throat while Felix shot him three times in the chest and turned his attention to another Condado and hitting him six times in the stomach.

"Fucking Cabron's fucked with the wrong Varrio!" Ernesto yelled out as he jumped from cover and fired off a barrage of rounds from his AK and struck another Condado in the chest and then another barrage that hit one in the top of his forehead before watching him crumble to the ground.

The New Austin OG then darted from cover across the street with incredible speed as the opposing side sent round after round in his direction with none of them hitting him as he took cover beside a house and started to open fire from a better position and struck a Condado who was using the door of his car five times in the side and sent him flying into the vehicle and dumping his blood on the leather seats.

"You fucking Onda dick riders are breaking your reglas for this shit." A Condado yelled out to the confusion of Ernesto and Miguel who had finally risen to his feet and was now firing his Pistol across the hood of a Tornado he was using for cover.

"Wasting you fools is all over our reglas." Miguel shot back with pain shooting through his body as he shot down a Condado member who was trying to dart with two shots to his right shoulder and then watching as he struggled to stand up and lighting him up with rounds in the process.

As Ernesto went to reload his Rifle he heard the familiar sound of a car engine approaching and looked up in awe as a dark blue Peyote and three more cars arrived on the scene along with five bright yellow cars in tow.

The Onda member then watched in surprise as Cruz hopped from the driver seat of one car with Beto, Lil Slicer, and nine more Vagos and Marabunta members who were each armed to the teeth with Assault Rifles and Submachine Guns.

"Light these Maricones up." Cruz yelled out as the Vagos moved into assist the Azteca members while Ernesto noticed a tall man of Honduran Descent with a shaved head bark out orders to the Marabunta members than watched as they engaged the remaining Condado and Zero members in a vicious gunfight that now saw the Condados and Zeros falling behind.

This didn't stop the gangster with the Grenade Launcher though as he fired a barrage of rounds from his M4A1 and shot down three Marabunta members and two Vagos before firing off another Grenade from his Launcher then watching as one of the Vagos vehicles went up in a violent explosion.

"We have to take that motherfucker out before he reloads that thing." Beto yelled out as he shot down another Condado member with a simple headshot while the man with the Grenade Launcher moved to reload.

Before he could though he was taken off-guard as Ernesto slammed into him from behind and shot him three times in the gut with his AK with only one shot being able to pierce his bulletproof vest. He was successful in knocking the gun out of the man's hands though as his front slammed against the car.

Despite the stinging pain in his side though the Zero member didn't stagger or fold as he whipped himself around and threw a hard elbow to the side of Ernesto heads before kicking his Assault Rifle out of his hands and then bum-rushing him with enough force to knock Ernesto to the ground.

"Papa!" Miguel yelled out as he rose from cover only to be pulled back down by Cruz as a series of bullets flew over his head.

"Your old man has got this, he's an Ondero and we gotta take care of these Cabrons." Cruz let out as Ernesto kicked the Cartel gunmen in the stomach once and then followed up with another kick to his right knee that caused him to fall down on it. The Onda member then pressed his attack and pounced on the gunmen with the speed of a tiger and started to repeatedly punch him in the face as hard as he could until the point where his knuckles started to bleed.

"Why are you here?" he yelled out only for the Mexican National to respond by slamming him over the side of the head with his fist and knock Ernesto off him before moving to roll on top of the man and begin punching him in his face.

"To watch you die!" the Zero member shot back as Ernesto tried to reach for his .44 Magnum only to be stopped as the man slammed his fist into the arm of Ernesto causing him to scream out in pain as a sharp pain ran through his body and left his arm feeling almost paralyzed.

"Adios!" the Zero let out as he grabbed Ernesto's .44 Magnum and stood over him with the gun pointed at his head.

Before he could fire off a shot though a loud thumping sound caught him off-guard as Ernesto watched closely as an all-black Duke came out of almost nowhere and slammed into the Sicario with enough force to send him flying before crashing into the middle of the road and splattering his blood in the process with some of it staining the face the Ondero.

Ernesto and the others then quickly watched as a familiar Chinese man jumped from the passenger seat of the car while a man of Samoan descent and a Louisiana Creole jumped from the front seats and started to lay down covering fire for him.

"Don't ever say we didn't do anything for you asshole." Mark yelled out as he sent a look to Ernesto before shooting a Condado in the chest while Lee finally reached the Cartel gunman and started to remove the belt of Grenades off his body while he fought him the entire time.

"You move too much." Lee shot back before picking up Ernesto's .44 Magnum and firing a single shot into the head of the Sicario then running back over to Mark.

"This may come in handy." Lee yelled out as he tossed Mark a Grenade from the belt then watched him quickly load it into his own Launcher while handing Ernesto back his own Magnum.

"You owe us big." The Chinese man let out while Mark fired the Grenade from his Launcher that struck one of the vehicles the Condados were using for cover then watching as it went up in an violent explosion that took six gangsters with it and cleared the road in the process as body parts from the Condado members started to rain down on the Cholo's and Chola's.

"Let's go!" Mark yelled out as he, Thire, and Lee jumped back into their own cars and drove out of the neighborhood while Ernesto continued to look on in confusion along with everyone else who were hesitant to fire on the car of the BSU members as they sped out of the city.

"What the hell was that?" asked Cruz as he looked at Ernesto with a raised brow.

Downtown New Arcadia

The sound of loud yelling seemed to be the only thing Hakeem could hear as he found himself returning to reality after being struck over the side of the head by a microphone and left dazed.

The New Arcadia Rapper quickly then realized that he was now tied to a chair in the studio in only his underwear while the sight of his friends laying dead before him seemed to be the only thing he could see.

"Take it all in." came a new voice that caused Hakeem to lift his head and noticed that the Mexican man who executed Alana in front of him was now standing just a mere inches away from him with a smile on his face.

"You know I'm not really a fan of your rap music, I prefer the oldies." He let out while Hakeem noticed the man holding a rather large machete in his hands.

