NationStates Jolt Archive

It had been days since the last party in Paladin. Razi sighed as he walked towards his car. A custom XJT Beamer. As he walked he brushed some red hair from his face and opened the lock on the car and slowly got in. He placed the key in the igntion and fired it up. He then turned on the radio and cranked the volume. He drove out towards the cities warehouse district blasting toons. From one of the warehouses lights could be seen flashing as he drove closer he noticed a black with red and blue flames paintedd XJT and he smiled. "Looks like that girl is here to night," he says to himself as he pulls his care up beside hers and turns it off then steps out. The rave seen in Paladin had seen a major boost thanks to the rebuilding efferts in the other cities were allowing the ravers time to party with no threat of a bust. Razi one of these ravers had wished that it would stay that way forever. As he walked to the entrance the bouncer at the door looked him over and gave him a nod. Razi quickly returned it and walked inside. Inside was amazing by rave standards. The lighting was in the best places and the DJ was one of the pros in Paladin but Razi didn't care he was here to enjoy his life and not worry about how well everything was. As long as the tunes were there loud and clear and the lights did there things he was happy. He walked his way over to a young woman with a pair of glow-sticks on a metal chain arond her neck dancing and taped her on the shoulder. She turned around and smiled. "Glad you made it," she says over the music as she keeps dancing and Razi joined in. "Wouldn't miss it for the world," he replies as he takes out a glow-stick and strings it through a chain of his own. As the night went on the rave got wilder. More and more people were buying form dealers and mroe people were coming. Razi and the girl were the few that didn't buy from the dealers and were damn glad about it.

Outside unheard to the ravers three gun shots rung out into the night. Several members of the Tendou watched as a dealer who was trying to not pay his debt. "God I hate those idiots who never pay," one of the men says as he walks towards the body of the dealer and fires a pair of slugs form his pistol into his head killing him. He then reacheed into his jacket pocket and pulled out a bag of small pills marked with a large capital N.


OOC:Ok so this is basicly the begening here so don't think it will all take place at a rave. Basicly Paladin the secodn largest city in Phalanix and the most repaired one has the least military of the citys. So almost every 3 days a rave happens in the warehouse district. The cops are to busy working in the main area of the city to care so these things are going unwatched. But as we know with a rave comes dealers and yes there are dealers so this RP might not be for little kids. A good section of ravers in the city are in gangs but two major ones stand out. The Tenduo and the Akutenshi. The Tendou are the richest gang and have ties with the most powerful drug complany in Phalanix: Lost Angel. The Akutenshi are just the raver kids who know that the Tenduo are up to no good producing and distrubuting new drugs. So make a raver character or whatever aslong as it isn't some cop, comando, or anything that is agianst raves and such. So you can be the DJ ,a dealer, a gang member, a raver or anyone you can think of just come and RP.

Kim really didnt know what she was doing here. As the thumping of the music grew louder she guessed that she had been heading towards one of the larger speakers in her attempts to navigate the crowd. Hmm..Better try the other way if I want to respect my hearing.

She let her body sway wildly to the movements of those around her, trying to fit in, when mentally she knew this was not her type of place. What the fuck happened to Baily and Tod? I cant believe they left me alone like this, I didnt even want to come in the first place. Kim hid the frustration from her face, but on the inside she was fumming at the actions of her 'friends'. She felt riddiculous with the plastic glow ring hanging from her neck, she did have matching green sticks but kept them tucked away in her pockets.

Kim was about to leave the warehouse and call it a night, after all she did drive and her friends deserved to be left behind, however in front of her was the smiling face of an attractive older guy. She saw him look at her and smile as he was reaching into his pockets and handing something to another raver in exchange for something else. While she considered herself to be very intelligent, Kim was top in her class in the SAT's and GPA, Kim would be the first to admit that her level of 'street smart' was lacking; and against better judgements she glidded up to the attractive man with a smile of her own.

Razi heard the faint sound of the gun shots and cursed under his breath. He was a ex-member of the Tendou and knew what they did at raves. He slowly started to move towards a exit when he noticed a girl moving towards one of the dealers. He quickly looked over the dealer and shock his head. He was new to the area he could tell by the lack proper cover.
The girl Razi was dancing with started fallowing him. She fallowed close behind him and kept her eyes on him. He didn't know that she was a member of the Akutenshi and strangly enugh someone with power in high places.

Outside the Tendou quickly moved the body into a storage container and tossed it aside. As they started to enter there car one noticed a single figure standing right in the shadows near them. The lone man step foreward and his deep icy blue eyes glimeed in the dim moon light.

