Law and Disorder
The quartet had regrouped and met up in Chinatown. Dean and Lucia went to the Metro City docks to find out what it was they were smuggling into the city. While Dean just wanted to find the man who murdered his family, Lucia made an incredible discovery. It turned out that the Skull Cross Gang had smuggled some illegal firearms and the crates had the Sims Inc. insignia on them.
What did this all mean? Was that company working with the Skull Cross Gang? Who or what exactly was Sims Inc, and what was their part in the gang? After all, Callman ran Club Sims. The boat that Drake captained was the S.S. Sims.
All that was known was that there was a factory in Chinatown that Sims Inc. runs.
When Lucia and Dean drove to Chinatown, Lucia had listened to reports on the radio that stated that some Skull Cross members were still out there, but Detective Sean Carter had declined in being interviewed for details surrounding the illegal weapons.
Once again, Dean led the way for the four to head to the factory. Maybe this was where Stray was hiding, but like Drake had told him before, Dean won't find Stray, it will be the other way around and when that happens, Dean better be ready. But Dean was more than ready. He felt that he had nothing to lose, so it was now time to face the man who brutally murdered his family.
The quartet walked down an alleyway. It was either that or go through the sewers to be discreet, but none of them wanted to go through all the filth that the sewers contained.
It was nighttime but like how the rest of Chinatown was, the streets were rather empty. The Skull Cross Gang was at large and the riots and attacks that occurred caused a lot of Metro City citizens to stay inside.
Dean walked ahead of everyone, with Lucia behind him to his right, Haggar directly behind him, and Guy behind him to his left.
"Hey, Dean, do you know where we're going?" Haggar said.
Dean just looked straight ahead of him and saw an intersection right past a couple of staircases in that alley. He heard Haggar and after a slight silence, he said, "yes, I know where we're going. The factory is close by."
Guy turned to look towards Haggar. "This guy must have done his homework on these guys."
"I still wonder how he knows so much about them," Haggar said. "All he's told us was that they murdered his family and that they tried to recruit him, but there has to be more than meets the eye."
"I know what his deal is," Lucia cut in. Haggar and Guy looked right towards her.
"But I think we should just not discuss this right now," Lucia said as she looked right at Dean. "He seems determined to take out the man who killed his family. But let's not talk about this right now."
As Dean passed the staircases, he looked towards his right as there was a manhole cover just about 10 feet away from him right and then to his left. On both sides of the intersection of the alley, there were two brick walls, but right to his left, there was a brick wall, but in just 10 feet, there was a metal wall. He looked right to the end of that path and saw a door, as well as some men hanging out by the door.
While Dean was walking down the corridor, Haggar, Guy, and Lucia were not far behind. Haggar then looked to his right and saw a man in what looked like a blue baseball uniform. He had the hat, jersey, tight pants and socks covering the bottom parts of the pant legs. He also had a baseball strapped to his back but one distinguishing feature was that he was wearing a hockey mask for some reason.
"What the hell?" Haggar said. Guy and Lucia heard him and then looked in the same direction he was facing.
"What the…?" Guy said.
Their reactions prompted Lucia to look behind her at the end of the alley which they walked through. There stood a man with a similar uniform, except it was green and white. Dean looked right in front of him. There stood a man in the same type of baseball uniform with the blue and white. With him were just a random thug with a vest and jeans, and a man who looked similar to Rick with claws.
"What is it with these gang members being so similar?" Guy said.
The guys in the baseball gear each pulled their bats from their back and started to tap the ground like if they were ready to bat and also tapped the bats to the palms of their hands. They even spun the bats a bit.
"Just where do you think you're going?" the one in the green said. The back of his jersey read "Hunter," which may be his name.
A couple of the baseball thugs closed in on the quartet. One of the ones in blue swung his bat right towards Haggar, but he quickly reacted by ducking and delivered a hard elbow to his gut. Hunter went right towards Lucia by swing his bat right to her gut, but she jumped backwards and dodged every attack.
