The Price of Desire

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Chapter 11 (Christy's Run)

Trina narrowed her gaze upon the doors of the Gorilla Club, it wouldn't be long now. She could feel it. The people in this place would soon see why she was a force to be reckoned with. Christy stood beside her, sword in hand and pointing towards the ground. Together, they would be a team unstoppable. Jason and Sikowitz remained in the car, better the people in this club think it was just the two girls, the men would enter in fifteen minutes to take out any stragglers. For now, they kept watch, just in case the people started getting smart and calling for backup. "So, we're just going to storm the place, Tri?"

"That's right, Christy." During their break, they decided to try and investigate the place, it was still operating as though nothing was going on. Sure, this meant they had to be careful, as there were still innocents inside, but for the most part, they were going to storm the hell out of the place. "Unguarded base, still operating as it always does, you couldn't ask for a better invitation. For now, sheath your sword. We don't want them thinking anything." Would they notice the moment they walked in? There was still that risk that Trina had become recognized by now. She was working as fast as she could to take out this gang before they knew what she was doing, but hell, it was taking way too long. "Trina got smacked around in here, I wasn't too happy with her being here, and now I understand why."

"Right."

"Just act natural, act like we're just there for a good time." From here, it would only get harder. Had any gang members escaped their grasp yet? Had anyone been able to report back and tell the leaders that Trina Vega was on a rampage? "Pretend like we're not there to stir up trouble."

"You think they'd attack us with innocents in there?" She paused and slowly rubbed her forehead. Why would Christy be asking this now? Of course the gang would attack, since when did gang members care about innocent lives? She turned a gaze to her friend, arched her eyebrow and crossed her arms over. The girl slowly clicked her tongue and glanced to the side. "Yeah, yeah they would wouldn't they…"

"Yes. They would. Unless they've become friendly, I'm almost positive they would." She marched forward and gradually opened the front door. She put a smile on her face and let the sounds of pain fill her ears. She actually wouldn't mind trying these games, but she was still more concerned with her work. Her eyes trailed to the bald, muscular man with a beard. She pointed and leaned in towards Christy. "See muscles there? That would be Tyson."

"Great…why does he have to have muscles? That just makes him stronger!" Trina laughed lightly and moved forward. She scanned the area with a grin. Directly in front of them, the rodeo bunny spitting fire. Next to the bunny, the balls of pain. Along the balls of pain and after them, a high wire with a pit of biting piranhas. Why the club would ever install that, she wasn't sure, but at least the wire was high enough to move across while hanging from it. Dangerous as it was though, the fish could still jump up and bite the heels. After the fish was the Gorilla cage. That damn gorilla was nestled away in his cage, slamming his fists against his chest.

"All right…the fish…" She looked to Christy's left hand and smirked. Christy was holding onto the large red tank gasoline holder. The girl frowned and held up the holder.

"I'm not sure how humane it is, but…if it keeps those fish from eating us…"

"It's only in case something goes wrong, Christy." Trina smiled as Tyson started walking towards her. "Hello I'm-" She was stopped by a familiar cry, something far too familiar. "What's that?"

"Nothing," Tyson replied huskily. She stared at him and listened closely. No. She was sure she heard the distinct cry of help coming from somewhere. As she looked past the gorilla, she narrowed her eyes and closed her fists. Not only did the gorilla have keys attached to a belt on its waist, there was a bolted door behind the gorilla cage that was open. A worker was inside the room where she could see a large pool of water. Above the water, several feet up, was a cage. Her heart slammed against her chest as she spotted a man gripping the bars of the cage. He didn't have his glasses, but there was no mistaking it, they had Robbie here!

"Nothing, you say?" The worker walked out of the room and shut the door behind him. Chances were, that door was locked automatically and the keys on the gorilla's waist opened it. "Christy." She turned and saw her friend was standing directly in front of the bunny, watching it. Christy turned around just as Trina pointed to the door. "Robbie is back there! The Gorilla has the keys! We-" Suddenly she found herself connecting with the floor. Her mistake, Tyson had still been there.

"It's Trina Vega!" The man at the balls of pain gasped and quickly pressed a button. Just as Trina looked up, she heard Christy scream for her. Several walls rose from the ground, forming a path inside the walls that forced whoever was inside to run through all the games, finishing off with the Gorilla. She cussed and clenched her fists in the dirt.

"Son of a bitch…Christy! Just go!" She looked up from the ground and saw several people beginning to surround her. She'd been dead wrong, these people weren't innocents, they were all part of the sector, and there had to be at least thirty of them. "Shit!"

"Trina! What's going on out there!"

