I'm going to rip my fucking hair out. Or bash my own brains out against a sharp ass rock. Or Chris's face. Yeah. Chris's face against sharp rocks until it's not a face anymore. Or grate it off with a cheese grater. I don't know.
The problem is that there's no way to actually exact all my revenge and keep him alive through all of it. I might as well just cut an entire inch off of him at a time. But by the time i got to his ribs it'd just be too much trouble and money to keep him alive any longer. Maybe even lower.
I just don't now how he keeps managing to escape.
At least we managed to keep casualties to a minimum. Which is a minor miracle if I'm being honest.
When those cars pulled up and I saw the mini-gun I was legitimately terrified. For a moment I was actually frozen as the idea of that thing tearing through the school went through my mind. Even when I snapped out of it all I could do was scream "RUN!"
It might have been more of a shriek.
At least it caught everybody's attention. It was actually a relief to see it turned on me.
For the first couple of seconds. I wasn't happy about it as it started eating away at my cover.
The people in the apartments below me were probably pissed too, once they stopped being terrified.
I was able to get out of their line of fire pretty easily and return fire. Which felt kind of pathetic since all I had was a hand gun. Except I'm a way better shot and I had the high ground. I hit three of them in the head, including Chris. But I guess his mask isn't just for show either because a few moments later he crawled out from the hummer with a big automatic riffle and started running towards the school.
I was only able to get one shot off at him though, before I had to shoot the people shooting at me. And that was all the time he needed to get inside the school.
Luckily I had help. I honestly didn't even know he was there or where he'd been hiding, but there was a guy on the next roof over shooting cunts with arrows. He looked like a cross between Green Arrow and Moon Knight, and I knew this had to be that Grey Guard guy I've been hearing about but I never bothered to track down.
The guy was legitimately good with a bow. I don't think he missed a single shot.
It was decent cover for when I rappelled down the side of building. Would have been better if he could have fired faster. But it's a bow, so what are ya gonna do?
On the way down I called Dave like, "Where the hell are you?!"
And he said, "I'm on my way!"
I hit the ground and there were only a few people still outside. Most of them were taking cover because Grey Guard was impaling anyone who showed their face with extreme prejudice.
...
Maybe I should start training with a bow.
I stabbed a few cunts on my way in, but I wasn't really worried about the ones outside.
I looked back just before going in and Grey Guard was rappelling down his building as well and all the Cunts I could see where either dead or dying.
Inside was, nowhere near as bad as I was expecting. No Cunts murdering or raping, and, surprisingly, the only dead bodies I saw where cunts. There was one cunt trying to force a door open, but I shot him.
I went through the hall slowly at first, checking doors. All the ones I checked either held and the people behind them were safe, or there was no response from the other side, but I didn't have time to check silent rooms when I could hear screams and gunfire upstairs. I almost shot Grey Guard though, because he's really quite, but not quiet enough to sneak up on me.
He said, "You want to take separate stairs or go up together?" Like we'd been working together for years. I thought about it for a moment and decided I liked the idea of having someone coming from the other side if I hit a problem spot more than i disliked the idea of going up without a partner.
Next floor up there were a couple teachers standing guard over a few Cunts tied up with extension cords. One was holding a mop and the other a fire extinguisher. They raised the weapons when they saw me but relaxed after they recognized me.
But then they asked, "Are the police coming?"
It gave me a moment of, "Oh. Maybe I should have called them," but then we could hear sirens in the distance. Good for them, but now I had a time limit.
Next floor up and I got an annoying surprise: The Guardian was already there and he was just finishing putting down the Cunts on that floor. On the one hand, Good that he was there to stop them. On the other hand, fuck that guy. "How the hell did you beat me up here?'"
He cuffed the guy he'd just finished pummeling and said, "When you're don't have a reputation of murdering people a school is more likely to let you in guard them from the inside."
"You killed the guys on the first floor!"
He looked at me like I was an idiot and said, "I never kill anyone."
I had to remind myself I wasn't there to fight him.
"Now if you really want to be a hero there are more upstairs."
And he turned and ran for the steps Grey Guard was using.
Next floor up and there were dead bodies again. Surprisingly no kids or faculty, just more Cunts. Which was good, but...concerning. We checked the doors and once all the kids and teachers were out we went up to the next floor.
That was where things got interesting.
