Assault Retribution

Dan stood outside the building of the Ahamba nightclub. If what Terrance told him was correct, this would be one of the spots that Nathaniel usually hangs out at. Ignoring the long line of people that stood outside the club waiting to get in, Dan moved past the crowd and headed straight toward the entrance. A huge bouncer who stood in front of the door started to block Dan, but once he saw the expression on his face, he decided that it would be better to let him in on through.

The inside of the club was filled with lots of people on the dance floor. The music boomed loudly and colored lights flashed all throughout the interior. Dan walked to the bar nearby and sat at the table.

"Welcome. Can I get you anything?" Shouted the Bartender

"Yeah. Im looking for a man named Nathaniel Boyd. Do you know him?" Asked Dan

"Nathaniel? Yeah he's a regular here. You can find him around back in the VIP lounge." Said the Bartender.

"Thanks." Said Dan

Getting up out the stool, Dan turned around and walked through the crowd of people. On the other side of the bar, was a door that had big letters on it that said V.I.P. Standing in front of it, was another huge, burly bouncer. Dan started to walk straight towards the door, but all the sudden he started to feel a little dazed. Dan walked past the door and headed into the mens room. Once he was inside, he locked the door behind him, and walked to the faucets.

Those meds that he bought from the pharmacy were a little too effective. At least he wasn't getting too much trouble from his wounds. Dan splashed doused his face with some cold water and gazed into the mirror.

"And now its time for target number two." Said Dan

Walking out the restrooms, he headed over to the V.I.P. door. Walking to the door, he stood face to face with the guard.

"Can I help you?" Asked the guard

"Yeah. I have some business with Mr. Boyd." Said Dan

"What exactly is your business with him." Asked the guard

"Im here to kill Mr. Boyd." Answered Dan

"What!"

The guard tried to quickly reach for his gun in his coat pocket, but Dan managed to whip out his pistol faster ending up with his gun aimed straight at the guard's head. The guard moved his hand from his coat pocket and slowly stretched his hands into the air.

"Im only here to kill one person. But if that means im gonna have to kill you, or anyone else who is in my way, I'll be more than willing to do so. He's not worth dying for believe me. All im asking you to do is let me through." Said Dan

"Okay. Okay. Whatever you say man. Don't shoot me." Said the guard

The guard quickly moved out the doorway and ran off into the crowd.

Dan slowly opened the door to the V.I.P. lounge. The inside contained a smaller group of people who partied even harder than the one's outside. It would be difficult to try and find his target since he didn't have a description of how this man looked. Whoever he was, he wouldn't be leaving the room alive.

Dan walked around the room observing everyone with a close eye. As he walked around the lounge he asked different people if they knew who Nathaniel was. Some ignored him and continued partying and a few told him to get lost, but one finally pointed in the direction of a group sitting at a table. There were 3 girls surrounding a bald headed man with a goatee. Dan pulled his pistol and walked towards the table.

As he walked closer towards the table, he lifted and aimed his gun right in Nathaniel's direction. Before he could fire a single round, a loud gunshot came from elsewhere. A stray bullet hit Dan in the back of the shoulder causing Dan to stumble and fall onto the floor.

"Boss get outta there!" Screamed someone from behind

Dan spun around to face the shooter and found that it was the same guard who stood at the door. The guard tried to fire another shot, but Dan quickly fired his gun from the floor. The guard took a bullet in the lower abdomen and two in the chest. The guard fell to his knees and slowly hit the floor.

Dan quickly got up and turned back into the direction of his target, but he was nowhere to be seen.

"Fuck." Whispered Dan

Walking to the table, he found a cellphone lying in the middle of the seat. Picking it up, pressed a button and searched through it's recent messages and phone calls. Dan searched to the most recent message and pressed the replay button.

Nathaniel. Joey has got another errand that he needs us to run for him. He's payin double than what he offered last time. The rendevous for us to meet is at the warehouse near the Truck Stop in Dilimore. Be there tomorrow at midnight.

"Dilimore huh?"

Dan pocketed the phone, left the V.I.P. room and walked out of the empty nightclub.

Koji was seated dressed in a Japanese gi meditating in silence. He was resting off the hours of vigorous training inside his base's dojo. One of Mitsuko's personal servants slowly walked in with a message from her mistress.

"Mitsuko requests that you report to her office ASAP. I apologize for interrupting." Said the female servant.

Koji stood up and grabbed a towel to dry off his face and walked out of the training room. Walking up to the second floor of the building and down the hall he finally stood at Mitsuko's office door. He turned the knob and slowly walked in. Inside, Mitsuko was standing up looking through the large window behind her desk watching the rain falling through the night sky.

