Chapter 55: This Means War
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The sound of shuffling footsteps seemed to fill the air in a dimly lit room as an elderly Caucasian man with silver hair found himself sitting at the head of the table looking to a much younger man sitting at the table across from him with dark brown hair, a set of glasses, and wearing an all-white suit.
"Thank you for meeting with us Mr. Percival." He said earning a nod from the man. "I trust you know what we're here for?" he asked while the man nodded his head.
After a few moments of deliberation, the dark haired man found himself walking out the room with a smile before approaching a group of twelve figures who were hidden in the shadows.
"Well I guess it's time for us to get to work." He said with a smile and earning smiles from all of them.
New Arcadia (One Week Later)
The song Borderline by Veer Union filled the ears of five BSU members as they found themselves sitting in the back office of a BSU owned Comic Book Store in the 7th Ward. With the market for drugs starting to dry up in the city after the fall of the BGA, Mark was successfully able to get many of the gangs across the city to fall under his family as their new lead supplier. In exchange for this and a cheaper price for the drugs all Mark asked in return was for a piece of territory within each ward where BSU members could conduct business.
It was through this and number of city permits that BSU now owned comic book shops, shoe stores, music shops, a candy store, arcades, and a movie rental store. These businesses were owned by members of BSU operated by members of BSU and used as fronts for laundering money, hiding weapons, and other illegal purpose.
This particular comic book store was used as a place where BSU members sold cartons of cigarettes stolen from the backs of trucks. The gang was anti-drug but Mark didn't disapprove of selling things like liquor or tobacco and even didn't disapprove of his members doing them just nothing hard and never around the Straight Edge Members.
It was this lenient layed back practices that caused him and the others to see spikes in their membership of BSU members from the Sunbelt Chapters jumping ship to join his faction and he was truly enjoying the spoils of war.
As the group of five found themselves counting the money they earned for the day, the sound of the back door being kicked open caused them each to turn their heads and notice three masked men rush inside carrying Pistols and Shotguns.
"Hand all that shit over son." The lead man with the Shotgun yelled out causing all the BSU members to shake their heads before remembering Mark's protocol on robbery.
Do as they're told, hand over the money, and don't fight back unless provoked to do so and if they do fight back just try and escape with their lives. Right now they each chose not to fight back and quickly handed the gunmen the money before watching them leave the building laughing.
"Motherfuckers won't be laughing for long." Said one of the BSU members as he pulled out his cellphone.
Meanwhile
As the BSU members as the comic book store sent out their phone call Jimmy found himself pulling a black mask over his face with both Davey and Eddy who were sitting in the back seat of a stolen Silver Sadler and holding onto their G36C with mixed expressions.
"You guys ready?" Buck asked from his position in the driver's seat earning nods from the duo and Jimmy who was sitting in the tail of the truck cocking Lee's Tactical Mossberg 500.
The young BSU member then with wide eyes as a large truck speed past them going well over forty-five miles per hour. After getting the word from Jimmy the youngest BSU member quickly gave chase after the vehicle and managed to pull up alongside of it causing the driver to look out the side window and take in the sight of the masked man sitting in the back of the truck armed with a Shotgun.
"Merging!" Buck yelled out as he finally managed to get in front of the truck and watched Jimmy rose up and aimed the Shotgun at the grill of the truck before firing a single shot that managed to hit the engine and send it sputtering before coming to an abrupt halt behind the vehicle.
"Shit don't hurt me!" the driver yelled out after Jimmy hopped out of the truck and quickly pulled him out put him stomach first on the ground while Davey and Eddy went to the back of the truck and started pulling boxes out and began setting them in the back of the Sadler.
"Don't worry we're not gonna hurt you we just need to fill an order." Jimmy replied as he watched the group finish loading up the back of the truck before reaching into his back pocket, pulling out three hundred dollars, and dropping it in front of the man.
"For your trouble!" he said before moving to hop back into the car with the BSU members and drive away from the scene while the driver looked on with mixed expressions on all their faces.
After a few minutes of driving though the group finally arrived back at Mark's club in the 17th Ward and were now watching as BSU members rushed out of the club and quickly started moving the boxes into the building.
While doing so the group of four quickly moved past Courtney who was standing back with a clipboard writing something down. "Don't need to check we're more the past our order." Jimmy replied as he tossed a BSU member the keys and watched as he hopped in the truck and drove off with it.
"I find it weird you guys have gone from stealing drugs to stealing beer." The Robust African American woman said before watching the four men take seats at the bar and be handed glasses of Ginger Ale from the blonde-haired bar-tender behind the cabinet.
"Mark ain't here and Lee's busy, so that puts me in charge while they're away and the prices of this beer have went up almost triple since the factory bombings." Jimmy replied with a smile. "And I refuse to pay an arm and leg for something I don't even drink." the redheaded man finished before moving to down his Ginger Ale.
This drew a laugh from Courtney who found herself growing more and more close to the group. "I don't know who cheaper you or Mark." She replied.
"I don't give a damn, Lee always called me Jimmy the Irish-Jew!" he shot back with a chuckle. "My dad was drunk and I'm not so I might as well be frugal." He added with a laugh.
Before the duo could talk more on the matter though they were interrupted as both Link and Ren approached the man with mixed looks on their faces. "And here comes the two people who always bring the best of news to me." Jimmy added with a chuckle.
"And we come to bring more good news." Link said with a smile.
"Alright lay it on me." He said with a laugh.
"The Comic Shop in the 7th Ward was hit an hour ago by some jackers. Guys didn't get a look at their faces but we know they're black and one of them had seven tattooed on his arm." Ren stated while Link chuckled.
"7th Ward Gangster Killa's, they'd be the first people to look for." Said Courtney earning a nod from Jimmy.
"Alright and what's the other thing?" he asked.
"Cruz's Vagos took another hit this afternoon by NAPD. Our tip payed off and they hit that house in the Lower Rose District. They recovered four keys of uncut Cocaine and five guns downside to it though is they only made two arrests of two low ranking gangsters." Link stated earning a smile from Jimmy.
"His ass should know NAPD are retaliating hard for what Neto did and he may not be a Vago but he works with them and Cruz claims to not have been a part of that shit but he may know something." Jimmy stated with a smile.
"He thinks we're pointing them in the right direction and wants a sit down with Mark and Lee." Link added.
"Well Mark ain't here and I ain't pulling Lee away from Mai so I guess he'll be satisfied with some Boiled Potatoes instead of warm gravy and yellow rice." Jimmy replied earning a roll of the eyes from Courtney who watched the man finish his drink before walking off. "It can wait til morning though I'm going to sleep." He finished before walking away from the group.
Sunbelt City (The Next Morning)
The smell of burned candles seemed to fill the nose of the youngest Roman as he found himself standing in the mirror in the bathroom dressing himself a black t-shirt, dark brown pants, with black white shoes.
While he was doing so a familiar redheaded woman found herself waking up from a short nap and sent a look to the sleeping Chinese woman lying on the bed next to her before looking up and following the noise that was coming to the bathroom.
"You know he's about to leave you?" came a familiar voice that caused the woman to turn her head and notice two familiar women sitting in the chair next to the bed with mixed looks on their faces. "We've had weeks like this before with Mark and they're nice but they never last." Shawna stated with a sad look on her face.
"I don't want him to leave." Alison shot back with sadness of her own.
"Then don't let him leave." Whitney retorted with a smile. "Go put that ass on him and show him some of the things we showed you to do."
"You really think that's gonna work?" she asked with a raised brow.
"Have you seen your ass?" Shawna asked with a raised brow earning a roll of the eyes from Alison before rose from the bed and started to make her way into the bathroom and immediately wrapped her arms around the shoulders of the youngest Roman and gave him a kiss on the check.
"Come back to bed." Alison ordered earning a chuckle from Mark as he moved to give her a kiss on the cheek.
"I wish I could but work is calling." He replied before moving to give the woman a hug.
"I've been using my vacation days to spend this time with you and you can't do the same for me?" She asked while kissing him on the side of the neck and earning a chuckle from Mark.
"I wish I could do the same but there are no vacation days when in my line of work." He replied before moving to give her another kiss on the lips and looking back at the mirror while the woman rested her head on his shoulder.
"I don't want to leave here!" she whispered out while Mark merely chuckled. "We've made some of the best memories here and I don't want to go back to where we can't even be close." She added while Mark took her hand into his own and kissed it gently.
"I know, but we got lives back there that we can't just run away from them. No matter how much I want to run away with you." He finished before the duo shared another kiss that lasted a little longer than the first and didn't come without a little extra touching as Mark moved to grab onto the woman's ass while she reached into the front of his pants and gave him a few tugs.
"I gotta go!" he whispered out while Alison bit his lip as he finally pulled away from her.
As he moved to walk out of the door though he was immediately stopped as Alison grabbed his shoulder, turned him around, pushed his back up against the white tiles of the bathroom, pushed her body to his, and proceeded to kiss him once again.
Mark didn't know exactly what had come over her but he didn't know what came over any of them these past few days. None of them had really been themselves but he wasn't complaining, especially now as she snaked her hands into the front of his pants and continued to stroke his member before undoing them while he pulled down her shorts and revealed her white panties that gripped her tightly.
After a minute of gripping her ass, Alison finally pulled away from him and turned around so that she could press her ass against his already stiffened member and begin moving her hips and earning a low moan from the youngest Roman as she stimulated him with her backside.
This also caused Mark to kiss and lick the side of her neck before reaching down into the front of her panties and begin fingering her lips. This drew a low moan from the woman her pressed herself further against Mark before pulling his hand from her panties and then forcing his fingers into his mouth so that she could like them clean.
As Mark moved to force down her panties though he was interrupted by the sound of his cellphone ringing breaking his concentration and causing him to break away from the woman to her shock and surprise.
"Damn that's work." He said before moving to readjust his pants and give her a quick kiss on the lips.
"I'll be back!" he whispered out in a soft voice while Alison merely walked back and lied in the bed next to the sleeping IAA Agent and cuddled up next to her.
"We probably should have told you to take his phone." Shawna said with a slight smile Alison rolled over.
New Arcadia
The song My Jacket by Soulja Slim filled the air of a cookout at a house with a pool in the 7th Ward as a group of African American men found themselves dancing, drinking, and eating with a number of females who were all walking around in bikini's or talking with the men.
"You really think we should be crashing someone's party?" Link asked as he followed behind Jimmy, Davey, and Eddy as they stepped out of Jimmy's Sadler and started to make their way towards the house.
"We're not really crashing we're more like expected." The redheaded man retorted as he moved fence that led to the backyard only to be stopped by two muscular African American men who put their hands in front of Link's chest and eyed him angrily.
"We're here to see Omar and don't try to turn us away and act like you don't know who we roll with." Jimmy stated with venom in his tone as he eyed the two men angrily before watching them step aside with one man opening the gate for them.
"Stay behind us!" the lead man said with venom of his own as he started to lead the group of four into the backyard where they were greeted with hostile stares from the men and even a few women who looked them each up and down as they continued their trek to the barbeque grill where they noticed a tall muscular African American man cooking on the grill with a scowl on his face.
"Omar Porter!" Jimmy said with a slight smile.
"Marcus's Neo Nazi's, when I heard about what happened at your shop I was expecting to see the big man himself or at least his Vietnamese cat but not you leading a white boy brigade and crashing my party Red…maybe you though Blondie." The gangster said before looking to Link while Jimmy merely chuckled.
"Mark's handling business elsewhere and I believe we both know Lee's handling his own shit." Jimmy replied while the man merely chuckled before flipping a burger. "They're busy and I'm free…plus Link here has a solution to our problem." He replied with a chuckle.
