Chapter 13: The Devil's Rhapsody Of Dust and Blood

While Kelly hoped her mother would listen to her advice the last time they talked, in her haste she underestimated just how rattled Jenny was, for around the same time Kelly confronted her brother, her mother was confronting another person that was close to her.

After being fed up with being left in the dark Jenny ended up going to Dale's house, and after following her daughter's instructions she got into Dale's panic room. Any lingering doubts about her child misunderstanding things were swept away as she saw the plans, guns and other crystal-clear proof of her departed husband's friend ambition littered across the room.

Jenny wondered for a few moments if she had hit her head getting to the basement, till a loud yell cut her off. For a moment she wondered if Dale owned another dog, till she realized that the sound was coming from Dale himself. She peered into the cell in the panic room and saw a sightly thinner and dirtier Dale.

While the older man looked nearly like a starved dog, when he heard someone, his eyes twitched." So you remembered to feed me after all girl? If you thought I would come around just after you starved me a little you're out of your depth girl!"

"Dale?" Jenny spat out with a mix of shock and disgust." So…this is what she meant?"

Dale blinked for a few moments till he let out a weak chuckle." That you their Jenny? Oh thank god. Was hoping Kelly would come to her senses but you always were the more sensible one baby doll. I mean, why else would you be here eh?"

Jenny paused before she glanced at the map, saw the circle over the president and narrowed her eyes." That depends on what the hell this is all about Dale! Malcolm…he never came back home and won't answer anyone.

And now Kelly suddenly invited all her old teammates over for veteran's day and goes off on some trip and only saying if she does not come back to ask you what its all about.

And then I see you have all these charts and guns like some nut from some direct to video movie! I thought you could help get some answers about what happened to my boy, but Kelly never really told me! So I'm asking you right here right now Dale…what the hell did you tell my son to do?"

Dale lowered his head before he chuckled bitterly." The same thing I told you in the past Jenny. I told him what he needed to hear to have clarity and have a place in a world that's trying to purge patriotic men like him these days."

"That's what you call this!?" Jenny roared out in indignation." Helping a boy find his way is something like getting his head set to the right path and giving him the tips he needs to get a job and a girl or something. What's not helping is giving him crazy ideas and try and turn him into some would be assassin!"

"I was hoping as someone who's also trying to keep a business going you would have a more mature look on things then your daughter honey. Tell me Jenny…was George Washington and all the other founding fathers just "assassins" because they did what had to be done?"

Jenny saw the passion in the chained man's eyes before she winced." Dear god this is worst then I thought. You think you're fighting another revolutionary war? We sure got a lot of enemies these days, but no one's occupying America Dale unless you believe those stories about lizard people or the aliens or take those superhero movies to seriously!"

"Heh…well honey I guess those who were loyal to the British back then did not think there was a problem either eh? But in the end as always history is written by the winners, and the winners with their grit defined what it meant to be American.

It's the same thing going on right now. Outsiders are trying to define what this country is over the real Americans…and every last one of them is going to be forced to learn the hard way what America always will be…once and for all!"

"You forget America's always been a diverse place Dale? The whole point is that everyone was supposed to be able to your neighbor no matter what they believed in long as they pulled their weight."

"Oh Jenny…guess you did not pay enough attention to get the picture. America always was a melting pot, but that pot was never meant to be for the ones in charge! Anyone could be allowed a piece of the pie, long as they pulled their weight, but if they did not serve the true Americans, they were a god damn threat! All these groups that tried to make America into them…are nothing but god damn parasites.

After all…in the end a community is a group of people who enjoy the same things and share the same passions more or less. If I have a neighbor that I don't share anything in common with and does more to hurt me and my people, what else is that but a threat to your tribe eh honey?

As a businesswoman you should know if something's taking money away from your business, your tribe, and hurting its reputation, then its god damn bad for business! Malcolm and all the others working with me just agreed to one basic truth, if the world was not the way it was we would all be a lot happier. Heh, I'm sure all kinds of folk want to keep that basic truth buried, but as the "King" himself said honey, truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

You think Russia or China have this problem? They have their flaws for sure but they are not bogged down with this garbage that minorities have the same right as the nation's one true folk! That's why if America's not going to be overtaken by our enemies we have to stop messing around and put our foot down on who the true American's are and always will be!

If our country was not being taken over by people who have no right to take what is not theirs, I would not have lost so much, and have to keep giving up so much to an ex-wife that has no right to what's mine! We are all just taking back what is rightfully ours Jenny!"

"You mean what you think you deserve Dale!" Kelly's mother snapped back bitterly." You, you remind me just like how Neil was when I called him out on his lying that last day!

He, he kept ranting about what he deserved, and was so rattled that I had the nerve to argue with him about Anne that he god damn drove to his death! You, you and Neil really were best friends for more than a few reasons since you have the same crap ideas about woman!

I did not talk enough with Grace to get the full story but I can fill in the rest of the pieces myself at this point!"

"Don't jump to conclusions girl! Its because you woman expect so many damn things that even the billionaires can't make yah happy! It was better then the men in charge had his wife and his whores for different parts of his life and everyone did not make a fuss about it because that was just how the leader of the pack did things! It...it will be so much better when things are how they use to be, the natural way!"

