Jasmine slowly stirred from her sleep several hours later, she sat up in her bed and rubbed her forehead as she groaned, "Fuck, my head hurts. please tell me I knocked out that terminator maid."
Revy smiled at her girlfriend and shook her head and replied,
"Afraid not Jasmine, but I know that you'll get even with psycho maid the next time you meet."
Jasmine then grit her teeth slightly as she replied, "You're damn right I'm gonna get even with psycho maid the next time we meet. We should see what job Dutch has for us."
When Revy and Jasmine walked into the other room with the others holding hands with each other, Dutch smiled at Jasmine as he said, "Good to see you're finally awake Jasmine, got a contract that came in for you." Jasmine perked her brow at Dutch and asked,
"Really? Who hired me, and who's my target?"
Benny leaned back on the sofa and took a sip of his can of beer as he said, "You're familiar with the Church of Violence, right? Because this contract came from Yolanda. But...as for your target, apparently it's some mercenary from outside Roanapur. works for the Florida Crime Syndicate."
Jasmine frowned a little as she let out a sigh and said,
"Unfortunately I am familiar with the Florida Crime Syndicate, not the friendliest bunch."
Revy then perked a brow at her girlfriend as she asked, "What do ya mean? Did you used to work for them or somethin'?" Jasmine shook her head slightly at Revy and replied,
"Not really, remember when I told you I had blood on my hands? Well, what I didn't tell you guys is that I had accepted a couple of contracts from them in the past before I came here. they liked my work and every so often I would get a contract from them. I only did small jobs for them such as collecting money from clients, kinda like what we do now. but...a few times they sent me contracts where my target was a kid and so I refused them and sent them back."
Rock then looked a little confused at Jasmine as he said to her, "I don't get it though Jasmine, you say you don't kill children and yet you killed Gretel. She was just a kid and you killed her for Balalaika." Jasmine glared at Rock as she snapped,
"That was different! Those Romanian twins were fucking twisted by twisted people! When I say I don't kill children, I mean kids who live happy lives and have parents who love them! You know, when your company offered me a huge sum of money to take you out of the picture, I accepted it. and not for the money, but because I was the best god damn assassin they could find on the planet! Not a single one of my targets I was contracted to kill got away from me! You were the one fucking exception because I fucked up! Just remember that Rock, or I swear to god they will ship your corpse back to Japan after I'm finished with you!"
Revy then slowly lowered Jasmine's gun she had pointed at Rock as she calmly said, "Relax short fuse, I don't know what happened to Rock in Japan but he has changed and I don't like it. Let's just go to the Rip off Church and get some more information from Yolanda, ok?" Jasmine closed her eyes for a moment and took a couple of deep breaths to calm herself, as she softened her grip on her gun before she looked back at her girlfriend and replied,
"Yeah, going to the Rip off Church sounds like a good idea. I don't want to be in the same room as Rock at the moment as I might end up pulling the trigger on him."
Before then both Jasmine and Revy slowly walked out of the Lagoon office as Benny tossed Jasmine the keys to his car as they headed towards the Church of Violence, Dutch then let out a sigh as he looked at Rock as he said, "You dodged a bullet there Rock, maybe next time try not to antagonize Jasmine as Revy might not be around to stop her from putting your ass in wooden box. Am I clear?"
The Church of Violence…
Jasmine parked the car outside the Church of Violence and took a deep breath before unclipping her seatbelt, Revy turned to Jasmine in the passenger seat as she said, "Try not to let Rock get on your nerves too much, ok short fuse? He gets on my nerves sometimes too."
Jasmine looked back at Revy and let out a sigh as she replied, "It's not how Rock says things, it's the way he says things that pisses me off. I might be a former assassin and just a hired mercenary now, but I know where to draw the line. you of all people know I wasn't comfortable smuggling that kid, but I did it anyway because it was a job and we have to put food on the table somehow, right?"
After Revy and Jasmine got out of the car and walked to the door, before Jasmine took a deep breath and knocked on the door as she said, "Yolanda, it's Jasmine and Rebecca of the Lagoon company. Figured you might know some more information about my target you hired me for."
Revy then knocked on the door again, this time a little louder as she said, "Hey! Open up you old hag! Jasmine needs to know some details about her target you hired her for." while they were waiting for a response, Eda walked over to them and smiled before she said,
"Hey ladies, the old hag is busy at the moment. but maybe I could help?"
Jasmine looked at Eda and scoffed as she replied, "If you think I am giving you a cut of my reward for completing this contract, you can fuck off. But I need some information about my target, all I know so far is that they are from the Florida Crime Syndicate. Unless you know something?"
