Chapter 50: Lee vs Felix
The Fall of Confetti Avenue
New Arcadia (Three Weeks Later)
The last few weeks had been long and hard for Link as he found himself standing back and watching as Lee rammed his fist into a punching bag that was hanging in a workout area in one of their warehouses in the 17th Ward.
"He's been like that for a few days." Said Ren as she walked up on the blonde haired man who merely nodded his head while continuing to take in the sight of Lee. "I don't think you should let him fight tomorrow." She added while Link shook his head.
"It ain't my decision to make he wants this." Link replied with little emotion in his tone.
"You know I can hear you both right?" Lee asked with venom in his tone as she looked back at the duo who watched him toss down the gloves on his hands and approach them with a serious look on his face.
"I'm just concerned is all." Ren stated while Lee shook his head.
"Don't be, after all of this that happened to me and Jimmy these last couple of days I need to take my anger out on someone I really really want to see bleed." Lee shot back with enough venom in his tone to kill a cobra.
"I know you want your revenge after being locked in that coffin-!" Link started before Lee cut him off.
"No you don't know brother because I wasn't just trapped in a coffin. I was trapped in a coffin with Miller's rotting corpse. I could smell him, touch him, breath him in, but what hurt the most wasn't his rotting remains it was because every time I looked over at his decaying face I kept seeing one of my biggest mistakes in history." He stated with sadness in his tone.
"I couldn't be there to protect either of them, I wasn't there to protect Laurie, or any of the others. And as we sit here mourning all of the brothers we lost over these last couple of months, Felix is out chumming it up with his new friends thinking he's untouchable and that our losses reflect our weakness." Lee shouted with venom in his tone. "Well tomorrow I'm gonna show him that he was and is still the weak link." He added with more venom in his tone before pushing past both Link and Ren who watched him walk away with mixed looks on their faces.
"If only Mark were here to see this." Link said with a hint of concern in his voice.
Sunbelt City
The sound of knocking at the front door seemed to be the first thing that caught the ears of Miguel as he walked towards the door and quickly picked up a Sawn-Off Shotgun before opening it and noticing La Tortura and Casper standing on the otherside with mixed looks on both of their faces.
"You can put the Shotgun down." La Tortura greeted before watching Miguel set the weapon down before stepping aside and allowing the duo inside.
"Can't never be too careful nowadays." He replied with a sick smile.
"This Mark guy must have you on edge, but I don't understand why after we had him on his knees the last time we saw him and his guys in boxes." Casper responded.
"All the more reason for him to just walk into our Varrio with a Grenade Launcher and blow half of us to hell with a Predator Drone giving him air support." Miguel added.
"You guys constantly talk about this guy and his Predator Drones, but have you actually seen him use a Predator Drone?" asked La Tortura.
"Having seen him use it means he'd most likely be using it on us and that's something I really don't want to see." Miguel retorted while the two women looked at Miguel before following him out the back of the home and on the back patio so that they could talk more freely.
"So we still on for tomorrow?" asked La Tortura.
"Si mi Varrio armed up and ready for the attack those Mayateros won't know what hit them until after they're being scooped up." Miguel responded with a chuckle without noticing that his conversation was being listened in on. The Onda member was smart to talk about his attack outside of his home, because of his paranoia of being listened in on, but he failed to know that Mark had left another bug under the floorboards of his backyard patio that was transmitting his entire conversation to a white exterminator's van that was parked just a few blocks away.
"Mark we got the green light you can come back home now." Manfred let out as he sat in the back of the van that was filled with computers and high tech surveillance equipment.
"On it just let me finish up here." Mark replied over his Walkie Talkie while looking down at the Aryan Vanguard member who was tied in a chair with forks wedged deep into his knees, ankles, and shoulders while a blonde haired blue eyed woman stood by watching with tears in her eyes.
"You tell Dallas exactly what you saw here today and remind him that we may not be in Sunbelt, but we're just a stone's throw away." He finished before pulling out his Combat Knife and then plunging it deep into the skull of the man before kicking him off the blade and watching his limp body crumble to the floor.
"Let's go!" Mark let out as he looked to Davey and Eddy who merely followed him out of the room with serious looks on all their faces.
"The Vagos are moving on the Rifa's tomorrow." The Creole stated to the two men's surprise and confusion.
"They picked the right time, Lee's fight with Felix is also tomorrow." Stated Eddy earning a nod from Mark.
"Miguel thinks he's smart for that, but he failed to realize that we dictate how things are done here." Mark finished before pulling out his cellphone and placing a call first to Cheta and the Rifa's than to Metra.
Metra
The sound of blows landed seemed to radiate throughout the backyard of Ernesto as Felix found himself having a quick sparring session with Neto. Over the few weeks he'd had time to train with the man of Quechan descent finally felt as though he could go toe to toe not only with Lee but also with Mark.
He'd taken enough blows to his abdomen to feel like his midsection must now have been made of rock because now he felt like he could take a blow there and not crumble up under all the pressure.
"Come on Vato show me what you got." Yelled out Neto as he threw a sharp kick in the direction of Felix only for the former BSU member to sidestep it and grab the man by the leg and attempt to toss him to the ground only for Neto to counter and throw a punch for the head of Felix that he easily evaded before sending a punching of his own to the side of Neto's gut.
"Ah I guess you did learn something than huh." Neto let out before throwing another punch at Felix that he easily dodged before sending a side kick to the leg of Neto and sending him staggering back.
"ENOUGH!" came a familiar voice that Caused everyone to turn their heads and notice Ernesto standing on the patio in the backyard with a serious look on his face.
"Mark called with a location, we'll be meeting him outside of this town called Centerfield in Central Louisiana." Stated Ernesto.
"Who said he should dictate the battlefield?" asked Neto with venom in his tone.
"No Centerfield is good, it's mostly white people and far away from New Arcadia and Red Stick. BSU has no presence in that area and neither do the New Arcadia gangs. If a bunch of new people were to show up in numbers it will draw a raised eye." Said Felix earning a slight nod from Ernesto.
"Mark says he wants us both to fight on equal footing and without anyone stepping in." Ernesto added with a hint of venom of his own in his tone.
"Alright we'll take his word for it, but don't be surprised if we're gonna be shooting our way out." Neto finished with a hint of venom in his tone as he walked away from Ernesto, Felix, Adahy, and Lady Joker.
"You think Mark would go back on his word after what the two of you did in the Forth Ward?" asked Ernesto.
"Me and him, may have shared a heart to heart but at the end of the day we both know what we want…to see the other dead and we'll go by any means to see it happen." Neto finished before walking off with a hint of anger in his tone.
New Arcadia
"Where are you?" asked Alison as she found herself sitting in her office with a serious look on her face as she found herself talking with a familiar Creole.
"Red Stick, the streets of New Arcadia are still a little too hot." He lied as he found himself riding in the back of the Manfred's van loading bullets into his CM901 Assault Rifle.
"I can imagine, after everything you and Neto did." She replied earning a slight chuckle from Mark.
"No matter how you say it, it still doesn't sound right. You know me and him actually working together." He replied while Alison merely chuckled.
"Maybe it's the start of something, I mean you and him did hate each other this same time last month but the fact that the two of you worked together to do something, although violent, should be a sign that you two can compromise and work together." She stated earning a few seconds of silence from Mark before he responded.
"You can think that, but what we did was just prove the saying the enemy of my enemy goes back to being my enemy when our enemy is dead." Mark finished.
"Just…think about a compromise, hell if the two of you can have a civilized conversation with one another that's some progress." she retorted while Mark merely remained silent.
"Are you still there?" she asked.
"Yeah I'm still here, and I'll put some thought into what you said…or at least try." He finished earning a slight smile from Alison.
"Thank you!" she replied with slight chuckle only for Mark to respond with someone that broke her smile.
"Ali are you-." He started only for her to cut him off.
"I know you're gonna ask me and yes, I still don't have any regrets about what we did that night." She finished earning a nod from Mark.
"Alright I was just-." He started only for Ali to cut him off.
"I know what you're thinking, I maybe with Steve but I still love you Marcus and I don't have any regrets for being with you." She stated with a slight smile. "Ana taught me that, life is too short to be held down fighting what your heart truly wants…and my heart wants you." She added while Mark sat in silence before a slight smile spread across his face.
"I'm glad you feel that way." Mark replied with a slight smile.
"Can I see you…when you get back?" she asked earning a slight chuckle from Mark on the other end of the phone.
"Of course!" he responded before giving her his goodbyes as she hung up the phone just as there was knock at her door causing her to look up and watch as Steve walked in with a slight smile on his face.
"That your dad?" he asked earning a nod and smile from Alison.
She hated lying to him, but telling him that she'd spend the last couple of weeks taking care of her sick father sounded a lot better than her being in Carcer City taking care of an injured IAA Agent after she'd been attacked in her home by a Mexican National.
"Yeah…he's been doing a lot better." She said with a smile.
"I'm glad to here it, I know how much you look up to him." He replied before taking a seat across from her.
"He's one of the reasons I decided to wear a badge." She retorted.
"I'm glad he's okay!" Steve let out as he reached out to put his hand on top of Alison's earning a smile from Alison who moved to share a quick kiss with the man.
"We missed valentine's day together." He let out earning a slight chuckle from Alison.
"I'm sorry, but I know tonight isn't gonna be a makeup day." She replied earning a confused look from Steve and a serious look from her. "Or anytime this week." She added earning a nod from him.
"I understand, I can wait a little longer." He replied before rising up and walking out of the room while Alison merely leaned back in her chair. It wasn't her time of the month, she just said that to get him off her back. In truth she did spend Valentine's day with Mark and it was her time of the month than, the duo didn't have sex but Mark did spend the day with her. He wouldn't let a little blood get in the way of being by her side.
He was loyal like that.
Sunbelt City
The sun had long since set on this as Cheta found herself walking towards her front door in the dark where a loud banging coming from her front door that she had to end. Upon swinging the door open though she was caught by surprise to see a familiar Lakota standing on the otherside.
"What the fuck are you doing here and how did you find my place?" she asked with a sternness in her tone.
"Getting in your hood unseen wasn't too hard, finding where you lived though required a few back alley phone calls." Task stated as Cheta pulled him into her home and closed the door behind them. He couldn't see much of her place since the living room was barely lit and he couldn't make out much of even Cheta in the darkness.
"Why are you here?" she asked.
"You've been lying to me this entire time." He retorted with little emotion in his tone. "All this time I was thinking you had me softening up the Vagos for you but , you were just softening them up and trying to draw out Miguel for Mark." He stated.
"What concern is it of yours if we are just drawing out that Madre de Puta for Mark. At the end of the day it's still Norte vs Scrapa and one less Ondero, even a bullshit one like Miguel, will always be a plus for us." She stated with anger in her tone while Task continued to eye her closely before speaking up.
