FRIDAY
Hopkins, Rabidity, Patch, and Gordo are sitting in front of Blueblood. Filthy Rich left the group yesterday and the Governor let him go by little.
"Well, you may wonder why I called all of you," says Blueblood. No one answers. "You see, there are lots of members on the crew and we need to get some of you out." The four of them look at each other. They know what Blueblood wants to say with that. He wants to get rid of someone. Suddenly, Blueblood pulls out two revolvers and puts only one bullet in one of them. "This revolver will have only one bullet by now. You will shoot at the wall behind you. If the bullet doesn't come out, you are Team 1. If it does, you are Team 2. Now, I want you, Hopkins, to get up." Hopkins gets up, grabs the revolver and points at the wall. No bullet. Team 1. Then, Rabidity gets up and shoots. Team 1. The teams have been already defined according to Blueblood and he grabs the two revolvers and fills them with six bullets each. "You know what happens now," he says.
"Are you sure you wanna do this?" asks Gordo. "To me?"
"Yes," answers Blueblood. "Is there any problem, Gordo?"
"I am the motherfucking man of Canterlot... I can bring your whole government down in just a second, you bitch. And you wanna kill me? Are you out of your mind?"
"I am cleaning, Gordo, and if you are against this, get out by yourself and stop ruining my fucking morning."
Gordo shuts up and looks to the duel. His eyes are almost on fire. He is angry now, but he can't do anything to unburden.
Hopkins and Rabidity hold their guns, scared and silent. They point out at each other, slowly, looking at each other in their eyes. They feel fear and anxiety invading their bodies.
1...
They hold the trigger, slowly and calmly.
2...
Sweat is covering their faces.
3...
BANG! BANG! Suddenly, Rabidity falls to the floor with two shots on his chest. He's dying, and Hopkins drops the gun and starts gasping while falling to the floor. Blueblood waits for Rabidity to die.
"Is he...?" asks Hopkins.
"Yes," answers Blueblood. "Hopkins stays. Rabidity... out."
Patch gets up and touches Gordo's shoulder. "Are you ready bitch?" he asks. Gordo doesn't answer and grabs Rabidity's gun. "I was going to grab that---" says Patch, but he is interrupted when Gordo shots him three times on his chest. Patch eventually falls to the floor and blood starts coming out of his mouth.
"I hope you liked it. Now I won't talk with Flash Sentry ever again," says Gordo while looking at Blueblood, before throwing the gun to the floor and leave.
People are arriving at the famous party for the Good Ol' Canterlot, and Abe wanted to be the first to be there. Even the Rainbooms haven't arrived, and Abe, W, Jack and also Pietro are there, waiting for them.
"Why did you bring me at this time?" asks Pietro. "People would laugh! I always come late!"
"Not this year, Pietro," says Abe. "Today we will use guns."
"Guns?" he says. "What... do you want to do?"
"The Barnes may be here, and if we fail in something... we might need your help."
"My help?" says Pietro while laughing. "What do you want me to do?"
Abe approaches Pietro and looks at him in the face. "Don't be an idiot. I know your uncle gave you a gun some time ago. A really pretty gun, to be fair. And both of us know that you have that gun here just in case. You have weapons, and that's enough to fight."
"I won't use that gun now," says Pietro. "It is charged but... it's a golden gun! I can't use a golden gun!"
"Why not?" asks Jack. "Every gangster has a golden gun, and all of us use it. Why not you? Aren't you a gangster?"
Pietro looks now at the three men. "Ok," he says. "But use it. I won't handle that gun."
"Excuse me?" says Abe. "I know you are a Plegovich, but that thing you've just said... it's a mafia sin."
"Why?"
"Golden guns must be only used by their owners," says W. "We can't use your golden gun, man... that would be disrespectful."
"But, I'm letting you to..."
"Sshhh!" shouts W while lighting a cigarette, Jack asks him for one and W gives him a small cigar. Suddenly, a limousine stops in Canterlot High and the Rainbooms get down from it. They are all formally dressed and happy because they will spend the night together. The four men look at them while they are entering the school.
"I will enter," says Pietro. "I don't wanna lose this." But then, Abe touches his shoulder and takes a breath.