Eda looked at Jasmine as she said, "Apparently the person you are after is Guy Russell, don't really know anything else about him though, sorry if I couldn't be of any more help to you." Jasmine shrugged her shoulders at Eda and replied,
"I have a name at least, so that's something I can work with."
Just then, a blonde woman came running into the Church with a bag around her before the woman looked at Jasmine and the others as said while panicking, "Please, you have to help me. if those guys find me, I'm as good as dead." Jasmine then looked at the woman and replied,
"First of all calm down, and secondly what makes you think we would want to help you?"
The woman looked at Jasmine as she fumbled with a bag she had with her as she said, "m-my name is Jane, you guys like money, right? Well, I can make lots of money! Don't believe me? here look at this then." as Jane handed Jasmine two notes, Jasmine looked at the notes with Revy and Eda and replied,
"I don't get what the point you are trying to make is here? These notes look the same."
Jane then smiled at Jasmine and the others as she proudly said, "I guess my counterfeiting skills are so good that I managed to fool you, look closer at the notes. Surely you see a difference?"
Jasmine then took another look at the notes before she replied,
"Oh now I can see the difference, one of the notes is a slightly lighter colour than the other. Damn, if you weren't paying close attention then you probably wouldn't know the difference."
Eda then looked at Jane as she said, "Those are some impressive skills ya got there kid. you could make a fortune here." But Jane shook her head at Eda and replied,
"I don't want to be here! That's the thing. Those guys who are after me hired me and my friend to print money for them, well hired being a loose term." before she then added, "Anyway, they killed my friend, and if they find me then they are gonna kill me too! You have to help me, please."
Eda then smiled at Jane as she said, "Well, I guess it's your lucky day kid. I happen to know some people who could help you out, for now though why don't ya head to the Ram Shack Inn, Tell'em Eda sent ya."
Jane then slowly nodded at Eda as she replied, "Ok, if you think that will help." before Jane then began walking out of the Church, as Eda called out to her,
"That advice ain't free ya know!"
Before Jane then went into her bag and placed some money in the pot before leaving, Jasmine then looked at Eda as she said, "I'd love to stay and chat Eda, but I have a contract to fulfil and I ain't gonna find Russell sitting around here."
Revy smiled at Eda as she said, "I agree, we ain't gonna find shit sitting around here, and if anyone can track this Russell guy down, it's Jasmine. She's crazy good at finding people." Jasmine smiled and giggled a little at her girlfriend before she replied,
"That may be true, but I still have to keep my guard up. After all, I don't know who might come after me next and try to claim that bounty."
But as soon as Revy and Jasmine exited the Church, they saw a few cars pull up before one of the thugs said,
"We know the girl is inside, hand her over and we can settle this without anyone getting hurt."
Jasmine smiled at the thugs outside the Church as she replied, "I'm afraid the person you're looking for isn't here. I suggest you guys look somewhere else otherwise this won't end well."
One of the thugs smirked at Jasmine as they said, "Quit lying, we know the girl is inside. Hand her over and we will just walk away, easy as that. So come on, hand her over already."
Jasmine then scowled at the thugs outside as she took out her pistol and loaded it as she replied, "Well, congratulations smartass. You've just managed to piss off the angel of death, and that means you've just earned you and your buddies a one way ticket to hell!" before she then aimed her pistol at one of the thugs.
One of the other thugs looked at Jasmine with fear in his eyes before he said, "Aw shit, that girl is known as the angel of death! if she got a contract on you, you're as good as dead as noone has ever escaped her sights."
Another thug shrugged his shoulders before he said, "So what? if she's helping the girl, she dies too! Bosses orders."
Then one of the thugs fired his gun at Jasmine causing both Jasmine and Revy to duck behind the Church doors as they returned fire with some shots of their own, Eda then stood by the Church doors as she fired her gun at the thugs outside as she screamed, "You do know you are on sacred grounds, right? Assholes!"
Yolanda then walked towards the door with Rico as she said, "Now then, what's all this racket?" and Eda continued firing her pistol at the thugs with Jasmine and Revy as she looked back at Yolanda and replied,
"These assholes just showed up looking for some girl and then started firing at us."
Just then a bullet flew past Yolanda as it hit the door before Yolanda scowled as she growled, "Show them the might of God!" as Rico unloaded his LMG clip towards the thugs and one of the bullets hit the fuel cap on one of the cars causing it to explode into a ball of flames as the other thugs scrambled to their cars and left.
Later…
Jane was laying on her bed inside the Ramshack Inn and let out a sigh as she said to herself, "How am I gonna get away from this crazy place? I just wanted to live a normal life, not sitting here miles on the other side of the world printing money for criminals." she then perked a brow as she looked up at the ceiling that had some writing on it that said, 'look to your left for the way out.'