"Piff...in the end you just want to make it so you never have to face the consequences of your actions like some spoiled brat! You think your a patriot, a great revolutionary? You're just a greedy asshole Dale! And if you kept telling Malcolm for years it was his right to things that he sure as hell had no default right to, then it's no wonder he's not in touch with reality! Dale…what path did you set my son on damn it?"

"I set him on the path to be a winner, someone who's going to change the world. It meant making sure he did not do anything stupid, or do what I could to keep him in the right place at the right time. Sometimes it meant recommending someone else get promoted so he did not get off track…from what he's supposed to be."

"And what the hell is that? Your soldier Dale? Damn it…all of this because you never could get over yourself! Ego's like yours are smothering the god damn planet to death! You don't have to be some green piece hippy to see the planet's going to hell when your a farmer and your job's working with the planet. You all keep this up and there won't even be any place for you jackass's to have your" true world order" anyway so you will cause all this grief for nothing!"

"More like all of this grief is because people like you can't get over yourself and know your damn place Jenny!" Dale snapped out with fury." I'm no scientist, maybe we will keep this dance going for thousands of years...maybe humanity dies when I die. But you know what? If we are all screwed anyway then the strong might as well enjoy the perks till the very end instead of some half assed pipe dream the losers have that the winners will ever be on the same playing field as them!

I can't deny all the pay I'm losing to extreme weather gal, but you know, if it causes all those damn blue ass liberal states to fall apart and make them come crawling to the " fly over " states knowing that in the end we were the winners after all, then hell that almost sounds worth it!

Heh, you would not understand the joy of knowing no one would ever be richer then you ever again in history honey, even if its because the planet went to hell after you died! Its all just proof of the natural order! If all the people just knew were they stood it would not have gotten this bad…so look what you made the patriots do honey? All the lies won't save you from the reckoning that's about to be unleashed so if you wise up and get on the right, GUH!"

Kelly could not restrain her disgust any longer as she ran up and kicked Dale in the balls hard. As he moaned in pain she glared at him before pulling on his collar chain to choke him.

As the two locked eyes Kelly got right in the man she use to see as a friend's face." Or what Dale? You really want to cause things to go full anarchy when you just might not be as suited for that dog eat dog world as you thought? Bastard…because of your hustle I might lose my entire family to you…and you better believe there is no way you won't owe up to what you cost me!"

Dale started chocking before he gasped out," You…you can't do this to."

"To you!? I sure as hell can!"

Jenny seethed out as she pulled tighter. She saw Dale's face change color, before she closed her eyes, and grit her teeth. She then eased up enough to just have Dale fall unconscious instead of choking to death.

After making sure he was still breathing Jenny spat on Dale's face before she turned around." I can…but I won't because I'm not going to give you the privilege of bringing me down to your level Dale. Honestly a part of me wants to choke you to death with your own manhood right about now. Still...the other part does not want you to get the last laugh and be seen as the victim.

I believe in hell…but I still think a quick death is too good for you and its better you see just how wrong you are before you answer to god you two faced bastard. No matter how slick you are…if the right people see this room unless you rigged the entire damn jury you're not weaseling out of what your deserve "Honey". Keeping you alive just to make sure you see me buy your business from you sounds a lot better then just the primal pleasure of seeing you die now.

Kelly made sure Dale was not getting up before she walked back up. She glanced over all the stuff Dale had on the walls, and saw some of the plans that circled parts of the Titan Mine and realized that might be what Dale had sent out Malcolm to do before she fell to her knees and repressed a sob before looking up." God…despite everything my faith in you never wavered…but I'm begging yah…please spare my children from the actions of the greedy that tried to control them. I know I made plenty of mistakes that caused that soured my relationship…but my kids should not have to die because of those mistakes. Please…please spare my kids lord."

Jenny prayed for a few more moments before trying to keep her composure and figure out the best path forward. As her thoughts raced around someone answering her prayers, at the moment it would seem they were not being answered, for her worst fears were confirmed and her children's lives were being endangered, by each other.

As much as it pained her, after seeing Malcolm try to shoot her and shoot at her friends while screaming like a beast hungry for blood Kelly pushed all feelings of a sister away and forced herself to think only as a soldier.

While Malcolm's skills did not seem on her level, she quickly saw that his group did seem to have trained well enough to fire in segments so that when one group had to reload, others fired to keep the pressure up.

Alysha found that Malcolm's cohort Vern managed to snipe at her, and only her helmet prevented her from getting shot dead right there, before Tucker almost finished her with a burst of machine gun fire, till a counterattack by Tai forced him to change course.

Kelly's friend swerved behind another mine-cart and saw Grant unleashing suppression fire of his own before she swore." Crazy as these racists bastards are…seems like they did more than drink when planning this."

"Well I won't say these blokes are a match for us." Grant dryly quipped back." But between having the home-field advantage and most likely having more ammo if we don't figure out how to break out of this deadlock soon this would be the point where its normally a time to withdrawal…but we don't seem to have that luxury here."

"Like hell am I letting some spoiled redneck Neo-Nazi's whop us." Alysha bitterly retorted." If they have more aces in there deck we just got to add are own. Masks up fox's."