"You know they will retaliate for what you did and they're gonna be bringing hell with them?" Task asked with a seriousness in his tone.
"And we'll be waiting with a lot worse by our side." She retorted earning a slight chuckle from the Lakota.
"And what if they bring the AV with them because it seems like you weren't ready for that, were you?" he asked.
"We worry about the Ratas, but those Aryan levas won't be around long especially after what they did to Mark's guys. As we speak he's already putting pressure on them." She shot back.
"And what are you gonna do, sit back and let Mark solve all your problems for you or will you retaliate on your own?" Task asked earning a chuckle from Cheta.
"What are you getting at man?" she asked while folding her arms over her chest.
"I'm saying I want in when you hit the AV, I've got problems with those Nazi fuckers and I want to be there when you strike back at them. When you strike back, not Mark." He stated earning a raised brow from Cheta.
"You still want to stick around here with us?" she asked.
"Somebodies gotta watch your back." He replied earning a few seconds of silence from the woman before she finally spoke up.
"Fine, I'll give you a time and a place and we can go from there." She stated earning a nod from Task. "Now get out of my house." She ordered before Task turned to step out the door while taking a look back at Cheta as she stood in the doorway.
He originally couldn't make out what she was wearing because of how dark it was inside, but now under the moonlight he could see her clearly. She was wearing a bright red muscle shirt that showed off her toned stomach where she had a prominent belly button ring showing, she wasn't wearing a bra underneath it so he was also able to make out the imprints of her nipple piercings poking from the shirt, and tattoo of a Sombrero on her arm.
For bottoms she was wearing a pair of low cutoff shorts that showed off a lot of her thighs including a rather large rose tattoo on her right thigh that went all the way up to her waist and down from her pants.
She was a sight to behold underneath the moonlight.
Elsewhere (Hours Later)
The song Halo by Soil blared loudly over a speaker in the dark empty backroom of the BSU clubhouse. It was in this room Mark found himself now with a piece of paper in front of him taking down notes with an M6A2 Assault Rifle resting beside him while he was loading 5.56 rounds into magazines for the weapons.
The day had gone by normally it would before a large battle. Mark and Jimmy had trained a few of the Rifas, Families, and even a few BSU members in weapons that will come useful tomorrow and in the future. Some of them were better shots than he'd expected them to be, a lot better.
They were trained well enough, but they still needed a battle strategy for tomorrow and that's what Mark was doing now. He was known for his ability to strategies and out think his enemies, it was one of his many traits that made him such a success on many battlefields.
Right now he found himself relatively stumped. When it came to strategy he knew his guys like the back of his hand and set them up in groups where they would utilize their strengths and more than likely not get themselves killed or in the way of the real heavy hitters like himself, Lee, or Jimmy but he didn't know much about the Rifas or their ranks. Plus he knew the layout of South West Sunbelt but not well enough to be able to get troops past their defenses. He had to admit the Vagos and Azteca's had some of the best alarm systems when it came down to defending their barrios often having guys tail unknown cars or send signals to other gangsters to prep them for an attack before the attackers even fire off a shot.
It was this defense system he had to break.
"You can come out now." Mark ordered before drawing his M1911 and raising it in the direction of the door. "You got a few seconds before I take you for an enemy and put three inside of you." He added only for the door to swing open and Mark to notice a familiar woman standing on the otherside.
"There won't be a need for that." Brooke retorted entering the room with her hands up and a half-smile on her face as she watched Mark lay the gun on the table and go back to looking at his papers.
"You're supposed to be in New Arcadia where it's safe." Mark pointed out while keeping his gaze away from the girl as she moved to take a stand beside him.
"Yeah, but you know Ren and Link aren't the only ones who can stitch people up and with what you have planned for tomorrow…you're gonna need all the doctors you have at the ready." She stated while Mark gave a low chuckle.
"I'm trying to minimize that now." Mark stated.
"You can try, but you boys always come back hurt whether you like it or not." She stated with a light chuckle while Mark remained silent.
"Have you heard from Tasha?" he asked earning silence from Brooke.
"She's probably still shacking it up with Ryan at the hospital." She replied before a serious expression spread across her face. "Don't tell me you're worrying about her after all she's done to you?" she asked earning silence from Mark before he spoke up.
"I care not about how she feels but I do care if she lives or dies the same as I do for any of you." He retorted while Brooke merely chuckled.
"Loyal til the bitter end, I guess I shouldn't expect no less from you." She replied before moving to take a seat on the table in front of Mark and blocking his view from his paper.
As she stood before him Mark couldn't help but to take in the sight of the woman that stood before him almost completely exposed. She was only wearing a golden night gown that complimented her bronzed sun kissed skin and was slightly see through as he took in the imprint of her black panties underneath the thin silk and her erect nipples slightly poking through the top.
To keep from staring at her body he immediately turned his gaze up to her face where he noticed her looking back down upon him with a slight smile and her prominent pearly white teeth glistening before him.
"She doesn't know does she?" Brooke asked breaking Mark from his trance and causing him to look at her with a raised brow. "Your girlfriend, she doesn't know you're here right now or what you have planned for tomorrow does she?" she added.
"I don't want to worry her." Mark responded while looking away from the girl. "She thinks this war between us and the Azteca's is over and I want her to keep thinking that." He added.
"But you can't let the guy who did this get away with what he's done to us?" she asked earning continued silence from Mark before she moved to press her hand on his shoulder.
"We talked about this." He said with little emotion in his tone.
"I know I just…want you to remember that I'm still here if you need me." She replied with a smile earning a slight smile from Mark before Brooke gave him a quick kiss on the cheek then made her way to the door. "How long do you plan on staying here, you can't stay up all night." She added.
"I'm not, I just need to think a little more." He replied only to back to looking at his papers as she walked out of the room. "Women!" he said under his breath with a hint of annoyance in his tone as he balled up his paper and threw it in the trash can before looking at the trashcan and noticing that it was somewhat full.
"Yeah that'll do just fine." He said with a wicked smile.
Central Louisiana (The Next Day)
The smell of burning Sugar Cane lingered in the air as Felix found himself sitting in the backseat of Ernesto's car with the Onda member, Neto, and Lady Joker as they pulled up in front of a farmhouse in Centerfield, Louisiana.
It was a rather quiet small town the likes of which the group expected when they pictured small town Louisiana. Small one story buildings, a town square, and the biggest buildings being city hall, a church, and a library with nothing but white faces walking around.
"We're here!" said Ernesto as he stopped his car in front of the barn on the farm with Adahy doing the same to his truck behind there, and Cruz doing the same with his own car.
As the groups of Aztecas and Vagos started to step out of their cars they quickly caught the sound of loud rock music coming from inside of the barn.
"Guess the parties about to start." Said Neto with a sick smile as he kicked open the doors to the barn and immediately caused everyone inside to turn their heads and acknowledge their arrival while they took in the faces of the BSU members who each seemed somewhat unfamiliar compared to who they would normally see.
"Well look who finally made it." Came a familiar voice that caused Ernesto and the others to look up and notice Mark standing on the second floor of the barn with Davey, Eddy, Link, Robbie, Buck, Manfred, and Ren. "Our brother's been waiting for you." Mark stated before looking down with Felix following his gaze and watching as the sea of BSU members parted and the sight of a familiar Chinese man sitting on a stack of hay wearing the hood of his jacket over his head and white tape around his wrist filled his eyes.
"Guess we aren't doing no warmups." Said Task.
"No need for warmups, this fight has been long coming." Said Jimmy from his position on the otherside of the rafters. "And we all know the rules no interference from any side and no weapons" He added before looking to Lee. "Not that our brother needs one to finish off the traitor." He again added before looking to Felix as a series of screams, shouts, and jeers came from the other BSU members who stared at Felix who merely shrugged them off before stepping into the circle where Lee was waiting.
Upon catching sight of the man Lee quickly rose to his feet and eyed Felix with hatred in his eyes before taking off his jacket and handing it over to a BSU member.
"Remember what I said, if you lose this I'm gonna fuck you up." Stated Neto before he watched Felix remove his shirt and reveal the healed scar on his back that came from where the New Arcadia BSU members had burned off his tattoos.
"I don't think he'll be worrying about you Neto anytime soon." Jimmy pointed out as the group watched Lee toss down his jacket and t-shirt to reveal his own tattoos including a new Spades tattoo that he had over his heart.
"FIGHT!" Mark screamed out just as a BSU member with a bright green colored mohawk turned on his laptop where the song Bring It by Trapt started to play just as Lee and Neto started to circle each other poised and ready for the other to strike.
As Felix watched Lee he knew exactly what the Chinese man was thinking and plotting. He knew Lee was the type that liked to prolong a fight, he had great stamina and often used that to his advantage and forced his enemies to tire themselves out before he makes even his first move. Felix knew this and he wasn't going to play into this.
To his surprise though, Lee actually made the first move and charged him before moving to throw a punch towards Felix's gut only for the man to move to block it but that's exactly what Lee's wanted as he threw a hard punch to Felix's nose causing him to take a few steps back in pain.
"We fought beside each other for years, we know each other like the back of our hands." Stated Lee with venom in his tone. "Do you really think I'd let you make the first move?" he asked with more anger in his tone as he threw four punches in the direction of Felix who merely dodged them before turning around and throwing a punch to the side of Lee's head and causing the Chinese man to followup with a low spin kick that caught the man of Quechan man in the side of his abdomen
"I guess you never learn." Lee yelled out as he threw another punch for Felix's side that he easily shrugged off before hitting the Chinese man with an elbow strike to nose causing him to take a few steps back in pain.
"That's not going to work anymore." Felix yelled out as he threw a punch for the abdomen of Lee striking him in his own gut and causing Lee to wince in pain before throwing another that the Chinese man expected and managed to trap Felix's right arm under his left before striking him with a headbutt to the mouth only for Felix to respond with a kick to Lee's midsection that took the Chinese man by surprise and caused him to drop down to one knee.
"That's it Felix beat that fucking Chink." Yelled out Cruz as he, Adahy, and a few of the other Vagos and Azteca's cheered on Felix while Ernesto, Neto, and Task kept stern looks on each of their faces.
"I guess we know who's the better one now." Said Felix with a sick smile as he noticed a trick of blood starting to leak from the side of Lee's head.
It had a been a few weeks since his last fight with Neto and he'd healed up rather quickly but that still didn't mean his head wasn't sore from all the punishment it had taken these last couple of months.
Within that moment of seeing Lee down Felix made the next move by sending a sharp kick aimed at the Chinese man's head but Lee merely countered by throwing a punch that caught Felix on the top of his foot. Despite bloodying his hand with the force of his knuckles colliding with the bottom of Felix's shoe, Lee had managed to do some serious damage to the man of Quechan descent as he felt a sharp pain go throughout his leg from his foot to the tip of his toe.