She had thought of grabbing the bat to try swinging it right at his head, but the man was wearing a mask and a baseball helmet. If she swung it hard enough, it could knock him out, but she didn't want to chance it. So she spun around and delivered sweep attack and watched as he fell backwards.
The trio from before, with the claw-wielding man who may be connected to Dirk and Rick, one of Hunter's men, and the other thug were ready to jump Dean, who started to emit an electrical charge.
"Come on," Dean said and then put up a stance.
Lucia then looked towards him. She barely knew him, but for some reason, she has had his back throughout this entire day during this mission.
"Hey, Guy," she said. Guy then looked right towards Dean and the other criminals and then gave him a signal so that they could help him.
Haggar had his hands full with the other baseball thug, but then another one came in to try to help his fellow comrade. The criminal smashed a glass battle right onto Haggar's bareback, but rather than fall, he just quickly turned right towards the man, which caused him to jump. He should have thought of that before attacking the mayor like that, add to the fact that the mayor had a very imposing physique and it would be hard to take him down easily.
Haggar immediately grabbed the criminal and then threw him right towards the baseball thug as he fell right on him.
Dean, Guy, and Lucia handled matters with the other three Skull Cross thugs. It didn't take long for them to go down. It seemed that the other member of Hunter's crew, as well as the seeming protégé of Dirk and Rick put up much of a fight.
With the thugs down, the only thing that they saw at the end of the corridor of the metal wall was a door with an intercom and a little scanner and keypad to key your way in.
"Great, now how do we get in?" Lucia said.
"We could try to break our way in," Haggar said.
Guy knocked on the door. The door was made of some kind of metal. It didn't seem like it could break that easily. Even if they used hammers and such to break it open, it would take quite a bit to break the door down.
Haggar then turned around and saw three thugs walking towards them. One of them looked like G, but it was someone he didn't recognize. The other was Hunter, as he wore the green and white baseball uniform. Finally, the other person was Andore Jr. How he knew was that he dealt with the other one at the Chinese restaurant. That one wore red pants. Andore Jr., on the other hand, wore green pants.
Guy then turned to face the trio coming towards them. One of them was definitely familiar to him as he had dealt with them before. Lucia then turned around. She saw that she didn't take Hunter down completely.
The trio wasted little time in going after them. Dean had only one thing on his mind. He had a feeling that Stray was close. He didn't know for sure, but he felt it and Stray was the one person he wanted to take down.
Lucia rushed towards Hunter, who then ran right towards her and then slid on the ground as if he was sliding to home plate as he sent Lucia flying a bit. Once she fell to the ground, Hunter got out his baseball bat and then swung right towards the ground where she was lying. She rolled to one side and then when the bat went towards her again, she rolled to the other side. She let out a sweep attack to trip him.
It didn't take long for Hunter to get back to his feet, but Lucia then jumped off her feet to deliver an arching kick to his head. Even with the baseball helmet on his head, Hunter went down. Much to her surprise, she saw a card slide out of his pocket. She quickly picked it up and looked at it and surmised that it may be a keycard to get into the factory.
Guy took the lowly thug down without breaking a sweat. He then saw that Haggar had his hands full with Andore Jr. He even recalled that when he fought against the Mad Gear Gang that those guys were no slouch. Andore Jr. picked up Haggar with all of his strength and held him by his neck. Guy run right behind Andore Jr. and then delivered a dropkick. Because of that, the big guy turned around and tried to deliver a hard punch to Guy, but after all the fights and training he went through, Guy quickly dodged by moving his body backwards and ducked at each punch attempt.
Haggar seized the opportunity and grabbed Andore Jr. and delivered a belly-to-back suplex to the concrete. He seemed like he was down. Haggar didn't want to wait until he would get up. He was sure that he would meet Andore Jr. and his brother again soon. For all he knew, he might meet the other relatives again, especially after fighting them in the cage at the Surf Bar years prior.