"And what's our problem…you hear to tell me one of my boys ripped off one of your stores when I know it wasn't?" he asked with venom in his tone.
"Really, so you can't explain your boy Dante Spears going to the Rah Rah Club an hour after our place was hit last night with a duffel bag full of cash getting lap-dances and making it rain enough to put some girls through college?" Jimmy asked with a slight smile while Omar stopped flipping burgers and stood in silence. "Girls at the club said he got so drunk he could barely stand and that would explain why he ain't here right now." He added while the man turned to face him.
"If Dante did hit your shop I didn't know shit about it." He replied with venom in his tone.
"We already know that and we're not even asking for you to pay us back the money that was lost." Link started with a slight smile while Omar looked at him in confusion. "Mark doesn't know about the hit and we can make up for it, all we ask in return is that you tell us where we might find Dante." He added.
"What's in this for us?" Omar asked earning a chuckle from Jimmy.
"One of your guys breaks rank and robs us, breaking our alliance and you're really asking us for something." He replied with sarcasm in his tone.
"Yeah and in return y'all got your little spot in our backyards making our money." Omar retorted.
"Yeah and we give you protection from the police, Mexican's, local jack crews, and other ward gangs that might want your territory so unless you got guys on the corner selling cigarettes and comic books we aren't taking from anyone." Jimmy retorted with venom in his tone.
"It's a fair deal Omar so take it. The last thing we want is to start another war when we just ended one and the last thing Mark wants is to see more fighting between the Wards when we just came together." Link added while the man remained silent before speaking.
"Dante a mana's boy and he go to her whenever he fucks up and needs to lay low. She live a few blocks down bright yellow house with a fucking yellow duck for a mailbox." Omar stated earning a nod from the men. "You gonna kill him?" he asked.
"Mark doesn't want blood but we got something a little worse in store and he may be able to still put in work for you." Jimmy replied before turning to Davey and Eddy then leading the group away while everyone at the party watched them as they went.
"Call up Thire, Tup, and Tector and tell them to get to work. Time to hit up the Barrio!" Jimmy stated with a half-smile.
Sunbelt City
While Jimmy and the others were heading to a Vago controlled Barrio Mark found himself finally arriving into the Rifa controlled Barrio of Northeast Sunbelt. After stepping out of his car and beginning to move through the neighborhood the youngest Roman quickly noticed he'd caught the eyes of the gangs spotters along the rooftops of the homes who were now whistling at each other to notify other gangsters that he was here.
"Looks like they finally got there shit together." He said with a slight smile at the upgraded security the gang was now using around their neighborhood.
"Where you going fool?" came a new voice of a Pee Wee Rifa riding on a bicycle following Mark who only remained silent. "You bang?" he asked.
"You're supposed to ask if they bang first kid." The Creole corrected earning an angry look from the boy who moved to try to ride past him only for Mark to keep on moving.
"Motherfucker you better-." The kid stopped as he started to reach for his gun only to be stopped as a bright red Peyote pulled up alongside the boy and a familiar voice yelled at him from the window in Spanish.
"Rico he's cool so get back to work." Cheta yelled out from the driver seat before watching the kid ride off while she pulled up alongside Mark who gave her a smile before leaning into the passenger side window.
"Twenty to see forty to ride and those aren't dick prices." He said with a laugh.
"Shut up and get in." she ordered before unlocking the car door and then watching as Mark climbed into the passenger side seat before driving off.
"I like the new security around the Varrio but if your response to seeing an outsider is only you then you need to work on that." He stated with a smile.
"Felon let me know you were coming and I figured I'd greet you halfway." She retorted with a smile while driving Mark. "If you were really an outsider you wouldn't have made it out your car. Falcon has a mind like a general and he's really building our clique up." She added while Mark nodded his head.
"That's good and it's about time I meet this Falcon." He replied while the woman nodded her head.
"That the only reason you here?" she asked while stopping at a red light as Mark started to chuckle.
"Nah, I plan to finish what we started a few days ago with those pricks who killed your family." He replied while sending a look to the woman who jerked her head in his direction with wide eyes. "That is if you feel like the time is right." He added while the woman eyed him closely.
"The time has been right." She replied as the light turned green and she stepped on the gas petal.
The duo then drove in silence for a few minutes before arriving at a house at the end of Cul-De-Sac where they noticed Felon sitting outside with five other Rifa members who immediately rose to their feet and watched as Cheta and Mark stepped out of the vehicle with smiles before approaching the group.
"Didn't know I was gonna be having a welcome party." Stated the Creole as he slapped hands with Felon and a few of the other Rifa's before he watched the front door of the home open and noticed a man of Mexican descent step out of the home with a serious look on his face.
"I'm guessing you're the Falcon." Mark stated with a smile.
"And I'm guessing you're The Concrete Soldier, you got quite the reputation on the West Coast." he greeted while Mark chuckled.
"What can I say everyone goes West to get famous." The Creole replied while Falcon nodded his head.
"I've expected to meet you for a while now so you want to explain to me why you are here now?" He asked.
"To remind you of BSU's alliance with the Rifa's and to remind that if the situation calls for it we'll watch your back." He stated.
"If the situation calls for it-?" Falcon asked with a raised brow.
"We can talk about those conditions later…right now I'm in the mood for exterminating some sewer rats. You want to show me some of those skills you learned while locked up?" he asked earning a slight smile from the man.
"You speaking my language dawg." He replied before moving to walk past Mark who followed after him.
New Arcadia
The drive to the Rose District had finally come to an end for Jimmy, Link, Davey, and Eddy as they found themselves pulling up into a scrapyard in the cities 3rd Ward where the group noticed a yellow Tornado parked in the center with Cruz standing outside of it with four Vagos on his flanks.
The sight of the four BSU members stepping out of the vehicle without either Mark nor Lee though seemed to unnerve him almost to the core as they approached him with mixed looks on their faces.
"Well you got us so what the fuck do you want?" Jimmy asked with venom in his tone.
"I asked for Mark and Lee not their lackeys." Cruz retorted with venom of his own.
"Well they're too busy to see you at the moment so instead you have us." Jimmy shot back while Cruz sent a look to Link.
"Him I understand, but not you." Cruz shot back before turning back to Jimmy. "You may think you're important but at the end of the day you're nothing but Mark's Puta." He added earning a slight chuckle from Jimmy.
"Yeah and Mark's Puta layed out a good portion of your hood single handedly last you or do you remember that, back when we first went to war and a lone gunmen came in and took out almost half your clique." Jimmy shot back with a smug smile that only angered Cruz as he started to reach for his gun only to be stopped as Davey, Eddy, and Jimmy drew down on him and his men who did the same.
"You may want to put that down because if you shoot me I'm gonna shoot and kill you and Mark and Lee will turn your entire hood into a parking lot and Ernesto ain't here anymore to help you." Jimmy stated earning a low growl from Cruz who in turn wanted to tell him about his involvement in what happened in the 10th Ward only to lower his weapon.
"Alright then now that we've gotten that out of our system what is this about?" Link asked while taking a sigh of relief.
"You already know what this is about. NAPD has been turning up the heat on my Varrio and they're talking injunctions." Cruz retorted while turning to the man.
"And you have denied your involvement of what happened in the 10th Ward but the media saw Neto's big brown face shooting up Men and Women of a Baptist Church in the South on a Sunday Morning. You really think that shit's gonna go unanswered and you're the brownest faces in the city." Jimmy shot back.
"10th Ward and your boy Lee were also involved in that shit but the feds aren't doing a jack shit for them." Cruz shot back.
"A lot of those guys had family at the church so you really believe people are gonna say their nephew or grandson was involved in that shit and you really think people are gonna come after Lee." Jimmy asked with a smile.
"Plus you can blame the spotlight being put on you because of Mariah and her make New Arcadia Crime Free Campaign." Link replied with a slight chuckle.
"Don't act like she ain't in your pockets." Cruz retorted.
"Actually to contrary belief Mark and Mariah have never met but her family despises the Roman Family." Link corrected. "Her father used to be a drug dealer with Mark's Grandfather they had a falling out and well she blames a lot of the crime in the city on the Mark's Family and before you guys they were public enemy number one." He finished earning an angry look from Cruz.
"Whether you like it or not Cruz there's really nothing we can do to help you. Whether we wanted to or not, your situation is bigger than our paygrade. So you're just gonna have to deal with it." Jimmy retorted before slapping Davey and Eddy on the chest and moving to turn around and walk away with the men while Cruz stood there in anger as he watched them hop into their car and drive off.
"No this is far from over." He whispered out under his breath.
Sunbelt City
The song Would by Alice in Chains filled the air of the dark blue Dubsta Mark as he found himself driving through Downtown Sunbelt with a half-smile on his face with Falcon sitting next to him and Cheta and Felon sitting in the backseat.
As the BSU member found himself nodding his head to the music Falcon couldn't help but to give a low chuckle before asking, "So all of you BSU guys like punk rock?" with a raised brow and earning a chuckle from Mark.
"We all have an interest in Punk Rock, but music is a personal choice you can like other types of music and try to introduce it to everyone else but don't expect much results." He replied.
"So you don't like rap?" he asked.
"I like rap well 90's rap and some rap from the early 2000's but now…modern rap. I can't find a real interest in it. Like there are some rappers I like but outta the majority you see in mainstream yeah I don't like that shit." Mark replied with a slight chuckle.
"How you feel about your brother since he rapper?" Felon asked with a raised brow.
"Your brother a rapper?" Falcon asked.
"Yeah but he fucking trash seriously and I don't know why people like him. He's not lyrical, he has a good beat but no real hook to it, and he swear to god he from the street but he ain't. His mom was my dad's mistress and he didn't even grow up in New Arcadia he grew up in Liddell with white neighbors and an old lady who looks out the window at new people." Mark shot back with venom in his tone earning chuckles from the Rifa's.
"Sounds like somebody is jealous?" Cheta replied.
"Hey he can keep his underaged fans I gonna keep doing me and when someone runs up on me they know what'll happen next and it won't be my security stepping up." He replied earning chuckles from the group before they finally arrived where they wanted to and parked alongside a dark red Sadler where they noticed two familiar faces sitting in the front of the vehicle.
"Why is it all the rednecks drive a red pickup truck?" Mark asked with a smile before looking to Tully who was sitting in the driver's seat while Task was in the passenger seat.
"Because it's better to have an all-round vehicle for hauling I tell you what." Tully shot back with a chuckle while Task merely rolled his eyes.
"So where's our target?" Mark asked with a serious expression.
"Upstairs with his girlfriend he's been in there for almost twenty minutes, so he should be out soon, and we left a little something in his car." Tully replied with a chuckle.
"We just need to hope he doesn't come down with his girlfriend." Task retorted.
"Who cares about his gash she's one of them as well and the less the better." Tully replied sending a look to Mark who merely remained silent before Falcon caught his attention.
"So whose the target?" he asked.
"An Azteca calls himself Chico he was there when Cheta lost her family and he was a real thorn in my side a few years back, so it'll be good to finally put an end to him." Mark replied before both all of them caught sight of a man walking down the steps of the apartment with a woman of Mexican descent under his arm.
"There he is and he's got his girl but we need to move now." Said Tully as he sent a look to Mark who merely nodded his head before stepping out of his car while Tully did the same.
Task and the Rifa's then watched as the duo put on mask before rushing towards the car as Comanche helped his girlfriend climb inside.
"Papi did you waste gas in here?" she asked with a raised brow while Comanche did the same before he was pushed into the drivers side seat from behind courtesy of Mark who slammed the door on the man's foot with enough force to shatter it causing both him and his girlfriend to scream out loud as Tully opened her door with a match in his hand.
