I’m driving through Wisconsin I94 going about 85mph when I find the people I’m looking for I had their address but this would be easier to get them to let me in. I get their attention by slamming on the breaks and circling around their car.

The two guys in the car are looking at me like I’m absolutely insane when I finally get beside them. I write my phone number in a notebook and press it against the glass for a few seconds towards them across the car.

They call me as I have to slam on the breaks and duck behind them to not be demolished by a passing semi.

"Who are you?"

"How can you not recognize me? I’m the old Beta!"

"Oh shit! Hey man, we thought you died!"

"Nah man, I went into the military came to visit a few of the guys and girls I consider family while I’m in-between training got my ranger wings and reached whole new levels of fighting. Found out you were in Wisconsin so I decided to visit, hope you don’t mind."

"Damn man, yeah we are in witness protection. We have a trial in two weeks, federal case because we were kidnapped and forced to sell drugs and street race and all kinds of illegal shit."

"I was forced to as well but I was blessed out for good service by Alpha."

"You should come over for dinner there are three more guys at the house."

"It’s 4 am."

"We work nights, and the other guys work randomly I think everyone is off tomorrow and the next day. Dinner is every meal bro."

"I need sleep bro."

"Still gotta show you off make sure everyone knows you’re there."

"That’s cool. That’s cool. How much further? I’m falling asleep."

"We’ll speed up exit is in another 5 miles or so."

"Perfect."

We get to the house on a large property and they walk in first and they ring some kind of iron dinner bell. And people start wandering out of rooms, to include a woman I had never seen before. And everyone takes a seat at the dining room table. Tyrone pipes up, "Who calls us to this meeting, I was just getting my dick sucked by my whore."

I notice the extra woman sitting on the floor next to his chair. "Tyrone, what is wrong with you?"

"You don’t get to judge me, coward, you left right before the shit hit the fan! Now I say again, who calls us to this meeting?"

James speaks up, "I did, old Beta wanted to come visit for a few days, I let him in I just wanted him to be known. Now, Who’s hungry?"

Tyrone says to the woman, "someone just said they were hungry, what are you doing not going to the kitchen?"

"But I have to go to the bathroom first."

"I don’t give a fuck. Go make some waffles! Now bitch. Now. Walk. Go. I’ll just get the taser if you don’t do what I say I don’t give a fuck." She looks like she is going to say something then walks away tearing up and defeated. "I’m sorry you had to see that, usually she listens right away. So Beta, what is your name anyway, we never got to find out what to call you, just that your name was Beta that was your rank and that’s what we were supposed to call you."

The other guys chuckled at that and someone pipes up with the comment, "Oh my god, I remember that! Dude, you were a total badass!"

"Still am, and becoming more so."

Devonte speaks "The Beta that replaced you, she was scary but as a woman, she wasn’t as effective simply put she wasn’t strong enough. I’m so sorry about Jenny by the way. I was with her when she was going to another person; the floor creaked under her and the guy caught onto her real quick because he was on speed and his reaction time was unbelievable, he shot her in the ribs. Then when she still tried to take him he resisted and shot her four more times." He walks over to me and gives me a hug, "I was hoping you two would get legally married, to be honest, the respect and fear of you made it so no one talked to her and we even cock blocked for her even after you left she was faithfully yours. She took a week off and spent it with you, we were so excited, especially when we found out she was pregnant!"

"She was pregnant? Why didn’t I know?"

Martin, "Yes she was. She had her first ultrasound to confirm it and had pictures taken to show you." I look at him and my eyes begin to water, "would you like them, I have them in my room somewhere."

"Yes, please. So I gotta ask about something obvious." He gets up from the table and walks back into his room. "I heard you all became federal informants, what is the case about, how much protection do you all get? I was involved in this too, but I was blessed out. By the way call me Jason, it’s a pleasure to be with you all again."

"Well Jason, welcome to our home. Yes, we became informants because the lowest sentence we were facing was 14 years for cocaine possession and Tyrone was facing life for attempted murder when Jenny couldn’t get money back from a street racer that wouldn’t pay up properly. The street racer survived and told the cops. And picked up him, and found him with us and we all got searched and arrested. And before we realized what was going on we were starting to face RICO charges because some fucker in Arizona has been writing reports on what we got going on since 2006. They offered us information but house arrest, in return for what we knew. In six days was going to be our fourth trial date they keep extending the time."

"Well, I know who the fucker is who has been writing reports on us. I destroyed her mother in 2008 the first time this shit happened, but I didn’t let anyone in the organization know. It’s the same logic as telling someone you are an alien hunter, then when they call you on your shit you ask them if they see them walking the street. Then when they say no, you say you’re welcome. But now I have this to ask you all, which side do you want to be on?" Everyone perks up, but no one says a word to me, "fucking snitches, all of you are fucking punks!"

