Gunslinger girl shadows of war ch. 19 Chaos and collateral
A/N: I do not own gunslinger girl and this chapter will bring 2 new kids in
Looking over the compound Chris turned around and saw Katy standing there and she said
"Brother I know what you are thinking but it will not calm the turmoil you feel inside" as he held up a letter from his ex-girlfriend and it was the last time he had heard from her in a month. He nearly screamed
"You don't think I know that but I have to make sure she is ok and I may get a chance to set my head on straight" and she slapped him and said bitterly
"Fine I know it won't change anything but you know this isn't condoned by the agency right?" and he laughed and said
"I know that is why I'm doing it and I've already told the girls and none of them have tried to talk me out of it and they have even given me ideas on how to get away with it" and Katy just said
"watch your back and Ill sign you out for a few days so don't worry ok?" and he just nodded and hopped on his bike with a map and his sidearm and Knife for the simple task of finding out what had happened to his ex and whether or not she would accepting of him for being created differently than what he had been when they last met. As he let a tear roll down his cheek he mumbled and said quietly to himself
"I will find you and if needed I will die for you because you were all I held dear" and he flipped down the frosted glass on his visor before hopping on his Ninja 636 and tore out of the compound as Petra watched and looked at Katy before saying
"Your brother is a pain in the ass but he is my pain in the ass and I hope he knows I love him and won't try anything stupid" which got Katy hugging her saying
"I know and he does but he also knows if he does get hurt I will kill him" and they both had a laugh before heading off to dinner wondering what Chris was doing.
Looking at his watch which he had covered the face with a piece of black electrician's tape he just looked around and made a lsit of the HVTs in the area and anyone who he would have to watch out for like the cops who drove by every once in a while with the lights going causing everyone to slink into the shadows and Chris followed suit laughing mumbling
"To hunt a pest you have to think like a pest"
before seeing his chance when the dealer on that corner was alone he walked up and with a French accent he had picked up from his time in France on various ops and he silently thanked his luck that Jean forced him to take French before he left. Smiling as he walked up with a thick wad of cash he said
"I would like a couple dime bags and a eight ball and an eight ball of Ice" and as the dealer wanting to get paid quickly so he could go home he threw in a few dippers before Chris walked off seemingly to find a place to get high. Looking at the dope all he could mutter to himself
"Why the fuck would anyone was the money on such useless shit but that's not my problem even though that asshole signed his own death warrant" and he then dumped the dope down the drain before walking back to the dealer and said
"Hey Im back and that was some good shit" and as the punk turned his back Chris pulled out a switch blade and put it to is neck and his hand over his mouth before growling into his ear
"You will tell me what I want to know and then you may get to go home to your family you dirty piece of shit" and the man slowly wet himself in terror which got Chris remarking before nicking his neck
"You are so pathetic now I heard that you had a girl tied up somewhere now tell me where she is" and the young man croaked out pointing his finger toward Chris' high school from when he had moved to Italy with his unit before he graduated from his small town high school back in the Midwest of the US. Hearing the young man start groveling as his hand went to the knife Chris said
"Thanks for the help but it was a wrong move asshole" and slashed his neck before burying the blade through his carotid artery killing him almost instantly with only the minor amount of whimpering and the nose was masked by his hand and the knife through the brainstem ended the poor piece of shits suffering and all Chris would say was
"Requiescat im pace" before switching to English and saying
"Hope you enjoy hell asshole and give Lucifer my regards asshole". Calmly wiping the blood on his shirt he hopped on the bike pulling the visor down before cruising down to the school and coming faced to face with the door having been locked. Smirking he pulled a set of lockpicks out of his backpack before hearing a faint moan of pain as his hearing was super human and he knew the school didn't have an alarm system he smashed his hand through the glass slamming the door open before yelling
"Noel are you here please answer me" and heard a faint cry coming from the Gym and he ran into a shock that made even a veteran warriors blood go cold as she was chained to the pull up bar around her neck and her body bruised and a guy stood over her with his jeans down and what appeared to be a battery dripping acid in her eyes and down her cheeks and she screamed but it was muffled as he was violating her. Pulling out the pistol he yelled
"You stupid motherfucker Ill kill you I swear iy" and he started to run which got Chris pointing the 45 at his back before slamming 4 rounds into his spine with a satisfying snap causing him to turn and dump the rest of the acid on himself. Running over he kicked him in the head killing him and Chris laughed before mutilating him saying
"you are damned if I do and damned if I don't you dense motherfucker" before he decapitated his and set it on the bleachers before cutting Noel free saying
"Im here for you please don't die on me PLEASE" and he ran her to the bike and then to the hospital before going to the bar with the money from the dead dealers as he robbed them to make it look like something other than a thrill killing. Pulling up to the bar after dropping Noel off at the hospital he ordered a round of beers and a whiskey and started to enjoy it before seeing Jean walk in and he yelled
"I will kill you and am not in the mood you asshole" and all Jean said was
"Your ex girl-friend is in the hospital and said she owes you for what happened but do you want to explain before your next op" and as Chris pulled on his beer he explained that she ahd been in a family thast tried to appease the cartels by selling her as a Child solider but the deal went bad and her whole family was wiped out with only her and her brother Dakota being the only survivors because Dakota was at his grilfriends and they knew what happened to Noel. Looking at Chris Jean said
"We will have her brother be her handler and we found that she had 2 revolvers and she can change or use those as her weapons of choice and you have another op" and he threw down the money for a tab and had bought a necklace for petra earlier in the night.
