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"Haha, you? You scrawny little idiot? You really think you could kill me?"

Max didn't answer. No, he didn't think he could. Not in a fight anyway, this guy would flatten him. The man nodded to his buddy behind Max with a simple "take him and finish him" before strolling off back to Midori, and Max felt as though his heart was sitting in his throat. I'm dead. The man grabbed the back of his neck with one hand and thrust it downwards so the force pushed Max down onto his hands and knees. Ok, that wasn't so bad... the thought popped into his head unexpectedly. He tried to scramble to his feet, but before he could the man's steel-toe boot struck him below the ribs with a well-aimed kick. He grunted and his hands and knees buckled underneath him, and another kick upside the head flopped him over onto his other side with a muffled cry.

The man, satisfied that Max wouldn't be going anywhere soon, turned to rejoin his boss and left Max coughing and gasping for air in the background. He saw his buddy suddenly stumble back with his hands in the air as the woman pointed a gun at him, and stopped abruptly in his tracks too, feeling a sudden stab of panic. That was definitely not according to plan. What was she doing with a gun on her? She couldn't possibly be... his train of thought vanished as his boss then ran up and swatted the gun out of her hand, and he relaxed again and let out a guffaw as the woman was pushed back against the wall, and he forgot about his suspicion. Their boss was at Midori again, his cold hand crawling up and down underneath her shirt while his other hand was trying to undo his belt.

"Max, oh gawd please help me!"

Max rolled over onto his back and caught a glimpse of a black L-shaped object about a foot away from him, and when his vision came into focus he made the object out as a gun. His mind hit a blank... where on earth did that come from? Was it Midori's? But she was way over there...? He then heard her cry out, and forced the pain aside. He got to his knees and picked the gun up, and his eyes fell on the three men, clouding over with a blind hatred. Max slowly got to his feet, a hand still pressed against his stomach, and staggered forward towards them a bit before coming to a standstill. He aimed the gun at the large man pinning Midori to the wall, the man who'd laughed at his threat to kill him. Max cocked the gun and pulled the trigger.