Through the woods, Whitney and Lincoln continued to go...somewhere. They didn't exactly where they were going. but they that it was a way from any goons wanting to get them. But then, they soon heard some noise coming near them, footsteps. They both feared that it was another goon coming for them, but they couldn't be so sure, not yet. Huddling up next to some trees, they waited and waited, hearing the footsteps come closer and closer. And soon enough, they confront the mysterious person with Lincoln grabbing them by the shirt and and Whitney was about to punch their lights out. But they soon paused as it they realized they grabbed onto Greg, and Dana was there with a chain in hand, looking ready to beat them up. But they all paused they second they saw and recognized each other. A few seconds later, Dana took a breath of relief...
"I nearly knocked you guys out.", said Dana.
"Yeah. Likewise.", said Whitney.
"It's good see that you're both okay.", said Lincoln.
"We're fine. But, you mind letting go of my hoodie?", asked Greg.
"Oh, right. Sorry.", said Lincoln, letting go.
"What happened to you guys?", asked Whitney.
"Ran into a little trouble. Got some new toys.", said Dana. "What about you?"
"Same here.", said Whitney. "Got a ripped dress."
"That sucks.", says Greg.
"Yeah, but I'm over it.", said Whitney.
It was then that they heard some more footsteps coming near them, and they tensed up, getting ready for a fight. But, they soon calmed down when they had then saw Lori and Carol and Jones, who was limping, coming towards them...
"Glad to see you guys are alright.", said Carol.
"Who's that guy?", asked Dana.
"Officer Jones.", the cop answered. "The cop you guys called to help take care of Cherry Willis."
"What happened to you?", asked Lincoln.
"Explosion. Plus a bat to the face.", said Jones, recognizing Lincoln's voice. "So you're the kid who brought us here, huh?"
Lincoln went, "Uh..."
"It's alright. I won't blame you for bringing us into this mess.", Jones said. "But things could've gone better."
"How'd things go for you guys?", asked Lori.
"It was okay.", said Dana.
"Could've been better for us.", said Whitney. "Now my dress is ripped."
"So's my hair.", said Carol, fiddling with her hair.
"Well, at least everyone's okay.", said Lincoln. "But what are we gonna do now?"
"Don't worry. I called in for some new backup.", said Jones. "But I'm gonna have to ask you kids to go home."
"What? Why?", said Lori.
"It's gotten too dangerous for you.", Jones explained.
"We've been holding our own well so far.", argued Lincoln.
"While in the forest, swarming with goons looking for you, kid.", said Jones.
"Oh, come on!", said Lori. "We all just agreed that we were gonna keep going on with this until Cherry's been dealt with."
"You would still decide to endanger the life of your brother?", asked Jones.
"Hey, I can still fight!", Lincoln defended. "You! You have a bad leg right now. How are you gonna fight?"
"I have to.", said Jones. "I have to see this thing through. It's my job."
"Well, it's also ours as well.", said Carol. "This affects all of us."
Seeing how these kids were not gonna budge, Jones felt like he had no other choice but to let them help...
"Alright.", Jones caved. "But you all better be careful."
"Not a problem.", said Lori. "Now, we might need a little more help."
"Well, it's not like it's just gonna come out of nowhere.", said Greg.
Just then, everyone's attention turned towards a goon getting kicked onto a tree. And then suddenly, Luna appears and begins to beat the crud of the goon, leaving him with a bloody face unconscious. She then turned to the group and froze when she saw Lincoln among them...
"Oh my gosh.", she said. "Lincoln..."
Wasting no time, she ran towards her little brother and scooped him up in a big hug, very happy to see him. Lincoln, on the other hand was just surprised.
"Luna!", he said. "What are you doing here?!"
"Me? What are you doing here?!", Luna asked. "Come on! I'm taking you home right now!"
"I can't go right now, Luna!", said Lincoln. "Not now. There's still some work to do."
