Chapter 47: The Party in New Arcadia
The Call for Blood Heard Around the World
Sunbelt City (Years Ago)
"YES FUCKING RIGHT THERE!" came the loud screams of pleasure from a woman of Asian and African ancestry who was covered in tattoo as she found herself bent across a wooden table in a dark room while an man of Creole descent entered her from behind and massaged her clit with the fingers on his right hand at the same time.
"YES YES YES YES YES YES…OH GAWD!" she trailed off as she felt herself let out her third climax while the man behind her watched as her eyes glassed over and her pupils rolled into the back of her skull while a hint of saliva pooled from her mouth.
"Holy shit!" said Mark as he quickly pulled out of the woman with a loud pop before he was pushed back on the couch by her as she started to suck him off.
"FUCK!" he screamed out as he grabbed her by the back of her head and forced his dick deeper down her throat as he released his load into her mouth and watched as she started to lap it up almost like a cat with milk in a bowl.
"Jesus fucking Christ, you're the devil." Said Mark as he looked to Laurie who gave him a devilish smile before kissing his tip.
"You did good trying to hold out but I knew you'd never shut me out once I was down on my knees." She replied while moving to take a seat on Mark's lap.
"I feel like a piece of shit." Mark let out while Laurie chuckled.
"You and Tasha aren't dating just yet, you just went on a few dates as friends. When you two do start dating though we can stop this." She replied while Mark rubbed his forehead.
"Nah I feel like I betrayed Lee." Mark retorted earning a louder laugh from Laurie.
"Mark, me and Lee are just best friends with really good benefits. We aren't dating, I sleep around when I need some dick and he's not around and he's trying his best to keep me from finding out about that Mexican girl on the East Side." She stated causing Mark to look up at her with wide eyes.
"You know about her?" Mark asked with a raised brow.
"Oh I know about her and a couple of others just like how I know about you, Shawna, Whitney, and some of the others girls you've been with." She replied while Mark rolled his eyes. "I also know you got out of a pretty serious relationship and I figure you're just trying to fill that hole that was left with women." She added while Mark rolled his eyes.
"Is that so?" he asked with a half smile.
"Yes, and if you ask me I think Tasha is good for you." She replied earning a raised brow from Mark. "She's a lot better for you then Shawna and Whitney, at least this way you won't have that conversation of what they did to you vs what they did to someone else." She added while Mark layed back and thought about what the woman had told him.
As he did so and Laurie rested her head on his chest Lee was in a similar situation as he found himself standing in a bedroom in East Sunbelt with a woman of Mexican descent with long brown hair behind a red bandanna and with R14 tattooed on her chest in his arms riding his dick while he held her in midair.
"Si Papi pound harder." The woman moaned out as Lee increased the speed of which he was fucking her almost til the point where the woman in his arms thought she was being torn in half and loving every second of it.
The woman in question was about the same height as Lee and rather curvy so she was starting to weigh him down and her fingernails and teeth digging into his back didn't seem to help much either so Lee quickly pressed the woman's back to the wall for extra support and upon doing so he felt the Chola let out a loud gasp as she looked into his eyes and started to violently kiss him and suck on his tongue as she rode out the waves of her orgasm.
"Damn it!" Lee yelled out as he pulled out of the woman and fired his load into his condom before watching her fall down on her butt with her breast bouncing up and down as she hit the floor.
"That was good papi." She let out while moving to kiss Lee on the thigh.
"Yeah…um about that…we need to stop this." He finally spat out before letting out a loud shriek as she felt a pair of teeth sink themselves into his thigh.
New Arcadia (Two Days Later)
The sound of sniffles and a heartbeat monitor going off seemed to be the only sound that could be heard in the BSU clubhouse as Lee found himself sitting in a dark room staring at the San Fierro born woman of Asian and African ancestry before him.
Laurie was his closest friend and lover while he was a member of BSU. She was a sweet girl who only wanted to be around people who would accept her for who she was. That was what drew the two of them together. She wasn't accepted by the Asians in San Fierro because of her African blood and he wasn't accepted because of his personality. This made them close and upon reading her diary Lee learned that her feelings for her weren't just on a friend basis but more than that and Lee never told her but she was also his first love.
She was his first love and he left her because he she was getting her life in order whereas he wasn't going anywhere. That was the reason why he never went to see her, because he knew if she wanted to get her life in order he had to let her go because he would only drag her down.
As he looked down at her now as she was…blind, deaf, mute, and unable to know that's it's him touching or talking to her and not whoever the sick fuck that did this to her. He couldn't help but to blame himself, truly he was to blame not for him insulting that crippled Chola Loka but because whoever did this wanted him to suffer and going after her did just that.
But soon he would have his own revenge and he wouldn't just make them suffer. He would destroy everything they were.
"How is he?" Mark asked he walked up to Link who stood outside the room watching Lee as he sat down next to Laurie in silent.
"Hasn't moved in about two hours, he only gets up to go to the bathroom, hasn't eaten in a few days, and the food I brought him is still in the bag." Link stated before looking back up at Mark with a sorrow filled look in his eyes while the Creole placed a hand on his shoulder. "Who could do this, even if they had serious beef with Lee doing this shit…it's crossing too many lines." He added while looking back at Lee who moved to hold the hand of Laurie only for the woman to pull away from him in fear.
"My guess is that it's the same person that killed Shawna, Whitney, Crazy T, Lars, and Mitchell." Mark stated earning the attention of Link. "My guess was that they probably ripped off the wrong people and got themselves killed…but now-." He trailed off while looking to Laurie with anger in his eyes.
"Two factions of the Tax Free BSU killed weeks apart near the same area around Sunbelt University. The first just looks like a robbery and the second looks like a robbery, but Laurie proves that these attacks go much deeper than that." Link stated before turning around so that he could whisper out to Mark.
"Have you heard anything from Ernesto yet?" he asked earning a shake of the head from the youngest Roman.
"Not yet, I didn't want to just roll through his hood unannounced but it seems like that's what I have to do." Mark replied with a hint of venom in his tone as his cellphone started to vibrate causing him to look down and notice he had a text message from Buck telling him to come to the club fast.
"I gotta go check on something right quick you good to watch him?" Mark asked earning a nod from Link.
"Of course, he's our brother and he right now he needs someone." Link replied earning a nod from Mark who leaned down to plant his forehead on top of his own.
"We're lucky to have you." he whispered out before walking away while Link turned to Lee and noticed him lowering his head.
Metra, Lincoln Parish
It had been a day since Loka had her surgery and the news of it going well seemed to have spread quickly the barrio in Metra as Felix found himself sitting on the front porch of Ernesto's home with the man in question and Adahy talking as a familiar red truck pulled up in front of the safehouse with a familiar Lakota stepping out.
"Hey there's the ghost of the Varrio." Greeted Felix as Task walked up with a slight smile on his face.
"I'm a ghost for all important reasons." Task replied before slapping hands with the man while Ernesto chuckled.
"You out trying to make money, that's good on you ese." The Onda member stated while Task nodded his head.
"Yeah just exactly how have you been making your money?" Adahy asked with a seriousness in his tone as he eyed Task angrily.
"Si mon, your padre never taught you never to ask a man where he makes his feria and how much he makes?" Ernesto asked with a seriousness in his own tone before turning to Task. "Besides I think we all know where you've been getting your money." He added while Task rolled his eyes.
"I thought you and Mark now had somewhat of a truce?" he asked while Ernesto nodded his head.
"That's what I'm being led to believe but after what happened in Rancho I'm not sure and neither him, Lee, or the other one has come to me and told me just what the hell all of that was about." Ernesto stated with a hint of anger in his voice.
"Mark's not one for owning up to his shit especially shit like what went down in Rancho. Innocent people died, he doesn't want to own up to the fact that he's a murderer and that Lee and Jimmy just got away with the murder of innocents." Felix stated while Ernesto eyed him closely.
"We'll be seeing him soon though whether he wants to see us or not." Ernesto finished while looking out at the street.
17th Ward
The drive to the club wasn't long for Mark but it was quite shocking as he noticed a series of cars parked out front of the club despite it still being closed.
"The fuck!" he said with a hint of anger in his tone as he looked at the license plates of each vehicle and noticed that all of them had the one star of New Austin. This seemed to make Mark more angry as he stepped out of his rental car and made his way to the front door of the club where he noticed Davey and Eddy standing outside with serious looks on their faces.
"Who the fuck opened the door?" Mark asked as the duo led him inside.
"The guards from the 17th are horrible man." Davey stated as the sound of loud punk rock started to fill their ears as they walked into the club and noticed that it was filled with members of BSU some chatting, some dancing, and some just sitting around on his furniture with a few splashing in his indoor Jacuzzi.
"Brothers get me my Boomstick!" Mark ordered earning nods from the duo as they broke off while he made his way over to the speakers where he noticed Buck and Robbie standing by with mixed looks on their faces.
"Why did I know this was gonna be the first place you came?" asked Robbie with a smile as he watched Mark walk behind the speaker and begin to look over the wires.
"Because I'm predictable." Mark retorted as Davey and Eddy approached him with Lee's Sawn Off Remington 870 Shotgun before passing it to Mark quickly pulled out the wires from the speaker and shut off the music to shock of everyone in the club who watched him cock the Shotgun with an anger in his eyes before yelling, "GET OUT!".
"What?" was all one BSU member with a high spiky mohawk could let out as Mark.
"Get fuck out of here now." Mark screamed out causing everyone to scatter away from him and make their way to one side of the club. "Now get the fuck out, get out of my pool." He added to the men and women in the Jacuzzi who all held shocked looks on their faces as they made their way for the door.
"Stop!" came a familiar voice that caused Mark to turn his head in anger as he looked behind his shoulder and noticed Pete walking out the backroom area with Manfred, Tasha, and another familiar girl of African American and European descent with long straight black hair and wearing a black t-shirt, tight skinny jean pants, and boots with a nose and lip piercing.
"We didn't come all this way for you to put us out Mark, we need to talk." Pete let out as Mark eyed the man angrily before looking to Robbie and the others and giving them an order as he made his way to the back office area with the gangsters.
New Arcadia Police Department
Things seemed to be rather quiet for Alison as she found herself sitting in her office with a bored expression on her face as she looked down at more paperwork on the case on the various murders carried out by Patrick.
The serial killer had been quiet these last few days since their last conversation and she didn't know when he would make his next move. Whether it was today or tomorrow she was ready for it, what she wasn't ready for though was her apology to Mark for assaulting him.
She let her anger towards him take over her at that moment and after a few days of not hearing from him or seeing him she was beginning to regret her actions. She still loved Mark, she resented when he did wrong but she knew she was out of line for what she'd done and she wanted to tell him just that.
As she started to reach for her cellphone so that she could call him though she was caught off-guard by Jenna bursting into her office with a tired expression on her face as she eyed Alison closely.
"The serial killer…he struck again." She finished causing Alison to go wide eyed as she jumped out of her chair and rushed out of her room.
Elsewhere
The sound of footsteps approaching seemed to be all Lee could hear as he broke his gaze away from Laurie and noticed Link approaching him with a hot cup of coffee that he quickly took with a half-smile.
"You need to eat something as well brother, especially if you want to heal those wounds quicker." Link let out while Lee nodded his head and took a sip of his coffee.
"I'll eat later." He replied before turning his gaze back to Laurie. "Did you know she and Mark fucked?" he asked earning wide eyes from Link.
"I was reading her diary and I gotta say she had some pretty hot fantasies but not all of them were with me or me with him." He replied while Link gave a slight chuckle.
