Upsetting The TIme Table

Nightfall descended on the city....Kool Kat and I had been to several watering holes and known hang outs of Mr. Dice Raw...

For someone who wanted to find me so much, he didn't seem to be readily available...No one knew where he was...

Then we ran into Pink...

It had been two weeks since he had run into Dice Raw....He was out of the hospital...His nose was better...He still had a brace around his ribs...

"I know where he might be....I'll take you there.." he said.

"No dice...you're hurt...I got this.." I said.

"No ..."he said softly and pulled out . 40 cal... "I got this...After you finish with that punk...Give me some..I owe the bastard." said Pink...

"Let the man go Kev...After you told me that he laid hands on Bad girl and frightened my god-daughter...I want a piece of that little punk too.." said Kool Kat...

My phone rang suddenly...It was Clerow...

"We found him boss...He's in a Dive Bar on the west side ..I'll give you the address...but it aint no street cams around here, no nothin." said Clerow...

"GOOD!" I said...

"He's got two of his people watchin the outside...and three guys inside...Owen just went in and come out..."said Clerow..

"Okay...Sit tight...we;ll be there.." I said.

I checked my .38 smokeless and my .40 cal back up as well as my .22... I looked at Kool Kat.

"This could be a trap...I'm not askin either one of you to go..."I said.

"YOU CAN'T STOP ME!" said an angry Kool Kat...

"Me Neither..." said Pink..

II-

The kind of anger I had and the kind of night it was could lead to something very bad happening...I could feel it in my belly...My better angels told me to wait...cool down...come at him a different way....Not like this...

Tonight...I wasn't listening to my better angels....

Clerow went up to one of the men outside the bar and asked him for a light...

"Get lost.." he said..

Clerow smiled that toothy grin of his and stuck his .45 in the guys stomach...

"That was the wrong answer partner.." he said ...

Before the other man could move....Owen Todd had his .45 pointed at his forehead...He disarmed both men and tied them up and put them in the trunk of their car...bound and gagged...

"I love these cars with these roomy trunks...don't you Clerow...??" joked Owen Todd...

"Sho do." laughed Clerow...

We drove up just then....

 "Where is his muscle?" I asked..

Clerow lit a cigarette and smiled..

"They in the trunk...."he said.

Owen Todd showed me a photo he took with his phone while inside..He pointed out the two goons guarding him on the inside..

"Good work guys.." I said.

"Lead the way Kev." he said.

III-

We walked inside...

Dice Raw saw me and smiled...

"I wondered when you'd get the nerve to show your face...I don't know how you got past my boys ,but anyhow.." he said..

One of his men got up...

Kool Kat slammed his head hard into the table and punched him in his side so hard, he fell to the floor and was out for the night...

Another man went to get up and Pink punched him in his gut and knocked him out with the butt handle of his gun...

Dice Raw was shocked...

"Ohhh Pink, you a big man now huh? You got some back up" he said.

"Shut Up....I don't know you...but you certainly have gone out of your way to get to know me....Now this is between me and you...Let's take this outside....In the back alley...Just ME AND YOU!" I said..

"Ohhhhh,alright....You want some eh? Let's go bossman."said Dice Raw.

He had on one black glove...I suspected that Brass Knuckles was under the glove....I didn't care...

"Come on...You scared Punk..Scared I might kill you like I killed your cousin, Raif Collins...??" I said..

Now he was furious...

"Call your boys off...I been waitin for this..." he said..

"They aint gonna touch you..."I said.

"Speak for yourself Kev." said Kool Kat...

"Trust me...When I get through with Mr. Dice Raw...won't be enough left for you Kools.." I said.

"OH YEAH???? COME ON!!! I BEEN WAITIN ON THIS!!!!" he said..."OH BY THE WAY...HOW IS YOUR WIFE AND YOUR LITTLE GIRL?? HOPE I DIDN'T SCARE EM TOO MUCH!" he said..

We were certainly pushing each others buttons...

As we walked out the back door, a crowd followed us...I saw Kool Kat and Pink fighting their way through the crowd...I spun around and kicked Dice Raw in the groin as hard as I could..

Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, agrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."he moaned and I punched him three or four times in his face...drawing blood...

He went to swing at me with that left hand and I blocked it and hammered him again with a left- right
combonation...

I crouched and backed him up with some lefts and rights to his body and slammed a left right combonation to his jaw which sent him flying into the wall...A trash can that was stacked fell and crashed onto his head...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he moaned in pain...

''Wow..That looked like it hurt." I remarked.  Now he was furious....He appeared to be a pretty good boxer..He caught me with a few good lefts and rights...Lefts and rights that hurt...But I countered with some of my own...

"WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YOUUUUUUU!!!" he yelled and lunged at me again...

I caught him with an uppercut and another left right combonation and more punishing lefts and rights to the body.....

He winced in pain and fell to the ground.....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lawddddd..." he moaned...

I saw Kool Kat smiling....

Dice Raw's  face was a bloody mess, his lip swollen...his nose bleeding and his left eye swollen shut...

"Come on...your cousin Raif put up a better fight than that...." I said..

Now he was furious...He got up and lunged again...

I put seven or eight lefts and rights to his face...which was now swollen beyond belief...

 He tried to swing at me again with that hand that had the brass knuckles...I used a trash can to block it..

"Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww..ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.." he groaned....

 He charged at me..I crouched and I landed about 12 good lefts and rights to his face.....I caught him with an uppercut that damn near ripped his head off and then clocked him in his jaw and sent him flying.... He quickly got to his feet and charged me again...throwing haymakers...I dodged them all and ripped his midsection with well placed lefts and rights and then cold cocked him in his jaw, sending him spinning around..

 I again punished his midsection with 10-12 lefts and rights and then planted more lefts and rights to his face...He fell to the ground..

He slowly got back up and I crowned him with a trash can....

"Ooooooooooooooooooouuuu." he moaned and fell to the ground again...out for the night!!!...

Pink walked up to him and kicked him hard in his ribs...


"Turn about is fair play punk." said Pink...

Kool Kat aimed his .357 mag at his head...

"Walter!!!!...That's enough!!!! ...Call an ambulance!!!...." I said..

Kool Kat smiled....He looked at the barely conscious Dice Raw and said...

'' The angels are talkin Dice....You get to live another day..." he said and he laughed a sinister laugh that sent a chill down my spine...

Kool Kat and Pink both looked like they wanted to put some more damage on him...but I quietly but firmly said..

"Call an ambulance....He's had enough!" I said...

 Kool Kat got on his phone..

Pink nodded and walked away.

To our surprise...people clapped and cheered and laughed...


Apparently...Mr. Dice Raw wasn't too popular...


Clerow and Owen Todd released his two goons...


We got in our cars and pulled off...

But not before Kool Kat and Pink took turns shooting the windows out of his car and his tires....

The night was still young...

IV-

 The next morning ,I met with Sissy at police headquarters....I bought her ,her coffee as I always did...

"Kevin,I don't know if you heard...but someone beat our main target, Dice Raw within an inch of his life last night...He's in the hospital with broken fingers on one hand....several cracked ribs....a broken nose and he's in a coma....He apparently rubbed someone the wrong way...There are no street cameras down there and those smoked out bums would only tell us that one guy beat the stew out of him, but that he had others with him....I'm thinkin Bob Big Butt Thornton wasn't too pleased with him and tightened him up.." she said.

"Hmmmm, that sounds like him...."I said....

"Well we got eyes on that warehouse...and we have enough to start making arrests soon...but that prison is another story..." said Sissy..

"What is the plan?" I asked..

''We are going to upset things a bit...Charge Bob Big Butt Thornton with attempted murder and transport him out of that jail...Crump has identified all of the inmates who work for him...They are all going to be transferred to different prisons.......And we have a list of the crooked guards too...They're all going to arrested by the state police...All except Nash...We hope to get him here in Philadelphia.."said Sissy...

I smiled...

This was actually working out better than I thought...Those smoked out bums in that bar didn't know us anyway...and Sissy didn't know that I'd put Dice Raw in the hospital....I didn't mean to upset the time table...but it didn't matter...Things were going to fall in place anyway...

(TO BE CONTINUED)