2 am in the New Salem District of Newport City. The neon glow of the countless stores, restaurants, night clubs, raves, strip clubs, arcades, card clubs, small scale casinos and numerous others gave the sky a constant glow.
Victoria Pike loved New Salem, the lights, the almost never ending supply of entertainment choices. But unfortunately tonight she couldn't indulge in any of the tempting night life, tonight she had to work.

Victoria left the street for a small dark alley, only the glow of the neon behind her gave the alley any illumination. She made her way through the garbage cans and slumbering bums until she came to a small square where several alleys joined together. Victoria looked around for a bit, she always got turned around in places like this. She scanned the graffiti until she saw the two snakes painted on the one alley wall. She crossed the square and started down the other alley.
It was here in the sheltered darkness that Victoria found a staircase that led down to a simple, beaten up red steel door. There were no lights to illuminate the staircase or the door only the neon glow. This was a place that didn't want to advertise. Victoria walked down the steps and knocked on the door. She waited, impatiently tapping her boot on the wet floor as the camera hidden in the wall scanned her. After a few moments there came a heavy metal thud and the door slowly opened.
Inside was an underground Net Café. Here no net was forbidden, the net was there for the picking. The customers sat in front of the computers, the Net headset's over their eyes and head jacking them into the net. Judging by the stench most of these guys didn't leave their computers to shower. Not like their girls cared, virtual sex girls never smelled these guys. Victoria steeled her resolve with the thought that she had smelled worse, the dead stink a great deal more.
Victoria made her way through the den of cyber sex, the stench became thicker and thicker the deeper she waded in. Then again maybe the dead smelled better she thought trying not to hold her nose. She reached the far side of the room and knocked on the next red metal door. This door had a small electronic eye which stared directly at her.
Victoria listened as three high grade electronic locks whirred as they opened. The handle was slowly turned and a small man in a black suit looked out. Low grade syndicate thug but still wanted to look big time in his fancy suit. " Are you Pike?" he asked.
Waters looked at the woman, they did tell him to expect a woman with a tattooed arm and pink hair. Before him stood a woman, very attractive, with pink hair, a black shirt, her left arm decorated with many tattoos, chief among them a large dragon that went from shoulder to wrist. She wore a red skirt and stockings covering her very shapely legs, one black and white stripped, the other fishnet and stylish black boots. " That is me" said Victoria, offering her tattooed hand to shake.
" Waters" he said, shaking the hand, his shake was very weak and palm was sweaty.
Water opened the door and ushered Victoria into his private domain. It was a strange little cavern that smelled better than the other room but still had a strange stench to it. Taxidermy animals filled the entire room, the smell was a by product of their creation. Creatures great and small, from a large grizzly bear which stood behind his desk with the most ferocious growl on its face and its large claws extended. Victoria bet that made more than a few people nervous when they came for an audience with Waters. The rest of the room was crammed with all kinds of animals, and fish. Victoria had no idea what most of them were, she wasn't exactly big on animals that weren't sitting before her on a plate cooked to perfection. " I have what they wanted" he said, motioning for her, " please come."
Waters led Victoria into a small room off the main room that held a large fish tank with live fish in it. " It took some doing but here it is" he said.
Waters produced a glass cylinder with two metal ends. Inside a small fish swam around. It was ugly, it was grey and blue and a runty little thing. She went through all this for that? " What is it?" asked Victoria.
" What is it?" asked Waters, rather offended that Victoria didn't know the fish, " my dear you have no knowledge of rare fish."
" You are so right" said Victoria, " so what is it?"
" This is the rare Ubo Grey" said Waters as if he was talking about a lost masterpiece, " this little grey fish is one of the rarest species of tropical fish in existence. They're known for the ferocity, these little fish will take on any other fish in their field of view, including other Ubo Grey. Others say that if you eat one whole, it increases a man's length and girth five fold. Many mysteries surround these little beauties."
" Hm, why don't you just clone these things and sell them on late night TV?" asked Victoria.
" That is their greatest secret, they are one of the few species that can not be successfully cloned" he said almost worshipping the cylinder, " every attempt has met in ruinous failure."
" Bet that increases their value" said Victoria, " speaking of that, I am ready to pay for this little guy."
Victoria popped two buttons exposing a generous swell of her cleavage and slipped two fingers in to draw the wad of blue bills out. Waters was so enamored by the fish he never noticed Victoria's breasts that were barely two inches from his face. Guess he likes his critters more than my breasts, makes him either very devoted to his work or a very sick, sick puppy she thought. Victoria handed the money to Waters and started to take the cylinder from him. " Wait" he said, " you must know a few things first. One you can't have him in this cylinder more than two hours, any longer the water will be tainted and he will die. Two you can not disturb him, don't shake the cylinder or tap on the glass."
" That will kill him too?" asked Victoria.
" No, it will annoy him" said Waters, " and the client wants him to be happy so he can mate with their existing Ubo Grey. They are like picky pandas when it comes to mating and even the slightest emotional trauma will make him celibate for years and I promised to deliver a happy horny male to them."
Waters gently handed the cylinder over and took the money. " You may show yourself out" he said, " I have business to attend to."
Victoria exited the small room and passed through Water's stuffed menagerie. So that was Waters, one of the biggest black market pet dealers in Newport City, she thought, guess loving your work takes special meaning to him. Victoria passed through the net café as double speed. She had only two hours and really wanted to make sure this guy arrived with plenty of time to spare.
Up the steps and through the alleys Victoria walked with a determined pace into the sea of night revelers. She found herself checking to see if the little fish was disturbed by the neon lights and wondered if he was okay. It was then Victoria was hit with an intense sensation of being complete out of her mind, this was a fish, a puny little fish that wasn't even big enough to serve as sushi. Its brain was so small it probably though the cylinder was the vast ocean. Victoria stopped worrying about the fish and started heading for the train station.