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The young man slowly started to walk foreward his eyes glairing into the Tendou member's eyes. The Tendou drew an Uzi and opened fire on the man. The blue haired man suddenly dived to the left and pulled out a plasma pistol and opend fire on the Tendou member he was cut down by the hail of super heated plasma that cut a hole through his chest making him toppel over. The other members heard this and one of the cars fired up and drove off while the other only half full drove off leaving the other members to fend for themselves. The blue haired man looked at them all. Suddenly a pair of the remaining Tendou bolted fearing for there lives. The other two pulled a pair of uzis each and opened fire on the man. He quickly started to dive to the right while proceding to open fire with his plasma pistol on the men.
At this moment Razi was steping out and saw the blue haired man atempting to dodge the bullets. Suddenly the man looks at Razi and is struck with one of the bullets in the leg. The girl suddenly shouts out "JOSHUA!" and runs towards him with a single tear rolling down her face. Razi cursed under his breath and bolted foreward and speared one of the Tendou flooring him and fourcing him to drop his uzi. Razi then grabed it and fired into the man's gut killing him. The blue haired man held his leg were he was shot and started to stop the bleeding. The girl ran to his side and quickly removed a bandana from her side pocket and started wraping it around the wound.

OOC:Join damn it I'd hate to do this alone

:Bump:

EDIT: Oh, whoops, thought Razi was with the Tendou. Anyways...

Aaron was confused, sitting all alone in the center of a narrow street, listening to the loud thumping of music coming inside. His body practically blended into the night, masked in complete black. His heavy trenchcoat kept him warm in the brisk night air, and concealed a variety of weapons that he dealt. Multiple handguns, knives, sawed-off shotguns, and small SMGs lined the inside of the thick Kevlar coat.

As he sat, listening to the loud music playing from inside a warehouse, he started to sing to his favorite dance song, Revenge, several shots rung out. Getting up, all that raced through his shattered mind was "oh shit, more trouble tonight..."

For the heavy coat that concealed round after round of loaded guns and sharpened knives, he ran swiftly, and rounded into an alley. Several bullets grazed the nearby wall, and he ducked down. One man, apparently of the local gangs was caught under fire by a couple of thugs, and a girl was wrapping a cloth around his wounded leg.

Aaron was used to close quarters gunfights. Ducking behind an overturned trashcan, he pulled out an HK-MP5. He grabbed the trashcan lid next to him, put it over his chest, stood up, and opened fire. The man's assailants dropped to the ground, and Aaron laughed with glee. He tended to have a death wish.

One of the men raised a micro-uzi over his barricade, and shot at Aaron, but the shots bounced off the trashcan lid he held in his hand. Then, Aaron cursed as a single bullet lanced into one of his unprotected shoulders. Dropping down, he looked at the spot.

Ducking down behind the can, he checked his shoulder. The bullet had his one of his knives, and bounced off. The knife had managed to shave off some of his skin, and hurt like a bitch. Muttering "f*ck it", he yelled out to the pinned down man.

"Hey, kid! How'd you get caught in this mess?" he screamed out, ejecting a half-empty clip from his MP5.

Joshua looked at Aaron and shouted back "Just cleaning up the place." With that he quickly aimed his plasma pistol at the remaneing gunman and fired off a lance of plasma that impacted into his chest buring a messy hole in it. Razi quickly ran over to the woman tieing the bandage around Joshua's leg and muttered something under his breath and quickly says to her "Listen we have to get out they know what we look like and will be hunting us." He then looks at Joshua and swears he looked like someone he knew. The woman nodded and stood up. Before she could looks back at Joshua he was standing and limping away.

"Just cleaning... wise-ass..."

Getting up, he looked at the leaving form of Razi. Kids these days never knew what kind of crap they could get into. Aaron came up after them, slipping a clip in his MP5 as he went. Multiple questions were spinning through his mind, and his paining shoulder wasn't helping.

"You know, kid, you ought to not go wandering now. Those assholes there look like Tendou men. They know a lot about what happens in this hellhole. I've had a few dealings with them in the past... I was their main weapons supplier, but I guess not anymore. They're going to be after my ass. I figure that if they're going to be after me, and probably you as well, you'd best be with someone who knows his way around. Frankly, I'd rather be around you anyways."

He crossed his fingers. With the Tendou now after his ass, Aaron could count on supporting fire being valuable.