"See ya!" the White Nationalist yelled out as he tossed the match into the car before slamming the passenger side door shut while Mark did the same to the driver side door.
The duo then lowered their heads and held the doors shut as a blazing inferno sparked from inside that quickly covered the duo who screamed out in terror and pain while trying to open the doors to escape the blaze only for Mark and Tully to keep them in place and stop them from escaping.
"Orale!" yelled out Falcon with wide eyes as he took in the sight of Mark and Tully both smiling as they keep the doors in place and the bodies of both Comanche and his girlfriend seemed to disintegrate in the flames.
"Yeah Mark has a really twisted mind." Cheta stated as they watched him and Tully run away from the car before making their way back to their respective vehicles hopping in the driver seats and then driving off.
Elsewhere
The sound of pounding at his front door seemed to put Ernesto on edge as he hopped from his chair and quickly moved to answer it while keeping his hand on his Magnum. After looking through the peephole though he quickly lowered the gun and swung the door open with a wide smile.
"Carmen!" he greeted with a smile before moving to hug the woman who hugged him back.
"Hi Papa!" she greeted with a smile before walking into the house after he moved aside and closed the door behind her.
"How's the office in New Arcadia?" he asked with a raised brow.
"It's going well we got a few new doctors from Los Santos and Liberty City so we're growing." She replied with a smile that quickly faded. "There is something about that I need to talk to you about." She added earning a confused look from Ernesto.
New Arcadia
The sound of laughter filled the air as Central New Arcadia Hospital as Lee and Mai found themselves having a moment of laughter between the two of them that seemed to lighten both of their moods.
"So you're telling me your bullet actually ricocheted and hit your target in the head?" she asked with a chuckle while Lee did the same.
"Hey Mark, always says don't question a good thing." He replied while Mai laughed just a little bit harder.
"At least you're still practicing with Rifles without me." She stated while Lee's smile finally seemed to fade.
"Yeah!" he muttered out earning the woman's attention.
"Something the matter?" she asked while he remained silent before finally speaking out.
"I should have stopped you from getting hurt." He replied earning a roll of the eyes from the woman.
"Lee not this again-." She started only for him to cut her off.
"No Mai think about it, if I had a Rifle that day and I was actually good at using it maybe I could have stopped Neto before he hit you, maybe I could have taken him down before you'd gotten there, maybe-." He started only for Mai to rest her hand on his right cheek in order to silence him.
"Maybe we'd both be dead." She shot back catching him off-guard. "You did the best you could and so did I, but you can question everything and have that weighing on your mind or else you'll be doing yourself more harm than good." She stated with a serious look on her face.
"I know but-." He started only for the IAA Agent to cut him off again.
"No buts, take that out of your head and get back to the real world." she retorted with a hint of anger in his tone.
"I'm in the real world." He shot back with a hint of anger in his tone.
"Are you, because you haven't left my bedside since I've been here, and you haven't even been talking to your friends Lee. So, are you in the real world?" she asked causing the man to go silent at her words.
"I know you care about me, I know you blame yourself for what happened to me, and I know you're thinking of your friend you weren't there to save." She started causing Lee to go wide eyed at the memory of Laurie filling his mind. "But I'm fine, I can take care of myself and you know that but can you say the same for your friends especially since Mark isn't here?" she asked earning a few seconds of silence from Lee that the Chinese man didn't respond to until the sound of the door opening caught both their attentions and caused them to turn their heads and notice a familiar woman of Japanese and French ancestory making her way into the room.
"Jill!" Mai called out as the woman rushed towards her as brought her in for a quick hug.
"I came as soon as I heard." She said with a sorrow in her tone.
"You don't need to worry I'm fine!" Mai replied with a smile before hugging the woman back and then looking to Lee just as his cellphone started to ring.
"I gotta take this!" he replied before walking out of the room and quickly answering the phone.
"So you mean nobody has heard from Neto in Los Santos either?" she asked with a raised brow.
"No him or his friend, I don't think they're dead either but they haven't been heard from or spotted in days." Jill replied while Mai remained silent before the duo was interrupted as he Lee came barging back into the room with a scared look on his face.
"What is it?" Mai asked before watching the man walk over to Jill and grab her by the arm.
"I need to borrow you." He said with anger in his tone.
"Borrow me what are you talking about?" she asked with a raised.
"We're about to get hit, hard, and fast and I'm gonna need every gun we got." He replied with anger in his tone and catching both women by surprise.
Elsewhere
The familiar click of his Beretta Clocking seemed to bring a small smile to the face of Buck as he found himself sitting in a car across the street from a Sandwich place in the 7th Ward. He'd gotten the names of the other men who ripped their comic book shop and he was being entrusted with the task of taking them out.
They had agreed to make Dante a martyr for what he'd done but the other men they were fair game, and he caught sight of the first man sitting outside of the sandwich shop eating what looked like Turkey and Ham with a mixed look on his face.
"It's time!" said Tector as he looked to the young Buck who nodded his head before pulling the hood of his jacket over it and then stepping out of his car just as Tector's cellphone started to ring.
As Buck slowly approached the man with his hand on the handle of his gun everything seemed to slow down before him like it always did whenever he was about to carry out an assassination. Time slowed down, everyone around him faded, and only his target was in his sight.
After crossing the street and finally getting well within range for a headshot Buck moved to pull the weapon from his jacket but before he could he was stopped as Tector put his hand on his shoulder and started to pull him away from the man.
"What are you doing I had him?" he asked while Tector pulled him back.
"Change of plans, Lee needs everyone at the training grounds immediately along with all the weapons." He stated to the shock of Buck who was brought back to the car and quickly hopped inside.
The news of Lee's message didn't just hit the one kill team it hit the second as well as both Thire and Tup found themselves walking away from their target and moving back to their own vehicles with mixed looks on their faces.
The message didn't just extend to them either as Ren, Courtney, and Nikki found themselves clearing out the club and gathering up all the BSU members inside and yelling at them to head to the training yards.
The scene was the same almost across New Arcadia and before long Link found himself looking down at his phone with an angry expression on his face while Davey, Eddy, and Jimmy found themselves pounding the injured Dante who was tied to a chair with blood leaking from almost every orifice of his face.
"We need to go!" he said earning the attention of the other men who gave him wide eyed looks.
"What do you mean we need to go? We got this guy right here dead to fucking rights." Jimmy stated while looking to Link who started gathering up his things and packing them into a bag.
"Lee needs us…everyone needs us." He replied earning confused looks from the group before they watched him walk out of the room while Jimmy sent a look to the injured Dante who looked up at him, Davey, and Eddy with wide eyes filled with fear.
"You ain't going nowhere!" Jimmy retorted before taking his knife and dragging it across the man's back ankle causing him to scream out in pain before Jimmy stomped on it to further break it.
"Let's go see what our brother needs." The redheaded man muttered before walking out with Davey and Eddy in tow while Dante stood back screaming at the top of his lungs as the group left him alone in the dark before shutting the door on him and muffling his screams.
Sunbelt City
The wind was blowing just right for Task as he found himself taking in a few deep breaths of air while clutching his bow tightly and getting his arrow ready to be fired. This particular arrow wasn't like many of the others he'd fired instead this one was made of steel and was featured a rather sharp tip that made it resemble that of a spear launched from a spear gun. There was also a rather tight rope tied at the end of it that was also tied to a piece of the branch of the tree he was hanging from.
He didn't know exactly what Mark had in mind for this guy he was targeting only that they needed a rope and tree. What they were gonna use it for was beyond him but he had his orders and he had his paycheck and that's all he needed to know.
While he was sitting atop the tree he could make out Felon, Falcon, and three more Rifa's standing a distance away with a serious look on his face. He was supposed to be the distraction and honestly, he was happy the man was away from him. He still didn't answer for the traffic stop but the Lakota knew he suspected something was afoot and was more than likely leaning his suspicions towards him.
After a few more minutes of waiting though a man matching the description of the one Mark had told them about had started to appear and was now walking towards the tree when Felon stopped him and quickly flashed him gang signs.
Just before the duo could begin fighting though was when Task made his move and fired an arrow that hit the man square in the back and actually came out of his chest causing him to fall to his knees at the sight of the object sticking out of him.
After that Task immediately grabbed the rope from his end and jumped off the side of the tree before watching in shock and terror as the man was lifted off the ground and was forced to hang from the tree by the weapon that was so still sticking out of his chest and digging into his chest.
"Look at that I caught me a rat." Felon said with a smile while the man looked down at him with blood leaking from his mouth as he struggled pull off the arrow while Task tied the rope to a tree.
"Fuck you Mayateros." The man yelled out while Falcon looked on with a smile. "Mi Homeboys are gonna fuck you up for this shit." He screamed out with more blood spewing from his mouth.
"Who is this guy?" Falcon asked with a raised brow.
"El Chongo, but from now on his new name is El Penyata." Felon retorted while Chongo looked on in fear as the Rifa members each pulled metal bats from behind their backs and eyed him with them.
"I hope you're full of fucking sugar." Falcon replied earning a chuckle from Felon as he watched the man take a swing at the head of Chongo.
Elsewhere
Things had been rather slow for Comanche as he found himself sitting with Sweetie as the girl sat on her couch looking at a picture of her sister. The man had stayed with the girl through her troubling days since losing most of her family to the Orange Grove Gangsters.
Her situation was one of the worst he'd ever seen when it came to people from the Barrio. To have your entire family wiped out in just a matter of seconds. It was tragic and sickening, but he wouldn't leave her alone not in her time of need.
Before he could speak to her again though a loud crashing sound caught them both off-guard as they noticed two figures standing in the doorway of the home with serious looks on their faces. "Pinche-"! Comanche started as he moved to reach for his gun only to be stopped as Mark fired off three shots from his M1911 and managed to hit the arm in both of his arms and his chest.
"YOU!" Cheta screamed out before firing her own Glock and hitting Sweetie in both of her legs and causing her to fall to the ground in pain.
"You fucking bitch!" she yelled out with venom in her tone as Cheta jumped on top of her and started to beat her over the head with the butt of her Pistol until both of her hands were covered in blood and the face of Sweetie was a swollen mess.
"You're gonna die for what you did to my family." Cheta yelled out with tears in her eyes as she pointed her gun at the woman's face and pressed the hot barrel against right eye causing a loud burning sound to go off while the woman screamed.
"Don't make her end quick." Mark whispered out while Cheta angrily eyed the woman before shooting her again in the arm and then in the stomach before pressing the hot barrel against her cheek and causing her to scream out once more.
"Pinche Mayate de Puta." Comanche yelled out earning the full attention of Mark who turned to face him with a smile. "You kill most of her family and now-." He started before coughing up blood while Mark cut him off.
"And now I'm gonna finish what I started…and you along the way." The Creole let out before drawing his Combat Knife and stabbing the man once in the chest piercing his heart and then watching as his lifeless body hit the ground with a thud.
This drew another scream from Sweetie as Cheta reloaded her Pistol and pointed it at the skull of the woman who sat back with tears in her eyes. "This is for Mi Familia." She yelled out before squeezing the trigger and putting a round right between Sweetie's eyes and watching her hit the ground motionless.
She then gave a rather violent scream before beginning to pound the body only to be stopped as Mark approached her from behind and put his hand on her shoulder. "It's over!"
"Not by a long shot!" she replied only to be knocked down as the sound of gunshots started to fill the air causing Mark to pull her off her feet to avoid the shoots.