Victoria hadn't gone a block when there came a mighty roar from behind her. Victoria instinctively knew trouble was coming directly for her. She turned and saw a man in a green leotard wearing a green Luchadore mask with nails, painted green, sticking out of it. " It is you Pink Hunter" the man shouted, pointing his finger straight at Victoria, " El Jeffe says hello."
The strange man threw a large spike straight for Victoria's head but at the distance he threw it at Victoria had ample time to side step and dodge the spike in flight. Unfortunately the women coming out of the rave didn't and the spike hit her square in the forehead. The six inch spike went in half way into her skull causing panic on the street. " Feel the sting of Cactus Man!" he shouted.
Oh fuck, you have to be kidding me, she thought, I am not wearing the right shoes for this and I have a fish I have to deliver. As much as Victoria hated the idea at this time she would have to run for it.

Victoria turned and sprinted away at full speed. She now really regretted agreeing to leave her weapons at home, but they insisted, said Waters was a total safety freak and if she came with even a sharp stick he wouldn't see her. This was stupid, she should have at least worn her good boots.
Victoria raced across the street, sliding over car hoods as they sat idling in traffic. When she reached the opposite side of the street she turned to see where Cactus Man was.
Cactus Man was racing through traffic, this guy was moving like the wind. Victoria marveled for such a big flabby looking man he moved very fast. She took off down the street zipping through the other pedestrians who were all craning their necks trying to see what all the commotion was about. Victoria hadn't gotten half way down the block when they started to shout and yell as Cactus Man began to throw them about as he barreled down the street. People hit the sides of the cars on one side and store fronts on the other. Victoria couldn't believe how fast this guy was moving, he wasn't just keeping up with her, he was gaining on her. Victoria rounded the corner and saw the train stop two blocks down. She knew it was way too far to run, he would be all over her before the train arrived.

Victoria suddenly darted into traffic, making cars slam on their brakes, honk their horns and flip her off, as she dashed for the opposite side of the street. Cactus Man was crossing at the crosswalk, when he wasn't throwing people about or throwing spikes most of the other pedestrians took no notice of him. While he looked strange, it was all just regular business of New Salem.
Victoria raced into the alley, she couldn't out run him, all she would have to do was out think him. She knew New Salem very well, it had been her stomping ground since she was a teenager. She just hoped Cactus Man was a newcomer to the city.

Cactus Man watched the girl duck into the alley, he was starting to wheeze a bit this pixie could run. He looked at his watch, she was still coming in strong. When they first met he had thrown a tracking chip at her along with his first spike. She had dodged the spike but the tracking chip had slipped perfectly into her shirt pocket. She wasn't going to get away from him.