"Don't be scared this will all be over soon, just not too soon." He added while Hakeem started to panic and force himself out of his restraints but this only seemed to cause him to fall over in his chair.

"You want to die flat on your face I can make that happen, but first I'm gonna make you suffer just a little the same way your family has made mine." He added with a sick smile while the other Cartel members started to chuckle before a knocking sound could be heard at the door. This caused the lead Sicario to yell something in Spanish at one man who moved to answer the door and notice a black woman on the otherside.

"I'm here to record my demo." Kyra let out while the man gave her a quick once over before a wide smile spread across his face.

"Sure come in mama." He let out before moving away and watching as Kyra entered the studio and quickly noticed Hakeem tied to a chair while everyone else was dead on the floor. She then watched as the Sicarios started to yell at each other in Spanish and in that quick momentary distraction she was able to draw her Glock and unload a round into the chest of the lead man, then the bald one, before striking another in the center of the head, and another in gut as he drew his own gun and fired a single shot that hit her in the arm.

"Fucking Wanker." She yelled out before firing a shot into the man's head and then moving to the lead man and shooting him once in the head to the shock of Hakeem who looked at her with wide eyes.

"Who the hell are you?" he asked while Kyra made her way over to him and started to untie him.

"A friend of your brother whose gonna owe me a favor when I'm done with you." She replied while finally undoing the ropes.

3rd Ward

"Cease fire!" one of the Spanish Apostles yelled out as he turned to his homeboys and watched as they started to lower their guns after unloading a barrage of rounds into the house of Maurice and Yolanda Roman and took in the sight of it afterwards.

"Lil Rascal go up there and check it out." Eddie Zayas let out as he looked to a Peewee gangster of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent and watched as he started to make his way to the side of the house and ducked his head down underneath it to see if he could spot Marrick.

"I don't see anything." He let out.

"SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER!" Marrick yelled out as he tossed something in the direction of Lil Rascal that caught the man right in the face and caused him to let out a loud, sharp, ear-piecing scream that shook the hearts of all the LSA members as they looked to Lil Rascal and watched as he appeared to be trying to pull what looked like a large rodent off his face.

"Is that a fucking rat?" asked one of the Apostle members in the disgust.

"It's a Possum Motherfucker." Marrick yelled out as he unloaded a barrage of rounds from a MAC-10 he had retrieved from the bag and struck down two Spanish Apostle members who were the closest to Eddie Zayas.

"You New Arcadia bitches nasty ass fuck sharing your hoods with the rats." Yelled out an Apostle member. "Sick fucks probably eat them bitches to." He added earning a chuckle from Marrick.

"That fucking possum more trill then anybody in yo fucking hood and I bet he taste better than any pussy on your block." Marrick shot back as he shot another Apostle member in the knee and watched him hit the ground with a loud thud before finishing him off with another shot.

He was soon interrupted though by a loud crashing sound as a car full of Roman Boyz slammed into one of the Loco Spanish Apostles vehicles and actually forced them men around it off their feet.

"My niggas come through." Marrick let out as he started to climb from under the house while the Roman Boyz in the car quickly hopped out and started to spray down the gangsters who were using the car for cover.

"Fuck these motherfuckers up." Yelled out a Roman Boy as he shot an Apostle three times in the chest before laying down covering fire and allowing the others to send a barrage of rounds their way.

"Damn where these motherfuckers come from." Yelled out an Apostle before he was shot once in the shoulder by Marrick.

"Get your ass out there." Yolanda yelled to Maurice before she gave a loud scream as their backdoor was kicked in and three Spanish Apostles quickly made their way in the house.

"Fuck we hit the jackpot-." Started one man with a bandanna wrapped around his mouth before he interrupted by a bullet exploding out the top of his head causing Yolanda to scream as both she and Maurice were covered in the man's blood.

"What the fuck!" yelled out the other two men as they turned their heads and watched as Eddy ran into the house with his G36C raised and firing a single shot that hit the first man in the knee and knocking him to the floor, then hitting the last man with a single shot to the throat, before finally moving his gun back on the man with the injured knee.

The BSU member then quickly turned his Rifle sideways and fired a single shot to the head. In truth he often wondered why he saw Mark and Jimmy turning their rifle sideways to shoot. Sure it looked cool but the science behind it was pretty difficult but upon doing so he quickly realized why. It was less accurate but it made changing targets a lot quicker which was good in real closeup shooting against multiple targets just something he needed for now.

"Did you get them?" asked Jimmy as he rushed into the house while Eddy nodded his head.

"Where's Mark?" Maurice asked with venom in his tone.

"He's a little busy at the moment so he sent us." Jimmy shot back.

"Oh hell no, he not just gonna ditch us here with some fucking white boys." Yolanda yelled out before directing her attention to the men the duo shot. "And then you fucked up my carpet do you know how much that shit cost." She added.

"I'm saying!" Maurice added.

"Man do you ever shut the fuck up?" Jimmy asked with anger in his tone.

"Seriously and at least we're doing something what happened to your once great ass?" asked Eddy.

"I pay niggas to do that shit for me white boy." Maurice shot back.

"Whatever worthless piece of shit." Jimmy yelled back as he and Eddy moved for the living room windows and started to fire a barrage of rounds from them and striking three Spanish Apostles in the process.

"Fuck these putas up." Yelled out Eddie Zayas as two more carloads of Roman Boyz arrived and the numbers seemed to turn in the favor of the defending side as Marrick found himself reloading his Mac-10 and firing off another barrage of rounds when a Roman Boyz member with long cornrows tossed a Molotov Cocktail into one of the cars of the Apostles and sent it ablaze along with a the face of an Apostle member wearing a Carcer City Grizzlies hat as the content of the Molotov splashed on his face.

"Fuck!" said Eddie as he watched another one of his men get shot down by a Roman Boyz member with an AK-47 while one man with a Pistol shot another Apostle four times in the stomach and left him crumbling to the floor.