Grant complied in a second before Alysha fumbled around her pocket and threw a smoke grenade in the direction of Tucker and the others. Malcolm's bulky partner in crime saw smoke come out before he spat on the ground." They think they can smoke us out like rats eh boys? Show them who the true top dogs are!"

Kelly put up her own goggles as she saw the smoke cover the area. Some of the hostiles did take out mask's of their own, but not everyone got to the gear they needed in time as Kelly heard angry yells all around her.

She quickly dove to the ground as she saw bullets race past her. As pebbles moved she used her own goggles to see through the smoke, and was able to see that Malcolm was backing off to try and get away from the smoke.

She got up to pursue him till she heard a snarl, and saw Malcolm's friend Huston charging at her. She swerved around just as he fired his sawed off shotgun at her, and then fired the other one in his hand to keep her pinned.

As he fired one shot after another and got closer his eye twitched." God damn it, finally was gonna get my glory and now you're trying to ruin it! You always were a killjoy bitch! You may have shut down that time I was trying to tell my song to Tracy but your not shutting us down this time! People like you are not gonna ruin things for us ever again! Time you know your god damn place!"

Kelly narrowed her eyes…took a few moments to gauge the delay between each shot, and right as Huston was about to yell again she saw the man in front of her had to reload, dashed out, and shot Huston right through his jaw.

She saw one of Malcolm's longtime friends' eyes widened, before he coughed up blood. As he fell down and Kelly saw him twitch she could only grit her teeth." I don't have time for messing around anymore, so you're learning your place the hard way." Kelly only took a moment to take in that she just killed someone she knew for years, and one of Malcolm's friends before a bullet went by her and combat instincts swept aside all other thoughts in her head.

She dashed to the right and swerved to the side to see the shot seemed to come from Malcolm's other friend Vern, still holding his sniper rifle tightly. Kelly noticed the red aiming laser was on her leg and swore as she tried to get out of the way.

Vern was about to open fire before more suppression forced him to delay his shot. After Tucker, Malcolm, and another man Kelly did not know fired back, Kelly saw the targeting laser was back, but the gym teacher took a deep breath before she saw the shot stabilize, then dropped the smoke grenade she brought with her and kicked it into the air.

Years of training allowed her to shoot her own projectile with her gun, causing smoke to burst out. The ex-commando heard a grunt, and trusted her instincts as she fired her gun where she heard the voice.

She quickly swerved around the nearest rock and paused, before seeing the smoke clear, and grimly saw her aim was true because Vern was on the ground, with blood coming out.

Tucker noticed as well, and nearly snarled like a beast." You think your all that eh bitch? Oh your no chump alright, but when I get my hands on you you're going to wish you never tried to, huh? Oh hell no!"

The tall man noticed Alysha trying to come at him from the right and quickly shot back. As Tucker was distracted Kelly noticed Malcolm was running into one of the back tunnels with the wires, and grit her teeth.

After a quick look around Kelly zigzagged through the area, and chased after her brother. By the time she reached the end of the tunnel she hear grunts, and saw her brother was climbing down the ladder.

Kelly only took a few moments to gauge the tunnel carefully, and just jumped down the ladder before she grasped the object and also kicked the wall to slow her descent. Malcolm heard something and glanced up, to see his sister's foot coming right down for him.

He only had time to swear before he was kicked in the face and knocked off. He was already near the ground so he only fell a few feet, but he still howled in pain as he hit the ground. As Kelly landed on the ground, Malcolm already rebounded to his feet like a feral beast.

As Kelly took a few labored breaths her brother's eyes darted around before he seethed out," Damn it Kelly, you always have to ruin things for me because you can't just stay out of my business! But I won't let you take everything away from me!"

"Damn it Malcolm this is a far cry from keeping you from scoring with a girl or even making money, this is stopping you from trying to kill the president and cause America to fracture apart all for your damn pride! How many more people have to die before you realize how deranged this nightmare is?"

"Everyone thinks I'm just a god damn joke, but I'll show everyone what's the real joke soon enough when I get the last laugh!"

Malcolm went around the corner, and Kelly paused, before going around the corner. Before she could get around a bat swung up to knock her gun away. Kelly dashed back to see that her brother was now holding barbed bat in his right hand, and his hunting knife in his left.

The gym teacher briefly recalled her brother bragging about making up his own fighting style and only just now realized he was not just boasting while drunk before moving as fast as she could to avoid being smashed or stabbed. It was clear Malcolm had practiced this way of fighting long enough to be coherent as his sister found she hardly had time to move, let alone pick up her gun.

Malcolm attacked with more fury then the bear back at Yellowstone as he slowly pushed Kelly into the corner with the ladder while screaming out," You should have just minded your own god damn business Kelly! You can have lived in the new America if you just knew your place! Sure…might have a few downsides but it's the same for me now so it's only fair you take turns being miserable with your brother!

Why'd you only care so much about your oaths when it was about anyone other than me? You always wanted to be the hero so damn bad and where did it get yah eh? Maybe it kept your pals alive but in the end you could not even keep down some third world trash so what the hell was it good for?