"Listen, you," he says. "If you touch Rarity..."
"Uh, don't worry, man," says Pietro, laughing. "I won't do anything."
Pietro gets out of the conversation and Abe goes behind him. "Will you go later?" asks Jack to W. The Bedmaker nods with his head while smoking and then Jack enters the college. W starts running around and finds out the limousine hasn't left yet He approaches it and knocks on the driver's window and it is lowered. The driver is a plump, blue-skinned man with green eyes and black curly hair.
"Wait," says the driver. "Aren't you...?"
"You know me?"
"Yeah... Beddie!"
"Beddie?... Holy shit, Charlie!"
Charlie, one of W's old friends from the orphanage, gets out of the car and hug. W hasn't seen Charlie since he was between 10 and 11 years old. "Man!" shouts Charlie. "So much time! You look sexier!"
"And you look like a fuckin' whore."
"Thank you, your flattery makes me nervous."
"What are you doing here?" asks W, while sitting on the floor and lying his back against the limousine. "Working for the Rainbooms?"
"I work for Granny Smith, ya know," says Charlie. "One of the Apple family adopted me and I magically ended up in Sweet Apple Acres from Canterlot. I began working there and I'm officially their driver. I carry Big Macintosh, Applejack and Applebloom everywhere they want. Now, I carried Applejack and her friends here and come on, man... the weather is calm, fresh... A perfect time for a beer. That's why I stopped here."
"Uh-huh, very good. At least you are better than me."
"Why?"
"I'm still trapped inside the gangs," says W with a lower pitch.
"Really? What a pity." Then, W gives Charlie a cigarette and both of them start smoking. W's friend opens the limousine and gets out from it a bottle of cold beer. "Like the old times," he says. W smiles and chuckles.
"Oh yeah," says W. "Beer, friends and cigarettes. Pot is better than these little killers but well, we are on Saneland."
"Yeah..." says Charlie, while looking at some girls entering the school. "Canterlot girls are so beautiful... aren't they?"
"Um... yeah. I don't like Canterlot so much, but I admit some girls are pretty here."
"Holy shit, look at that one. She's marvelous with that blue dress," says Charlie. W looks at the girl and realizes it's Trixie, wearing a blue, shiny dress. Her presence is just absolutely stunning, and W's cigarette falls from his mouth. Charlie finds out and starts laughing.
"What are you laughing at?" asks W, angry.
"Chill, man," answers Charlie while chuckling. "I won't mock you. I agree with you. She is stunning, man... A gorgeous piece of gold..."
"Yeah... It's a shame Prince Blueblood invited her to dance."
Charlie looks at W, surprised: "You are kidding me."
"Nope."
"Son of a bitch... He was clever, Dubs."
Charlie is the only man who calls W Dubs, and that's something that always makes W laugh. He chuckles and waits for the Barnes... He knows they may be here soon.
Inside the School
Pietro is dancing with two girls while Jack and Abe are outside the gym, taking care of the place. Both men have a glass of punch who was provided by Pietro.
"This punch..." says Jack. "It reminds me of that night."
"Everything reminds you of that night."
Jack looks at Abe. "Not everything. I just think it was a... Missed opportunity."
Abe chuckles and says: "Why don't you want to repeat that night?"
"Tommy's dead."
"Tommy was the less important thing on that night. Just think."
"I don't know, Abe, it would be stupid..."
"Stupid?" says Abe. "Come on, Jack! Do it at least! She's inside, drinking punch, feeling old like you, come on!"
Jack looks inside and realizes Celestia is doing the same thing that Abe told him. He looks at Abe again and decides to step inside the gym.
He feels now in that old Fall Formal in 1995, before things went down, before W, the Canterlotian Gang War, Red Punch and also this gang war. He looks at her and suddenly she does the same. He touches his beard, drinks his punch and approaches her.
"Hi," says Jack. "I see you are alone."
"Yeah," she answers. "I am just standing as a vigilante."
"Why? Why would you be the party's guardian?"
She lifts her shoulders while smiling. "I don't know," she says. "Students don't like asking her principal for a piece."
"Uh-huh... I will ask you for a piece."
Celestia is now surprised. "Really? With this electro music?"