"Well we get to go mountain climbing eh" Richard asked as they saw that the contract would be a raid on a PMC. Looking at Jean they asked
"I know we may find POIs so what can you tell us about them and they found a dossier on the boys and Davey stood out the most as a young man who had been forcibly drafted into a group known as Riley's rangers and as the documents they had found stated "the bodies of the leadership of the unit were found and they looked like they had been set upon by wild animals". Reading that Chris and Richard said in unison
"Damn he is one fucked up son of a bitch but we know what to do if he tries to attack us and that is to put him down quickly" and they geared up before Chris looked at his girlfriend and said
"I have a gift for you and I may have taken it off of a dead body" and she laughed and said
"So how did you really get it because I know you didn't steal it from a dead body" and he said
"You caught me I bought it for you" and she blushed as they loaded up in the MRAP and they flipped the lights off and used the eyesight they had or NVGs to show them the road in front and Rico had a night scope and they laid up as she silently dropped the Talon force who were standing guard before the automatic weapons lit up the night and they tore into the men on guard and the unknowing so the off guard became dead or wounded in the blink of an eye. As they all ran in for a SSE Davey saw the events and took off before Rico tackled him and tied his hands up as they kept looking through finding the intelligence on the Talon Company. Holding it up Richard yelled
"We found who was supplying the Padania and she if the boy wants to join if not set him free" and Davey spat out
"I helped these bastards and I am glad to see them in hell and Ill put the rest of them in the ground if I can" before the SSE uncovered weapons and explosives and even poison gas which triggered and they quickly exfiled burning the camp to the ground and killed any of the wounded dragging only a small amount of them for intel gathering. Helping davey into the truck they asked him
"do you want to join us and if so you will oh-" as the vehicle rolled as a landmine erupted and rolled it they all got out and put a security cordon around it and Chris yelled
"Is everyone ok and we need to move now" and they all yelled back
"we are good and we can call in a heloborne exfil" and they were told to wait 10 minutes and Richard and David yelled
"Bull shit nothing takes 10 minutes with these guys" and Davey laughed and said
"Should have paid to upgrade to the Immediate reaction force" and then found a Huey helicopter and they raised the QRF and said
"We have acquired transport and are on our way home all accounted for" and they landed and Davey who went by the name Joseph and they took him to the debriefing room and they then assigned him a handler with the same name as his classmate Dante and they asked him
"What will your main weapon be?" and he held up the same weapon that Chris had and said "Beowulf .50 caliber rifle and a claymore sword for if I need another weapon" and they laughed and handed him a automatic shotgun as a backup. As Davey went off to train with Dante Chris met up with Noel who smiled and said
"Thank you for saving me" and she only had a scar on her face and one on her arm as the only reminders of the hell she had been through and he said
"No problem sis now let me show you around and if you need to you can borrow my weapons" and they strolled around until after the sun went down and they ended up at the gun range and he smiled and said
"Sis I bet I'm a better shot than you are and here's to that one DENSE MOTHER FUCKER" with each word punctuated by a shot and she laughed and said
"you'll pull your Mohawk out" and he rubbed it as it was close cropped and said
"May get a crew cut and yes mother oh by the way I won" and the match continued well into the night. As he looked over his shoulder he saw Petra and said to her and Noel
"I know you both are going to wonder about the Gub in my room as Ive seen you both snooping trying to come up with a story and Ill tell you both tomorrow" before dumping his mags down range humming.