"You needed to see me?" Asked Koji.

"Koji. I see you were practicing. I hope I didn't interrupt." Said Mitsuko

"No. Not at all." Said Koji

"I asked for you because I have been informed by Gengoro of the Blood Feather gang about a Vietnamese restaurant which is actually Da Nang hideout on the eastside of Los Santos. Tetsuo, a veteran Da Nang member and figurehead of their leader, Kano is currently running things over there. I want him and every Da Nang filth there eliminated." Said Mitsuko

"Understood." Said Koji.

"I'd like for you to be partnered with Mr. Carl Johnson on this one." Said Mitsuko.

"I am not to partake on this assignment alone?" Asked Koji.

"I know a partner may seem more of a burden to you, but I've heard that Mr. Johnson is quite efficient. Twice he's saved my father's life from the attempted assassinations of the Da Nang and he single handedly defeated their gang founder Snakehead in a sword duel after he exterminated a whole squad of his men. The both your skills combined could cause devastating results against them." Said Mitsuko.

"Interesting. I will be looking forward to it."Said Koji.

"Good. You may leave now." Said Mitsuko.

As koji left her office, Mitsuko sat down at her desk, grabbed her phone, and dialed a number.

"Mr. Johnson a request of your of your services is much needed." Said Mitsuko.

Dona sat applying a shiatsu massage to a client. She had successfully infiltrated her target's businesses disguising herself as one of the female masseuse attendants of the massage parlor that he owned.

The costumes that the females wore were that of geishas so that the place would have more of an oriental look to it. Xiao Lun was her next target's name and he was a wealthy and extremely powerful businessman who had large gang under his wing. As her client lay relaxed, she grabbed his neck and forcefully twisted it, instantly killing him.

Walking from his dead body, Dona grabbed her bag of equipment from under a table near the wall and made started making preparations. She removed all of her garments and replaced them with a body hugging black outfit and black boots. She removed all of the decorative pins from her tied up hair. Then, she grabbed a towel from a rack, soaked it using warm water from a Japanese teapot, and wiped the face paint and makeup from her face.

Once she wiped herself clean she reached into her bag and pulled out a silenced HK-5 along with a black veil to mask her face. Fully prepared, Dona slowly pushed the slide door and walked out of the room. Quietly and stealthily, she crept around the building searching for the whereabouts of her target. She took an elevator to the next floor and searched around there. Little did she know that someone was watching her every move through a t.v. screen. After minutes of sneaking and searching, she finally found the door to Xiao's personal chambers.

Dona slowly pushed open the slide doors. The inside of the room was dark, but her eyes could make out someone sitting lotus style in the middle of the room. She slowly crept closer towards him her gun drawn until then...

"Welcome." Said Xiao

Her target's greeting completely threw her off and when she tried to squeeze the trigger, a projectile thrown from an unknown adversary knocked her gun away. A slender hand came from behind and forcefully grabbed her wrist. Before she could react all she was quickly flip tossed where she hit the floor extremely hard. Then the lights switched on. Stunned, she saw a small glimpse of her attacker who was an Asian female who wore a blue kimono. An identical female stood next to her wearing a green kimono and carrying twin escrima sticks.

"Fucking b..."

Before she could finish one single word, she was struck hard in the face with a stick. Her head hit the floor hard and blood flowed freely from her mouth. She slowly moved her eyes to her target who was now standing over her. Her veil was forcefully snatched off of her face. She tried to lift her head to get a look of his face but another stinging hit came harder than the first. Dona's vision went completely dark, and she blacked out.

"Well if you're looking for a driver with some skills, then Claude is the right man for the job. You just make sure that the price is right. Alright. He'll be there." Said Steve

Steve walked out of his office and over to Claude who was doing curl ups with one of the bars of the ceiling.

"Well Claude, I got you a job with the Sindaccos. They want you to head over to the Bigass Meat Factory over in Las Venturas tomorrow." Said Steve

"The Sindaccos?" Aren't they a crime family." Asked Lynn

"Yeah. Claude usually takes on jobs for the mob, gangs, and crime families." Said Steve

"Oh really. Ever killed anyone?" Asked Lynn

"..."

"Of course he has." Said Steve

"Interesting." Said Lynn

Claude stopped doing curl ups and walked over to the radio and turned up the volume where he heard an advertisement.

Head over to Ammunation where we have great deals on our latest and greatest stash of weapons. If you head over now, you'll receive a free ammo clip with any weapon you buy!

Claude grabbed his coat and walked out of the entrance.

