Jackie Kane at the Dead End Saloon v1.3 by wormwood@flanet.com Jackie gets into a fight with four guys, but only kills three of them Hey all, this WAS my first Amazon story. After its initial posting, I noticed that it was riddled with errors. I fixed what I could find. Enjoy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JACKIE KANE AT THE DEAD END SALOON v1.3 by wormwood@flanet.com When she walked into the bar, I knew there was going to be trouble. You see, the Dead End Saloon was not your ordinary corner watering hole. It was the toughest biker bar in the county. Hell, the toughest in the whole state. A real old style panhead hangout, if you follow my meaning. No weekend biker wannabes with their high fashion leather and brand new bikes. Only outlaw bikers, the worst kind of thieves, dealers and gun runners could hope to walk out of the Dead End under their own power. I'd personally seen more beatings than I care to remember, and I'd witnessed at least five murders over my eight years tending bar (after the previous bartender got sent upstate for a string of drug and extortion charges). Like I said, it was the kind of place that respectable people avoided, and with damned good reason. Unescorted women just didn't walk in unless they were looking for trouble. The only chicks you saw in the Dead End were either property of one of the bikers, or street meat looking for a new road-daddy. This woman did not look like either type. She looked like trouble. She stood over 6' tall in heavy riding boots. Tight black jeans hugged her every curve. She had on a sleeveless black vest covered with buttons and pins over a tight white t-shirt which clung to her like a second skin. I just stood there staring, because I'd never seen such a magnificent physique in my life! It was her muscles! Every inch of that woman radiated power and strength. Her shoulders were thick and broad, and her arms were like steel cables sprouting out of her shirt. I'd never seen muscles like that on a woman (or a man for that matter). I'd seen larger arms and legs on men, of course, but hers were so raw, so defined, it was like she was carved out of living steel. I could barely imagine the sheer strength in those arms, strength capable of effortlessly destroying a human body. Her chest was massive and deep, but not because of her tits (which were nothing to sneeze at) but because of the powerful chassis of firm muscle which strained her shirt and vest with every breath. Within those tight jeans her legs were pillars of rock hard muscle, easily capable of crushing the life out of any man. Black hair was cut into a short ruff, maybe 6" long and swept away from her face. Her eyes were concealed beneath mirrored riding glasses, and a hint of a smile was on her face. She was pale, almost white, and the thick veins in her bulging forearms and thick corded neck were blue in the dim light of the bar. She reminded me in that moment like a lioness, rippling muscles tensed to spring under her sleek hide. Everything stopped while she just stood there, giving the saloon a slow glance from behind her mirrorshades. Dead silence. She pulled out a pair of black leather fingerless gloves and slowly slipped them onto her surprisingly large hands. Her fingernails were long and polished black. Finally she spoke. "Which one of you pieces of shit is Randy Pritt?" [A little background for you. Randy Pritt was the head of the local Hell Hounds, one of the oldest and most feared Outlaw biker clubs in the southeast. He was heavily into guns and drugs, and abused both of 'em. I once saw him break both of a man's legs over a jukebox dispute, and I'd seen him beat another man crippled over a spilled drink. Rumor had it that he had nearly twenty kills under his belt, and I can vouch for the fact that he was a stone cold psychopath. He was over 6 and a half feet tall, and must have weighed over 300 pounds. His friggin hands were damned near as big as my head, and his chest looked like an oil barrel. Bald and heavily bearded with filthy red hair, he was just about the ugliest man I'd ever known. He was also the most frightening. He was slow, but his sheer size and strength reduced his opponents to pulp, and the guy was completely immune to pain. I've seen pool cues and beer bottles broken over his iron head, and he just laughed them off.] Randy wasn't laughing now. He leaped to his feet, overturning the table he and four of his gang had been sitting at, rage and amphetimines burning in his piggy eyes. "What the fuck did you say, bitch?" he bellowed at the woman as his friends rose unsteadily to their feet beside him. She leveled her mirrored gaze in his direction and said conversationally, "I said which one of you pieces of shit is Randy, but I guess that you're the fatass piece of shit I was looking for." This time some drunken biker in the back of the bar started chuckling, which caught on until half the bar was laughing. They stopped when Randy pulled his huge .44 Magnum out and pointed it straight at the strange woman's face. "Before I blow your fucking head off, you mind telling me who the hell you are?" he said between clenched teeth, the gun shaking in his rage. To the astonishment of the entire bar, she calmly closed the distance between her and the furious Randy. "My name is Jackie. Jackie Kane. My brother is Alex Kane. Do you remember Alex, you fat scumbag?" Dim recognition played on Randys sweaty face. "You mean the narc? Yeah I remember him. Sorry to hear what happened to him". This got even more laughter out of the other bikers. Alex Kane was an undercover cop who tried to infiltrate the Hell Hounds a couple of moths back. He was found severely beaten in front of the police headquarters one morning, and had remained in a coma ever since. "Assailants unknown" was the official line,but everyone on the street knows it was Randy who crippled him. Jackie reached up slowly and removed her sunglasses, revealing piercing green eyes. Smiling, she told Randy, "You're not sorry enough, fat boy. That's why I'm going to kill you." Randy laughed at this threat, "You? YOU are gonna kill ME? How were you gonna do it, gorgeous? You got a gun hidden in them tight pants?" "I don't need