"If you're in the area, I think I have an idea to have some fun ;)" I sent a text to Alex as we crossed the border into Arizona, we made a pitstop in New Mexico and had almost half of their police force chasing us.
"PULL OVER NOW, YOU'RE GOING TO PRISON FOR A LONG TIME, BUDDY!!" The sheriff, I could only assume, yelled over the megaphone, I had two things I could do and both of them were fun, I just didn't know which one I wanted to do.
"Hey, Jack, heads or tails?"
"Heads, why?" He said and I turned around, flipped off the cops, before cupping my hands around my mouth like a megaphone.
"NAH!! I WOULD RATHER NOT!" I yelled at the cops, they were still following us, so that didn't work. I felt my phone buzz in my jeans and pulled it out seeing that it was a call from Alex, so I held up one finger at the cops in a 'Hang on one-second sort of manner and answered the call.
"You've reached Satan's parlor, this is Jake, how can I be of service?"
"I can think of a few ways, but first tell me, why are you driving through Arizona with a line of cop cars chasing you?"
"I don't know, seemed like a good idea at the time, wanna have some fun?"
"Depends on your meaning of fun, Jakey."
"I don't get it..." I said and heard her sigh and at that point, the cops thought now would be the perfect time to start shooting. One of their shots ricocheted off the cage, so I just kept taunting them at their poor aim.
"I mean, is your definition of fun: Blowing shit up and killing people, or blowing someone and pleasing them?"
"Depends, but right now it's definitely more of the blowing shit up variety, if you don't want to that's fine, I'm just kinda bored and about to start shooting back," I said and she hung up on me, 'Sigh' I thought and turned the gun towards the cops. I thought I saw the sheriff say 'oh shit' before I pulled the trigger and unloaded a couple of hundred rounds into his car. That's when I heard it, howling, I looked around and when I was looking at the car I thought I saw Jack shiver 'This is gonna be fun.
"Jack! You want a turn?!" I yelled as I continued shooting at the cops, popping some of their tires or causing their cars to outright break down.
"YEAH! LEMME IN THERE," He yelled, and I jumped off the truck and shifted on my way to the ground, when I landed I was on all fours and my fur was ablaze. I howled and smirked when I heard it back, I turned to my side and saw Ashley also shift and Miguel beside her. I sprinted towards the area where all the cops were, any that weren't dead because of Jack's gunfire, was sprinting to regroup, only to be mauled by either Miguel or someone from Alex's pack. The sheriff had somehow survived being shot at by myself and Jack and was limping away from the gunfire, so I ran around the cops and head-butted him so hard that he fell onto the ground, leaving him defenseless to my razor-sharp jaws. After a bit of fighting, a white van pulled up and parked next to the car Jack was in, and out stepped a bald man in a black suit with twenty or so guys behind him, all armed. 'This is interesting' I thought as I shifted back, Alex, Miguel, Ashley, Mark, and Dylan joining me.
"Thank you for helping us with these meddlesome cops, I would like to compensate you for doing so," The bald man said and beckoned two of his men forward, who stepped up and displayed two briefcases full of cash, which didn't faze me in the slightest, the amount wasn't even enough to pay for our car. He looked over at Alex, who was glaring daggers at him, then at me, I didn't know what to do in this situation.
"I don't need cash."
"There's no such thing as too much money, but I'll give you some additional things if you give me my land back," He said and beckoned another two men, who unloaded a steamer trunk from the van and opened it in front of me. Inside there were enough cans of Lucifer's cola and bullets to satisfy me for several years, my eyes widened and both himself and Alex must've seen it because he chuckled and Alex clenched her fists.
"All you have to do is convince your friend here to give me back my territory, and this, and quite possibly more, is all yours."
"Ummm-"
"Give us a minute to discuss this," Ashley and Alex said, almost simultaneously, surprising myself and the bald guy, but what surprised me more was when Alex grabbed me by the back of my neck and pulled me in the opposite direction. She kept pulling until we were behind our car, and then pinned me against it, choking me hard. I needed to get out of her grasp, so I tried the one thing I knew would work.
"Harder, Daddy!" I fake moaned, and she let go, not looking disgusted nor angry, but I couldn't tell what it was. Ashley helped me up and Alex smirked at me, they both looked over to the van and the bald guy was talking with Miguel about something.