She let out a sigh as she thought to herself, "Yeah right, like I'm gonna listen to some idiot scribbling on the walls." before she then closed her eyes as she tried to get some sleep. She tossed and turned before she was suddenly woken up by the sound of doors being kicked open, her eyes grew wide as the sound seemed to be getting closer and closer to her room.
As Jane leaned against a nearby wall to hear what was going on, she could hear one of the thugs yelling,
"Come on, she has to be hiding in one of these rooms! We'll find her eventually!"
Jane then quietly exited her room and tried to run as fast as she could before one of the thugs had spotted her and called out to the others,
"Hey! I found the girl, she's getting away!"
The thugs then started chasing Jane down the hallway of the hotel before they soon came to what looked like a dead end, Jane then thought to herself, "Great, a dead end. I'm done for!" Before part of the wall opened and Jasmine pulled Jane through, she could see that it was a hidden door.
Jasmine then closed the door behind them and they could hear the thugs banging on the other side, Jane took a deep breath before she scowled at Eda,
"You told me to go to that room on purpose, didn't you? And after I went to all that trouble asking for help!"
Jasmine leaned against the door and let out a frustrated sigh as she said, "If you prefer, I could open this door and let these assholes on the other side after you. After all, we're risking our asses trying to help you."
Jane then gave Jasmine a confused look as she replied, "Wait, you guys are helping me? but...why are you helping me after you turned me away before?" Eda smirked at Jane before she said,
"Right now, we're your only means of survival and I happen to know just the person to help get you away from here."
That night…
Jane and the others had made it to the docks and walked inside the building, Eda smiled as she picked up one of the bottles of alcohol from the shelf much to the displeasure of Revy who was sitting on a chair as Revy looked at Eda and growled,
"Eda, don't even bother. if Dutch finds out we went through his personal bottles he'd fucking kill the both of us."
Eda looked back at Revy as she pouted, "Come Revy, learn to live a little, where's your sense of adventure?"
Revy grit her teeth a little as she looked back at Eda and growled,
"I'm serious Eda."
Meanwhile Jasmine was leaning against a wall looking out of the window before she then grit her teeth as she saw some cars pulling up outside and she looked back at Revy and the others as she said to them, "Damn, we've got company." and Eda readied her pistol before she replied,
"These assholes don't know when to quit, do they?"
A few thugs exited the cars and started firing, a few of the bullets shattering the windows and Jasmine fired back a few shots of her own with her sniper taking out a few of the thugs before one of them shouted,
"Take cover! They have a damn sniper!"
A couple of Jasmine's shots hit the fuel cap on some of the cars parked outside causing them blow up in a ball of flames which scattered some of the thugs outside, before her attention then switched when she heard a chainsaw being revved behind her which was held by a small looking woman who had a scar going across their throat.
The woman held up some kind of speaking device against her throat as she said, "I'm going chop you into tiny pieces! Won't you play with me?" before the woman then lunged at Jasmine wildly swinging her chainsaw towards her and Jasmine managed to avoid the blades of the chainsaw each time.
Jasmine created some distance between herself and the chainsaw wielding maniac and swapped her sniper for her beretta as she fired a few shots at the woman as she replied, "Fucking hell! in all my time as a hired assassin, I never had anyone trying to kill me with a freaking chainsaw before."
Revy also fired a few shots at the woman with the chainsaw which got her attention as she barked, "Hey spooky, leave Jasmine alone! Why don't you take on someone who could give you a real challenge."
The chainsaw wielding woman then charged after Revy swinging the chainsaw wildly as Revy dodged and weaved out of the way while firing her pistols, meanwhile Eda kicked open a door that lead down to the docking bay and motioned for Revy and the others to follow as she said, "C'mon this way! Our ticket out of here should be waiting for us."
So Revy and the others ran towards Eda and through the door downstairs, before Eda then had a shocked look on her face as she said, "Are you kidding me? I was banking on that boat of yours to be here!" Jasmine scowled at Eda and growled,
"That was your master plan? How the fuck were myself and Revy meant to know Dutch and Benny went out to do a job with Rock? Great plan Eda!"
Eda scowled back at Jasmine as she retorted, "Well, I was hoping Dutch would be here so we get this brat somewhere safe!"
While Jasmine and Eda were arguing, Jane noticed a middle aged looking man holding a lighter walking towards them with a smile on his face as he said, "Oh hi there, could you do me a favour and stand still so I can roast you?" before a cone of flames shot out from the small lighter and Revy pulled Jane out of the way before running back up the stairs.
