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Jax Is Really Alive
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Chapter 51 Recap Jax is taken to a dark warehouse where Miles explains that Aranora dug him out of his grave after he'd been shot to death by SAMCRO. He loves his new alien life, but it's brought out a previously unknown side to him. He admits to being the person who tortured and killed Aranora.
There were two groups inside the Slivens. One group wanted to use the boys to force the Paralorns to give them the bioweapon and a rocket so they could send it back to Rackle. They didn't know the bioweapon was designed to kill Slivens and would have been useless to them. The other group didn't care about some planet that they would never see and just wanted money.
This group slaughtered the Aranora group showing that smarter doesn't mean better.
Unser walks out from the shadows and explains they've been holding Gemma and the boys. He used the boys to force Gemma to have sex with him. He's done unspeakable things to her as revenge for never loving him.
Nero, Gemma's most recent great love, was forced to watch him degrade, debase and force Gemma to perform all kinds of twisted sexual acts. When that got old, Unser tortured Nero, forcing Gemma to watch before he had sex with her again. Finally, they killed Nero and nailing him to the "Welcome to Charming" sign as a sort of present to Hale since he was now Chief of Police.
They want 20 million dollars and Jax has four days to come up with it to get Thomas back. Jax is dropped off in front of TM. As he makes his way back to the party, shots rain down.
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Chapter 52 Blood Bath
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Jax discovered that he did have one alien superpower; he could track a bullet's trajectory and know the path it was going to take. He would later learn that all alien hybrids and aliens have that same ability to track an object moving through the air faster than humans.
People were screaming, shoving and pushing, but that made it worse because the sniper sprayed the pack of people with automatic weapons fire.
Jax and Opie had taken cover near the slide where the shooter didn't have an angle to shoot them.
Jax grabbed his phone and quickly called Hale.
"We're at TM. There's a shooter in the old bank building across the street. Don't send your guys through the gate at TM or they'll get mowed down. We're going to create a diversion and get people into the safety of the clubhouse. You need to have EMS and the hospital on standby. They're going to be a lot of people injured."
"Do you think we could get in through the side gate to get the injured out until we can get this guy?"
"That should work. We're going to get everyone but the most severely injured into the clubhouse."
"OK. Keep checking in and I'll do the same. Thanks for the heads up."
"So, what's the plan?" Opie asked Jax.
"We get the fire extinguishers and spray them. That will provide cover to get people to safety," Jax said to Opie.
"Listen," Jax shouted to the remaining crowd of between twenty-five and thirty. "We're going to create a diversion. Don't run for the gate. The shooter will mow you down. Run into the clubhouse. Help the injured if you can."
Jax and Opie dodged gun fire to get to the fire extinguishers. Just as they were about to use them, Opie caught a glimpse of Lyla from the corner of his eye and saw a bullet. His eyes tracked the path of the bullet. It was going to hit her and he was too far away to help.
"Lyla, duck!" Opie shouted urgently.
Lyla instantly fell to her knees. Ima had been standing next to Lyla. The bullet smashed into the middle of her forehead dropping her immediately to the ground. Redwoody had just lost one of its biggest stars.
Jax and Opie began spraying the fire extinguishers. Chibs and Happy ran out with the two remaining fire extinguishers. Spraying the fire extinguishers was like spraying a chemical fog it provided the needed cover to escape the shooter.
Those that listened to Jax's directions made it to the clubhouse. The four who ran for the gate were mowed down in a hail of automatic weapons fire. T.O. and Tig were trying to help a wounded woman and her son when they were shot. The shot to Tig's chest killed him immediately.
Jax saw T.O. go down and ran to him. Using his alien strength, Jax easily carried him inside the clubhouse. Opie followed him carrying a crow-eater with a leg injury.
That was it. They had all the wounded who would live. In the courtyard it was a blood bath. There were ten dead bodies outside. A teenaged boy and one of TM's mechanics were also bleeding out in the courtyard area. They were unconscious and would soon cross over to death.
Jax called Hale.
"We've got all the wounded and everyone else in the clubhouse."
"Keep everyone inside. We're going to storm the bank building and try to catch the shooter. Bring the seriously wounded out to the side door. We'll have ambulances waiting. How many need transport?"
"Give me a minute and I'll call you right back."
Chibs had already begun to assess the wounded.
"I'm coordinating with Hale," Jax said to Chibs. "How many are going to need immediate transport?"
"These three need immediate transport," Chibs said pointing. "and T.O. needs to go. The rest are stable enough."
Jax called Hale and reported. By the time he and Opie carried the first two of the critically injured out the side door in the clubhouse, the ambulances were there. All the critically injured were transported. Paramedics went inside the clubhouse rendering aid and triaging the injured for trips to the hospital.
Chibs, Happy and Rat were shaken. There wasn't much of an MC left. Tig was gone and T.O. might not make it. Chibs' hope for a fresh start for SAMCRO had gone wrong. Even the normally stoic Happy was frowning.
The person or group who was trying to wipe out SAMCRO had very nearly succeeded.
There are just three chapters left.