Gods and Monsters

VI

RAF Twin Oaks - Sevenoaks, Kent

Outside the hangar, Ewan and Anderson had positioned their teams in tactical positions ready to storm the hangar. They knew the police couldn't have much firepower themselves, but they had both dealt with Charlie Quinn before and couldn't chance what may be behind the big blue door. They had both been surprised that they were the only groups to get here so far. Charlie had a reputation among people in their line of work and both gangs had imagined that there would be a lot more people wanting to take him out. Still, it left more money to split between them. They had both agreed to take what Charlie owed them out of the bounty and split the remainder evenly between them.

"Anderson," Ewan said as one of his men pulled another crate out the back of the SUV containing a large machine gun and ammunition. "Don't get the wrong idea, but do we have to kill the girl."

"Of course we do. The bounty is for both, not just Charlie, and Koba isn't going to pay the fee if we only come back with one head. Besides which, it's been a while since I killed a cop, let alone a lady one."

Ewan felt a little sick as Anderson licked his lips. "Look, I'll take Charlie's head, you do what you like with the girl. Just keep it away from me."

The two groups continued to discuss details of their raid, both wary about underestimating the officers inside, and more importantly Charlie. In their previous dealing with him, Charlie had proved to be more than a little tricky, even when the odds were firmly stacked against him. However, Anderson and Ewan were momentarily distracted as a large open topped jeep pulled up alongside them, a rather peculiar looking man standing up at the back.

The man who appeared to be in his early twenties was incredibly pale which only accentuated his flame orange hair which was slicked back into a coif. His pinstriped red suit was slightly ill-fitting, showing off his bare ankles as he twirled around on the jeep whilst Anderson and Ewan could only look on. Stumbling slightly as he finally took note of the group already on the ground, the gentleman picked up a large megaphone.

"Well, hello there gentlemen!" he began, "What a strange coincidence that we find ourselves out here under this starry night sky." The gentleman laughed manically, not averting his eyes from either Anderson or Ewan as a Cheshire grin spread across his face.

"Who are you?" Anderson asked. "Are you here for Quinn and Parker too?" Both he and Ewan were now ruing not wrapping this up sooner, both expecting to have to arrange a new split with this clown too.

The man hopped down from the jeep and moved close to Anderson, leaning towards him as he took a deep breath in before doing the same with Ewan. "Why, I am Jared Brody, and you are correct that I am here for Mr Quinn and Miss Parker, although, I do have something to say that you both may wish to know.

"Yeah, and what would that be, Jared?" Ewan asked, equally disturbed and amazed at the confidence from the young man.

Jared twirled away from the other two before resting against the jeep again, the grin still stapled to his face. "Isn't it obvious? I'm going to kill you all first." He knocked on the jeep door as the windows were quickly shattered by a wave of high calibre machine gun fire, tearing Anderson, Ewan and both of their groups into pieces. Their blood painted the grey tarmac as Jared let out another maniacal laugh, diving to the floor as he leant over Ewan's mutilated corpse.

"I do love it when they're still fresh." Jared said before sinking his teeth into what remained of Ewan's neck. 

Continued in Part 7...