Lucia went right towards Dean, who just stood by close to the door and was thinking about everything that went on through the whole day. It wasn't that he didn't want to help his comrades. He knew that they could handle them. He just didn't want to suffer fatigue in case he were to fight Stray. He felt the aura nearby. It was time to settle the score.
"Hey, Dean," Lucia said. "Get out of the way, I need to test this."
Dean got out of her way as Lucia swiped the keycard down the slot to see if the door would open. She backed up and Dean also saw that the door slowly opened.
"Mr. Haggar! Guy!" Lucia called to their attentions. "The door is opening!"
The two went right for the door to the inside of the factory. Right in front of them, the corridor of the factory had a greenish blue texture to the walls and floor, and the floor had read "O-6" on it. The walls had counters set up with pipes going across and were secure enough as some things were screwed against them.
In between the structures with the pipes were doors with yellow and black stripes bordering around them, likely signifying that those doors are for personnel only. But that didn't matter to them. They were crashing the party. Haggar and Lucia were there to see what the Skull Cross Gang was up to and what the deal with this secret factory in the middle of Chinatown was. Usually factories like this would have been somewhere in Uptown Metro City or even in the Industrial Area, where Guy had been to deal with Rolento years prior. Hell, he even met him again in recent years.
"So what is there to search here?" Guy said. "It seems awfully quiet here. At least in the factory that I went to a while back, this military guy had some of Mad Gear's minions to come after me and fire came out through the floor."
"I don't know," Haggar said. "But there is something off about this place."
"Maybe you're right," Lucia said. "It just doesn't seem like the Skull Cross Gang is actually in here. But maybe there might be some employees here who might help us."
"What makes you so sure that they would tell us anything?" Dean said. "For all we know, they are likely on the Skull Cross' payroll."
"It's just a suggestion," Lucia said. "Besides, I'm not sure if there are a lot of people here right now. It's kind of late, if you ask me."
"You'd be surprised that there are factory workers who work late," Haggar said. "I don't just mean security and maintenance. There might be staffers who are working the late shift."
Just then, an alarm sounded. The siren started to blare. They spoke too soon. Many Skull Cross members came out. Several lowly thugs, as well as protégés/sort-of-underlings to some of the Skull Cross soldiers like May, Dirk & Rick, Hunter, and even Joe came out. The guy dressed like Hunter was dressed in orange and white, the guy who looked like Joe had dark blue hair and had a maroon outfit. The girl assassin looked almost like May herself, except her outfit had a darkish pink shade to it and she had dirty blonde hair.
"Man, how many people do they have that are similar to their main underlings?" Haggar said. "And I thought Mad Gear just went overboard with hiring just random criminals from the streets."
But it wasn't time to analyze similarities in the Skull Cross members. It was time to go to work. All four of the vigilantes went ahead and took down each of the criminals their own way. Lucia went ahead and handled May's protégé, while Guy went ahead and dealt with the guy who looked like Rick. Haggar just took down the lowly thugs without breaking a sweat.
Dean, on the other hand, just took on the Joe lookalike. Even though Dean towered over that guy, the Joe guy was too quick and even jumped onto Dean to deliver a few headbutts. But that didn't stop Dean from unleashing his electrical aura and giving the thug a slight shock. It wasn't that powerful, as the thug quickly got up. Dean charged his arm up and delivered an electrical uppercut, which sent the Joe guy flying in a total shock.
More low-level thugs tried to come at Haggar, but all of his strength overpowered them as he sent them flying towards the door close to the main entrance. The broken doorway revealed what looked like a mini-computer lab with some machines inside, as well as a long piece of paper hanging out of a printer close to the wall. Right next to the printer were a couple of glass tubes with some unknown contents inside.
What is their operation here? Haggar thought. But nothing of note was in there, so he left the room.
The thugs just got up and ran away from the other three as Haggar rejoined them. They noticed the other door was broken down.
"Hey, I think we just go check out what's in there," Lucia said as she looked right at the doorway.
"You three go on ahead," Dean said.
Lucia turned right towards him. "What?"