Upon getting a break in the gunfire the duo returned fire out the already damaged windows finishing them off and managing to strike a Vago outside to the surprise of Syke O and Chichona as they ducked for cover and returned fire causing both Mark and Cheta to slowly crawl across the floor in the direction of the back door.
"You go out first and I'll cover you." Mark yelled out earning a nod from the woman who watched him reload before rushing for the backdoor just as Syke O came through the front brandishing a Mossberg 500.
"You aren't getting away Mayate!" he yelled out while Mark took cover before sending a barrage of rounds at the man who barrel rolled for cover and moved for cover only to be stopped as Mark tossed one of the wooden chairs from the kitchen and struck him in the chest knocking him back and causing him to hit the floor while Mark and Cheta ran out the back.
"CABRON!" he yelled out as the duo jumped over the white fence in the backyard and managed took off running as fast as their legs could carry them to Cheta's car.
"You know when Ernesto get's word of this it'll probably put more strain on your relationship." The Rifa yelled out as both she and Mark climbed inside.
"I'll bake him a cake." The Creole shot back as the sound of gunshots started to fill the air behind them as Syke O came from behind the vehicle firing off rounds from his Shotgun while Cheta put the vehicle in drive and sped away.
"Rifa Fucker!" he yelled out with venom in his tone.
Elsewhere
The sound of low moans filled the air back at the hotel room as Alison now found herself locked in a deep kiss with Ana, who'd finally awaken to the touch of the FIB Agent. The duo were now lip locked in a warm embrace with Alison on top and Ana on the bottom. The sight of which seemed to bring a smile to the face of the IAA Agent.
"Look at you taking control." She let out while Alison merely smiled at her response.
"I want to be close with you." the redheaded woman replied while slowly moving to rub her pussy against Ana's and cause the woman to let out a low moan of pleasure before Alison started to grind up against her just a few paces harder and faster.
Before the duo could finish though they were interrupted by the sound of Ana's cellphone ringing out and earning the full attention of the woman who slowly pulled away from Alison to the FIB Agents shock and surprise as she pulled the phone to her ear.
"Yes!" the Chinese woman greeted while rubbing the face of Alison who couldn't help but to rise to her feet and move to walk away only to be stopped as Ana grabbed her hand and pulled her back so that she was sitting on her bare lap.
"How do you like your new and improved love life?" came a familiar voice that didn't seem to move the woman who moved to grip Alison's right breast in her hand suck on her neck.
"I like it very much." She replied just as Alison started to grind her butt against the woman before taking her hand off her breast and moving her fingers into her mouth. "Are you here to tell me this is all because of you?" she asked while giving a low moan as the soft skin of the woman's butt seemed to leave her moist.
"Nothing the three of you do doesn't involve my hand." The voice replied with a chuckle. "A little ecstasy in the food and some Viagra in your drinks can do a lot for someone's libido." he added with a chuckle while Ana merely rolled her eyes before moving to massage the woman's pussy causing her to lay back against her and roll her eyes into the back of her head.
"So, are you just calling to gloat?" Ana asked with a raised brow.
"No, I'm calling to warn you two and Marcus." He replied to the woman's confusion.
"Are you saying that you're gonna show your hand again?" she asked while the man merely chuckled.
"No more powerful forces then myself are banding together and coming after Mark and all of his cronies. Just tell him that Colonel Sutton is coming with fire and brimstone." He replied before hanging up the phone while Ana pulled the phone away from her ear.
"Shit we need to go." Ana let out while Alison turned to look at her with a confused facial expression.
"Really?" she asked with disappointment in her tone.
"Mark's in danger and he needs us." She replied earning wide eyes from the woman who quickly jumped on her feet and moved to grab her things.
Elsewhere
The sound of Ernesto's phone ringing quickly caught the eye of the man as he and Carmen both sent looks back to the device only to sit back and eye the device before the former moved to answer it.
"Yes!" he greeted while the woman merely looked away from him.
Upon hearing the words of the man on the otherside of the phone he quickly recoiled in anger before hanging up the phone and turning back to face Carmen with an angry expression on his face.
"I need to go nina." He whispered out before moving to hug her only for the woman to recoil at his touch.
"Not like this." She replied with a hint of venom in her tone while Ernesto sent her look before finally walking out of the house and being greeted by a dark blue Tornado pulling up in front of his home with Lady Casper and La Tortura both sitting in the front.
"Where are they?" he asked with venom in his tone as Lady Casper stepped on the gas petal and sent the vehicle speeding away from the house and kicking up smoke as it went.
New Arcadia
The song Do or Die by Conejos filled the ears of Cruz as he found himself riding in the back seat of a yellow Tornado that was cruising the streets of Downtown New Arcadia before coming to a halt outside of an office building where it stayed until a familiar African American woman came walking out with a smile on her face.
"There's that Puta Mariah Jefe." The driver said while Cruz nodded his head.
"Follow her." He ordered before watching her step into a dark gray Sentinel and begin driving into the 5th Ward before coming to a stop at a red light.
Upon doing so Cruz yelled something to the man in the driver seat in Spanish before watching as he pulled a Pistol from his pants and fired several rounds into the side of the car before the driver sped off while Mariah found herself clutching her bleeding shoulder with a loud wince of pain.
Elsewhere
The sun had finally set on this day in New Arcadia but the swamps outside of the city was still a bustle with activity as a Military Class Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or UAV flew overhead while a total of seven black SUV's followed the main road through the swamps.
Inside of these SUV stood a combination of over thirty men and women dressed in full military gear and armed with some of the best weapons money could buy.
Amongst those sitting in the vehicles were five male soldiers who unlike their counterparts wore more flexible armor and carried a variety of weapons that differed from the rest and unlike their comrades kept their faces uncovered as they went.
"This is hardly a mission." Started a man of African British descent with long black dreadlocks, a gray bandanna over his forehead, and wearing full military gear while a RSASS Sniper Rifle was in his hands.
"Hardly a mission but I'll take it." Retorted another man of Russian descent with short black hair, bright blue eyes, and carrying an modified AK-47 Assault Rifle. "Everyone else is out doing the real big game hunting and we're here picking off the scraps." He added.
"Tis no problem for me." Retorted a man of Scottish descent with a long red beard, bright blue eyes, and wearing goggles on his forehead and carrying a G36C Assault Rifle.
"We're paid per kill so the more of these little fuckers we slaughter the more we make." Replied another man of Dutch South African descent with a shaved head and carrying a Mini Uzi.
"Can't have it any easier we're fighting children, so this should be simple." Interjected another man of Columbian descent with short brown hair covered by a red bandanna and carrying a M4A1 Assault Rifle.
"The way it's looking we won't be getting much of fight UAV's are only picking up ten heat signatures so unless one of them is a redhead and the other is Chinese we won't be getting much action." The Afro-British man retorted before finally pulling the vehicle to a halt. "Tell the men we're marching from here. We have the element of surprise and I don't want to lose it." He replied before stepping out and watching the group follow his lead before turning the other vehicles and watching more and more soldiers hop out of each vehicle with serious looks on their faces.
"Spread out and encircle them I don't want anyone getting away." He added before watching as the other four men broke off and formed their own little squads with the other soldiers before moving to circle around the area.
"Everyone remember there's only ten of them in total but this is still one of their stomping ground's so they know the land." Added the Russian man while the Scottish one responded with a chuckle.
"What's there to worry about they don't know we're coming and even if they did we have them out gunned, out-flanked, and out matched." He replied with a laugh.
"Still I don't want to have to go back to the Major and tell him about a failure so keep that in mind." The Afro-British man retorted while the group moved farther and farther into the brush only to discover a training area with areas used for cover, small wooden areas that almost looked like huts, and wrecked cars.
What the group didn't know was that they were being watched courtesy of Lee, Jimmy, Jill, and the many other BSU members as they each found themselves either hiding behind trees covered in mud to mask their heat temperatures, hiding in holes under black blankets, in small treehouses, and even under the water.
"Hold!" Lee whispered out as he looked to his fireteam that consisted of Jill, Davey, and Eddy while Jimmy looked to Thire, Tup, and Tector who each kept their fingers on their triggers from up in the trees before looking up to one of the blanket covered holes where their Machine Gun Team was in place and on hold while the Snipers were also in trees and in the water.
"Here we go!" said Lee as he noticed one of the men walking towards Claymore Mine that the group had setup near an overturned car the group had used as cover during their training exercises but now would be used for the purpose of their ambush.
Once the first man stepped on the device the following explosion was almost deafening to the others as they each found themselves flying back from the force of the explosion and even being splattered by the man's blood as the explosive managed to blow off both of his legs and leave his upper body flying across the swamp flapping his arms in the air almost like a bird.
"NOW!" Lee screamed out as he jumped from cover and racked his Shotgun before firing a single shot that managed to strike a man in the chest and send him flying backwards before crashing and skidding in the mud.
For this particular enemy the Chinese man was using 12-Gauge Buckshot's. They were the most powerful caliber of Shotgun Slugs and he often didn't like using them because the force of the shots often put a lot of stress on his shoulder and hands but right now he knew he needed them. This wasn't the average street gang they were fighting these guys had full military gear, weapons, and armor so he needed his best to get through them.
Once he fired his second shot though a symphony could then be heard going throughout the forest as all the BSU members each pulled their triggers almost at once and unloaded on their attackers who found themselves boxed in and taking fire from almost all sides.
"Shit they knew we were coming." Yelled the Caucasian South African man as he moved to take cover behind a tree before watching as four of his men were immediately cut down by a group of men manning a Browning Machine Gun from a trench before they moved to turn their weapon on another group of men.
"This doesn't matter!" yelled the Afro British man before watched the man next to him take a round in the head courtesy of Jill who was firing an AK-47 fitted with the same type of Scope one would see on a Hunting Rifle. The weapon was set to single shot so that she could conserve ammo but also take precise shots that not only didn't give away her position but also take out key figures.
"LIGHT UM UP AND BURN UM DOWN!" Jimmy screamed out from the trees as the BSU members from behind the trees started to toss Molotov's at the men and managing to set three men on fire as they tried to flee for cover.
"AH-!" screamed out as soldier as he was hit in the back of the neck courtesy of one of the Sniper Team members hiding in the trees and managing to pick off the men almost one by one.
"Motherfuckers!" screamed the redheaded man of Irish descent as he vaulted over a car and fired off a barrage of rounds into the trees and managing to hit one of the man.
"AHHHH!" he then screamed out earning the attention of everyone as they looked to him and looked at him with wide eyes as he found both of his legs now tangled up in Razor Wire and a bear trap that was strategically placed near the car. "YOU MOTHER-!" he started only to be hit in the other leg and forced to fall into the Razor Wire causing him to scream out again as the blades cut into his flesh.
"Shit they got us surrounded on all fronts." Yelled out the man of Columbian descent as he tried to blindly fired from the cover that came from behind a tree.
"It doesn't matter they're all still amateurs and minus Roman, so let's show them real skill." The Afro British man yelled out earning nods from the group before they watched him pull out a Walkie Talkie, moved it to his mouth, and screamed out, "Task me a UAV to my location and provide overwatch!"
The BSU members had managed to conceal themselves from their original scans but now that they were fighting and firing their weapons. If the UAV's thermal sensors didn't spot them they spot the flash of their guns.
"Requesting reinforcements and Aerial Sniper Support!" he continued with a smile before looking to the other men who quickly leapt into action as they reached behind their backs and drew various weapons.
"NOW!" The Afro British man yelled out as he fired a single shot from his Sniper Rifle and managed to blow off the head of a BSU member who fell to the ground still firing his gun and shooting himself in the foot in the process.
