Quest For Yzerchuk: Murderous Corruption (Special Edition)

The Third Murder

Outside of Amalie Arena,

Andrei Markov walks away from the group of dismissed suspects. He starts to laugh evilly as meanders slowly. "Yes! I didn't get caught! I must finish what Gallagher started! Long live evil!" He then climbs into an area that is marked with yellow 'caution' tape as he snickers, "Oops, did I do that?" He turns back to see no one following him and snickers to himself. "This is going to be easy. Too easy. Stupid Lightning Bolts."

He then starts to re-enter the McDonald's Box Office to get his target: Vladislav Namestnikov and his pecky hockey stick, Yzerchuk. He knows that Gally has failed to get Yzerchuk, so, ever since his friend's tragic death, he has stepped up into his place and tried to get Yzerchuk away from the Bolts himself.

But he never had a move...until now.

Before the villainous Hab can get much deeper into the arena, a masked man jumps in front of him and commands, "Stop right there!"

Markov starts to laugh. "Well, well, well, what have we here? A masked man? Are you hired by the Bolts to stop me? Because I'm pretty sure I already successfully kidnapped a tiny forward and the bolt before...so what are you going to do to me?"

"We're going to kill you. What the boss wants, the boss gets."

Markov grins evilly and cracks his neck and knuckles. "Do your worst. But I'm betting that you won't be able to hurt me. And what do you mean by 'we're?"

"You'll find out soon enough." The masked man then starts to run towards Markov, but since he's on the Habs, he's pretty well prepared for a fight. The masked man manages to use the shock of the fight and punch him a few times.

Markov, thinking that the masked man is trying to do something stupid to him, gets very angry at the stranger, heck, even angrier than when the refs catch him diving or borderline dirty-hitting someone. He easily knocks the masked man to the ground with a couple of quick punches.

The masked man starts to get up slowly, but Markov kicks him in the chest multiple times, each time yelling, "Stay down! You're not going to outcrazy me!"

The man starts to laugh, before....suddenly, a loud BANG echoes around the exterior of Amalie Arena.

Markov stops and falls to the ground, his eyes still open. He crashes hard and as the shot's sounds fade away, and the masked man leans towards the body to check for a pulse. Sure enough, the shot has killed Andrei Markov.

The man then runs away quickly from the arena, towards the parking garage, opposite the arena. He runs up to the third level of the parking garage and meets with another masked man, who is his partner in crime.

"That was one heck of a shot there!"

The gunman slowly gets up and comes towards his partner in crime, "Well, you would think I would be good at this by now. I've been practicing for years with this, and it finally all pays off! But let's get out of here and report back to the Boss!"

The gunman steps into the driver side of a black tinted van while the runner steps into the passenger side of the van. They rapidly zoom out of the garage and away from Amalie Arena, without ever looking back in the rearview mirrors of the car.

There's no reason to anyway. They don't care. Their mission is complete.

The runner then starts to laugh. "I can't believe that your plan worked!"

The gunman laughs. "I told you that I'm not too bad to work with! I'm just older, so I can't run as quickly as you."

"So, I've got the speed and muscle, and you got the brain?"

"Yes, therefore, I'm better than you, Jimmy."

Jimmy Vesey takes off his mask and throws it on the floor of the car in anger. "No fair! I had to fight him to get him in position for you!"

The other man takes off his mask, and reveals himself to be the GM of the Canadiens, Marc Bergevin. "Yeah...but did you pull the trigger?"

"No...sadly. But, we completed the mission, so that's what really matters!" Jimmy smiles. "Bettman will be so proud of us!"

Bergevin smiles. "Good idea." He then pulls out an archaic flip phone and dials the lone contact on it, before putting it on speaker.

The phone rings once and a voice says, "Did you kill him?"

"Quick and painless, for the most part. We'll be up in Toronto as soon as possible."

"Good. See you two real soon. There's a plane for you at the airport. You know what to do to get on. And then all that's left is Auston."

"Aye sir. See you in a few hours." The phone is then hung up. Bergevin smiles at his partner in crime, "Mission successful! Now, time to go back and receive our next order of business!"

Jimmy smirks and rubs his hands. "Sweet! I wonder who the Boss will want next!"

"Just remember that you're not necessarily included yet Vesey. But I'm sure I can work something out, after all, you got evil kid." Bergevin cackles.