Victoria hit the fence in the middle of the alley at fully speed. She leapt up and grabbed the top with her free hand, the other still holding the fish's cylinder. She launched herself over the top and was running before she hit the ground. She raced for the next street, if she could get across this street all she would have been her and safety was the Dyson Canal.
Victoria was exiting the alley when she felt something pass barely a hair in front of her nose. She quickly realized it was a large metal spike that had barely missed taking her nose off. It hit the alley wall opposite, ironically imbedding itself in the naked lady's forehead that was painted on the alley wall.
She reacted but everything seemed to become frustratingly slow as Cactus Man hurled two more spikes at her. Victoria managed to leap up on a garbage can and over Cactus Man's spiked head. She hit the ground hard, these boots were never meant for any of this. Why she bought them was a mystery to her by now, true when she saw them she thought they were cute but totally wrong for combat. Victoria ran across one more street, this time she decided to try and really mix it up.
Cactus Man watched as she ran into a small market mid way in the block. Maybe she was thirsty he thought as he ran after her.

Victoria burst into the market startling the old Korean lady behind the counter and making the customers in the market scatter for the corners fearing she was a robber. She raced through the magazines and junk food for the coolers in the back. She heard the old Korean lady shouting even more and knew Cactus Man had entered the building. Victoria zipped along the coolers and slammed her shoulder into the door marked Private: Employees Only.
The stir caused when she burst through that door was greater than when she first entered the market for she had disturbed the two illegal card games that were going on in the back room. The Koreans thugs didn't move, but their hands were rubbing their weapons. Victoria bit her lip for a split second, they didn't look like they wanted a fight. Victoria slid under one table and made her way to the back of the stock room before turning around. She blew a big kiss to the ringleader of the card club, " Thanks boys" she said.
Victoria raced past the dumpsters and headed for the wall that separated the market from the alley.
Cactus Man stopped cold in the room, " I don't to fight you" said Cactus Man, striking a wrestling pose, " but if you stop me I will show you my power."
Nobody stopped him as he ran through the stock room and saw her leaping for the corner of the wall. One foot hit one side and the other braced against the opposite side. He reached for her, her leg slipping from between his legs at the last second.
Victoria cleared the top of the wall but because she was holding the cylinder she lost her balance and fell. The concrete of the alley was hard and tore into her already bruised shoulder as she hit the ground. Her sleeve ripped off and her head hit a few moments later. Victoria forced herself to her feet, her head was swimming through pudding and she had a hot copper taste in her mouth. She stumbled about, desperately trying to get her head clear. She had barely caught her breath when the metal gate that led from the market's yard to the alley burst open. A spike sizzled through the air, ripping Victoria's skirt but missing her flesh. She stumbled to the left and hit a dumpster, her head was starting to finally clear.
She watched as a massive fist flew at her, her play acting had done a good job. She hit the ground and gracefully rolled between Cactus Man's legs as his fist smashed into the dumpster. The dumpster groaned and buckled under the force of his massive blow. Victoria leapt for the nearest door and this time used her foot to kick it open instead of her shoulder.

The lightning and sounds were unmistakable, she was in a porno shop. She kicked the door closed and pushed a cart up against it. She made her way out of the stock room into the back, back room of the store. This was where the weird stuff was, stuff considered weird even in the world of pornography. Two men where back there, Victoria appearance made them turned crimson red, they replaced their titles and quickly shuffled through the beads that separated this from the rest of the store.
Victoria made her way through the beads, her eyes looking at the floor, she knew the number one rule of this world, no eye contact ever. She passed along the far wall putting as much distance between the rear door and her as possible. She had just passed the sex toys and was to the sex dolls when the door was smashed open. She turned and saw Cactus Man emerge from the beads. The entire store cleared out within the blink of an eye, many taking advantage of the confusion to carry a few items out under their coats. Victoria tried to head for the door under the cover of the exodus but before she could move something hit her.
Pain arched in white jolts of electricity all across her back, heading to the top of her head to the tips of her toes and back. She hit the old stained carpet hard knocking the last bits of breath from her lungs. On top of her was a magazine rack, Cactus Man had hurled it across the store with pin-point accuracy striking Victoria squarely in the back. She rolled the heavy rack off her and got to her feet. She was in no condition to run anymore. She looked at her watch, she had only an hour left before this damn fish would die. She would have to defeat him here.
Victoria gave the cylinder to the care of one of the blowup dolls on the wall. She patted the dolls cheek, " Take care of him" she said.
Victoria rushed towards Cactus Man and dodged his first strike to deliver one of her own strikes into his chest. She used her speed, what little there was left, to strike him several times but the punches seemed to have little effect, it felt like she was hitting an old heavy bag that had lost most of its form and now was squishy.
Cactus Man missed his first three strikes at her before landing one. A solid hit straight into her side. Victoria was almost knocking off her feet by the blow. It felt she had been hit by solid stone. She stumbled to the left and barely dodged another blow which crashed into a display of movies. Victoria kicked at his legs, several quick strikes and he went down to one knee. Victoria moved fast and leapt. She easily cleared the small four foot high shelf and she pushed off with all her strength. She leapt over the other two isles of shelves and landed on the other side of the store. The shelf tipped in the opposite direction just as Victoria had planned and came down directly on Cactus Man. He was buried under a sea of porno movies and one heavy shelf. Victoria smiled to herself and walked back to the blowup doll that was holding her fish. She picked the fish up and walked for the front door. " Hey bitch!" a voice came from her right.
Victoria looked over at a short man peeking up from the raised counter, " Who the fuck is going to pay for all this shit?" he asked.
" Him" said Victoria motioning to Cactus Man still under the shelf.
Victoria pushed the door open and walked into the night.