"Listen, all of you," Dean said. "You've all been a great help, but I should handle some other things alone right now. I will meet you guys later."
Haggar stepped in. "Are you sure about this?"
Guy then stepped in. "Dean, we're all in this together. I know what it's like to want to want to handle things on your own. But I have a bad feeling right now about this."
Dean looked up right at them. "I promise I will meet you guys in a bit. You three go and check out what's in there."
Dean turned around went down the corridor to the check out the rest of the factory. Lucia looked right at him, while Guy looked but then started walking towards the door, as did Haggar. Lucia continued to look on at Dean walking away.
"Lucia, come on," Haggar said. Lucia then turned around and joined the mayor and the Bushin ninja to check out what was behind that doorway.
What choice did Lucia have in that moment? Even though she barely knew Dean, she felt something for him. She had found out earlier that same day that she had investigated the murder of his family. Sure, she didn't deny his attractiveness, with his good looks and muscular physique, but what was really getting her was that he was determined to take these guys down. But she also knows that he lost his family. This was not the right time for anything like that, at least not for him. So the best thing for her to do was let him go off on his own.
Dean walked down the corridor and went through another doorway, which lead into another a hallway. There were similar pipes on the way, but the lights were a little dimmer and also flickering, and there were windows in between that overlooked the rest of the factory.
The only thing on Dean's mind was that he senses that Stray was near. How he could know was anyone's guess, but with all the research that he conducted on the Skull Cross Gang, as well dealt with personally, it was time to settle his own score. Sure, he wanted to take down the head of the gang to ensure that Skull Cross was done, but Stray was his prized bull.
With Dean coming close to fulfilling his goal, he was determined that if anybody tried to mess with him, he would take them down in an instant. He only wanted to deal with Stray. When some thugs tried to shake him in that hallway, he shocked them and then smashed their heads against the windows. That was how determined he was.
The moment he walked out of the hallway, he was now in the main factory area, with a lot of open space. Dean stood on a platform with girders and grilles on them. There were also hooks hanging. It was all empty. There weren't even any employees present. But he looked around, nonetheless. He didn't say a word. He just walked to search until he saw someone hanging onto a hook and was being guided towards Dean. The person who held onto the hook jumped off and landed on a grille on the platform.
"Well look what we have here?" the man turned out to be Stray.
"I was wondering when you would show up," Dean said.
Stray chuckled and shook his head a tad. "Funny, I was wondering the same thing."
"Screw you," Dean said. "I'm going to finish you and the rest of you. You guys are finished."
Stray chuckled once more. "You see that's where you're wrong. You may have taken down our men, whether it was dumb luck or uncompromising skill, but your fight ends tonight and I'm going to enjoy this."
"I didn't want to join you at all, but you never should have gone after my family," Dean said. "You could torture me all you want, but my family had nothing to do with this."
Just then, Stray started downright laughing. "You don't get it, do you? You realize that if you cross us, refuse to join us, we do whatever it takes to show that we mean business." He paused for a bit. "By the way, you should have seen your younger brother and sister. They squealed and whimpered when we handled them. They were a total mess."
The anger went through Dean's veins as his face was started to brood with such rage hearing this man talk about his family's murder like it was no big deal.
"YOU'RE DEAD!" Dean said as he rushed right towards him, except Stray had swung a right hand right to Dean's chest.
Dean fell back a bit and noticed a little red stain on the left side of his white muscle shirt. It was clear to him that Stray was wielding those particular brass knuckles that he used to torture him that night. But he also knew that he had nothing to lose, but he wasn't about to go down without a fight.
He got back to his feet and looked Stray deep in the eye, even though that guy was wearing sunglasses. Dean tried to rush him again, but Stray was well ahead of him, as he dashed right towards him to deliver a hard right hand to his face.
Dean felt a little wounded on his left cheek. Any inches higher, he would have taken out his eye. He got up once again. He wasn't about to give up, but unbeknownst to Dean, he stood close to a staircase. Stray kicked Dean, which sent him rolling down the stairs. As luck would have it, Dean landed right on the landing. Stray then jumped down to landing and then kicked Dean right in the gut as he started laughing.
