Previously on AISHA

Aisha attacks the NYPD headquarters and kills every single cop with the exception of Gordon and Anna. After a short conversation with the two, she escapes with the rescued Duke and gives Gordon and Anna a few minutes head start before blowing the place to bits.

CHAPTER 25

'SREECH!!!''  The tires of the speed bike stop right in front of Luigi's warehouse. The Golden sunset envelopes the sky and the warm rays from the dying sun, descend down unto their skins. The wind smells of vengeance and that is all she thinks of at the moment.

Aisha quickly gets off the bike the moment Duke gets off. She stands silent with her eyes fixed on the building as the wind blows loose strands of her silky hair in her face. Duke takes a look at her and he can see hate and anger all over her face.

He begins to wonder whether it's a good idea to bring up the issue of the case now.

"So what are we doing here?" He asks but she does not reply.

"I mean the place looks abandoned and deserted." She still keeps silent. "Please don't tell me we are to spend a night here!" He quickly adds.

A smile suddenly lights up across her face.
"Don't worry. You won't have to spend another minute here once I'm done with him." She says. "This is Luigi's warehouse. And according to info I have, he should be here at this moment."

Duke keeps silent and fixes his eyes on the building.
"If he's here then so are his goons. They are definitely armed." He speaks.

"There is no stopping me. It's now or never." She says as she draws out a katana from throttle of the speed bike and sheaths it in a sheath strapped to her back.
Duke jumps back in sudden fear as the blade flashes across his face.

"How long have you had that?" He asks.
"This bad boy over here?" He's ma soul. " She says with a devilish smirk on her face. "Wait here. Keep the engine running. I'll be back." She says and takes steps closer to the building with two magnums on either sides of her hips, a katana sheathed and strapped to her back and an FN MINIMI machine gun, armed in her hands. On her waist is a belt with grenades and smoke bombs.

Duke watches as the fully armed woman walks slowly towards the building.
"Wait!!! He says as he runs after her.

"You are not thinking of going in there alone are you? You'll get killed!" He questions her.

"Just Incase you've forgotten, I just took our an entire headquarters of the NYPD. I'm pretty sure I can handle it."

She says and tries taking further steps but duke stops her once again.

"Look. This is dangerous. These are thugs, criminals. They are highly on drugs. They are not cops that are perfectly sane. You could get hurt or worse."

" I'll can handle it. And why would you care if I got hurt anyway. Or worse died??" 

" I can't watch you get hurt Aisha, It's really dangerous. Just listen to me for once."

"You heard me the first time. I'll be fine." She says and attempts to leave but she is stopped once again.

" Let me go with you. You're gonna need all the help you can get."

"Why are you doing this? Why are you helping me now?"

" I have a reason to."

"Well what is it? Tell me!!" She asks, looking straight into his eyes. Silence fills the air and Duke looks away to evade her glittering eyes.

"Never mind." He says in a low soft tone. "But I am going with you." He says. "And you have to deal with it."

"Deal with it? I got no problem. Only if you don't get yourself killed." She scoffs.

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The sound of wailing Ambulances and cop cars fill his ears as he wipes his ash covered face with the back of his sleeves. The smoke from the explosion wraps up the sky, blocking the suns rays from reaching the ground. Anna walks up to him and offers him a drink. He takes it and takes heavy gulps of it down his throat.

He sighs deeply after drinking half the bottle and looks up to Anna's face.
She squeezes her face to what somewhat looks like a frown.

"We should've taken him out long ago when we had the chance. Now he has really crossed the line." He says.

"You're still pinning this whole thing on him Gordon?" Anna questions in amazement.

"You're still defending him, after all this?? He questions back. 

"Gordon he has no hand in this and you know it.  Haven't you put him through enough. He was right there in that cell when everything happened. And..."

"...And yet he's gone with her isn't he?" He asks in a grumpy voice. Anna remains silent to the supposed rhetorical question.

"Now it's time you kept in your head, that he is no longer innocent. Look around you." He says pointing to the ruins. "All this is because of him. He no longer deserves to be imprisoned. He's just as dangerous as she is. And you know what we do to prosper of that caliber?" He asks in a soft tone. Almost a whisper.

"...we kill them. That's right. We wipe out their race from the surface of the earth. So there will not be any trace of their bloodline ever in the age of men."

"And we are going to do that, with or without your help." He completes his sentence and looks away from her with a look of pure hatred.

Anna's heart aches as the words from Gordon pierces her chest like spears.
She lifts up her eyes to look at Gordon, makes an attempt to speak and decides to remain silent.

Silence feels the air around them and the wailing of police vehicles, fire fighter trucks and Ambulances takes dominance over all others.

"You're wrong. You always have been. If there is anyone dangerous around here, it's you. Soon you are going to create a monster that is going to be immune to all your attacks. And by the time you realize what you've done, it's going to be too late to fix it." With this, she leaves his presence.