The South African man of Dutch descent was the first to strike as he pulled the pins off two flashbang Grenades and tossed them in the direction of Lee and his fireteam and then watching with a smile as the explosives went off and immediately left the group blind, deaf, and disoriented as they struggled to grasp what was going on around them.
Through that sound though Lee could swear he could make out a whistling noise of the sort but he didn't pay any mind to it.
"Shit!" Jimmy yelled out as he looked to the direction of Lee's group only to go silent as a familiar voice filled his head.
"Jimmy you've got more bad guys coming in from the back." Manfred spoke out from the man's earpiece earning a nod from the redheaded man as he shot down another soldier before looking to Thire, Tup, and Tector who were still providing giving covering fire.
"How much backup?" he asked while looking to the sky where Manfred's drone was flying overhead and providing their own overwatch.
"Another five SUV's with some serious firepower they got a-." The Indian man started only to be cutoff as his drone was blown from the sky and creating sparks of white in the sky over the heads of Jimmy and the others as they each looked up and noticed a Little Bird Helicopter hovering over their heads with a set of Snipers on both sides firing down at the group and managing to shoot on the man nearest him with a shot to the head.
"Motherfuckers took out my drone!" Manfred screamed out as he switched the camera from his computer screen and looked out at the series of SUV's making their way towards the battlefield with the lead vehicle armed with a Minigun on the roof of it.
"Manny…Manny!" The BSU enforcer screamed out over the earpiece with venom in his tone as he looked to Sniper Helicopter with venom in his eyes.
"I think they're jamming us!" Thire yelled out as he moved to reload his Rifle.
"We knew they were coming and they knew our playbook." Jimmy shot back with rage in his voice.
As things finally started to return to Lee, Davey, Eddy, and Jill they found themselves watching with wide eyes as a rather large black Pitbull wearing a small bulletproof vest came jumping out of the forest and on top of one of the BSU members before immediately starting to go for his throat.
"FUCKING DOGS!" Lee screamed out as he looked to the animal that seemed to bring back memories of being almost mauled to death in Los Santos.
As Davey and Eddy lifted their guns and shot at the animal they soon watched in terror as it started to run back to cover in the woods while their bullets merely managed to hit the already bleeding out BSU member.
"Lee I think we need to-." Jill started only to be cut off by a bright red light and sudden increase in temperature that caused them all to shift their gaze and notice the man of Russian descent wielding a Flamethrower and using it to set the trees many of the Snipers setting them ablaze and the BSU members along with them who either had to jump out and get shot or stay and get burned.
Easy to say the former was their main option.
"I hope you brought SPF five thousand." The Russian man screamed out as he turned the weapon on the men hiding in their hole and manning the Browning Machine Gun.
Lucky for one man he managed to duck just in times and take the weapon with him but that didn't stop the flames from covering the face of his friend who immediately fell on top of him and started cover him flames along with himself.
"Jesus!" Jill screamed out with fear in tone that only seemed to louden as the groups ears were soon filled the sound of a car engines approaching their locations and filling them all with terror.
That terror soon magnified as they caught sight of the rather large Minigun mounted to the top of one of the vehicles and being aimed in their direction.
"OH SHIT!" They each almost at once screamed out with fear and venom in their tones as the weapon unloaded on their positions.
Sunbelt City
The sound of police sirens seemed to fill the air as Mark found himself sitting in a sandwich restaurant in the cities South West neighborhood eating a meatball and pepperoni footlong with mozzarella, bacon, and on toasted cheesy bread.
The restaurant was one of his favorites in the city and he hated that he didn't get the chance to come here more often when he was in the city and he hated that because of all of his enemies in this particular part of the city prevented him from coming here.
In this moment though he didn't care!
He wanted to be found and he wasn't running or hiding and this place would be where he would meet his enemies.
As he moved to take a drink of his lemonade he was interrupted though by the sight of a familiar blonde-haired woman moving to sit across from him and catching him by surprise as he noticed the wide smile on her face while she set her food down in front of him.
"I thought that was you." Brooke greeted with her smile seeming to bring a warm feeling over the youngest Roman. "I thought you'd tell us the next time you'd come to Sunbelt a lot sooner." She added while Mark chuckled.
"Yeah I been busy." He replied with a smile of his own. "Did you bring what I asked you for?" he asked with a raised brow before watching the woman slide a black duffel bag with a padlock on it over to his feet.
"I wasn't able to get it open with the locks." She said earning a nod from Mark.
"It doesn't matter thank you." He replied with a slight smile. "So mind telling me what you were doing before I called you?" he asked with a raised brow.
"I've been apartment searching these last couple of days." She replied while Mark openly laughed.
"I hope you weren't planning on moving out this way." He interjected with wide eyes.
"I can't really afford a home in Springwood like my mom always envisioned." She shot back with a chuckle. "I've got a new job working as a secretary at the library but it's not really paying a lot of money." She added with a roll of the eyes.
"You aren't getting your cut from BSU?" he asked while sipping from his drink.
"The higherups in the Northeast shut down our chapter and everyone relocated somewhere so I'm unable to get a cut." She replied earning silence from the youngest Roman.
The woman just like Mira and the few other surviving BSU members, mostly females, from the Sunbelt Chapter had no idea that the chapter had been relocated to New Arcadia and that many of the members were now there. This wasn't out of sexism, he didn't want the girls in harm's way. They'd spent years in BSU with him living like they were in a combat zone, but not anymore.
"I'll make some phone calls and see to it that all of you are taken care of." He replied with a smile. "You need something to tide you over?" he asked earning a shake of the head from the woman.
"I can't just take your money Mark." She replied with a chuckle.
"You've been taking my money for years if you're forgetting where all the money was coming from back in the day." He interjected while reaching into his pocket, pulling out three hundred-dollar bills, and sliding it over to the woman.
"Thanks!" she said while taking the money from the Roman and giving him a wide smile as Mark reached down for the duffel bag and rubbed it to that it was full.
Upon doing so though he looked up and watched as Brooke slightly spread her legs and part her dress to allow the Roman to see her pink lace panties. "Are you gonna be in the city for another night?" she asked with a raised brow while looking away from the Roman with a smile as he lifted himself back up to the table.
"Brooke…I'm working!" he replied earning a confused look from the woman before she watched him slide her sandwich back over to her and into her hands. "I want you to walk out of here and when you do you're gonna see a bunch of scary looking Mexicans-." He started only for the woman to look at him with wider eyes.
"Mark, I don't-." she started only to be cut off by the Creole.
"When you see them, don't make eye contact just keep walking, go to your car, and go home. I'll call you later tonight…I promise." He said before touching her hand while she looked at him with wide eyes before finally nodding her head, rising from the seat, and walking away while Mark merely finished off his sandwich.
"What the deal with you and taking all the fine white women?" Tully asked from his position at the table behind the youngest Roman who merely chuckled.
"Leave them Asian women alone and maybe they won't need someone else to keep their beds warm." Mark replied with a chuckle and earning a slight one from Tully before he stood up and followed Mark into the men's room.
While the duo were talking Brooke had finally managed to walk out of the restaurant and upon doing so caught sight of a group of thirteen Mexican men and women wearing the various clothing of Vagos and Azteca's standing across the street from the restaurant with mixed looks on their faces.
"Shit!" the BSU female whispered out as she started to walk away from the restaurant while both Mark and Tully found themselves going through the content of the duffel bag.
"So you want to tell me who she is?" Tully asked while loading a magazine into a Mac 10 and aiming it at the glass.
"She was the girlfriend of the President of BSU Sunbelt Chapter before he was fucking my girl." Mark replied while loading a fresh magazine into his M1911 Pistol and also putting a Glock 19 in the back of his waistband where he Combat Knife was already waiting.
"Ah so the only reason she wants to fuck you is to see how he will feel?" Tully asked while pulling a Bulletproof Vest from the bag.
"That could be it, to tell you the truth I've thought about it in the past but now…I feel like it would just complicate things." He finished as Tully finished pulling the vest over his white t-shirt before watching as Mark pulled an all-black Kevlar Vest over his own body.
What made his vest and Tully's vest seemed different though, sure they were both military vest but there was also a design on Mark's vest that set it apart. Painted in white spray paint there was a skull wearing a military style Burai with a Knife in its mouth, cross hairs in its eyes, and wings coming off the sides. There was also a patch sewn into the side that read BSU Militia. It was a real sight for Tully.
"Want to tell me the history with that?" he asked while looking to Mark who merely chuckled.
"I earned a lot nicknames over my years on the streets. The Concrete Soldier is my favorite, The Black Gunslinger, Deaths Rifleman, The Executioner, and The Arbiter of Fate is amongst a number of them. While I was in BSU though my friend Laurie, she was a really talented artist, she designed this emblem for me and my guys. One day she took one of my Kevlar vest and painted it on and I used this vest and this symbol as a way to strike fear into my enemies." Mark replied while tapping the logo.
"If you ask anyone about this logo especially the Thunderskins, they'll know what it means." He replied with a slight smile.
"Let's get this over with." Mark replied before watching the White Nationalist rise to his feet and begin to follow him out of the restaurant where they caught sight of the many Vagos and Azteca's who stood in place before turning their heads so that the two of them were the only things in their sights.
"Hold!" Ernesto ordered as he started to walk across the street, with Syke O, towards the two men who merely smiled at the duo and decided to meet them both halfway.
"Wow I must have really made some noise if you brought everyone here." Mark retorted with a smile while Ernesto eyed him angrily.
"We have a rocky peace, and I do mean rocky, but your actions today really pushed the limits of them." Ernesto yelled out while eyeing Mark angrily.
"Nah I don't think so, I didn't kill your friends in protection of myself or BSU retaliation. I did that for what you did to Cheta. Even you gotta admit Ernesto that shit you pulled was uncalled for and if someone had done the same to you, you wouldn't just sit back and let it go unanswered." Mark stated with a chuckle.
"I would have handled my own business and dealt with the shit like a man, not called upon you." He replied.
"Well Cheta ain't a man and unlike you she ain't Onda or NS." Mark interjected with venom starting to fill his tone. "And the only reason you allowed what happened to her happen is because of that and you think just because you're Onda shit like that can't happen to you but trust me it can." He added.
"Are you threatening my family Roman?" he asked while stepping up to the younger gangster.
"Nah but you should be thanking me because they wanted to go after your family before I helped to change their minds." He replied while Ernesto continued to eye him angrily. "You took it to that level Ernesto and what happened today was the Rifa's retaliating so don't stand here and act like this shit was uncalled for." He finished while continuing to eye the man angrily.
"Then I guess we know what happens now." Ernesto said while reaching his hand for the handle of his Magnum while Mark also reached for his M1911.
Before the duo could finally draw their weapons though they were stopped as a familiar red car came speeding down the street and caused them both to separate as it came to a halt in front of the both of them.
"The fuck?" asked Tully as both he, Mark, and all the others as they watched Alison jump from the passenger side seat of the vehicle and rush towards the Creole and White Nationalist before taking the former in her arms while he stood back and continued to eye the enemies on the otherside of the street.
Shit
It was the only thing he could whisper out as he continued to eye Ernesto, Lady Casper, La Tortura, and the other South Siders as they eyed him angrily while keeping their hands on their guns at the sight of the new arrivals.
"Catch!" Ana ordered before tossing Mark a weapon that he quickly caught and began to look over.
It wasn't up his usual alley in that it wasn't a Rifle, it was a Colt 9mm Submachine Gun, but with all its attachments it was right up his alley. It featured a Holographic Sight, which wasn't his favorite type of sight but it could get the job done with him. It also had a Beta C-Magazine attachment which was just another way of saying a hundred-round drum magazine but featured two fifty round drum magazines stuck together. It's final attachment was vertical grip that was mounted horizontally on the weapon giving it more of an LMG effect.