In the end I'm just doing the same thing, fighting for a place for my tribe! But I'm going to make a real change, not some fake dream you wasted so much time on! You just a roadblock trying to damn up the river of destiny, so get out of the god damn way!"

At this point Kelly's back was against the wall, and with a wild cry Malcolm swung his bat at his sister's right leg. Her body armor protected her but she still cried out in pain and fell on her knees. As she saw her brother let out a blood thirsty cry and tried to bring down his knife on her hand, with her other hand she took out her own knife to parry the strike.

As the siblings blades crossed Malcolm's eyes twitched before he snarled and tried to overpower his sister. But despite how revved up he was, Kelly was able to use his rage against him as she made use of her CQC or Close Quarters Combat training to use her brother's strength against him to push him to the right.

As Malcolm tried harder to overpower his sister, Kelly felt her brother prepare to try and overpower her and swerved to the right to cause him to lose balance. The moment she saw his shock, she kicked his bad knee.

Even with his own body armor the impact caused him to stagger. As he fell back he swung wildly with his bat, but Kelly acted on instinct and thrust her knife upward, to jab her brother in the armpit. Malcolm cried out in pain as the injury forced him to drop the bat.

Kelly saw Malcolm glare at her with raw hate before she could not help but let out a sorrowful sigh. "So, you think I'm a failure eh Malcolm? It's true, I, the entire effort of the military did not really change the middle east, and after losing so many soldiers in the end just like Vietnam, on the surface nothing really changed. Even so…even if the Middle East did not suddenly become like Europe overnight, it's not like all we did was waste lives and money.

I saw the girls and woman I saved from having their lives be ruined, I know it was not meaningless to give people a chance at a better future. Malcolm…you, Dale, Mignogna, and all the rest of this group of maverick thugs are only fighting for your future!"

Malcolm grasped his wounded arm bitterly before he coughed up blood, and once more turned blood red as veins bulged on his forehead." So you think your better than me because your cause is more noble is that it sis?

Is that speech what you keep telling yourself so you can sleep without feeling like a failure? God damn it, you, Mia, all the woman in my life mock me for being better than me like I'm some worthless failure, like my life is nothing but one god damn joke! I'll show all of you who will have the last laugh when I burn the world that lets you mock me down till it's nothing but ash!"

Kelly could not help but let her disgust seep out as she grasped her knife tightly." Are you going to blame everyone but yourself till the very end Malcolm? I don't know about the other woman, but I never was laughing at you!

I tried to do all I could to help you! But even if Dale was pushing you down this path you still have to own up for expecting things to work out in a way that only works out in a dream!

You kept trying to reach out for mirages and just seem to be reaching out to more and more savage ideas to smash the dream you want into reality! One way or another, only way out for you is to wake up and face the music."

"That right Kelly? So like your negro friend said I should just accept a sucky life as karma or something? I busted my ass off trying to do things the "right way", only for it all to be one joke as everyone laughed at me, at how it was" not the right time" every damn time!

Always, always, no matter what I did you all always were laughing at me and I'm so sick at it that I'll do whatever it takes to make it stop! And you think it's just me who thinks this way? You think it's only the people in this mine that thinks this way? Hell nah! If it was just me, if it was just the people here, I would not be doing all of this just to look like a damn fool.

Nah…nah I'm doing this because all the real Americans all over America are as sick of being the joke as I am, and just need to see who has the power. And we will…we WILL show everyone who really runs this country! And if you're in the way of that then it's time to die sis!"

Malcolm dashed for his gun and opened fire, but Kelly saw what he was going for and dashed for him. Just as he fired his shot Kelly charged him to knock him down. As the bullet raced past her Malcolm went for his knife again and the two once more rolled around, trying to overpower each other.

As they did, at the same time Kelly's teammates were seeing that Malcolm's partners in crime were just as fanatical. However, they were also seeing that despite their zeal, the Fox Pack commandos proved their skills as one by one Malcolm's would be revolutionaries were shot down. Tucker saw his pals going down before he spat on the ground. Damn assholes hiding like god damn camper cowards! If your real elites then fight like men already!"

"I'm not a man asshole!" Alysha snapped out." So, if you can't deal then I guess you're not the alpha dog after all eh? Let's end these fascist assholes before they know what hit them!"

"Works for me." Grant dryly quipped out. Alysha then threw out another smoke grenade, and after everyone hear more yelling before they opened fire. When the smoke cleared Alysha saw Tucker was on the ground and smirked." Guess he learned the hard way screaming like you're the Hulk does not in fact make you the Hulk. Whatever, let's go after Kelly to wrap this up."

"Fine by me." Her teammate answered." If nothing else rather tired of the smell of this" Mancave". Guess these blokes realized to late there mainly musk was not that " awesome after all eh?" Whatever lets."

As he said that Grant walked past Tucker. However, at that moment he learned the hard way his boasting was premature, because the bulky man revealed he only pretended he was shot, the moment he burst up and slammed Grant in the face with the rock he held in his free hand.