The flames slowly started spreading from downstairs and Jasmine opened a hatch that lead to the roof and coughed a little from the smoke as she helped Jane climb up onto the roof, before she then looked towards Eda as she said, "Hey Eda! up here quickly. Me and Revy will be behind you."
Eda continued firing her pistol as she walked towards Jasmine and started climbing up to the roof, before looking back briefly and said,
"You better be right behind us, just don't get yourselves killed!"
Both Revy and Jasmine aimed their pistols patiently waiting for more people to enter the building when suddenly a few knives came bursting through one of the windows causing Revy and Jasmine to dodge out of the way, but Jasmine wasn't so lucky as one of the knives caught her in the shoulder and she grasped it in pain as she said, "Gah!"
Revy looked at her girlfriend as she said, "You ok short fuse?" Jasmine grunted a little as she pulled the knife out from her shoulder, her wound was leaking blood slightly, before she looked back at Revy as she nodded her head and replied,
"I'll be fine, it will take more than that to keep me down. Don't worry about me."
They could see a woman standing by the window that the knives broke as the woman smiled as she said, "Sorry, but I get paid a big sum of money if I can remove your pretty head from your shoulders."
Revy scowled at the woman as she pointed her cutlass pistols at her as she growled, "Sorry to disappoint ya chinglish, if you want Jasmine you're gonna have to go through me!" Shenhua then smiled at Revy and replied,
"Fine by me Twinkie, I'll give you a new asshole to shit from!"
Smoke from the flames was beginning to fill the room and Jasmine coughed a little before she looked at Revy as she said, "I...I have an idea, it's risky though." Revy also coughed a little from the smoke as she kept her pistols trained on Shenhua outside as she tilted her head back a Jasmine and replied,
"I don't care what the risks are! Just tell me what your plan is, unless you want this burning building to be our grave."
Jasmine then let out a small sigh and coughed again before she looked back at Revy as she said, "Fine, if...if you can keep that bitch distracted. I can get a clear shot with my Valkyrie sniper rifle." Revy smiled at Jasmine and replied,
"Don't worry, I can definitely keep chinglish distracted long enough for you to take the shot."
Before Revy then charged at Shenhua firing her cutlass pistols causing Shenhua to block or deflect the incoming bullets with her kukri knives, meanwhile Jasmine aimed her sniper towards the nearest window, waiting for the right moment to pull the trigger.
Shenhua continued throwing knives towards Revy as she chased her and Revy ducked or dodged out of the way of the incoming knives, but as Revy ran past the window that Jasmine was aiming her sniper, she caught one of the knives thrown b Shenhua in her boot while leaning backwards to give Jasmine the clear shot she needed.
As Shenhua was chasing after Revy, it was too late to figure out what she was planning as she turned to see Jasmine aiming her sniper at the window she was standing, Jasmine smiled as she said, "Say goodnight bitch!" Before pulling the trigger launching Shenhua from the balcony, afterwards both Revy and Jasmine made their way up to the roof to join the others.
In the distance, Rock and Benny saw the smoke coming from the dock before Benny then looked towards the cabin as he said, "Dutch, you might wanna come look at this. It doesn't look good."
Dutch then came up from the cabin to take a look and lit up a cigarette and let out a puff of smoke before he replied, "Some son of a bitch is lighting up my docking bay. We better go and rescue Revy and Jasmine." before he then went back inside the cabin and began driving towards the burning docking bay.
Meanwhile Jasmine and Revy made their way up onto the roof with the others and Jasmine noticed Sawyer was sitting down with her head in her hands, before she clutched at her shoulder in pain as she said, "Fuck, my shoulder is killing me." Revy smiled as she looked at her girlfriend and replied,
"When Dutch gets here, we should get ya patched up, short fuse. After all, I can't have you dying on me."
Jasmine smiled back at Revy as she scoffed, "Let's just survive this first before we worry about getting patched up, ok? I still have a contract to fulfill and I doubt we can hold out much longer given our current situation."
Revy grit her teeth slightly as she replied, "God I hate it when you're right, this building probably won't last much longer if this fire keeps up. Dutch better get here soon or else we're all gonna end up in a fiery grave."
Then as if on cue, Revy saw Dutch and the others arrive as Dutch leaned out the cabin and yelled,
"Yo Revy, Jasmine! Everyone hop on!"
So Eda and the others leaped from the roof towards the boat and most of them had made the landing, but Jasmine had somehow misjudged her jump as she landed in the water just short of the boat before Rock and Revy pulled her onto it. Russell then motioned towards the boat as he said, "What are you standing around for? Don't let them get away!" before jumping onto the boat.