"They were a Tendou colection team," Razi says, "I'm a ex-member. But that blue haired guy...Joshua I'm not even sure that he works for them or someone else." The woman sighed slightly then says "He dosn't work for them. He is a freelancer."

"They were Tendou, eh? Then it looks like I'm fucked. Knowing them, it'll be a few minutes before they get back here. Either that, or the cops.

Aaron paused for a few seconds, and went on.

"Just ask a few people around for Aaron, or Air, should you need me. It's safer with the second. Whether or not you care to come with, I'm out of here. If you ever need me for anything, you can contact me easily. Lots of people have my cell."

Aaron turned around, and started to run from the scene where several corpses were now scattered. Emerging into the street, Aaron ran for his black van, a rather dark monolith on the street. Aaron wandered to the back, and opened the doors. He removed his coat, and hung it on a hook with the weapons inside. On the walls of the van were other weapons, harder to acquire: assault rifles, and oddly, an RPG-7 rocket launcher, given to him by a friend from the military who despised it.

Heading towards the door, he opened and stepped in. Turning on the head-lights, he took one last look at the alley to see whether he should stick around for his new acquaintences or not.

Razi shook his head. He had the proper equipment to avoid the Tendou. "Come on," he quickly says to the woman as he grabs her by the wrist and ran towards his car "Hey what is your name?" he asks as they ran. "Echo," she replies as they reach his car and he opens the door on her side and motions for her to get in.

Realizing that his comrades weren't coming, he pressed his foot down on the pedal, and turned on the CD player in his car now. A loud jolt of music ran through the car, and he rolled down the window. Aaron was wired on adrenaline, and felt ready to take on the world even though he had a gang on his tail.

As he passed the third block from the scene, his cell phone rang. Looking at it, the number was familiar, from a well-known Tendou liaison of his: Alexx. He was a rather well-known member, although not of much importance. Aaron swallowed hard, and reached to pick it up. It was always best to respond to his customers.

"Hello?"
"Aaron! How's it going, friend?"
"Not bad, Alexx. What's news?"
"You know damn well what's news, you punk-ass motherfucker. You know I don't like to have trouble with my suppliers."
"I'm not sure what you're talking about, Alexx."
"Does the warehouse district ring a bell, or need I make it clearer, bitch? Listen, you fucking faggot, you better run. You know my rules for renegades: you have two days. Get out of town."
"Are you sure you want to mess with me, Alexx? I'm capable of taking the whole gang down, and you know it. I've got the background for it."
"You paranoid little ex-military shit, watch your ass. All I have to say."

The line went dead. Aaron put his cell phone down. If Alexx wanted to play in that manner, he had best pick up a bit of equipment. He turned a sharp right on a corner, nearly crashing into a mercedes coming around. His first stop was his apartment.

Outside Aaron's apartment building a young redhaired man was leaning against the wall. He lookedd around and slowly walked towards the alley right across the street. Suddenly several seconds later a large firebomb ripped it's way through the main lobby incinerating anyone inside and sending thick black smoke up to the top floors. Inside the alley a sleek black XJT fired of and slowly rolled out.

Razi heard the blast from were he and Echo were and he swore several times under his breath. He quickly fired up his car and began to drive towards the blast area.

"Oh fuck..." Aaron muttered as he rode up to his appartment. The entire structure was set abalze. Fortunately, most of what he needed was in his car. Only most of his explosives were up in the apartment. "Least I wasn't in the blast" Aaron thought to himself. As he slowed down to a stop, and stepped out into the warmed night air, a car rode up. The lights blinded Aaron, and he reached slowly down to his pants for a 9mm Glock he kept in his pant leg.

Whipping it out, he spun it, and pointed at the car, leveling it, and firing off a round at that windshield. He then changed his target, and shot at the tires.

The round deflected off the windsheild due to the bullet proof glass. But the tires burst but nothing happened. As the lose rubber ripped off steel core's were showing. The car kept picking up speed and dorve right past Aaron.
Razi shook his head as he pulled up at the blaze. In the distance he hear the sirens of the fire trucks and a few military class TJX hunters. He quickly lowwer his window and pulled up beside Aaron and says "Quick get in your van and fallow me."

Aaron stared in disbelief for a second, shook out of it, and reholstered his Glock. With a brief mutter of "sorry", he ran around and back to the drivers seat, and hopped in. Slamming the door, he floored the pedal, following the somewhat debilitated car as it started to ride off. He didn't know how long he would be pursuing these people.