Koji and C.J. both stood behind the trunk of the vehicle that they drove near their destination. Both men strapped on bulletproof vests. C.J. pulled out a large selection of weapons; An mp5, two silenced colt .45's, a combat knife and some grenades. Kenji only pulled out a glock pistol with one clip and his katana.

"That's all you bought with you?" Said C.J.

"It's all I need. I'll go through the entrance and you can go through the rear of the building. There should be a door that leads to the kitchen." Said Koji.

"Alright."

Both C.J. and Koji walked across the street to the restaurant. C.J. took the alleyway around back and Koji walked right to the front door.

"The front door? You gotta be crazy as hell." Thought C.J.

Walking through the alley he finally came to a door along the wall. Before he could turn the knob, the door was forcefully pushed open and employees rushed out of the building fleeing in terror. C.J. hid behind the dumpster as hordes of people ran through the alleyway and out to the street. Once everyone left. C.J. walked through the door with his machine gun clutched tight in his hands.

The kitchen was completely empty with food left burning on stoves and kitchen utensils sprawled out onto the floor.

Opening another door on the other side of the kitchen, C.J. came to the dining hall where the he could see the entrance. Tables were knocked over and there were bodies all on the floor. Each had nasty looking blade wounds. There were some bloody shoe prints that reached Across the dining hall up to a stairwell which led to another floor. Following the shoe prints, C.J. walked up the stairwell where loud gunfire could be heard.

The loud gunshots came from one of the doors of the building. Slowly pushing open the door, he saw Koji sitting behind a bar table dodging gunfire. On the other side of the room were 4 Da Nang boys and each of them were heavily armed. C.J. quickly pushed open the door and fired his mp5 at the group of men. All were caught off guard and were felled off from C.J. 's gunfire.

Koji stood up from hiding and picked back up his sword.

"Bet you wish you would have bought another gun huh?" Said C.J.

Koji ignored Carl's comment and walked over to one of the men who was still alive and wounded by C.J's gunfire. The wounded gang member lifted up his hand pleading for his life, but Koji thrust his sword into the Da Nang member's sternum, then twisted and ripped his blade out. Walking back to the doorway, C.J. tossed him one of his silenced pistols.

"Tetsuo is located in the main office 3 doors down from here. There may be quite a number of men up ahead." Said Koji.

"Im ready for it." Said C.J.

Both men slowly walked through the hallway with their weapons ready. Two Da Nang members ran from the doorway, but were quickly shot down by C.J.'s machine gun. One Da Nang member ran up the stairs coming at them from behind, but Koji quickly spun around and shot him point blank range in the head. C.J. opened the door to the main office, but was hit with a hail of bullets. He flew back and hit the floor. Koji quickly shut the door back.

C.J. lay on the floor for a brief moment and then got back up.

"Fuck this shit."

C.J. dropped his mp5, took a grenade and threw it into the door of the main office. There were some shouts from behind the door and then there was a loud explosion.Koji kicked open the door, walked inside and quickly dispatched of any Da Nang member that was left standing.

Koji walked over one severely injured gang member who slowly stood on his feet.

"Where is Tetsuo?" Said Koji

The gang member slowly pointed. Looking in the area that he directed, Koji saw a gold button on the wall. Before he walked to the wall, he struck the gang member's neck with his palm and with his fingers, he squeezed his throat. Then he struck his jugular area with a knife hand strike. The gang member fell to his knees holding his neck. Strangling, he fell to the floor shaking furiously. Bloody foam flowed freely from his mouth and his eyes rolled to the back of his head. Then he lie motionless.

"What the fuck?" Said C.J. walking over to the man's fallen body.

Koji ran over to the wall and pressed the golden button. The two walls slowly separated showing a hidden elevator door. Koji removed his sword from hisscabbard and placed it on the floor.

"Stay here." Said Koji

Pressing the button to the elevator, Koji walked in and the doors automatically shut. Moments later, the doors opened to a floor above the restaurant. The large room was vastly decorated with weapons along the walls and it held a large oriental appearance. Tetsuo sat in a grand chair on the other end drinking heavily.

"Tetsuo. I have orders to kill you. All of your men are dead and there is no way you can escape. The only way you can survive is by going through me. Arm yourself and fight."Said Koji

"Heh heh. You're challenging me to a duel? Do you have any idea who you're up against?" Asked Tetsuo.

"Arm yourself. I won't ask again." Said Koji

Tetsuo jumped out of his chair and walked over to a rack that held a large variety of oriental weapons. He pulled out two butterfly swords and stood in a high, narrow stance poised for attack. Kenji removed his kevlar vest and stepped down into the middle of the room. He stood in an open stance with his sword low.

