Not long after clearing up the mess and the sun now rising in full glory, Lizzies was tits up with cops and ambulances swarming the place.
People that weren't even covered were getting checked out.
Getting minimal service and treatment.
Most of the major injuries we're already covered and taken care of by the Ripperdocs.
They long since skipped back to they're own spots.
And clean up was the last thing on everyone's mind because nobody said shit to the cops.
So it was written up as a drive by, nobody expected more, nobody expected less. Despite the evidence that showed it was far more then a drive by due to the fact that they had carry the bodies out of the place.
This was the reality of Night City after all.
All they did was offer The Mox breathing room.
Breathing room that was desperately needed.
But to Rita Wheeler this was far deeper then just a shoot out between rival factions.
This was a Defilement of her sanctuary.
Her home, her place of work, the place that took her in, and the people that had become a family to her.
To see Lizzies now with bullet holes and puddles of blood had her infuriated, she didn't show it, but the people that knew her, knew that it was eating her up inside.
It was in her eyes as she stood against the wall on and leaned her head as she looked at the body bags and wounded being treated.
It wasn't right.
Things were already had on the mox as is and these...
Vultures.
picking at them, thinking that this would be enough for them to just swoop in and get a foot in Kabuki.
Because that's all the Mox were to the Tyger Claw.
The Mox were just a stepping stone to they're enemies.
As the real battle goes beyond Kabuki and little China, up north of Watson, The Waterfront and Northside.
Maelstrom.
Funny, how the first thing that didn't pop in her mind was the gory brutality and Cybernetic infused horror that made up Maelstrom.
No, the first thought that went through her mind was a man with red glowing optics and a plastic bag with natural fruits and juices.
A smile came to her face as quickly as it then disappeared.
The truth is the Mox are in the middle between 2 Juggernauts continuously expanding all over Night City.
The people she loved and cared for are being dragged in the middle of these ever escalating tensions.
After the fall of 6th Street, the tensions between the Tygers and Maelstrom were growing.
She wasn't stupid, the moves Maelstrom were making are throwing off the balance in Night City.
Taking Santo Damingo, expanding in Westbrook, talks were already in circulation.
The Tygers were not in a good position and the one group standing in they're way from tempering the balance, the current order NC.
It was The Mox.
Suze had been up talking and getting everyone back inside the club as they needed a plan.
Sera, Cleme, and Auro were helping the other girls get back as the filled out body bags were being taken by NCPD, as the last destination for them was The Colomborium.
Things weren't looking so hot for the mox at the moment.
Hopefully Rich was doing better.
"Get Off Me You Stupid Bitch" spoke one man of the 3.
"Come on Thrasher, entertain me while we have to wait for Mr.Leader to come back" spoke Bedlam as she was on Thrashers back tightening her arm around his throat as she had him in a rear naked choke.
Strangling the man with everything she had, in front of all the other Maelstrom members in in the Charter Hill spot.
"Damn look at the bitch, go"
"Come on Thrasher, stop giving us a bad name"
"Do Somethin, Fender"
"Fucking Gonk, Thesz"
Fender "Thrasher" Thesz is a Maelstrom high tier member that worked his way up in Charter Hill, mostly known for hit jobs on smaller spots, specifically Tyger Claw in specefic.
A man fueled by his ambition to be a leader and reach the higher Escalon of Maelstrom.
He was dealing with the one woman he despised the most in this world.
Windry Bedlam, started at the bottom just like himself working under Nickels in Charter Hill.
But when the time came she rose up the ranks eventually getting tied to Old Man Bronze.
Known specifically for Assassination jobs her never being seen and the only proof and sign it was her work being the classic poison laced knifes.
Earning her the title.
"Toxic" Bedlam.
For years they've Circled each other in Maelstrom, working together on a few jobs but never officially becoming a team.
Here they were being yelled at by other Maelstromers as they we on to the usual shenanigans of the 2.
Until Fender got hold of the bitch by her long brown hair and swung the bitch off his back and her hitting the wall.
One of the last 3 of the unknowns to Rich of this 3 piece was the one that he actually knew, he was watching on as the the cuffudle was going down.
Charles "Bruiser" Zbyzko
Man started off in All Foods, usually small jobs assisting either being the third man to a shoot out or nabbing people.
Alot of unsavory things have been said about him, but Rich wasn't familiar with the man besides the fact he has done work on him.
Rich didn't see what qualified this guy to get on this job.
Maybe he was just to fill in the spot, Rich wasn't given the details behind this rag tag group.
Bedlam and Thesz made sense.
Bruiser was the odd one out.
But this what he had to work with as he turns back to the custom AV.
Nickels wasn't here when they arrived in Charter Hill.
But from the directions he was given by the crew on it and details needed.
This day can only get worse.
To Be Continued.