There’s no way I could explain this to him. “Sir, I don’t really want to shoot him now. Can’t I take him out back and take some chunks out of him for the next couple of hours? Slice off a couple odds and ends while I hear him scream? Feed him his own balls while he cries like a b**** and begs me to just kill him already? Make him endure just a fraction of what he’s put me through every night since I met him?” Yeah right, I’m sure he’d understand that…
Hell, he's looking at me... Why's he looking at me like that..?
"No Vigilante, what we have here is the end of the line. Take him out Sureshot, now."
"B-b-b-ut Sir..." Sureshot struggled with the words. With no idea how to explain what he wanted to his superior.
"That's an order Sureshot. Take him out NOW!"
No. He'd never understand. Not him. Never. He'd still be dead, but not how HE wanted. He always wants. He wants what he wants what he wants what he wants... He'd take anything for what he wants...
"BUT NOT THIS!!!" Henry Patton shouted in a lunatic furor. Out of instinct those ever-so-precise hands turn the handgun from the Vigilante towards his demanding supervisor.
He'd make a decent appetizer before the main course, Sureshot thought.
There wasn't time to think of much else. It happened so fast.
The black clad hero took advantage of the gun being pointed away from him by driving his elbow into his ribs and pushing his gun and arms away. The Vigilante took something else away again. Perfect hands, made for slaughter were denied their purpose as his shot went from a "killshot" to a mere wound. The bullet fell low and to the right, a gut shot that somehow managed to miss the really vital organs whilst sinking into the S.T.R.I.K.E Director's belly.
Anderson was in no position to celebrate the fact that he still had his life.
Or even to celebrate his own achievement. A two-fer.
Sureshot's bellowing gave him ample time to set his own new target and get a shot off. In fact he fired off two. The first gunflash sent a bullet into his original target, the Vigilante. He dropped to the ground after ruining Sureshot's purpose, as what felt like a ball of radiant heat pushed him to the ground. The second shot cut a trajectory directly through his new target. It's entry wound was in the right side of his torso. It exited after fracturing a rib and a small sucking wound which would eventually collapse his lung. Sureshot dropped like a shot bird.
All three men lay sprawled across the floor of the luxurious office.
The owner of the office tried to sit up, his gut felt like it was on fire. He called out, but nobody came. It wasn't necessary, the gunshots would have been call enough.
The first thing Isaac felt was surprise, surprise that he was still alive to experience anything. He couldn't feel the shot, but he was able to feel the warmth of the area in the back of his shoulder.
The only thing Sureshot felt was pain. Pain so powerful that he lost all awareness and lay on the floor his mouth agape attempting to deal with the affect of the shot on his lungs. He had gone immediately into shock.
Seconds past, and the Vigilante got to a knee, gun still in hand...
Alexander Anderson was having a losing struggle, he was starting to go into shock himself. But he saw movement. It was the Vigilante, but he couldn't identify who it was. It didn't matter, everyone in the room wanted him gone.
The Vigilante got both feet planted and turned, seeing the Director slouched over.
Anderson recognized him now. "He's still coming... How is he still coming? I need something to stop him with." Despite fighting off shock his mind still worked well enough, even as his body failed him.
The Vigilante walked over. No limp, no slouch or hunch. Gun in hand.
"He's going to shoot me. He's going to take his gun and shoot me... His GUN! I've still got my gun!" Awareness started to return to the Director, and he swung his arm and gun around.
But then he flinched.
The pain of moving was unbearable. The pistol felt like a lead weight in his hand and his arm slumped to the floor before he could take aim.
Isaac pistol-whipped the Director across the face with his own heavy Desert Eagle and the director sank into unconsciousness immediately.
Isaac stood alone in the room and looked down at his hand. The firearm Gunny kept trying to foist onto him. He'd finally used it. ...As a bludgeon. [BLACKOUT]
"I'm definitely not cut out for this gun s***."[/BLACKOUT] he said to himself, as the Federal Marshals burst in and secured the room.