"Forget about me, just go! I was wrong, everyone out here is part of the sector!" She slowly wiped her mouth with her thumb and rose to her feet, getting into fighter stance. As she narrowed her eyes, her mind traveled to Robbie, that cage would probably start moving down into that water very soon. If they didn't hurry, he'd drown. "Christy. I'm dealing with these guys…" One man threw a fist at her abdomen. Once it connected, she winced and placed a hand upon his wrist. She shot her knee up, connecting with his jaw, then swung the man into another gang member. "Just go! Get those keys from the gorilla and get Robbie out of there!"

"All right!" Christy sighed as she stared at that bunny. The walls were running very close to the rabbit, forcing her to have to get on the damn thing. She was not in the mood to deal with the bunny. She stepped up to the metal rim and put her thumb around the sheath, then pressed the sword up with her thumb. "Sorry bunny, but I don't think you're going to be of any use after this."

She set the gasoline can down and withdrew her blade. With a dangerous sneer, she slashed the blade in a sideways arc, slicing through the bucking rabbit with ease. She was surprised, but apparently the bunny was made of leather, not metal. She huffed satisfactorily and brought the blade down through the leather neck, then watched with a smirk as the bunny's head dropped to the ground.

"One more…" She aimed her blade and pulled it back, carefully watching as the object bounced like a piece of meat. The fact that it breathed fire, she had to wonder what would happen if she struck it in the center. With remarkable precision, she thrust herself forward, pushing her sword into the bunny's side. As her sword ran clean through, the bunny erupted in a ball of flame. The shock threw her back against the wall, jarring her senses momentarily. "Shit. I didn't think that through as well as I could have."

As her vision readjusted, she rose and examined herself. There were no burn marks, just a little redness from having been thrown against a hard metal wall. Nothing she couldn't shrug off. She lifted up the gasoline can and walked past the metallic stump that the bunny used to sit on. She chuckled and brought her blade to rest on her right shoulder. "Looks like the Gorilla Club's going to need a new bucking creature. Now…"

As she followed the path and moved up the stairs, she stared across the four swinging balls. The man behind the controls on the other side quickly fled, somehow making his way across the piranha pit. She tilted her head and slashed her blade downward. "You can't run forever! Soon the only thing between that gorilla and me is you, then what are you going to do, coward?" What was she forgetting?

She heard the sounds of fighting outside and quickly lifted her eyebrows. Shit! The distress signal! She set her gasoline can down and reached to the cell phone hanging on her belt. Fortunately all she had to do was press the send button, the text was already preset before coming in. She clicked the send button, grinning as the boys received the HELP message. Now that she'd done that, she had to cross these damn balls. This would have been more entertaining without the sword.

The balls were heavy, yes, but the tubes hanging onto them were made of a thin and hollow metal tube which her sword could easily cut through. "One…" She slashed through the first tube, wincing as the ball crashed loudly into the ground. She circled around the swinging pipe and swiftly spun around, slashing through the pipe connecting to the second ball. "Two!" She quickly ran back and grabbed the gas can, she still couldn't forget it. After grabbing the can, she moved carefully to the third ball and cut through its pipe. "Three. These swinging pipes really are rather nice without those balls hanging on them!"

"Shit!" The controller screamed as he grabbed his hair. She smirked and moved to the fourth ball, counting it off and slashing the giant ball off. "Hey! We could have used those!"

"Sorry, I wasn't in the mood to play games. Now, you got a name?"

"Fred…"

"Okay Fred…" She walked up to the piranha tank and stared down at the fish rising to the surface, snapping madly. Fred moved up to the other side of the tank, smirking as he pushed his sleeves up. She tilted her head and chuckled. "You probably expect to push me off, don't you? How about this? Instead of watching balls, you get some balls and come at me. Bet you don't have the balls, I know one thing, you don't have any metal balls anymore."

"You're starting to piss me off…"

"Oh is that so?" She smirked as she watched the man seethe with anger. "What? Did I insult your manliness?"

"Shut up bitch."

"I mean watching balls all day sure can't be fun! I bet you wish you had balls of steel."

"Shut. Up!"

"I bet your girlfriend wishes that. Oh wait, you watch balls all day, you don't have a girlfriend, do you?" The man roared angrily and started to cross the rope, exactly what she wanted him to do. She slashed her blade in a forward arc, nearly cutting him. He screamed and started stumbling backwards. "Oh you poor thing, you thought I wasn't planning on this?"

"Bitch!" She rolled her eyes as he fell off and latched onto the rope. The fish began jumping, trying to bite at his heels. He whimpered and curled his legs upwards. "Help me!" She raised an eyebrow and stared at him.

