"Your whining is killing my mood." Matilda tells Orpheus before looking to Topaz. "And what makes you think we can trust him? Because we let him watch us fuck?"
"No, because he's my friend." Topaz informs. "He just needs to understand why he had to keep all this secret."
"Hey, girls, I promise I won't tell anyone." Superstar interjects, still on the floor. "I know what it's like to have an affair and wanting to keep it a secret. In high school, I was sleeping with the art teacher and I didn't want anyone to know about it, especially my algebra teacher because I was seeing him..."
"Shut the fuck up!" Matilda yells at Superstar.
"Listen, Orpheus," Topaz pleads. "I know that you don't exactly approve about me and Matilda but..."
"Topaz," Orpheus interrupts. "If I told anyone you were sleeping with a Steelhead, even a female Steelhead, who would believe me?"
"So you'll keep quiet about this?" Matilda assertively questions. "About me and Topaz?"
"Yeah, but don't think this changes anything between us, Steelhead." Orpheus begrudgingly says. "Next time you come after me in the streets, don't expect any kid gloves."
"How about I rip your fucking balls off and watch you bleed to death!" Matilda threatens as she moves to Orpheus, flexing the digits of her cybernetic hand.
"Stop it." Topaz steps in front of Matilda and with both hands on the Steelhead's shoulders, forcefully guides her a few steps away from Orpheus. "You heard him, he's not gonna squeal on us."
"I can't risk it." Matilda turns and walks to the bedside drawer. "We both can't."
Matilda's metal hand pulls open the drawer and with her flesh and bone hand pulls out a Mark I Desert Eagle gun.
"What's that for?" Topaz can't help but ask.
"What do ya think?" Matilda turns to face Topaz. "Get this straight, this thing between us was never going to last. I mean if Stomper ever found out what we've been doing her, he would fucking lose it. He'd probably shoot us on sight and that's our best case scenario. Wanta know what our worst case scenario is? Because I should don't want to."
"Then let's leave town." Topaz suggests.
"To where? San Francisco?" Matilda rhetorically asks. "Where we can get a house and adopt some kids and live the rest of our lives looking over our shoulders?" Matilda steps closer to Topaz, almost close enough for their expose nipples to touch. "I'm not leaving the Steelheads and I'm not leaving Plutopolis. Certainly not for some whore and her nosy friends."
"You're not gonna kill Orpheus." Topaz asserts.
"Oh, you're right about that." Matilda states. "I'm not the one who's gonna kill him."
Topaz's wrist is quickly grabbed by Matilda's metallic hand, the gun is slapped into Topaz's hand by Matilda's other hand. As Matilda forces Topaz's fingers around the gun handle, Matilda roughly turns the black hooker around to face Orpheus and Superstar.
"You are." Matilda says in Topaz's ear.
"Me?" Topaz looks at the gun in her shaking hand.
"This is your mess." Matilda says. "You let him follow you here, so you have to clean it up."
"Kill...Orpheus?" Topaz's hand shakes more. "There has to be another way."
"No, there isn't." Matilda softly declares as her metal hand on Topaz's arm gently slides up to her shoulder and to her neck. Topaz feels the metal of Matilda's fingers slowly wrap around her neck.
"If you point that gun anywhere other than at Orpheus, I'll break your fucking neck." Matilda threatens. "Two people are gonna die here tonight, it can easily be three."
"Hey, wait a minute." Superstar speaks out. "I said I promised not to tell."
"Shut the fuck up." Matilda orders.
Orpheus watches Topaz lift the gun, steadying it with both hands.
"Topaz...?" Orpheus tries to say.
"Sorry, honey." Topaz aims as best as she can with eyes beginning to tear. "You should have stayed in Lakeside."
Topaz pulls the trigger.
* * * * * *
Walking through the back parking lot of the Sunnyside Motel, SpiderBat spots the blue Challenger he commandeered earlier and later gave to Orpheus. The super-vigilante surveys the rooms, trying to recall which of the numbered doors Orpheus's hooker friend entered. Upon discovering Room 111, SpiderBat make his way to meet with Orpheus, even if it's to report he failed to find Moth. SpiderBat is halfway to the room, when he wonders if maybe there's no rush to give bad news to Orpheus tonight, especially since he's in a motel room with a stripper and a hooker. Surely, it could wait until morning.