"Yeah... why not?" says Jack, and he slowly turns his head to the right, looking at the dancefloor. It seems to be a funny place, but suddenly he finds a familiar face between the students: green skin, a swan tattoo on his neck... his name is Lucas. Lucas Plegovich. He looks at Jack and waves his hand on the distance. Jack looks at him in silence. Celestia does the same but doesn't identify the man, and she also thinks Jack's just taking a look at the dance.
"Is the dance--?"
Celestia's words are interrupted by Jack: "I forgot something. I'll come back."
"Something happened?"
"No, everything's OK."
Celestia looks again to the right and Lucas Plegovich is not there anymore. Jack runs away and realizes Abe is not in the gym entrance.
Outside the School
W and Charlie are talking about stupid things when suddenly W's phone starts ringing. He looks at the screen: Jack.
"Jack?" says Charlie. "Was he...?"
"Yeah... and this may not be good news," says W before answering Jack's call. "Yes."
"Have you seen Abe?"
"No. He entered with Pietro and you."
"You see... I have bad news. Two, to be worse."
W sighs and grabs his face. "Tell me the best of the worst."
"I have no bullets. I've grabbed my gun and I realize... it has no magazine. The only thing I can do is to ask Pietro for his gun."
"Well, it's not that bad. At least we have Pietro's. What's the other one?"
"Lucas is here."
W gets up from the ground. His eyes are almost coming out of their orbits. "WHAT?"
"I haven't seen anyone of the Barnes. Lucas was inside the dancefloor. He looked at me and smiled. That's why I am looking for Abe... and I should go for Pietro too."
"Oh shit, fuck," says W, but then he looks at someone opening the school's entrance door. He identifies him: Lucas Plegovich. "Wait! Wait!"
He looks at Charlie and points out to the left. Charlie doesn't understand what he is trying to say. "What do you mean?"
"Behind the limousine, Charlie."
Both W and him hide behind the limousine. Luckily, Lucas Plegovich didn't find out they were here. The Bedmaker slowly moves his head and looks to the spectacle. Lucas is going downstairs and lights a cigarette.
"Who the hell is him? What happened?" whispers Charlie.
"Long story," answers W. "That guy there is one of Plegovich's nephews."
"Plegovich?" says Charlie. "Are you against Plegovich? The media says he is the most dangerous of them all..."
"The media can suck my dick." W looks at a black car stopping on the street's corner. From it, four men get out: The Barnes Brothers and Blueblood. They gather with Lucas and start smoking cigarettes together. They are having a quiet, calm conversation.
"So..."
"Listen, Jack," says W. "My grandpa was right. He brought the Barnes. They are outside with Lucas and Blueblood. I am behind a limousine with Charlie."
"Charlie?"
"Yes. Charlie, say hi."
Charlie holds the phone and whispers: "Hi, Jack."
"Oh. Hi, Charlie."
"Did you find Abe?" Asks W.
"It's in the cafeteria. He answered me."
W looks at the men again and realizes they made a smart move. Barnes Brothers are holding some guns and they are about to enter the school. On the other hand, Lucas and Blueblood are leaving. They get into the car, turn it on and leave by turning into the right. "The Barnes entered, Jack," says W. "I'm in."
"Wait, what?" says Charlie. W draws a handgun and checks if it has a magazine. It is complete. He loads it and hides it again in his pocket. "Are you going to enter?"
"Yes."
"What about me?"
"Leave."
Both men get up from behind the limousine and start walking to the school. "Are you sure? Don't you want help or something?"
"Yeah," says W, while hugging Charlie. "Leave, this is no land for you, my friend. You have a job, I have my job."
"But... you only have a freakin' handgun, Dubs. These guys are three!"
"Yeah... and what?"
"Wait... are you going to do a mass shooting inside a school?"
"Um..." says W, while trying to think an answer. "I hope not."
"Are you crazy? There are lots of students there! Just think if you shoot a bullet and kill a student!"
"I know, Charlie! I won't shoot anybody unless those three stupid assholes! Leave! You will be safe."
Charlie sighs and touches W's shoulder. "Good luck. You don't need it, though."
"Why?" asks W, confused.