"You mean the fact that there's a psycho chick after you right now?", she then asked.
"How do you know about that?", Carol asked.
"That doesn't matter.", Luna said, before turning her attention towards. "And Lori, I can't believe you were foolish enough to let Lincoln go into a war zone!"
"And since when do you get to act like your his mother?", asked Lori.
"I'm his guardian.", said Luna. "It's what I do!"
"Luna...", said Lincoln. "I can't. Not now. We need to put a stop to this. We need to stop Cherry."
"Lincoln, this doesn't have to be your fight.", said Luna.
"It's been my fight since day one.", Lincoln said. "I'm not backing down."
Luna gave that a little bit of thought before saying, "...Alright. Count me in as well."
"Seriously?", Lincoln asked.
"You guys need all the help you can get.", Luna said. "And I can fight ugly."
"I'm pretty sure she's not gonna back down." said Lori.
"Alright then.", Carol said. "You're in."
"Thanks.", Luna said. "Now, are we gonna do this or what?"
"Yeah.", said Lincoln. "It's time we put an end to this."
Meanwhile, at Cherry's hideout, she's got Mazzy, Lyberti, Parvana, Rex, Mollie, Renee and Kat on their knees and at gunpoint as she readies herself to interrogate them...
"So...you people have the spine to track me all the way here.", Cherry says. "Violating my space and territory, forcing me to waste my time on you chumps when all I want is the kid!"
"You will never get your filthy hands on Lincoln!", Parvana spoke out, only to be met with a slap to the face.
"You've tested my patience...force my hand and now had made me decide to use drastic measures.", Cherry said. "This doesn't have to go any further. Not unless you tell me...what I want."
"Not gonna happen." said Kat, who was then given the same treatment as Parvana and was slapped across.
"Okay...", said Cherry. "Let's keep this nice and easy...Where...is...Lincoln?"
"We'll never talk!"
"You'll get nothing from us!"
"You better leave him alone!"
"You won't find him!"
"I'm not saying anything!"
"Neither am I!"
"Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you."
That was what each and everyone of them said right before Cherry takes off her glove, licks her palm, takes a few steps back and then begins giving them one long slap across their faces. It stung, badly, leaving a mark across their faces...
"I got plenty of time on my hands.", Cherry said, putting her glove back on. "I got no problem doing things the hard way."
"You're never going to get him.", said Mazzy. "He'll take you down."
"Uh-huh.", said Cherry. "I've heard it all before."
"What do you even want with him anyway?", asked Parvana.
"Why does everyone keep asking that?", Cherry asked herself. "Alright then, might as well tell you. I just see a little bit of myself in him."
"Then you really are crazy.", interrupted Mollie. "Lincoln's nothing like you."
Slapping Mollie across the face once again, Cherry said, "Oh, on the contrary. We're so different, he and I. We've both had it rough, dealt with...disrespectful families, people, places. We're both at the brink of insanity. He just needs a little push."
"What the heck are you talking about?", asked Renee.
"I'm planning on hurting him, or killing him.", said Cherry. "I just want him. I want to mold him in my image, make him see things my way. He's young, has a lot learn. I wanna fill his little head with the knowledge he really needs in life. I know he'll be able to survive better if he does."
"So, you're just planning on taking him under your wing?", asked Rex.
"Yep. That's right.", said Cherry.
"Like that's ever gonna happen!", yelled Mazzy, before receiving another slap. "...And what are you even gonna do with us if you get Lincoln?"
"Hmph. That's a good question.", Cherry said. "...Maybe, I'll just slowly brake your minds until you're all fit enough to be nothing more than slaves to those who would pay for a good servants."
"What?! That's crazy!", said Kat.
"Never stopped me before.", Cherry said, turning her back on them. They all start the panic, as the thought of being turned to slaves sunk in and they began to beg Cherry not to go through with this. But, the goons holding them at gunpoint shut them by hitting them with the back end of their guns. They fell to the ground, they lifted their heads to see Cherry...
