No Man's Land

The Two Mr's

The team walked inside of the pub car park, slowly going through the alleyway before approaching the pub doors.

Kurt walked to the front doors, slamming his clenched fist on one of them.

The door flew open quickly, four soldiers emerging from the pub holding assault rifles and aiming them at the team.

"Hands on your head" one of them ordered.

"Get inside!" Ordered another soldier.

The team all obliged, walking inside the pub with their hands on their head as the soldiers followed, one of them closing the door once they were all inside.

The team turned around to face the soldiers, with their hands still on their heads.

"Sit down" another soldier ordered, the team turning around to look at five chairs, all of them sitting down on one each, an empty chair still remaining.

They all looked around, dead bodies of gang members laying all over the room.

Suddenly, they began to hear someone walking down the stairs, going behind the bar.

The team saw that it was the same person who had hacked their system previously, and called them.

However, they weren't alone, they had grabbed Barbara by her left shoulder with their left hand, using their right hand to put a gun to her head.

"LET ME GO!" She shouted.

"Now Barbara. Keep your mouth shut, or else" they threatened.

The figure turned to the team, "you're here. Good. Now we can talk" the figure said.

"Why?" Asked Diane.

"Oh, them?" Asked the figure, looking at the bodies next to him. "They were in my way. Me and my men kicked open the door and they tried to stop us getting inside. We did what we had to do."

"Who are you?" Asked Alfie.

"Me? My name is the Hollyoaks Knight, and my goal is to make EVERYONE SUFFER!" He shouted.

"What about Liam? Where is he? Or did you kill him as well?" Asked Romeo.

"Why would I kill Liam?" Asked the Hollyoaks Knight.

"Because you're a crazy lunatic." Replied Kurt.

The Hollyoaks Knight began to chuckle, turning to a soldier. "Go get him," he ordered.

Seconds later, a soldier marched down the stairs, holding Bruce by his arm, who had tape over his mouth.

"On the chair" ordered the soldier, Bruce sitting on the fifth and final chair.

Theo meanwhile, stood at the door, overseeing the work being done by the waiters and waitresses, while Frankie stood behind the bar.

Theo then walked away from the door, entering the kitchen and going over to Tim, who was overseeing the work being done by the chef's.

"Get outside" ordered Theo.

"Alright" replied Tim. "Carry on" he said to the new trainee he had been advising.

Theo walked out the back door, Tim following him.

"What is it Theo?" Asked Tim.

"I need to know if anything has come up in the search for Kathryn" said Theo.

"Listen, don't you think I would come straight to you if anything had come up?" Asked Tim. "No progress has been made."

Theo took a deep breath. "If progress isn't made, VERY soon. I will kill a gang member per day, until it is made." He threatened.

Tim and Theo looked each other in the eyes, before the latter walked away.

Tim stood there, rubbing his eyes, not knowing how much more of Theo he could take before he had enough.

He walked back inside of the restaurant, hoping Theo's threat was empty but not underestimating him.

Back at the pub, the Hollyoaks Knight still stood in front of the team, the gun still to Barbara's head with no one speaking.

"Alright. I'll say it. If you're going to kill us, get it over with already." Said Diane.

"I'd be happy to oblige" replied the Hollyoaks Knight, pulling the trigger of his pistol, blowing Barbara's brains out across the room, her body falling to the floor.

He then turned the gun on Diane, pushing it into the middle of her forehead, pulling back the hammer of the pistol ready to shoot her.

However, before he could, suddenly the front doors were smashed open.

Inside of the pub walked two tall and strong men, with one arm each, holding a hammer and sickle.

The man with the hammer swung it around, hitting multiple soldiers in the head and knocking them down.

The Hollyoaks Knight, knowing he had to get out of there, ripped a smoke bomb out of his pocket and threw it on the floor.

The team immediately got up as the smoke bomb was thrown, having not been tied to the chairs.

The two men continued to attack the soldiers, one repeatedly stabbing them with his sickle and the other slamming his hammer across their heads.

As the red smoke began to fade away, the team realised the Hollyoaks Knight was gone.

Bruce, not knowing whether these two men were friend or foe, pulled out his pistol, aiming it at the man with the sickle.

However, the other man dropped his hammer, choosing to grab Bruce by the throat and hold him up in the air, beginning to choke him.

The man with the sickle then picked up the hammer, swinging it around, Alfie, Kurt and Romeo being knocked down, before picking up his own weapon and preparing to stab them with the sickle.

Diane, who crouched to avoid the hammer, quickly slid on the floor through the legs of the man with the sickle, grabbing a stool from the bar and coming up behind him as he was about to stab her teammates, smashing it across his head.

He began to fall to the floor, Alfie, Romeo and Kurt getting up as he landed where they had been laying.

Romeo, seeing Bruce, or who he thought was Liam being choked, ran over to the bar and jumped up onto it, before jumping off of it and punching the man in the head.

In pain, the man released Bruce from his grasp.

Alfie then grabbed another stool, running to face the man before smashing it across his face, knocking him out.

The team began to catch their breath, "let's go." Diane said.

"Wait" Kurt said, using his communication system to phone the police station. "I have an anonymous tipoff. The pub in Hollyoaks."

The team then left the pub, beginning to walk back to the hideout.