Mako's Messsage: Sorry it took so long to get this to you. I've been feeling under the weather lately and it's been all I can do just to stay awake after work, and I haven't even been managing that most nights. This is also why I don't have the list of Bonus Chapter Qualifiers for you, so sorry for the delay on that as well. (This would be a good opportunity to back review if you want it.)
In the meantime, go read Deceit for Desire. Yes it's a Red Mist fic, but it's GOOD. So suck it up and read it.
Oh, and look at that, it's an action scene. Don't see many of those in this story.
Oh my god today was so awesome I haven't even taken off my costume yet.
We were out on a patrol, well, not really patrolling, hunting. We'd gotten a tip about a drug deal going down, but only a vague idea of where. And we finally came across these three cars and two SUVs in an alley and all the doors were open. Then we saw the body laying behind one of the cars.
Now, we'd learned from that cluster fuck at the bar, so when we heard someone coming out of the building the cars were parked behind, we ducked into a doorway to see what we were up against. Two of that motherfucker's cunts came out, and it was obvious they were his. They don't have a uniform or anything, but they do have a style, if you can call it that. It's this weird mix of half-assed and trying-too-hard.
So these two guys came out and started carrying the body into the building. But with four cars there were still a lot of bodies unaccounted for, and we waited a little longer to see if anyone else was going to come out when Dave tapped me on the shoulder and pointed towards a dumpster a couple buildings down.
Biker Knight was doing the same thing we were.
Dave pulled a pen-light out of his belt pouch and flashed it at him.
It's kind of hard to tell where exactly that guy is looking with that helmet of his, but he turned his head to look straight at us and signaled with that, two fingers to the eyes and then pointing them at us to let us know he saw us.
Then maybe six guys came out carrying what looked like coke and started loading it into one of the SUVs, when they went back in I signaled that we should get closer after the next load. He seemed hesitant to take orders from me, but he nodded and Dave and I ran up to the cars after the cunts had come and gone again and he hid behind one of the SUVs. I signaled that we should take them after they dropped off the next load and he nodded.
They came back out, and when they headed back in we pounced.
Biker Knight marched up with the blunted short swords and nailed three of them in the neck in rapid succession, I leapt onto the hood of a car then onto one of them, with one hand on his face and knocking him over and smashing his head into the ground at the same time, then I leapt from him onto another guy, put my feet on his hips, grabbed him by the shirt and flipped him into the ground, driving my knees into his diaphragm as I did so. Dave wasn't as graceful or efficient, but it was effective; he grabbed a guy, threw him face first into a brick wall then grabbed him by the hair, turned him around, and smashed his face in with his knee.
We could hear more people running for the door, and Dave pressed his back against the wall next to the door, while Biker Knight and I hid behind the cars again, and when they came running out we jumped them. It was about as easy as the first batch, but it took a little longer since they were expecting us.
I was kinda hoping Dave didn't have enough of those zip-cuffs he carries so I could kill a few of them, give the police less work and shit, but Biker Knight carried them too so they all got to live.
It was when we were finishing up with them and about to put the call in to the police, that one more showed up.
He was a big guy, but not that big, maybe six-two. His head was shaved, he had a bunch of piercings in his ears and his nose, these weird crescent tattoos on his neck, a necklace that I guess was shark teeth, and was wearing this dark blue or black leather jacket and pants.
He stood in the door for a second and looked at everything with this look of total outrage then yelled, "Oy! Can't a guy take a piss without everything turning to shit!"
Then he pointed at us, me specifically, said, "Right, you're done playing with the guppies," then he lifted this ungodly fucking thing up(I guess it'd been leaning against the wall inside the door) that looked like the bastard spawn of a claymore and a hacksaw or something, and said, "Now your swimmin' with The Great White."
I separated my staff and started to close in on him, but Biker Knight put his sword out to stop me and shook his head, then he stepped up, raised both his swords and flicked the one closest to "the great white" in the way you do to say, "come get me."
So the great white came at him with a diagonal slash, and Biker Knight just side stepped it, but whitey spun and the sword thing came around even faster and Biker Knight had to roll out of the way. He came to his feet and whitey took another swing at him, but he rolled forward under it and came up close enough to whitey that he had to step back.
Biker knight struck at him, but whitey pulled that sword up in time to block his strikes, then spun, jammed his sword into the ground and side kicked Biker Knight. He stumbled back and then whitey swung and hit him right in the gut, and there was this loud scraping of metal on metal as he was thrown back against one of the cars. He didn't move at first, just stayed slumped against the car, then when whitey tried to get him with an overhead strike, he spun out of the way, closed the gap, and hit him twice in the arm. I could the bone break on each hit.
Whitey didn't scream, it was more of a roar, but he dropped the big fucking sword and used his good hand to pull a knife that was almost as long as Biker Knights short sword and had a serrated edge. He came at Biker Knight with a flurry of strikes but just missed every one. Then he deflected one of whitey's strikes with one of his swords and nailed him right in the head with the other. Whitey almost went down, but he was still on his feet, if a little glassy. So Biker Knight finished it with a boot to the face.
So we cuffed him and dragged him over to the other's. Then Biker Knight pulled an SD card out of this pouch on his belt, crouched down, and slipped it into one of the pockets on whiteys jacket.
We asked him what it was for but he didn't answer, just tapped his visor right between his eyes. Then he stood up and held out his hand. We both shook it then he turned and headed off down the alley. It wasn't until he as almost gone that I remembered to invite him to a Justice Forever meeting(we finally have a new meeting date scheduled.) I ran after him and caught up just before he climbed through this hole in a fence, but when I told him about it he just shook his head and started through the hole again.
The he stopped, thumped his fist over his heart, and pressed it gently against mine, then he slipped through the fence and ran off.
Fucking awesome.