"Yeah they fucked like in the first two months of us actually hanging around BSU." He stated while Link let out a low scoff.
"Before me and her got together, I guess it was memorable." He replied while Link nodded his head. "She said Tasha had to be the luckiest girl in the chapter to get with Mark, but then she wrote in another issue that she was the luckiest girl in all of the state to have me." He added while lowering his head with a smile while Link shook his head already knowing where this going.
"I can't believe someone would do this to her." He let out with tears starting to fill his eyes.
"They won't get away with it, trust me." Link shot back before rising to his feet and beginning to make his way out of the room only to be stopped as a pair of powerful arms wrapped themselves around his neck and started to apply pressure to his throat in order to cut the air from his lungs.
"Shh go to sleep brother." Lee whispered into the ear of Link who continued to struggle in his arms. "You're right they won't get away with this and I'm gonna make sure of that…today." He finished as Link finally stopped fighting and found himself passed out in Lee's arm causing the Chinese man to drag him out of the room and lay him on the couch before grabbing the keys to his Dominator and making his way out the front door.
Little did he know though, he wasn't too successful in choking out Link who remembered a move Ana had shown him and Mark a few years back on how to fake passing out if someone was trying to choke them out. Most people didn't know it but the real key was to calm down and just go prone, you lost more oxygen by struggling and unless someone really wants you dead they would often let you go after you stopped moving.
So with a few coughs Link came back to world and immediately moved to grab his cellphone and dial for Mark.
Elsewhere
"Absolutely not!" Mark yelled out with a hint of anger in his tone as he found himself sitting behind his desk with Davey and Eddy flanking him and Manfred sitting on the couch in the corner while Pete, Tasha, and the other woman sat in front of Mark.
"Come on Mark after what happened with Blondie and Mo on top of what already happened to Crazy T, Lars, and Mitchell has got everyone rattled." Stated Pete.
"By rattled you mean scared and now you find yourselves on my doorstep asking for help again." Mark shot out before his eyes fell on the new face. "And why are you here Julie what made them dig you up?" he asked earning a middle finger from the woman.
"Fuck you Mark, and if you forget I'm with the Tax Free's now and you're right after what happened with Shawna, Whitney, and Laurie missing, I am scared for my life. I was hoping though that you would keep put us out of the category of them and actually help us." She stated while Mark rolled his eyes.
"Come on many of those guys down there were apart of or supported your militia, many of them helped you in your endeavors, and a lot of them, myself included, supported you when you walked on BSU and followed you out that door. So are you really gonna toss them out on their asses now?" she asked with a seriousness in her tone that caused Mark to eye her closely before sending looks to Manfred and the others who each shrugged their shoulders.
"There's a cabin in the woods just a few miles outside of New Arcadia large enough to house all your people." Mark stated earning a nod and a smile from Julie.
"You don't have anything closer to here, why can't we stay here at the clubhouse?" she asked.
"Because this ain't the clubhouse, our clubhouse is five blocks that way and unless all of you want to sleep in a warehouse on the water I suggest you take the cabin." Mark stated with a hint of venom in his tone. "This is our money maker and we ain't turning it into a refugee center. Especially with tonight being opening night and everything." Mark replied earning wide eyes from the group.
"It's a little to luxurious for a hardcore club though brother." Stated Pete.
"That's because it's not a hardcore club, or a strip club, or a bar. It's an upscale nightclub…with a dress code and entrance fee so if you want to attend later I suggest you pull out your good shit." Mark let out earning rolls of the eyes from the group.
"Whatever!" Julie said as she rose from her seat and made her way out of the room leaving Mark and his faction with Pete and Tasha.
"Well that takes care of them so what do you want?" Mark asked as Pete sent a look to Tasha.
"We have an offer for you." She let out earning a raised brow from Mark who went to respond only to be stopped as his cellphone started ringing from Link's number causing him to tell them to wait while he put his phone to his ear and heard Link screaming from the otherside.
"Shit it's gonna have to way we gotta go!" Mark yelled out before looking to Davey, Eddy, and Manfred who gave him confused looks.
"Where are you going?" Tasha asked with worry in her tone.
"To handle business!" Mark shot back before walking out of the room with the trio following behind him.
"What's going on?" asked Manfred.
"Lee's out of the grieving stage and moving to anger and we already know where that angers gonna lead him. We just gotta get there before its too late." Mark stated earning nods from the group as they followed him out of the building.
New Arcadia City Park
The sight of uniformed beat cops and yellow police tape quickly filled the eyes of Alison as she found herself stepping out of car with Jenna and Steve in tow. As they made their way to the center of the park they were met with a sea of conversation from the officers as an African American man in a police uniform approached them from the side.
"This is the fifth murder in this park in the last two weeks." He let out earning a chuckle from Jenna.
"And why are we just hearing about it now?" she asked.
"Don't look at me I just shakedown hustlers." The officer replied as he led the trio pass the tape where they noticed the body of a Caucasian woman lying flat on her back in the center of the park. The color on her face had long since faded after her life had left her body.
As Alison looked her over she could easily see that the woman had died of foul play thanks to the finger like bruises around her neck that were a clear sign of strangulation, but something was off about her. Sure she was dead but she didn't MO of someone killed by Patrick. She had all of her limbs, there wasn't any blood, and she was left out in the middle of the park hidden behind a bush instead of on display for everyone to see.
She was killed by a serial killer, but it was plainly obvious that whoever did this wasn't her serial killer.
No sooner had she thought that her cellphone started to ring from a number that was becoming too familiar. So with a raise of her hand she quickly excused herself away from Steve and Jenna and moved to a more private location to speak.
"What is this?" she asked after putting the phone to her ear.
"A good waste of ninety pounds of flesh if I do say so myself." He replied with a slight chuckle. "Please tell me you aren't dumb enough to put my name on something as amateur as that Alison." he retorted.
"I know this wasn't you, it's too clean…you're like to leave everyone with upset stomachs." She replied.
"Thank you, I knew you'd get my art." he replied with a laugh.
"Unless you have anything relevant to say then I'm going to hang up." She replied.
"What if I told you I can give you the man that's been doing these killings." He stated to Alison's shock.
"Why would you do that?" she asked with venom in her tone.
"Because he's giving me credit for a shitty job and I will not stand for that." He replied. "If you want him though, you'll have to do something for me." He added to her shock and surprise.
"Don't worry it's nothing too serious, you're just going on a little trip." he shot back leaving Alison in silence for a few seconds before speaking out.
"Alright I'll play along." She replied.
"Good then, go back to your car and they'll be a plane ticket to Carcer City on the front seat. Take it and make your flight it leaves in two hours and once your there go to Carcer General Medical Center." He stated to the shock of Alison. "Once you're in the air I'll make an anonymous tip to your friends where to find this murder but only once you're in the air." he finished to her shock and surprise.
"Why should I trust you?" she asked.
"Because a sinner has nothing but the truth to tell." he shot back before hanging up and leaving Alison in a state of shock and surprise.
Metra, Lincoln Parish
The afternoon soon was still beaming down on Felix and the others as they still found themselves sitting out in front of Ernesto home away from home soaking up the sun and for once in a long time take in the feeling of not needing to look over their shoulders.
"Hey Felix when you gonna go check on Loka?" Ernesto asked earning the attention of the man of Quechan descent.
"I should probably go see her now." Felix replied earning a chuckle from the Onda member.
"I think she'll like that ese, just remember she's been through a lot and if you're gonna take her to just treat her right." He stated earning a slight blush from Felix before he started to step off the patio only to be caught off-guard as a dark blue and white Dominator came to a screeching halt in front of the house catching everyone by surprise.
"What the hell?" asked Task as the group watched in shock and awe as Lee stepped from the drivers seat with an emotionless look on his face.
"Shit he knows how to make an entrance." Task proclaimed while Ernesto eyed the Chinese man closely.
"Come to explain yourself and the shit you pulled in-." started Felix before he was suddenly silenced as Lee threw a hard right hook that connected with the man's mouth and sent him flying back and hitting the ground hard.
"DAMN!" Task yelled out as he watched the Chinese man pounce on Felix and begin to punch him three times in the face.
"You, this is all your fault." He yelled out with venom in his tone to the confusion of Felix who found himself bleeding from the mouth and nose before watching as Adahy sent a punch to the right cheek of the Chinese man and sent him falling back.
"Why don't you try that shit with me?" he yelled out while watching Lee start to stand only to fail to see him pulling a switchblade from his pants.
"Watch the knife!" Task yelled out as Lee swung the blade with lightning quickness and cut the top of Adahy's leg causing the Creek Warrior to scream out in pain before giving a loud "HMPH!" as Lee elbowed him in the groin and knocking him back.
"Fucking dead all of you!" the Chinese man again added as Task ran up behind him and put him in a Full Nelson in order to keep him still.
"Lee calm down." Task ordered as Lee struggled to get free while Felix rose to his feet before moving to charge the Chinese man and hit him with four punches to his already sore gut.
"This has been long coming." Felix yelled out as he punched Lee again two more times before the Chinese man gave and loud wince and forced himself forward to the shock of Task who watched as Lee managed to headbutt Felix in the center of the head with enough force that it actually bloodied both of their faces.
"You're dead and I'm gonna finish what Mark started." Lee again yelled out causing Felix to eye him angrily before moving to pick up Lee's switchblade only to be stopped by a gunshot hitting the ground before the blade and knocking it away from the man of Quechan descent who turned along with Ernesto in search of the source of the gunshot and quickly spotted Mark, Davey, and Eddy approaching them with the leader holding his smoking M1911 in his hands.
"You do that and the next one goes between your goddamn eyes!" Mark yelled out with venom in his tone as he approached the group and pushed past Felix to Lee and Task.
"What is this shit Mark?" Ernesto asked causing Mark to look over and notice him holding the handle of his .44 Magnum prepared to use it if he had to.
"Payback!" Mark replied before approaching Lee and stabbing him in the neck with a syringe causing him to yell out in anger before starting to calm down as drowsiness quickly overcame him.
"Why don't you come with us, so we can show you why our brother attacked you." Mark let out as pulled Lee from the Lakota's grasp and threw him over his shoulders.
"Trust me, you're gonna want to see this shit." The Creole stated before walking away while Ernesto sent looks to the others before moving to follow after the BSU members.
Elsewhere
The music had quickly returned to the club in the 17th Ward as Tasha found herself sitting with Julie at the bar area of the club while looking on in the distance at the VIP section where they noticed Pete, Heather, Brooke, and Mira talking with Manfred and Robbie while Buck stood back and watched.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Julie asked while Tasha sent a look to the group and shook her head.
"Probably about that little offer you and Ryan came up with." Tasha shot back causing Julie to look at her angrily.
"Hold up girl last I checked that was your plan and I still think it's a pretty dumb one that neither Mark or anyone from his crew would go along with." Julie retorted with a hint of anger in her tone.
"I'm the one who hurt him not you and not the Tax Frees, hell a lot of them supported him when he left us and broke away with him." Tasha replied while looking around the group. "He at least owes it to you to stand by you in your time of need." She added.
"I've told you this already, when it comes down to Mark he doesn't owe any of us anything and I see his point." Julie stated earning the attention of Tasha who looked at her closely. "If you forgot it T, the sole reason Ryan recruited Mark, Lee, Jimmy, and Link is because he needed guys who could pull triggers and that's exactly what they did. They pulled the trigger so many times we don't know where the bodies begin and end when they left BSU." she started. "The whole reason BSU is alive and thriving right now is because of them and we both know first-hand what's been happening since they've been gone." She finished causing Tasha to look away from her.