BANG!!!
A load gunshot is heard from Room 111.
* * * * * *
I'm alive? Orpheus thinks, eyes tightly closed.
Orpheus opens his eyes and looks behind him to the sound of spanks and sees the TV and the smoking bullet hole in the screen.
"Where the fuck did you learn how to shoot?" Matilda yells, releasing her hold on Topaz's neck.
"It's not like all black people know how to fire a gun." Topaz snaps back.
Matilda snatches the gun from Topaz a second before her cybernetic arm grabs Topaz's arm and with a mechanically-enhanced pull then push, Topaz collides with a wall, causing her to semi-consciously slide down to the floor.
"You want someone killed, you just gotta do it yourself." Matilda utters, raising the gun to Orpheus.
The window explodes with fragments of broken glass as SpiderBat crashes through with feet first. The second SpiderBat superbly lands on the bed, Matilda turns her gun to the window-crashing intruder but the gun is knocked off of her flesh and bone hand with by a swift reverse-roundhouse kick from SpiderBat.
Matilda takes a few steps from SpiderBat as he steps off the bed.
"I gonna knock your fucking head off!" Matilda charges at SpiderBat.
The enraged naked Steelhead thrusts her metal fist to her enemy's masked face only to miss as SpiderBat easily dodges her punch and quickly send his knee to Matilda's stomach, follow by a fast and loud punch to her face. Matilda plummets on the bedside drawer, crushing the lamp with her metal arm before falling on the floor unconscious.
"Don't move or I'll shoot." Superstar yells as she stands up off the floor, aiming the gun at Topaz, still on the floor and moving to the wall.
SpiderBat faces Superstar, pondering if she's a threat to him and Orpheus now that has a gun, but is distracted by the sight of the unclothed, bright red-haired stripper wielding the Desert Eagle with both hands, standing with both feet apart. A very arousing sight for both SpiderBat and Orpheus.
"She was gonna make a move for the gun, but I got it first." Superstar looks to SpiderBat. "Go free Orpheus, I got this."
SpiderBat does a scan of Topaz, naked and curling up on the floor with her back to the wall, then to Matilda, lying naked of the floor, still unconscious, before moving to Orpheus and the chair he's tied to.
"You really know how to make an entrance." Orpheus says.
"You really know how to get yourself into trouble." SpiderBat stand in front of Orpheus, drawing out a folded butterfly knife.
In his skilled hand, the latch on the handle is released allowing the two halves of the handle to pivot and reveal the blade as they rejoin to become a complete handle for the knife in a second. With each stroke, the knife speedily cuts through the ropes tied to Orpheus's arms and legs, finally freeing him.
SpiderBat steps back to let Orpheus stand up from the chair. Orpheus spots his clothes gathered on the table next to Superstar's and reaches for his jeans. SpiderBat shifts his vision back to the three naked women at the other side of the room.
"Mind you," SpiderBat adds. "It seems like the kind of trouble most guys would like to get in."
"They can have it." Orpheus replies as he hurryingly put on his jeans. "We gotta get outta here." Orpheus grabs his remaining clothes and shoes. "This much noise, the police are bound to come."
"Let's go then." SpiderBat paces to the door and opens it. After a quick look around, he signals all clear. Orpheus tosses SpiderBat the keys to the Challenger. SpiderBat grabs them before leaving the room with Orpheus following.
"Orpheus, wait." Topaz calls out, stopping Orpheus as he near the doorway.
Orpheus looks to Topaz, ashamed and guilt-ridden, trying to give an apology, a confession or a warning, couldn't find to the words.
"Superstar, let's go." Orpheus exclaims before leaving.
Superstar keeps her new gun on Topaz and Matilda as she scampers to her clothes on the table. She drapes her zebra-print leather coat over her shoulder, gathering and holding her clothes with one arm. Superstar backs to the door with her gun still on Topaz as she stands up, leaning against the wall.