"You know something, Dean," Stray said. "I got to hand it to you. You managed to survive this whole fight against the rest of us. I almost wonder if we should have killed you that night. I know that you are a good fighter, but you're." Pause and then kicked him again. "Not." And then stomped on him stomach. "That." He then picked him up and then delivered a blow to Dean's abdomen. "Good."
Dean started to bleed on stomach, as his white muscle shirt gained some more bloodstains. Just when Stray was about to deliver a left hook, Dean quickly ducked and grabbed him by the legs, even right into Stray's overcoat, and then slammed him, almost like a spinebuster, to the stairs. Dean was about to lay a right hand to Stray's face, but Stray immediately blocked the attack by grabbing his hand and then pushing him on off of him.
Stray then saw a large wrench where they were before and then picked up. Dean went back upstairs to take him on, but was met with a wrench to the gut. Stray then whacked him in the back while he was bent over.
"How does that feel?" Stray said.
Dean slowly crawled on the grille. Stray then kicked him while he was down. He then picked him once again and said, "I'm going to finish what I started, and then I'm going to take down your whole crew. After I'm through with the mayor, Skull Cross will definitely run this city!"
Stray then walked Dean towards a machine with a motor, as it had a fan on it. He put Dean's body down against it and Stray started it up and then pushed Dean's face towards it. He knew that Stray was enjoying this. The way that psycho joked about killing his family was enough to provoke him. He even got him to bleed and was rather bruised. But it was not enough for him to give up. He felt that there was still some fight left in him.
Dean quickly got his body up and then pushed Stray's body against the machine. Stray's back was towards it and saw that parts of his green coat and purple hair started to get chopped off. He then kicked Dean in the midsection and then shoved him off.
Stray then picked him up and then threw him a few feet a way from him.
"I'm going to end you right now," Stray said as he pushed his coat a little open and then got out what appeared to be a knife, but it had a sheath covering the blade. He quickly removed it and then held the blade in the way that's used to stab.
"You'll see your family very soon," Stray said. "Isn't that what you want?"
Dean lied there and started to have visions of his family. Whenever he fought in the fight clubs, he did it to support them. He had thoughts of whenever he, his father, and his younger brother did stuff. As well as his mother and sister and when they went on trips in the past. He then had the same grisly images of when he found his family slaughtered. Only his mother was barely alive and managed to say something to him before her final breath.
For that, he quickly got up and then the electrical aura started to charge and right when Stray was about to stab him, Dean quickly grabbed him by the shoulder from a few feet and then emitted an electrical shock towards the killer. Stray was taken aback from this. Dean went ahead and delivered a three-punch combo and right at the fourth, he shocked Stray once again and quickly delivered an electrical uppercut.
The shocks did not electrocute him, as Stray was still breathing as he lied down.
"How the hell did you do that?" Stray said.
"Remember when you tortured me? Remember you had to 'give me a jump'?" Dean said standing over him.
It didn't take long for Stray to realize what he meant. He may have been shocked, both figuratively and literally, but he barely moved as he attempted to get back up.
However, Dean went right on him and then delivered a few hard punches to his face. He wailed on him with both his right and left fists as he saw blood squirting right from his face. Even his sunglasses fell right off of his face in the process.
"This is for my father!" One right hand. "This is for my mother!" One left hand. "This is for my brother!" Another right hand. "This is for my sister!" Another left hand.
He then stood back up and then raised his right foot. "And this…is FOR ME!" He then stomped his right foot flat on his face so hard that his shoe had blood on it. He stood right over Stray's dead body looking right at it with a blank stare. He knew it wasn't going to bring his family back, but at least he felt that their deaths were avenged.
Meanwhile, Haggar, Guy, and Lucia went to check out the other area of the factory. It turned out the door lead to what appeared to be a lab with the mainframe computer in it.
"My god, what are they planning?" Lucia said.