Cactus Man slowly rose from wreckage, two cases speared on his mask. He threw the toppled shelf in the opposite direction and grabbed the two cases off his mask. He threw Farm Bob's 13: Barnyard Bonanza, and Snow White's Seven Dwarf Gangbang across the store and began to stomp towards the door. " Hey, that big titted bitch said you were paying for this" the man behind the counter announced.
Cactus Man turned and started straight into the clerk's eyes, despite the fact that he was standing two feet off the ground behind the counter. He didn't speak, he just growled which made the clerk tremble as he watered his pants. Cactus Man stalked out of the door leaving the store a total disaster.

Victoria had just reached the footbridge across the Dyson Canal, one of several canals that transported water across the city and kept the city from flooding during the spring, when Cactus Man caught up with her. The first blow drove Victoria straight into the ground which was quickly followed by a savage kick to her stomach.
As Victoria hit the ground the cylinder came free from her grasp and bounced on the ground. Victoria tried to grab for the cylinder but the kick threw her over the cylinder. Victoria swept Cactus Man's legs out from underneath him and she managed to grab the cylinder once again. She took a quick check and found the fish was still lazily swimming about the cylinder as if nothing had happened.
Cactus Man grabbed Victoria and lifted her high into the air. He was going to slam her into the bridge which would certainly cause great damage but he had grabbed her shirt which after all the excitement had become weakened. " Cactus Slam!" he announced to the sound of ripping fabric.
Victoria dropped down behind Cactus Man, one side of her shirt still in his hand. the landing wasn't graceful and Victoria turned her ankle which sent another arc of white hot pain through her. She didn't have time to worry about her twisted ankle and kicked with the tip of her boot for the soft back of Cactus Man's knee. She hit it directly making him howl.
Victoria staggered the beast and went for the kill shot. She rolled over his massive back and landed in front of him. She spun hard, her heel held high in the air, she had one chance and only one. If she missed her foot would strike the dozens of green painted nails in his mask and cripple her for sure.
Today lucky was Victoria's faithful servant, the spinning heel kick struck him square in the nose with a thunderous crack. The crack was both his nose snapping like a dry twig and the heel of her boot breaking off. Cactus Man let off a great howl of rage and rushed forward at Victoria. He struck her with his mighty shoulder squarely in the chest driving her hard into the bridge railing. He hit her square in the mouth with his fist spinning her like a top. She spit blood and before she could even stop spinning his struck again. The blow threw Victoria clean over the side of the bridge in the dark murky water of the Dyson Canal.
Victoria went in face first and executed the biggest belly flop in history. The water tasted vile with a stinging chemical aftertaste. She swam for the side, she didn't want to even imagine what could be floating in here with her. She swam for all she was worth, her hands blindly sweeping in front of her for the rough cement side of the canal. She found it and found one of the metal rungs that led out. She weakly pulled herself out of the water, soaking wet and stinging with pain all across her body that pulse every time her heart beat or she drew breath. She spat blood and canal water out as she pulled herself up. She saw Cactus Man, even from here he looked pissed beyond reason. Victoria knew running wasn't going to work, nor was fighting. She saw a hotel close with a fire escape, maybe climbing could get her out of this mess. She undid the last buttons holding her shirt together and took the two sides and tied the cylinder tight leaving to press snugly against her heaving breasts. She grabbed the bottom of the fire escape ladder and began to haul herself up.

