They arrive with dusk approaching and park just outside the docks, Alonzo turns off his car and sighs.
"now we wait until night time, when the shipment arrives."
Fernando spots an armed guard holding an uzi at the gated entrance of the port dock.
"they aren't even trying to hide that they are protecting something."
Alonzo takes out a cigarette and asks.
"mind if I smoke?"
Fernando replies.
"no, but let's roll down the windows though."
Alonzo then makes a comment to what Fernando stated.
"well if you got the city's cops in your pocket, there is no point in hiding."
after taking a puff.
"yeah, and that is why I'm glad I get to knock the Sabatoni family down a peg or two."
he then looks at Fernando.
"no offense."
Fernando responds.
"you already know I'm not a Sabatoni."
Alonzo then points at the glove compartment and said with cigarette in his mouth.
"Nando, open that will ya, there should be two tactical knives that I bought the other day for the two of and a pair binoculars."
Fernando grabs the binoculars first and hands over to Alonzo.
"you trying to see if you can spot any more armed personnel?"
he replies.
"exactly my friend."
he then grabs one of the tactical knives and gives it to Alonzo.
"have you killed with a knife before?"
Alonzo answers.
"I've killed plenty, before."
Fernando replies.
"that wasn't my question."
Alonzo exhales smoke and responds.
"no, I've never had to shank anyone, so no I haven't killed with a knife before."
Alonzo looks through the binoculars, while Fernando goes on.
"it's nothing like using a gun, you are up close to them and having to drive a knife into someone's flesh, feels strange."
Alonzo asks.
"did you like it when you did it?"
Fernando sighs.
"when I did it, it was out of anger, and it felt so euphoric, that I felt like stabbing multiple times."
he pauses and continues.
"afterwards the guilt crept it, and it was eating me alive."
not knowing how to respond to that, Alonzo takes another puff of his cigarette and said after blowing out smoke.
"I'll keep that in mind."
Alonzo continues looking through his binoculars and chuckles when he spots another armed guard.
"found another one."
Fernando ask.
"where at?"
Alonzo points at one of the container cranes.
"the fucker is up there."
Fernando then said.
"we'll have to take him out first, since he has a good vantage point."
Alonzo replies, puffing on his cigarette.
"I'll do it, since I'm smaller compared to you, I can climb up there faster and not get caught."
as they formulate a plan of attack, night time slowly creeps up on them, Fernando takes a deep breath and asks Alonzo.
"you ready to go?"
Alonzo answers as he exits his vehicle, filled with determination.
"I was born ready."
Fernando stands next to Alonzo and said.
"we are going to walk by the guy guarding the entrance and then you'll ask him if he has a lighter for your cigarette."
Alonzo asks.
"why would I ask him that?"
Fernando answers.
"because once you get his attention, I'm going to take him out."
they walk across the street, and begin to slowly walk across the armed guard pretending to have a conversation, until Alonzo stops and turns towards the guard and asks while holding his cigarette.
"yo, you don't happen to have light?"
in that brief moment of distraction, Fernando steps to the side and quickly covers the guard's mouth and sinks the tactical knife that Alonzo gave him, right into his neck multiple times, until he goes limp, he then positions himself better and said to Alonzo while putting him in a full neslon hold.
"grab his legs we need to hide the body."
Alonzo grabs his legs and they carry him inside the first open container they see, Alonzo grins.
"holy shit, Nando that was fucking ice cold."
Fernando whispers to him.
"keep your head in the game, you need to climb that crane, and take out that guy."
Alonzo composes himself.
"yeah you are right, my bad I just wasn't expecting you to get him the way you did."
Fernando peeks out of the container and looks towards the crane, where he notices the guard has turned his back from their direction, and he whispers to Alonzo.
"use the containers for cover and always check where the guy on the crane is looking."
before Alonzo got to say anything, Fernando slips out of the container, he sighs to himself.
"alright, I guess that's all the prep talk I'll be getting."
Fernando slides up agitated a container as he hears two voices talking.
"yeah I get you, but she has gotta have some ass or my hand will feel empty."
another voice retorts.
"bullshit, so what yer saying, is you wouldn't play with her tits."
Fernando sighs to himself, disappointed with the previous guy's statement.
"Seriously, this guy, even if she doesn't have any trunk, the milkers should be getting some loving attention."
he shakes his face.
"What are you doing getting caught up in their banter? focus."
one of them then said, chuckling.
"All right, well imma go check on the new kid at the entrance and see how he is holding up."
the other guy replies.
"Got it, I'll stick around here and wait for you to come back."
Fernando sticks to the shadow that the container is creating and silently waits as one of the guys walks by him, thinking.
"I'll follow and get rid of this guy, and double back to the guy waiting for his return."
Fernando silently follows him, while the guy grumbles to himself.
"There shouldn't be any trouble tonight, but it still sucks getting stuck at entrance duty."
