Bruises In The Night By Klunker100(@yahoo.com) PART 2 (An attractive young woman attracts the wrong kind of attention, then has to go a long, hard ways to make things right. Contains violence, forced sex, and coarse language.) After beating up her share of trucker women (and men), she graduated to biker chicks...they seemed to be meaner and tougher...a greater challenge. One of Sharon's long-time quarry was Wendy, a large woman who needed the biggest chopper she could find...but it wasn't fat. She didn't have a fella Sharon could get a rise out of by flirting with, so another avenue was needed. Once Wendy was loaded with the proper amount of firewater, Sharon decided it was showtime. "You know, Wendy," she said as she brought the next round, "I really envy girls like you." "Whaddaya mean, 'like me'?" "You know...you can wear those guys clothes and nobody really cares what you look like when you're all alone there on your bike. Look at what I have to go through...I have to wear sexy outfits and watch my figure so the guys will keep coming back -- because the boss likes that." "Oh...well, I'll just park my ass over in the corner so these apes can get a better look at yours...OK, dearie?" Sharon chuckled. "Aw, you don't need to go through any trouble for me. After all, I imagine there are some guys out there who like the 'robust' look...isn't that what they call it nowadays...?" Wendy started to climb out of her chair and snarl. "'Robust', eh, you skinny bitch? I'll 'robust' your ass all over that wall!" The leather-clad behemoth brushed the table out of the way and drew her arm back to deliver the haymaker. Sharon saw it coming a mile away and thought she'd have some fun with it. As Wendy threw her best punch, Sharon lifted up her hand and caught it mid-flight. Her hand wasn't nearly as big as her attackers, but was much stronger. Wendy screamed and writhed in pain as the muscular bartender squeezed harder and harder. Now an experienced fighter, Sharon let loose with a flurry of quick right jabs, dropping her opponent to the floor. The stunned biker staggered to her feet. Her natural instinct was to point her arms towards Sharon's head and pull her hair out by the roots, but Sharon's experience told her that a blow to the gut might be a good way to stop this rhino in her tracks. One punch was all it took to stun the enraged Wendy. But as she drew back her extended arms, she grabbed Sharon's t-shirt and ripped it off, nearly taking her bra off in the process. "Oh...so you wanna see my tits?!?! Why in the hell didn't you just say so?!?!" the angry but controlled Sharon said. She quickly finished taking off her bra and threw it in Wendy's face. She then grabbed her hair and pulled her head into her large, firm breasts and rubbed. After she figured the large biker was about to get over the initial shock, she kneed Wendy in the stomach, dropping her to her knees. Still holding the huge woman firmly by her long, blonde hair, she drove her head into her crotch. "I suppose you'd like to eat me out while you're at it, huh?!?!" Wendy started to recover. She wrapped her arms around Sharon's legs, lifted her up, and threw her into a table. She then kicked the smaller redhead in the mid section with such force as to lift her off the floor. Sharon quickly got up and hit Wendy with a flurry of blows to the face until she fell over a table, unconscious. It was a hard-fought victory, but Sharon's record was intact. Her confidence was at an all-time high. She knew it was almost time to go into Phase Three...almost. A week later, a new customer walked into the bar. It was a tall brunette. She kept to herself and looked around -- a little too much. Sharon was concerned but not frightened...other bars in town had been robbed at gunpoint but the Wheel had not been touched...too many customers packed heat and the bad guys knew they had better not mess with anybody's beer. As Sharon walked downstairs to bring up another case of beer, she heard the door slam behind her. It was the stranger. "You're the slut who put my cousin in the hospital." She removed her leather jacket and Sharon could see that she was at least as muscular as her. "Nobody fucks with my family like that." Sharon never saw that first punch, but she certainly felt it. Before she could hit back, the brunette had kicked her in the stomach, sending her crashing into the cases of liquor. Sharon had finally met her match. She quickly rolled out of the way, avoiding another kick. She managed to land a couple of blows to the body but they didn't stop her. The stranger landed a quick right to Sharon's mouth, cutting her lip. Sharon returned the favor with equal results. Things were started to even up again. But the strapping brunette was obviously a trained fighter. A series of kicks and punches sent Sharon to the floor, bleeding and in pain, but still among the living. As a final indignity, the brunette yanked off Sharon's skirt, making it as painful as it could be, and ripped off