"Fucking Doom!" Eddie whispered out as he moved for the driver's seat of his car only to be shot once in the shoulder courtesy of Jimmy as he and Eddy came running out the house firing their guns at the Carcer City OG who finally got his car started and drove off while the BSU and Roman Boyz members fired on him as he drove down the street.

"Motherfucker!" Marrick yelled out as he turned his head and noticed a bandaged Jimmy approached him with still pieces of dried blood on his face.

"You look like shit my boy." Marrick stated while Jimmy gave him a quick once over and noticed that he was covered in dirt and mud. He then took a whiff of him and recoiled with his eyes widening in the process.

"You smell like shit." Jimmy retorted causing Marrick to look down at his clothing and roll his eyes at the man's response.

Metra, Lincoln Parish

With the added support of the Vagos and Marabunta the Azteca's had easily turned the tide on the battlefield and had almost completely wiped out the Condados and Zeros but with the interception by the BSU members the neighborhood was finally cleared. So in all the Azteca's did most of the heavy lifting with the Vagos and Marabunta as support but BSU seemed to have cleared the rest.

This caused somewhat of a tense air amongst the Azteca's, Vagos, and Marabunta as Ernesto found himself greeting the Marabunta member who backed them up in the gunfight.

"Appreciate the help." Ernesto said as he shook the man's hand. From what he could gather the Marabunta member was referred to as Pacho amongst his Peewee and he was one of the sons of LA Madre and would be taken over things for Marabunta since she'd been deported back to Honduras.

"De Nada amigo, we war most places but here we need to stand strong against these Mayates and anyone who would disrespect La Raza." He stated earning a nod from Ernesto.

"I'll be in touch, we need to clear this place out before the Jura's arrive." Pacho let out earning a nod from Ernesto who watched as the Marabunta members hopped in their cars and started to drive off while Cruz approached him.

"We will be leaving to Carnale." Cruz stated as he slapped hands with Ernesto before whispering into his ear. "And we'll be talking more about our Mayate problem." He added while Ernesto pulled away from him and watched as he made his way to his car along with the other Vagos while he stood with Felix, Miguel, Adahy, Task, Loka, and a few other Azteca's before turning his back on them.

"You going to return that favor?" Miguel asked with a hint of anger in his tone at his father.

"I'm going for answers and to see how all this plays out." Ernesto replied before walking away and leaving the group in silence with the exception of Task who also walked away from the group.

Bayou Fountain

The song World Falls Away by Seether seemed to be blasting inside of Mark's car as he sped down on a long road with lush trees on other sides of it and a lake off in the distance. The scenery was divine, the loud blaring rock music was perfect, but none of it seemed to drown out the bang of gunshots as both Thire and Mark found themselves shooting out the windows of the vehicles as a convoy of eight vehicles filled with Gangster Apostle members gave chase to them.

"Move faster." Yelled out Thire as he and Mark fired off a barrage of rounds in the direction of the first vehicle that was speeding their way.

"Yeah no shit." Lee yelled back as Mark fired another Grenade from his Launcher in the direction of one car only for it to swerve out of the way and only hit the side of the car instead of dead center and explode. The resulting explosion was still good enough to shatter the windshield of the vehicle and leave the passenger with a face full of glass but it wasn't enough to kill the driver.

"Hit those motherfuckers." Yelled out an Apostle driver as he looked to the gangster in his passenger seat and watched him climb out the window with a Mini Uzi in his hands and fire off a barrage of rounds at Mark's Duke. Luckily the vehicle was still heavily armed but the sound of bullets bouncing off the roof did cause Mark and Thire to jump back along with Lee hitting a pothole not seeming to help either as they bounced up and started to slow down.

"Get us close" the man with the Mini Uzi yelled out as the driver tried to pull his car up alongside Lee who quickly shook his head angrily.

"Oh hell no we having none of this." Lee yelled out as he slammed into the side of the car with enough force to push the vehicle off the road and send it crashing into a tree hard enough that the man who was hanging out the passenger window was sent flying out of the car.

"Next prick who tries to pass me getting brake checked." The Chinese man yelled out as Thire loaded another magazine into his MP5 Submachine Gun and hopped out the back window while Mark was loading another Grenade into his Launcher.

"Talk about hands on!" Thire said as he fired a barrage of rounds at the next car and managed to hit the driver once in the chest and leave him screaming in pain while the man in the passenger seat grabbed the wheel and tried to take control of the vehicle.

This drew a smile from Thire who shifted his fire from the front of the car to the back and managed to shootout the back and front right tires causing the speeding vehicle to bounce up before turning on it's side and sliding down the road while the Cypress Flats BSU member continued to barrage the underside of the car with rounds until it flipped off the road and ended up slamming into the side of a tree then finally exploding on impact.

"Alright Thire!" Lee yelled out with a sick smile as Thire ducked back down to reload while Mark jumped out of his window and fired another Grenade from his launcher that managed to hit the front of one vehicle and send it up in a violent explosion.

"Is another tanker truck too much to ask for?" Mark yelled out as he started to move back down to reload before a whistling sound caught him off-guard and he found himself falling back into the car a bullet hole in the abdomen region of his bulletproof vest.

"Son of a bitch!" Mark yelled out as he looked down at himself before pulling the scorching hot bullet out of his vest with his bare hands.

"You got the wind right?" Asked Doom as he stood beside J-Bake who nodded his head before watching the former Navy Seal lift up his AT4 Rocket Launcher and aim it in the direction of the car.

"Sniper…LEE SLOW IT!" the Creole yelled out to Lee's confusion as he started to slam on brakes and result in the first Apostle vehicle hitting them from behind and forcing them forward.

"Got you!" said Doom as he launched a rocket in the direction of the car, but with the force of the vehicle being hit from behind it moved a little forward and instead slamming dead center of Mark's Duke the Rocket hit the back tire with enough force to give off a violent explosion that blew the car off the ground and sent it rolling down the road.

Things then seemed to be going in slow motion for Mark, Lee, and Thire as they were thrown around the inside of the car as it flipped upside down, then right-side up in what felt like five cycles before finally flying off the road and slamming sideways into a tree just off the road.

