Frenzy & Torch

Chapter 25: A New Team

The next morning in PPF station 541, Jane and the crew were grabbing breakfast chow in the cafeteria. The other three were discussing what fruits worked best with crêpes while the archer was lost in her train of thought.

Annabelle and Elizabeth were digging their hole deeper and deeper with each incident. Even if they had turned themselves in, they would be past the point of no return and have the book thrown at them.

You should know better than this, Anne, Jane thought. Why do you want this guy so bad? What do you know?

Before her thoughts could wander even more, a fist careened into the side of her face and sent her stumbling into Ken.

"Don't you ever check me like that again, cunt!" said the trigger-happy hotshot. He was wearing tactical shades and had a thick beard, which complemented his douchey behavior.

Trigger Happy had been pissing everyone off since their arrival—loud, unstable, and always trying to prove something. Today was no different.

Jane stood up and shrugged off her cloak and jacket, revealing her toned arms that were accentuated by her spotless tank top. She raised her fists to cheek level and kept her feet shoulder width apart like a boxer. "Alright, asshole. You asked for it and now you're gonna get it."

Ken tried to intervene. "Ms. Clancy, don't do this, he's not worth it!"

"Be ready to pick this guy's teeth off the fucking floor."

Ken looked at Cassidy and Lisa.

"Let her have this, the guy's a fucking asshole," Lisa said.

Trigger Happy charged at her, trying to take the fight to the ground. Jane stepped to the side and kicked him full force in the groin. He fell to the ground and face planted. She grabbed him by the collar and went to punch him. He palmed the inside of her elbow and forced it downward, bringing her close enough for a headbutt to the face. She recoiled and stumbled backward with her hands against her now-broken nose. She glanced at her palms and saw they were drenched with blood.

Fuck!' she yelled, seeing her palms drenched in blood—then immediately ducked a wild punch. She got behind Trigger Happy and wrapped her arms around his head to put him in a blood choke. He put an arm behind her leg and swept it out from under her, sending them both to the ground.

"What's going on here?" asked a Komodo dragon with a tray while emerging from the crowd. "Is the food really that good this morning?"

Trigger Happy immediately went for a submission and wrapped his legs around Jane's throat, putting her in a scissor choke. She slipped an arm between his legs so that she had enough room to lower her head and bite his thigh. He let out a yell and scrambled away from her. Blood seeped through his pant leg.

"Fucking bitch!" he yelled. He lost all sense of reason and grabbed a knife from the cylinder holder.

"Jesus!" Hotshot Five had returned from the bathroom, his mullet freshly gelled. He looked at the other three men with bewilderment. "You guys are letting this happen?!"

"Bitch deserves it," one of them said while trying to look cool with his multicolored, tacticool glasses.

"Fucking assholes!" Five yelled.

Trigger Happy lunged at Jane with a slashing motion, sticking her in the abdomen. She grabbed and lifted him above her head, then slammed him on the ground. She ripped the knife out of her side and went to stab him through the eye. Five grabbed her hand while Cassidy put a hand on her shoulder.

"Don't do it," Five said, "this asshole is not worth it."

"Fine," Jane said. She almost slipped on the blood that pooled underneath her.