Razi floored the gas pedal and swerved into a back lane easly going over 70mph and faster by the second. Echo suddenly pulls a single shot pistol from one of her pockets and hides it in her hand before Razi could see it. "Quickly make a left and head to the East side factory district," she says

The scenery changed from warehouses wall to wall to thick smokestacks and factory walls, covered in graffitti. Aaron could barely keep up with the car in front of him due to the vast weight holding his van from it's full speed capacity. Needless to say, it would be wise to take his trenchcoat with him if he stepped outside in this area.

Echo quickly directed Razi towards a old factory markedd with a angel with black wings on it. She instructed him to stop the car and fallow her. She steped out and walked over to a side door and opened it. She steped in and held the door open for Razi.

Aaron screeched to a sudden stop outside a factory in the middle of the district. He lurched forward, and sweared a little bit, then undid his buckle, and flung open his door, ran around, grabbed his trenchcoat, and headed back.

Walking up, he screamed out at Razi: "What the Hell are we doing here? And why the Hell did you want me to follow you?"

He ran up through the door after Razi.

Inside 13 men and women holding diffrent weapons from older model plasma rifles and pistols to MA5Bs to the newer MXD HE pistol. "Welcome to the Akutenshi base," Echo says as she holds a modded COP 358 pistol.
Razi looked down the barrel of Echo's pistol "Um can you put that away?" he asks slightly worried.

As Aaron ran into the room, he stopped, and gasped, and a barely audible "oh fuck" escaped his mouth.

"Is this why you wanted me to follow you? So you could kill me?" croaked Aaron.

"No it is just for a safety reason," Echo says as she walks foreward and quickly frisks Razi and removes a D. Eagle from his pants and she places it in a failry large empty holster on one of her hips she then moves over to Aaron and says "Drop the weapons or they will be taken by force."
Outside a lone figure watched leaning against Razi's car hidden fom the light

"Who's there?", Walter cried out. "I may be a computer geek, but no one gets the drop on Walter Jones and klives", he thought to himself."Oh, it's you guys", he says seeing his friends. Putting the plasma rifle down, he says"So, who's the FNG"

OOC-The F#$%in new guy.

"Five minutes..." Aaron said, which otherwise might have been mistaken with sarcasm. Aaron opened his coat slowly, and started to remove gun after gun.

"So, uhm, while I'm doing this, could I be informed as to, uh, why I'm here, and why there are 14 armed people in this room looking a bit more than unthreatening?"

"You'd rather be shot?" One of them says as he steps foreward holding a MXD HE with the safty off. "Seth back off now. He gelped so the elast we could do is not shoot him with out a reason," Echo says

"Bit hot-headed, eh? Chill out. I figure if I'm going to be held at gunpoint and not be shot, I could at least know a bit." Aaron snorted as he removed the last gun from his coat. To prove he was finished, he dropped his coat over the large pile of guns. "Oh, wait, forgot a few handguns and knives..." He rolled up his pant legs and began to remove a couple guns and knives.

Grudginly, Seth lowered his weapons."You know how much I like you bringin' new faces aroun and all. So, hombre, you look like your packin serious heat. You do much shadow biz?"

Aaron laughed. "Much? I'm the best dealer in this town. I used to get top price selling to that Tendou, but now I'm on their hitlist for gunning at their men. But yea, I pack a lot of heat. SMG's, shotguns, pistols, knives, assault rifles, and even an RPG-7. Anyways, can I be told why I'm here?"

"I have better contacts," Echo says "Mine are in the supply center here that gives us a few older plasma weapons and some new pistols in exchange for information."

"Plasma weapons... those things are unreliable and expensive. They're a bitch of a thing to charge, too, or at least the older ones. I'd stick with the the weapons of olde. They're more reliable, and are easier to repair if they need it."

Aaron shifted on his feet.

"And I doubt their business has raked in as much profit as mine. For a cheap little apartment shack on the edge of town, I have some of the best equipment available, and some of the most... say... considering my ex-buyer is out for me, you wouldn't mind giving me a little bit of shelter around here, would you?"

"Fine. But if you remain unarmed and get that eyesore of a van in hiding and shut up," Seth says as he motions to the van outside "And you pal. Move your damn car. It stands out like a sore thumb." Echo shoots a ice cold look at Seth and he slowly backs off. "Sorry about him," she says as she places her COP 358 in her pocket

OOC: Phal, check TG

"I'll hide my van," Aaron said softly and coldly, "but I'm going to keep my weapons. I do have a business and customers outside of Tendou to keep up with and a pregnant girlfriend coming back ina few days I have to take care of, hothead."