Kelly's teammate did not even have time to utter another word before Tucker shot the staggering soldier with the gun still in his hand. Tucker saw blood coming out and just spat on the now dying man." Who can't adapt now dumbass? If you hate the smell so much then guess you don't have to smell it anymore eh" Mate"? Piff…not the first time I had to play dead to make some prick who thinks he's better than me really dead. You pigs may not be push overs, but we planned to fight a war, and prepped to keep fighting till everyone in our way is dead! Got more than enough pep to own you has beens!"

Alysha saw Tucker throw a pile in his mouth before she glanced at Grant's now shot up face, and could hardly hold back her anger." Grant…no! You bastard! I swear to god, the more harm you cause the worst it's going to be for you!"

Tucker just gave a wild battle cry as he ran forward." You think I'm scared of pissing you off? Every last one of you can hate me with all your heart and soul bitch! But it will just make it more enjoyable when I show you where all of you stand once and for all! Time you learn the hard way that no matter how angry the prey gets at the predator, they are still god damn prey!"

Tucker charged straight for Alysha while firing his sub-machine gun. Alysha fired back but her target just kept roaring and moving in a serpentine formation. While Alysha did hit his right shoulder, to her dread her bullet hit more armor then flesh as he just kept charging, and then crashed into the veteran with enough impact to launch her into the wall.

Tucker's eyes widened with glee as he hears a cracking sound before he cracks his neck." I might not have time to enjoy this too much but I'm going to make you wish you never talked back to," Before he could finish he heard something, and saw Tai coming at him with his own knife.

Tucker only had time to intercept the blade with his right arm. While the knife went into his skin, Tucker's eyes just widened before he licked his lip and suddenly headbutted Kelly's teammate with his helmeted head.

He then punched Tai in the stomach while howling out," God damn it I thought Asians had manners, eh? No one teach you not to get in the way of a man while he's enjoying the thrill of the hunt? Don't you former Samurai have that whole honor code thing?"

"My parents came from Cambodia you jackass."

"What that's a special part of Japan or something? Whatever, one way or another all Asians are just puppets of China anyway! Tsc, I reckon that's your last lesson on your one way trip off this world Bruce Lee!"

Tucker was about to open fire before Efrain came at him, causing the bulky bearded man to dash out of the way before Kelly's tallest teammate roared out," My friends are not on your menu you neo nazi Verga! You can huff and puff all you want but we got through worst then you!"

Tucker avoided Efrain's blitz before he spat on the ground." And that's all because Malcolm's sis kept bailing your asses out eh? Well if you think she's going to pull off a miracle today then think again! Had it with her thinking she could disrespect me and get away with it anyway. Yo Pierre keep these suckers pinned down while I help Malcolm wrap up his little family matter yah hear? Then for all this hassle its going to end for a bang I tell yah what!"

Everyone on Tucker's side that was still alive then opened fire as the largest of them ran in the direction that Kelly and Malcolm went. Alysha heard her bearded enemy give another wild yell before she cursed and eyed the remaining hostiles carefully." No way in hell am I letting that maniac get the last laugh! Still, he's sure making this a pain in the ass since he's shrugging off hits like he's the god damn Terminator!"

"He's not a machine but he's more or less inhuman now regardless" Tai uttered bitterly." I could see the color of his eyes for a few moments. Can't say for sure but between how his eyes looked and how he's shrugging off pain I'd say he took crystal meth or something like it that has methamphetamine to cut off his fear, enhance his anger and make him shrug off pain that would otherwise cripple him. It's what the Nazi's did so it checks out."

"Oh damn it all." Alysha seethed out bitterly," These losers want to hit all the fascist notes to the end eh? Her brother did not look like anything to great but if that blowhard corners her when he's juiced up like that anyone would be in a bind like that! C'mon boys, we can't have kept the Major's back all this time only to fail to her psycho brother and his redneck fascist buddies! C'mon, Grant has to be avenged guys!"

Her teammates needed no other motivation to give it all they got. Despite this the two sides were at a deadlock, though Kelly was to focused with handling her brother.

Kelly and Malcolm had been wrestling each other all this time, almost like they were kids again, only the rage they felt was pure bloodlust at this point. Malcolm saw the knife was getting closer and grinned madly, before Kelly kicked off some dust to get in her brother's eye.

Malcolm snarled and quickly dashed back, blinked a bit before squinting at her sister, yelling at the top of his lungs and then lunged for his sister, before the sibling retorted by roundhouse kicking Malcolm on the side of his head with her fists and unleashed a follow up kick at his jaw. As her target staggered back Kelly cried out and punched Malcolm in the face.

As blood flew out of her brother's face Kelly grasped her leg, and heard the bearded man moan in desperation before she braced herself." Its over Malcolm! No matter what happens there is no way you're going to get away with this!"

"That's what you think!" Her current adversary cried out bitterly." But despite what you think I'm just getting started! I'm gonna change the world, one deluded family member is not going to stop me!"

Kelly saw her brother go for his gun, and dove for her own firearm. With her brother's injury he was slowed down enough for her to get her gun, causing the two to be at a impasse. The red-haired woman saw her brother's eye twitch before her own eyes hardened." So your betting everything on shooting your own sister? You really think you can do it? This what you want? This the kind of man you want to be for the rest of your life?"

Malcolm's eyes wavered as he uttered," As…as long as I win…as long as win for once in my god damn life damn it!"

