Better Place

Chapter 2: Bum in the Bronx pt.2

-Mac's POV-
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I walk down the streets of New York, passing through some strangers. I look up to see the sky beginning to darken. I get my hoodie and put it over my head, and sped up my walking pace as I held on to the straps of my bag closer to my chest.

I gotta to get to the warehouse before it gets too dark, or else Doc will be worried where I've been. Doc is like a father figure to me, he always wants to know if I'm okay, and he also doesn't like it when I'm out by myself in the dark streets for too long.

After some minutes of walking alone, I see someone leaning against a brick wall on the side walk from a distance away, trying not to put any attention to him as I kept walking, he then walks ahead of me and turns left to an alley.

"N-no please" I pause myself from walking when I heard what sounded like a scared girl.

"Times up for you little girl.." At that, I ran and turned to the alley, where I started to slow myself down.

"Help! Please let me go!" From a distance away, I see a blonde girl yelling for help. She was being held by her arms by another dude behind her, while the guy I saw a few moments before held a knife up to her face. I gasped at the sight of her crying. I hate to see thugs messing with innocent people like that. I'm assuming he's a gangster.

"Shut up!" The gangster yells as he holds the knife even closer to her face, making her eyes widen in fear. "Time for a little slice and dice!" The gangster chuckles.

"NO PLEASE!" The blonde beggingly yells out as she tries to get away from the other gangster's grip on her arms. Tears already falling upon her cheeks.

"Hey!" I yell out without a second thought, then they all turn their attention to me. I put my bag down, ready to confront the gangsters. I have to do something to distract them from hurting her somehow.

"Leave her alone" I kept walking up to the knife wielding gangster until I was at a good distance in front of him. Not too close, not too far. "Or else.." I deepened my voice.

The knife wielding gangster points his knife to my direction as he chuckles at me. Probably laughing at my height, I get that a lot.

"Or else what?" The gangster asks.

I stood there not very sure what to say, but I waited until he can make the first move on me, it's a better chance of  knocking his knife out of his hands. After a moment short of silence, the blonde girl yells out.

"Now!"

Suddenly other gangs started to appear from the shadows of the alley.

What?! This was a trap?!  The girl was in on it the whole time!

I thought as I found myself being approached by some gangsters around me. I reacted quickly by first knocking off the knife off of the closest gangster's hands and quickly beating him up. I moved my head around to see any approaching me. I continued swinging around locking my fists to their jaws as I took out my anger on all of them.

To think people before me fell for this sick trick!

A few gangsters started to flee away due to seeing my self defense skills, some on the ground unable to get up or just unconscious. One of the gangsters tried to hurt me by fighting back with his bare hands but I lifted him up by the collar of his shirt and punched him hard that he went flying to the air and landed roughly away from me. Where he landed made me pause, the blonde girl dodged the incoming gangster that I punched out. She looks at the unconscious thug, then she turns her widen eyes to me, as she stood there very still.