Cactus Man was screaming curses at the pink haired whore that wouldn't die. He looked at his tracker and found the signal was gone. Enraged he smashed the tracker in his bare hand, it has washed off the bitch in the damned water. He looked at the shocked onlookers and grabbed a girl by the neck. She screamed and the crowd disappeared in an instant. " Please" she whimpered, gasping for air around his tight grip, " please I will give you all my money, I will even give you head, please don't hurt me."
" Where is the nearest pet shop?" snarled Cactus Man, a blood began to leak from under his mask.
The girl stared blankly at him not fully understanding the question. " PET SHOP BITCH" howled Cactus Man.
" Pretty Kitty, Pretty Kitty" she stammered, raising her thin arm, " that way."
Cactus Man dropped her and took off, he was going to beat her there or die trying.

The climb felt like it was taking forever but slowly floor after floor Victoria made her way to the top floor. To her disgust this fire escape didn't have roof access. She looked for an open window, she would need to take a detour.

Ms Allen adjusted her corset and picked up her favorite black whip. She stretched the black leather and turned to her bosses. During the day Miller and Phillips gave her orders at their law firms, but at night these men were her dogs. She was about to start disciplining the two prone men who were tied to the bed when a filthy, foul smelling girl swung in through the open window. Both Miller and Phillips smiled around their cherry red ball gags at the sight, Ms Allen was bringing a friend to play too. " Who the fuck are you?" Ms Allen demanded.
" Just passing through" said Victoria, using the curtain to dry her face, " don't worry I won't tell either of their wives."
Victoria walked through the hotel room to the door. " Oh and try a whip with a flayed end, it cracks much better" said Victoria before exiting the room.
Victoria found the fire stairs and climbed up to the roof. She walked to the edge of the building and looked down. In her mind the gap didn't look this big but now standing on the edge it looked like a mile across. She looked back down at her watch, she was running out of time, not many choices left. Victoria took several steps back and ran for it.
She leapt at the very edge and easily cleared the gap between the two buildings. She landed on her twisted ankle and immediately went down rolling across the roof until she came to a stop next to the large billboard on the roof. She used the billboard to haul herself up. She rounded the billboard and two buildings over could see the end of her journey. In the distance she could see the pink glow of the Pretty Kitty and the end of her journey. Just the pink glow was enough to reenergize her and she took the next jump without a single thought.

Cactus Man was running at full speed when he entered the alley. " What have we here?" came a voice from the shadowy alley.
Cactus Man came to a stop and looked as seven teenagers emerged from the shadows. " Looks like a costume queer" joked one, " a fat one too."
" What are you supposed to be, fattie?" asked a third.
" More importantly where is your money, bitch?" the leader asked, clicking a butterfly knife open and close in his hand.
" Money?" asked Cactus Man, " little boy get the fuck out of my way and you can live."
The seven started to laugh, " Wrong answer bitch" the leader said, " now we are going to fuck you up."
Cactus Man struck first, his massive fist smashing into one of the punks' face throwing him against the alley wall in a shower of blood and teeth. He grabbed another and smashed him face first into the alley and threw his corpse at two more. Two ran for their lives leaving the leader alone in the alley. He looked at his small butterfly knife and then at Cactus Man, he dropped the knife and tried to run.
Cactus Man grabbed him by the shoulders, his massive fists starting to crush the bones. He spun the trembling punk around and loudly announced, " Cactus Smash!"
With that he head butted the punk with all his might. The punk screamed as the nails in Cactus Man's mask drove into his face. He screamed again as Cactus Man pulled them out. The punk's limp body was tossed into the dumpster and Cactus Man continued his pursuit.

Victoria leapt for the last time, she didn't think, she simply went. Half way across she felt her body start to sink towards the ground. She saw how close the fire escape was and reached.
Her fingers wrapped around the cool wet metal and she gripped tight spinning her body around. She hit the fire escape hard squarely in the center of her back she knew it was in the exact same spot where the magazine rack had earlier hit her. She gasped for breath, her entire body shuddered but thankfully the fish stayed safely tucked in her ruined shirt. Victoria scrambled up and over the side of the fire escape and limped the rest of the way down.
The filthy alley behind the shop never looked more friendly and inviting to her. She dropped into a puddle and made a little splash. Victoria hobbled around the side of the building, expecting to see Cactus Man appear out of thin air but as the pink neon of the Pretty Kitty Pet store came into view she had seen neither gut nor green mask of Cactus Man.