"Please...don't do this.", Lyberti asked weakly.
"Deal with it.", Cherry said. "Because there's no way I'm stopping."
To where Lincoln's group was, they were moving through the forest in search of Cherry's Hideout. It wasn't long before they found it, and had found their friend beaten up and on their knees. They saw how they were dragged inside by Cherry's army...
"Man, that Cherry girl did a number on them.", said Luna.
"She's gonna pay for this.", said Lori.
"We need to get our friends out of there first.", said Lincoln. "We just need to find a way around all those goons."
"Too bad we don't have some sort of distraction.", said Dana.
Just then, coming out of nowhere, a giant fireball forced them to scatter as it was heading straight for Cherry's Hideout, forcing her and the others to jump out of the way. The fireball ended up blasting away the doors of her warehouse, and that pissed her off...
"Who is responsible for this?!", she yells out.
"It came from somewhere north of here!", one of her goons said, pointing to a trail of ashes...
"I'll be right back.", Cherry then says.
And with that, she runs off, taking her spear with her. This gave Lincoln's group the opportunity to make it towards the warehouse and find out where their friends are at. And as they were heading in, the could what sounded like Cherry beating up a few of her own goons and yelling psychotically...
"That sounds like it hurts.", said Whitney.
"I would expect it to.", said Greg. "Cherry's the last person you would want to piss off."
"Nevermind that.", said Lori. "Let's just go in, get the others and get out."
Without anything else said, they start to head in. Looking around, they keep an eye out for any guards. They did spot a few, but did their best to avoid any unwanted attention. As well as take out any that was standing in their way. After a few minutes, they found their friends sitting in cages, who were now looking gleeful to see that help has arrived...
"We didn't think you guys would come for us.", said Lyberti.
"We didn't think that this would even happen!", said Lincoln.
Then Lori asks, "How'd you guys even get yourself into this mess?"
"Well, after hearing some of the feed back we received back at the club, we thought it best to go on and help you guys out."
"It seemed like a good idea at the time.", said Mazzy. "But we ended up getting locked up."
"Nice to see you, Mazzy.", said Luna.
"You too, Luna.", Mazzy said back. "But can you let us out of here?"
"Right.", said Carol. "How are we gonna do that?"
"Yeah, I don't see any doors for these cells." said Lori.
"Well, we're not sure.", said Shannon. "They knocked us out and put us in here."
"Wait a minute.", said Lincoln as he took a few steps back. From his point of view, he got a good look at the cells and realized...
"You guys do realize that you fit through the bars, right?"
The captives were a little confused before they let what Lincoln said sink in. They all then turn to their side and wiggle through the bars. They all felt a little dumbfounded as their rescuers started to hold in their laughter...
"Let's never speak about this again.", said Kat.
"Okay. Now let's get out of here.", said Lori.
And then they backtrack to the way to came in. Soon enough, they found themselves leaving the warehouse, only to be surrounded by armed thugs. And then, Cherry shows up, dragging behind her several unconscious goons with her. She had a smirk on her face as she faces the group...
"I am impressed!", she said. "You took that little distraction of mine to your advantage and made it through my place to get your friends back. Nice job!"
"Out of our way, freak!", yelled Lori. "We're leaving this place now!"
"Just because a dog gets out of its cage doesn't mean it's going for a walk!", said Cherry. "We're gonna have so much fun together."
"Yeah...that's not gonna happen.", said Lincoln. "Head back inside!"
"After them!", said Cherry. "And bring me the boy!"
Soon enough, they ended up getting chased back inside by Cherry's thugs. Acting quickly, they quickly hide inside a dark hallway, which the thugs ignore and move forward. As they continued to hide, they see that right outside the hallway were some more thugs spreading out and searching the area. They were very close to being found out...
"I'm gonna scream!", said Rex, as he was about to do so until Lyberti covered his mouth.
"How are we gonna get out of this?", asked Lyberti.