"If you ask me I think Mark is gonna take the guys who came from Los Santos who still want to fight and send us packing. That's just my instinct." She declared causing Tasha to go silent before standing up.
"Then I'll convince him to take us up on our offer." She finished before walking away with a few BSU members watching her as she walked away.
"What's crawled up her ass?" asked Ren as she found herself sitting down with Thire and Tup who watched Tasha as she walked out of the building before standing up and following after her with the redheaded girl following after her.
Sunbelt City (Years Ago)
"NO WAY!" Laurie yelled out with the sound of excitement being very prevalent in her tone as Tasha put her hands over her own mouth as a signal for the girl to hush so that nobody else could hear from outside of the War Room in the back of the clubhouse.
"Keep it down, I don't want anyone else hearing about this." Tasha stated earning a chuckle from Laurie.
"Tasha, it's nothing to be ashamed of. You love Mark, but you don't want to just give up your virginity to him so early on. What you did isn't bad." Laurie stated while Tasha gave a low chuckle.
"Yeah try explaining that to some of my other friends, I can hear them now they're gonna call me nothing short of a whore." Tasha replied causing Laurie to grab her shoulder and whisper out to her, "If they're willing to call you that then they're not your real friends."
"Real friends stand by and support you and I'm right here telling you I support what you did and I encourage you to try it again." She replied while Tasha shook her head.
"Have you ever tried it?" she asked earning a chuckle from Laurie.
"Yes…it was uncomfortable at first and I'm still not all that use to it so I mostly just save it for someone I truly care about…like Lee." She replied while Tasha went wide eyes at her statement.
"You and him are that serious?" she asked with a raised brow.
"It's still mostly just sex and we like hanging out with each other, but it's not that serious." She replied just as a knocking from the otherside of the door caught both women by surprise and caused them to go wide eyed as they watched Mark and Lee make their way into the room with mixed looks on their faces.
"Hey boys." Laurie said with a seductive tone while Mark gave her a smile before looking to Tasha.
"I need to borrow you for a second." He replied to her shock and confusion.
"Why what's going on?" she asked with a raised brow.
"Come and see." He retorted before grabbing her by her right hand and pulling her out of the room leaving Tasha alone with Lee.
"Where are we going?" she asked just as Mark pulled her into the closet next to the room.
"Nowhere I needed to get you away from Laurie so Lee can make his move." He replied.
"And this closet is where you take me?" she retorted.
"For what I have in mind yes." Mark replied before moving hands down so that he could unbutton Tasha's pants.
"Damn it!" she said before watching Mark lower himself to his knees with a half smile.
While Mark and Tasha found themselves getting down and dirty in the closet, Lee found himself still standing across from Laurie who eyed him with a half-smile before asking, "Did you really have to get Mark to pull her away?"
"He offered!" the Chinese man responded before taking a seat next to the girl and scooting just a little closer to her.
"So is there something you want to say to me?" she asked with a slight smile only for Lee to respond with a chuckle.
("Wǒ hěn guānxīn nǐ!" )
"I care about you." he stated to her shock and surprise not only that because he was so forward with making the statement but also because he did so almost perfectly in Cantonese. When it came to speaking Chinese Lee didn't even know how to say hello, but over the months Laurie had taught him a few words and phrases but none like that one.
"You must be serious if you took the time to learn that just for me." She replied while Lee nodded his head.
"Yeah and I wish to learn more…this time from you though." He replied before moving his left hand over her own and causing her to smile at him.
"You must have been getting pickup lines from Mark." She replied with a chuckle.
"Was it cheesy?" he asked with a raised brow.
"The Cheesiest, but it was sweet." She replied while moving to massage the Chinese man's sore knuckles from a fight the night before. "Lee, I know what you're gonna ask me, and I just want to know do you think you can handle me because you're gonna hear things about me and there will be days where you question being with me. It's been like that with most of the guys that do date me." She replied.
"I'm not like most of the guys you date and I refuse to turn out like any of them." He shot back with a hint of anger in his tone. "I don't want to be with you just for sex, I want to be with you because out of everyone I've ever met in my life you're the only person who truly understand me." He stated to her shock and surprise.
"You know how it feels to be looked at differently and to be treated differently because of who you are and circumstances you had no control over." He added. "When you tell me something I take you more seriously then I do anyone else and…I want to make that a permeant thing." He finished while looking at the tattooed girl closely before watching her look away from him.
"Are you gonna say-." He started only to be cut off as Laurie pressed her lips against his own catching him by surprise as she pushed him back on the couch further so that she could climb on top of him.
"Stop talking!" she said with a smile before moving to remove his shirt while he moved to kiss her on the side of the neck.
"Are you sure you want to do this here?" he asked with a seriousness in his tone. "Someone could walk in!" he added only to be taken off-guard as Laurie lifted her head and to his shock lick the side of his neck slowly and seductively before stopping at his ear-lobe.
"Let them come in!" she whispered out before grabbing Lee's semi erect member through his pants and mounted him like a saddle. "Let them know whose woman I am now." She added before pulling off her shirt and then moving to give the Chinese man another kiss while his hands moved to her bra and started undo it.
After tossing the piece of lingerie to the floor and readjusting himself Lee quickly buried his face into the chest of Laurie, taking her right breast in his mouth in the process while she moved her hands to the back of his head and pushed him further against her as she let out low excited moans upon feeling the New Arcadian Asian pinch her left nipples and roughly twist them.
"You like that?" Lee asked with a whisper while feeling Laurie lick the side of his neck and whisper out "Yes," into his ears before sliding off the legs of the Chinese man and quickly pulling off his pants without even undoing his belt buckle.
"Still wide awake as ever." She let out earning a chuckle from Lee who went to respond only to be cut off as Laurie took him into her mouth and started to ferociously suck him off with skills never thought was possible as he felt her roll her tongue over his shaft, kiss, suck, and tease his tip with her lips, while her hands gently massaged his balls.
"Try not to come so quick." She let out while moving to lick his balls from the base all the way to the top before taking him all the way into her mouth where she proceeded to repeat the process of deepthroating him while Lee moaned out in pleasure.
Then for a final trick she took his entire length down his throat and started to hum against him while violently shaking her head in the process. Causing Lee to moan out loudly in ecstasy and earn the attention of those on the otherside of the door.
"AHH!" she yelled out upon taking him out her mouth and then smiling at the Chinese man who quickly pulled her up to face him so that they could share a quick kiss before she climbed onto his lap and started to ride his member while Lee sucked one her chest.
New Arcadia (Present)
"Holy Shit!" said Task as he, Felix, and Ernesto found themselves standing in the doorway of the BSU clubhouse looking in the room that belonged to Lee where a bandaged, battered, and bruised girl lying on the bed.
"Is that Laurie?" Felix asked with a hint of sadness in his voice as Mark stood behind him with a serious look on his face.
"What's left of her, you know the Greeks would do this to their kills after a battle. Send them to the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb." Mark stated with anger in his tone.
"Is she-?" Ernesto started before Mark cut him off.
"Lee's first and only true love...yes and she's not the only one that been targeted in the last few months, she's just the only one who's still breathing." Mark replied causing Felix to let out a low growl.
"Who else?" he asked with a hint of anger in his tone as Mark watched him clinch his fist. "Who else has been killed?"
"Lars, Crazy T, Mitchell, Craig, Shawna, and Whiteny-." Mark trailed off at the mention of the dead girls causing Felix to turn his head and notice the clear anger in the eyes of the Creole. "Blondie, Mo, Dutch, and Rano." He finished with venom in his tone.
"Maybe this is retribution." Stated Adahy causing everyone to look back at him with serious expressions. "Don't act like this isn't just deserving after all the innocent people killed in Los Santos at your hands and Lee's hands I'm not gonna sit here and pity your loss." He added earning a low growl from Mark.
"Do understand though, that they were being killed a week in advance before the attack on Los Santos." Mark replied with venom building in his tone. "And you don't pity my brothers loss, just know we don't pity yours in fact…!" Mark started only stopping just once as he noticed the uncomfortable angry look on the face of the Creek warrior.
"And Lee thought I did this?" Felix asked with venom in his tone. "What makes you think we had anything to do with this?" he asked while eyeing Mark angrily before watching the youngest Roman dig into his pocket and pull out a sheet of paper before passing it to Felix.
"Whoever did this was quite upset about our taunting of your friend and that led a trail directly to you." Mark replied.
"You don't think I did this do you?" Felix asked with more venom in his tone.
"I know you didn't, you don't have the stomach for it…but I already know who did and who does." Mark replied with more hatred in his tone.
"Neto!" Task stated before watching as Mark took a look at Ernesto.
"Me and you need to talk in private away from everyone." He let out before walking away while Ernesto sent looks to Felix and the others before following the Creole and as Adahy and Felix moved to follow him they were quickly intercepted by Davey and Eddy who blocked their paths and eyed the trio menacingly.
"If this was Neto, I just want to say I knew nothing about it and Adahy has a point with everything you did in his barrio this was long coming." Ernesto shot back while following Mark into a room and closing the door behind them as they went.
"This wasn't Neto!" Mark stated to the confusion of Ernesto who looked at him with a raised brow. "We've been monitoring Neto and our sources put him on a plane leaving San Andreas at the same time police were on the scene investigating the murder of our friends on Sunbelt Universities campus." Mark replied to the confusion of the Onda member.
"Then if it wasn't Neto then who?" he asked.
"Don't play dumb, me and you both know that whoever did this is directly tied to your camp and we also know that person has been MIA in New Arcadia and Metra for a while." He stated earning a raised brow from Ernesto.
"It couldn't have been Miguel." He retorted earning a chuckle from the youngest Roman.
"I knew you'd say that, fathers can never accept the shit their kids do even if they do it in front of them." Mark replied. "I know he did, just like I know you worked with that grieving prick in the Rose District to kill my cousins in Sunbelt." He replied to the shock of Ernesto.
"I'm not IAA, but being under Ana has given me a background in surveillance and counter-intelligence." Mark replied to Ernesto's confusion. "I know exactly what you've been doing these last few weeks Ernesto and your boy, I didn't put two and two together the first time but after this…shit's becoming a lot more clear." He added while Ernesto eyed him angrily.
"This the part where you threaten to kill my boy and think it will go over well with me?" he asked while eyeing Mark angrily.
"No, this is the part where I go out there and continue to let everyone believe that it was Neto who did this shit so that when he finally does come here we can kill him and I expect no interference from you." Mark replied while Ernesto gave him a raised brow. "I want peace in New Arcadia Ernesto. I made peace with you, your boy can stay hiding out in Sunbelt all he wants because it is no concern of mine as long as he stays there, but I can't make peace with Neto. If the both of us are alive there will be a war, so I'm letting you know now that Neto will fall and even if you support him he will fall. Don't risk what you've built here just for the man who destroys everything he touches." He finished while Ernesto chuckled at his response.
"Are you asking me to just sit back and abandon my Carnal?" he asked with a bitter hatred in his tone.
"No, I'm asking you to think about your familia before you think about your Carnal." Mark replied earning an angry expression from Ernesto. "No father should live to see their kids die, so I'll be humane and kill you first and then Miguel. I won't go after your other kids but remember there is a serial killer who makes no regrets going after the family members of the deceased." He finished while Ernesto sat back and eyed him angrily.