"I don't know, but it can't be good," Haggar said.
Just then, more Skull Cross thugs came in. Guy looked up and saw them.
"Shit, we got company," Guy said.
"But we need to see what they're doing," Lucia said.
Haggar added, "You look at whatever they're trying to plan. Guy and I will handle these assholes."
Lucia went to one of the computer monitors and it looked like on the screen that there was a map with marked locations. Other things on the screen indicated that maybe there were other countries that Skull Cross was trying to negotiate a deal with. After all, they did have some weapons smuggled. But were the weapons for them or for someone else? What exactly was their plan?
It didn't take long for Haggar and Guy to take down the other criminals. However, Lucia wondered if she could try to stop their plan. Maybe some of their plan was backed up on floppy disks, but then you have the computer machines. It seems that Sims Inc. isn't just working with Skull Cross. They are one and the same and Sims Inc. is just their front. They had to put a stop to this.
Lucia went and picked up some of the disks, as she believed that their most important plans were backed up.
"Hey, I have an idea," she said. "You two destroy these computers."
"Are you sure about this?" Haggar said. "Don't you want some evidence?"
"I think I got some right here," Lucia said as she held up the floppy disks.
Haggar saw a hammer lying around, and Guy saw a lead pipe lying around. They both picked it up and started smashing the computers. There were four of them and each of them was destroyed.
"Hold up, what are you doing?!" The trio then looked right at another doorway and saw a man in a white coat standing there.
"We're taking down your business," Haggar said.
"Well, if it isn't our mayor," the man said. "You're not going to stop us."
"Who the hell are you?" Guy said.
Lucia then saw the man's nametag and it said "Earl Simmons, software engineer of Sims Inc."
"My name is of no importance," Earl said.
Lucia said and then flashed her badge, "I'm a detective with the MCPD. You're under arrest."
Earl chuckled a bit, whether it's because he couldn't take her seriously with that outfit or likely that it was because he had something up his sleeve.
"I don't think so," Earl said and then pulled out a gun, much to everyone's shock. "Good night, everyone!"
He let out three shots. Haggar, Guy, and Lucia quickly ducked. Good thing he was a terrible shot.
He tried to fire again, but then CLICK! It turned out he was out of bullets.
"Shit!" The computer technician then started to run.
"Don't let him get away," Haggar said. "Let's go!"
The trio then ran after him into the main part of the factory. However, a lot of oil drums started to drop towards them. Haggar and Guy went after the man. Lucia would join in on it, but she had disks in her hand and didn't want to drop them.
The two men saw the oil drums dropping like flies. They tried to avoid each of them. However, they saw Earl smiling at them and standing close to another computer that connects to some of the machinery.
"Mike, I have a plan," Guy said. He then jumped the rail and quickly made a move to find an opening to where no oil drums would smash him. He made some quick moves to not get hit until he reached the machine where Earl stood.
Guy then grabbed a hammer that was close by and then quickly smashed the machine, which stopped the oil drums at a moment's notice. Guy sighed in relief.
"Okay, you got lucky," Earl said as he cocked his pistol, as he reloaded it with another magazine. "But now you're going to die."
Guy wondered why he didn't just cut and run right then. The same could be said about the technician. But that didn't stop Guy, as he delivered a hard crescent to send the gun flying from his hand. Earl went ahead to pick it up and was ready to aim at him, until he heard a voice say "Drop it!"
Guy looked up and saw Carter come from behind him and point the gun at him. "Freeze, you're under arrest."
At that moment, Haggar and Lucia caught up to them.
"Sean, what are you doing here? How did you find us?" Lucia said.
"I remember you said to check out Chinatown, so I did," Carter said. "We also got word about the factory from Dave, as when we got him earlier today, he sang like a canary. At some point, we picked up some Chinese restaurant owner and then some guys who were hanging around near the restaurant filled me and the others in on the factory that was close. So I thought I'd find you here."
Haggar and Guy realized that the cop meant that some of the former Mad Gear members tipped him off.