"We're gonna have to fight our way out of here.", said Lincoln. "But it's not gonna be easy."
Luna replied, "Nothing ever is, little bro. But we make it easy."
"They might be easier to take on we split up.", said Carol. "Just not to far from each other. We still need to stick together."
"Good idea.", said Lincoln. "Okay, I'll go with-"
But before he could finish, a flashlight was pointed at his direction and they realized they've been discovered.
"Scratch that!", said Lincoln. "We gotta move! Now!"
And so, they all ran deeper into the dark hallway with thugs chasing after them. They would've easily gotten lost if it weren't for what little dim light that old lamps had to offer. But, they couldn't keep running forever. Lori finds herself with Whitney, running through the hall when they find that there was a guard in front of them, although looking away...
"Just one guy.", said Whitney. "We can take him, right?"
Then Lori picks up a lead pipe, saying, "Let's not stick around to find out."
Then, she takes the pipe in her hand and strikes the thug on the head, which did the job, making him fall down. Lori and Whitney felt relieved for a moment, but the feeling was soon gone as they soon saw more thugs coming towards them...and they decided to make a break for it. All the while, Lincoln was with Carol, Mollie and Renee, running through a cross road until Lincoln managed to spot what looked like a breaker box and started to have an idea...
"Hey, wait!", said Lincoln. "I got an idea. We could shut off the power using this!"
"Are you sure?", asked Mollie.
"Of course.", said Lincoln. "Just about every kind of building has one of these."
"Do you even know how to do that?", asked Carol.
"Well, there's no better time to figure it out.", said Lincoln, as he opens it up.
He begins to flip a few switches, but they don't seem to be doing anything. It was hard to tell which ones he needed to flip, since none of them were marked...
"How about this one?", said Mollie, flipping another switch.
Meanwhile, a thug who was watching TV got mad when the TV began to show nothing but static.
"Or this one?", said Carol, continuing to flip a switch.
Somewhere in the armory room, a few thugs were getting more weapons when the lights went off and one of them slipped and a gun he was holding went off.
"This might take a while.", said Lincoln.
"Well, we don't have that kind of time.", said Renee, holding a rock. "Now stand back!
The three of them could only turn their heads for a second before they were forced to move out of the way as Renee threw a rock at the breaker box. This caused the thing to sputter with electricity and then burst, along with ever electrical device in the warehouse. This caused the whole place to go black inside, as Lincoln, Carol and Mollie picked themselves up...
"Well, that works, I guess." said Lincoln.
"Next time, give us a better warning!", said Mollie. "You almost knocked my head off!"
"Heh. Sorry.", said Renee.
The entire place had gone dark, or so it seems. For a few thugs were coming their way, a few of them holding flashlights. But that wasn't gonna stop them as Lincoln told them to follow his lead...even of that seemed difficult at the moment. But as the thugs were coming towards the breaker box, seeing how it was no good to try and fix it, they were were to move until they saw one of the lights go out...
"Hey, where's Boogey?"
"I don't know."
And then another one of their lights went out.
"What the heck? I'm getting out of here!"
But he didn't. Last thing that was heard was a sudden gasp before his light went out as well. Meanwhile, Cherry was waiting for her men to come and drag the others back out to her. But it seems as if they were doing nothing but testing her patience as she was pounding her foot to the ground and keeping her spear close...
"Ugh, this is taking too long.", said Cherry. "You want someone done right well, you gotta do it yourself."
Pulling out something convenient, it was a pair of night vision goggles that she placed on her head as she headed into the darkness of her own hideout.
Luna was walking through the dark halls, her head moving here and there, unsure of which way to go. She soon enters a room dimly lit by hole in the ceiling, showing off a bit of sunlight outside. From the looks of things, the room was particularly empty, other than a table with an old electric guitar that seemed broken, but Luna failed to notice the dark silhouettes on the opposite side of the room. Soon, Luna reacted when something was thrown near her, shattering to pieces as it was revealed to be a glass bottle. She then turns her head over to the opposite end of them room, seeing who she's dealing with, Kylie and Taylor...