"You can't-!" Ernesto started before a loud scream caught both his and Mark's attention as they both rushed out of the room and quickly spotted a familiar woman screaming her head off and standing at the end of the hallway.
"Son of a bitch!" Davey yelled out as Tasha pushed her way pass him, Eddy, Felix, and Task without any care for them as she rushed to Laurie's bedside in tears and wrapped her arms around the tattooed girl only to be taken off-guard as she was quickly pulled away from her by Link.
"Don't do that, she can't see or hear you and if she wasn't sedated she'd be fighting you right now and her moving around too much is not what she needs." He stated while Tasha continued to cry in her arms while Mark and Ernesto stood by with Felix and the others watching the girl breakdown before them.
"I think you should leave now." Mark stated causing the group to turn to him and watch as he made his way over to Tasha and kneeled down next to her while Ernesto and the others them closely before walking away with Felix taking a few extra seconds so that he could take in the sight of the girl before he left.
Sunbelt City(Years Ago)
The sound of Tasha and Ryan's shoes hitting the pavement seemed to be the only thing the duo could hear as they found themselves walking through the doors of their clubhouse with hollow scared looks on both of their faces and those looks only magnified as they made their way to the door of the War Room and took a stand behind it.
"You don't have to be here for this." Tasha let out only for Ryan to shake his head at her statement.
"No we're in this together." He replied before reaching for the doorknob, turning it, and then opening the door to the room and finding that it was completely empty of life with no sign of The Warlord or his Militia.
"Do you think they just packed their bags and left?" Ryan asked while Tasha continued to look around the room.
"I doubt it!" she replied before they made their way back out of the room and into the main lounge area where they watched Brooke, Heather, Laurie, and Mira make their way inside with smiles on their faces.
"Have any of you seen Mark, Lee, or any of the others?" Tasha asked with worry in her voice causing the girls to shake their heads.
"We haven't seen Mark in a few days and we haven't seen Lee or the others since this morning!" Laurie replied. "Is something the matter?" she asked with a raised brow just as the group turned their heads and watched as Pete made his way into the lounge with Blondie, Mo, Rao, Nathan, Davey, Eddy, Buck, Miller, Viktor, and about thirteen more members of Sunbelts BSU Chapters.
"Why are you all here?" Tasha asked with a raised brow.
"You called for us didn't you?" Blondie replied earning a raised brow from Ryan.
"I called you!" he shot back only to be cut off by Tasha as she looked to the door watched as Lee came in first leading Link and Jimmy behind him.
"They're gonna make a display of this for everyone to see." She whispered as all eyes quickly fell on Lee who approached Ryan and quickly threw a hard right hook that knocked the man off his feet and flat on the floor.
"Stop!" Tasha yelled out only to be stopped as Lee put his hand in front of her chest.
"I don't want to hear a fucking word out of your mouth." He yelled out as Laurie quickly stepped in front of him.
"Lee what the hell has gotten into you." She asked.
"The same thing that got into her." He replied while looking to Tasha who couldn't help but to take a step back at her statement.
"I'm guessing they never told any of you, so I guess I'll have to shed some light on why my brother Marcus isn't here." Lee started with venom in his tone. "While we were out, taking care of business and risking our lives for this Family our president here slithered his way into a bed which he didn't belong and I think we all know whose bed I'm talking about." Lee stated while all eyes quickly fell on Tasha and caused her to look away from him.
"No!" said Brooke with a hint of sadness in her tone as Ryan looked to her and quickly called out for but he was only met with a slap to the face as she ran out of the room crying.
"An expected reaction!" Link said with venom of his own in his own tone.
"Don't do this." Tasha ordered only for Lee to chuckle at her response.
"Don't do this, I think I have a right to do this." Lee yelled out with venom in his tone. "When we first joined BSU you told us the rules no drugs, no selling drugs, and no laying our hands on another brothers girl." He stated while eyeing Ryan angrily. "And last we checked you and Mark were still faithfully together." He added.
"Don't talk to us about rules with all of the rules you guys break everyday. The drug dealing, the robberies, and the murders-." Tasha started before Lee cut her off.
"All done in order to protect and support this brotherhood, but I guess we know now where that gets us." Jimmy shot back with anger in his tone.
"So what are you holding trial to have me kicked out of BSU?" Ryan asked earning a shake of the head from Lee.
"Nah, our brother already made his decision and we stand with him." Lee retorted with a chuckle. '"We're done with BSU, you can keep this shit and shove it up your ass and call it your moms pussy." He finished earning a few gasps from everyone as they watched him take off his BSU hat and toss it to the ground along with Link and Jimmy before they made their way out of the room.
"Shit!" said Ryan before he and Tasha looked around the room and noticed the many sea of eyes looking back at them before walking away.
New Arcadia
The drive back to the club wasn't long for the BSU members as Mark found himself following behind Davey and Eddy as they drove the lead car with the still unconscious Lee and Laurie in the backseat while he found himself being alone for the second time in years with Tasha who was sitting still and silent in the passenger seat next to him.
"A lot to take in wasn't it?" he asked trying to break the silence that was building between the duo only to find that Tasha wasn't budging in her silence.
"I'm sorry you had to see that-." He started only to be taken off-guard as the girl gave a loud scoff before finally speaking up.
"Are you really, if you were truly sorry about what I saw back there you wouldn't be packing Laurie up and preparing to show her to everyone else." She replied with anger in her tone.
"The others need to know…war is coming and whether we brought it upon you or you brought it upon yourselves they need to be ready for when it does get here." He stated earning a chuckle from Tasha.
"Now you want them to fight besides you, because in the past you said you wouldn't trust any of them any a gun fight. That they'd only get themselves killed, now you want to put them at risk just to serve your own war." She shot back.
"In case you haven't noticed it both Lee and Jimmy are still fucking hurt, Thire and Tup as well, so I have no real backup." Mark replied.
"And what the fuck does that mean?" she yelled back with venom in her tone that caught Mark by surprise. "Back in Sunbelt they called you The Warlord, because when you set foot on a battlefield you left a path of destruction the likes of which nobody had ever seen before. Now look at you asking for support, are you afraid of this guy Mark or has the hype died?" she asked causing Mark to slam on brakes and grab her by the throat causing her to violently gasp for air as she grabbed him arm before he gently let her go and watched her cough violently.
"The hype isn't dead, but I'm not the idiot who just strolls into a gunfight without any support." Mark finished as he pulled up at the club before stepping out with Tasha and the others in tow.
"Let's get this over with." Mark proclaimed causing Davey, Eddy, and Link to nod their heads before putting Laurie in a wheel chair and making their way inside of the club where they noticed a few BSU members dancing to loud punk rock.
"Stupid motherfuckers!" Mark yelled out before reaching into his waistband and pulling out his M1911 Pistol and firing a single shot in the air. The resulting noise caught everyone's attention and caused them to all look back at him with mixed expressions that were mostly seemed to be made up of fear.
"A message, whenever someone wants to communicate with another person they send a message. Sometimes in words, sometimes in letters, and sometimes in blood." Mark stated earning confused looks from everyone. "I've received and delivered a number of messages in blood and none of them get any easier." He added with a hint of anger in his voice.
"What's the point to this speech." Yelled out a BSU member with a long blonde Mohawk and a sleeve tattoo causing Mark to look at him with anger in his eyes.
"What's the point of this speech?" Mark asked before looking back at Davey and Eddy who removed themselves from the room. "It would seem another blood message has been passed to us and this one…strikes deep." He yelled out before Davey and Eddy rolled the wheelchair of Laurie into the club floor causing a loud series of gasp and yells from the BSU members who looked at her with fear and sadness.
"Laurie!" Julie said with fear in her voice as Mark watched Brooke, Heather, and Mira all fall to their knees in tears at the sight of the girl.
"Son of a bitch!" added Pete as he angrily bit his lip with tears forming in his mouth while a small pool of blood dripped beside him from the deep cuts being produced in his hands from him clinching his fist with more force then he could handle.
"Shit!" said Thire as he stood back with Ren, Tup, and the other BSU members who came from Los Santos as they watched Mark make another statement that seemed to make their hearts sink.
"The Azteca that countered our attack in Los Santos is behind this and right now he's on his way here to finish what he started with lord knows how many people with him." Mark stated causing another wave of gasps from the BSU members as a wave of fear spread across all their bodies. "I'm going to fight him and I'm going to see him dead in a ditch." He added earning loud cheers from the BSU members.
"I'm not doing this for BSU though, I'm doing this for Miller, Viktor, and everyone else who was killed because of me and my war." He stated with venom in his tone. "I'm fighting for me, so who here is gonna fight for BSU?" he asked with venom in his tone earning a wave f silence from a number of those in the club that silence was soon broke though as both Thire and Pete limped their way, followed by Ren, and a few other BSU members.
"I guess I know now who has the stones in this group." Said Mark as he looked at the ten individuals who stood in front of him before walking away with Link coming up behind him with a serious look on his face.
"Interesting speech brother but are we really gonna let Miguel get away with what he did?" he asked earning a shake of the head from Mark.
"Of course not, but don't worry I called in a favor." Mark replied with venom in his tone.
Metra, Lincoln Parish
The drive back to Metra didn't last long as Ernesto parked his car in front of his safehouse before watching as Felix, Task, and Adahy stepped out with mixed expressions on their faces.
"Hold down the Varrio, I need to go see to something in Sunbelt." Ernesto stated before driving off leaving the trio in the dirt sitting back with confused expressions on their faces.
"What's got him heading out so fast?" asked Adahy.
"With everything going on I guess he needs to ensure it wasn't Cruz or La Madre that's been fucking with BSU." Task shot back.
"If you ask me they deserve what they're getting and I stand by that." The Creek Warrior stated before walking off leaving Task along with Felix who was still silent from seeing his old friend in her new state.
"You gonna be okay?" Task asked earning a nod from Felix.
"Yeah…I'm gonna go see to Loka and clear my head." He replied earning a nod from the Lakota who watched him leave before his cellphone started to ring from a familiar number.
"What do you want now?" he whispered under his breath before walking away.
Carcer City
It was only a two hour flight from New Arcadia to Carcer City and Alison was thankful she was able to give a bullshit excuse to Steve before leaving. As she found herself making her way inside of one of the cities largest hospitals she wondered exactly why Patrick had wanted her to come here.
As she walked through the halls of the hospital and told a nurse what room she was looking for though her curiosity seemed to peak as she noticed a few men and women guarding the hallways in plain dress clothing. The people were trying their hardest not to look to suspicious but Alison as she made her way closer to the room and noticed the number of guards were starting to increase.
"Shit what the hell is going on?" she whispered to herself as she rounded a corner and noticed a familiar Afro British woman standing outside the door with an angry expression on her face.
"Kyra!" she called out causing the woman to turn in her direction and go wide eyed upon seeing her.
"Ali, what the hell are you doing here?" she asked with surprise in her voice.
"Patrick told me to come here that something behind that door is something I need to see." She shot back causing Kyra to shake her head.
"You don't want to go beyond that door Alison, only pain and sorrow lie beyond it." Kyra shot back earning a raised brow from Alison before a thought wormed its way into her head.
"Where's Ana?" she asked with worry in her tone causing Alison to go silent and an angry expression to spread across the face as she pushed past Kyra and made her way into the room where she instantly went wide eyes with fear, sorrow, anger, and rage hitting her all at once almost like a slap to the face.