her panties with equal vigor. The victorious girl grabbed a bottle of beer in one hand and Sharon's ankle in the other and spread her leg away from her body. She forced the neck of the bottle just inside Sharon's vagina then suddenly stopped. "This is just a friendly warning, bitch: you ever mess with any of my friends or family and I'm gonna come back and fuck you up real bad...you got that?" Sharon nodded. The stranger put her jacket back on and muttered, "And the said you were tough. Hmph!" As Sharon lay on the floor, the owner's wife, Debby, walked in and gasped. She picked the injured woman up and placed her on a cot in an adjoining room. She asked Sharon what happened and got the 'pat' answer, but pressed her on the truth. "Look, sweetie...ever since you've been here you've picked a lot of fights. It's almost like you were filling in an undercard. What gives?" Sharon broke down in tears and told her the whole story. Debby let Sharon finished before she asked her the $64,000 question: Can you describe this pimp and the woman who was with him. After she did, Debby put her head in her hands and said, "That sounds like 'D-Day' McClain and Ruby." This was the first time Sharon had a name she could associate with their faces. In her quest to exact revenge, she suddenly realized she never even knew the names of these people who attacked her. Debby continued. "My niece got caught up with those bastards. She was a beautiful child. Poor girl was murdered when one of her johns got drunk and shot her. They couldn't hang it on D-Day, but the cops knew how it happened. Well, girl, we've been looking for a way to get back at him and it looks like we've found it. But first we need to get you some help." She walked over to the phone, called her husband, Ed, and told him what happened. Debby drove Sharon to her house. When they arrived, Ed and his brother, Ken, were eagerly waiting. Debby introduced Ken -- a retired policeman -- as the father of the murdered girl. They sat around the kitchen table and hatched a plan. Ken said, "You know that if I lay a finger on him, I'll go to jail. If Ed does anything, he'll lose his liquor license. If somebody were to just happen to walk up to him and blow his head off, we all know the world would be better off for it, but they'd have to investigate it and we don't want anybody going to jail for getting rid of the trash. However, if -- and that's a mighty big 'if' -- somebody who didn't have anything to lose were to go in there and put the hurt on them, that's another story. Whaddya say, Ed?" All eyes were on Ed, but Sharon didn't understand why. "OK, I'll train her," he said. Debby explained to Sharon that Ed was in the Green Berets and could teach her how to take care of herself. "Now, dear, you're one tough chick but after what happened tonight I don't think you'd be any match for Ruby. Ed knows his stuff and he won't let you go in there and get yourself killed." Sharon agreed to be trained by the aged warrior. Ken still had friends on the police department who could tell him when the time was 'right'. Sharon thought loading airplanes was hard work, but Ed made that seem like a walk in the park. Their basement was turned into a little gym. After each workout came the fight training. Here, Sharon saw that her barroom scuffles were successful because her opponents were lacking the proper skills, so to go against Ruby, who was an athlete trained in the 'manly arts', she simply had to rise to the occasion. Her toned muscles became thicker, deeper, and stronger; her fighting skills had also become quite sharp. She picked a couple more fights back at the Fifth Wheel and knocked out her opponents with that much more ease. Ed thought she was being wasted pouring drinks in glasses, so he promoted her to bouncer...the Wheel soon lost its reputation for being a do-it-yourself fight card. Events in the city were taking a turn in their favor. Ruby got fed up with the meager handouts D-Day allowed her to live on. With the completion of a new downtown hotel complex, business was booming. She told him she wanted a bigger cut. He refused. He would have liked to have seen her just disappear into the night and not be any more trouble, but he had to put up with her insolence because effective strong-arm men were in short supply and strong-arm women were in even shorter supply. He knew that if they fought again, he may not get in the lucky shot that put her out the last time. But he also knew he couldn't show any signs of weakness in front of the organization, so a concealed knife was his best insurance policy...but everybody knew it was there, just waiting. "You cheap bastard! I've been taking your shit for more than five years. FIVE YEARS! And what have I got to show for it? Nothing! Not a damned thing! Every time you want somebody's ass kicked, who do you run to? Me, that's who! And when you want to fuck some little white bitch, I'm the one who has to nail her first! You're too chicken-shit to do it