"We got them now." Said J-Bake as Doom smiled at the vehicle while watching the Apostle vehicles start to close in on them.

"Shit!" said Mark as he forced himself off the backdoor of the car and noticed Thire lying next to him with blood leaking from the side of his head while Lee was still stuck in his driver seat with blood leaking from his head.

"Lee, Lee, we have to go the Apostles are coming." Mark yelled out angrily before watching the Chinese man start to stir awake before undoing his seatbelt and falling from the seat. "Thire get up, get up!" he added before watching as the Samoan man opened his eyes and gave a loud wince of pain before looking to his leg and noticing the large cut in his pants leg that exposed a cut in his flesh.

"Come on!" Mark said as he grabbed Thire by the arms and quickly pulled him from the car where Lee was already picking up Thire's MP5 and laying down covering fire as the Apostle vehicles stopped and the men inside started to pile out.

"We have to go use the trees as cover." Said Mark as he threw Thire over his back and grabbed his CM901 Assault Rifle and loaded a new Grenade into the Launcher before firing it at the first vehicle and watching as another one of their Emperors were engulfed in an explosion that took four Apostles with it.

"Let's go!" said Lee as he and Mark turned and started to run through the forest while the Apostle members sent a barrage of rounds in their direction with none of them hitting them as Mark fired over his shoulder in the direction of the Gangsters.

"Shit I can't see them in the woods." Let out J-Bake as Doom nodded his head.

"Them motherfuckers gonna stick their heads out sooner or later and when they do we'll cut them off." Doom retorted as Mark and Lee continued to run through the forest past a creek while the Apostles continued to give them chase.

Liddell

The sound of silence seemed to be the only thing Gwen could hear as she found herself hiding out in the backseat of a car she found left unlocked in a parking garage just three blocks from her apartment. Beside her lay what remained of her cellphone after it was smashed to pieces. She did exactly what the woman with Mark had told her and her words did seem to make sense.

She knew that the men must have been tracking her by her phone and were probably in the area waiting for her to stick her to poke her head out so that they could strike. So she decided to stay put until help arrived in no matter what form it was.

As she started to move though she quickly ducked back down as the faint sound of chatter in Spanish soon filled her ears as the men made their way into the parking garage from the ground level and started to look into the cars with flashlights.

"Oh god!" Gwen whispered out as she snapped her eyes shut while a single tear dripped from them.

The sound of automatic gunfire followed by loud grunts and screams seemed to break her from that though as the Sicarios traded shots with their attackers and seemed to be on the losing end from what Gwen could tell as the number of gunshots and guns being fired started to dye down she slowly lifted her head and noticed the lead man from earlier trading punches with a woman of Chinese descent in a dark red dress.

"Fucking Puta." He yelled out as Ana spun to dodge his hit before elbowing him in the center of the nose then reaching behind her back, drawing her Combat Knife, and then plunging it into the man's side with all her might and causing his blood to shoot out like a geyser.

"You messed with the wrong family." She let out before kicking the man off her blade then cleaning the blood off on his shirt and finally making her way over to the car where Gwen quickly lowered her head as Ana opened the door and eyed her closely.

"Are you ready to go home?" she asked with a slight smile only to be taken by surprise as Gwen jumped from the seat of the car and wrapped the woman up for a big hug while crying into her stomach. This stunned Ana but she soon but her arms around the distraught woman and held her tight as she let out all of her anger and sorrow.

New Arcadia General Hospital

The news was still reporting a wave of reports on the various shootings and killing that seemed to be going on across New Arcadia and the surrounding areas and the more she watched the more Alison found herself becoming more worry some.

"More bodies turned up dead a few shorts hours ago in a neighborhood in the 17th Ward."

"Another twenty bodies were found in the 3rd Ward."

"Like a scene from a WWII movie in the city of Metra."

"Damnit Mark please pick up." Said Alison as she found herself dialing Mark's phone again for what felt like the hundredth time will still no response and upon arriving at his voice message system she found herself giving up on the device as she silently cursed under her breath in thought of the youngest Roman.

Outside Lincoln Parish

The sun was beginning to dip in the skies painting it with a dark orange color as Mark, Lee, and Thire found themselves continuing to move through the forest as fast as their injured legs could carry them in order to put as much distance as they could between themselves and the Apostles.

"How you hanging back there Thire?" Mark asked earning a slight chuckle from the injured man who was still thrown across his shoulder.

"You know…hanging." He replied as Mark and Lee climbed over a fallen piece of tree bark before finally moving past a clearing and finding an old scrapyard that was next to a lake with a fence around it.

"We made it." Lee let out while Mark nodded his head before moving to carry Thire towards the gate.

"Come on we gotta get to the gate." Mark stated as he and Lee made their way to the front gate of the scrapyard before forcing it open and then closing it.

"What is this place?" asked Thire as Mark sent him down next to a rundown car before walking away to the main office.

"Southeast Scrapyard, we bought this place a few months back." Stated Lee.

"And it's the perfect spot for us to defend ourselves against whatever's coming." Mark shot back as Lee and Thire turned their heads and noticed him approaching them with a M32 Grenade Launcher in one hand and a MK 46 Light Machine Gun in the other. "We need to hold them until our reinforcements can arrive. You think you can handle that brother." Mark asked before presenting Grenade Launcher to Lee who quickly snatched it up.

"Always brother." Lee shot back.

"Alright but what about me." Thire asked while Mark eyed him closely.

"This is our fight Thire stay out of it." Mark retorted before moving to walk away with Lee in tow as the sound of approaching car engines seemed to fill their ears as Mark and Lee both nodded to each other before going their separate ways with Lee climbing a stairway that was connected to a crane while Mark took a position beside a wrecked car where a loaded a fresh drum into his LMG before watching as the first car ran through the gates and a group of men and women quickly stepped out from each vehicle with their weapons drawn.

"We're scanning the area now Doom." Said Shawndra as she took point with her Mac-10 drawn while a group of about twenty-five other Apostles followed close behind her.