"I don't know what the others told you but trust me, winning a battle by some horrible ways might get you that victory, but haunt you for the rest of your life. Trust me, I know how that feels and I was trying to spare you from having to go through that hell! I was trying to spare you that, and you keep trying to rush to make life hell so you can have a kind of pride that's not even what you think it is!

One way or another you're never going to be happy because you're trying to desperately reach for something that never existed Malcolm! And if you keep missing reality, it is going to kill you!"

"That's what you think! I don't need your pity; I don't need your scorn! You all underestimate me but I'll show everyone who has the will to bend the world to their vision like all winners do!"

Kelly saw Malcolm seemed hell bent and just spat out," Well just try and bend your sister to this will of yours and see what happens! Damn it Malcolm, you just had to be a stubborn, AH!"

Kelly was about to wonder if she should fire a shot, till suddenly a force collided into her. That force was a large rock that was thrown by Tucker. The tall man was at the top of the ladder, saw Kelly was in a standoff below and kicked it down. It bounced off the walls a few times so the impact was not as lethal as it could be, but the rock still hit Kelly in her back and sent her flying to the ground.

As Malcolm looked on in shock Tucker gave another bloodthirsty roar and slid down the ladder. As he landed with a thud, he saw Malcolm blink before he spat on the ground." The hell is this O'Neal? I have to do all the heavy lifting around here? Tsc…at least you kept her busy for me to put my foot down! You're a stubborn broad alright but this game of yours is being shut down right now!"

"Mignogna." Kelly uttered bitterly as she staggered to her feet and grasped her head. " The only thing stopping here is your sick," In an instant Tucker dashed up and kicked Kelly in the head. His foot hit her helmet hard enough to dent it. As she went flying back the muscular man cracked his neck." Stop? As far as you know I'm the god damn unstoppable Juggernaut bitch! I don't do stopping, definitely not for whipped dogs!

I don't care if you don't recognize my authority "Major", soon this is going to be land I rule and those that don't pay the king of the jungle his proper respect pay the price! This whole nation's going to learn till only the biggest dumbass's don't know who is the top dog around here! But since you nearly ruined everything we been working to think you all deserve more then the "easy way" out! Get your phone camera ready Malcolm, we are about to have an extra video to put out!"

Malcolm just blinked a few times as he saw Tucker run across the corner before he heard shooting above and raised an eyebrow." The hell is going on Tucker? You killed her teammates above or what?"

"No, not yet." Tucker retorted." They are being a pain in the ass so the rest of the boys are keeping them busy. It will be after we off the president of course but want to show the whole damn world how hard we come down on those who don't respect our authority!"

Kelly could hardly keep conscious but could see enough to realize Tucker had just put in a flamethrower before she turned pale. Malcolm saw his teammate get the flame spewing weapon ready before he tensed up." W, what the hell are you doing Tucker?"

"The hell does it look like I'm doing man? I'm going to burn your sister to ash's and break the will of her little team, then take my time killing the rest of them! After all…this whole thing is about killing everyone in our way right?"

Before Malcolm could answer a few shots were heard above before Alysha cried out," Hang on Kelly we are coming to make that bald bastard get what he has coming to him!"

"Like hell!" Tucker snarled out before he fired the flamethrower upward to set the ladder ablaze. As yells were heard Tucker laughed madly." Get that your hopes and dreams are going down in flames yet? If not you will get the message when your barbecued next! Still if the rest of the boys got taken down then there is no time for games. At least you will get the funeral pier worthy of a soldier "Major! "

"The hell are you doing!" Malcolm snapped out. Tucker raised an eyebrow before he looked at the burning ladder and shrugged." Chill dude, we will get back up later with the rope down here."

"Not that! You're seriously going to burn Kelly to death? We, we needed her alive to send a message later on!"

Tucker saw the shorter man's tension and snorted in response." Wait you were serious about that? Malcolm I was willing to give that a shot after we pulled off the big win but now it seems most of are boys are dead because of her and she's clearly to much of a pain in the ass to keep around!"

"But…but she,"

"What? Don't give me some crap like she's your sister dude! Tsc…the whole point of this is that the only real family we have are those who are going to help us be where we deserve! She's trying to take everything away from you, and me! What did you think was going to happen? You're the one always ranting about he who hesitates is lost and all, and now you're going to just give up because you got cold feet! Don't you see she's just a witch at this point trying to ruin everything? My family goes all the way back to those Salem witch trials! Its really the same thing when you get down to it Malcolm...its making those who make things a pain for the pack burn!"

Malcolm saw Kelly looking pained, and could not help but have flashback's of many of the times he had with his sister over the years before he grit his teeth." No, I'm not giving up for anything. But, its still my sister. She, she still deserves better then to be burn to death like some witch! She's my sister and this is my operation so that's how it is!"

Tucker eyed Malcolm for a few moments before he narrowed his eyes." Your sister hit you hard enough for you to forget a few things O'Neal? First of all, this is D's operation, and we are all just the field agents.

Second of all…your only in charge if you're getting the job done and right now you're acting like a little bitch who is having second thoughts! I always had to do the heavy lifting to get things done Malcolm, so just shut up and don't get in my way you hear me?