"Have a drink, Loud.", said Taylor. "Can't have one of the kid's annoying little siblings running around, now, can we?"
"You seem to know me, but I don't know you.", said Luna, watching as Kylie appeared behind Taylor.
"Just know us as the last two people you'll ever see.", she said, holding up her katana. "We would both want to take you down, but I wouldn't want to deprive my baby sister of the opportunity to watch you suffer."
"Not gonna happen.", said Luna. "Sorry to disappoint."
"Play nice, Taylor.", Kylie whispered into her sister's ear. "Do make her suffer."
"Love to.", said Taylor, bringing out her spiked bat.
And with that, Kylie to her leave, using a rope that hoisted her up into a hole in the ceiling, leaving her sister to take care of Luna, who was backing away right about now...
"Okay. Uh...", Luna said, looking around for a weapon, remembering the guitar on the table. "Yes."
Grabbing the guitar, she has it resting over her shoulder, gripping the small with her hands like a bat or an axe...
"Let's do this.", she said, seeing the smirk on Taylor's face.
Taylor raises her bat and then charges at Luna with the rocker doing the same and they begin to swing at each other. Luna's swings were slower than Taylor, having the more heavier weapon, but Taylor was just moving around her ever so swiftly, getting more hits than Luna. Luna considered that she was mostly just getting scratched by the nails, and not being stabbed. But she waited for her chance to strike, gripping he guitar firmly and letting it swing. She managed to hit Taylor on the right side of her face. Luna sighed in relief as she saw Taylor fall to the ground, looking out cold. She was about to leave the room, until she heard Taylor groaning, turning back to see her rise up and see that the right side of Taylor's face was now soaked in blood...
"Grr...Round Two.", she said, holding up her bat."
Letting out a heavy sigh, Luna was about to swing her guitar again, only for Taylor to grab the bloody body of it and smash it against the wall...
"Ah, crud.", said Luna, beginning to back way from Taylor, who was looking at her with murderous intent.
Acting quickly, Luna does her best to dodge an upcoming wave of attacks, only taking a few cuts, but she was ready to end this. She lets Taylor swing the bat once more, dodging quickly as it hits a wooden post. Taylor grew angry as she couldn't be able to get it out. But then, Luna kicked her and made her fall to the ground, seeing her blood stain some of the ground. But Taylor soon got back up, wiping some blood from her face...
"Fine then. Fist.", Taylor said, taking off her jacket. "You know, I wouldn't mind keeping you around. I like a feisty little pet. It's enjoyable whipping them to shape."
"Man, shut the heck up.", Luna said, tightening her fist.
And then both girls ran at each other, their fist aiming at each other's faces.
Somewhere else in the warehouse, Mazzy was holding onto Kat's hand as the two girls were running for their lives. As such, they could barely seeing anything running through the dark halls, but there was noises and movement all around them. They soon enter a rather large room that was kept up by brick columns. It was almost like a maze if it weren't for the darkness. And Mazzy had a bit of a feeling like they weren't alone in this place. Her suspicion was proven right when they heard some more footsteps coming their way. They turned their heads and saw Frank standing in front of them, holding a machine gun in his hands and an axe holstered on his back.
"I'm a little disappointed that I only found two of you.", he said coldly. "But it'll have to do."
"I remember you.", Mazzy said. "I still owe you from last time."
"Hmm? Oh yeah.", Frank said. "You went down easy. Should've finished the job then and there. But this will have to do for now."
"Kat...", said Mazzy.
Kat answered, "Yeah."
"Run."
And with that, both girls ran away from the Frank as he was firing wildly at them. Unfortunately, they weren't able to get out of the room, they were stuck in there with Frank, seeing him lock the door...
"Come out, come out. Wherever you are.", Frank said crazily.