Lee than followed up by grabbing onto Felix's leg and performing a roll like that of an Alligator with enough force needed to take Felix off his feet and send him slamming back first on the ground. It was in that next instance though that Felix saw a blood fist coming for his head as Lee jumped down on top of him and started to pummel into his face.
This drew a smile on the face of Mark and Jimmy while the other BSU members with the exception of Link, Manfred, Ren, and Robbie started to cheer as Lee got the better of Felix and took out as much of his frustration on the man's face.
"Beat that fucking traitor." Yelled out one BSU member as Ernesto sent a look to Mark and noticed him merely fold his arms over his chest.
"Come on Felix, you got length on this motherfucker use it." Neto yelled out bringing Felix back to reality and causing him to move one of his hands for the neck of Lee while the other found its mark striking Lee in the right eye and causing him to fallback off him and allowing him time to get back up on his feet while staggering from his injured foot.
Felix had drawn first blood, but Lee seemed to have drawn the most with his barrage of strikes though much of the blood Lee had drawn was hard to tell as Felix's face was coated with blood leaking from his own forehead on top of the blood that was leaking from Lee's hand.
"That's it keep fighting." Neto ordered before watching as Felix made the first move and charged Lee striking the Chinese man once in the mouth and sending a coating of blood leaking from his mouth and staining the hay on the ground of the barn.
Lee then followed up with an uppercut that caught Felix in the chin and sent his head flying back, but not without recovering and sending an overhead hook to Lee that caught him mostly in the back of the head and caused him to see a few stars as a new scar started to develop in the back of his head.
As Lee was momentarily stunned Felix responded by striking Lee again in the right knee. When it came to the Chinese man he had two weak spots, the back of his head and his right knee. Years ago the Chinese man had gotten his knee broken in a fight with some AV members, and Felix knew that and right now he was trying to exploit it.
After throwing two more strikes to Lee's right knee the Chinese man gave a shout of pain as he felt himself buckle under the weight of his being before biting his lip with enough force to draw blood then responding by jumping up and stomping down on Felix's injured foot causing Felix to give a shout of pain of his own before Lee responded with another uppercut to his chin that closed the Quechan man's mouth and caused him to bite his tongue in the process.
The Chinese man then responded by forcing Felix backwards and causing the crowd of BSU members to scatter as Lee slammed Felix back first into the wall and started to pummel away at his injured side. As expected Felix showed a resistance to the blows at first, but was beginning to give in to the effects of being hit in the same area. He may have been able to toughen up from taking hits in that area, but he wasn't toughing up against broken ribs.
As Lee threw another punch into the ribs of Felix he watched as blood spewed from the man's mouth and landed on his own shoulder before moving to throw another punch only for Felix to side step him and this time force Lee into the corner where he started to throw bloods into the face of the Chinese man and again forcing him to see stars.
The sound of jeers started to come from the BSU members while the South Siders started to cheer on Felix as he started to get the upper hand on Lee and at one point striking Lee in the head so hard that the world around him started to chain colors first to green, then the blue, then purple, and finally red.
"Mark you have to stop this." Ren yelled out as she grabbed the Creole by the arm and merely watched him pull away from her.
"I can't, Lee wants this so he's taking it!" Mark responded as he watched Felix move to throw another punch at Lee only for the Chinese man to duck and Felix's fist to crash into the wall with enough force that an actual crunching sound was heard as he felt a few of his fingers crack but most of his pain though seemed to be coming from his thumb and as he looked down he understood why as he noticed that the fingernail on his thumb was changing colors from an injury behind the nail.
"At first I was just gonna put you in a wheelchair alongside your bitch, but I think I'm just gonna finish you off." Lee declared as he threw a sharp punch to the center of Felix's head causing the man to step back on his injured foot before springing forward and catching Lee this time in the mouth. His punch didn't seem to do much damage other than to cause more blood to leak from the Chinese man's forehead. Lee was moving on pure adrenaline as of this point and was showing that in his merciless attack as he against stomped down on Felix's injured foot and punched him twice in the chest causing him to stagger back.
"FUCK YOU!" Felix screamed out as he jumped up and raked his fingernails across the eyes of Lee momentarily blinding the Chinese man who responded by giving Felix a low dropkick aimed directly at the man's shin.
As both of Lee's feet hit Felix a loud cracking sound filled the ears of the room that even caused both Neto and Mark to wince in disgust as they looked to Felix who quickly crumpled up to the floor in a ball screaming out in pain and agony while clutching his leg as hard as he could. If his shin wasn't fractured it would be a miracle, but from the amount of blood that was leaking from his foot and staining his white socks he would have been lucky.
"I guess Javier ain't playing soccer no time soon." Lee let out with a sick chuckle as he continued to wipe his eyes.
His words didn't go on deaf ears though as Felix struck out with his other leg and caught the Chinese man in the groin causing him to fall over in pain as he clutched his tender area while Felix moved to take advantage only to find it difficult with his leg injury.
Before the duo could reach other though Ernesto sent a look to Mark who whispered something in the ears of Ren who merely nodded her head before walking away and pulling the other girls with her as she left. At first Ernesto thought this was Mark's way of getting the girls out of the barn so they didn't have to watch the fight but his thoughts were then revoked as the doors of the barn came crashing open and men dressed in Sheriff's uniforms came rushing inside with Shotguns trained on all of them.
"GET ON THE GROUND, GET ON THE GROUND!" those words were familiar to the Onda member as everything around him started to slow down and he noticed Mark, Link, Jimmy, Manfred, and a couple of his other BSU members each drop to their stomachs in front of the still downed Lee while the other BSU members started to make a run for it.
His side on the other hand was a lot different, they didn't have a layout of the barn or the fields around them unlike many of the BSU members who were sneaking out of windows and from behind loose boards only to cover them back up to prevent an escape from those on the otherside. They would then duck off into the high sugar cane fields where they knew many of the officers wouldn't follow.
The officers must have had the area surrounded because it didn't take long for them to bring Task back into the barn after he tried to make a run for it and as expected both Neto and Adahy were trying to fight off the officers.
"You point that at me and I'll shove it up your ass Pendejo." He screamed out to a Caucasian Sheriff with a shaved head only for much of the officers to turn their guns on him while the overweight man merely chuckled and said, "You can try!" before striking him once in the gut with the butt of his weapon.
This didn't sit well with Neto who responded by throwing a punch to the face of the officers and knock him to the ground before beginning to strike him several more times in the head.
"Get him off get him off." The officer screamed out as Neto headbutted him once only to fallback as a female officer shot him in the face with pepper spray causing to grab his burning eyes in anger while the officers cuffed him.
Like Neto, Adahy also found himself trying to fight off the Sheriffs only to fall after being hit by a Taser Gun and falling to the ground as a surge of electricity went through his body.
"Alright round them all up." Yelled out a heavy set African American man wearing a Sheriff's uniform with wire frame shades around his shirt collar and a Shotgun in his arms. "I want them all cuffed, booked, and charged put them all in separate wagons." He yelled out with venom in his tone.
"That will not be necessary." said Mark causing the man to turn his head and notice the twisted smile on his face.
"Damn it Marcus!" he yelled out to the confusion of everyone in the room as he grabbed the handcuffed Marcus by the arm and forced him on his feet.
"Longtime no see cousin." Mark retorted with a chuckle before being pulled away by the Sheriff while the other officers kept their eyes on the BSU, Azteca, and Vago members.
"Hey our man there needs medical attention." Yelled Task as he looked to Felix who was still lying in a ball after being handcuffed with his leg elevated in an attempt to relieve the pain.
"Do I look like a doctor?" asked one of the Sheriff's.
"Then call one!" stated Ernesto with venom in his tone.
"Ain't no need for doctors where all of you are going." He retorted with a sick smile while directing his gaze to Neto who merely chuckled at the man.
"Don't worry I think those new scars make you look pretty." He retorted with a chuckle just as Mark returned with the lead Sheriff, noticeably not in handcuffs.
"Cut these one's loose!" he said while pointing to the BSU members.
"Hell no this is bullshit." Yelled out Adahy.
"It's not bullshit!" said Mark as he watched the officers take the handcuffs off his BSU brothers. "I chose a prime location, a spot where none of our sides would interfere with the fight and where the police would more than likely break it up before someone got killed. So you all should be thanking me for that, because a few more seconds and that traitor would be dead." Mark stated with anger in his tone before he looked to Ernesto.
"Don't worry though I didn't just negotiate for ourselves. I negotiated for your side as well, they're gonna let us leave now and they're gonna let you all leave in a few hours. Just to make sure we don't have any altercations on their roadways." He stated before looking to Neto.
"And since me and you are…somewhat on good terms I talked them into not killing and leaving your body in the cane fields after you assaulted one of their officers." He added. "They're still somewhat living in the 60's out here and don't take too kindly when a god fearing tax paying Christian get's touched by a Mexican." He finished.
"Don't expect a thank you." Neto said with venom in his tone.
"I don't do what I do for thank you's I do it because it's right." He finished as they uncuffed all his BSU members who started to make their way out of the barn.
"I'll be seeing you all in a few hours." Stated Mark as he too walked out of the barn but not without sending the group a wave as he moved out with the others.
"Motherfucker!" Cruz yelled out with venom in his tone while Mark merely tossed Lee over his shoulder and proceeded to carry him back to the car.
"Lee's gonna be out for tonight?" asked Buck as he approached Mark.
'More than likely, but we're still a go." Mark stated with a sick smile as he made his way to his car before looking to Link and Manfred. "See to it that he gets' to a hospital." He ordered before sliding into his driver's seat while Ren slid into the passenger seat.
"I doubt this is gonna sit well with your truce." She retorted.
"I just ensured us that none of them will be stepping in to assist Miguel in his defense and when they put the pieces of the puzzle together that all of this is a part of the plan then they'll be more than likely coming for us. I think they'll be more pissed by that then spending a night behind bars." Mark stated as he started up his car. "Besides it's nothing some of them aren't used to and some of them should be getting used to." Mark added before driving off with the other vehicles following behind him.
Downtown New Arcadia
The sun was beginning to set on this day, which seemed to be a blessing because it had been a rather hot morning. After all the rain from these last few days, the humidity seemed to be off the charts and pass the point where it was almost unbearable.
It was this heat that Lady Joker was glad she managed to avoid as she found herself sitting down in an outdoor dining area outside of a local bar that she was unfamiliar with. She wasn't here for the drinks or the light jazz music, she was here because she was to be meeting with someone. Someone she'd never expected to meet anytime in her lifetime.
"Good to see you made it." Came a voice that was becoming somewhat familiar as Lady Joker turned her head and watched a familiar African American woman take a seat across from her with a glass of beer in her hands. "I don't think me and you were properly introduced…I'm Courtney." She said while looking to Lady Joker who mostly remained silent.