"Well, good thing you showed up," Lucia said. "I found some evidence here." She saw her two partners. "Oh, by the way, these are…"
"You're Mayor Mike Haggar," Carter said. "I'm Detective Sean Carter. I am Detective Morgan's partner."
"Nice to meet you," Haggar said.
"I'm Guy, I helped save Metro City before," Guy said as he shook Carter's hand.
"Nice to meet both of you," Carter said.
Just then, Lucia realized that there was one missing member of their team.
"Hey, you guys, we got to find Dean," she said.
Right when she said that, everyone walked around the factory until they saw him standing over Stray's body. Everyone got close to him and saw how bloody and bruised he was, as well as had bloody knuckles from all the punishment he delivered to Stray.
They were shocked at the sight of Stray's dead body.
"Hey, Dean, are you okay?" Haggar said.
Dean nodded but had a blank stare on his face. "I think so."
"Come on, let's get going," Haggar said. "I think I know where to find the headquarters of the Skull Cross Gang."
Haggar came to a realization that there was a building in Uptown Metro City that was the headquarters for Sims Inc. With Lucia having filled him in about the weapons on the boat and now coming to the realization that Sims Inc. is a codename for the Skull Cross Gang, their headquarters was in the city. There was no time to lose.
They all walked down the alleyway. Haggar, Guy, Dean, Lucia, as well as Detective Carter all walked down there to Chinatown.
Lucia told everyone to get in the squad car that she used earlier.
"Hey, Sean, I have one question for you," Lucia said. "How on earth did you get Dave to sell his friends out like that?"
"It wasn't easy, but because people in the department figured he was crooked," Sean said. "Let's just say that he realized that he wasn't as crazy as some of the people in the gang. Plus, he personally told me that you kicked his ass. I don't know about you, but I had a feeling that he has it bad for you."
Lucia sighed, scoffed, and chuckled a bit. "No, I kind of sensed that he had his eye on me. But for some reason, he couldn't keep his hands clean. I was the first to sense that he was dirty, remember?"
"Yes, I do," Carter said. "Anyway, your team is waiting for you. If you need help, be sure to call us."
"Will do," Lucia said as she headed for the driver's seat.
Haggar rode shotgun, while Guy and Dean sat in the backseat. Guy felt a slight determination to end it all. While Dean looked at the picture of his family, even in the dark.
Is my fight finally over? He thought. I avenged your deaths, but why do I feel this way? I don't feel that it's over yet.
Author's note: And that was the fifth round in the game. I will explain a few things.
While I did put in the mini-office bit just because, the other door led to another path you could go through in the game. If you destroy all those computer machines, for some reason you can skip the boss fight, but if not, you still fight Stray. Also, I decided to add the bonus round bit, which included an original character, as Earl Simmons was not in the canon.
Also, Lucia finding disks is supposed to represent the time period. I think that this game took place in the early-1990s, particularly either 1991 or 1992. There were no flash drives or anything like that at the time. Floppy disks were the hardware.
Speaking of which, Earl Simmons is a reference to DMX, as that's his real name.
Now for the part about the fight with Stray. I used two things as inspiration. One, I used a fight sequence in one of the stories from Matthew Drury's Streets of Rage Saga. I recommend you read that book somehow (As well as "Bare Knuckle: Ghost Precinct"), especially to beat 'em up fans, particularly Streets of Rage fans. The other was the final fight sequence in "Death Warrant," the Jean-Claude Van Damme film. That fight was probably one of the more gruesome deaths in this story.
Also, the part about Haggar mentioning underlings for some of the random mooks, it's kind of a joke because this game actually used palette swaps for the random enemies. It was common in the Streets of Rage games. Plus, sometimes gangs will have just someone who random members will follow, but not enough to run a whole set. Ergo, why I had some of the palette swaps be like protégés to some of the random enemies.
Anyway, I'm getting close to done. I'm considering doing another interlude chapter before doing the one on the final level and then I will do an epilogue. Stay tuned!