Chapter 168: Poor Decisions
*BANGBANGBANG!*
*BOOOM!*
The battle raged on, but soon enough the Tyger Claws were forced back as the Mox took the street. Ori lets out a long sigh as he parks outside Lizzie's Bar, stepping past the corpses of people he both knew and didn't.
"Crystal, what's it look like?" he questions, wanting to know how bad the attack was.
She shakes her head, touching her cheek which was profusely bleeding from a large gash, "Dunno yet, but too many died to make it 'good'. Bearable might be the only answer I can give." she mutters.
"Where's Q and Judy?"
"Susie's on the roof, Judy's probably still in the basement." she mutters.
Ori's about to go see how Judy is but quickly turns when the sound of a motorbike sounds out. It speeds down the road but stops in front of the bar, the driver hopping off as all the nearby Mox aim at them.
"I-... Come in peace...?" Sasha awkwardly says as she takes her helmet off.
"Are you trying to get yourself killed!?" Rebecca angrily shouts, "Turning up on a bike after a Tyger Claw raid!?"
"I don't have a car..." Sasha sheepishly admits.
"Leave it, she'll be smarter next time." Susie states as she steps out from the front door of the club, her shirt and jacket covered in blood. "Thanks for coming, we'd probably still be fighting if you hadn't."
"Course! You may be a bitch but I know my roots." Rebecca huffs, drawing glares from nearby Mox.
"Go wait with Judy, I'll grab the others and we can talk plans." she states, walking past the Mox and Tyger corpses to the nearby buildings.
Rebecca tilts her head at the other two, "You don't think she'll have us charge into Japantown, right? I don't think the Mox have the numbers for it..."
"Doubt she'd be leader if she was that reckless." Ori mutters as they step into the club, only now noticing that the interior was much like the outside. Bodies of both Tygers, Mox, and club patrons lay strewn about the floor, bullet holes covering the place.
Tygers had obviously blitzed the place without warning, barging into the club and slaughtering everyone they could, following it afterwards with raids on bikes.
They make their way to Judy's lab and find her struggling to wrap bandages around her shoulder where a bullet hole lay, still seeping blood. "Shit, Judes are you alright!?" Rebecca exclaims, running over to assist.
"What's it look like? Nah, one of those fucks got me at the bar... Shit, there should've been a warning, someone should've noticed!" she scowls.
"I was about to say, shouldn't someone have seen a bunch of Tyger Claws marching over the bridge...?" Sasha questions.
"Obviously! But we didn't hear shit!" Judy loudly responds.
The door to the lab opens and Susie steps in with some Mox at her back, "If things couldn't get worse, we lost almost half our guys in that attack alone." she spits, looking thoroughly enraged at the situation.
"Half...?" Ori parrots, that was fucking huge. Enough that the Mox might just die out from this alone.
Judy rests her face in her hands, "How else was this supposed to go... It's our hundreds vs their thousands. We stand no chance, even if they ignore us Maelstrom might stick their noses in."
"So, what? We're not gonna pay them back for this?" Rebecca angrily asks.
"How're we gonna do that? With who? With what weapons? We'd have to take the whole gang and leave-" Susie pauses, along with Judy who has their eyes flashing with data. "Shit."
"They're attacking our businesses." Judy spits. "Kidnapping the working girls and trashing everything else."
"You want us to go deal with them?" Ori inquires, not forgetting the Tyger's part in his sister's kidnapping and Casinha as a whole.
Susie chews on the inside of her cheek for a couple moments before eventually nodding, "If you can, Judy, send them the locations. I'll see if I can get some Mox volunteers to help out..." she sighs, "If there's any left."
Rebecca grins, "Don't worry Q, we'll get this done and you can think about what you're paying us with."
"Yeah... Pay..."
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The rest of the day was essentially Ori and crew running around Kabuki killing Tyger Claws and putting out fires. Half the market had been destroyed, any business even slightly affiliated with the Mox vandalised, the less said about the kidnapped girls the better.
Even after the few groups of Mox that Q managed to send out, there wasn't much else to be done. The Tygers had done the damage they wanted and left, leaving them to pick up the pieces. This was only made harder with the numerous Trauma Teams, NCPD squads, fire departments, and other authorities attempting to restore order.
Ori, Rebecca, and Sasha returned to Lizzie's Bar with scuffs and injuries to show. They went to Judy's lab and found the techie and Susie in a heated discussion on how to proceed from here. Susie seemingly wanted to try and team up with Maelstrom in order to counterattack the Tygers, but Judy justifiably thought that was a retarded idea.
Honestly though? There was no good way of dealing with the situation. Not one that Ori could see anyway... Only compromises that may or may not blow up in their faces horribly.
"We'd be giving those psycho-fucks free reign to do what they like in Kabuki, Q! Don't go there!" Judy pointedly exclaims.
"What choice do we have? Unless you think trying to contact 6th Street or the Valentino's is any better?"
"Both are definitely better than Maelstrom! At least then we'd know how they would betray us! Maelstrom? They might be fine, or they might try and kill us all for no reason!"
Ori coughs into his fist as he and the others enter the lab, "We've cleared the place of Tyger Claws, but the damage is huge..." he states, sitting down next to Judy, "I think I know where we can get some help though, even if I'm reluctant to accept it..."
"Who's that then?" Susie sceptically inquires.
"Wakako Okada, she contacted me about some civil war happening in the Tyger Claws. I'm betting the guys she was talking about are responsible for the attack..."
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