"Alright girl we got you covered and remember…shoot to kill." Doom let out over his walkie talkie before a wave of static quickly filled his ears causing him to wince at the response.

"With Pleasure!" a new yet very familiar voice responded causing Dooms eyes to widen as he realized the voice belonged to none other than Marcus Roman who sent a look to Lee who merely nodded his head before lifting up his Grenade Launcher and launching one over the heads of the Apostles who merely watched as it slammed into a pile of cars that were stacked up on top each other.

"Shoot that motherfucker." Yelled out a few Apostles as they sent a barrage of bullets at Lee who quickly moved for cover.

"Dumbasses missed." Yelled out an Apostle member with a smile as Shawndra looked at him with wide eyes before watching in shock as the man was crushed under the weight of a falling car as the pile started to tip over and land on top of the gang members below.

"SHIT MOVE!" Shawndra yelled out as two more Apostles were crushed under cars and then another who seemed to explode almost like a pimple being popped as the top half of a car fell on top of him.

"Shawndra they've got that placed setup like a trap you have to draw them out so me and J-Bake can get a clear shot on them." Doom yelled out over his Walkie Talkie as he loaded another Rocket into his AT4.

"GRENADE!" yelled out an Apostle member as Shawndra turned her head and watched as Mark rolled a metal cylinder across the ground in their direction.

"That's no Grenade!" she yelled out before a cloud of white smoke quickly engulfed the front of the scrapyard and blinded many of the Apostles who could blindly fired without realizing that some of them were merely hitting their own homeboys.

With that in mind Lee quickly made the first move as he jumped from cover and fires another Grenade from his Launcher that slammed into one of the stalled cars and quickly sent it up in a violent explosion that took five Apostles with it.

"Welcome to New Arcadia Bitches!" Mark yelled out as he jumped from cover with his M60 Machine Gun raised and quickly fired off a barrage of rounds that easily ripped down seven Apostles as the powerful 7.62x51mm rounds tore through one gang member and would move through another.

"Shit!" yelled out Shawndra as she ran to cover as the loud bang of Mark's Machine Gun quickly filled the air along with the screams and cries of Apostle members who fell from the onslaught as one man fell with three bullet wounds in his throat, another man who was missing part of his face collapsed next, followed by a man whose organs were completely hanging out of his body.

"Damn it, they've dug themselves in deep." Yelled out Doom as he watched another explosion courtesy of Lee who fired another Grenade at a group of Apostles who were trying to flee to a car only to be caught in the explosion and sent flying back with one gangster missing both of his arms and another missing one leg.

"Get moving down there." Yelled Doom over his Walkie Talkie as he watched several more black, blue, and green vehicles speed in the direction of the Scrapyard while J-Bake did his best to try and track Lee who was popping up in different places like he was playing a game of whack-a-mole.

"Mark we got more Apostles on approach." Lee yelled out as Mark started to reload his M60 Light Machine Gun.

"All we need to do is hold them back long enough before the party can really start so try and conserve your ammo." Mark replied as he finished loading his Machine Gun and started to lay down small amounts of fire on the approaching Apostles killing the driver and passenger in one vehicle and sending it slamming it into the back of another.

When it came down to using his M60 Machine Gun it was Mark's backup weapon in most cases. Sure it could clear a room faster than any of his other guns but when it came down to Machine Guns the M60 was an early model full of design flaws. For one it wasn't a Light Machine Gun, it weighted on average twenty five pounds without even having ammo and it was made longer than most other Machine Guns with a length of forty five inches. Mark was strong and had a lot of stamina but the M60 can tire out just about anyone and the recoil from the weapon was powerful enough to snap someone's arm.

To make it worse the weapon wasn't truly fit for extreme conditions such as the Jungles of Vietnam and even the Swamps of New Arcadia. The weapon was also well known to be prone to jamming and malfunctioning when using heavy fire.

All in all the M60 was Mark's backup weapon and right now he was using just about everything but the kitchen sink…

"Damn it!" said Mark as the smoke started to clear and a few Apostles sent a wave of gunfire in his direction and caused him to retreat to a different position while Lee launched another Grenade that destroyed another Apostle vehicle.

"I'm moving-!" the Chinese man spoke but before he could finish his statement he was caught off-guard as a bullet slammed into the back of his bulletproof vest and sent him falling from the crane and crashing into a wrecked car with a drop top.

The sight of Lee falling caused Mark to quickly turn his head as he noticed more and more cars and trucks coming towards the Scrapyard.

"Damn you guys move quick." Mark let out as he noticed vehicles with representation from the Loco Latin Apostles, Dixie Mafia, Aryan Vanguard, Condados, and Zero's start to descend on his location.

"Where the hell did all of them come from?" Doom asked with anger in his words as he watched the Dixie Mafia and Aryan Vanguard start to trade shots with his Apostles who were being backed up by the Latin Apostles, while the Condados and Zeros fired on whoever stood in their way.

"That motherfucker set this shit up!" said J-Bake as he watched three Dixie Mafia members shoot down two Gangster Apostles before they were shot down by a few Condados who were then shot down by the Aryan Vanguard members.

Before J-Bake could say anything else he quickly watched as Doom lifted his AT4 Rocket Launcher and launched another Rocket in the direction of Mark who was trying to sneak behind a car.

"Uh Oh!" Mark yelled out before running away as the Rocket slammed into the vehicle and created a violent explosion that sent him flying forward before rolling against the ground then crashing on the side of a stalled Duke.

"MARK!" Thire yelled out from his hidden position as he struggled to rise to his feet while watching as the Apostles continued to trade shots with the Dixie Mafia and other arrivals.

"Fucking wetbacks ain't taking that money from us." Yelled an Aryan Vanguard member as he shot aa Loco Latin Apostle in the chest and sent him flying back before he two was shot once in the head by a member of the Condados.

"Last man left standing gets the money." Yelled out a Condado before he was shot in the back by a Gangster Apostle and sent hitting the ground with a crashing thud.