"Oh god!" she let out as she took in the sight of the Chinese woman lying on the white hospital bed with a bandage wrapped around her forehead that also covered her right eye, her shoulders, abdomen, and upper left arm, wrist, and thigh were also heavily bandaged, along with her ankle, to add to the horrible sight she was also wearing a breathing mask and was hooked up to an oxygen tank.
The sight of such a strong almost indestructible woman like Ana being in the state she was in seemed to suck the life out of the FIB Agent. She'd seen Ana go through hell and back and best the strongest of men, she was almost like a legend more than a person and to see the legend so hurt only seemed to cause Alison to sink down to the floor in sadness.
Sunbelt City (Years Ago)
"Do you have to leave?" asked Laurie as she found herself standing across from Lee who looked at her with a smile. "What happened to us being together?" she added with venom in her tone.
"We can still be together if you come with me." He replied.
"Lee…I'm finally in school, I can't just uproot my life and go to New Arcadia with you and Mark." She replied. "You could just stay here with me." She retorted while Lee took a deep breath.
"I want to, but I can't just leave my brothers not like this anyway." He shot back earning a nod from Laurie.
"I understand that, but I'd rather you didn't leave this city just because of Tasha and Ryan." She replied while Lee nodded his head.
"I'd rather we didn't but it's for their safety, speaking of safety I suggest you do like the others and walk out on BSU. We made many enemies and when they learn the Warlord and the Militia is gone, they'll strike while the iron is hot and once the New Austin Mafia gets word that their money makers are gone it won't be safe for BSU in prison or on the streets." He stated while Laurie nodded her head before Lee put his hands to the woman's cheeks before pressing his lips against hers in a long deep kiss.
"This isn't a goodbye, it's a see you later." He said with a smile earning one from Laurie who couldn't help the tears that were beginning to form in her eyes.
New Arcadia Present
Dark and silent, those were the only words Laurie could use to describe her world now. She couldn't speak, she couldn't hear, and she couldn't see. She was left utterly in a state of the unknown and fear, despite that though she could still feel and right now she felt presence of someone near her.
She didn't know if they were friendly or the same people who hurt her coming back to finish her off. As of this point she was starting to wish they did, this pain she felt and the loss of her senses seemed to be getting the best of her and she just wanted it to end.
As she sat in her wheelchair trapped in the abyss of darkness and silence, a familiar Chinese man found himself standing over her with a saddened look in his eyes.
"I know you can't hear me Laurie, but I just wanted to say that I'm sorry." He let out while bending down in front of her. "If only I was there for you this never would have happened." He added while the tears started to form in his eyes.
"If only-." He said with a hint of anger in his voice. "Whoever did this, I'll make them pay for what they did you…I'll take more than just their eyes. I'll take their whole goddamn soul and make them wish they will never came your way." He yelled out with venom in his tone before looking up at Laurie and noticing her lip start to quiver and her body start to shake in fear.
"Don't worry you don't have to fear anymore…I promise that." Lee let out as he reached behind his back and pulled out a rather large needle and a small glass bottle with a clear white liquid inside of it.
The bottle was filled with Etorphine or M99 Tranquillizer, Mark had used it on him earlier and just before he went down he had snatched it off the youngest Roman. He was known to use it on enemies or friends whenever they need to be calmed down like himself. Still it was a dangerous tranquilizer to use and Lee knew it.
"It's gonna be over soon!" he let out while taking a large dosage of the tranquillizer into the syringe and with tears in his stab it into Laurie's neck causing a jolt from the woman of Asian and African descent who started to struggle before calming down as Lee pulled her into his arms and held her until she completely went still.
While Lee was with Laurie, Mark found himself in the back-office area sitting with Thire, Ren, Tup, Pete, Link, and the other members from the BSU. One of which was John "Tector" Murphy. Mark and Lee knew Tector as one of the main enforcers for BSU in Stab City as well as being a Hang-Around for the Lost MC. He was one of the most violent BSU members on the East Coast and a few years ago he came to Sunbelt City to work alongside the Warlord and his Militia.
He was good with a gun and a knife, being one of the few people with no military experience to really handle a Sniper Rifle, but his preferred weapon of choice was explosives. His father worked demolitions so he'd been around explosives all his life and whenever Mark needed to get his hands on some dynamite he was the man to call.
"Before we get down to talking business, I want to ask you why are you because this is potentially a suicide mission so why fight against an enemy none of you are prepared for?" he asked earning mixed looks from the group.
"You know why we're here Mark, this asshole killed Lou, Hardcase, Samuel, Jesse, and a bunch of others. As far as I'm concerned it would be disrespect for us to get another chance at him." Thire stated earning a nod from Tup and Ren and the other members from Los Santos.
"This prick has killed our brothers from state to state, so he isn't just your problem brother." Started Tector as he eyed Mark closely with a thick Northeastern accent. "He's a BSU problem." He finished while Mark nodded his head.
"You may not be BSU anymore brother but you are still my friend and I refuse to let you go out and fight alone with everything you've done for us." Pete added causing Mark to again nod his head.
"Alright then I guess we are-." Mark started before going silent to the confusion of the group as they noticed his eyes widen and then start to shake as they stared at the doorway. As their gaze shifted to his focus they quickly discovered why he was so startled.
"Holy shit!" said Ren as she and the others took in the sight of Lee standing in the doorway of the office carrying the body of Laurie bridal style in his arms while he looked up at all of them with tears in his eyes.
"She secame to her injuries." He let out while Pete and the others quickly rushed their way over to the girl while Mark slowly followed behind them with sadness already starting to build in his heart.
As Thire and Pete moved to pull the girl out of Lee's arms and rest her on the couch while the Chinese man in question approached Mark with his head down and his right hand extended revealing the half empty bottle of Etorphine causing Mark to look at him with wide eyes in shock and surprise at his actions.
"It had to be done…I wouldn't force her to live that way or with the pain." He whispered out with his voice breaking up with every single word he let out.
He was expecting Mark to strike him or even yell for his actions but instead the youngest Roman merely took the bottle out of his hands and put a comforting hand on his right shoulder before whispering out. "You did what you thought was right and I won't hold that against you, but it's now something you have to forever carry with you." He stated.
"And I will carry it proudly." He finished earning a nod from Mark who sent looks to Pete, Thire, and the others.
"Take her back to the cabin, the others should get their chance to say goodbye to her before we drop her off." Mark started causing Lee to look to him closely. "She'll get a proper burial." He stated earning a nod from the man before he started to walk away with Thire, Pete, and the others while Link took a side next to the youngest Roman.
"Go with him!" Mark ordered causing Link to look to him with a confused expression. "He's hurt, unstable, and unpredictable and I don't want to have to pull him out of Lincoln Parish again." He added while Link nodded his head.
"You think you can handle being on your own?" he asked while Mark lowered his head and took a deep breath.
"Right now I think it would be best if I was alone." That was his response before he walked away from the blonde man who moved to follow after Lee and the others, but not without whispering something into the ear of one of the people.
Sunbelt City, New Austin
The drive back to his old barrio wasn't long but as he came speeding through like a bat out of hell he decided to slow himself down as a few of the Soldados from the barrio started to eye his car closely since they'd never seen this new whip before.
As he pulled up to his old home he quickly stepped out of the vehicle, made his way to the front door, and started pounding on it before reaching into his back pocket pulling out his key, jamming into the door, and then opening it.
"Mijo!" he yelled out before making his way to the back of the house and bursting through the doors of Miguel's old bedroom and noticing the young Onda member lying on his bed with three females sleeping next to him before jumping up at the sight of Ernesto.
"Get the hell out now." He yelled out with venom and frustration in his voice as he watched Miguel look up at him before turning his attention to the triplet of Tejana's as they grabbed their clothes and started to run out of the room.
"Papa, chill!" Miguel let out only to be grabbed by his shoulders and forced out of the bed by Ernesto who lifted him up and slammed his back against the wall with enough force to knock the air from the boys lungs.
"Was it fucking you?" Ernesto asked earning a raised brow from Miguel who looked at him with a genuine look of fear at his father's angry expression. "The attacks on BSU and what happened with Lee's girl, was that you Mijo and tell me the fucking truth." he yelled out while Miguel lost the look of fear in his eyes before finding his voice and speaking up.
"Yeah it's been me." He replied only for Ernesto to look at him angrily before tossing him back down onto the bed with enough force to move the bed.
"I setup a truce with Marcus Roman and the Roman Families Miguel but I can't keep that truce going if you're out targeting BSU just to get a rise out of him." He replied.
"I'm not hitting up those Bullshitters because of Mark, I'm hitting them up because they rob our dealers and sell our own shit like it's theirs on Sunbelt University. So I'm taking it back, our drugas, theirs, and whoever else they hit and I'm gonna take Sunbelt University right from under them." He stated while eyeing the man angrily.
"If it wasn't about Mark or Lee why the fuck did you do what you did to that girl. She was in college, she wasn't even seeing Lee anymore-." Ernesto started before Miguel cut him.
"Was seeing another member of BSU and shot at me, so don't sit here and spout that shit Mark's filled your head with that she was fucking innocent." He shot back to Ernesto's anger.
"Don't fucking talk back to me boy." He replied only to be cut off by the man in question.
"No, we're both Onda so now I can talk to you on equal footing man to man." Miguel shot back to the surprise of Ernesto. "You're doing whatever it takes to keep the Carnales in Lincoln Parish alive but at the end of the day they aren't here helping us fight our own wars and ours actually matter." He shot back with anger filling his voice.
"New Arcadia is a shithole in a swamp and Louisiana is an irrelevant speck on a map so fuck it. Why should we fight and die for a shithole when we can come here and be kings in a city that actually matters." He added with more venom in his tone.
"Onda protects its own and those that pay tribute to them." Ernesto shot back.
"Onda shouldn't have to solve everyone's problems on the streets, we let them handle themselves and a lot of those jokers in New Arcadia and Metra aren't worth the effort." Miguel shouted with venom in his tone. "Cruz is alright and so are Loka, but if you look at all the real work that was being done by them it was because of us, Felix, Task, and Adahy. They rely more on those without flags than themselves." He added with more aggression in his tone.
"You should jump ship from there Papa and let them handle themselves, because you're more needed here than there. We've lost enough fighting wars in New Arcadia, let's not waste anymore resources because you and me both know that your truce won't last especially if they already know I was the one who put did that to that cunt." He added leaving Ernesto stunned for a few seconds before he slapped him across the face with enough force to send him looking back.
"We don't use that word." He yelled back with venom in his tone. "If you want to abandon all of those in New Arcadia then fine be that way, but I won't turn my back on my Carnales. I didn't do it while I was in prison and I'll be damned if I start doing it now." He added before turning to walk away while Miguel watched him leave with venom in his tone.
"Right walk away from your blood, but go and make friends with the man whose probably one day gonna kill the both of us." Miguel shouted as he watched Ernesto walk out the front door and slam it behind him in the process.
New Arcadia
The sound of silence seemed to fill the airs of Mark as he found himself walking out of his office onto the dance floor of his club where the familiar sound of his cellphone ringing quickly caused him to pull out the cellular device and put it to his ears.
"Hello!" he answered only to hear a familiar chuckle on the other end of the phone.
"Where were you Mark?" the man let out while Mark went wide eyed.
"Patrick!" he let out with venom in his tone.
"Yup I'm back and let me just say it is good to hear your voice again after so long Marcus." he stated while Mark growled at the man.
"Yeah it's good to see you're still willing to talk over the phone instead of coming out to face me like a man." Mark shot back while Patrick chuckled.