yourself!" "Shut up, bitch! I took you in and taught you everything you know! You owe me, woman! You were just the house nigger at that place and I gave you what you needed! You're just a big, fat, ugly ho' who wouldn't be shit if it wasn't for me! Ruby, you just get your sorry ass out of here!" Ruby ran out of the room in tears. D-Day couldn't afford to be sentimental...he had to conduct business as usual even if it meant hitting the streets without the top-notch protection of his best enforcer. Later that night, when the police made their usual rounds and saw something amiss, they called Ken and told him something was wrong with this picture but didn't have the details. Ken started the jungle drums going...it was time. Ed drove Sharon within sight of D-Day's 'court'. All of his girls were either back at home base or out on all-nighters, so it was time to pack it in. They waited until the lights in his apartment went out before making their move. The two 'commandoes' quickly and silently entered the apartment house and went to D-Day's suite. Ed pried open the lock with no trouble, but woke up D- Day's Enforcer Du Jour, who rolled off the couch, startled. In the dim light coming through the drapes he saw a female shape come towards him at flank speed. He thought his dreams were about to come true. Ed stood guard out in the hallway while Sharon did her stuff. The enforcer was tall. Sharon knew, thanks to Ed's training, just how to handle him. She threw a flurry of punches to his solar plexus, which knocked the wind out of his sails. Doubled over and unable to utter a sound, Sharon kicked him in the face, sending him back onto the couch. He spun towards her, ready to grab her throat, but she blasted him with a right cross before both feet were back on the floor. One more hard left was all it took to knock him unconscious. D-Day heard the commotion and staggered out of his bedroom, half asleep, then quickly fumbled to turn on the lights Sharon turned to face him and froze in fear. He stared at her briefly, trying to place her face. He looked up at her short red hair and put two and two together. His first mistake was to walk towards her without first glancing towards the couch to check on his out-cold bodyguard. His next mistake was to open his mouth. "Been a while, bitch. Come back for more?" "Yeah...I've come back for more. Why don't you show me what I'm getting for my money?" D-Day sneered. "Shit, yeah, bitch. But first lemme see what I'm gettin' for mine." He checked out Sharon's fabulous figure, barely hidden beneath gym shorts and a T-shirt. He vividly remembered her charms, but neglected to check out her chiseled body and iron stare. That was his third mistake. She approached him with a cautious gait and quickly delivered a sidekick to his ribs. He yelled out in pain and grabbed his side. There was no turning back. "I'm gonna fuck you up real bad!" D-Day reached for his knife, but the time he took to hunt for it was all the opportunity Sharon needed. She kicked his wrist, knocking the small hunting knife to the floor, then began punching him in the face, relentlessly, remembering how he had brutalized her almost two years earlier. He went down slow, his face bleeding from the nose, mouth, and cheek. Ed could only wonder what was going on inside, but felt confident things were going the right way. D-Day tried to retaliate but she blocked every punch. But he had been beaten up by a woman one too many times to give up without fighting for his life. He decided to try the trick that had brought Ruby to her knees last year, but since he wasn't wearing his shoes it was even riskier than the last time. He took his best shot, but in his weakened state the attempt was half-hearted at best. Sharon grabbed his ankle, twisted it, and teed off a kick of her own. It landed right in the groin. D-Day's face contorted and he froze. He slowly slumped down to the floor. Sharon didn't know if he was dead or alive, and didn't give a rat's ass either way. Her job here was done. Now came the real challenge. Her adrenaline was pumping full-bore. She was ready. Sharon joined Ed out in the hall. She was slightly sweaty, but otherwise there wasn't a mark on her. He was relieved that this hurdle had been cleared. They walked downstairs to Ruby's apartment where he tried his luck again with a door lock. The handle turned, but this door had a chain. The noise woke Ruby up. She came running, wearing a long nightshirt, towards the door from the blind side. Sharon pointed her shoulder towards the door and barreled through. As it burst open, it caught Ruby unaware -- as well as Sharon. The flying door's edge hit Ruby in the forehead, knocking her to the floor. "Who's there?!?" the downed woman yelled out. Sharon flipped the light switch. "It ain't the Avon lady!" Sharon's heart raced again as she gazed upon her second assailant. Memories of the beating and lesbian rape by this black Amazon in front of her made Sharon tremble, but she knew there was a job