"We were here first motherfuckers." Yelled out a Dixie Mafia member before he was shot once in the head courtesy of J-Bake who was providing covering fire for the Kin Nation Gangs.

As the sound of gunfire seemed to be the first thing that brought Lee back to reality as he opened his eyes and noticed the somewhat darkening skies over his head with a few white clouds in the distance. Then he was hit with an intense pain in his back as he remembered being shot in the back of his vest and falling from the rafters into the backseat of the car he lay in now.

Upon giving himself a quick once over he noticed that he had a few scars over his arms and legs, and a large gash on his forehead that was still leaking blood. The Chinese man then started to pick himself up with a loud groan as his sore body ached with each movement.

"Hey!" came a new voice that caused Lee to lift his head before noticing an Apostle member standing over him with his MP5 drawn on him.

Before the gangster could fire a shot though he was struck four times in the chest prompting Lee to turn his head and notice Thire approaching him with his MP5 in his right hand.

"I thought we told you to lay low." Lee let out with a hint of pain in his tone.

"You did, doesn't mean I listened." He replied earning a chuckle from the Chinese man who slowly rose to his feet with the assistance of Thire.

"Where's Mark?" he asked before watching as Thire pointed his finger to the downed Roman who was lying motionless on his back looking up at the skies with his M60 lying beside him.

"Damn it we need to get to him." Lee yelled out with anger in his tone as he moved to grab his Grenade Launcher and load another Grenade inside before the sound of a gunshot hitting the car he was using for cover caused him to duck for cover along with Thire.

"You bitches ain't going nowhere near that mark ass bitch!" J-Bake let out as he kept the two BSU members pinned. He didn't have a clear shot on Mark who was low enough to avoid being hit by a Sniper Round but it didn't seem to matter though as he noticed Doom running in the direction of Mark.

While Lee and Thire were hearing the sound of screaming and gunfire Mark was hearing a distinct ringing sound in his ears that came about from being so close to the exploding car. Along with that he also had the familiar taste of blood in his mouth after biting his tongue in the explosion, a bleeding forehead, and the smell of smoke clogging his nose.

His sense were in overload and going haywire as he looked up at the dark skies and noticed that everything around him seemed to be turning a shade of dark gray and red. He must have thought he was hearing things because as his hearing returned he started to make out the song Wait for Ghost by ON AN ON. If he were to die today, he thought at least he would die in peace because it was one of his favorite songs both his and Alison's.

Then as realization hit him he realized that he wasn't hearing the phone for any reason he was hearing it because it was indeed Alison who was calling him. The song was her ringtone. She was calling him, she was checking up on him, she was worrying about him.

These facts quickly caused Mark to remember exactly the situation he was in and who all he was fighting for.

Then despite the shooting pain that was weighing him down Mark quickly grabbed onto his M60 Machine Gun with sore, wobbly, and bloody hands then hefted up the large weapon as he rose to his feet to the shock of both Thire and Lee who watched him with wide eyes as Mark stood straight up with the blood leaking from his forehead staining the ground before him.

"YOU MOTHERFUCKERS COME TO CHALLENGE THE CONCRETE SOLIDER!" Mark yelled out as loud as his voice could carry causing the remaining combatants snap their heads in his direction. "THEN PREPARE TO DIE LIKE SOLDIERS!" he let out before firing a barrage of rounds from his M60 that quickly shredded those closest to him without discrimination of which gang they came from.

While firing Mark gave a loud almost animalistic like roar that seemed to echo past the barrage of gunfire and through the battlefield as three Dixie Mafia members found their chest being shredded to pieces, while four Gangster Apostles were hit the backs as they ran, two Latin Apostles were shot in the abdomen, an Aryan Vanguard member was hit three times in the head, a Zero was shredded from the front to the back, and a Condado became nothing more than a splatter on the ground.

"GET SUM!" Mark yelled out as he shot down another Apostle member who dropped before Shawndra who could merely look on before trying to run away only to be hit three four times in the back and land in front of Doom who fell to cover as Mark continued his Assault before the sound of his gun clicking empty caused him to cease his rampage as he looked up and noticed that he must have killed twenty gang members total but despite his onslaught there were still more coming in or hiding out around the scrapyard.

"Guess you Roman's time is over." Said J-Bake as he turned his Rifle who the youngest Roman who was moving to reload his weapon as fast as he could before he was overrun.

"Actually, it's just beginning!" came a new voice that caused J-Bake to turn his head and noticed an African American man with a bandage over his head standing over him with a Knife in his hand.

"SHIT-!" he yelled out before Marrick stabbed him clean in the chest and started to twist the blade with all his might while J-Bake struggled to fight him off.

"FUCK YOU!" Marrick yelled as he picked up a rock and started to slam it over the head of the Gangster Apostle member before watching as his nose was caved in, teeth were knocked out, eyes were smashed to pieces, forehead split open, and blood splattered across the rock and his clothing.

"Nobody fucks with my family!" he added before watching as Jimmy came over and picked up the Sniper Rifle before pointing it down on the gangsters below.

"You're clear!" he said as Mark watched a member of the Condados fall before him with a bullet to the head prompting him to let out a slight smile as a loud crashing sound came from behind him as Doom and the remaining gangsters watched as an all-white pickup truck slammed through the gates. The vehicle wasn't really imposing but what was the most frightening thing about it was the blood covered Battering Ram on the front of it and the M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun in the back.

"Welcome to the show boys." Said Hardcase as he turned the Heavy Machine Gun on the gang members who turned and started to run as he opened fire on them with a sick smile as he watched a Zero member take five shots to the back that literally tore off his bulletproof vest. He then watched a Condado was hit once in the chest and fell back with his blood splattering across a car, then a Apostle wo was hit in the back as he tried to flee.

"What the fuck is that?" asked Thire as he looked at the heavy Machine Gun before watching as Link yelled jumped from the passenger seat and yelled an order to Hardcase who seemed to be having so much fun with the Machine Gun that he didn't hear him.