There is no time for any middle ground anymore. There are just those who are with us, or against, us, the predators and the prey! So do you want to be an alpha, or a weak ass beta dude?"

Malcolm saw the pure hate in Tucker's eyes and narrowed his own." I did all of this because I wanted to have it my way, and this is not my way! If you don't listen I swear to god your, GUH!"

The moment Malcolm walked up Tucker punched him in the face. As the smaller man fell down and coughed up blood Tucker spat on the ground once more." You gonna do what!? You never beat me in a fight so don't act like you can tell me what to do dumbass. I'm the alpha, so I'm saying how this, huh?"

As his attention was focused on Malcolm, Kelly jumped at him to try and stab him with Malcolm's discarded knife. Tucker blocked her charge with his flamethrower, and quickly swerved around to try and shoot him. She rolled under him and took out some wire she brought with her to jump up behind him and try and choke him with it. Tucker coughed for a moment before he snarled, and dashed backwards to smash the smaller person on him into the wall.

As she fell down and coughed up blood, Tucker licked the blood off his lips and snorted." Your sister's a fighter eh Malcolm? I guess you really have to be one stubborn bitch to not die after fighting for years.

But that don't matter when you're fighting a real baddest that's more of a real man than any of those Muslim rats in the Middle East! You clawed on as long as someone like you can but you're not going to beat your better, it's the rules of nature dame! So, die knowing how worthless you were, huh? Bro seriously?"

Before Tucker could ignite Kelly, he heard a sound and saw that Malcolm had his gun at him before he snarled." This some sort of joke?"

"Look like I'm joking to you?"

"I don't know you look like one big joke putting that gun at me dude! If you were not a longtime friend of mine you would already be a dead man walking, and I'm running out of patience Malcolm! You seriously going to shoot me if I don't kill someone who's trying to ruin everything?"

"If you're not going to listen then you pay the price! There, there is a way this has to happen, otherwise what we are becoming, its not worth it! It, it has to happen the right way damn it!"

Tucker saw the anger in Malcolm's eyes and snorted." Well, if you're going to be that damn stubborn about it then guess there's only one thing to do eh dude?"

Malcolm saw his friend put one hand off the flamethrower, and took a deep breath, before the moment Tucker's hand was free, it went to take out his gun. As the two gunmen stared each other down Tucker saw Malcolm wince and snarled with disgust," If your being that much of a dumbass then your all but dead-weight Malcolm, and that's a damn shame but there is no room for dead-weight around here!

You're the one who said all that matters is winning O'Neal! I don't know if you got hit to many times or your sister hustled you with some nonsense but if you're not with me, you're in my damn way!"

"Damn it Tucker…don't you look down on me to yah hear? You always hit harder and faster but it was because of my plans that you were not dead years ago! If you bite the hand that feeds you that's the last mistake your gonna make!"

"That's how it is eh? You only can talk the talk because you had me having your back! So shut up and do what I tell you to do before it gets your self killed!"

"No…you're not the boss of me! You can't tell me what to do Tucker!"

"Oh you think your more of a alpha then me? Just try it and see what happens."

Malcolm paused for a few moments as his eyes twitched. The two stared each other down for a few moments before Kelly's brother saw Tucker grin like the devil himself as his finger inched closer to the trigger, before he yelled and fired.

Tucker got shot in his right shoulder, and reacted by having his eyes bulging out before with a roar almost like a beast he shot Malcolm in the chest. Malcolm just cried out as he shot back even while being shot, and fired a few more shots before Tucker unloaded enough bullets to cause his former teammate to fall down.

While he got shot a few times thanks to the effect of the drugs he was taking those shots were not enough to cause him to go down. As he looked at his injuries he saw Malcolm coughing up blood and pounded his chest like a gorilla before roaring with primal fury." WHO'S THE TOP DOG NOW LOSER!? If you were this much of a dumbass then you were going to mess things one way or another.

This whole thing is to cull the weak anyway, by the end of this only the strong will be on top! no more endless talk like a wuss, the weak will either bow to the strong or die and there won't be any tricks to get around it! The government, the church, the media, the business's, in the new American all the weak will be purged so that once and for all the strong will never be denied from the weak. NEVER!"

Kelly looked on in shock as she saw her brother full of holes. Malcolm reached out to Kelly, and the vet was not sure if her brother had any logic to his actions till she saw were he was pointing, and saw there was a hole in Tucker's flamethrower, and also a hole in the spare flame tank Tucker seemed to have brought with him.

Using all of her training Kelly repressed all unneeded emotions before she put the pieces together in her mind, and hissed out," Mignogna, you monster! I promise you will pay for this!"

Kelly picked up Malcolm's discarded bat and just as Tucker turned around she smacked him in the jaw with it. While she knocked out a few teeth, thanks to his strength and the drugs Tucker stood his ground and snarled again before swinging back with his flamethrower.

Kelly jumped backwards and went for Malcolm's gun before Tucker laughed madly." Call me a monster, a devil or whatever bitch all that matters is that I'm a winner! Howl all you want, but you can't change the laws of nature! And that law is that real winners don't apologize bitch! Did you really think if you all moaned enough about how much you hate being treated that we really would all just say we were sorry and give up? Does the bear just say he's sorry when the little rabbit cries about being eaten? Hell no, they eat the god damn prey! You been trying to get your betters to think they are something they ain't but we are waking up and raging to lay down the laws of nature.