"You can drop the tough girl act, I'm not here to speak on behalf of Marcus if that's what you're wondering. I'm here because me and you have a lot in common, a lot more than you think and we can both help each other move past what happened to us if we come together then just letting the men in our lives dictate who we can talk to and speak with." She added while eyeing Lady Joker closely as she remained in silent.
"They call me lady Joker!" she responded after her few seconds of silence while Courtney merely smiled.
"Alright we're getting somewhere." She responded with a slight smile.
Elsewhere
The sound of snoring seemed to fill the ears of Alison as she found herself lying nude in her bed while Steve lay beside her snoring after an afternoon of sex. As she rolled over to look at her clock she quickly noticed that it had only been thirty minutes since there sex had ended, that meant in total the sex had lasted maybe ten minutes and the rest of the time went to him sleeping.
When it came down to it Steve, could still never really satisfy here and she'd hoped that Mark would be able to do so when she saw him later…or so she hoped.
As she moved to rise from the bed she quickly made her way to the bathroom and to the shower where she proceeded to wash herself of her time with the man.
She did love Steve, but she also loved Marcus as well as respected both of them enough to not lie with one man and quickly hop in bed with the other. She felt like a whore for thinking that and in a way she felt more like one every day.
She was torn between two men who she both loved greatly but in different ways. One was stable the other chaotic, one walked the straight path while the other lost track of the path a long time ago, and one was pure while the other was dark. Though one thing was certain about both of them…they both had an undying love for her.
"God help me!" she whispered out.
Sunbelt City
The sun was starting to set on this day as Mark found himself loading a fresh magazine into his M6A1 Assault Rifle. He preferred using his CM901, but knew it was a risk carrying it across stateliness so he decided to stick with the weapons the BSU members had in Sunbelt.
The battle would be taking place in a few hours and he was already ready. He had changed out his normal clothing and was now wearing a red and black long sleeved flannel over his bulletproof vest, black jeans with his M1911 strapped to his right hip, his Combat Knife in its sheath strapped to his back, black gloves, and a few Grenades in a pack on his back.
The goal was to dress like Rifas, the reason for this was because they didn't want the Vagos and Azteca's to piece together that they were in on the attack. This was a silent seek and destroy mission with the target being solely Miguel.
Despite not having his CM901, he did manage to take his M203 Grenade Launcher attachment. He hadn't made the attachment to his Rifle but he did manage to fashion it into a weapon and would be using another one of his Special Grenades soon.
As the sound of the front door to his room opening caught his attention he quickly noticed Thire and Jimmy standing on the otherside both also dressed like Rifas but unlike him showing off a little more skin.
"We're ready!" they both said earning a nod from the youngest Roman.
"Thire you, Tup, and Kitchen will be coming with me but Jimmy you will take Davey, Eddy, Tector. You'll be heading up the main assault group since Lee is still in the hospital." Stated Mark earning a nod from the man.
"Aye brother!" he retorted with a sick smile while clutching his FN FAL Battle Rifle.
"And remember this brothers." Mark started earning all of their attentions. "This a Rifa hit that we're just going along for and all of you are Rifas today, not BSU, with that said keep your face covered at all time and make sure your buddy stays alive and should any of us falls we won't leave you behind." He added earning nods from the group.
"If it's between us and the Rifa's, we always choose us?" asked Tector.
"You're goddamn right!" Mark retorted with venom in his tone as a series of laughs came about from the group of BSU members.
Central Parish Sheriff's Department
It had been maybe two or three hours since the Vago and Azteca members were arrested and now found themselves sitting in various cells in the Sheriff's department while a few officers stood by on guard duty.
"Hey we deserve a fucking phone call." Yelled out Cruz from inside of the cell he shared with Ernesto and Neto while Task and Adahy shared the cell over.
"Why if we're just gonna be releasing you in a few more hours." One of the officers responded from his seated position in a folding chair while a skin magazine was in his hands. "Who could you possibly need to call when you'll see them in a few hours?" he asked.
"How about a fucking lawyer you can't just hold us like this without any charges." Yelled out Adahy with venom in his tone.
"No charges…how about trespassing on private property, assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, and any other fucked up shit I can think of." The officer retorted. "You should feel lucky the Chief said you could go or else all of you wouldn't be making it through the night without a blanket party." He stated with venom in his tone.
"Well I guess crooked people extend into the police force." Said Neto earning a loud banging sound on the bars of his cell door causing him to jump back with Ernesto and Cruz to notice the heavy set African American man standing in front of their cell with a serious look on his face.
"I've been on the force for ten years now and not once I have taken a bribe or turned the other cheek. So I'll be damned if I stand here and allow you to call me crooked." He stated with venom in his tone.
"Yet here you are letting your nephew give you the orders." Retorted Neto with venom of his own.
"I follow orders from nobody, what I'm doing for Mark right now is a favor and I do expect a favor from him in return." He replied before walking away leaving the Azteca and Vago members.
"When will we get word about Felix?" asked Task with concern in his tone.
"After you get out of here and head back to New Arcadia, he was transferred to a hospital there. He had to be air lifted there." He retorted while continuing to walk away from the group.
"Loka isn't gonna like this." Said Cruz with a hint of anger in his tone while Ernesto continued to sit in silence.
He'd been silent throughout much of their imprisonment and everyone could tell he was going over everything that'd happened in the last few hours from being arrested to Felix's fight with Lee. Something was felt wrong about it, like a bigger plan was in place.
Sunbelt City
The sun had finally set on this day and the cover of night had easily blanketed over Southwest Sunbelt and it was this cover of night where Miguel found himself getting his own men ready for battle. He would be leading a retaliatory attack against the Rifa's with the Lady Casper, La Tortura, and the Vagos.
Since he was the Onda member in charge of this region he would be taking over much of the outside affairs between the South Siders and other gangs and he was somewhat happy. It'd been a while a since he'd last killed some Gavachos and was looking forward to doing it again.
As he walked out of his home with a Mossberg 500 in his hands he was quickly greeted by the sight of Lady Casper, La Tortura, three more Vagos, one male, the other female, and a man of Mexican and Salvadoran descent with a shaved head and wearing a white wife beater, khaki pants, and black shoes. This man was an OG amongst the South West gang and was known as the Mountain because of his rather large physique that had him standing at six foot two and towering over many others in the varrio.
"Mountain, glad to see you stepped away from your family." Miguel greeted before slapping hands with the man.
"SI Carnale, anything to fuck up these busters." He replied while La Tortura and Lady Casper each nodded their heads.
"And he ain't the only one that's looking to fuck up some Gavachos." Came another new voice that caused Miguel to turn his head and notice a man of Mexican descent with a shaved head and walking up to them with a rather large breed of dog known as the Bastif.
This man wasn't just a Vago OG known as Spyder, he was also known as Petty Officer Danny Garcia of the United States Coast Guard. It was becoming somewhat common for gangsters to join the military to bring their training back to the streets but Spyder on the other hand joined the Coast Guard for the training and for profit.
He spent much of his time in the Gulf of Mexico, supposed to be patrol and keeping the waters safe from Cartel Smugglers but instead he was allowing them to smuggle their product into New Austin where Vagos would move it. It was this partnership and relationship that had helped the Vagos in the South West not only become on the of the largest gangs in the state but one of the wealthiest as well.
Through him the gang was also able to get high powered weapons by raiding Coast Guard ships. They weren't the army but the Coast Guard was just as well armed anyone could see that from Spyder's three favorite things he'd gotten from the Coast Guard his military grade M4A1 Assault Rifle, P226K Pistol, and his most prized partner his service dog Pound.
Whenever he was on shore leave he was allowed to take Pound with him and because of so the rather large Bastif was practically a Vago now. He'd seen combat with them and had helped many of them. It was these reasons why he was loved in the Varrio and one can see that as both Lady Casper and La Tortura moved to pet the dog.
"When did you come back?" asked Miguel as he eyed the man closely.
"A few days ago Vato, once I heard about the Cohonies the busters were sprouting hitting us up I had to come back." He said earning a nod from Miguel.
"Glad you could join us." Replied El Montana replied with a chuckle.
"We're gonna wipe those Cabron's out of this city once and for-." Lady Casper started before the sound of gunshots ringing out caused her and the others to duck for cover as a bright red Emperor came rolling down the street with faces covered by red bandannas and firing Mini Uzi's out the windows and striking a young Vago in the process before turning a corner and driving off.
"How'd they get into our Varrio without us knowing?" asked La Tortura.
"It doesn't matter, we're not letting them get away." Yelled out Miguel as he moved to climb into his Tornado with the Mountain and two of the other Vagos he didn't know before driving off while Lady Casper and La Tortura yelled at them to come back pick them up while three other vehicles filled with Vagos gave chase after them.
Miguel didn't hear though all he had within him was rage, he would kill these Rifa's for what they'd done just as he would all the others and he didn't need much help to do so.
"Si mon we gotta follow-!" started a Vago in a yellow Bandanna as he moved to head for his car with two more Vagos only to notice an unfamiliar green recycling trash can next to his car with the letters VK spray painted on it.
"What the hell-?" he started before the lid was forcibly opened and Jimmy hopped out with his FN FAL raised and firing off two shots that struck the man in the chest and three more shots that hit another man in head and the last in his back as he tried to run.
"Damn this thing itches!" he said referring to the red bandanna wrapped around his face.
"Motherfucker!" yelled out another Vago as he and five others started to run towards Jimmy without noticing three more recycling bins in the driveways around Jimmy's until there lids were each opened and Thire, Tup, and Billy came out gun blazing unloading on all of the gangsters and leaving them crumbling to the ground.
"Oh no!" said Lady Casper as she looked to Jimmy and the others with mixed looks on their faces.
"Let the siege begin!" said Jimmy with a sick smile as he and the other disguised BSU members moved to take cover behind a series of cars.
"I gotta go-!" yelled a Vago OG as he ran out of his house with his wife clutching their young son in their arms as she tried to bring him back into the house. He didn't get too far though as he light up in a hail of gunfire courtesy of a few green wearing Mexican gangsters with the lead man holding onto a M4A1 Assault Rifle.
"Knock knock!" he said before turning his weapon on the woman and the child before pulling the trigger.
Meanwhile
They must have been in North Sunbelt just a few blocks away from the University as Miguel and the others continued to give chase to the vehicle filled with Rifas as they drove down Confetti Avenue.
"These Cabron's are taking us for a rode." Yelled out El Montana.
"They're trying to take us back to their hood, we're they're more than likely waiting for us so we gotta take them out now." Said Miguel as he watched Lady Casper load a fresh magazine into her Mac-10.
"Then keep steady." She yelled out before climbing out the window and firing a barrage of rounds at the Emperor striking it in the tail bed and blowing out the back windshield causing those inside to duck for cover.
"One more well-placed-!" Mountain started before a loud screeching sound and the sight of high beams blinding them both caught their attention and caused them to look out the window and notice a white truck coming their way and slamming into the side of his car with enough force to send the car flipping on its side before sliding until it hit a street pole and came back right side up.