Devonte rushes me and throws a punch. "I’m not a fucking punk!" I dodge it with ease. And then he throws two more punches and the second one I chop downward throwing him off balance and kick him in the nose. He gets back up dazed and grabs a bat from behind some furniture and swings it at me. I take my swing blades out from the inside of my waistband. I move towards his wrists and quickly as I can, his wrists hit my shoulders and he drops the bat. I stab him in the spine with the right one and slice the back of the neck in-between two vertebrae with the left one in a wide swing going from left to right. He limply falls to the ground bleeding from his back and his neck. I use my steel toe boots to kick him in his temple as hard as I can cracking his skull. I see any intelligent thought leave his face.

Two guys at once start walking to me, "Hey guys do you have any gum?"

"Why do you want gum?"

"I’m here to kill traitors or chew some gum."

They both stop walking as if that confused them beyond logic. Then they continue walking to me cracking their knuckles I can see that they both are reaching for knives on the table that the woman arbitrarily gave while setting the table silently letting us talk about whatever. They grab the knives and hold them in a stabbing motion. They come to me much faster and I go low suddenly and on the ground, I slice their achilli’s tendons and they try to stay standing but fall pretty quickly. When they are still in shock of bleeding and being immobile I quickly slice both of their throats and they quickly stop moving.

Martin who comes out of the room, "I understand what this is. I have been suicidal for a while. May I just shoot myself to make it quick?"

"Yeah go ahead."

He pulls it out from behind himself as I expeditiously go to him closing the gap in the distance. I hold my knife against his throat with just enough pressure to give him the knowledge that I’m serious. He puts the gun against his head and cocks it back, "David can you do me a favor?"

"What’s the favor?"

"Double tap me please."

"I’m not putting my fingerprints on that piece."

"Very well." He pulls the trigger and blood, bone and gray matter covers the room to the left."

Tyrone has his hands up, "I surrender, I surrender."

"Nice try. I’ve seen how you treat women, and I don’t like it. You were going to be the last one I killed no matter what."

"Why though?"

"You don’t know respect for women, and it might be too late for you to use it but I’m going to teach you the lesson. Just one question. How did you get, ’your bitch’?"

"I met her online and she was a runaway and prostitute so when she came here, I decided I was going to keep her since no one would miss her. She deserves everything she got."

"She’s someone’s daughter, sister and possibly mother."

"I don’t give a fuck."

"Well, Mr. I don’t give a fuck. Like I said, this is a lesson, take the gun, give the man his dying wish then you will see if you are better than me, faster than me, smarter than me. That’s your challenge, I’m defending her honor."

"What kind of white-knight bullshit is this?"

"Shut the fuck up and get the gun."

He grabs the gun and fires another hole into his old crew member. When he looks up, I’m already hiding because he now has a gun. He runs into a room and closes the door almost all the way. I learned this trick in the military and I had ideas how to get around it. I’m nowhere near him when I hear, "you won’t get me, David, this is my last stand!"

I go to the kitchen and bathroom unopposed by anyone and I put rags over my face, rubber gloves on my hand and just start mixing all the chemicals together in a big bucket. A visible bubbling and reddish green vapor erupt from it. I close all windows and turn off the heat. I splash all dead bodies with this mix and their skin begins to chemically boil and burn. I get some smaller buckets and fill them with the solution and put them throughout the house. I find the girl in the pantry and I whisper, "get in the blue car the air is now toxic. Do not freeze I will be a while though, just wait."

She walks away and goes out the door quickly, and I follow closely behind, I know exactly which room he’s in, I go in thick bushes under the window and I stay on the ground as low as I can, covering myself with snow as camouflage, turn on an app for my phone designed by the military that acts as a temporary EMP for everything within 30 feet. My adrenaline is the only thing keeping me warm but I wait, I start to hear stifled forced coughing. Which turns into him panicking, and I can hear pacing above me. "Fuck! Mother fucker! Fuck! My phone won’t work!" Finally, I hear dry heaving above me he runs out the closed window he gets caught in the bushes above me. Still wearing rubber gloves that I found I quickly slit his throat to a steady bleed and slice all along his spine and push him back in through the window. I put him back in the dining room with everyone else and dump the chemicals on him as well. As he tries to scream but nothing is coming out.

I quickly run throughout the house and dump the chemicals where evidence of myself can be found and the glass that ended up back in the house I swept up and put it back outside giving the illusion that everything was from inside the house. I walked outside calmly and closed the door behind me.

The girl is waiting in the car shivering and shivering very much. "You are safe now. Call me James it’s not my real name. Where do you want to go, I can’t have witnesses with me very long. I trust you won’t say anything because, well you didn’t stop me, you would be charged with murder as well, and I feel you are smarter than that. Even with your blond hair and skinny body."

"Please turn the car on." I turn it on no problem. "I’m Tabitha, I’m from Appleton, Wisconsin."

I start heading immediately to the freeway,"You ready for this nightmare to end?"

"Yes I am"

"what are we going to do about your sleep? I’m going to need a motel, to be honest."

"Damn you know exactly how to get the girl, I like that."

Next Chapter: Chapter 18: May 25, 2009: L