>>6073064With the fans broken, the wind dies down and those flower petals stop whirling around. It's a lot easier to come to grips with the girl this way. Angela finally knocks her down with a solid punch to the jaw, the first really solid hit on her that collapses her frail form to the ground.
"You want her alive?" Angela asks, looking up at Rico.
"She's just a kid," Rico says. Looking down at her now, arrogance turning to pain and fear in her eyes, it seems obvious she didn't understand what she was getting into. "She talks a big game, but she's not a killer."
"Fine by me. Some of the people we let live after we had to kick their ass, they mellowed out afterwards. So far so good, I guess."
Meanwhile, Badger has Ray on the radio calling for a medevac, but Ray doesn't seem interested. "You know that, normally, when you drive a car into a wall, the car stops working, right?" His voice is nonchalant. "My cars cost big bucks, they're not like your dime store Bravados. Don't call me for this ape-brained destruction type of thing. Ask Angela, she loves it. Me? I drive."
"You motherfucker --" Badger squeezes the radio in his hand so hard a panel snaps off and goes flying.
"Relax," Ray says. "I thought this might happen, so I planned for it. Don't count on it happening again, though. This is a one-time bonus."
Somewhere nearby, a truck engine roars.
