Three seconds until The End

Once Upon a Time

"You know", began Mickey taking a short drag from his cigarette "if we could be a fairytale character you and Randy would be Fiona and Shrek",

"What in the absolute fuck!", exclaimed the long black haired woman beside him, "What shit are you on? First off they aren't fairytale characters", she remarked and continued to chuckle,

Mickey grinned "I beg to differ. Shrek is the 21st century fairytale first off. Though seriously Ray think about it you and Randy being Fiona and Shrek is absolutely perfect", he paused taking another short drag, "Unconventional that's for sure"

Ray snuffed out the last bit of her joint under her shoes and leaned against the rails facing the city of Los Santos. She chuckled once more, "Okay let's say I'm entertaining this idea-"

"Which you are", butted in Mickey unhelpfully,

"Anyyyways", drawled out Ray, "Why do you think that huh? Enlighten me oh Pop culture king",

The man giggled as he turned his back from the view of the city to face the roaring party happening in the CleanBois Manor.

"Well, I'll give you five reasons," he declared, raising his hand to indicate his points.

A thumb folded down, "One the oh so called 11th commandment 'Thou shall not fuck with Randy Bullet' is similar enough to the one with Shrek being feared by everyone and all that jazz",

Second finger down "Second Shrek's Donkey is Ramee"

Ray playfully shoved Mickey's shoulder causing the man to feign an injured look before being quickly replaced with a playful grin.

"You fuck don't think April would appreciate being compared to the dragon", she laughed,

Mickey held his arms up in mock surrender, "Sue me but lizards are lizards anyways", he continued on with his point playing a third finger down.

"Third Shrek's misunderstood save for a select few. Here the civs, the police, other gangs and heck depending on the members of Chang Gang Randy's reputation ranges from dread to respect.",

The fourth finger was then pointed towards Ray which she playfully swatted away because Mickey pointed at her with the universal sign of fuck you.

"Fourth is you Ray Mond, the only female Ray in this city and yadda yadda yadda",

"Get on with it Mickey hahaha",

"I'm getting there, have some patience, woman, anyways fourth. Is that you Ray Mond are the only woman I have witnessed to keep up with Randy Bullet. You know that cute montage where Fiona and Shrek were being lovey dovey with the insect cotton candy and frog snake balloon"

Ray giggled, "You know that's cause she transforms into an ogre at night so she knows so what?"

Finally, with only a pinky finger left Mickey folded it down, "Which leads me to the last point. The fifth and final point is that youbringouthebestinRandyandhebringsoutthebestinyousothereforeyouguysloveeachother", rambled out Mickey quickly before running away from Ray.

For the most part she couldn't decipher it but she could hear the dreaded L word. She whipped out a shoe she stole from some stranger and ran after Mickey.

"Come back here Mickey you dumbass", she yelled out,

A familiar giggle then could be heard and Ray watched as Randy slightly jogged towards her, eager to get into the fun.

"Hee what did he do now?", he asked with mischief in his eyes,

Ray hoped that Randy didn't hear the entire conversation but the man looked like he didn't so she hoped for the best.

"He called the two of us Ogres", she answered, choosing to not go into specifics.

"Ah c'mon man's not ugly", Randy exclaimed incredulously, "Yo Ray you got a spare shoe?", he asked with a hand held out.

Ray laughed deviously and took out the other pair to give to Randy.

"Here you go with we have our honour to defend", she declared and so the two ran after poor Mickey who kept shouting, "It's not a lie though".

Why that memory popped up into her head now out of all times baffled Ray. That evening felt like a lifetime away when all she had to do was just wake up, push weed and thermite, have fun with the boys and get into hijinks with her gorls.

Now here she was sequestered with the most intimate and skilled Chang Gang members in a tightly knit security room having a meeting. A meeting about the kidnapping of Randy, Ramee, Mr K and Vinny because what is a dragon without its claws?

Garrett stood before them all arms crossed and wearing a serious expression that seemed out of place on the usually carefree jokester guy.

"Okay everyone", he called out for attention. Immediately silence descended upon the group because they understood the gravity of the situation,

"What we know so far about these motherfuckers that are fucking with us are smart. Scarily smart I will admit",

Ray nodded along with everyone else at that statement,

"They've crippled Hydra, they lit up the CleanBois, they got just about every other gang in this city one way or another. They have hacked into all the vaults so we are drier than the Sahara. Fortunately, the police are unaware of how bad it is, the only thing they do know is that there is a big gang war. So they are focused on protecting the civs and locals as much as they can. That's one less thing to worry about" said Garret as he slowly paced up and down by the side of the meeting table,

"This reveals one thing however, this group wants to deal with it quietly as possible without law enforcement involved which brings us to this conclusion", he paused then faced the table once more and this time he held a wolf-like grin on his face.

Upon seeing that it reminded Ray all over again as to why Garret is an OG member of Chang Gang. Finally, after all of the tension and stress she had been feeling ever since she found out that Randy got kidnapped and in a condition god knows what. Finally, Ray begins to feel some sort of hope and she too mirrored his smile.

"This means that we can go to them guns blazing in the sneakiest and ruthless way possible no holds barred", revealed Garrett, "After all no stones were left unturned when we searched for their hideout so we know where they are",

This was met with a murmur of elation and nods with some sporting predatory grins.

"Now", continued Garrett after letting the murmur to die down, "I bring you all a question. What about we team up with the remaining members of the surviving gangs?",

At once a cacophony of voices erupted, each and everyone brought out their opinions at once. Some saying they can do it by themselves, others saying that it would be a good idea to team up and others wanting to explore other options.

Ray had no input whatsoever because all she wanted was for the gang to choose one and she would roll with it. The quicker they come to a decision the better.

Garret acted like a moderator in the noise, nodding in agreement to some and pointing out some flaws in logic at others. Eventually out of the den of voices came one answer.

"Alright", Garret exclaimed, clapping his hands together which signalled the end of the discussion and into a new one, "I'll contact the remaining survivors in each gang and hear them out. While I do that Curtis here will take over the meeting. I need to hear a solid proof plan people. We have our family to rescue".