The sound of screams seemed to be what brought Miguel back to reality as he opened his eyes and realized that he was lying on his stomach on the cold black asphalt that was Confetti Avenue. He figured he must have been thrown from the car after the first roll and upon turning his head he quickly realized that he wasn't the only one as the body of Mountain lay before him coated in blood, caked in dirt, and torn from stomach to midsection to stomach after being dragged a few feet under the car.
The sound a gunshot then caused him to turn his head back to the car and notice a man wearing a red flannel shirt and black ski mask over his head stood over the body of the unknown Vago who'd been shot in the leg before stomping down on the man's throat until blood spewed from his mouth.
"You motherfucker!" yelled out the female Vago as she moved to draw her Pistol but before she could Miguel caught sight of a shimmering object flying in her direction and colliding with her hand. As the girl looked up she quickly noticed that not only was there a knife sticking out of her hand but that the knife had her pinned to the trunk of the car.
As she moved to try and pull the weapon out the sound of footsteps approaching her took her off-guard as she noticed another man standing over her before kicking the handle of the knife and forcing it deeper into the trunk of the car and causing her to scream out again in pain with tears filling her eyes.
Her pain went unnoticed to Mark though as he continued to stand over her with his facial expression hidden behind his mask. She was a rather pretty girl even with the tears staining her makeup and blood coating her clothing.
"Please please!" she whimpered out as Mark grabbed her by the back of her head and slammed her skull against the car with enough force to break her nose and again to split her lip, and again and again, and again until her face was covered in blood and she didn't seem so pretty.
Normally he was never this brutal in battle to a woman, but he recognized this one as being present when Miguel had shot Lee and the others with Sheep's Brains. He didn't know if she had a part to play in Laurie's death, or Whitney, or Shawna, or any of the Tax Free BSU members but it didn't matter. Their deaths was the sole reason this battle was happening. He wanted revenge, BSU wanted revenge, and Lee wanted revenge but wasn't here to take it so Mark would take it for him. He would make Miguel and Vagos bleed and suffer before they died, worse than anyway they'd done before in his lifetime.
Today he will get his revenge in blood and bullets.
"Please-." The girl continued to whimper out through a broken face and missing teeth as Mark continued to eye before grabbing her head and giving it a violent twist until the sound of her neck popping filled his ears and he watched her limp body hit the ground without a movement.
He then turned his head back in the direction of Miguel who was limping as fast as he could away from the youngest Roman and the others just as the cars that were following behind him started to arrive and members of the Vagos started to pile out and begin opening fire on the group.
New Arcadia
The sound of laughter seemed to fill the air around Courtney and Lady Joker as the two women found themselves in the center of deep conversation the topics of which seemed to shift as time went on.
"So stripping pays the bills?" Lady Joker asked with a raised brow.
"Makes better money in a night then selling coke." She replied with a chuckle. "Still it's not a profession I'm entirely too proud of, but it beats getting felt up by some drunken assholes at a diner." She added.
"You make it sound good, but I don't plan to become a stripper…with everything that was done to us I don't see how you can return to it." She retorted while looking away from her.
"I never said I did plan on returning to it." Courtney shot back earning the attention of Lady Joker. "Marcus has given me a manager's position at the club, and almost complete control of how it's run." She added earning a slight nod from Lady Joker.
"Keeps the FIB from running into his shit when he landers money there." She stated.
"Believe it or not but the club is one hundred percent legit." The Southern girl stated earning a roll of the eyes from Lady Joker. The rumor was that Mark's club was legit but she found it hard to believe, the same as everyone else who was told the same.
"It's weird I thought the same thing to, but his words are true. He changed a lot since when I first met him." She stated earning a raised brow from Lady Joker.
"What was he like, when you first met him?" she asked in confusion.
"Intimidating, dangerous, he had already gathered a reputation as being someone you didn't want to make an enemy of. Then one day me and him sit down and had a conversation and everything after that is history." She stated. "He puts on this tough facade but deep down I see his softer side." She added.
"I know someone like that, they're strong as an ox, but it's because they're in a lot of pain and only so few of us know that." Lady Joker replied while looking down into her drink.
"That's why you gotta stick close to him, because only you may be the one to help him." Courtney stated earning a slight smile from Lady Joker. "Maybe we should sit them down together and have talks with them." She added earning a chuckle from Lady Joker.
"I don't think neither would like that!"
North Sunbelt
The sound of hailing gunfire filled the air around Miguel as he found himself running for dear life firing the Mini Uzi that he'd taken off the corpse of Mountain over his shoulder as a group of Rifas, and the BSU members disguised as Rifas, descended on him and the late arriving Vagos.
As Miguel took a second to breath, realization finally hit him. The goal of the Rifa's wasn't to lead him back to their hood for an ambush but instead to isolate him away from the other Vagos and Azteca's in the South West and get him in an area that was far enough away for them to put some distance between them.
It was a trap…just a different location.
"SI MADRE DE PUTA?" yelled out a Vago member with an H&K UMP before he was lit up by several rounds striking him in the chest courtesy of Mark who seemed almost like a Surgeon with his Rifle as he lit up another man with three shots to the back, a Chola with a shot that hit her in the left breast just above her heart, and another man with shots in the leg and up to his head.
"Kill that Cabron first!" yelled out another Vago with a Banana tied around his face as he and three others turned their guns on Mark who merely dived behind a car while Davey, Eddy, and a couple of the Rifa's provided him covering fire as he moved to reload to his Rifle.
"Vamonos!" Mark yelled out to two Rifa's who jumped from behind their cover behind a car and unloaded on one of the Vagos that took aim at the youngest Roman and struck him twice in the face, once in the neck, and four times in the chest.
It was at this moment Miguel knew it was best to call for backup so once he managed to get a perfect place of cover behind a truck, he pulled out his cellphone and placed a call to La Tortura. "I need you, they got me pinned down on Confetti Avenue." He yelled out with realizing there was more gunfire in the background of the phone from their end.
"We got a problem ourselves ese. We got Busters and Trannies invading the barrio." She yelled out to Miguel's shock and surprise.
"The Families?" he asked with a raised brow.
"Those dick riding Mayateros from across the block. I can't talk right now and we can't move either they just keep coming." She yelled out before her phone went out and Miguel screamed her name into his own phone.
"Shit!" he yelled out before tossing his phone to the ground.
"More Busters coming in!" yelled out a Chola with a Desert Eagle and a nose ring as Miguel lifted his head from cover and watched as three bright red cars full of Rifa's started to pull behind the others.
"DAMN IT!" the young Ondero yelled out as he pulled the Mossberg 500 off its strap on his back and unloaded all six Buck Shots into the windshield of the first incoming car and blew the skulls off the driver and passenger coating those in the backseat in their own blood and watching the vehicle collide with a fire hydrant that sent a fountain of water raining down on them including Mark who had to shake off the water drenched his clothing.
"Son of a bitch!" he muttered out before watching Miguel finish reload his Shotgun and firing a single Shotgun round that struck a man in the chest and sent him flying backward before hitting another man in the leg and watching him fall to the ground in pain.
"He's putting up quite the fight." Said Davey as both he and Eddy took cover behind a car as Miguel sent a barrage of rounds from the Mini Uzi before making a run for a white truck that was parked outside of a home while the Vagos layed down covering fire for him.
"Protect the Ondero!" a Cholo with a shaved head yelled out before a bullet split his skull in two courtesy of Mark who tried his best to break past their covering fire but had to take cover in the end behind the same car with Davey and Eddy.
"Gotta give them that they're fierce." Stated Eddy.
"Yeah but we're fiercer." Said Mark as he sent a look across the street where he noticed another his newest acquisition Tector firing an FN FAL Battle Rifle and striking down a Chola with a shot that hit her in the right breast and sent her flying back and crashing onto the hood of a car.
"We're fiercer!" Mark shot back with venom in his tone as he noticed a Vago trying to change position to get a better shot. He didn't get far though as the Creole shot him once in the ankle and again in the side.
Just then the sound of a horn honking caused the group to all turn their heads and notice Miguel sitting in the front seat of the truck he was once using for cover and honking the horn at the other Vagos.
"Get to your cars and get in, we gotta get back to the barrio." He yelled out with anger in his tone as he continued to honk his horn before watching as the other Vagos started make their way to their vehicles.
"No there is no escape." Mark yelled out as he finished reloading another magazine into his Rifle before sending looks to Davey and Eddy. "Aim for the legs, torso's, and tires on the cars Northern Sunbelt will be where these fuckers fall." He ordered earning nods from the BSU members who jumped up with jim from cover and processed to open fire on any fleeing Vago.
The trio shot without caring how many bullets they used, which all together amounted to over ninety rounds since all three had magazines that carried thirty rounds with extra bullets already loaded in their weapons. It was these immense number of bullets that found their marks in the backs, arms, legs, and skulls of the Vagos who tried to run for their cars that were now all sitting on flats after the BSU brothers shot them out with incredible aim.
"Damnit!" said Miguel as he watched the last man fall before driving off with Tector sending the last of his bullets in his direction only to stop as the familiar click of an empty gun caused him to look down at his gun with venom as he watched the truck speed down the street and turn a corner.
"Damn it…we didn't account for him escaping." Said Tector as he sent a look to Mark, Davey, and Eddy.
"Doesn't mean we didn't plan for it." Said Mark as the group noticed a red Emperor moving to pull up alongside them. "Call Cheta, let her know that the target is heading her way and to put pressure on the South West." He ordered before climbing into the vehicle with the others.
Meanwhile
"MADRE DE PUTA!" yelled out La Tortura as she looked down in anger at what was left of her cellphone that had taken a bullet that was surely meant for her head.
"Goddamn phones like a plastic plating on their own." Said Jimmy with venom in his tone as he moved to load another magazine into his Battle Rifle before aiming at the two women as they kept their heads down. "Ain't no hiding from me." Jimmy whispered out as he fired off three shots that blew out the windows of the car the girls were using for cover and raining shards of glass down on the both of them.
"I can wait here all day girls, I'm gonna take your heads off one way or another." Said Jimmy before his eyes darted to the otherside of the road where he noticed a Rifa kick a Vago in the chest as he tried to take cover and knock him to the ground before putting a bullet in his head.
"Fucking Puta!" yelled out a female Vago as a Rifa male grabbed her from behind and tried to wrestle her to the ground only to be stopped by the Chola as she pulled a switch blade from her pocket and stabbed him once in the upper thigh and again in his gut before finally stabbing him in the balls and causing him to let out an ear-piercing shriek of pain.
"Shit that is a tender area." Said Jimmy as he continued to watch the girl fiercely stab the man with no sign of stopping.
"Brother we have a problem." Came a familiar voice that caused Jimmy to lift his head and notice Billy Kitchen standing just a few inches away from him with a serious look on his face as he looked down the street.