"You are the Bedmaker, man," says Charlie, and then he gets in the limousine and leaves. W throws the cigarette to the floor and enters the school.
Pietro is at the moment dancing with Octavia Melody. He is so happy that he thinks he is the King of Canterlot High. Octavia tries to reject him but Pietro persuades her to follow his game. After a third try, Pietro leaves her alone, angry. Suddenly, he feels a hand touching his shoulder. He turns around and looks at Jack.
"Oh, look," says Pietro, laughing. "A Sugar Daddy at the party."
Jack's hand moves into Pietro's t-shirt and strongly grabs him. "Don't mock me, you bitch. Where is your gun?"
Pietro's face is now a surprising smile. "I thought golden guns couldn't be used by others."
"Just give me the fucking gun, you son of a bitch."
"Chill, man," says Pietro. Behind Jack, two friends from Pietro, Little Ace with a bandage on his broken nose and Duke Starlight, appear and start punching Jack's back. "What you gonna do now?"
"You are playing with fire, Pietro."
"You? A fire? You are wet, cold ash, you grandpa. How many years old do you have? 157?"
Pietro's friends start laughing and Jack's anger raises the roof. Duke Starlight wants to punch him in the face, but Jack grabs his arm and smashes his head against Duke Starlight's. The teenager falls to the floor, unconscious.
"What the fuck?" shouts Little Ace. "You son of a...!"
Little Ace is interrupted when Abe touches his shoulder. Now, Jack and Abe are looking at Pietro, but the kid still doesn't want to lend them his gun. They go outside the dancefloor just to manage things.
"I won't give you the gun," says Pietro.
"I'm not asking," says Jack. "I'm telling you to give me the gun. It's an order."
"Don't do it, Pietro!" says Little Ace. Abe smashes him against a locker.
"Would you shut the fuck up, you son of a bitch?"
"My partner's right," says Jack. "You are not inside this topic, broken nose. Leave this place if you don't want us to shoot you twice in your anus."
Abe draws the handgun and Little Ace slowly walks away to the dancefloor. Now, Pietro starts laughing and grabs the gun. "Here it is, the gun."
Jack goes for it but suddenly Pietro points at him. Both gangsters start laughing. "You are making me angry, dick boy," says Jack. "Give me the gun or I'll leave you like a dead, rotten slave."
"I bet you like to be an awful jester." Jack grabs Pietro's neck and smashes his head against a locker twice. Pietro doesn't stop laughing and throws the gun to the floor. Jack grabs the gun and now he is the man that points at Pietro. "What happened, Canter Zoom?"
"You will come with me," says Jack. "I will use you like a fucking shield."
"Chill, Jacky," says Abe, laughing. "Your mood is like a volcano."
"Look who's talking," says Pietro, while being on the floor. "The guy with a dramatic granddaughter."
Abe's laugh now fades into anger. "Now I understand what is happening to you, Jack," he says and then kicks Pietro's chest once. Both men get him up and carry him to the cafeteria.
W had been following the Barnes Brothers for almost five minutes, but suddenly he lost them and now he doesn't know where they are. He goes to the dancefloor and finds out Jack and Abe were there, carrying Pietro.
"So... what happened here?" asks W.
"Long story," answers Jack while holding Pietro's golden gun. It is a shiny, golden revolver. W gets surprised because of its beauty.
"Shit, Pietro... nice revolver."
Pietro falls to the floor and slowly gets up. "Thank you," he says while smiling.
"Are you sure the Barnes brothers are here, W?" asks Abe.
"Completely sure."
"The Barnes?" asks Pietro, while getting out from his pocket a cigarette and lighting it.
"Yeah," answers W. The three gangsters know that it would be strange if Pietro knew the Barnes. "Do you know them?" Pietro shakes his head, denying it. "Ok then," says W. "So..."
A gunshot is heard and the four of them run away. They haven't even seen who was the shooter. While running away, Jack turns his head around and looks at the Barnes following them.
"Fuck!" shouts Jack. The four of them enter the library and hide under a desk.
"Holy shit, holy shit," says Pietro.
"Now you are scared, you little whiny prostitute," says Abe. "If they discover us, you will be the first to die."