Mikura Umetsu and her twin sister Sawa were behind the counter playing with one of their kitties who was laying on her back on the counter grabbing for the yarn. They looked up as the bell on the door jingled. They both marveled at the sight of their friend. She was soaking wet, her stockings were both in tatters, one heel on her boot was missing, her shirt was open, tied together holding the glass cylinder under her large breasts, she had dozens of scrapes and bruises all over her body but she still had the same smart smirk that made them know she wasn't dying. " What happened to you?" asked Mikura, vaulting over the counter, " you fall in the canal?"
" There was a slight problem" said Victoria, untying her shirt.
She handed the cylinder to Mikura as her eyes glowed with excitement. " What was it?" asked Mikura, hurrying back to the counter, " it wasn't Waters was it?"
" No, it was... well ah... it is just too hard to explain" said Victoria.
Mikura vaulted back over the counter with the cylinder in hand. Sawa rushed to her sister's side and the pair stared in awe at the little fish still lazily swimming about in the cylinder as if the last two hours hadn't happened. " Look at him" said Sawa, " look at our little stud."
" Let's get him in the tank, and turn on the Barry White" said Mikura.
The two girls hurried into the back, where their private stock was kept leaving Victoria to entertain their kitten. Victoria rubbed the kitten's belly as it meowed in approval. Victoria heard the door open, " They'll be out in a moment" she said not turning around.
" Excellent" growled a familiar voice, " my business will only take a moment."
Victoria sighed, this guy was relentless and turned to face Cactus Man. Blood was racing from under his mask just below his nose and dripping off his chin on to his massive gut. " Okay, okay" said Victoria, " let's do this."
Victoria readied herself for the attack, she was sore and exhausted, clearly in no condition to win a fight with a midget let alone this brute, but she didn't have much of a choice. She just hoped she could bring him down without causing too much damage to the store the last thing she wanted to do was pick a fight with Mikura and Sawa.
" Hey!' shouted Sawa as she and her sister emerged from the backroom, " who the hell are you?"
" I'd stay out of this if I were you" Cactus Man announced dramatically pointing at the girls, " this is our personal business."
" Vic, is this the trouble you were talking about?" asked Sawa.
" One and the same" said Victoria, " girls, meet Cactus Man."
" Hi" they both said with big friendly smiles.
From under the counter both girls produced large handguns. Before Cactus Man knew what was happening two heavy 10mm rounds crashed into him, one in the chest, and one in the head. He fell backwards, opening the door with a jingle and falling into the street. " Bang, bang!" they both exclaimed.
" Thanks" said Victoria, " he has been on my ass like a bad rash all night."
" No problem, we just got these puppies last night and were dying to try them out" said Sawa, " you see my shot? It went straight through his head."
" No way" said Mikura, putting her hands on her hips, " I was aiming for the head."
" But it was my shot that hit his head" said Sawa.
" No way, I never miss my target" her sister retorted.
In addition to selling pets, Mikura and Sawa were also gun dealers. They were most proficient and profitable pair in all of New Salem, possibly of all Newport City. Victoria leaned against the counter and relaxed as the sisters argued among themselves over who made the headshot. " Girls" said Victoria.
" Hm?" asked Mikura.
" You're forgetting something" said Victoria.
" Don't worry" said Sawa, " Kenji Four Fingers is already on his way to get the body. The only problem here is that my thick headed sister won't admit she missed."
" I never miss" said Mikura, sticking her tongue out at her sister.
Victoria groaned dropping her head on the counter as the two sisters continued to argue. The kitten slowly began to play with Victoria's pink hair as the two girls brought their argument down to a low growl. " Something wrong?" asked Mikura.
Victoria simply put her hand out and proceeded to open and close it. " Oh yah right" said Sawa, " in all this excitement we simply forgot."
Mikura ducked under the counter and slid the stack of blue bills to Victoria. Victoria, with her head still on the counter, took the stack and slid it off the counter and into the top of her ruined stockings. She stood up, " That was fun" she said.
" You're still the best" said Sawa.
Victoria limped her way out of the Pretty Kitty Pet Store, gingerly stepping over Cactus Man's corpse just as Kenji Four Fingers pulled up in his delivery van. " Damn" he muttered to himself, " this big fucker is going to blow my back out. Thanks Pike, you always stick me with the weird ones."
Victoria handed Kenji a hundred, " After ditching the corpse get a massage on me" she said.
Kenji took the bill and rolled the back of the truck open. With a great deal of grunting and groaning, no doubt to give backing to charging a higher price to Mikura and Sawa than usual, Kenji rolled the body into the back of the trunk. Victoria walked down, the sound of the back of the truck slamming shut echoing down the street.