"A little present from the BGA!" Lee let out with a slight smile as he watched a pair of Dixie Mafia members get mowed down as Manfred drove the vehicle after the fleeing gangsters just as several more cars arrived on the scene with members of the Roman Boyz, gangsters from the 17th Ward, and Ballas stepping out and beginning to pepper the fleeing gangsters.

"Ain't no escape for you bitches!" Jimmy yelled out as he fired a single shot from J-Bake's Sniper Rifle and caught a fleeing Apostle in the arm and watched him hit the ground with a loud thud while Mark tried his best to reload the M60 Machine Gun before the sound of a bullet going over his head caused him to look up and notice Doom running at him with a M9A1 Pistol in his hands.

This quickly caused Mark to drop his M60 and run for cover as Doom continued to run after him firing his Pistol while Mark reached behind his back and drew his M1911 and fired off two shots at the man as he came his way and followed him deeper into the Scrapyard.

"LIGHT THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS UP!" yelled out Courtney as she directed the New Arcadia Gangsters to fire on the fleeing gangsters who seemed to be trapped in the Scrapyard. As two more them tried to turn a corner in order to avoid them they quickly noticed that they were standing face to face with a woman of Chinese descent who was pointing an T91 Assault Rifle at them.

"Wrong turn!" she let out before firing off a barrage of rounds that easily shredded the gangsters and left them in pieces.

"Who wants some more lead?" yelled out Hardcase as he continued to fire and watch as the number of fleeing gangmembers started to dwindle across the scrapyard.

"Shit!" yelled Doom as he fired three shots at Mark who turned a corner and fired two shots of his own from his M1911 Pistol. "There is no escaping this Marcus." Doom yelled out as he turned the corner only to be blinded sided as Mark jumped from a car and landed on top of the man and watched as his gun slid under a car.

"I don't need to escape because I've already won." Mark yelled out as he threw two punches to the head of Doom who responded by throwing a punch to the side of Mark's head with enough force to send him flying back.

"You think you've won even if you kill me you won't stop the Apostles or the BGA from running you over." Doom shot back as Mark rolled to his feet and quickly eyed the man with malicious and hatred. "You think you're struggling now, but wait until we come back with double the numbers. It's you against the entire Kin Nation" He added.

"Struggling against you." Mark yelled out before spitting out a small speckle of blood. "Me, my brothers, my family we've survived countless other gangs, natural disasters, and the police. You think you know struggle when you're nothing but a puppet to the nation." He added before charging Doom who got into a fighting stance as Mark threw a punch his only for him to counter it and respond with a knee to Mark's side while the youngest Roman responded by hitting him over the head with his bare knuckles only for Doom to respond with a punch to the center of Mark's chest.

"You think this lone wolf shit your family does makes you strong, but if you'd actually used the system like the BGA and Kin Nation you'd probably be running this city by now." Doom yelled out as he threw two punches at Mark who merely blocked sidestepped him before delivering a chop to the side of the man's throat causing him to clutch it before the Louisiana Creole kicked him away.

"I served your system once and it only got me three dead brothers and a permanent green light." He added before sending a sharp kick to Doom's side with enough force to actually crack his ribs and cause him to cough up blood. "So don't you tell me what I could have done by serving a system, because you're all just a bunch of sick bastards with only yourselves in mind." Mark added with his adrenaline raising as he went to send another kick towards Doom, this time for the head, but the Carcer City gangster quickly rolled out of the way and responded by hitting Mark in the back of the leg causing him to fall on one knee before being knocked away as Doom sent a sharp kick to the side of his already bloody head.

"You talk down on our system, but forget that some of us didn't have a choice but to join it." He yelled out while continuing to clutch his side. "You're nothing but a backwaters piece of shit fighting for your own independence but it will never come." Doom yelled out as he sent another kick to the chest of Mark sending him falling back before being hit once again in the side of the head with a punch that left him seeing stars.

"And your crusade ends here." Doom yelled out as he reached into the back of his pants and pulled out a Combat Knife and ran at Mark who quickly drew his own knife, rolled out of the way of Doom's strike, and responded by stabbing the man once in the leg as deep as he could force his blade.

This caused the Carcer City OG to let out a loud shriek of pain as Mark twisted the blade before he was hit over the head by several punches from Doom which caused the gash on his forehead to expand and stain his face in crimson.

"Fucking piece of shit!" Doom yelled out as he kneed Mark in the chin and caused him to fall back with more blood leaking from his mouth. "FUCKING BITCH!" Doom yelled out as he forced Mark's knife from his leg and moved to stand the youngest Roman in the chest only for the loud bang of a gunshot to catch them both off-guard as Doom looked down and noticed a rather large bullet hole in the center of his chest.

This drew wide eyes from Mark as he lifted his head and noticed through a blurry gaze a familiar man of Mexican descent standing just a few feet away with a smoking .44 Magnum in his hands aimed in the direction of Doom.

"YOU-!" Doom started only to be stopped as Ernesto fired off another shot that caught the man in the arm and caused him to drop Mark's knife to which the youngest Roman responded by picking it up and stabbing him once in the neck with enough force to actually send the blade out the back of his head.

The youngest Roman then started to twist and turn the knife with all his might until finally he gave one violent jerk and watched Doom's head fall from his shoulder in a bloody display of gore and vile as the man's blood started to pump out of his neck wound like a ruptured fountain while a shocked look was forever sculpted on the face of Doom's head as Mark stood over the man before looking to Ernesto who merely nodded his head before walking away while Mark stood silent before turning his head as he noticed Lee, Jimmy, Link, Manfred, and Eddy running past a corner and approaching him.

"Holy shit!" said Eddy as he looked at the headless body of Doom before looking to the blood covered Marcus and then moving to throw an arm over Mark's shoulder to hold him up.

"Is it over?" the Creole asked as low as he could.

"The battle yes, but the war…let's just say Manny here found out the I.P. Address of where the computer that hacked us came from." Link let out while Mark nodded his head already knowing the answer to the question.