to do. The dazed Ruby didn't recognize her, but got up to get rid of the intruder, whoever it was. She spoke slowly. "I don't know who the fuck you are, but you had better get out before I kick your ass." "That was then. This is now," Sharon replied. Then it clicked. Ruby managed a grin and chuckle. "I wondered whatever happened to you. You know, we went back to your place to finish the job but they said you was gone. So I guess now's as good a time as any to finish wompin' your skinny white ass. You still eat that good pussy?" Ruby was on her feet and ready for action. "Just come and get it." Sharon threw her best punch, landing it squarely on Ruby's nose. Although she gave up about seven inches and many pounds to the enforcer, she wasn't intimidated. She quickly threw as many more blows as she could before Ruby could react. But when she did, it was mayhem. This wasn't the same Ruby that couldn't last the full shift; she worked on increasing her endurance since D-Day's vicious beating. Ed glanced in the door and saw black and white fists flying all over the room. He hoped his student was ready. Sharon used her new kickboxing techniques, but as a wrestler Ruby knew how to counter them. The enforcer was having trouble moving around in her nightshirt so she disengaged, stepped back, and tore it off. Sharon gaped at her exposed body, which she saw was more muscular than before, if that was possible. "Impressive, ain't it, bitch?" Ruby taunted. "Now I'm gonna rip your tits off and give the rest to D-Day so he can finish what he started with you." She lunged out and tore Sharon's shirt down the middle. Ruby was shocked by Sharon's muscles, which were almost on par with her own. "You mean this D-Day?" Sharon reached into her pocket and pulled out D-Day's engraved knife. Ruby gasped in shock. She knew that if somebody else had his knife, he was in no shape to use it. Her benefactor was out of the picture and she was frightened. Sharon threw the weapon out in the hall and the two topless women once again traded punches, kicks, and holds. Ed couldn't help but poke his head in every now and then. Ruby's experience was now starting to outweigh Sharon's training. But as Sharon glanced at her opponent's chest and saw the remnants of bruises against her black skin. She saw her opening. She delivered a hard straight-arm to Ruby's left breast, then one to her right. It stopped her dead in her tracks. This was the break Sharon needed, and began launching a quick volley just as D-Day had done. And once again, Ruby used her hands to protect her tender breasts, leaving her face wide open. Sharon threw her hardest kick to the taller woman's face and sent her flying towards the other side of the room. Ruby hit the wall with a loud crash. She fell unconscious, leaving a trail of blood from the back of her head. Sharon walked over and gave her one last kick to the body. Nothing. It was over. Once again, she didn't care if her attacker was dead or alive...it just didn't matter. On the way home, Sharon tried to find it in her to savor her revenge. She kept trying to convince herself that the brutalization, the loss of innocence, and the violation of her privacy and sexuality were all atoned for now, thanks to her physical beating of those responsible. But she just didn't buy it. There she sat in the droning car, numb and speechless. Her single-minded obsession to avenge herself overshadowed what was left of her humanity; it just wasn't as satisfying as she thought it would -- or should -- be. Thoughts of her pre-rape life started to fill her head...the nice clothes, the rewarding job in the clean, bright office, the nice people, her well-scrubbed dates showing up in their impressive cars, her pretty apartment with the flowers outside the door...and here she was, sitting in the junker car of a stranger...her face bleeding, her body bruised, what few clothes she had on, tattered...and worst of all, she was the bouncer in a cheap, filthy roadhouse! The 'old' Sharon wouldn't have been caught dead in these rags or these surroundings...nor would she have set out to beat the shit out of another woman -- or man. Ed tried to strike up a conversation as they drove towards the edge of town, but he could see by her expression that she was in heavy thought. He wondered what was on her mind but didn't press it...his own combat experience taught him that there's a time to debrief and a time to reflect. Sharon continued to ponder her situation. Was any of this worth it, she wondered? She glanced down at her exposed body, admired the musculature of her arms, legs, abs, chest, and cracked a slight smile. Yeah, it was worth it, if nothing else, she thought. Then she mentally went through her old client list, recalling a plastic surgeon who could possibly remove the numerous facial scars she had picked up in the last two years. She turned to Ed, smiled, and said, "You know, I think I'll let my hair grow out." Ed smiled back as she turned over and went to sleep.