And that law is that losers that get in the way of the glory of the winners burn in the flames of there rage. BURN WHORE!"

Tucker fired his flame thrower at Kelly, but the ex-soldier dived out of the way of the fiery stream. As Tucker turned around to spread the fire Kelly steeled herself, took a deep breath, and moved before firing out two shots.

Tucker saw Kelly run out of bullets and laughed madly." Your last-ditch effort and you miss eh? Guess you needed that sniper fag to land any good shots eh witch? Guess you can talk about how much you suck after I, huh?"

The bulky terrorist fired at Kelly, only for the flamethrower to not fire. As he raised an eyebrow he heard something, and then felt pain before he glanced upward, and realized Kelly was aiming for the tank on his weapon.

The bearded man roared with raw hate and went for his gun, till he felt more pain, coming from his feet. He looked down and saw his feet were on fire, and turned around to see Kelly also shot the spare flame tank behind him, causing himself to get dosed with some of its chemicals, which was now causing him to ignite.

Tucker cursed, but before he could try and throw the flamethrower off the flames covered his body. Even the drugs he took could only repress so much before the flames covered his entire body, and all he could feel is blazing pain that was getting more intense each second.

Tucker roared with outrage as he glared at Kelly, and used all his strength to stagger at her." You…you think you can stop this girl? Hell, hell no! No matter what sneaky tricks you use you can't stop nature from taking its course!

It won't stop, till all you burn, till this world burns for denying real men their place in the world. Are rage won't stop till you all burn, its unstoppable! You can't, you can't stop me! I'm the unstoppable Jugg…GUAHH!"

It was at this point that Tucker found out the hard way that for all his muscle and willpower, he could not stop the flames from consuming him. For a few moments Tucker kept lurching at Kelly like he was a hell spawn, but while for one moment Kelly worried the hostile in front of her was somehow beyond human, just as she prepared to fire again the flames around Tucker got even bigger before he fell to the ground.

Kelly eyed the flaming corpse carefully, wondering for a few moments if Tucker was going to have a tail erupt out of him, before she heard her brother moan, realized the flames were spreading, then saw a fire extinguisher in the back with some of the other gear Tucker had stored and ran up.

As she quickly put out the flames to keep them from spreading she saw Tucker's burnt corpse and just spat on it." You wanted a " trail by combat" so bad so you reap what you sow. So…you killed Grant up there? Never more have I wished that hell was real, so that a wild dog like you could find out just how far from the top a pathetic bastard like you is. I…just wish the cost of stopping you was so high. I, huh? Malcolm!"

Kelly ran over as she saw her brother had many parts of his body bleeding out blood. She grasped his hand tightly as she tried to not get consumed by dread." Hang in there, its going to be ok Malcolm!"

"Kelly…never thought anyone could take down Tucker when he was in the zone. You, you really are to far ahead for me to have caught up."

"Stop talking Malcolm! It will be ok, I seen people get through worst!"

"Heh…then your clearly not looking straight sis. I know what's a lost cause by now, I'm just sorry it took till it was to late all that was a lost cause. Kelly…just…just make sure people knew I was more then just some loser monster…alright? I…I…never wanted to be a devil…I just thought that was the only way there would be a place for me in the world. Guess, there really was no place for me at all."

"That's not true. There was a place, with your family. And even in the end, you came through at the last second, you showed what kind of man you were right in time, that you, you were a hero!"

Malcolm saw the sincerity in his sister's eyes before he smiled weakly." Yah, guess your right. I, I managed to be a hero at the end after all eh? That, that does sound kind of…nice. Guess…ma was right after all. Tell her…tell her she was right for…for."

Kelly saw her older brother gasp before his head fell. Despite how use to death she had been, as she realized her brother was dead she could not help but burst into tears. At this point her teammates managed to get a rope and climbed down.

As Alysha saw Kelly grasping her brother she winced." Kelly, thank god your alive! What, what the hell happened here? That redneck really had a flamethrower? Looks like he was not as hot stuff as he thought. Anyway…you beat them both?"

"No." Kelly uttered somberly." Me and Malcolm fought, but when Tucker stepped in he could not see me get deep fried, and got shot shooting Tucker. Its because of him that I'm alive."

Alysha and the others looked around before Kelly's longtime teammate sighed, and patted her one time commander on the shoulder." I see. Kelly, I'm sorry your brother only realized to late how he felt. Still…I'm glad he did, I'm glad your alive. We, we lost Grant, we lost a lot but, we won the battle, we stopped a war."

Kelly saw the rest of her teammates looking positive, before she saw the burnt-up confederate flag in the corner, then noticed her brother's necklace before she grasped it, and put it next to her own necklace and grasped it tightly.

"This better be the end of this" war" or "revolution" or whatever, because the cost already has been to damn high." Kelly grasped her brother's hand one last time before getting up to make sure the mission truly was completed, so she could begin to figure out how to deal with the tragic aftermath.