The sight of the weapon brought a smile to the face of Mark and a worried expression to that of Vagos and Azteca's who were mostly only armed with Pistols, Mini Uzi's, and a couple of MAC-10's.
Their worries only magnified as they watched the woman pull out an AK-47 Assault Rifle with a Foregrip attachment and toss it to Tully while she pulled out an MP7A1 Submachine Gun before starting to approach the youngest Roman.
"We need to go now." The IAA Agent ordered while Mark gave her a confused look.
"I'm kinda in the middle of something." Mark replied while sending looks to the women who started to almost talk at once while Task found himself sitting on the rooftop of the Sandwich shop armed with a MK12 SPR Sniper Rifle that was aimed down at the South Siders.
"Come on what the fuck is going on?" the Lakota asked with wide eyes as he looked to Mark and Tully as they talked with Ana and Alison.
"I got a shot jefe." La Tortura called out as she looked to Mark who kept his gaze on both women.
"No let's see how this plays out." The Onda member commanded while Mark continued to talk to the women.
"We need to go someone's coming after all of you and Lee is leading the others to against them as we speak." Ana replied to Mark's confusion.
"Wait they're fighting, against who-?" Mark started only for the loud bang of a gunshot to go off and catch everyone by surprise as they looked to him and watched with wide eyes as he fell onto his back clutching his shoulder.
"Where did that come from?" Task started while beginning to scan the area only to just miss a man of Japanese American descent wearing full military gear and armed with a RSASS Sniper Rifle that he had trained on Marcus.
"Target dropped move in for capture." He yelled out over a Walkie Talkie while the sound of car engines started to fill the air and earn the attention of everyone on the street.
"THEY'RE HERE!" Ana screamed out while Tully moved to pull Mark into cover behind the car just as a total of five Humvee's came speeding down the street before coming to screeching halts as men and women in military fatigues jumped out of the vehicle and started to unload on the group causing everyone to jump for cover including Ernesto and the other South Siders as three of them were hit killed in the assault.
"Motherfucker!" La Tortura screamed out as Syke O grabbed her by the shoulder and pulled her behind a car just as a man in full military fatigues sent a barrage of shots from an M4A1 Assault Rifle their way and blew out the windows of the vehicles.
"Who are these Puto's?" La Tortura asked with venom in her tone.
"I think they're here for them." Lady Casper yelled back with venom in her tone while she and the others noticed Tully and Ana returning fire at the group while Alison tended to Mark.
"It doesn't matter who they are, they're targeting us as well so they're dead in my books." Syke O shot back with venom in his tones as he pulled a Mini Uzi off one of the dead Vagos and fired a barrage of rounds at the man with the M4 and managing to strike him six times in the chest only for the Bullet Proof vest to take much of the damage and only cause him to stagger before continuing his assault on the group and drawing much of the fire from their attackers.
"Target in sight." Yelled out a woman of Chinese American descent with a pixie cut and her mouth hidden behind a blue mask as she fired an MP5 Submachine Gun at the group.
"What do you want to do about the Mexicans?" Asked a man of Nicaraguan descent with a shaved head firing a Mini Uzi.
"They're shooting at us take um out." Replied a Caucasian man with a long brown beard and mohawk that was firing a SCAR-L Assault Rifle and managed to hit one of the Azteca members through the side of the car.
"Are you okay?" Alison asked as she ripped open Mark's shirt and revealed the bullet in the side of his bulletproof vest.
"Yeah I just got the wind knocked out of me." Mark shot back as he moved to pull himself up while holding onto his weapon. "Stay down these guys got talent." The Creole ordered before jumping up and firing a barrage of rounds from the Submachine Gun and finishing off the man with the M4 and forcing the others into cover as he sprayed down the front of the first Humvee and managed to strike down the guy in the driver seat with a shot to the head and forcing the others back.
"Shit!" yelled out the man with the Mohawk as he ducked for cover while the man closest to him took several rounds to the gut while another man was struck in the face courtesy of Ernesto firing his Magnum. "Recon put some more holes in that motherfucker." He yelled out over his Walkie Talkie while the Japanese American man moved to put the youngest Roman in his crosshairs.
Before he could fire a single shot though he was dropped courtesy of Task who managed to spot the Sniper and respond by putting a single bullet in the top of the man's skull.
"Gotcha bitch!" The Lakota whispered out before turning his aim to the men and women on the ground and beginning to pick them off with shot after shot to either the top of their heads or the center of their backs.
"Shit they got Sniper Support?" yelled out the Chinese American woman as she jumped behind one of the Humvee's and ducked for cover as Task continued to lay down covering fire.
"We need to go!" Ana yelled out while Mark whistled to Task who gave the man a confused look before rushing down the stairs on the side of the building and onto the streets where he managed to shoot one of the men in the center of the head and watched him hit the ground with a thud.
"Glad to see you could join us Red Wolf." Tully yelled out while laying down fire for the Lakota.
"Suck it Redneck!" Task yelled out while Ana pulled a Smoke Grenade from her jacket and pulled the pin on it.
"WE'RE LEAVING!" Ana screamed out, loud enough for even Ernesto and the South Siders to hear, before tossing the Grenade and watching as a cloud of white smoke started to surround them blinding their attackers who could only make out the sound of car doors being closed and engines turning through the faint sound of gunfire.
"They're trying to escape light their asses up." Yelled out a woman with a Mohawk of her own as she and the others fired off a barrage of rounds into the smoke and managing to hit one of the cars the Vagos were loading into killing the driver and all of the passengers while Ana sped out of the smoke with Ernesto following close behind them with Syke O, La Tortura, and Lady Casper in the car with him.
"This is some bullshit Vato, that fucking Cabron's got us fighting his battle." Syke O screamed out with venom in his tone as he watched Ernesto follow behind Ana's car before watching as the woman made a sharp turn and went down a different road while the Humvee's came speeding behind them.
"'Next time we see those Puta's I say we run them off the road and let whoever's chasing them have them." Lady Casper yelled out just as the sound of automatic gunfire filled their heads and caused them to each duck for cover as the soldiers opened fire on them.
"It's took late for that now." Ernesto yelled out with malice in his tone as the lead Humvee slammed into the back of his car and sent it somewhat veering. "I think these Boboso's are trying to run us off the road." Ernesto shock back just as the Humvee pulled up alongside them and hit them with enough force to cause Ernesto to somewhat lose control.
As he tried to fight to keep control of the vehicle there wasn't much he could do though as the Humvee slammed into the side of his car once more and actually sent it spinning for a few meters before crashing into a light pole with enough force to actually uproot it and sent it crashing down on the streets on top of the vehicle.
"Shit!" Ernesto whispered out in pain as he looked up from the broken windshield and watched, along with the others, as six of the soldiers stepped out of the Humvee and aimed their weapons at the car.
Before the group could squeeze the trigger though they were immediately crushed as a familiar car came speeding their way and sent them all flying either over or under the vehicle.
"GO!" Ana screamed out as she fired a barrage of rounds and managing to strike down one of the soldiers six times in the chest as they tried to run towards the car.
As she provided covering fire Mark, Tully, and Task found themselves jumping out of the car, rushing to the side of Ernesto and the others, then to their surprise begin pulling them out.
"The fuck are you doing?" Syke O asked with venom in his tone.
"Saving your brown ass so appreciate it." Tully yelled back with venom in his tone as Mark grabbed Ernesto by his shoulders and pulled him out of the vehicle before watching as the man drew down on his magnum and fired a single shot that hit man in the center of the head.
"Can you move?" Mark asked earning a nod from the Ondero who rose to his feet and considered to shoot at the group.
"They're encircling!" Ana screamed out as the group noticed more and more Humvee's start to pull up and begin to block off all routes of escape.
"Oh Fuck!" Mark screamed with both Tully, Ernesto, Task, and Syke O almost all at once at the sight of the new arrivals.
New Arcadia
The sound of screams of pain and terror continued to fill the air as the BSU members found themselves now being completely overwhelmed by their attackers who just seemed to be pouring out of almost all areas of the dense swamps while the Helicopter flying over their heads picked them off at every turn.
"I can't feel my legs." Screamed out one man as she found himself trying to crawl back into cover while Lee and Jill providing covering fire.
The duo then watched as the man was shot three times in the back courtesy of the Afro-British man who continued his relentless assault and shot another BSU member in the chest and watched him fall back holding the wound.
"Come out to play!" yelled out the Russian man with the Flamethrower as he sent another tree on fire that was being used as a Sniper's Nest for the BSU members.
He then watched with a glee filled the smile as three of the men came falling from the tree completely engulfed in flames and screaming as they hit the ground with a loud thud.
"Shit!" Jimmy yelled out as he jumped from his own tree and provided covering fire for Thire, Tup, and Tector as they did the same and moved to cover behind of the trees.
"They're killing us out here!" Jill screamed out to Lee before being pulled down by the Chinese man as the man on the Minigun fired off a barrage of rounds at their location and managed to strike down three more BSU members who were left unrecognizable by the number of bullets that turned their bodies almost into chum.
"FUCK YOU!" screamed out a BSU member that was lying on the ground with a bullet wound to the chest before he was hit over the head by the South African man who pulled out the Billy Club that was attached to the back of his armor and started to beat the BSU member over the head until he was ultimately unrecognizable.
While this was going on a violent caught two more BSU members as they tried to run and sent them crashing into the trees while another sat on the ground clutching his bleeding shoulder with tears falling from his eyes as he tried to muffle his screams of pain by giving rather loud winces.
"Get down!" Davey screamed out as both he and Eddy hit the ground only for the former to take a bullet in the shoulder and hit the ground screaming. "Motherfucker it's always me!" he screamed out in anger while Davey grabbed him by his legs and pulled him behind the same tree with Jill and Lee.
"You okay?" Lee asked while watching as Eddy pulled out a towel and pressed it against the man's wound.
"Not really but I can still fight." He replied with a slight smile.
"You don't have to when our reinforcements arrive I want you out of here and you stay stick with him." Lee ordered looking to the two men who merely nodded their heads in disappointment.
"If we don't get rid of that Minigun soon your reinforcements won't stand a chance." Jill stated while taking a sneaky peak at the man behind the weapon.
"I think I have a solution for that but I'm gonna need covering fire." Lee replied while Jill watched him pull the M79 Grenade Launcher from off his back and begin to load a single grenade inside of it.
"You had that this entire time?" she screamed out with rage in her tone.
"I only have one Grenade for it and I didn't want to waste it on the infantry when I figured they'd be bringing something like that." The Chinese man retorted as he sent a look to Jimmy and the others and noticed the group ducking for cover behind a barrage of rounds from their attackers while keeping their heads down so they wouldn't be hit from the Sniper's on the Helicopter.
"We still need a big enough distraction though." Lee let out with a hint of venom in his tone.
"Got damn it that things gotta go." Yelled Tector as a stray bullet whizzed by his head and nearly shaved off a piece of his hair.
"We can focus on the Chopper later more right now we gotta deal with these assholes." Jimmy yelled out as he looked to the man of South African Descent who was holding up a rather large Ballistics Shield as a form of protection against the group while firing from his Mini Uzi and managing to hit a BSU member four times in the chest and causing him to fall back with blood leaking from his forehead.
"I got something for that asshole." Yelled Thire as he pulled out a Hand Grenade and moved to pull the pin only to be stopped courtesy o
"Children!" he said while moving to throw another Flash Grenade only to be taken aback by a barrage of gunfire coming his way courtesy of Lee and Jill.