"I would…but you're gonna need all your strength if you're gonna be successful against the threat that's coming your way." He retorted.
"If you mean Neto than you should know that after I'm done with him I'm coming for you." Mark shouted with venom in his tone.
"Wow you are so hostile to me, I thought you'd hold more resentment for the man who put one of your wives in the hospital." He shouted to the confusion of Mark.
"What are you talking about?" Mark asked with venom in his tone.
"Oh you don't know, maybe I should show you." Patrick shot back before looked down at his phone just as it vibrated from a video message that came from Patrick's number.
Upon clicking the message Mark's eyes went wide as he noticed that it was from a hidden security camera and the footage on it showed Ana in combat with Neto and the date on the side of it read three days prior.
"No!" Mark whispered to himself as he watched in horror as Ana was punched, kicked, and slammed through a glass coffee table with fear and worry in his heart before the video came to an end and showed Ana lying in a hospital bed with a breathing mask over her face.
"All of that because you weren't there to protect her like you said you would be you're a worse liar then Mark." Patrick finished causing Mark to let out an angry growl before hanging up his phone.
"I'm gonna kill you next!" Mark stated angrily just as all the television and speakers in the club activated and sound of Patrick's voice quickly engulfed the air like fires in a forest.
"You can't escape it all that easily Marcus." he yelled out while Mark looked to all the television and noticed that they were each replaying the fight between Ana and Neto. "He's on his way Mark, be sure to not end up in the same hospital bed as your wife." He added causing Mark to let out a feral like yell as he drew his M1911 and fired off shots into the speakers and televisions in order to get the sound of Patrick's laughs out of the room and the video along with it.
"SHUT UP!" Mark yelled out as everything around him almost transformed into a game of duck hunter as he fired off shot after shot in the club damaging the electronics and causing a shower of electric sparks to rain down on him as he continued to pant and yell almost like a madman before he heard the click of his Pistol and fell to his knees with tears in his eyes and angering in his heart.
"DAMN IT!" he added before slamming his fist down into the hard light-up tile floors of his club with enough force to cause a loud crunching sound. He then repeated the process until his knuckles were red with blood and a pair of arms quickly engulfed him from behind with a someone shushing him from behind into his ear and causing a calming wave to wash over him and bring him back to reality.
"it's okay…it's okay!" Ren whispered out as she held Mark closer to her torso until he finally started to calm down.
Sunbelt City
The drive to East Sunbelt wasn't long for Task as he found himself parking his car at a familiar park where he noticed Cheta sitting with SX and Felon. After stepping out of his car and making his way over to the group he quickly noticed that they broke apart as though they were talking business before he arrived.
"What is it?" he asked with a seriousness in his tone.
"No good afternoon or happy to see you homie?" SX asked earning a look from Task before he turned his attention back to Cheta.
"We've got our hands on another money making opportunity and we were hoping you'd help us pull it off." She stated earning a raised brow from Task.
"We're being payed to hit a number of guys for a friend of ours across Sunbelt and we're wondering if you'd help us out with the job." She asked earning a few seconds of silence from Task before he responded.
"Who's the target?" he asked with a seriousness in his tone.
"Vagos in the South West, they've been a problem for us just as much as everyone else in this damn city." Stated Felon.
"One of their guys who's name doesn't matter anymore gave us a tip on one of their stash houses just on the otherside of town." Added SX. "What we need you to do is make sure that if those guns aren't used by one of us…they aren't used at all." He finished.
"Destroy guns…wouldn't it be better if I just stole them?" The Lakota asked.
"That would work as well, but being that this stash house is deep in their territory destroying them would seem a little bit easier than stealing them and would require less manpower since it's just you." Cheta replied while Task rolled his eyes.
"When do you want this done?" Task asked earning a smile from Cheta.
"As soon as possible." Cheta replied while Task moved to walk away from the Rifa members as they talked amongst themselves.
"And me without a real weapon." The Lakota said under his breath as he continued to walk away.
"He's good with a gun are you sure you don't want to add him in when we hit the Vagos and Azteca's?" SX asked with a seriousness in his tone.
"Mark said not to do that and I'd rather not go against the wishes of the guy whose paying us for a job." Cheta replied while the trio continued to look to Task.
New Arcadia
"Are you ready?" Ren asked as she found herself kneeling down before Mark who sat on the couch in his back office with the woman of Japanese descent who had his bloody right hand in her own.
"Go for it!" Mark replied before Ren forced his fingers upward, causing a loud popping sound as she popped the three that were once dislocated back in place and forcing Mark to let out a loud shriek of pain and agony while Ren wrapped his hand in bandages.
"I told you should have taken the medicine." She retorted as Mark stopped screaming and looked at her with anger in his eyes.
"I don't need meds, I need a clear head." He shot back while Ren gave a loud scoff.
"With everything that's been happening these last couple of days I would think you'd want an escape from reality as much as the rest of us." She replied while finishing with the wrapping on Mark's hands before moving to take a seat beside him.
"Do you want to talk about it?" she asked earning a slight chuckle from Mark.
"This the part where you try and get to know me better?" he asked.
"Well aside from a degree in Graphic Arts I do also have one in Psychology and since I've met you I've been wanting to get inside of your head. To see how you see the world in a sense." She stated. "All I know about you is the stories everyone tells us and from what I can tell from that is…you're not an ordinary human." She added earning a loud chuckle from the youngest Roman.
"I'm serious, the way everyone talks about you would think you were a superhero with a mind and rally cry similar to that of General Patton." She replied while Mark chuckled.
"I ain't no superhero I'm just really good at not dying and manipulating people into having hope when hope isn't enough." He retorted while she gave a loud scoff.
"Marcus Roman…the Concrete Soldier, El Pistolero Negro, and what's that new one people call you?" she asked.
"The Arbiter of fate!" he shot back earning a chuckle from Ren.
"Now that's an interesting title, an Arbiter is someone who has the final say of something like a judge but you are the Arbiter of Fate. What fate though Marcus?" she asked with a smile.
"Not fate, fates the fate of life, death, war, peace, pain, or pleasure." He replied.
"You sound like a Dominatrix." She shot back earning a chuckle from Mark followed by a "Fuck You!"
"All those names fit with how a lot of the guys on the West Coast describe you." She added while Mark gave a loud scoff.
"Yeah well they're wrong, I'm not this strong great leader who will do anything to protect them. In reality I'm just a manipulating sociopath whose killed hundreds of people and seen a thousands more die. When they die I barely feel anything anymore, in my opinion they're all playing Russian Roulette with a full gun." He stated while Ren looked away from him to speak.
"You believe that yet you're about to lead many of them to their possible deaths. You know that right?" she asked with a seriousness in her tone.
"No I won't!" he responded before his cellphone started to ring from a familiar number that caused him to stand up and look down at the confusion splattered across her face. "And you're gonna help me with that." He added before walking out of the room pressing his cellphone to his right ear and hearing a familiar voice fill it.
"I'm guessing you heard the news about Ana." Devlin asked earning a low growl from Mark.
"Yes and I just want you to know I intend to do something about it, unlike you." The Creole shot back.
"I figured you would, but I you're wrong about one thing I do intend to do something about it. By going after Ana, Mr. Santa Muerte disrespected my name and the IAA and for that he must pay." Devlin stated while Mark chuckled.
"Good way of throwing yourself as the center of this." Mark replied with venom in his tone.
"Our sources show that Mr. Santa Muerte will be arriving in New Arcadia by plane in a few days. Thanks to a storm over the Midwest he's been delayed, but in that time frame you will be receiving reinforcements from my personal unit. You'll have all the forces you need to kill him." Devlin stated.
"What makes you think a couple of IAA Agents can do any good?" Mark asked.
"Because the men coming with them have scores to settle of their own rights." Devlin finished with a chuckle.
Dukes
The sun was beginning to set on this day in Liberty Cities Dukes Borough. Within the neighborhood of Meadows Park though things seemed the same for a young Irish Hoodlum named Finn McCally. He was a rather slim shaved headed man of Irish descent and one of the youngest members of what was left of the McCreary Crime Family.
With Packie gone, Gerry inside, an increase in the number raids by the police, and almost constant attacks from the Ancelotti Family and the Dominican Trinity their numbers were diminishing. Meadows Park had quickly become one of their last safe havens in the city and they wouldn't be losing it anytime soon.
As Finn made his way up the street he quickly spotted three more Irish gangsters sitting on the front steps of a two -tory house talking and laughing amongst each other before they caught sight of him and called him over to them.
Amongst the group was a man by the name of Padraig Connolly, Connolly whose family held from Omagh, Ireland had a long history with the IRA that went all the way back to The Troubles. He wasn't young like Finn either being twenty years his senior and being a veteran of many of the conflicts that involved the McCreary Family.
"Finn how you been boyo." Padraig asked as Finn walked up and exchanged a hug and handshake with the old timer.
"Not on good times at the moment." Finn shot back while Padraig nodded her head.
"Those fucking Wops and their mutts are hammering us hard but I doubt they have the balls to come here and challenge us man to man." Padraig stated before a new voice caught them all by surprise followed by a series of claps.
"They will after they send me in!" the voice stated in a sadistic tone that caused the men to turn their heads and notice a Caucasian man with short black hair and a wicked smile on his face staring at them closely.
"Who the fuck are you-." Started Padraig before he was cut off as a Patrick tossed a knife at the man from almost out of nowhere that connected with the center of his throat and caused a geyser of blood to shoot from the wound catching everyone by surprise and blinding Finn in its mist.
"Mother-!" one of the Irish men started as he moved to draw his Pistol only to be stopped as Patrick stabbed him in the side and used his body as a shield for another Irish man that drew his own Pistol and fired off five shots that hit the torso of his comrade before Patrick tossed him into the first and watched him hit the ground with a thud.
"Look out below!" the Serial Killer yelled out as he jumped up and came down feet first and crushed the skull of the man with enough force to actually cave in part of his skull and leave him a bleeding corpse on the pavement.
"Fucking piece of shit!" said Finn as he moved to grab his gun only to have it knocked out of his hands by Patrick who watched the man hit the ground back first.
"Don't worry kid I'm gonna let you live today just because I feel generous." Patrick said with a wide smile.
"Fuck you!" Finn yelled out.
"Don't be like that, I'm giving you life I'm sure your mother would want that so why don't you go run to her and I'll forget I saw you here." Patrick stated causing Finn to go silent before standing up and running off.
The young Irish Hoodlum didn't get far though as Patrick drew his gun and fired three shot that caught the man in the back severing his spine and hitting one of his kidneys with enough force to cause him to slide forward as he hit the ground.
"I thought you weren't gonna kill me?" Finn asked while Patrick moved to stand over him chuckling.
"I didn't kill you, but don't worry being a gimp is no good so he is gonna kill you." The Serial Killer said as Finn lifted his head and noticed a man of Italian Descent standing over him wearing all black and carrying a Benelli Tactical Shotgun.
"Oh shit!" Finn started as Charlie pointed his gun to the man's head and squeezed the trigger creating a loud bang that echoed throughout the neighborhood and woke a few others from their sleep.
"I'm guessing our amigo has moved on the Irish hideout?" Patrick asked earning a slight smile from Charlie before they noticed four black SUV's speeding in their direction before coming to screeching halts in front of the duo.
"Yeah and we're gonna keep him clear." Charlie replied as he watched about nine Italian American men step from the vehicles with various weapons in their hands with one tossing Charlie a Hand Grenade that the Italian man quickly pulled the pin on before tossing it through the window of Padraig's house.