"Sometimes a hot head is the best thing to keep a hot blooded person alive.", Seth said."We can give you shelter for a while, but you're still going to be trusted as far as you can be thrown, least 'til you prove otherwise. Charlie, get a space open for the new guy's van. Martha, put on some more soy-kaf. I'm guessing we're in for a long story."

Aaron snorted with disgust at Seth, and glared coldly at him. He stared at Seth, almost seeming to read his thoughts with cold and calculating blue eyes.

"Looks like I don't get my weapons... alright, fine, I can work with that, but what about my girl coming back in a few days? Our apartment and business is gone, damn it..."

His pleads fell upon empty ears as people in the room started to move out. Aaron started to run after Echo, someone who seemed to hold authority, he caught up to her.

"What do I have to do to keep my business? I can't leave my girl and kid out on the streets."

Echo looked at Aaron. "This is no place for pregneat women or children. They'd just go and get dead. Or wose yet, expose our operation. You might come in handy in a scrape. They'd just get in the way."

Aaron gradually slowed down and stopped as Echo walked away. Pretty soon, the chamber he stood in was empty, except for where his trenchcoat and his weapons lay. No one had bothered to move them yet. Aaron sighed, and picked them all up, putting them in their respective holsters.

When finished, he headed towards the doors where he entered and stepped into the cold night air. His van was now moved, and Aaron started to swear, until he realized a garage-like structure not too far away. Walking over, he opened a door on the side, and looked in. His van rested inside, next to Razi's car.

Aaron rounded around it, sliding his hand gently over it, and came to the dual doors in the back. Flinging them open, he looked inside. Everything was still there. He removed his coat and weapons, and set them down on the coat rack. He climbed in the back, and sat in an installed seat he had in the back of the van.

Aaron grabbed his laptop, and flipped it open, navigating to an e-mail site. Opening his inbox, one message was new, from Alexx...


Subject: Akutenshi

Tsk, tsk, tsk, Aaron. Hiding out with Akutenshi now? You should know better, comrade! Now you've really transgressed boundaries. Watch yourself, and your family to be, as well.

-With love, your ex-'brother'
Alexx


Aaron felt physically sick. He started to tremble, and then he screamed, slamming his fist hard against the steel wall of his van. A sick crack could be heard, and Aaron grabbed his hand in pain. Grabbing a few rags he had in the back, he tied them tightly around his right fist which now seethed with pain, and hopped into the drivers' seat. He slammed the keys into the ignition, and simultaneously flipped the car into reverse while slamming the pedal. The van sped out the back of the garage door, and into the vacant lot. Turning a bit, he headed back the way he had come.

Joshua shock his head as he steped out of the shadows hiding him in the van. "Don't let Seth get to you," he says as he sits in the back "He is just a jack ass that needs to be tought that the more people we have the better our chance of survial is."

Joshua shock his head as he steped out of the shadows hiding him in the van. "Don't let Seth get to you," he says as he sits in the back "He is just a jack ass that needs to be tought that the more people we have the better our chance of survial is."
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Inside Echo shook her head and sighed. She lead Razi out to his car and handed him his D. Eagle back. "Look Seth is just a jackass when other people come home with members. If you want you can stay here," she says "And I just have to do this." She suddenly kisses Razi.

OOC:I contoll Echo, Joshua, Razi ok no one taks over Echo because of the key factor about her.

Aaron jumped, and looked in the back seat, wher Joshua stood.

"Holy shit... you scared me, man!" Aaron said, turning his head back at the street.

After breathing a bit, he continued. "Well, I figure since you're here, you could be useful. Things might get sticky later. Do me a favor, and pop open that laptop. When you do, open my email account on hotmail. It'll just log you in... that'll be all. When you're there, hand me the computer."

"Fine but I'm here for a diffrent reason," Joshua says as he quickly opens the laptop then activates the e-mail acount. "I heard about your girl. Since you need a place to stay I can offer you one. At a small price. Don't worry it isn't anything that will get you killed ether."

Aaron picked up the laptop from Joshua in the back, and opened another program, an unnamed one of his own. He knew a few basic hacking skills, and had designed a few tracing programs.

"So, go on about this place," he said, as he started to trace the e-mail. In a few seconds, a spot from the warehouse district, maybe 3 blocks or so from the rave he was at earlier, was identified.

