5I do not own the characters. except for The General.
What if Rock was attacked found out he had an ability other than his intelligence and to survive trained the decided to Carry a gun for protection.
It was a simple job all they had to do was pick up a few crates of 'machining equipment' and deliver them. Though this job did not came from Balalika or Chang it came from an unknown party.
The crew of The Black Lagoon were anchored near the agreed meeting place.
Revy"this is gonna be easy money and they gonna pay double what we usually get."
Dutch" I sure hope this is straight, I don't want any complications so Rock I want you up front and talk to them clearly state the terms that they are to give us half on pick up and half on delivery if they renege you are to convince them otherwise and of course Revy I'll want you on point in case they start blasting but that should be no problem as we are only picking up the crates not delivering them yet."
Revy "fuck negotiation they don't pay they die" as she finishes loading her last spare magazine and puts it in her pocket.
Dutch"Revy do what I say and I won't dock your pay"
Revy"Fine,have it your way "
She mumbles"asshole"
Rock then climbed up to the outside of the boat and had a smoke on the bow.
They soon arrived at their destination. Awaiting them were four heavily armed men with Kalashnikovs behind them were looked like mercenaries more than they did arms soon arrived at their destination.
Dutch stayed in the boat with the engine still running ready in case everything went to shit.
Revy and Rock walked up to the four men
Rock "Good afternoon gentlemen if you don't mind your boss hired us to deliver these crates."
One of the armed men "you are Rockuro Okujima am I correct."
Rock"yeah "
The same guy "not much to look at are you, boys let's complete the mission."
At that very moment Rock saw their muscles tense and dodged out of the way and jumped on the boat hiding behind the Cabin all four opened fire.
Revy opened fire and jumped on the boat too providing cover fire, the soldiers jumped to behind the boxes as cover then fired in single shots in Revy's direction yet still not hitting her even though she was out in the open. They then ceased firing as the boat took off, a seconds later after the boat was speeding away the soldiers jumped in a small boat with an engine and followed but not firing. As Rock was about to enter the Cabin hatch, he felt excruciating pain then heard
BOOOM
And he fell off the bow into the water turning it red, the soldiers restarted shooting in single shots at the boat forcing Revy to stay behind her cover and shoot blindly.
She hears the boom of a big gun
Revy looks at where Rock should have been but then notices the pool of red water getting further away.
" shit Rock got hit and by a 50 BMG round.
Dutch Rocks fallen overboard and got shot we have to pick him up."
Dutch "Fuck me we can't we are loosing fuel the bastards put a hole in the fuel tank. we need to make a straight shot to the nearest fuel depot and make repairs" we can't turn around as well as it is barely responding they must have shot the linkages for the rudder, I can only move 10degrees either side and this river is not wide enough we would crash, and we can't slow down or we will be sitting ducks just who the fuck are these guys."
Revy"Fuuuuck you assholes" as she starts blasting back in their direction again.
The boat chasing them slows down when they reach the blood pool one of the soldiers takes a picture with an old Polaroid camera. In the distance a flash is seen but they still keep shooting at the boat.
The soldier that took the picture "damn seems a shame but that's the order the Cap... I mean The General gave us, how can this weak shit be dangerous I didn't even see a gun on him"
Rock was bobbing up and down in the water he could hear the conversation as he pretended to be dead.
The Mercenaries then drove the boat back wards towards the port They had come from. Rock waited until they were out of sight.
Rock was still bobbing in the river then some thing hurt, he opened his eyes and oh god he felt his whole body was in pain he looked to his left side and saw that his left collar bone was shattered the bullet had missed his heart at the last second he must have moved down towards the hatch causing the bullet to miss its target but there was a more painful area his right hand, he looked at it, oh shit piranhas he brought his hand to his mouth and crunched in the fish, he then quickly used both his good arm and his legs to swim ashore as fast as possible. The pain was FUCKING EXCRUCIATING it was self imposed torture. When he finally got to shore he looked at his shoulder where he saw the huge hole that was too close to his heart in detail and thanks to his swimming plus the gunshot was bleeding profusely, before fainting he quickly tore up his shirt with his one good hand and teeth made balls then a tourniquet then put the balls on either end of his wound then wrapped the tourniquet around with his tie. He looked around the men were gone and he was barely conscious if he blacked out now it wouldn't matter he would not loose any more blood.
Rock grabbed a couple of rocks that were the same and were solid blue then gathered leaves and sticks and bark, the bark he scrunched it up with his teeth and one good hand until it was fibrous and became tinder. He put the tinder next to one of the rocks then grabbed the other one and started striking it, after a few hundred tries he finally created a spark that set fire to the tinder.
He then blew on it made it bigger then added the leaves and sticks he then waited until the fire was really hot, he grabbed a long thick stick dipped it in the river then poked at the fire with it until he found the rock he then carefully knocked the rock away then he found a green leaf and dipped that in the water as well.
Rock then removed the tourniquet and balls then with the wet leaf in his right hand grabbed the hot rock and pressed it against his open wound cauterising it on both he put back the balls now with the blood side facing away from the wound and rewrapped the tourniquet.