"What? After all that, you expect me to help you? Fuck you. You'll just throw me to the piranhas." She opened the gasoline can and kicked it into the water. Her heart sank as the fish started swimming around frantically, one by one, dying. The man looked down with wide eyes. With a heavy heart and a deep sigh, she started to slowly walk across the high wire, trying to balance. When she got to the man's fingers, she stepped on them. "See ya!"

"No!" He screamed and fell down into the gasoline infected waters. The rope bounced and she started to fall off. As she stumbled and fell, she reached up and grabbed the rope with her free hand, then kicked her feet up and clicked them on the rope. She took a deep breath and sighed.

"Damn that was close!" She heard Robbie's muffled scream from the sealed room and her mind shot back to the task at hand. "I'm coming! God I never thought I'd be saving your ass." She rolled her eyes and slowly began to work towards the other end of the rope. All that was left now was the dumb gorilla.

Sword versus gorilla? How hard could it possibly be?

Once inside the gorilla's pit, she found herself staring down the creature. She could get those keys, easy. Unfortunately it didn't help that she hated having to kill animals. The gorilla howled and rushed towards her. Upon reflex she dodged to the side and slashed her blade out, cutting against the gorilla. Her eyes were closed and her body trembling, she expected a howl of pain, but that didn't come.

A metallic clang echoed in her ears. She opened her eyes and looked over, the gorilla's side was sparking. Her eyes widened as the gorilla turned towards her. "You're a freaking robot? Dear god…" At least she didn't have to feel guilty about killing an actual gorilla. "You know, Trina would so love to kick your ass after what you did to Tori…I almost feel bad that I'm the one that's going to have to do it."

Her sword wasn't going to cut it, who was she kidding? Neither were her martial arts moves. Or would they? The Gorilla moved towards her once more. She hopped up and flipped in the air. Her feet connected with the robot's shoulders as she pushed off and somersaulted in the air. She thrust her sword outwards and struck the robot. Once more, she heard only a metallic clang and nothing more. As she landed on the ground, she glanced back to see the damage, but there was hardly anything more than a scratch on the back of its head.

"Well damn. This could be harder than I thought." Obviously it was made of harder material than the bunny was, but there still had to be a weakness. When it turned around, she saw it, a very thin square framing the entirety of his chest. "Aha, would I be right to presume your master controls are under there?"

The gorilla reached for her and grabbed her arm. She let out a shout as the creature hurtled her into the air. God Trina must be having it easier than this! She fought for momentum and quickly performed a back flip. "And for my next move…I am going to not get killed by the gorilla!" She crash-landed on the ground and slowly pushed herself up, spitting out the dirt that landed in her mouth. "That could have gone better."

The gorilla pounded its chest once more as she used her sword to pick herself up from the ground. She breathed out and her muscles started to ache. She was not wanting to be thrown again. Thinking fast, she charged the gorilla as he was busy taunting, bent down, and grabbed the keys from its waist. The robot let out a grunt and started looking around.

"That's the thing robot, I'm a lot faster than you, and I am done playing!" With a victory yell she leapt up from behind the robot, perched upon its shoulders, clamping its neck with her legs. She turned the blade in a vertical position and slipped it into the thin line. The robot grabbed her legs and started squeezing. She let out a grunt and started pulling the hilt of the blade back, causing her sword to push the square portion out. It took a lot of strength, but after a few seconds of struggling, the portion popped off with ease. "Got it!"

The robot howled and pulled her off him. She clasped the key ring with her teeth and let herself sail through the air. When he released her, her back collided with the steel cage. She growled and slowly rose, still bent. She brushed her bangs from her forehead and glared at the robot. Her entire body was aching, she was pushing herself more than she thought she could.

She eyed the large red button among the various buttons on the chest, her lips curled into a smirk and she slowly clenched her fist. "There we go…" She started moving towards the robot, picking up speed as the adrenaline continued pumping through her entire body. The robot stared at her with confusion. She let out a loud yell and leapt from the ground. She brought her knees up and kicked outwards, slamming her feet into the robot's many buttons. The robot stumbled backwards as she backflipped and landed on her legs. Pain shot through them, causing her to flinch. She would have to rest and ice her legs after this, but she knew they'd be okay.

The robot's chest began sparking and the creature started shaking. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, she'd won the match. As she straightened her posture, she turned and sheathed her blade. She opened her eyes and smirked as the robot exploded into a small ball of fire that evaporated in the air. "So much for you."

Wow, intense. Go Christy, go! Robbie's counting on you! Well, sort of, he has absolutely no idea you're even there.