"Since I have conections in the governement I can get you a loft apartment at a low low price of about 300 creds for several months. The catch is that I'll need to stay there to," Joshua says "Also the area is known for it's law enforcment so you'd be safe."

"300 creds, eh? I can spring for that. I doubt there will be any strings attatched," Aaron said, seizing the laptop from Joshua as he drove. He opened up a tracer program on it, and started to locate where the email was sent. In a few seconds, a part of the warehouse district, barely 2 blocks from the raver party, was targeted.

Aaron slowly pulled up slowly to the warehouse that was now in his sight, and turned the engine off. He climbed into the back of the van, and started pulling weapons off the van walls: an AK-108 and bayonet, two Mac-10s, two Silver talons, and as much ammo as he could fit on him. He grabbed a grenade vest off the other wall, and put it on. Each pocket was filled with home-made grenades.

"Uhm, things might get a bit sticky up ahead. Are you could in combat?" Aaron said softly, slipping his bulky trenchcoat on.

"You do know that the location you are going to try and attack was a old military bunker I once had comand of before I was transfered," Joshuua says as he draws a black plasma pistol and a D. Eagle.

"Good," Aaron muttered, slamming the doors, leaving Joshua inside. Not waiting for him, he ran up to the door, and grabbed the handle.

He counted to three in his head, and flung the door open wide, AK pointing into the dark room. It was abandoned, and there were several piles of boxes scattered everywhere. Aaron stepped in softly. His combat boots clicked on the cold concrete and disturbed the stilled air.

When his whole body was inside, he closed the door softly, and moved away. As he stepped further into the dark, he remembered he had a flashlight in his coat pocket. He pulled it out and turned it on.

The room was larger than he had thought, maybe the size of a large auditorium. Boxes were piled up high against every wall, and on them the words "This side up" and "Motor Engine; Product 2.34.667" were decayed, in a cheap black paint. Running across the ceiling was a narrow walkway, maybe two feet broad, and ran the whole gamut of the room, ending up against the walls, where there were two doorways. A stairwell connected it to the floor. There were skylights in the roof, and some had been broken, leaving bits of glass all over the floor, right next to old and disabled forklifts.

Aaron stepped over the ground and piles of glass towards the stairwell. As he neared the base, a familiar voice rang out.

"Always playing the hero, my dear friend."

The flourescent lighting in the room flared up. Turning, Alexx crossed his field of vision, standing near a switch embedded in the wall, most likely for the lights. He stood self-righteously at the far end of the room, brandishing a Steyr AUG in his arms.

"You are truly unfortunate. You should have heard her scream, my dear boy. She was truly a beauty, too. T'was a shame, but come, let us not talk about such trivial matters. I'm glad you could make it, my dear friend!

Aaron swung the AK in his arms up at Alexx's position, and fired. His shots missed as Alexx fled. The walkway he was standing on shook a bit, and then fell off, hitting a pile of crates. Alexx had run out of sight.

"Tut, tut, tut, my dear friend! Ever the hero... Heh, , maybe I should explain to you what's on your mind. You're probably wondering why I haven't killed you yet, Aaron. Well, besides the fact that you're a slippery little maggot, a rather interesting realization has hit me. You're worth more to me alive than dead. It's enticing watching you suffer."

As he finished this, he clambered down from a pile of crates where he was hidden. He looked angered as all Hell.

"I figure we could do this in the traditional manner... a simple duel perhaps? Or need we do this brutishly?"

The doorways up top on the walkway had opened, and nine thugs appeared. Aaron knew each of them by name, and shuddered at the thought of being torn to shreds by the various weapons in their arms.

"You always were a bastard, Alexx."

"I know, comrade."

Aaron turned to run, and was trailed by a few sprays of machine-gun fire, forcing him to hide behind a crate.

"You can't win, Aaron! Just give it up and let the victory be mine for once!"

"Like hell he will," Joshua says as he kicks open a door and hurls a HE frag grenade into the main area away from Aaron. He quickly ran towards him firing as he ran.

Alexx screamed as he saw the grenade bounce over the floor, and slide near a pile of boxes, a couple feet from him, and then explode. Shards of splintered wood and metal flew everywhere, and several stabbed him in the chest.

Aaron took the stall to jump up and fire, as several men from the upper catwalk turned their fire towards the doors in which Joshua stood. Raising the AK, he sent a spurt of rounds at Alexx's chest, and watched with glee as they ripped through their marks, splashing blood against the wreck of broken boxes. Alexx could be heard cursing quite audibly.