Tetsuo smiled and charged at him with his blades swinging wildly. Koji dodged and deflected his attacks with his blade. Koji knew that the butterfly sword provided excellent offense and agility, but lacked in defense. He once learned that he hard way when he nearly lost his finger going head to head against Utamaru in a practice session

Koji anticipated Tetsuo's every move that was used against him. Tetsuo tended to jerk his hips which gave showed which direction he would move to next. Tetsuo swung his butterfly sword at Koji's neck, but Koji leaned back and blocked the attack with the flat edge of his blade. Tetsuo attacked wildly with his blades, but Koji found an opening and sliced across his abdomen.

Tetsuo jumped back and looked at his wound. He removed his shirt showing his heavily tattooed chest. With a bloodcurdling scream, he charged at Koji in a berserker frenzy. Tetsuo's attack maneuvers became unpredictable and required a little more effort to stand up against him. Koji and Tetsuo were both on each other with without either one ever allowing each other to land a blow.

As both blades locked, Tetsuo threw off Koji by spitting in his face. Kenji shut his eyes, and when he saw the chance, he slashed his shoulder blade. Koji wiped his face and went back into a ready stance. Tetsuo ran at Koji for a final time. As Tetsuo tried to swing his sword. Koji struck his hand, slicing it completely off. Then Koji turned and slashed the back of Tetsuo's legs causing him to fall to his knees. Finally, Koji spun in a wide arc with sword and cut Tetsuo's head off. His headless body limped over and blood sprayed out of the missing area where Tetsuo's head once was. Koji wiped the sweat off his forehead and walked back to the elevator door.

Coming back into the room where C.J. was, he picked up his scabbard and sheathed his sword.

"Is it done?" Asked C.J.

"Yes. He's been taken care of." Said Koji.

"Good now lets hurry up and get the fuck outta here before 5.0 arrives." Said C.J.

Alice sat at the Tarbush café with her laptop computer. She sat there for hours trying to decode the encrypted files on the disk that Cassandra gave her.

"Shit. I give up. I know who could probably help me with this."

Alice took out her cell phone and dialed the number to Zero's RC Shop.

"Hello." Asked Zero

"Hey Zero. This is Alice."

"Alice? Hello." Said Zero

"Yeah Im having some trouble unlocking a disk that has some files that I really need to look at and I was wondering if you could use some of your computer magic to open them for me." Said Alice

"Sure. I'd be delighted to help you. C'mon and bring it down here and ill see what I can do for you." Said Zero

"Thanks Zero. I'll be there in a couple of minutes." Said Alice

Hanging up her phone. Alice grabbed her laptop and walked out of the Tarbush Café

As she walked to her car, a black limo pulled up beside her. A huge man walked out the car and grabbed Alice by the wrist. She tried to resist, but he was to strong. Before she could scream, she was thrown into the vehicle and the door was slammed shut and automatically locked.

"Good afternoon Ms. Whitley" Said an Unknown voice.

Sitting in front of her was a man whose face was hidden in the shade.

"Who the hell are you?" Asked Alice

"Im a businessman who works for the Zaibatsu Corporation." Said the Mysterious man.

"Oh really. What can I do for you." Asked Alice.

"Actually, its what can't you do for me." Said the Mysterious man

"I don't get what you're trying to say." Said Alice

"Ms. Whitley we know that you are a reporter and we know about some of your coverings on us and we would like you to cease all your affiliations against us. You see, what you're doing interferes with our cash flow which makes it bad for business. We're willing to pay you 10,000 dollars for your cooperation." Said the mysterious man

"Okay let me get this straight. You're gonna pay me 10 grand for me to shut my mouth and not say anything else about your filthy company so it wont hurt your sales profit?" Asked Alice.

"That is correct." Said the mysterious man.

"Isn't that a bitch? And what if I refuse?" Said Alice

"You don't want to refuse us. It would be a bad idea. A very bad idea." Said the Mysterious man.

"Let me out right now." Said Alice

The car stopped and the doors automatically unlocked.

"Think about it and give us a call." Said the mysterious man as he handed her a card.

Alice snatched it and walked out of the limousine. As the limo drove off, Alice ripped up the card and threw it on the ground.

"WCTR is gonna hear about this." Said Alice.

Next Chapter: Dona escapes capture and continues her assassination plot. Dan goes to Dilimore and finally confronts his next target. Cassandra's next thieftarget is the also thetarget of thehitman Dameon. Both make a suprising and deadly encounter. Claude proves his worth to the Sindacco family and is offered a spot.

(Sorry for taking so long with this chapter. I've been pretty busy. Dont forget to review!)