As Jimmy followed his gaze he quickly realized just what the man he meant. Just down the street bodies were dropping like flies not Vagos though Rifas and Families and not from a group of Vagos either. Instead they were falling to a single Vago with an M4A1 Assault Rifle and many of those that tried to run didn't get far as a rather large dog chased them down and bit into them until they stopped moving.
"Jesus!" said Jimmy as he watched the dog bite into the neck of one Rifa that gave a blood curdling scream before going silent as the beat crushed his windpipe.
"Combined they've dropped over fifteen of the Families, Seven Rifa, and aren't showing any signs of slowing down." Stated Billy earning silence from Jimmy.
As the Army Cadet stared at the man and his dog his mind couldn't help but to go back to Los Santos where the memories of Lee's head being crushed by the powerful Jaws of Jaws burned into his mind and left him feeling a hint of rage.
"Brother we may need you for this." Tup and Thire both let out bringing Jimmy back to reality as he took in the sight of the three BSU members surrounding him and Pound running behind a Rifa female that was running for her dear life.
"Fucking Mayateros!" Spyder yelled out as he shot down a Family member wearing a green bandana Cholo Style with four bullets to the chest and watching him hit the ground and spin.
"Timber!" Spyder yelled out with a sick chuckle before a bright orange light and powerful wave of heat caused him to turn his head and notice five Rifa's with Molotov Cocktails standing behind him and watching a home they'd thrown the fire bombs into go up in flames.
"Motherfuckers, the people who live there aren't Vagos." He yelled out with rage in his tone.
"But they're from your Barrio." The man in the middle called out as he stepped forward for Spyder to take in the sight of the man. He was rather muscular bald Chicano man wearing a black t-shirt, red shorts, and red shoes. "That makes them no different than you Homie." He yelled back earning a low growl from Spyder.
"I ain't you homie Puta, I'm the guy whose gonna kill you for this." He yelled out with venom in his tone just as Pound moved to take a stand beside him with blood leaking from his fangs as he showed them off to the Rifa's causing a few to step back but not the one in the middle.
"You think your dog scares me, but I ain't worried. All dogs go to heaven, but ratas don't." he yelled out.
"POUND-!" Spyder started before he felt a sharp pain in his back that followed through his chest causing him to look down and notice an exit wound coming out of his chest and blood spewing from the wound and onto the asphalt he was standing on.
"Fuck!" he said as he looked up at the smiling Rifa before turning his head and noticing a masked Rifa standing behind him with his facial expression hidden behind a mask.
The sound of Pound barking seemed to be the only thing Spyder could hear before he looked down and noticed that he was ready to pounce at the man. "NO!" he yelled out before Jimmy squeezed the trigger and fired a single shot that struck the dog in the body and it falling forward with Spyder dropping down on his knees beside him.
"NO, NO, NO!" he called out while gripping his dying comrade while Jimmy merely sent a look to the Rifa's and merely sent them a nod before walking away just as a red Bison pulled up along the street with more Rifa members inside and stepping out with them was Cheta and Felon who were both armed with MP5's.
"We've got the Vagos on the next street running." Said Cheta as she moved to take a stand beside Jimmy. "But Miguel managed to escape Mark and the others." She added while Jimmy shook his head.
"When he comes here, he's in for quite the surprise." Jimmy let out.
"I can see that." Cheta responded as she looked out and took in the sight of a deceased elderly woman who was lying dead in the doorway of her home with three gunshot wounds in her chest.
The next thing she took in the sight of was the fire, much of the neighborhood looked almost like one big bonfire because all the burning cars, homes, and people who were running down the streets with the flames eating away at their flesh, boiling their blood, and melting their eyes right out of their sockets.
The Rifa's were mostly to blame for it, many of them were using Molotov Cocktails and the dry Sunbelt air seemed to help the fires spread across the neighborhood, and it didn't help that Manfred had blocked all phone signals from going out so right now the neighborhood was left without those on the defense favorably on the losing side.,
It was complete anarchy, the BSU members knew there was no love between the Rifas and the Vagos and their hatred for one another rivaled almost all men. Right now, though they got to see first hand what a large scale battle between the two looked like. Bullets were flying but so were fist, knives, Molotov's, and even steel chains and rocks. Whatever they got their hands on they used as weapons.
The grizzly sight of a legless Rifa being pulled away by his comrades was painted into all their minds as he screamed for dear life and the sight of a Vago laying on his back clutching his guts as they pooled into his hands and onto the concrete was another sight. The smell of blood and flames were also strong enough to open all their noses and fill them with a foul stench they were all becoming to used to.
"It's like Los Santos all over again." Tup added earning a shake of the head from Jimmy as the sound of shouts of praise started to come from behind them.
"Nah it just got worse!" the Ginger stated causing everyone to go wide eyed in disgust and shock as they took in the sight of the Rifa's standing next to a car that was rolling down the street. This isn't exactly what caused them to look on in shock, it came from what was on the hood of the car. There sitting in a pool of his own blood was the body of Spyder or what was left of Spyder.
The head of the Seamen was missing from his body along with much of his neck and were replaced with merely a rather long now blood covered wooden stick and at the end of the stick now was the head of his dog Pound.
"Holy fucking shit!" said Thire as he looked to Tup who was trying his hardest not to throw up in his mask at the sight before him. It was something that seemed to have been taken almost out of medieval battlefield with the purpose of intimidation.
It seemed to be working, as many of the Vagos stopped in their tracks to take in the sight and look on in fear and disgust. Despite that though there were still a great few of them that felt something else that was more expected…anger.
"NO!" La Tortura and Lady Casper both yelled out as they jumped from cover with their weapons drawn and began opening fire on the Rifa's nearest the car and striking three of them down while the man who led the vicious maiming ducked for cover and started to run away from the girls as they struck down another two Family members before moving to reload.
"KILL THEM ALL, KILL ALL OF THESE CABRONS!" yelled out La Tortura as she turned her gun on Cheta caused Felon to knock her to the ground while the disguised BSU members also took cover behind cars and anything that would block the oncoming fire of bullets that came from the two women and other Vagos who'd each snapped inside upon seeing the body of Spyder.
"Damnit I think that was the horse that broke the camels back." Yelled out Tup.
"I didn't think they'd do something that fucked up." Said Jimmy as he ducked his head just as a bullet whizzed by him.
"You handed him off to Anibal." Said Cheta with little emotion in her tone. "What did you think was gonna happen?" she added.
"Who?" asked Tup.
"Eduardo Anibal "The Animal" Guerra, he's one of the brutalist men we've ever met." Stated Jimmy. "And that was said by Mark!" Jimmy added earning silence from the duo as they continued to duck their heads as the two women moved to reload.
"Prison will do that to a man!" Felon added as he jumped up and fired a barrage of rounds and caught a Cholo in the chest before falling back down himself as La Tortura caught him once in the arm.
"FUCK!" he yelled out before Thire moved to grab him by the shoulder and pull him back into cover.
"ASS-TAKERS COMING IN!" yelled out another Rifa before he was shot once in the neck just as five teal vehicles came speeding down the street and parking alongside La Tortura, Lady Casper, and the remaining Vagos.
"Damn it!" said Jimmy as he took aim and fired off three shots at the first vehicle and blew out the front windows but not killing any of the Azteca's who were around the vehicle as they ducked for cover before blindly returning fire and striking down three Family members as they tried to run for cover.
Things were soon starting to shift in the favor of the Vagos as several more Rifa's were cutdown, including one man who was kicked into the flames of a burning building and two more car loads of Vagos started to show up with another car full of Azteca's bringing up the rear.
"Talk about shit timing." Yelled out Billy with venom in his tone as he moved to reload while the new arrivals quickly made short work of three more Rifa's striking one man in the neck, a woman in the face, and a final man once in the back of the head as he tried to run.
"You come into our hood and try to take us out, now you fucking Gavachos think you can hide?" yelled out La Tortura as she fired shots over the head of Jimmy and Cheta.
"CALLATE LA BOCA!" Tup yelled out, being Filipino Spanish was almost a second language to him and could speak it almost as fluently as a Mexican only with a few things that could get him caught as being Filipino.
He soon regretted his words though as Lady Casper fired off three shots into the car that actually pierced the metal and sent a bullet slamming into the back of his bulletproof vest and causing him to face plant while screaming out in pain.
"You alright?" asked Jimmy as he watched Thire look at the man with concern.
"I didn't go through, but I think I broke a rib." He yelled back out in pain causing Jimmy to send a look to Thire who merely nodded his head in his direction before blindly firing from cover while Jimmy fired a well-placed shot that missed Lady Casper but struck the Azteca standing closest to her in the head and sending his blood and brain matter spraying on her in a shower of red.
"Motherfucker!" she yelled out causing Jimmy to duck back behind cover just as the sound of a car engine filled their ears and caused them to look around.
"More Vagos?" asked Billy just as a loud explosion caught them all off-guard and caused them to look up and notice that one of the Azteca cars was now a flaming wreckage with four bodies lying next to it with shards of metal in their backs.
"I think that answers that question." Said Felon as he and Cheta looked up and watched as La Tortura, Lady Joker, and the remaining Vagos looked around for their attacker.
Their efforts were useless though as Mark loaded another Grenade into his Launcher and sent looks to Tector, Davey, Eddy, and the other Rifa's behind him before jumping from behind a house that was directly behind the Vagos and Azteca's, and firing the Grenade into a vehicle a couple of Vagos were using as their own cover and taking them out before whistling to the others to jump from cover and unload on their enemies before they knew what was happening.
His strategy seemed to be paying off as Tector fired off four shots that struck one Vago in the back another in the side while Davey and Eddy combined their fire and took out four more Azteca's who barely had time to register they were being hit from behind.
"PINCER MOVE, CLEAR UM OUT!" Jimmy yelled out as he, the other BSU members, and the remaining Rifa and Families lifted their guns and started to open fire on the Vagos and Azteca's from the otherside.
"They're trying to box us in!" yelled out La Tortura.
When it came to Mark's school of training and gunfighting he didn't like to give many BSU members much training. Essentially, they were just the supporting cast who only needed to provide covering fire for guys like him, Lee, and Jimmy to make the kill. But if there was one thing he made sure to teach them was how to pick, setup, and execute an effective Pincer Maneuver.
As both sides fired on both of the flanks of the Vagos and Azteca's they quickly watched as more and more of them started to fall to the ground in pools of their own blood with a few being hit from both the front and the back.
"And stay down!" said Mark as he fired a single shot from his Rifle that struck a Vago next to La Tortura once in the shoulder and sent him flying back while looking at his arm that had almost been severed from his body.
The Creole then started to push up along with a few of the others while La Tortura and Lady Casper tried their best to hold off their attackers on both sides, but didn't seem to be making any progress. "AH!" La Tortura screamed out as she felt a sharp pain in her arm looked down to realize that she'd been struck once in the arm by Cheta who continued to unload her gun at the girl even as she was pulled to cover by Lady Casper.