"You don't get to change partners in this dance." Yelled out the Russian man as he turned his Flamethrower on Jill and Lee who had to duck in order to avoid the flames.
Despite hugging the ground and being protected by Bulletproof Vest the duo could still feel the intense heat of the weapon burning into their backs and leaving them each in a state of pain at the feeling.
The feelings seemed to draw a loud scream from Jill before Lee jumped on her back in order to shield her flames. In doing so though he left himself slightly opened as he felt the heat burn into the back of his neck and almost melt his arm filling the air with a cooked meat smell.
"It's all over now!" the Afro British man called out with a smile as he looked through the scope of his Rifle and aimed it directly at the head of Lee before holding it in place.
Before he could fire off a single shot though the sound of a violent explosion from above filled all of their ears and caught them all by surprise as they each lifted their heads and noticed that the UAV they were using to spot the hiding BSU members had collided with the Helicopter with enough force to cause them both to explode on impact and come crashing down into the swamp.
"Destroy my drone and I'll take your UAV as reparation." Manfred yelled out as he looked at his computer screen with a slight smile while noticing the two aircrafts falling from the sky.
"EVERYBODY MOVE!" The Afro-British man screamed out with fear in his tone as he started to run from the falling aircrafts along with the BSU members. He managed to escape the crash site but the same couldn't be said for many of his Comrades who tried to move only to be crushed by the vehicles and thrown away by the fallout from the explosion.
It didn't Manfred long after the destruction of his drone to hack into the UAV, but what took him the longest was to wait for the Chopper to be position itself in the right spot so that when it fell it would do the most damage to their attackers who had now lost more than half of their forces under the weight and ash left from the vehicles.
The resulting explosion also kicked up a large wave of swamp water that splashed down on top of everyone and left them each somewhat drenched and smelling terrible from the liquid now staining their clothing.
"Fuck!" yelled out the Russian man with the Flamethrower as he started to pick himself up using the Humvee with the Minigun attachment.
His legs felt somewhat number from having to support the weight of his body but he seemed to be making progress as he looked to the man on the gunner he noticed him rubbing his head while blood spewed from the side of his helmet.
"Get back-." Yelled out the Afro-British man as he looked to the Russian and the Humvee and watched as Lee fired the single Grenade from the Grenade Launcher and watched with a smile as it collided with the front of the vehicle and creating an explosion large enough to blow the top half of the Gunners body off and send it flying away from the flaming vehicle while the Russian man was launched backwards from the resulting explosion with fire covering parts of his body as it hit the ground back first with a violent thud.
"Shit!" Yelled the South African man as he started to raise up his Shield just as Thire, Tup, and Tector reloaded their weapons and continued to fire at him.
"Stupid Children-." He started only to go silent as he felt something long, cold, and metallic slide into his right shoulder and cause him to scream out.
"You should really watch what's behind you." Jimmy screamed out while kicking the man's legs out from under him and watching him fall face first into the mud before shooting him several times in the back of the head.
"CLEAR THEM OUT!" Jimmy screamed out as he raised his Battle Rifle and started to return fire on the remaining soldiers as they struggled to stand on their own two feet.
As he shoot down one man with three shots to the chest though he was taken off-guard and hit from the side courtesy of a familiar dog jumping from the bushes and pouncing at him and biting down on his right arm with enough force to draw blood as it fell to the ground and locked its jaws in a death grip.
"SHIT!" the redheaded man screamed out as he tried to pull himself away from the animal while noticing the man of Columbian descent slowly approaching him with his weapon raised at his head.
"DIE!" he screamed out but before he could fire though he was knocked back as five rounds struck him in the chest, sent him falling flat on his back, and clutching his chest before looking up and noticing a rather young dark haired Caucasian teenager running out of the bushes firing a P90 Submachine Gun at him forcing him away from the redheaded man who he quickly assisted by shooting the dog several times in the body before watching it unhook its jaws from the redheaded man's arm.
"Mother-!" Jimmy started with venom in his tone before grabbing the creatures neck and then watching rolling over before giving it a violent jerk and listening for a familiar pop as the animal fell limply on the ground.
"Thanks for the save." Jimmy greeted with a smile while Buck merely nodded his head before the duo watched as three more soldiers were struck from all over and fell to the ground in a bloody heap.
"What the bloody hell?" the Afro-British man yelled out with wide eyes as he watched a rather tall dark skinned African American man come running from the forest firing a AKM Assault Rifle and striking down two more soldiers.
"MARRICK ROMAN IN THE HOUSE!" the man screamed out just as fifteen other African American men came running from the forest firing on the group and managing to take out several other men.
"Shit!" Screamed the Columbian man as he started to take off running only to be hit twice in the backside courtesy of Marrick who watched as the Afro-British man grabbed him by the shoulder and started to carry him away.
"Our Calvary has arrived." Lee said while looking to Jimmy and Jill as the trio met in the center and watched as Marrick led the Roman Boyz reinforcement and immediately started to turn the tide of the battle in the favor of BSU whose injured members were now starting to fall back behind the new arrivals while those who could still fight joined them in their assault as they finally seemed to turn to the tide against the better trained and equipped side.
"Damn it!" yelled out the man of Afro-British descent as he took a round in the shoulder courtesy of the middle born Roman and was knocked back before returning fire and striking a young African American man with a shaved head in the chest.
As he moved to turn his weapon on the remaining BSU members he was stopped by another shot striking him in his other shoulder and quickly noticing Jill pointing her weapon down at him causing him to inwardly curse before moving to run off with the man of Colombian descent while the remaining soldiers provided them covering fire.
"Are they leaving us?" asked one man causing all the others to look back just as he was hit in the neck by a single shot that left him falling to the ground in a heap of blood.
"You mother-." Started another soldier before he was hit in the back of the head causing the others to turn back with wide eyes and notice that now the Roman and BSU opposition was literally on top of them and there was no way for any of them to escape.
"Boom!" Marrick whispered out with a smile before he and others quickly executed the remaining soldiers with smiles on their faces as they riddled each of their bodies with bullets and watched them hit the ground with loud thuds while Lee and the others continued to look on before being interrupted by one of the surviving BSU members approaching them from behind.
"Are we taking prisoners boss?" he asked earning a raised brow from the Chinese man and the others before they followed the lone survivor over to a spot in the woods where they noticed the half-charred remains of the Russian man lying in the dirt.
The man was still alive, just barely though, he had third degree burns to the right side of his face. His left arm and right leg had been completely blown off from the force of the explosion and much of his body armor had either been burned off or melted off.
"Beaten…by children." He breathed out with venom in his tone while Lee and Jimmy stood over him with a smile.
"Not fun is it?" he asked while putting his foot on the man's leg and beginning to apply pressure causing him to give loud winces in pain. "You know if I didn't know exactly who you are and why you're here I swear I would be beating you within an inch of your life. I'm starting to get tired of fucking Russians." He added while the man chuckled.
"So what you're gonna sit here and interrogate a dying man with the promise of making my already slow death quicker?" he asked with winces of pain that came from moving his face.
"Nah you killed a bunch of my friends with that flamethrower of yours and it would be an insult to their memories to let you live even a second longer." Lee stated with a sick smile while the Russian man merely chuckled.
Before he could speak out again though he was forever silenced as Lee put a 12-Gauge Slug into the very center of his head and created a wave of red that splashed on his face, shoes, and clothing while staining and mixing in with the blood beneath their feet.
"Don't you think we may need a prisoner?" Jill asked as she slowly approached the Chinese man who merely chuckled.
"He wouldn't talk, but we don't really need him to." Lee replied, the lack of emotion in his voice seemed to send a chill up the spine of Jill as she watched him turn his head in the direction of Jimmy and notice him standing over the redheaded Scottish man who was still trapped in the razor wire with a pain filled expression on his face. "We got someone just as good." He added before moving to approach the man while also taking in the sight of the many dead BSU members along the way.
"Hopefully you're doing better than we are right now brother." He whispered out with venom in his tone.
Sunbelt City
The sound of gunfire and screams filled the ears of a car full of Azteca's as they found themselves speeding into a neighborhood in the South West where they quickly noticed that many of the residents were fleeing the areas while the bodies of Cholos and Cholas lay on the ground with bullet holes riddling their bodies.
As the driver turned a sharp corner though he was blindsided by a group of soldiers firing off Assault Rifles that riddled the vehicle with bullets and struck him six times in the chest and face while the man in the passenger's seat had his head almost completely taken by the force of one well-placed bullet.
Those in the back seat didn't fare well either as the powerful 5.56 and 7.46 rounds ripped through the bodies and seats of those in the right and struck them from all over.
"Down goes another one!" said the woman with the Mohawk as she watched the car crash into another one that was parked in front of a parked house before turning her weapon back on the Azteca safehouse Mark, Ernesto, and the others were taking shelter inside.
"Damn they just took out more of our Homies." Yelled out La Tortura as she moved to reload her Pistol.
"Stop sending just one car full of Ese's and start bring the whole fucking Caravan." Tully yelled out while firing a barrage of rounds outside of a broken window and managing to hit on the soldiers with five rounds to the chest and send him flying backwards.
"Last we checked asshole this isn't our fight it's yours and we shouldn't even be helping your asses right now." Syke O screamed out while firing his Shotgun outside of the window and forcing a group of men into cover. "Where's your fucking Rifa backup Mark?" he added while looking to the Creole who managed to strike another man down with a barrage of rounds to the chest.
"They didn't like the idea of helping out some Vagos and Azteca's and just gave me a good fucking luck." Mark retorted with venom in his tone.
"Never trust a buster." Lady Casper replied with a chuckle.
In truth, Mark had never actually called the Rifa's for support not because he didn't trust in their abilities but mostly because he didn't want to cause anymore causalities on their side. They were building themselves up and trying to become a powerhouse but a war with this opposition would surely destroy them.
So in Mark's mind a phrase could be best spoken, "Why weaken an ally when you can further weaken your mutual enemy?"
Mark had received the call from Patrick after he was done with the Rifa's like all the others and he was able to hatch a plan of countering them and doing some more harm to the Vagos as well. Him being in the South West and Ernesto and his guys showing up was no coincidence it was something he hoped and planned for.
The results of which seemed to be working. He didn't know what barrio he was in or if it was controlled by either Vago or Azteca but both sides were taking casualties that was now almost in the fifties. This clique would either be folded or wiped out by the time this battle was done and that's something Mark hoped for what he didn't hope for or even predicate though was the addition of Alison and Ana.
Sure, he liked having the new weapons but he didn't like them being here right now, especially Alison. Ana could handle herself, but the redheaded woman wasn't skilled in a gunfight and he didn't want to the be the reason behind her first kill.
"Yeah yeah yeah, you can sit there and talk shit about how this is my fight but whether you wanted to or not you were gonna get dragged into it if this is about what I think it's about." Mark replied to the confusion of the group.
"The fuck are you talking about Marcus?" Ernesto asked with venom in his tone while firing a well-placed round from the AKM Assault Rifle and striking one man in his Adam's Apple.
"I'll explain when we're not getting shot at." The Creole screamed back before firing off another barrage of rounds that forced the man with the Mohawk to retreat into cover behind a Humvee.
"Damn it where's our breaching team?" he yelled out with venom in his tone while another group of soldiers, led by a woman of Spanish descent, found themselves jumping the fence into the backyard of the house and approaching it slowly.
"It's a little too quiet out here." She spoke while the woman of Chinese descent gave a low chuckle.
"With everyone that's at the front I think they don't realize we're coming." She retorted while following the woman towards the back door.
"Still we should remain on guard though." Added the man of Nicaraguan descent as he followed closely behind the two women as they finally reached the backdoor.