Dutch noticed this and started pulling the boat away from the dock as he said, "We're about to have some uninvited guests, you might want to hold on to something!" Jasmine noticed the flamer from before as well as a few others had made it onto the boat with them, so she ducked behind the cabin and fired a few shots from her beretta killing a few thugs and knocking them into the water.
On the other side of the boat Revy and Eda killed a few thugs before she strapped herself to the boat and looked at Eda as she said, "You might wanna strap in, Dutch is about to do something crazy." before she then looked at Dutch through the window of the cabin and said to him,
"Hey Dutch, Rodeo!"
Dutch nodded his head as he replied, "Hold on tight. Things are about to get a little bumpy." Before he turned the boat as far as he could, both Revy and Eda held onto the side of the cabin as tight as they could. Jasmine also held onto the cabin as hard as she could as the boat swerved left causing a few of the thugs to lose their balance as they were thrown overboard.
Guy Russell however was smart enough to head down towards the engine room and smiled to himself as he said, "Heh, if I damage their engines enough I can stop them dead in their tracks." before he then picked a wrench and started bashing it against the engine, hoping the damage would be enough to stop the engine dead.
Once Dutch had slowed the boat down, he could hear some faint banging sounds coming from the engine room as he looked up at Revy and said, "Revy, one of those assholes made it inside and is trying to sabotage our engines. Think you can handle it?" and Revy smiled at Dutch and replied,
"Dutch, you know I could take care of it. but this isn't my job to finish, it's Jasmine's."
Before Revy then looked over at Jasmine as she said to her, "Hey short fuse, one of those fuckers made it inside. Make sure to finish the job!" Jasmine looked back at Revy and smirked before she replied,
"Don't worry, I can deal with our stowaway. I always get my kill!"
Jasmine then went below deck to the engine room where she found who she was looking for and smirked as she said, "Well, well, well, Guy Russell. Looks like you've come face to face with the angel of death, so are you gonna make this easy for me?" Guy Russell looked at Jasmine and smiled before he replied,
"Well I'll be damned, I think I've seen ya around before. Yeah...I remember now, you sent those contracts back about them kids, right?"
Jasmine grit her teeth slightly as she said, "Don't play games with me! If you think you know me so well, what part of the States am I from?" Russell wiped some sweat from his forehead as he smiled slightly and replied,
"Y-you're from Los Angeles right? We should be working together! Just hand over the girl and we can forget about all this. I'll even give ya a cut of my pay, what do you say, sugar?"
Jasmine scowled, "Wrong! I'm from Florida. And I don't need money from scumbags like you!" before she then fired a shot from her pistol, the bullet hitting Russell right in the head as blood sprayed across Jasmine's face as he dropped to the floor lifeless. Jasmine took one last look at Russell before she said, "Target eliminated." before heading topside again.
Later…
Jasmine was sitting down on the deck leaning against the cabin looking over at Roanapur all lit up under the night sky, when Dutch came out to join her and tossed her a bag and Jasmine looked at the bag before she looked back at Dutch and perked a brow at him as she asked, "What's this, Dutch?"
Dutch smiled as he let out a puff of smoke from his cigarette as he replied, "That's your pay for the job, plus the money from Yolanda for completing her contract. You did good today Jasmine."
Jasmine then grabbed the bag of money and pulled it towards her, before she looked up at Dutch and smiled slightly as she replied, "Right. Thanks Dutch." Dutch just simply smiled and nodded his head before heading back inside.
While Jasmine went back to looking out at Roanapur and reached into her pocket to pull out her pack of cigarettes, but as she opened the pack she noticed it was empty, so she threw the empty pack into the sea as she cursed, "Fuck sake! I'm out of cigarettes." she then let out a sigh as she thought to herself, "At least I can rest for a bit, who knows when someone else might try and take me out to claim that bounty that has been put on me. I'm lucky I have someone like Revy to watch my back."
Revy then eventually came out to join Jasmine and sat down next to her before lighting a cigarette as she said, "I'm surprised you're still up here short fuse, thought you would be taking a nap by now." Jasmine smiled at Revy and replied,
"I'll go and lay down in a minute, I was just...clearing my head a little first, that's all."
Revy let out a puff of smoke and perked a brow at Jasmine as she said, "Anything you wanna talk about?" Jasmine shook her head and replied,
"Not really, just finally letting go of the past so I can move on and make new memories with people who make me happy."
Revy then went to say something else, when she looked over and saw that Jasmine was fast asleep, so she smiled to herself as she said, "You idiot, you'll catch a cold sleeping up here all night." before Revy then gently lifted her girlfriend up and carried her down below deck, being careful as she could not to disturb her.