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The air blows the loose strand of hair in her face as they kneel on the roof, right above their target. It's a perfect drop down assassination from here. But she can't risk landing right in the middle of all these goons with guns. Duke kneels right next to her with a pistol in hand, looking down through the glass roof.

"So what's the plan?" He asks.

"We can't drop in from here. It'll be too easy but Weil be dead even before we could move an inch with all those goons walking around. It'll be our doom."

"So what do you suggest we do?" He asks again.

"We need a distraction!" She says, looking right at duke.

"No no no no no!! There is no way I'm getting down there.

"Cmon. Don't be such a baby. I need you to make a delivery for me. Now which package is to use." She says as she looks around for anything to use as a disguise.

"Aha!!" She exclaims. A few meters away and closing, a pizza delivery guy approaches the warehouse. Obviously he's making a delivery to them.

"See? Even God wants me to kill him." She says to Duke and descends down the building.

As the delivery guy gets closer, Aisha intercepts him and knocks him out cold with a single punch to the jaw and drags his body into a corner. Duke looks at her with opened wide opened eyes as she undresses him.

"Quick! put it them on!" She commands him.

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BAM BAM BAM!!!
Heavy knocks are heard on the wooden door that serves as entrance, into the warehouse. Luigi turns away from the drugs and signals for two of his boys to check it out.

Duke stands behind the door dressed in the pizza delivery attire, waiting for it to be opened.
Cluck!! It sounds as the door opens with two grumpy looking guys standing behind it. 

"Pizza delivery." Duke says

"Is it the usual?" the thug asks.

"Yeah.......the usual." He says.

"Bring it in!" They command him. He enters the building and drops the box of pizza on the table right in the middle of the room.

As he turns to leave, he is stopped by one  of the guys who comes close to his face. Duke holds his breath in reaction to how much his breath reeks.

"You don't want your money?" The thug asks.

"It's on the house." He replies. He turns to leave but is stopped once again.

"You don't leave till we tell you to...wait a minute." He says upon noticing duke.

"You ain't the usual guy??" He says out loud, taking the cap off his head.

"I know you? You're that cop from the tv. The one moving with the she gangster." He says, drawing the attention of the others. Duke's heart sinks into his stomach as he gets ready for his end. Surely there is no way he could survive a minute in this mess. He was surely done for.

"So what do we do with ya?" One thug says, brushing his hands through his dried short and messy hair.

"I'm pretty sure that ain't pizza either. Probably some camera you're hiding in there. Ain't that right?"

"You!! Check it out." He orders another thug with a blue shirt and black jeans, carrying an AK47.   He moves over to the pizza box, grabs it and shakes it for content. He then places it back on the table and slowly opens it. His eyes widen in shock and fear as the timer goes 4........3.......2......
"BOMB!!!"  He shouts out on top of his voice right before the countdown reaches........1.

Duke quickly releases himself from the thugs and dives for safety right before the bomb goes KABOOOM!!! The building shakes and the entire place lights up in flames.

Duke gets to his feet and his head begins to spin. He can feel a sharp pain right behind his left ear. He touches it and upon bringing his hands into visual, finds stains of blood on it.

Everyone else seems to have been killed or at least knocked out by the explosion. But that is only a percentage of them.  The real deal is yet to come. 

Just then duke hears sounds of footsteps and shouts coming towards the area. He quickly takes out his pistol and finds cover behind one crate full of drugs.

The sound of running footsteps come closer and closer till they finally show their faces. About a fifty men armed with heavy guns emerge out of the already burnt doorway that leads to the area.

"Search the place." Their leader says. "You heard Luigi. Kill anyone on sight!" He continues.

Hearing these words causes his heartbeat to increase twice the normal.
He swallows his saliva as footsteps approach the area at which he hides.

He closes his eyes, holds on firmly to his gun and just as he thinks of releasing fire, Aisha drops down from the roof unto a crate with a mighty KPLINSH!!!  as the glass rains down with her. The rage inside her doesn't allow her feel the pain of dropping from a point that high.

The very moment her feet touch the wooden crate, she releases fire on the squad right in front of her and about seven of them drop lifelessly to the ground.

The rest quickly take cover behind other crates, ready to fire back but she doesn't give them that chance.

She takes out one grenade, arms it and throws it behind one crate. BOOM!! the deafening sound echoes as hot flames of gas consume everything it touches. She quickly runs over to where duke hides and taps him on the shoulder. Duke jerks up in fear, ready to fire but she is able to stop him in time before he pulls the trigger.

"Hey it's me." She says with a smile. Duke sighs with relief and smiles back.
"I thought you had left me to my fate." He says.

"I could. But I couldn't let you have all the fun." At this time, a few of the thugs have come out of cover, pointing their guns in all directions, unaware of her current position.

"Now are you ready to kick some ass?" She asks with a smirk. Duke replies the smirk and on the count of three, they both come out and release fire on the unexpecting thugs as they fall to the ground in heaps.

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