Dropping his AK as it ran out of ammo, he reached into his coat and whipped out two customized Silver Talon semi-automatics, significantly smaller 9mm handguns, packing the punch of probably a shotgun from a couple yards away.

Swinging one up, he fired at a thug holding an M4, who quickly ran for cover behind the door. Holding it open in front of him, he shot out from behind it. Several bullets ripped up the nearby boxes close to Aaron, and the door in front of the thug was being splintered by the forceful blast of the Talons. In the exchange of fire, a bullet striked Aaron in the shoulder, forcing him to drop down behind his cover. As he did so, two rounds hit near the toe of his boot, and richocheted off.

Joshua dove for cover when the thugs openeed fire on him but he was to slow. Three bullets impacted on him. One hit his left arm theother his left leg and finaly the third drilled him in the gut. "Ah hell," he grumbled as he took aim and fired several plasma bolts from his plasma pistol before he started to limp away

Aaron watched as Joshua moved out of the line of fire. Cursing, he kicked away a box blocking his line of fire to a man up on the catwalk. Turning his Silver Talon upwards, he pulled back, and two rounds ripped into his head and shoulder. The thug toppled down, leaving 6 left in the room to fire upon Aaron.

Aaron pulled himself out from behind his cover, and scuttled across the room, pulling off rounds as rounds hit the floor nearby. Two shots knocked themselves through one of the gunmen's kneecaps, and he cursed out loud, as he fell over, and off the catwalk. He landed on the cold floor, and let out a loud grunt as he died.

Five left, and one Aaron, with a 5.56 round in his shoulder. Dropping his Silver Talons as he ran, he ran towards the door, and escaped outside. Gunfire ceased, and the sounds of combat boots running over the catwalk and down stairs could be heard. Aaron flung open the doors of his van, and hopped in. Joshua was nowhere to be found.

He lifted the RPG-7 off the walls of his van, and cursed under the weight as he tried to balance it on his shoulder. He picked up a few home-made rockets, and slipped them in the empty pockets in his coat. He jumped outside again as the first two thugs came out.

As they crouched to open up with an assault, Aaron fired the first rocket out. The only word heard was one of them screaming shit as the rocket impacted. Limbs flew out and splattered across the sidewalk. One of the thugs had severe burns across the side of his chest, and his arm was torn off. He was on the ground, whimpering. Aaron started to load in another shell, but stopped cold as the last three appeared in the doorway.

As he dropped the RPG-7, they fired, and a round put itself in his shin as he attempted to get behind his van. Taking an MP5 off of one of the van doors, he popped out, using it as cover, and fired on the open men. Two were down, and the third started to flee only to be hit in the chest as he fled. The man scarred by the RPG-7 had stopped moving and lay quiet now. Inside, it was silent.

Grabbing the side of the van door, he pulled himself up. Limping, he headed across the empty concrete, stained red with the blood of Tendou clansmen. He worked his way back into the warehouse and over to the stairs. He proceeded to climb softly, cradling the MP5 in his arms, looking over the whole area repeatedly. Blood was rushing in his ears, and the world was spinning. As he reached the top of the catwalk, he looked at the closest door.

Swinging it open, he looked inside. His pregnant wife, Hollie, lay motionless on the floor. The room was empty except for her. Parts of her shirt and hair were stained or matted with blood, and she had a thick burn down the side of her leg.

Aaron crawled across the floor, and lay down next to her. He placed his head on her chest, and listened for a heartbeat. One was there, but it was extremely faint. Whimpering like a scared dog, Aaron curled up next to her, holding her tightly. In a few minutes, he fell unconscious.

Several minutes later Echo and several others burst into the warehouse. Herself armed with a new beretta that was still in testing and several others with plasma rifles and MA5Bs. "Split up check the second floor office. I'll look around here," she says as she pulls out another beretta and looks at Razi and motions for him to fallow. His smaller older glock he held with great care as they rounded and corner and saw Joshua with his bullet wounds. His shirt was stained with a blood that had a slight tinge of silver. He slowly moved his head up to look at the two as they entered then passed out. "Damn it why does he always enjoy risking his ass," Echo mutters oblivious that Razi was listening. "Maybe it is all he knows," he says as he walks over to him and holsters his glock then looks over his wounds. Upstairs a three man team entered the office to find Aaron and his wife. One of them quickly runs out of the room and throws up. The other two movce foreward hoping the worst hadn't happened. "Hey Echo we got two up here. Looks like the dealer found his wife," Seth shouts down to her. "Ya we found Joshua. He has got three bullet wounds but he'll live," she replies

Aaron woke up in a stupor, his head pulsing, and the sound of heels clicking against the cold floor sounding like gunshots only an inch from his ear. he groaned a bit, and tried to stand up. His wife still lay unconscious, but her breathing was visible now. She would probably be up in an hour or so.