Meanwhile
The sound of the explosion was deafing, being loud enough to reach a few blocks down where three Irish American Gangsters were standing outside of a bar called the Celtic Garrison. The place was now the main safehouse for the Irish gangsters in Meadow's Park and inside a number of them were having a party and drinking with music playing so loudly that they couldn't hear the explosion.
"What was that?" asked one of the three men standing outside of the bar as he looked to another and watched as he made his way inside of the bar to whisper into the ear of an Irish American man who merely shewed him away causing him to walk away with a roll of his eyes as he made his way back outside.
"I don't think they're taking us-!" he started as he walked out the door before instantly going wide eyed as he noticed two men wearing all green and carrying Machete's slamming their blades onto the two guards until their heads were separated from their bodies with a geyser of blood shooting out from their neck wounds.
"Holy shit!" the man yelled out as he caught sight of the two men quickly turned to face him and watched as he went to draw a gun. Before he could lift it up though he was taken off guard by a pair of strong arms wrapping around his head and with a violent jerk forcing his head to the right with enough force to cause a loud popping sound that would forever ring in the man's ears as he fell lifelessly to the floor with a man of Afro Dominican descent standing over him with an ACR Assault Rifle strapped to his back.
"No survivors!" Marco said with venom in his tone as he turned around and led the two men in the bar with about nine other armed men stepping out of the alleyways and following them inside the bar.
The first person to catch sight of them didn't have a chance to scream as Marco fired off three shots that hit the man in the chest and blew out his back with enough force to hit the bottles of booze on the counter behind him.
After that sound quickly came a loud scream from the various women in the club as they moved to take cover under the tables to avoid the shots as a Trinity member came rushing from behind Marco with a Mini Uzi and fired a barrage of rounds in the direction of the bar striking a bald overweight Irish man six times in the back and causing him to the hard wood head first while the bar tender was shot in the neck.
"Fucking Domini-can'ts." Yelling an Irish gangster as he drew a Pistol and fired off a barrage of rounds at the Trinity members before one man armed with a Desert Eagle fired off one shot that hit him in the hand and blew off his knuckles.
"SON OF A-!" he started only to be silenced as a Trinity with a Shotgun fired a single slug that connected with his chest and sent him flying back before crashing on top of a circular table with enough force to break the table and send the glass bottles on it crashing to the floor
"Fucking Cabron!" yelled out Marco as he hit one of the men in the face with the butt of his Rifle and caused him to go flying back, slamming his head on top of the bar.
"SHIT!" he started before Marco slammed the butt of his Rifle on top of his head with enough force to actually cave in his skull as his skull bounced off the hard wood of the countertop and shattered his jaw bones and part of his temple.
"You motherfuckers should have stayed out of our war." Yelled a Trinity member as Marco watched in delight as the man used his Machete to slice off the arm of an Irish gangster then proceed to beat him with his own arm.
The IAA Contractor then turned his attention to a woman with long blonde hair who was wearing a white top with red stripes and short denim shorts cowering under the table and looking away from him with tears in her eyes.
"Kiss my arse!" yelled out a man with a thick Irish accent as he jumped from behind the bar armed with a Mini-Uzi of his own that he used to cut down two Trinities and strike Marco four times in the chest before he needed to reload.
As he slide in a new magazine for the weapon, he didn't get a chance to fire off a shot as Marco swung his Machete and managed to slice his throat almost perfectly causing the gangster to clutch his bleeding neck before sliding to floor and dropping the Mini-Uzi in the process.
"You should have not meddled in our affairs." Marco let out as he picked up the Mini Uzi and watched as Trinity in all black approached him with a specks of blood on his clothing.
"We got them all boss, we should get going before the feds show up!" he said before watching Marco turn his head back to the blonde woman and approach her.
As she lifted her head up to stare at him though she immedialty went wide eyed as she noticed that he was pointing the Mini Uzi directly at her forehead.
"No Survivors." He let out before squeezing the trigger and showering the woman in lead.
Elsewhere
While Marco and the Trinities were clearing out the Celtic Garrison, Charlie and the Ancelotti hitmen found themselves in a pretty bad firefight with a few well-armed Irish gangsters who were putting up a rather good fight.
"UHH!" yelled out an Ancelotti Hitman as he was struck four times in the chest and collapsed in a pool of blood courtesy of an Irish gangster armed with an M16A1 Assault Rifle.
"Spray them down!" Charlie ordered out as he watched an Ancelotti member armed with a Desert Eagle strike an Irishman in the face and watch him in the ground with a loud thud and blood leaking from the wound.
"Should have ducked O'Brien!" the gunmen yelled before he was struck in the side of the face as three more Irish men came out of a house armed with M16's of their own and shot him down.
"I hope you have a solution for that." Said Patrick with a slight smile as he watched Charlie reach into his jacket pocket and pull out the Hand Grenade he was given with a sick smile as he pulled the pin and held it for a few seconds.
"I guess that works well to." He said before watching Charlie toss the explosive under a car and with a loud boom and violent explosion send it up in the air and take the Irish gangsters with it a cloud of black smoke and wave of shrapnel that shredded them to pieces.
"It's gonna be a long night for all of you Irish Pricks." Charlie said with a sick smile as he picked up an old WWII Style Thompson Submachine Gun off one of the fallen men and started to light up what remained of the Irish gangsters in a shower of bullets.
New Arcadia (Hours Later)
The sound of quiet snoring seemed to fill the ears of Mark as he found himself rolling off the couch and allowing Ren to take up the entire side of it before moving to his desk, pulling out a blanket for "Emergencies", and placing it on top of the girl.
It was well passed Midnight, the duo had talked for hours about various tops from life, to music, to comic books. He had to admit he'd never had a full conversation with Ren or really many of the members of BSU outside of New Austin that weren't high up the food chain. She was a really cool person and a great friend that he was glad managed to survive the attacks in Los Santos. She didn't deserve to die in a war that didn't concern her…many of them didn't.
As he stood up though the sound of the door to his office opening quickly caused him to snap his head around and to his shock see a woman with short brown hair and a full sleeve tattoo on her left arm standing in his doorway with a serious look on her face.
"Of all the people to come and see me I wouldn't have suspected you to be one of them Brooke." Mark stated as he looked away from the girl with a serious look of his own that turned back to her.
"Me and you need to talk." She said before turning around and walking out of the office leaving Mark alone with Ren. The former then looked down at the sleeping girl before him before making his way out of the room and onto the dance floor where he noticed the girl sitting at the bar with her back turned to him.
As he moved to take a seat beside her, he quickly noticed that she had poured herself a drink of what looked like Tequila and had already taken a sip of it.
"I thought straight edge meant we strayed away from alcohol?" he asked with a seriousness in his tone.
"You're right, but I also thought straight edge meant we also strayed away from sex before marriage." She replied causing Mark to roll his eyes.
"You have a point there." he retorted before looking away from her. "So are you gonna tell me why you're here?" he asked.
"I want an apology." She stated earning a raised brow from Mark.
"An apology, an apology for what I never did anything to you. Hell you should be apologizing to me for how you slapped me the last time we saw each other." He shot back.
"You still haven't figured it out why I slapped you yet?" she asked earning a nod from Mark who stepped back as Brooke tried to slap him again.
"If you do that one more time I'm gonna slap you and you won't like it." He yelled back with anger in his tone before pushing the girl away from him. "How can you want me to apologize for hurting you when I know I've never done that." He shot back.
"That's just it, you didn't do anything but leave." She yelled out to the confusion of Mark who gave her a raised brow while watching her closely. "You left Sunbelt when you found out about Ryan and Tasha, you left us, you left me without telling me my boyfriend was screwing another girl." She yelled out causing Mark to nod his head.
"I had to find out two weeks later when Lee told me, do you know the same day he slept with Tasha he slept with me a few hours afterwards. Kissing me and telling me he loved me, but it was all a fucking lie." She yelled out with venom in her tone that seemed to echo throughout the club and causing Mark to go silent at her statement.
"After I found out I felt so stupid, because the signs were all there but I chose to ignore them. I loved him so much that I was willing to let him walk all over me…in secret." She started before looking away from Mark with tears beginning to form in her eyes. "Then when I found out who he was cheating on me with and everyone else found out…I became a wreck. Everyone was staring at me, whispering rumors and lies behind my back that I was willing to let them have each other as long as I kept face." She finished with anger in her tone as Mark watched her slam her fist into the countertop and yell out in anger.
"I know all Ryan brought you, Lee, Jimmy, and Link into BSU to kill, but he also brought you in to protect and I needed you to protect me…but you weren't there." She yelled out with venom in her tone while Mark looked away from her before moving to grab her right shoulder with his left hand.
"If I would have told you what I saw…would you have even believed me?" he asked causing Brooke to look back at him with tear filled eyes. "As you said, you loved and were devoted to him, what makes you think you would have believed a word I told you?" he asked again causing Brooke to go silent for a few seconds before responding.
"Because I know you'd never hurt me." She stated before moving to rest her head on the shoulder of Mark who merely allowed her to cry into his arm.
As they did this though Lee found himself standing back watching as BSU members from Sunbelt, Los Santos, and New Arcadia openly wept over the body of Laurie. With Davey, Eddy, Robbie, and Buck joining in on the crying while Link and Jimmy moved to stand beside Lee who was taken by surprise as Heather came up and offered him a hug and a shoulder to cry on.
Carcer City (Two Days Later)
The sound of a door closing seemed to bring Alison back to reality as she opened her eyes, looked up, and watched as Kyra entered the room with a serious look on her face.
"You should really consider getting that hotel room." The Afro-British woman let out while Alison merely rubbed her eyes.
"No, it's okay I'm fine here." She lied trying to hide the discomforting pain that was shooting through her back from two days of sleeping on the rather uncomfortable chair besides Ana's bed with the Chinese woman still resting soundlessly beside her with the breathing mask still on.
"You know the reason I haven't called Mark and told him about this yet is because I know he's gonna be doing the same thing you are and I want to avoid that." Kyra stated.
"I kept your wishes by not calling him." Alison responded earning a nod from the IAA Contractor.
"And I thank you for that, but don't do as he would do if he were here Alison. You need to get some food and some actual rest or you're gonna hurt yourself and the last thing he needs to find out is both of you are in the hospital." she stated earning a few seconds of silence from Alison who watched the Marksmen turn to walk out of the room as the nurse came in to check on the downed IAA Agent.
New Arcadia
The day had finally arrived, it was the day the BSU members had been preparing for since they arrived in New Arcadia. It was the day Neto's plane would be arriving within the city, it was the day they were ready for and again a day they all feared. And how did they prepare themselves for the battle they would soon be facing…by sleeping.
As Mark stood at the bar of his club he couldn't help but to look on with an emotionless look as the many bodies of the BSU members lie motionless on the floor. Amongst them Mark could easily spot members of his New Arcadia Faction mixed in with the bodies of the Sunbelt and Los Santos members.
Ren had come through for him, he had asked the girl a few days ago to do him a favor and she came through last night. It was the day before a big battle so Mark decided to bless the BSU members what could have been their last days on earth with a rather large party at his club. Prior to the party Mark had instructed Ren to make a beverage that consisted of Fruit Punch, Pineapple Juice, Mixed Fruit, and Ginger Ale with a bonus…Flunitrazepam also known as Rohypnol or commonly known as Ruffies.