"I am SO gonna tell." Superstar announces before dashing out the doorway.
* * * * * *
Magga struggles to free her hands as Zippy wraps a roll of gauze around her wrists to tie them to the headrest of the fully reclined parlor chair she is forced to lay on. Keeping her legs free also proves a waste of effort as Zane keeps her legs still by forcing her ankles together under his arm long enough to pull down her low-cut jeans, revealing her shaved mound and legs.
"Stop it, you fucking creeps!" Magga yells.
Pin and Oxy Mo carries the wounded Rembrandt by his arms into the room and throws him to the floor near the chair. Landing on his front, Rembrandt can only push himself up enough to helplessly watch Zippy force the remaining roll of gauze in Magga's mouth before pulling down her tube top, exposing her DD tits.
"Don't you fucking touch my wife!" Rembrandt threatens.
"What? Like this?" Zippy grins with sinister smugness as he clutches one of Magga's tits.
Moth enters the room holding Greenie by her arm, still holding his gun.
"Stay." Moth says to Greenie as he guides her to a nearby stool for her to sit on. "Go have some fun, guys." Moth says to Pin and Oxy Mo as he passes them to walk to Rembrandt.
Rembrandt's rage grows as he witnesses Zane successfully pull off Magga's jeans from her legs, leaving her naked on the chair, surrounded by four would-be rapists. Moth's foot to Rembrandt's arm roughly rolls the biker on his back to the floor. Looking up, Rembrandt sees Moth step into his view, aiming his gun at him.
"I'm only gonna ask this one more time and you better answer." Moth squats down. "Where is Orpheus Jones?"
"Do you know who you're messing with, asshole?" Rembrandt yells, not giving into fear.
"Some tattoo artist and his slant-eyed wife." Moth replies.
"Try the Unholy Riders, fucker." Rembrandt raises his torso off the floor. "When they find out what you did to one of their own, they're gonna fuck up you and boys so bad, you'll beg for death."
"Yeah?" Agitated Moth asks through his teeth as he quickly stands up and aims his gun at Rembrandt's chest. "Who's gonna them?"
Magga screams through her gauze-jammed mouth as she watches her husband take three shots to the chest.
"SHUT HER THE FUCK UP!!!" Moth yells.
Oxy Mo hurries to Magga to deliver a punch to her face, knocking her out and silencing her screaming.
Hearing the sound of running, Moth looks to the empty stool where Greenie should be sitting. "Fuck!" Moth runs out of the room and spots Greenie running past the rooms to the front door. "Stop, you junkie!" Moth loudly warns, raising his gun to the fleeing drug addict.
Greenie stops near the waiting area, but instead of surrendering, she throws a fire-vial at Moth. The fire-vial shatters on the floor near Moth, immediately igniting fire. Moth backs away from the spreading flames as Greenie makes it to the door, unlocks it and runs out into the streets outside.
Wondering how Greenie got ahold of a fire-vial, Moth checks his coat pocket for the one he took from Greenie after he's run-in with the Zeds, and finds it gone.
That junkie bitch must have lifted from me. Moth thinks.
Pin and Zane runs out to Moth with their guns out as Moth continues to back away from the increasing fire.
"Where'd she go?" Pin questions.
"She went out to get pizza." Moth sarcastically answers. "What do ya think, stupid, the bitch took off. She must have one of those fire-glass tube thingies hidden on her until she found the right time to ditch us."
"Back door." Pin turns and runs from the fire.
Zane is about to follow Pin when Moth grabs his arm.
"Do you still have those fire-tubes?" Moth asks Zane.
"Yeah." Zane reaches in his jacket pocket and holds out four fire-vials.
"Throw them." Moth orders. "We have to make it look like the Zeds were here."
As Zane begins to toss the fire-vials one-by-one, Moth hurries to the room he left the rest of his crew and their naked Thai prisoner, where he finds Zippy and Oxy Mo stands over the still unconscious Magga.
"The fuck you idiots waiting for?" Moth yells. "We're leaving."
"What about her?" Zippy points to Magga.
"We're taking her with us." Moth answers. "We've just traded up ourselves a new sex slave."
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