They hear someone opening the door and loading a gun. They are Barnes, but the oldest one, Marcus, is outside the library, so there are only two brothers in the battle zone.
"What do we do?" asks W. Suddenly, Abe slowly gets up and points his gun at Pyle. Freddy opens fire while hiding under a desk, and W and Jack also start firing their guns.
"Hey! My golden gun!" shouts Pietro, and then he suddenly moves to another desk. A mass shooting has started. Abe and Jack ran to a bookshelf and hid there, and W is running upstairs to hide behind one of the bookshelves on the second floor. Meanwhile, Pyle and Freddy are loading their guns. Nobody died by now. Pietro is still hiding in a desk, but the Barnes brothers don't do anything to him... and he doesn't do anything to them either.
Pyle starts moving slowly and enters the bookshelf section on the first floor while Freddy is going upstairs. He tries to look for Jack and Abe while being on the stairs, but he doesn't find them. Abe and Jack hear their footsteps, and they also start moving. Jack realizes Pietro's golden gun has only three bullets left.
"Fuck," says Jack. "Only three bullets."
"Let me do the work," answers Abe."
Another gunshot is heard and a book falls to the floor with a hole in it. Both Jack and Abe don't make any sound... they know Pyle is near them.
"1..." says Abe.
Jack hears that Pyle is taking some books out of the bookshelf. "2..." he answers. The gangsters are now looking at each other. They are ready now. Jack looks at Pyle's shadow coming to him and shouts: "3!"
Pyle wants to shoot first but Jack shots twice to the Barnes brother's chest. He tries to keep standing up by holding onto the bookshelf but he falls with a book on his hand. He starts gasping while spitting blood from his mouth.
"Marcus... " says Pyle. "...went for the girls... you fuckers... he will go... to the dancefloor and will shoot..." Abe knows they must hurry up, so he touches Jack's shoulder and nods his head. Jack understands what he's saying and shoots Pyle in the head. One dead man.
"Stay here and save W," says Abe. "I will look for Marcus."
"But... I don't have ammo, Abe." So Abe gives Jack his gun. "No," is the first thing that comes from Jack's mouth.
"I don't need this."
"You need that. Marcus has a gun."
Abe winks an eye and says while chuckling: "I have an idea. Trust me. Do you have your swiss knife here?"
Jack looks for it inside his shirt's pocket. He thinks he doesn't have it but suddenly... he touches something sharp. He knows that thing is what he was looking for. He gets the knife out and gives it to Abe. "Good luck," he says to his friend before he leaves.
Meanwhile, on the second floor, both Freddy and W are not moving from their comfort zones. There are twelve bookshelves on that floor. Freddy is into the third one, while W is hiding behind the eleventh one. Pietro slowly gets up after looking at Jack getting out of the bookshelves.
"What happened?" asks Pietro. Jack gives him his golden gun.
"This happened," he says. "Your golden gun just fucking sucks." Both men start getting nearer the stairs. Freddy finds out they are talking and also starts walking to the stairs, but slowly.
"Thank you..." he answers with a fake laugh. "Hey, what about the fat guy?"
Jack looks at him and emits a small, serious chuckle. "You mean Pyle Barnes?"
"Um... yeah, if it was his name."
Jack turns around and points one of the bookshelves. Pietro doesn't understand what he is saying. "He is sleeping. Right there. I was his hairdresser tonight. I cut his hair and... well, shot him on his head."
"What?" says Pietro. "You... killed him?"
"Yeah," answers Jack. "It was gross, I admit."
Jack and Pietro go upstairs and come across Freddy, who is pointing the gun at Jack's head.
"You killed my brother," says an angry Freddy. "Now you must pay."
Then, Freddy pulls out another gun from his pocket and starts shooting. Jack and Pietro fastly hide and W moves from the eleventh bookshelf. He is now on the seventh one while loading his gun. Freddy and Jack are about to make another shooting.
"Take cover, Pietro," says Jack.
"A... Are you sure?"
Jack looks at Pietro now. "What do you think, you bitch?"
"Ok, ok!" he says while going downstairs. There is something that calls Jack's attention: Freddy didn't even shoot Pietro while he was running downstairs. He may be a Plegovich, but not even a bullet? Come on. Besides, Barnes brothers can't be so loyal to Plegovich. They love Gordo... Gordo is their god! Anyway, he tries to ignore it and starts firing his gun against Freddy and running from one bookshelf to another one.
