-Drug Facility, east warehouse-

Gengis, A lowlife crook sat in his chair, smoke billowing out from his mouth and cigar. A wide grin spread on his face. Just thinking of the very thought of the LEP struggling to find them was soothing. He watched with glee as his dwarven slaves were at work. They shoveled out the white powder, put it on the scale, then took out little plastic bags and poured in the powder from a small teaspoon. They would place the bags into cardboard boxes, tape it up, and ship it out to other gangs spread out into the other hidden factions to seperate points of Haven City.

When the boxes reach the gangs they unpack it and sell to the other faires that would soon become a fallen victim to their drug. Gengis was proud to be put up at the top of the list of most wanted public enemies. He would make a point in history for unleashing the biggest crimewave against Haven.

He smiled thinking of the downfall of the city. Soon. Very soon, Haven will fall into destruction. The citys’ time has come… 

*** 

-Police Plaza, The Lower Elements-

After the mess from the shoot out at the burger joint was cleaned up, the troops were called back to the LEP HQ and was ordered to await for Holly to give out commands.

“Alright, move out!” Holly commanded. The troops moved swiftley toward the shuttles and flew toward the east warehouse.

***

-Drug Facility, east warehouse-

“Gengis, one of our men spotted several crafts in the air heading our way.” the dwarf scout said.

Gengis crushed his cigar under his boot. “So they finally found us, aye? Station your men near the doors. We pack up and move over to the northern point of the city and meet up with our other faction. When you’ve taken care of these pesky LEP fellows, report back to me, got it?”

“Yes sir!”

***

The shuttle landed and the LEP troops marched toward the double doors. The LEP trooper knocked on the door with the butt of his concussioned disrupter rifle.

“This is the LEP, come out with your hands up!”

When no reply came, he repeated himself. “I said come out with your hands up, now!”

The dwarven gunman stuck his eye through the peephole.  “We’re on the other side of the door ya’ minget! Hows ’bout ya’ reconsider and try to get in?!”

“We’ll give you ten seconds to come out! Ten… nine… eight… seven…”

No one came out.

“… six… five…”

The troops took out a four foot steel battering ram from the back of the shuttle and readied it in front of the double doors.

“… four… three… two… one!”

They then took hold of the side handles and swung it toward the doors. The doors fell down with a large dent in the center of it.

Just then, a bullet came out of the darkness, through the air, and punctured straight through a troop’s vest. Blood trickled from the wound.

A troop took shelter behind a dumpster and out of the range of fire. He started to contact the LEP through his talkie.  

“Get a group of major warlocks down in the east warehouse, now!”

Billy, one of the LEP’s best sharp shooters, took cover behind a metal crate, bullets and disruptive lasers flew above him, just nearly two feet away from skimming his hair. He unhooked the mag from his gun and filled it up with bullets.

He stood up, fired at a dwarven gunman near the staircase, and in a single second, three rounds found their mark on his chest.

Billy unholstered another gun, cocked, and reloaded, he ran toward another nearby crate, both guns pointed toward another group of gunmen. He fired five rounds from both weapons. In a matter of seconds, each of them were down. Blood soaked the ground from which the wounded bodies lay.

Lyen, Gengis’ right hand man, noticed the corruption that the LEP officer was making. He then took out a mudman weapon. One of their special and prized ones too. A shotgun.

Billy dived behind the crate just in time when a number of bullets hit and cracked the ground where he just was.

Lyen smirked. “Hmph, ya’ just got lucky, kid.”

He looked around to see that most of his men were down.

“Fall back!” Lyen hollered.

The rest of his dwarven men scurried back up the stairs and toward their shuttle. Lyen started up the steps, then hesitated, and looked back at Billy.

“We’ll meet again, hotshot.”

Lyen followed his men back to the shuttle. Billy attempted to run after him.

Just as he reached the roof, the shuttle was in the air and flying away. He shot at the hull of the shuttle, cracking the glass and putting a few holes through the metal.

One of the dwarves rolled down the window, a disruptive rifle in his hands. Billy dived behind a vent just in time when disruptive lasers hit the top, melting a few spots on the metal.

“D’Arvit!” Billy cursed. He saw the mocking smile on Lyens face in the window.

“We’ll meet again.” Billy muttered under his breath.

Some other stories by Dwarf Man:

• You Choose
• Chronicles of Artemis
• I'm Back & Starting Fresh
• I Walk Alone
• Wake Me Up When September Ends

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