"So I guess the question…When are we going to Los Santos?" Mark asked earning nods from the BSU members as Ana, Courtney, Marrick, Hardcase, Thire, and a few others approached them all.

Hours Later (New Arcadia)

"And the death toll continues to climb in New Arcadia as more bodies turned up today in a Scrapyard outside of Metra, Louisiana with a body count of well over a hundred men belonging to members of the Gangster Apostles, Loco Latin Apostles, Dixie Mafia, Aryan Vanguard, Condados, and the Zero Cartel." The Vietnamese American woman on the television let out as Joe found himself watching the news report with both Cake and Muujai.

"Authorities and investigators still don't know the cause or reason behind the shootout but are only assuming that the groups came together to do battle with each other in an area where nobody would disturb them." she added as the group continued to watch with mixed looks as they noticed the lines of body bags being formed.

"Amongst those found dead on the scene was Ex-Green Beret Jacobi Hollins who more commonly known by his Street Name of Doom was an influential leader within the Gangster Apostles and one of the driving forces in their war between the New Arcadia gangs-." the woman started only to be cut off as Joe turned off the television.

"What a waste of a good talent." Muujai let out with a hint of anger in his tone as he thought about fwhat the loss of Doom meant for his campaign in New Arcadia.

"So what do we do now, because now we're just sitting here with our dicks in our hands." Cake asked with a hint of irritation in his voice as he watched Muujai rub his chin.

"I must mediate." The Somali man let out before walking out of the room while Cake turned to Joe.

"Uncle that fucking African Motherfucker is gonna get us killed if we don't do something." He let out while Joe nodded his head.

"I know, that's why I've got a proposition to make to someone!" Joe let out while Cake gave him a raised brow.

Meanwhile

The drive to the cabin outside in the neighboring city of Denim Falls seemed to take almost take forever as Alison stepped out of her car with Buck in tow as the duo made their way to the front door of the cabin before quickly swinging it open and going wide eyed.

"Oh god!" she let out as she noticed Link, Manfred, and Kyra bandaging up Lee, Robbie, Davey, Eddy, Thire, Echo, Samuel, Jesse, Tup, and Hardcase who each gave off the image that they were in a WWII medical tent with bandages covering their bodies from head to toe as they lay on the couches either half asleep or preparing to fall asleep.

"Don't worry it's not as bad as it looks." Said Link as he caught sight of Alison and immediately rose to her feet and noticed her looking over at the group.

"Yeah we're all fine here big sis." Lee added as Kyra wrapped a bandage over his bright right shoulder.

"Where's Jimmy?" Buck asked causing Alison's eyes to go wide as she realized the redheaded man was nowhere in sight.

"He left with Mark's sister Gwen a few hours ago. He's gonna look after her for the night." Manfred let out as Alison breathed a sigh of relief before realization finally hit her.

"Where's Marcus?" she asked only for Lee to point upward in the direction of the second floor causing the redheaded woman to run up the stairs and inside of the back room where she noticed a sleeping Creole with bandages covering his forehead, upper torso, right arm, and left leg lying in a bed next to a woman of Chinese descent with a bandage wrapped on her right arm.

Upon hearing the sound of the door open Ana quickly opened her eyes and noticed Alison standing in the doorway looking at her and Mark with wide eyes as she took in the sight of the duo. This soon drew a slight smile from Ana who slowly out of the bed revealing to Alison that she was only dressed in a red wife beater and a pair of black panties.

The IAA Agent then approached Alison and quickly moved to remove her jacket to the confusion of the FIB Agent.

"He's been waiting for you." She whispered into the ear of Alison. "He needs us both right now, will you stay with us?" she asked causing Alison to look at her with wide eyes before her hands moved to her pants and quickly started to undo them before moving to her shirt and lifting it over her head revealing that she was only wearing a pair of white panties and her black bra that was given back to her by the hospital after she checked out this morning.

With that Ana quickly took the FIB Agent by the hand and ushered her over to the bed where Mark lay before whispering to her to take her spot while she took the otherside. So with Mark in the middle the two women quickly moved to take up both sides of him causing the youngest Roman to stir awake and notice a familiar redheaded woman moving to wrap her arms around his torso while another woman was moving to wrap her arms around his back.

Mark didn't say a word, he couldn't not only because it hurt him to talk but also because he was a little stunned at what was happening so he merely decided to just let things play out. So he then moved to wrap his arms around both women and move them closer to him while he merely lowered his head so that he could kiss them both on the foreheads as they snuggled closer into his arms.

Authors Notes: Phew long chapter sorry about the long wait everyone but you can kinda see that I've been busy not only with this chapter but with other things. Hell I think this chapter may have broken a record for one of my longest recorded chapters in history with over 29,000 words. Beat that Stephen King.

And man I had to say this has to be my most action packed chapter of them all for obvious reasons. Neto really pulled something big with his hack and sending a wave of enemies after Mark and his family so I had to express just how bad that was in this chapter. And expect a well deserved retaliation next chapter.

I know Onkwehonwe is probably hell of pissed because of how long this chapter took to come out especially since we're kind of collaborating this so this one goes out to you man. And since most of Mark's crew isn't on the chopping block of dying just yet I thought it'd be best to show them all get banged up a little. Not only banged up but I also wanted to show some of the characters who never really have much screen time fighting do some fighting such as in the case of Manfred, Davey, Eddy, and Robbie going against the Dixie Mafia and Aryan Vanguard.

We also wish farwell to two characters in this chapter Doom signaling the sorta end of the war with the Apostles in New Arcadia and I'm glad on how it ended not with a bang but with a full on fist fight. We also say goodbye to Hakeem's girlfriend Alana. I know we didn't see much of her but she was still a named character and her death will leave a lasting impact on Hakeem.

I kinda don't want to go into too much details right now on things because I really want to get to work on the next chapter but let's just say a war is coming to Rancho and Muujai will find himself finally in the crosshairs of Joe and Mark.

Thank you all for reading and being so patient. Zilla Out.