Seth was in the room, and Aaron barely recognized him. He looked up at Seth like a drunk. "Do I get your trust yet, you stupid asshole? I think 9 men would be enough to get it."

Aaron tried to climb up, but his leg was numb all the way across, and he stumbled back down. He started to wiggle out of his trenchcoat. The bullet wounds in his shoulder and shins hurt worse than when he was first shot.

Seth just looked back and fliped him off. Echo now coming up the stairs after seeing Joshua out to some transportion "Seth stop acting like an asshole and get out the first aid kit," Echo says as Razi comes up the stairs and walks over to Aaron and asks "You ok?" Several seconds after Razi asked he was pushed gently aside by Echo who was carrying the first aid kit. "This might hurt," Echo says as she pulls out some sertile twezers and begens working at the bullet lodgedd in Aaron's shin

Aaron kicked Echo's arm away from the wound.

"Work on her first,"hHe said, nodding towards his unconscious wife. I'll be fine. Nothing vital's been hit."

"Catch," Seth says to Echo as he tosses her a vile with a slilvery substance inside of it. Echo caought it and attached the vile to a injector and injects it into his wife's blood stream. "Now I'm getting this bullet out," she says as she diggs the tewezers in to the wound ripping out the slug from the wound.

"I will take a few of those bandages though", Aaron said. Echo gave him several bandages, which he applied liberally to his various wounds. She then began to look at Aarons wife.

"I will take a few of those bandages though", Aaron said. Echo gave him several bandages, which he applied liberally to his various wounds. She then began to look at Aarons wife.

"I will take a few of those bandages though", Aaron said. Echo gave him several bandages, which he applied liberally to his various wounds. She then began to look at Aarons wife.

"I will take a few of those bandages though", Aaron said. Echo gave him several bandages, which he applied liberally to his various wounds. She then began to look at Aarons wife.

"I will take a few of those bandages though", Aaron said. Echo gave him several bandages, which he applied liberally to his various wounds. She then began to look at Aarons wife.

"I will take a few of those bandages though", Aaron said. Echo gave him several bandages, which he applied liberally to his various wounds. She then began to look at Aarons wife.

((OOC:Echo already lookedd at Aarron's wife and injected a slivery substance and in Phalanix that ould be a small vile of nano-bots that are designed to heal the person they are injected into))

OOC: Altrania, don't control my character. Make your own. Or you could be the wife. :P Maybe a Tendou guy or something. Always plenty of gang members.

IC:

Aaron cursed and swore as Echo removed the bullets. After she finished with his shin, she started to work up towards his shoulder, but Aaron rejected.

"Please, allow me... frankly, you do it too painfully."

Aaron pulled out a switchblade from the side of his boot, and worked the narrow point into his arm. It still hurt like a bitch, but it was better than the tweezers slipping everywhere.

"Ah... ow... so, could you... ah, shit! Tell me how you found I was here? I just like a - ow! - bit of closure every now and then... ah!"

Aaron threw a spent round onto the floor, and spat on it.

"Well the gunfire was a subtle hint then the RPG rounds realy gave you away," Echo says as she passes Aaron a bandage for his shoulder. "Your wife will be fine as well. She just needs sleep."

OOC:Yes also DON'T RP ECHO!!! I don't mind subtle things like preforming first aid but for crying out loud read before you join! And the off limits characters for me are Joshua and Echo ok people. Just minor things you can do with the.

"How subtle I am," Aaron said softly, struggling to get up from his position. Echo gave him a lift up, and he thanked her. He started to limp out of the room, and practically stumble down the stairs.

"I'm headed to my van... get me if something important happens," he called back as he stumbled across the pavement, picking up the guns that lay on the ground, mumbling to himself about the price he could bring in. He came over to Alexx's corpse, and looked down at him.

His eyes were open, and there were gaping holes in his chest where several 7.62's had penetrated his chest plate. Pitiful man, he thought to himself. He continued on, and flung open the doors. A siren could be heard in the distance, maybe a few blocks away, and it seemed to be getting closer.

"Shit... Uh, guys! We have some cops coming!" He called back into the warehouse. He started to turn around and try to run back inside, but fell over. He got back up and yelled again for everyone to come out.