Eventually, Jack arrives at the seventh bookshelf and finds W. "Finally," he says.
"Yeah," answers W while getting up. Freddy arrives and W shoots at him four times. Two shots are missed, but the other two finish on his chest. He falls to the floor and tries to defend himself, but W shoots him another time on his head, killing him. W takes a long breath and grabs his phone.
"What are you doing?" asks Jack.
"Calling my grandpa."
"For what?"
"He told me he would be here to clean."
"What? But he lives on the Sandy Suburbs, W! It would take a million years for him to arrive here!"
"Wait," says W, interrupting Jack's words. "Grandpa? Is that you?"
"Come on! How could this voice not be me?"
"Whoops, sorry. Look..."
"Yeah, I'm already downstairs. I'm looking at you from here."
"WHAT?" W looks at the first floor from the balcony and looks at his grandpa with a trash bag. "What the fuck, grandpa?"
"Yeah! It's a-me, grandson!"
Both W and Jack go downstairs and greet Wilbur. "Well, Schizoid," says Jack. "One of the bodies is behind that bookshelf." Then, W moves Pyle's dead body out of there. "And there is also another body upstairs."
"So... two bodies," answers Wilbur.
"Three."
Everyone turns around and they look at Abe, who is covered in blood, has his shirt ripped and has a rusty machete filled with blood tears. "Three bodies, Wilbur."
Abe is running around the hallways when he finds Marcus Barnes loading his gun.
"MARCUS!" he shouts. It calls his attention and points the gun at Abe.
"Abraham," he says. "What are you doing here?"
"I thought that fight we had weeks ago didn't have a proper ending."
Marcus slowly puts the gun down. "I think the same."
"So... what about... doing it again?"
A smile appears on Marcus' face as he keeps his gun in his pocket. Then, he takes his brown sweater off and reveals he has a machete under it. "Do you like it?" says Marcus. "I call this trick the Barnes' Sticky Machete."
"Not bad," says Abe, while pulling his swiss knife out. Marcus looks at it and explodes in a burst of laughs.
"Are you sure you wanna fight with that piece of shit?" he says and pulls out a small dagger from his pocket and throws it at him. Abe grabs it and smiles.
The Fight Starts. They start moving around the hallways with their weapons. Marcus tries to attack him, but Abe successfully avoids him. He attacks again but this time the machete rips Abe's shirt and leaves in him a small cut. Marcus starts laughing while Abe runs to him for the first time in the fight. Marcus jumps and dodges him while he prepares his machete to attack another time. Abe slowly puts his hand in his pocket and waits for Marcus to give in.
"What are you doing?" asks Marcus.
"Come."
Marcus smiles and runs to him, but Abe stabs Jack's swiss knife on his liver and he falls to the floor.
"I thought that piece of shit didn't work," says Abe. Marcus furiously gets up and grabs the machete, but Abe grabs the dagger and stabs him again, but this time on his hip. He tries to grab the dagger, but Abe smashes his head against a locker and grabs his machete.
"You know..." says Marcus. "There is a fourth man here..."
"I know. Lucas," says Abe while holding the machete and touching Marcus' neck with it.
"No..." he says. "Blueblood is here... Prince Blueblood."
"Ok then," answers Abe. Marcus grabs Abe's legs and makes him fall to the ground, but fortunately, he grabs the machete and stabs Marcus in his chest while being under him. Marcus spits blood from his mouth and stains Abe's face. Then, he gets the machete out of his chest and blood starts leaking and staining Abe's ripped shirt. He falls over Abe and dies there.
Abe moves his body, gets up and robs his gun. "This is for Sweetie Belle," he says, and he shots him in the head.
"Wow," says W. "So... we killed all the Barnes. I can't believe this."
"Yes," says Abe. "And he also told me there is a fourth man."
W has just remembered something he had forgotten and runs away.
"Wait!" says Jack. "Where did he go?"
"Maybe to the dancefloor. Prince Blueblood may be there."