As I was coming up the steps I could hear fighting, screams, crying, and Chris stretching the limits of his very small vocabulary. Once I got there, I found a a few cunts bleeding out on the floor. Some of them were just curled up and sobbing, a couple were trying to crawl away, and one was furiously defiant but he was easily injured the worst so he didn't live for much longer. Chris' fancy rifle was also on the floor in pieces.
But the really interesting thing was further down the hall. Chris was limping backwards down the hall, holding his katana out at arms length trying to hold that black clad bastard at bay. It wasn't doing that though. He obviously didn't give a shit, he just kept casually stalking him. If that's even a thing. Chris might as well have been waving a stick at him.
But then he noticed me, and he looked behind him and saw The Guardian and Grey Guard closing in. He started to obviously panic at that point, and was desperately looking around, and that's when he said, "Fuck this!" and ripped two grenades from a pouch on his belt, dropped them on the ground, and dashed into a classroom.
One was a smoke grenade that started going off almost immediately, the other was a frag grenade that went off a few seconds later. Everyone took cover.
After it went off everyone stuck their heads out from whatever cover they found. The Bastard in Black was the first fully out and on his feet. He just kind of strolled over to the door Chris ran through and looked through. Then he looked back at me, then at Guardian and Grey Guard.
We were all closing in on him, but slowly. Guardian and I knew this fucker was not to be trifled with and if Grey Guard hadn't met him before he seemed to get the idea from us. BiB didn't give a fuck. He just looked between the three of us again and stopped on me, then he just sheathed his sword, stood there for another second, and bolted out through the class and out the window. I don't know where he went from there because he managed to disappear by the time we got to the window.
But I did see Dave down on the ground knocking a cunt out. I yelled, "What took you so long?!"
He yelled back, "I've just been cleaning up your leftovers!"
So I turned and ran back down the hall, and I kicked a cunt in the head while I was running down the steps, and out to the front where Dave was picking a bike off a Cunt and punched him in the face when he tried to get away.
"Bout time you got here."
"Hey, I got here as fast as I could." Then he cuffed the guy and said, "Speaking of which," and pointed to some cops coming around the corner, "We should probably leave now."
So we left real quick. Grey Guard left too, but The Guardian stuck around. I don't really like feeling like I'm "fleeing the scene" but i don't want the police to feel obligated to arrest me for whatever by being in the same place as them.
We were going over a building when Dave said, "So I guess you didn't get Chris?"
"Fuck no I didn't get the bastard! If I did I would have jumped you right on the sidewalk!" then as we started down the other side I said, "So you didn't see him get away."
"No. I'd have been on him like shit on velcro if I had."
"How the fuck does he keep doing that!?" And we'd gotten to the next alley at that point so I punted a garbage can.
Dave went over and picked it up, "That's not going to help anything"
I muttered, "It makes me feel better."
Then he came over and put a hand on my shoulder, "His luck wont hold up forever. Even if we don't get him, someone will."
That's when it finally clicked, "The Bastard in Black was there. He was fighting Chris, and I think he killed a bunch of the cunts."
Dave said, "Joker Ninja?"
And I was like, "'Joker Ninja'?"
So he said, "Well, yeah, he's totally a ninja and he always seems like he's half a second away from going full Mark Hamil before he runs off."
I thought back and could see his point, so i said, "I guess, but he pisses me off too much to get a cute nickname. He's just The Bastard in Black."
Dave smirked at me and said, "That's not a cute nickname? Sounds like something from The Princess Bride."
I said, "What's that?"
And he gave me one of those, "Are you fucking serious" looks and said, "How have we not watched that?" Then he shook his head ad said, "We should get moving. I think we've had enough excitement for today. You wanna get pizza later?"
I blinked at the change of subject but he was right. We hadn't gotten far and we'd need to hit a safe house or a stash of street clothes before we'd really be able to relax.
And now I need to get going if I want to have any say on what's on the pizza.
Mako's Message: This...was not entirely my fault. I wanted to get this to people go over it before I posted it, but I couldn't get my computer online until... five minutes ago, so I just didn't want to wait any longer and frankly I've been looking at this chapter for so long it doesn't even look like words anymore. I think I might have gone a little crazy. So. Hopefully you all like this. And hopefully I managed to catch any and all errors myself before this stopped making sense.