Fernando quickly lunges at him like a lion preying on an unsuspecting gazelle, he covers his mouth and pierces the man's neck with the same knife that killed his companion, and while still covering his mouth, Fernando slowly lowers his limp body, as to avoid making any noise, he scans the area and quickly returns back to the spot where the other guy is waiting at, and listens in on him as he talks to himself.
"There is no point in us being here. There is no one stupid enough to mess with the Sabatoni's business and their partners."
he then sighs.
"fuck, I gotta take a leak, I'll do it over here in the dark, where Gary can't see from his crane vantage point."
Fernando sits quietly with darkness swallowing him whole, almost making him invisible with the black clothing he is wearing, the guy faces the container and unzips his pants, and moans in pleasure as he unleashes a stream of urine, Fernando takes this opportunity and plunges the knife into the guys abdomen while tackling him down on the concrete, he then covers his mouth to reduce his pained screaming, Fernando pulls out the knife and said with his voice distorted by his face mask.
"nothing personal but, I'll be needing those weapons."
Fernando then stabs him multiple times where his heart is located at, while still muffling his victims pained screaming, and then after he is sure that he is dead, Fernando stands up, breathing heavily.
"Imma have to work on my endurance, if I'm going to continue doing this."
he steps out of the shadows of the container and walks slowly to slightly lit atea where they were standing at, and looks up towards the crane and as he spots a small figure climbing up to the top, he thinks to himself.
"while he does that, I'll keep moving around and search where the weapons shipment is at."
he slowly walks around, to reduce the noise of his footsteps, but is surprised by the lack of security protecting this weapons shipment.
"this is works in our favor, but once they find out what happened here, the Sabatoni's will most likely step up their security for their other businesses."
his thoughts get interrupted by the sound of a couple of voices, on the other side of the container he is at, he looks around and spots a crate right by the container, he uses that to to climb on top, and crawls closer to the edge to hear the voice better.
"remember come back again next month."
a guy with a thick russian accent replies.
"yes, we already did deal with your boss man, we will meet again, next time my friend."
after a while one of the guys said.
"fucking Russians, why are we still buying weapons from them?"
Fernando peeks over and spots for guys around a crate that hasn't been opened yet, he thinks to himself while grabbing the gun he tucked away behind him.
"didn't want to resort to using this, since we were to only use these when things turned ugly, but I can't spent the whole time waiting for them to split up."
Fernando looks up to the crane and sees Alonzo pretending to be the guard that was up there.
"okay, at least he took that guy out."
he takes a moment to think and hears one of them say.
"alright let's get this in the jeep and take em to the boss."
Fernando sighs and finally decides.
"fuck it, I still have the element of surprise on my side."
he takes the safety off of his sidearm, and steadies his breathing as he aims at one of them.
"concentrate and you can get them all."
showing no signs of hesitation, he begins to fire at them, hitting two of them while the other two drop to the floor shouting.
"the fuck!"
Fernando fires at the one closest to him, hitting him a few times, while the other one takes cover behind the crate, shouting.
"ey, we are getting shot at!"
he reloads and aims carefully as the guy desperately looks around trying to find out from which direction, he was getting shot at, but that proved to be a costly mistake, since Fernando fired a few rounds into him, he yells in pain.
"ah fuck! fucking help, we've been shot!"
Fernando climbs down from the container, and walks up to the three guys he hit, and puts a bullet in their heads, the final guy panics and yells.
"do you know who you are fucking with?!"
he approaches the guy and responds with his voice distorted.
"I know exactly who I'm fucking with."
Fernando waits around for Alonzo as the guy bleeding out, is throwing insults at him.
"you are nothing! you will die slowly!"
Alonzo who shows up out of breath asks.
"why is that guy still alive?"
he answers.
"so he can tell them the Black Hoodie did this."
Fernando approaches the bleeding man.
"you will tell your boss, that the Black Hoodie graciously accepted his gift."
Alonzo picks up a crowbar from one of the the dead guys and pries the crate open and whistles.
"that is some heavy weaponry."
Alonzo grabs a grenade and waves at Fernando while holding.
"we could do some real damage with these babies."
Fernando peeks inside is impressed by the contents in the crate and grabs two bulletproof vests.
"we could use these."
Alonzo chuckles.
"I agree."
they grab what they can carry and before they head out, Fernando asks the guy who is bleeding out.
"do you have a phone on you?"
he spits.
"fuck you!"
Fernando digs into the man's pockets and places the phone on his chest.
"you better get to dialing, if you want to get out of here alive."
Alonzo and Fernando who have their hands full quickly jog through the empty docks, and finally arrive at Alonzo's car, where they store everything in his trunk, and after they enter his car and leave the docks, Alonzo said with a satisfied smile.
"that went smooth."
Fernando replies.
"yeah, but don't expect things to be like that moving forward."
Alonzo grunts.
"jeez do you always got to be a killjoy."
they then silently drive back to Alonzo's house.