Jack also remembers what W told him. Trixie. Prince Blueblood. But then, another doubt comes out of his head.
"By the way," he says. "Where's Pietro?"
Pinkie Pie is having fun, although she was worried when Duke Starlight fell on the floor saying that he had a headache. She is taking punch while talking with one of Blueblood's workers, a funny guy called Cheese Sandwich. Suddenly, she looks at W entering the party and Pinkie points at him, happy.
"See that guy?" she says. "He is one of my friends."
"Um... I don't know why, but I feel he is very angry," says Cheese Sandwich, worried.
W gets into a massive group of people. He can see Trixie alone and sad, drinking a glass of punch but it is not the perfect moment for helping her, but that image makes him mad. He turns to his left and looks at Prince Blueblood dancing with Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon. Prince Blueblood looks at W and gets scared. The Bedmaker just smiles and sarcastically waves his hand.
"What's wrong?" asks Lyra, and then she looks at W. He gets nearer them.
"I see you are with hot girls, Blue," says W, smiling.
"Yeah... thank you," he answers in a very smooth voice.
"And what about Trixie?" asks W. Blueblood laughs.
"That girl is crazy, man. How could I dance with a chick like that?"
"Oh, you prefer... the superficial ones."
Lyra and Bon Bon look at W furious and move behind Blueblood. "What are you doing? Underestimating my friends?" says the Prince. "Who are you, Trixie's boyfriend?"
Lyra and Bon Bon start laughing, but W answers to the beef: "No. I am the man who will tell you that you should leave this place because I know everything about your daddy's plan... Especially because your guardians are not here anymore."
Blueblood doesn't know what to answer, and the only thing that he can do is to pull out a gun and shoot to the roof. Everyone takes cover except for W and he runs away. Vinyl Scratch, who is the party's DJ, didn't even find out about the gunshot. W grabs Blueblood by his back and throws him to the floor. The Prince grabs his neck and starts strangling him, but W punches him in the face twice to get free.
"STOP!" shouts Principal Celestia, and eventually Luna appears to separate them. Luna tries to take the hands away from W's neck but Blueblood pushes her. W takes advantage because now there's only one hand on his neck and traps the other one with his arm. The fight is interrupted by Principal Celestia, that grabs W and takes him away from Prince Blueblood. The wealthy student gets up and runs away, leaving the gym. W goes after him.
"I'm going to grab you, you son of a bitch!" shouts W while chasing Blueblood. The Prince is trying to get out of school. W follows him until he catches him at the school's entrance. He has him, but suddenly...
Clang. Ouch.
W falls to the floor because someone hit his head with something. He slowly opens his eyes and looks at the man who hit him: Pietro Plegovich, who is holding a baseball bat while smiling. W is now angry as hell. He thought Pietro would be a good guy because he wasn't a gangster, but now he knows that nobody can trust a Plegovich. He feels betrayed.
Both Pietro and Blueblood run away while W gets up and realizes his nose is bleeding. He goes outside but looks at a car disappearing by turning to the right. They escaped, and also Pietro betrayed not only him but also Abe and Jack. Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna appear.
"May I know what happened?" asks Principal Celestia, angry. "Why did you want to fight with Prince Blueblood in the middle of the party?"
"That party is a trap," answers W, angry. "It was always a fuckin' trap."
"What do you mean?" asks Vice-Principal Luna.
"Blueblood... fucking Pietro. Bloody Pietro."
"What did Pietro do now?"
"Betrayal..." says W, while touching his broken nose. "It is the worst sin."
Wilbur put the three bodies inside two giant trash bags and Jack and Abe are helping him to throw the bodies to the parking lot. They are using the cafeteria's windows to throw the bodies through there and then Wilbur and Abe carry the bodies to the parking lot, where Wilbur's car is staying. Suddenly, while waiting for Wilbur and Abe, Jack receives a message. It is from Mr. Fletcher, the owner of Arpeggio's and W's first adoptive father. He opens the text message and reads it:
"Hey Jack, I don't know if this is important but I have just seen that kid you told me about, Pietro Plegovich, hanging out with Prince Blueblood and his father, talking about the Fort."
Jack's mood automatically changes and calls out for Abe to tell what has just happened.
To be continued...