Chapter Eleven

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"You can't be serious!" Larry groaned. "You want to be on the ground.. and in providing cover too?" He pinched the bridge of his nose at his highest level at irritation. "I let you slide once, and you're taking advantage of it."

"You didn't 'let' me do anything," Alexis air quoted. She sat in the seat as the chopper rose off and headed back towards the ship, "I decided to be on the ground, so I was on the ground—like I said I was gon' be."

"But I was—"
"¿Can y'all please not start?" Mari interrupted Larry switching to the minigun. Larry sighed. Why do I always get interrupted? He thought.

Alexis looked at an enemy on the ground who appeared to be struggling, carrying something. She squinted her eyes at him. She watched him pause for a while to look and quickly mourn the death of his friend, whom Larry had just gunned down in cold blood and continued dragging the object. "What is that...?" She whispered to herself. She took off her glasses, rubbed her eyes and put her glasses back on. She looked at the guy again who put the gun over his shoulder.

"RPG!"

She screamed out. The enemy pulled the trigger to the RPG, sending a guided missile into their chopper. "We're hit!" Venus screamed as the helicopter started blinking red and spinning. Mari and Larry retreated back to the inside of the helicopter. "It's going down!" Laurent screamed unbuckling himself from the seat. "Anna, bring in everyone. Now!" He screamed into his intercom.

"Backup is already on the way!" She screamed into the intercom in horror watching the chopper malfunction. "Try to get it under control!" She panicked.

"We're trying our best!" Venus panicked at the controls. Nothing seems to be working! She thought. After all of her attempts to recover, they failed.

And everything went black.

"Everyone OK?" Mari asked pulling herself out of the wreckage. "Lau?"

"I'm fine," he groaned.
"Venus?" She didn't answer. "¿Venus?"
"I'm here!" She gasped for air and choked a little.
Mari caught her breath and her breathing restored to normal. "Larry?" She calls for him as she crawls out of the helicopter onto the base, drawing her pistol. "I'm right here," he says pulling his brother out.

"Where's Alexis?" Venus asks, rubbing blood off the side of her head.

Then they heard screams. Alexis' screams. They all turned in the direction of her shouts to see that she had been taken hostage by an enemy. As soon as they drew their guns, the enemy put the gun to her head.

"Make one move, and I'll put a bullet in this bitch!" The enemy threatened. By the tone of voice, they can tell that the enemy is a female. Backup choppers hovered over the base. "Oh shit, that's Alexis," Jason said in total shock.

"It is!" Yuri said. "Hold your fire!" He screams out and no missiles or shots are fired.

"Let her go!" Laurent shouted.
"And why should I?" She asked. "I mean, you guys murdered half of us and destroyed half of our shit!" She tightened the grip on Alexis' neck, making Alexis place her hands around her arm. "She didn't murder anyone," Laurent informs her, "we did."

"Just like we didn't attack you, but you guys attacked us?"
"Bitch, you were gonna attack us first while you tryna play innocent!" Mari yelled at her matter of factly. They made eye contact and Mari squinted her eyes at her. Mari's cold gaze intimidated her, causing her to break the gaze. "Right. So why shouldn't I kill her?" She asked trying to put fear into them.

"Do it and I'll beat yo ass," Mari threatened. The enemy slightly laughed coyly still holding Alexis her hardest. "You have so much attitude," she smirked, "I love it. But you won't kill me. You don't have the guts."

"Bitch, you must not know me," Mari reloaded her pistol. "I blew up your equipment & bodied half yo men with the help of my cousin right there." She pointed her head to Larry. "They were dropping like flies."

The enemy was taken aback by her words. "You fool! I have your lieutenant!"
"And what do you want outta killing her?" Mari asked. The girl looked around unsure of what to say. "Leverage," she finally said.

"I'd never thought an anti-crime organization would kill an innocent person," Mari laughed holding the sole purpose of this organization over their heads.

 "Violet!" Another enemy called out to her. "Weapons are ready!" Mari observed her closely. With the helmet she has on, Mari can't really see anything. So that's her name... She thought.

"You see, solving a crime must be done with a crime!" She called out.
"Spare me the speech. Just give her back so we can sink this bitch and get up through."

"Get them outta here!" She yelled at them and started dragging Alexis back with the help of another enemy. "We'll be back, Alexis!" Venus called out to her hearing her screams.

"We can't put her down!" Sasha said firing from the ship. "It's too hot! Clear it out a little and we'll put down a ladder." Everyone heard them on her intercom and took cover behind ammunition.

As a an enemy approached where Larry was covering at he, pulled him back over the ammunition box and used him as human shield. He killed 2 other enemies before the enemy horde fired into his body and killed him. Larry rolled backwards back behind cover. Heartless assholes, he thought.

"¿How are you holding up?" Laurent called over to Mari seeing her hiding behind cover. She switched to her machine pistol and started blindly firing. "I'm having the time of my life!" She admitting killing someone else. She opened the ammunition box and pulled out one of the weapons in there and loaded it.

"That's a CZ-805 BREN," Larry told her.
"Woah," Mari said in amusement, "you know the name of a weapon?"
"Someone taught me," he said with his eyes focused on shooting the sniper on the top of the base. Larry successfully got a head shot and watched the sniper fall off the base and into the water. "Nice work," Sasha said with the sniper, shooting an enemy approaching Venus. "But it is cleared enough. We have to go. Now!"

"We can't leave without Alexis," he says hiding behind cover. Hearing this through her intercom, Mari faces Larry who was reloading. I can't believe him, out of all people... She said flanking enemies enclosing on his position. "We have to go," Laurent patted his shoulder and shot another enemy blindly.

The helicopters dropped down and let out a ladder. The area is fully clear, and this is their only opportunity to escape. Larry and Lau got on one ladder to one chopper while Mari and Venus got on the other ladder to the other chopper. The choppers took off before they could finish climbing up. Seeing some more enemies emerge from the interior of the ship, they switched to their pistols and shot at them killing some.

"What about Alexis?" Venus asked being helped into the chopper by Jason after she just finished climbing up the ladder. "I don't know," Yuri said reloading his clip, "but I know they're not gonna kill her."

She sighed. "I hope."

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