It was a date rape drug that Mark found those who used to be morally wrong, but he himself had to use it for his plans. He promised Ren that he wouldn't be taking any BSU member with him into battle and with them on an eight to twenty-four-hour blackout none of them would object. He had to make sure Lee, Link, and his own had taken the drink to ensure they wouldn't object the most.
"Sorry brothers, but you're not coming along for this ride." He said as he looked down at the bodies of Lee, Link, Manfred, Davey, Eddy, Buck, and Robbie as they layed splayed next to Brooke, Heather, Pete, Mira, Thire, and Tup.
He then looked down to Ren who was lying passed out on one of the many couches, the girl didn't willingly drink the juice but forced in her mouth by Mark who passed it through a forced kiss.
After stepping over the bodies of the many BSU members Mark made his way over to a lone table where the BSU members had gathered their guns and conjured up a plan that wasn't going to be used for today. Upon the table he quickly grabbed his CM901 Assault Rifle and pulled back the slide on it before setting it aside grabbing his M1911.
As he went to remove his shirt and put a bulletproof vest the sound of footsteps approaching him quickly caused him to turn his head and notice a familiar African American woman looking at him with a surprised look on her face.
After seeing her Mark mentally cursed, he didn't account for Tasha coming back. After they'd taken care of Laurie she'd left for Sunbelt to see to Ryan at the hospital and spent the previous day with him. She'd come back earlier than he expected, though he didn't really care much.
"What's this?" she asked with a hint of concern in her voice.
"Me taking responsibility for my war." He responded with a lack of emotion in his tone as he turned away from Tasha who moved to approach him and noticed him readying himself for battle.
"You're doing this alone?" she asked with worry in her tone while Mark remained silent. "This is suicide!" she added.
"Probably!" he responded after putting on his vest and throwing his shirt on over it before strapping his weapons on his person while Tasha continued to watch him.
"You can't do this alone." She ordered.
"I can, I will, and I am!" Mark responded before moving to walk pass Tasha only to be stopped as the girl grabbed a hold of his right arm and forcibly turned him around so that he could look her in the eye.
"You don't just get to walk out on me, not this time…not again." She yelled with tears beginning to form in her eyes as she stared Mark down with venom in her eyes.
That venom went unnoticed by Mark though as he pulled himself away from the woman and started to make his way out the door where an orange and white Hakuchou Drag Motorcycle was located. Upon starting up the vehicle Mark couldn't help but to watch as Tasha came to do the doorway of the club as he rode off down the street without looking back at her.
"I'm on the move!" Mark let out over his headset as Charlie found himself standing next to a bright blue van on the edge of the city.
"About time, we got eyes on the plane." Charlie responded with venom in his tone.
"Alright take it down, but try to do so in a way that helps so that it doesn't damage the city." Mark responded.
"No promises, but we also managed to hack into their intercoms…that way you can give them a few choice words before we bring them down." Charlie added while Mark continued to drive.
"Thanks for that!" Mark responded while Charlie moved to knock on the side of the van.
"It's all on you big guy!" Charlie let out as Marco looked through the scope of the high powered Rifle he kept in the back of the truck at the jet that was quickly approaching New Arcadia.
"Time to put an end to Santa Muerte." He called out as he squeezed the trigger of the Rifle and watched as one of the turbines on the side of the plane started to shoot out black smoke and a violent jerk hit the plane terribly.
"I'm coming for you Santa Muerte!" Mark said over a song by the Rolling Stones as he chased after the plane on his bike with Charlie and Marco doing the same as it veered over his head before violently crashing into the swamp.
After a few minutes of riding Mark quickly brought his bike to a screeching halt as he noticed a Caucasian man hobbling out of the swamps in a somewhat wet black suite with a parachute still hanging off his back. Upon noticing the man Mark's eye quickly widened as he realized who exactly this man was before him and the legacy that he carried.
"I didn't expect Santa Muerte to be bringing Baby Yaga with him." Mark let out as Ivan turned to face him and noticed the emotionless look on the face of the youngest Roman as he watched him take his knife and cut the straps for the parachute off his body and let it fall to the ground.
"You…you could have killed more than just me and Neto if that plane had crashed into the fucking city." Ivan yelled out as Mark eyed him closely. "Maybe you're not so much a puppet for the capitalist as I suspected if you're willing to destroy an entire city just to kill an enemy." He added while Mark gave a low scoff.
"My fight isn't with you, but with Santa Muerte so why don't you just step aside before things get ugly." Mark stated while Ivan merely chuckled.
"I just survived a plane crash but I still got enough in me to kill you." The KGB Agent responded as he eyed Mark closely. "And you say your fight isn't with me, but in a way it is. I'm KGB and you are nothing more than a puppet for your country. You may not be military or IAA, but you do their bidding and if their bidding is for you to kill me than I guess that makes us enemies." He stated while Mark nodded his head before watching as Ivan drew his Makavor Pistol and aimed it at Mark who continued to stand still.
"I'm sure you may want to point that Pistol elsewhere…you're gonna need the bullets." Mark retorted as Ivan turned his head and watched as three all-black van pulled up behind him with men from the IAA in full body gear and armed with MP5's jumped from the vehicle and aimed the guns at the Russian man.
He then turned his head and watched as a bright blue van pulled up behind Mark who merely sent a smile his way before letting out, "I have no beef with you Baby Yaga, but these men believe differently!" And with that Ivan's eyes immediately widened as he watched Charlie and Marco step from the van with serious looks on their faces as they eyed him closely.
"Me and you got unfinished business." Said Marco as he lifted up his Machete and pointed it towards Ivan who merely lifted up his Pistol and fired off three shots in the direction of the IAA Contractors before rushing into the forest with the IAA gunmen firing at him as he fled.
"I'll leave him to you." Said Mark as he pulled back the throttle on his bike and sped down the road while Ivan and Charlie followed the IAA Agents after Ivan who scurried as fast as his legs would take him through the lush green filled forest with a struggle.
"Shit!" he yelled out as he stepped on a piece of green moss that instantly gave way under his weight and brought his foot down into the murky swamp water.
"Talk about harsh terrain!" he let out under his breath as a series of bullets went over his head causing him to duck down and blindly fire over his shoulder at the IAA Agents who seemed almost like an endless horde.
While Ivan was trekking through the swamps with the IAA close on his tail Mark on the hand didn't need to hunt for his prey for her found him almost as soon as he approached the downed plane. Stuck high in a tree with his parachute holding him in place Neto hanged unconscious yet fully alive.
Upon seeing the man in such a prone Mark couldn't help but to draw his Rifle and aim it directly at his head, but instead of pulling the trigger he merely lowered his gun and decided to wait. It would be too easy to kill a man like Neto with such ease and no sport.
"I can admit…you're a great warrior and you deserve the defeat of a great warrior." Mark stated with venom in his tone.
Hours Later
The air was silent and everything was still in the KO Club in the 17th Ward as Tasha found herself sitting along at a table with her head down. The effects of the Ruffies wore off the downed BSU members about an hour ago and many of them had come to and seemed to be divided.
There were a number that didn't like being drugged and wanted to fight beside Mark and then there was those that just didn't like being drugged period. Amongst the former was Lee, Jimmy, and the other members of Mark's faction who wanted to stand beside their leader in his battle but instead were left lying here waiting for the return of whoever.
The bubble that Tasha had built around herself though was finally burst though as Julie moved to take a seat across from her with a tired look on her face.
"I like a little weed every now and then but I don't appreciate Mark using a date rape drug on me." She stated causing Tasha to look up at her with an emotionless expression on her face.
"They used to take it off guys who were using it at our parties, I guess he finally found a use for it." Tasha stated while Julie shook her head.
"Still if he wanted to handle this problem on his own he should have said something." She retorted while Tasha nodded her head.
"He knew some of us would be against it so he made them stay here whether they wanted to or not and he did it to everyone else just to make sure they didn't find out." Tasha stated while Julie nodded her head.
"So…what exactly did Ryan say?" Julie asked earning a few seconds of silence from Tasha before she responded.
"To get Mark to agree to the New Arcadia Chapter and an alliance by any means necessary." She replied to the shock of Julie.
"Any means necessary I know he wants to boost the numbers and get better protection, but I didn't think he'd go that far." The Tax Free Female responded before taking a look at Lee and the others. "So by what means are you gonna use to get Mark to agree to it?" she asked.
"He has to come back for me to think of them." Tasha shot back earning a look from Julie.
Before the duo could continue to talk though they were interrupted by a loud shout as both Lee and Jimmy rose to their feet and anger and yelled out, "He's been gone too long we're going after him."
This drew a slight wave of agreeance from many of the BSU members including Pete who each rose to their feet and looked ready to leave. Before they could do so though, the sound of the main door opening seemed to catch everyone off-guard as they each turned their heads and noticed a lone figure standing in place with a man thrown over his shoulder.
"No fucking way." Said a BSU member with spiky blonde hair as he and many others merely stepped back as Mark walked into the club carrying the unconscious body of Neto over his shoulders before tossing him down in middle of the floor in front of Lee, Link, Jimmy, Manfred, Davey, Eddy, Buck, and Robbie who each looked at the Creole with stunned looks on their faces.
"He's got a ruptured appendix, take it out of him…save his life." Mark ordered to the shock of Lee and the others as they watched him slowly walk away towards the bar area with Neto's bloody teal bandanna in his hands. "I said I would make him feel the defeat of a great warrior, and I did…now he's gonna suffer before he dies." He added before everyone watched as he pinned Neto's bandanna with his knife to the right of the all-black bandanna that belonged to Doom, which was to the right of a yellow bandanna with blood stains on it that was worn by Cheetah, and was to the right of a Purple bandanna that was the trademark of Brian.
Mark had finally done it…he'd beaten Neto and he would forever be remembered as just another great warrior whose can be seen on his wall.
"Hail to the King!" Mark let out as he turned to face everyone who merely gave loud cheers and shouts with Lee, Tasha, Pete, and many more running his way and congratulating him.
"Mark we need to talk!" Tasha let out as she approached Mark who was speaking to Link in a low voice.
"Brother…call an ambulance." Was the only words Tasha could make out from the youngest Roman who caught Link and the others by surprise as they watched as a blank expression spread across the face of the Creole before he suddenly collapsed on the ground.
"Mark Mark!" man of them yelled out as they stood over and watched as the IAA Contractor went stiff and started to violently convulse with foam beginning to form in his mouth.
Everything then seemed to go dark for Mark as the scarred and frightened faces of fully took over his vision before everything finally went dark.
No sooner had Mark's eyes shut though someone else's miles away from him had shot open wide.
Authors Note: And fucking finally I'm done with this chapter. I'm really really sorry for the long wait everyone and excuse the typos and missed stuff I didn't have enough time to post this chapter after completing it and I know all of you were tired of waiting.
Before I begin I'm gonna address the elephant in the room, no I didn't show Mark vs. Neto if you want to see that you have to read Onkwehonwe's story Concrete Jungle. He took over the Mark Vs. Neto fight and if you didn't see it I suggest all of you go out and do that. It's by far probably one of the best fight scenes either of us have come up with so far.
With this chapter I wanted to show the aftermath of what happened to Laurie, how they handled it, how it affected them, and exactly how they would respond to it. I figure many of you would be a little sad to see someone so close to Lee go out the way she did, but it will haunt Lee for now and forever since she literally was his first ever love.
Stick around for next chapter as Mark deals with a consequence of his battle with Neto, Alison returns to New Arcadia, Task and the Rifa's move on the Vagos, and a new faction in New Arcadia moves in to control the city.
Thank you all for reading Zilla 2000 out.
