When the grenades detonated, Carter and Baby Chris fired and hit their targets with shots to the head and chest. Disoriented by the sudden flash of light and loud noise, two men drew their weapons and opened fire blindly as they ran toward the street. They were met by Rain and Jackie, who killed them as they ran.
While the other two opened fire, Carter and Baby Chris took cover and returned their fire. Carter fired and hit him with three shots to the chest, then he laid down cover fire, while Baby Chris fired and killed the other man.
Two more men came out of the building firing with Ak47s and forced Carter and Baby Chris to take cover. Rain shot one as she moved for cover. With one shooter remaining, Jackie fired and hit him with three shots before she moved to cover just in case more came out of the building. When none did, the four came out from cover and left the courtyard as quickly as possible.
“Where to now,” Rain asked when she got in the car.
“Barnes is up next,” Baby Chris said and told Jackie where to go.
That afternoon, Barnes and Hawkins were on their way to one of their spots that was ran by a man called Bump. It was his people that ran the drive-by that killed Doc the night before and he had been told that Mobley was going to hit Cuisine.
With all that happening in one day, Barnes was advised that Black and Rain would bust back, and he needed to make sure that he protected his spots from what was sure to come.
“Them niggas is comin’, trust me. Maybe not today, maybe not t
omorrow, but them niggas is coming, and we need to be ready for them,” Barnes said as they arrived at Bump’s spot.
Coincidentally, that was the same place that Baby Chris had identified as Barnes best earning spot and that’s where he, Rain, Carter, and Jackie were heading at that very moment.
After they arrived, Hawkins told Barnes that he had to make a run and would be back for him in a half hour. Barnes got out of the car, walked toward the house, and spoke with the men out front. Then he went up the stairs to the house and was allowed inside by one of Bump’s men.
“Bump here?”
“Upstairs.”
Barnes went upstairs thinking that he didn’t trust all of the advice that he’d been getting, and there were times when he didn’t see how the moves he was making would benefit him, but he believed that in the long run all the moves he was making would put him on top of the game and that was all that really mattered.
Right?
When Rain arrived at the spot with Carter, Jackie and Baby Chris, they parked around the corner, everybody armed themselves and Rain got some C-4 and some grenades. “You gonna blow the place?” Jackie asked.
“Right after we kill everybody,” Rain replied and handed Jackie a couple of grenades. “Concussion and fragmentation.”
Now that her team was armed and ready to rock, they rounded the corner and were fired upon as soon as they came around the corner. Both Rain and Jackie tossed their M67 fragmentation grenades as Carter and Baby Chris returned fire and advanced toward the house.
Barnes hadn’t been upstairs with Bump and two of his men for very long when they heard the shooting and then the explosion. Barnes armed himself.
“Fuck is y’all waitin’ for. Go get them niggas,” he ordered.
When Bump and his men left, Barnes thought about making it out of the house and getting away from there. He armed himself and started to make his way out of the room slowly.
Meanwhile, Carter and Rain were getting close to the house. Carter stood up firing and Rain ran to the house. Once she made it and was set, she covered, while Carter ran toward the house. When he made it to her, Carter kicked in the door and Rain tossed a couple of concussion grenades in.
Once they detonated, they went inside the house firing at the disoriented men. When Jackie and Baby Chris followed them in, he had dive on the floor as the men opened fire while seeking better cover. Baby Chris returned fire while lying on the ground. He made it to his feet, and they exchanged fire. The man ran down the hall and Baby Chris shot him as he ran.
Jackie moved down the hall stopping in each room and firing on anybody she saw. There was a man hiding in the closet when Jackie came in the room. The man came out, fired once and missed. When Jackie raised her weapon and returned fire, the man took cover and shot back at her. Jackie fired again and put him down with two to the chest.
While Jackie and Baby Chris shot it out with Bump's men, Carter and Rain moved through the house killing everybody as Rain planted explosives. She approached the staircase and saw Barnes coming down. He fired a couple of shots at her and ran back up the steps.
“Got you, mutha fucka!”
Rain stopped at the bottom of the stairs, fired back and then she went up after him.
When she reached the top of the stairs, Barnes stopped, turned, and fired at Rain. She ducked behind a wall and fired back. Barnes ran in a room, made it out the window, made it down the fire escape and ran as fast as he could away from there.
When Rain got to the room, she was about to go in after Barnes, but Bump began firing wildly at her and Rain ran for cover. Carter came charging up the stairs and fired at Bump from the other direction. When Bump turned to return fire at Carter, Rain stepped out and fired at him. She hit Bump with three shots, and he went down. Rain and Carter both stood over the body. Carter shot him twice in the head.
“That’s for Doc,” Carter said, and Rain put two in his chest as Jackie and Baby Chris came up the stairs.