Before they could kick it open though a single shot rang out that caught them all by surprise as they watched the lead woman fall with a bullet wound striking her lower jaw and almost completely blowing it off.
"Shit!" screamed out the Chinese woman before a barrage of rounds struck her in right arm, causing her to drop her weapon, and left leg courtesy of Ana who was standing behind the door and firing through it while the man of Nicaraguan descent fired into the windows giving her cover fire to try and retreat from the back of the house while he moved to grab the woman of Spanish descent.
Before he could reach her though he was caught by surprise as the door opened up and Ana stood on the otherside with her P227 drawn and aimed directly at the man's head.
"Fucking bitch-!" he started before the woman pulled the trigger and struck him once in the top of the head before closing the door as his body crumbled to the floor.
As she stepped back inside the house she couldn't help but to look at Alison who was guarding the hallway of the house as instructed by Mark. When it came down to having her fight neither liked the idea of it, but both knew that there was no way around it especially with the way things were now.
"They just tried to hit us from behind." Ana replied while approaching Mark and the others.
"Glad to see these pricks aren't giving up." Task replied as he fired a single shot that managed to hit one of the soldiers in the right eye and blow off a chunk of his head.
"Now they've gotta come at us from the front but they're gonna throw everything at us now." Mark replied with a hint of venom in his tone as he ducked and reloaded his weapon.
"You mean something like that." Syke O retorted earning everyone's attention as they looked out the window and noticed the woman with the Mohawk pulling an M32 Grenade Launcher from the back of one of the Humvee's and taking aim at the front of the house.
"MOVE!" Mark screamed out while everyone started to back away from the windows as the woman fired the first Grenade and sent it crashing against the front of the house creating a violent explosion that blew off the door and sent everyone falling back.
She then fired a second, this one higher, and striking the roof creating another violent explosion that caused the building to shake and send chunks of wood down on top of the group.
"She's trying to bring the house down on us." Ana screamed out while Mark pulled Alison to the ground as the woman fired another Grenade that flew inside the house and completely destroyed the living room and leaving some of them with ringing ears.
"SHIT!" Ernesto screamed out as he moved for the door but as soon as he opened it was met by the sight of the Chinese woman on the other end holding up a .357 Magnum in his direction.
As she fired off a single shot Ernesto gave a loud scream of pain as the powerful bullet struck him in the left shoulder and sent him crumbling to the floor screaming in agony.
"Shit!" Syke O yelled out as he turned his Shotgun on the woman and struck her once in the chest and sent her flying backwards and crashing through the wooden fence.
"Goodbye!" whispered out the woman with the Mohawk as she moved to fire her last Grenade in the house but before she could do so she was hit several times in the bulletproof vest courtesy of Mark who watched her fall back and squeeze the trigger on the launcher and instead send the last Grenade flying in the direction of one of the Humvee's and completely blowing it to pieces.
"NOW!" Mark screamed out as he, Tully, Task, and Ana each jumped from the window and started to open fire on the remaining soldiers forcing them into cover or either taking hits.
No sooner had they done this the sight of three more Peyotes speeding towards their location caused them to each give smiles for different reasons as more Vagos poured into the scene and started to lay down covering fire for the group.
"Come on!" Mark screamed out looking to Syke O who had threw Ernesto over his shoulder and started to walk him out of the house in the direction of the attacking Vagos while everyone else gave them covering fire.
"They're escaping!" yelled out the man with the Mohawk as he looked to the fleeing group with wide eyes.
"Come on Jefe we're almost there." Syke O yelled out just as Mark managed to shoot down one last man before lifting his head and noticing something out the corner of his eyes.
"SHIT MOVE!" he screamed out causing everyone to turn their heads as a man armed with an LAW Rocket Launcher and fired a single rocket that collided with the side of one of the Peyotes.
The resulting explosion soon created a chain reaction that left the other two vehicles exploding and sent the Vagos standing closest to it flying with either one or multiple of their limbs being removed from the force of the explosion. The explosion also managed to knock back Ernesto and all the others along with Mark who tried to cover both Alison and Ana in time but only managed to knock them both back as the fallout from the explosion separated them all.
"Damn it!" Mark screeched out in pain as he moved to stand only to be hit four times in the chest by the man with the Mohawk.
Lucky for him the vest took much of the damage but it was still enough to do hurt the youngest Roman who took a few steps back but tried to keep his balance only to finally fall as one of the man armed with a Remington 870 Shotgun fired a single shot that hit him square center mass of the chest causing Mark to stagger back before he felt someone grab him from behind.
"Got you now asshole." The man screamed out as Mark tried to get away only to be hit in the stomach courtesy of one of the soldiers brandishing a Billy Club and hitting the Roman again with enough force to cause him to spit blood.
With him now weakened the other soldiers now saw their chance and started to pounce of the youngest Roman who could nothing but collapse to the ground in pain as the group viciously beat him with either their clubs or their fist.
"Motherfucker!" one of the men screamed out as he drew his own Knife and moved to stab Mark in the stomach causing the man to scream out again in pain. The Vest managed to keep the blade from going all the way inside of him but the tip was still sharp enough to breach somewhat through and poke him slightly in the gut.
While the group continued to beat on the youngest Roman Ernesto, Syke O, Tully, Task, Lady Casper, and La Tortura each found themselves slightly trying to stand up only to be stopped as the remaining soldiers drew their weapons on them and kept them still.
"Get off him!" Alison screamed out as she fired into the crowd of men swarming Mark, hitting two men in the back, before she was tackled to the ground courtesy of the woman with the Mohawk who was now back on her feet and proceeded to throw three punches to her face before Ana intervened and knocked the woman to the ground and knocked her out with a spinning heel kick to the side of the head.
Before the Chinese woman do more though she was met with a hard punch to the jaw courtesy of the man with the Mohawk who knocked her to the ground.
"Fucking bitch!" he screamed out while Mark managed to turn his blood covered face and noticed the two women as they were being grabbed by a couple of the soldiers and thrown into the back of one of the Humvees.
NO!
It was one word but it carried a lot of weight and this word seemed to fill the mind of the youngest Roman almost like oxygen in everyday life as he watched the two women be carried to the car.
With that Mark was able to summon forth strength, endurance, and sheer will that he never knew he had and left everyone amazed as they watched him jump onto his feet and knock away the attacking soldiers who watched as he drew his M1911 and Combat Knife before firing off a single shot that struck one man in the center of the head before moving to rake the blade across the neck of another.
"Shit!" Tully let out in bewilderment as he watched Mark stab another man in the shoulder then use his body like a Bullet Shield against one man firing an MP5 before he was hit courtesy of the corpse before being hit in the head by the youngest Roman who now turned his Pistol on the soldiers standing over Ernesto and the others and killing them all.
As he moved to turn back at the duo who'd taken the two he was taken off-guard as the woman with the Mohawk charged him and threw four punches his way that he managed to block before kicking her knee and throwing a punch for her head.
"Shit!" said the man with the Mohawk as he moved to jump into the Humvee where Alison and Ana were located before noticing the injured Chinese woman limping towards them and deciding to move back to help them.
"FUCK YOU!" the woman with the Mohawk screamed out as she put her finger into the bullet wound in Mark's shoulder causing him to scream out before taking a hit to the side of the face as the woman tried her best to beat him back to one of the burning Peyotes.
As she tried to deliver a straight kick that would send him back Mark merely grabbed her by her leg, spun, and stabbed her in the right shoulder with his Combat Knife with enough force that the blade came out of her body. The sound of her screams seemed to deafen the battlefield as Mark pushed her back into the flames with enough force that his knife actually broke through the side of the burning car and pinned the woman who could do nothing but scream in pain as she tried to fight off the blade.
"Asshole!" Mark screamed out as he turned back to the Humvee and noticed the man with the Mohawk moving to climb inside.
"You're not taking them." He shouted before running after the man only to stumble as the man picked up the Remington 870 from one of the dead soldiers and fired a single shot that struck Mark in his upper right leg, dead center in the quads.
This caused the Roman to drop down to the ground and scream out in pain as he felt the burning pellets from the Shotgun dig into his skin and almost add extra weight on his leg as he tried to stand back up and chase after the man as he climbed into the Humvee and started to drive off.
"YOU MOTHERFUCKER GET BACK HERE!" Mark screamed up as he finally managed to stand up and hobble after the vehicle before finally collapsing on his face and begin crawling after him.
"BRING THEM BACK!" he screamed out as Tully and Task moved over to help him while Ernesto and the others stood back and looked on with mixed expressions.
Elsewhere
Despite all the action that was going on around him Felix found himself having a good time at home with mother who he hadn't seen in almost a month since coming back to Sunbelt City. The duo had spent much of the day together and were now sitting with each other watching a movie like they did when he was younger.
As he walked out of the room to go to the bathroom though he was cut off by a series of gunshots coming from outside and riddling his living room with enough rounds that the TV was destroyed, the living room walls were covered in holes, and all the pictures were broken.
"Pinche Cabron!" Felix screamed out as he drew his Pistol and rushed out the front door where he noticed a Caucasian man with short black hair holding a smoking M249 Saw Light Machine Gun with a smile on his face climbing into a jeep.
"BASTARDS!" he screamed out while firing at the fleeing vehicle until his gun ran empty.
As he moved to make his way back inside of his house though he was left frozen in place as he looked back into the living room and noticed his now dead mother lying on the floor with bullet holes riddling her back and going all the way to a rather large hole in the back of her head.
"NO MAMA!" he screamed out before dropping down to his knees next to the woman and pulling her close to him.
As his tears mixed in with her blood he couldn't help but to let out an ear shattering scream to the heavens as the feeling of his entire world coming to crash down on him seemed to forever fill his mind.
Authors Note: Phew sorry for the long wait everyone but I didn't expect this chapter to be so long and I've been having problems with my computer which has made keeping up with this story somewhat complicated.
On top of that I got Red Dead Redemption 2 over the break and Resident Evil 2 Remake yesterday and well let's just say I've been a little preoccupied. Which is no excuse.
As you can kinda guess from what happened in the beginning of this chapter towards the shootout at the end that this new enemy that I've been hinting at would become a new plague for the group is indeed…Merryweather Security. What's their reason for wanting to openly challenge BSU well you'll have to find that out next chapter.
There was a lot of action in this chapter I almost don't know where to begin. Mark is the leader of BSU but as you can tell when he's not around and neither is Lee, leadership in BSU is kind of shifty at most between Jimmy and Link and in terms of respect from other gangs they don't really receive as warm a welcome as Mark and Lee.
Cruz's attack on Mariah is sort of a way to get her out of the picture but next chapter you'll see that really blow up in both of their faces.
Some of you have been asking me why I've shown the BSU members training a lot more and this chapter and this war is kinda the reason for that. BSU by themselves can barely hold out against most street gangs with Mark, Lee, or any of his guys backing them so matching up against Merryweather would be a fools game with no real training. So that is my way of trying to even up the fight which still saw them getting completely wrecked but they held out long enough.
Thank you Onkwehonwe for letting me kill off those characters I hope you like how they all went out in a combination of sick and funny.
On a serious note I bet none of you saw that ending coming. Alison and Ana being kidnapped aside I bet none of you would have guessed I would go after Felix's mother. It ties into what happened in the past that has Merryweather after their asses to begin with.
Stick around for next chapter as Mark is on the hunt and takes his fight with Merryweather to Los Santos, Lee and the others deal with the fallout of their attack and reveal the truth to Ernesto, and Cruz finds himself and his family in the crosshairs of Mariah.
Thank you all for reading Zilla 2000 out.