"You alright?" she asked earning a slight pain filled nod from the girl.
"These fucking Gavachos are gonna pay for this." She yelled out with venom in her tone.
"One more push!" yelled Jimmy as he watched as he cut down a Vago that was firing a Desert Eagle in the chest before turning his gun on another man who was running at him and striking him in the center of the nose.
"This is your end." Mark whispered under his breath as a Rifa standing next to him had his entire chest blown open by a well-placed shot from La Tortura.
Before his Pincer Manuever could clamp down on the remaining Vagos and Azteca's the sound of a loud crashing sound followed by a series of screamed caused them all to turn their heads and notice a familiar white truck plowing into a few Rifa's on Jimmy's side and sending them flying in every direction.
"Move!" Jimmy yelled out as he and the others moved out the path of the motor vehicle as a Family member was hit with enough force that his body exploded in a splatter of blood on the hood of the vehicle.
"Shoot that motherfucker!" Cheta yelled out as she and the others Azteca's turned their weapons on their vehicle, only for Miguel to lower his head. He'd used a trick from Neto and covered the windshield of the truck with bulletproof vest he'd gotten when he went back to his house and it seemed to be working for the moment but not for long.
"About time you showed your face!" Mark whispered out before firing five well placed shots that struck the driver side wheel of the car, blowing out the tire and leaving only the rim to skid across the street with a trail of orange flames following behind it.
With his war machine being taken out of the fight Miguel quickly pulled down a Vest and tossed a Grenade out the window where it landed just a few feet away from Marcus who started to run away just as the device went off and sent him flying back with a ringing in his ears.
Seeing this as an opportunity Miguel quickly vaulted from the driver side of the truck with an M16A2 he pulled off a dead Rifa raised and fired off three shots that hit one man in the chest and put a rather large hole in his head where his left eye used to be.
"You busters are gonna die for this shit." He screamed out as loud as his lungs could carry before shooting down another Rifa with a shot to the side and once in the arm.
"Kill the fucking Ondero!" yelled out a La Tres Family Gangster as he turned his gun on Miguel only to be struck once in the left breast by the Ondero who quickly pulled the pin of another Grenade before tossing it in the direction of the green rag wearing gangsters.
The explosion was deafening and forced Jimmy and all the remaining BSU members into cover while four Family members were caught in the explosion and sent flying in different directions, just as Miguel went pull the pin of another one though he was caught off-guard by a loud screaming sound coming from behind that caused him to turn his head and notice the same Rifa from earlier charging him with his Rifle ready.
"Damn!" Miguel started only to go silent as Mark kicked his Rifle out of his hands just as he tried to raise before striking him once in the chest with the butt of his own Rifle causing Miguel to let out a loud coughing sound before cold cocking the youngest Roman over the side of the head and knocking his own Rifle away from him.
"Mark's got this guy let's work on clearing out the remaining Vagos!" yelled out Jimmy as he and the other BSU members turned their guns back on the Vagos and Azteca's again resulting in a standstill gunfight between the two sides in the middle of the street while Mark engaged Miguel up close and personal.
"Fucking Puta!" he yelled out before throwing two more punches aimed at Mark's head only to be blocked by him using his forearms to shield his head. Then as Miguel tried to pull his arms back in recoil Mark hit him with a palm thrust to the center of his throat causing Miguel to couch out in pain before being kicked once in the gut by the youngest Roman who knocked him to the ground.
As Miguel then moved to draw a Pistol from his pants he was stopped as Mark gave him a sharp kick to the center of his face and caused him to let out a loud gasp of air as he felt blood starting to trickle down his face.
"This is the end!" the youngest Roman started as he grabbed Miguel by the collar of his shirt and struck him once in the face with enough force to knock him back down to the ground. As he started to rise up again a cold smile spread across the face of Mark as he gave Miguel a sharp kick to the back of the leg and watched him fall back down on his knees.
He'd promised Lee that if took down Miguel he'd bring him back to him alive so that he could make the final kill. He would keep his promise but that didn't mean he wasn't gonna take his own revenge before delivering him to his brother. With that though Mark gave a sharp kick to the side of Miguel's head that completely knocked him out and causd him
As Mark went to draw his knife though he like everyone else was caught off-guard by a loud whistling sound that forced them to stop in place and turn their heads to notice a projectile flying directly for Jimmy's group before slamming into the ground before him. He thrown back by the force of the explosion along with Thire, Tup, Cheta, and Felon but they got the least of the damage as one Rifa had his entire head removed from his shoulder while another was trying to crawl away with no legs.
"RPG!" Mark yelled out at the top of his lungs just as another Rocket was launched this time at Tector, Davey, and Eddy who had to duck for cover just as the Rocket exploded and killed six people in its path of destruction.
"There!" yelled out a Rifa as he and three others turned their guns on a Caucasian man in a brown jacket under a white t-shirt, blue jean pants, and boots as he darted across the rooftops of a home with an RPG in his hands.
"The Fucking Russian!" Mark whispered under his breath with a hint of anger and surprise in his voice as he watched Ivan drop the empty RPG and pull an AK-47 Assault Rifle off his back and fire a barrage of rounds in the direction of a five Rifa's and cut them all down in a hail of gunfire with nobody knowing what bullet actually hit them first.
The Russian man then turned his gun on another man striking him once in the chest before shooting a Rifa female once in the neck and causing her to stop in her tracks before collapsing to the ground in a bloody heap.
"Where did he come from?" asked Cheta.
"Los Santos!" Jimmy responded with venom in his tone. In terms of preparing for everyone outcome the BSU members tried to do just that. They'd accounted for Ernesto, Neto, and the others getting out of jail and coming to the rescue, they accounted for Joaquin being in the city, but they never accounted for Ivan stepping, and none of them had a plan for it.
As Mark watched him cut down another man with a well-placed shot to the head his mind couldn't help but to replay the words of Ana in his mind about Ivan. She made him promise and swear to never engage the man in combat, he was too much for Mark to handle. As he watched the Boogey Man cut through another group of Rifas and turn his guns on Jimmy and the others Mark could help but to grit his teeth in anger.
"Next time!" Mark whispered under his breath as he looked at the downed Miguel before punching him in the back of the head as hard as he could before watching his limp body hit the ground with a thud before turning his eyes back to Ivan who'd just dropped another six Rifa's and were now turning his guns on the BSU members.
"Talk about an unknown variable." Yelled out Tup as he continued to grab his ribs while Jimmy blindly fired from cover as Ivan drew closer towards him and forced him to get as low as he could behind the car.
Before Ivan could go in and take the final shot though he was interrupted by a series of bullets bouncing off the ground near his feet causing him to jump back and notice a masked man in Rifa colors aiming a Rifle at him to which he responded by aiming his AK in his direction. The duo then started to walk around each other in a circle with their weapons and eyes trained on the other who didn't seem to fault or falter at the weapon aimed at the face or the man in front of them.
BOOM
The sound of both guns going off at the same time seemed to be what caught everyone by surprise as both Mark and Ivan felt a sharp pain in their cheeks as the bullets whizzed by their heads with enough speed and heat to burn the flesh on their faces.
Before they could even feel the blood drop from their cheeks the duo were on the move, running in the opposite direction firing off a barrage of rounds at one another until they finally reached cover behind two separate cars and started to laydown fire on one another.
It started out with one magazine, then two, and finally to three for their main Rifles before Ivan loaded his last magazine into his Rifle and went to fire on Mark's location only to be taken aback as he noticed a Grenade rolling across the ground in front of him.
"SHIT!" he yelled out before running off just as the Grenade went up in a violent blast that literally tore asphalt from the ground and sent it flying in the air behind Ivan who was knocked on his shoulder before looking down at his AK-47 and noticing that it had been damaged in the explosion. ;
"Stay Down!" Mark yelled out as he threw a hard punch to the side of Ivan's head catching him off-guard and slightly knocking him back down.
In truth Mark didn't feel all that comfortable taking Ivan on in a close range fight, but he didn't have much of a choice. He'd ran through his last magazine for his Rifle and only had his M1911 but he didn't want to waste the little ammo he had for it just yet when he could always catch Ivan off-guard.
As he went to throw another punch though Ivan quickly caught it with his right hand and threw a hard punch of his own to Mark's abdomen and causing him to spit up a large amount of saliva into the mask he was wearing. Taking the moment to try and pull away from the man Mark yanked back, but Ivan sent a sharp palm strike to his right knee before punching him in the chest and allowing him to take a few steps back while he got back onto his own feet.
Mark then responded by charging the Russian man and attempting to shoulder tackle him off his feet, but only managed to move him just a few inches before Ivan rightened himself and started to elbow Mark repeatedly in the center of his back and in the back of his head until he finally fell down on one knee.
Just when Ivan went to throw another blow to the back of his head though Mark responded by breaking free of the arm Ivan had around his neck and forcing his sore head upward catching Ivan under the chin and sending him staggering backwards licking his lips as the taste of blood filled his mouth.
Ana had warned Mark that the man known as Baba Yaga, about how he was a deadly KGB Agent, about how he'd killed anyone who came after him, about how he's a man that keeps Devlin up at night, and how he's one of the most experienced combat fighters in the world. Those words seemed to be haunting Mark now though as he found himself barely being able to stand with blood leaking from both the back of his forehead and his mouth courtesy of Ivan who he'd barely managed to put a scratch on.
"That the best you can do?" Ivan asked while drawing a knife from his jacket pocket as Mark continued to eye him with a sudden urgency in his eyes. "If not then I'll end you!" Ivan shouted before charging Mark who managed to sidestep a thrust from the blade before responding by grabbing the arm Ivan was using to keep a hold of the blade and swinging his arm to hit Ivan once in the face with his forearm before responding with a headbutt.
"Fucker!" he yelled out before thrusting again and catching a piece of the skin on Mark's arm causing him to let out a loud shriek of pain before poking Ivan in the right eye causing him to let out a shriek of his own as he moved to clutch his eye only before being struck once in the face by Mark who put all of his strength in the blow and causing Ivan to take a few steps back.
Mark then responded by throwing another punch that caught the man again in the nose and caused it to spew blood from the force of the hit along with his lip after they'd collided with his teeth. Mark then threw another punch that caused Ivan to move backwards again before hitting his back against the side of a car.
After taking in the sight of his own sore bloody knuckles Mark decided to end his assault by jumping up and hitting the Boogeyman with a double dropkick to the chest with enough force that Ivan was sent backwards over the hood of the car and landed flat on his back while Mark staggered as he stood in a haze.