"We need to go through him.", whispered Mazzy.
"How are we gonna fight back?", Kat asked.
Looking around, Mazzy saw a pistol on the floor and went for it. Quickly hiding near a wall, she gets a look at the gun...
"Please be loaded."
Taking out the clip, there were eight bullets left. Mazzy sighed, knowing that she had to make every shot count. Quickly, she moved out of the way as Frank came at her with an axe in one hand and his gun on the other, swinging at Mazzy's head and getting the axe stuck in the column. Mazzy ran as bullets whizzed pass her head...
"You won't get away from me!", Frank yelled out, trying to fire some more, only to run out of ammo.
"Here it goes.", Mazzy said, taking her gun at aiming at Frank. Unfortunately, the bullet flew past his head as he was reloading. And thus, she was forced to hide some more as Frank reloaded and started to fire some more...
"This reminds me of a video game Sully showed me as a kid.", she said to herself.
All the while, Kat was running around the room, trying not to be seen or shot. She was wondering how she got herself into this, and how she was gonna get herself out. But as she continued to run, taking a sharp turn, she yelped in pain as she felt her hair get stuck onto something...
"Ow!", she said, pulling at her hair. "Are you freaking kidding me."
Little does she know that Frank had heard her and was now coming her way.
"Why does this have to happen right now?",She said, continuing to pull at her hair, wanting it to stay in one piece and not end up like Dana's ponytail. Soon enough she got it, and it was gonna keep running until she ran into someone behind. For a moment, she thought this was it, she was dead. But looking up, she saw that it was Dana and Greg, who were now here.
"Kat! Are you okay?!", asked Dana.
"Yeah, I'm fine.", she answered. "How'd you guys get in here?"
Dana replied, "Chopped our way through.", holding up an axe and showing that they chopped through the door.
"Nice work.", Kat complimented. "Hey, did you do something with your hair?"
Seeing how Kat realized that her hair was now at a stub made Dana feel a peeved, and Greg gave Kat the "cut it out" signal, which Kat understood.
"Nevermind.", Kat said.
"Good.", said Dana. "Now, come on. Let's get outta here before-"
"I don't think so!"
Frank's voice echoed as he showed his empty head and started firing on the three, who scattered away from him. He was right up on Greg, who had accidentally falling to the ground, now beginning to crawl away from him. But as Frank was about to fire again, Greg grabs a large piece of scrap metal and raises it up, using it as a makeshift shield as it seemed sufficient enough to repel most of the bullets coming at him...
"You won't hold out for long!", said Frank.
Behind him, Dana was raising her axe, ready to strike Frank. But under all the gunfire, Frank could hear someone was behind and stopped firing and turned his attention towards Dana. Before he could do anything, Dana took her axe and she ends up chopping the gun in half, ticking off Frank.
"I just got that thing!", he says as he takes out his own axe.
And with that, Frank starts swinging crazily, not giving Dana enough time to swing back as she backs away from him and blocks a few moves with her own axe, the blades hitting each other but Frank also ends hitting the handle, which begins to weaken as Dana is barely able to recover from each attack. One strong blow after another, Dana was backed up against a wall as Frank lifted his own axe over his head and swings it down, managing to break the handle of Dana's axe, which made her fall to her knees as she was about to meet her end...
"You're not too bad.", said Frank. "Oh well."
But before he could finish it, a shot was heard and the axe ends up slipping from his fingers. Dana was left frozen as Frank fell backwards and right behind him was Mazzy, holding the pistol in her hands...
"Well...that's the end of that.", Mazzy said coldly.
Dana quickly got up to her feet as Mazzy was walking over to her and they both hugged, happy to see that both of them were okay. Not only that, Kat and Greg joined in to, feeling relieved that they didn't have to deal with Greg anymore.
"Let's get out of here.", Mazzy ordered, and they soon booked it. But as they were leaving, they failed to notice that Frank's limp body was still moving, and he soon reopened his eyes...