"Jake, you can't give him Alex's territory, no amount of Lucifer's cola would make that right."
"Okay, one: why would I do it when I could just make my own? Two: Who is that guy? and Three, and I cannot emphasize this enough: Alex, if you fuckin choke me again I will cut you out of my life forever, and you ain't going on the heist," I said, she mumbled something and Ashley laughed, but I didn't care enough to ask what she had said, I'll ask Ashley later.
"As for your question, that's the alpha of the other major pack in Arizona, known ganglord and kingpin Jason D Berry," She said, and that did it, I couldn't take her seriously anymore, there was no way that a kingpin was named D Berry.
"D Berry!? Like Dingleberry??" I said, laughing and hugging my stomach, it was way too funny to take her seriously at all, and it seemed Ashley agreed with me, judging off the laughter she was letting out.
"Yes, listen just say no, and I'll help you get your own cola."
"I don't care about the cola, I'll say no, just tell me what you told Ash."
"I'll tell you and Jack at the same time later, let's get this guy out of here first," She said and we walked over to where James was waiting, he greeted us with a smirk, and now I understood why Alex hated him, he had an aura of confidence that was borderline arrogance.
"Made your decision?"
"Yep."
"So, what is it? Territory for your friend or the crate?"
"Option C, both," I said, and snapped my fingers, Alex, and Ashley ducked with me and Jack unloaded a couple of hundred silver rounds into his chest, only hitting him twice, somehow, but it was enough to make him scream out in unbearable pain. Jack climbed out of the truck and walked over to where we were now standing and helped me load the steamer trunk into the back of our truck, before walking back over to where Alexandria had James is one hell of a chokehold.
"Let go of me, you stupid whore!" He said, and that got my blood boiling, no-one calls my friend a whore except me...future potential mates also apply to that, Jack must've gotten the message, because he grabbed Jason from Alex's grip and slammed his head against the van's door. From the cringe-worthy crack that came from Jason's body, Jack either killed the guy or crushed part of his skull, I didn't really care too much which it was because I was too busy trying to guess what Alex had told Ash.
"Thank you, but I had him."
"No-one insults our friends...or family...or allies that we worked with that one time," Jack said, and I nodded my head in agreement, for about two seconds, the steamer trunk full of Lucifer's cola was alluring and I was losing my self-control. So I ran to the car and grabbed six ice-cold bottles of Lucifer's cola, and brought them back over, giving one to everyone, and two to myself. A round of applause ensued and we all started drinking and talking about what we would do about Jason's pack, Alex said she had an idea, which reminded me of something.
"Alex, you've been making me wait, now Jack is here. Tell us what you told Ash," I said, and Alex explained what she did up until to point I told her to stop choking me.
"So, I turned to Ashley, and whispered in her ear 'That's not what he'll be saying in a few days," She said, making me and Jack blush so much that our hair went ablaze, luckily, Jack always knew what to do in these kinds of scenarios.
"Fuck this shit I'm out~," He sang and started walking to the car, ignoring the blush on his face, I followed him and ignored the laughter behind me, "I did not expect that, and we're not gonna hear the end of this shit."
"You'll be fine," I said and grabbed another cola for myself, trying to ignore Alex's comment, Jack and I both liked choking, so her saying that, whether she knew that or not, was about as embarrassing as running through a mall naked. Unless you're Stewie Griffin, then you just run around screaming that you've escaped from Kevin Spacey's basement.
"Shit! We gotta get home, dude!"
"What for?"
"'What for?!?!' What do you mean 'what for'?? The heist is tomorrow!" Jack yelled, and my eyes widened, the realization that he was right and that we were in Arizona hit me like Big Rig speeding down the highway. I got inside the truck and honked the horn to get Ash and Miguel's attention, and Jack yelled it was time to go, and they ran to the truck. Alex walked over and asked if she could come with me as Miguel and Ash got in the back, I was a far better driver than Miguel and he knew I could get us home in twelve hours instead of the usual fifteen.
"You wanna lend us a hand with the heist?"
"Yeah, sounds like fun."
"Get in, we gotta get going, now," I said and she got in after calling Dylan and Mark to head back home, this was gonna be a close call getting home.