"That wasn't so bad!" he whispered under his breath before a loud battle cry filled his ears and caused him to look up as Ivan jumped over the hood of the car and knocked him to the ground before stabbing him once in the left arm with the blade causing Mark to let out another loud shriek of pain as he felt Ivan pull the cold metal out of his body before stabbing him again this time in the right hand in order to keep it pinned to the ground for him to throw punches into the face of the youngest Roman who tried his hardest to reach for a small piece of asphalt that was resting near his left side.
"Let see whose behind this mask." Said Ivan as he grabbed the bottom of Mark's mask and started to pull it off and revealing his somewhat dark brownish skin tone.
As Ivan managed to pull it over his mouth though Mark responded by biting down on Ivan's hand with enough force to draw blood and cause Ivan to scream out before being taken off-guard as Mark struck him over the head with the piece of asphalt and knocking him to the ground in a haze before Mark drew his knife and crawled on top of him.
"YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH A KNIFE!" Mark yelled out as he moved to stab Ivan only for the Russian man to try and stop the blade from entering his chest. This didn't stop Mark though as he continued to push on and Ivan knew it wouldn't be long before his blade struck him so he decided to make a tough decision.
He let Mark stab him.
Not in the chest as Mark had intended instead in the shoulder and not to bad as he quickly headbutted Mark with enough force to send him staggering backwards before trying to crawl back onto his feet while Ivan rose to his feet, pulled Mark's blade out of his body, and stood over him with the intent to stab Mark only to be taken aback as he felt a sharp pain in his chest that caused him to look down and notice that he'd been shot three times in the chest but luckily for him none of them managed to break through his vest.
"What the-!" he started only to be stopped as a cloud of red smoke engulfed the battlefield and caused him to cover his eyes before looking to Mark and watching him be engulfed in the smoke before he felt a sharp pain against the back of his head that caused him to turn his head and notice a Chinese woman standing behind him with a night stick in her hands before she struck him over the back of the head with it and successfully knocked him out.
Elsewhere
The sound of metal cells opening seemed to be what caught Ernesto's attention as he lifted his head and noticed the uncle of Mark standing by the cell door with three other officers each with their Pistols drawn and trained on him.
"You're all free to go, but if even one of you do something stupid neither of you will be leaving this town with intact." He stated earning silence from Ernesto who merely rose to his feet with Cruz, Task, and Adahy who each turned their heads in the direction of Neto knowing he was the hothead of the group.
Surprisingly though the man of Mayan descent did as he was told and stepped out of his cell without making even a threat against the officers but did stare them each down with a look that could stop a mother bear from protecting her cubs.
"Good, you'll find your cars outside your friends at the hospital next town over if you want to go see him." He stated.
"Just know that I'm only leaving quietly because I want to see him and if it wasn't for that you'd be a stain on the floor right now." Neto stated earning a look from the Roman before he merely chuckled.
"You're gonna keep talking even after someone puts a bullet in your heads, you seem too much like that type." He stated before eyeing Neto angrily.
"Glad a Mayate knows that." He bit back with venom in his tone before the man ordered them out of the station and slammed the door shut behind them as they walked out and noticed that the sun was starting to rise.
"Talk about gone by first light." Stated Task as he shielded his eyes from the lights of the sun for a few seconds.
"Mark's gonna burn for this, we lost an entire day because of him and there's no telling what all he's done while we were locked up." Stated Cruz as he sent a look to Ernesto who merely looked at him with an emotionless expression before speaking out.
"If you're that worried about what might have happened in New Arcadia then go and see for yourself, but I'm going to go check on Felix." Ernesto shot back with venom of his own. In truth he was worried about what Mark might have done while he was locked up but he also had a trust that the youngest Roman wouldn't attack his barrio while he was away. He had some form of honor to him.
"If any of you want to join me then get in because I'm only given one ride." He added before making his way to his car while all the other South Siders followed behind him as he moved on before his cellphone started to ring from a familiar number in Sunbelt.
Southwest Sunbelt City
The sight of a fan spinning overhead seemed to be what drew Miguel back to reality as he opened his eyes and realized that he was back in his bedroom with his ceiling fan spinning just over his head in a manner that made him think of a pin wheel.
As he tried to move though he immediately felt a sharp pain in his side and right arm before looking down and noticing that both of them were heavily bandaged up almost like he was wearing a cast.
"PINCHE CABRON!" he yelled out with rage in his tone as he struggled to rise before the sound of the door opening caused him to turn his head and notice a familiar female walking inside.
"You shouldn't move around too much if you don't want to hurt yourself more." La Tortura stated with a hint of concern in her tone as Miguel continued to struggle to stand on his feet.
"The Rifas, what happened?" he asked with venom in his tone as he rubbed his head.
"We took a lot of losses today jefe, we wouldn't have got out alive if the Jura's hadn't come and the Rifa's retreated." She replied.
"Lady Casper, Spyder, La Montana what happened to all of them?" he asked with concern of his own in his tone.
"Casper is in the next room resting, but Spyder and La Montana are dead." She stated to the surprise of Miguel. In truth he'd seen La Montana fall, but his memory of a bit fuzzy but the news of Spyder was a shock to him.
"How many more did we lose." He asked.
"Confetti Avenue Clique is gone." She stated causing Miguel to again look at her with wide eyes.
"The entire Cliqua?" he asked
"Me, Lady Casper, and a few others are the only ones left and the street itself is also mostly gone. They burned down much of the houses on that one street and firefighters came too late to put out the flames. So many people are either dead or homeless." She stated earning a low growl from Miguel.
"We're the biggest gang in all of Sunbelt City." She started again earning the attention of Miguel. "In the past other gangs have tried to wipe us out and we rolled over them without feeling any real losses…until last night. Confetti was our largest Cliqua and one of the oldest barrios in the city and now its gone because of some Gavachos!" she stated with venom in her tone.
"We'll get them back for this, and those Mayateros, and anyone else who was involved." Miguel declared with more venom in his tone.
"We should be thanking Neto as well." She added earning the attention of the Ondero.
"One of his friends from Los Santos is the reason a lot of us are alive right now. They showed up and took out much of the Rifas and Families." She stated.
"Are they still around?" he asked with a raised brow.
"He didn't stick around after the Juras showed up but I'm pretty sure he's still out there." She stated while Miguel continued to growl out in anger.
"I want to be alone." He said earning a nod from La Tortura before she walked out, closed the door, and immediately recoil as she heard Miguel curse everyone and everything in the existence.
Elsewhere
"Son of a bitch!" Mark yelled out as he found himself finally waking up after being unconscious for hours and immediately felt the pain that had plagued him the night before come back to take him again in full force.
It felt as though he'd broke a rib or at least cracked them as he looked down at his abdomen and noticed that the bandages that had been wrapped around his torso tightly and in a knot.
"Don't move too much brother." Said Link as he walked into the room with Jimmy and Ren by his side where they noticed Mark trying to move around.
"You didn't get banged up too bad but if you move around too much you just might." The blonde-haired man stated as Mark continued to clutch his side.
"What happened, did we win?" Mark asked.
"Yes and no!" Link stated. "Strategically we won, but tactically we lost." He added.
"What's the difference?" asked Ren with a raised brow.
"Strategic victories are the famous victories, where one side secures a victory that helps them in the long run. Tactical Victories are victories where the completion of a sole objective is met." Stated Jimmy. "There is also Decisive Victory where one side finishes something and then can move on to another and Pyrrhic Victory, where the victors losses so much that the heavy toll on him outweighs his true victory." Jimmy stated.
"We lost Tactical because Miguel is still alive, that I understand, but how did we win strategically?" Mark asked.
"We wiped out the South West's Vagos largest Clique and the Azteca's took a few losses as well." Stated Link. "The bad news is the Rifa's and La Tres Families took it too far and burned down much of the neighborhood along with the clique. Many people are homeless and you can imagine how this is sitting with the media." Jimmy state.
"In a state that borders the Mexican Border and is a prime hub for illegal immigration and drugs, I figure things are going well." Mark retorted with a chuckle.
"It's an election year and those running for governor are really eating this shit up." Link shot back. "They're comparing it to what we did in Los Santos." He added.
"So the police are on the Rifa's, we figured that would happen." He added.
"Word has already spread outside of the prisons as well, it's kill on sight to anyone in red and working with the Rifa." Jimmy added.
"They also took more losses then we anticipated when that Russian showed up." Proclaimed Link.
"Baba Yaga, I know him and Neto are tight but I didn't think he was still down south or hiding out in the South West." Mark retorted.
"Lucky for us, we didn't lose anyone or our mask so I doubt they can trace everything back to us." Link added earning a nod from Mark.
"Explain to me this though, how the hell did I get here?" the Creole asked with a raised brow. "I doubt you got pass that Russian prick even if he was distracted by me." He added.
"Well…you see-!" Link started before trailing off and looking out the door of the room where Mark noticed a familiar red wearing Chinese woman standing in the doorway with a disappointed look on her face before walking away.
"I guess she remembers you breaking your promise." Stated Link while Mark silently cursed himself under his breath.
Authors Note: I'm Back and not dead like some of you probably though. Sorry for the long update, I just started back working, my laptop updated and deleted all my files including this chapter which I already had mostly done, and all the chapters for all my old stories and stories I was in the progress of writing. Yes this thing is a bitch and I hate it.
I honestly wish I had updated after I posted this story because this chapter right here was really rushed. The fight between Felix and Lee was rushed, Mark and Ivan, and the battle in Sunbelt were all rushed and didn't have as much detail to it as it previously did because I either couldn't remember what I had written about or didn't feel like writing again.
I can say this though that fight between Mark and Ivan was short, but in the previous version of this chapter it was a lot longer and there was a point where Ivan unmasked Mark, Ana stepped in and got beat, and Marco, Charlie, and Tully all stepped in to save them.
Me and Onkwehonwe often debate who would truly win in a fight between Mark and Ivan same with Mark, Lee, Jimmy and many of the other characters in his story and in my opinion and we've had great debates on it but in a fight between Mark and Ivan the winner would most likely be Ivan in a straight fight. Sure he's older then Mark but he's more experienced in hand to hand combat and this is something I constantly stress but Mark is a genius on a battlefield who out thinks his enemies and has enough training to keep everyone safe but one of the things he often preaches is fighting as a team.
Over the years Mark has shown that he can fight on his own but in a fight against a really seasoned opponent he mostly needs someone watching his back. Even with the fight with Neto he won but mostly after trying to feed him to an alligator.
The fight between Lee and Felix in my opinion though brutal wasn't as brutal as I had it the first time and the duo fought a lot harder and actually attempted to kill each other. Mark's Cousin the Sheriff did break up the fight but not after the duo had done significant damage to each other. The reason I didn't want to repeat as much damage as I did in this new instance is because I don't want Lee too injured for the next couple of chapters because I'm accelerating the pace of my writing and am going into something big.
So expect the next couple of chapters to be pretty fast paced and I'll try to get them out sooner but again no promises.
Thank you all for reading have a good night Zilla 2000 out.