Rock in his mind 'Holy shit I am alive, Who the fuck were they? Easy Mercenaries who hired them, the General, who is this General, they were about to say Captain I hope that it's not Balalika, who ever she or he is that bastard will pay and according to this General I am dead and it needs to stay that way until I get back.
Holy fuck I got shot and bad I nearly fucking died , fuck what do I do now, first things first need to get food, to do that I'll make a wood spear with sharp rocks then soak any meat I kill in the river to salt preserve it. Then I will have to use the stars to navigate back to to top it all off I left my cigarette stacking the boat and I just smoked the last one fuck, wait I might have a couple of loose ones in my shirt pocket, oh wait my shirt is my tourniquet and my lighter ran out of gas so I just threw it out. I could have used the flint to start the fire much more easily than slamming one rock into another. Looks like I will have to quit smoking cold turkey if I want to survive.'
Back to the black lagoon
Revy"what happened to leave no man behind Dutch."
Dutch"we will find him as soon as we get to the nearest boat repair shop I've already hired a boat via phone because the ship needs a long time to repair when we get to the dock we will get on the hired boat and collect Rock."
Revy"fine"
A few hours later
Rock had destroyed the fire just in case the mercenaries came back and dug a hole in the sand and put all the fire pieces in there then covered it up and used palm leaves to cover all evidence that he was there , if he sees Dutch and the lagoon he will shout out.
'Wait they think I'm dead but will come and pick me up any way but if those mercenaries were any thing to go by they were fairly meticulous, they didn't bother shooting me because they thought I was dead hell I had a fucking huge hole that was close to my heart I should be dead but wasn't. "
Then he heard a strange boat coming on it were four silhouettes, he saw one of them turn their head in his direction. Then he did something almost unconsciously he spread his energy from his core evenly towards every part of his body,the soldier then shrugged his shoulders and looked ahead.
'What the hell was that what the fuck did I just do this is some
dragonball z shit, hiding energy should be fantasy but yet I just some how did it, let's do that again then try some thing else then. "
He then pushed the energy from his core outwards evenly again reducing his energy except this time it hurt.
He then searched his core with his mind and now he found that the energy was swirling in his core he could feel the energy his body was creating.
'Holy shit I can feel my fucking energy I wonder'
He then closes his eyes and concentrates on his energy then he slowly started searching around him with his mind and then he sensed them, he sensed the soldiers on the boat each one of them had energies that were like a raging wildfire to his flickering flame.
'Holy shit I can sense energy and damn they are strong,are Revy and Dutch like that as well?.
Well since I can do all that I might as well try a ki blast.'
He concentrated on the energy in his core he slowly drew out energy and moved it up then down his right arm into the centre of his palm he then tried to hold the energy there while he tried to pull more energy from his core he kept doing it until his palm felt like it was too hot, he tried to push the energy out of his palm and tried to burn a leaf. Nothing happened at all there was no ball of ki only a hot hand.
"Ki blasts bullshit out of all the things in dragon ball z that are usefull in combat that just sucks. I can reduce ki level and sense ki it seems in the real world ki blasts are just that fantasy, oh well being able to move energy round my body could be useful on cold days I can warm my back or hands, sensing energy is really useful as I can sense people where they are before I can see them,I could probably sense them through walls, reducing ki seems less useful it seems it is only good for hiding from those who can sense energy like those mercenaries I'm sure one of them sensed me before I hid my ki, that was why he shrugged, he thought I was an animal who ran out of his sensing area.'
'I can't let Revy and Dutch find me yet I need to go into hiding I need this General to think I'm dead this guy went over board and hired mercs to kill me that means he knows that If he failed to kill me I would find him and manipulate people into killing him. I need learn to protect myself I no longer have Revy too bad I never had the balls to make my move on her may be we could have had something then she would have protected me better, maybe I should get a gun and learn to use it until I can shoot what were they called oh yeah clay pigeons out of the air like that time I translated for a gun enthusiast client once, I'll get back to Roanapur then buy one as well as a clay pigeon launcher, I've got a couple of thousand in American cash in my hidden internal pocket for emergencies like extra fuel for the boat or to bribe a cop to smooth things over for Revy. So first things first follow the stars back to Roanapur and hunt along the way. '
To the crew
Revy, Dutch and the boat owner were heading fast to the spot where Rock got shot but when they arrived there was nothing they steered the boat to a sandy beach where rock could have swam across if he was still alive but there were no footprints no blood but there was a blue rock on the beach but no one took interest in it.
They continued down to where the pool of blood used to be in the water, Dutch dove down and looked for Rocks corpse but found nothing not even a crushed piranha. Revy looked at both sides of the river hoping to see him but there was nothing, she was hoping to find an unconscious rock with a flesh wound but knew deep down that he must be dead. When Dutch came back up. " let's keep looking at all the snag points along the river may be we find him." Dutch said hopefully
They searched the entire river up and down for a week but found nothing.
Meanwhile after a day of walking Rock had found a tiny jetty there was a sloop there, so Rock took it and used the stars to navigate back to Roanipur, he figured it would take him a week. The sloop was pretty easy to use it had a sail and a rudder turn the rudder the exact opposite way you want to go and boom sailing a sloop.