a gun, pig. I'm going to kill you with my bare hands", she purred, closing the distance between them fearlessly. I watched her as she moved, her powerful leg muscles confined in those straining jeans. I could not believe how turned on I was by this dangerous musclegirl. Her powerful arms hung loosely near her narrow waist, but even at ease her tawny muscles were absolutely breathtaking. She radiated power and confidence even though her face was a mere 6 inches from the barrel of Randy's large .44. Laughter spread through the bikers, but it was nervous, on edge. I noticed that while the men found this scene amusing, some of the biker's women weren't laughing. They had a strange look in their eyes, as if they could see something that their boyfriends couldn't. I understand now that they knew the difference between threats and promises. When men prepare to fight, an elaborate ritual of threat and counter-threat, bluff and bravado takes place. A ritual display of dominance which is often more important than actual combat. When women fight, on the other hand, they do not make threats or bluffs. They fight to hurt, to kill. I may not have known that then, but I learned. Leering like an animal, Randy tossed his gun to one of his posse and spread his thick arms wide. "Lady, you just made my night. Take your best shot. Then I'm gonna fuck you right here on this pool table. And when I'm done, I'm gonna let the rest of my buddies have some fun with you. Hell, I might even let you be my bitch for a while..." He was cut off mid sentence by a blinding fist to the mouth. Jackie threw that punch with such speed that nobody understood what happened until they saw Randy standing there holding his bleeding mouth in his hands. Randy just stood there, stunned, as Jackie smiled, "That's not going to happen. You're going to be my bitch tonight, porkie. Then I'm going to break you in half. You ready, big boy?" She backed up a few paces, assuming a relaxed fighting stance with her muscular legs bent slightly at the knees. Randy did not answer, but howled in primal fury. He launched himself at her, leading with his huge outstretched hands aimed at her throat. Moving like a cat, she caught his right fist in her left, and pivoted at the waist. She let his considerable momentum carry him past her, then wrenched his huge arm out and behind his back as she kicked the side of his right knee with the heel of her boot. A sickening snap echoed in the silent saloon, as his leg was broken at the knee. Jackie released his arm and he crashed to the floor with his right foot splayed out at an unnatural angle. Shrieking in blind pain, Randy flopped around on the floor like a wolf caught in a leg trap. Jackie stood over his writhing bulk and planted three rib snapping kicks to his exposed flank, causing him to howl in agony. Everyone in the bartood there staring in mute disbelief and horror as this woman kicked the crap out of the toughest man we knew. Her first kick must have broken something, because we all heard a wet, muffled crack when her powerful leg connected with Randy's side. He rolled over onto his side in an attempt to protect his fragile ribs, so her second bone crushing blow ended up crashing into his solar plexus, blowing the wind out of him and raising his shrieking to a maddened pitch. He just lay there like a corpse after that, even as she planted a third devastating kick into his guts, a blow so powerful that his unconscious bulk rolled under the bar. I knew she must have broken something, something deep and important, because he just lay there, bleeding. The reverie was broken when Ray Ray, a tall wiry biker who served as Randy's lieutenant leaped to his feet, yelling, "What the fuck? That's enough bitch!" and levelled Randy's discarded .44 in her direction. In a single fluid movement, Jackie spun into a high kick and struck the gun, sending it flying across the silent saloon. Ray Ray looked down at his bloodied hand in disbelief as Jackie strode purposefully toward him. She launched a closed fist backhand at his face, which he feebly tried to block. She battered his arm aside like a child's and her fist cracked into his beared jaw, audibly breaking it. Then she grabbed his bloody hand and yanked down while bringing up her knee. His face collided with her raised knee with trainwreck force, snapping his head back in a spray of blood and spit. He collapsed to his knees, pathetic groans coming from his bloody lips while she held his one arm straight up above him. She began applying pressure to the shoulder, her own shoulder and arm muscles bulging from the powerful arm lock. She looked up, daring anyone else to step forward, then gave his arm a brutal wrench at the elbow, gruesomely snapping it. Ray Ray let out terrifying a high pitched scream at this, and began to vomit on the filthy floor. In a panic, I reached under the bar and pulled out an aluminum baseball bat which I kept there for emergencies. I figured this had gone on far enough and I'd better stop the beatings before someone got killed. And this lady looked like she would like nothing more than crush the life out of some of my customers. She looked up from the Ray Ray's twisted body and flashed me a cold smile. "You'd better drop the bat before I come over there and snap your neck. Okay?" Her green eyes were piercing and cold, and I shudder at the thought of her chilling smile, half hoping I'd take her up on her threat. I glanced down stupidly at the bat hanging uselessly in my hands. One more look at Jackie, her wide powerful shoulders and bulging arms, her strong firm legs, her heavy bloodied fists and worst of all her cold feral smile was all it took. I envisioned her applying those bone crushing muscles to me, effortlessly beating me into a bloody pulp...How could I possibly hope to defend myself from such brutal strength? I was like a child compared to her power. She could easily beat me to death, bat or no, and we both knew it. I dropped the bat and brought my hands up where she could see them. "Smart boy" she sneered. She turned, growling, "Anyone else wanna get involved?". At this, five or six bikers at the back of the saloon leaped to their feet and ran out the back door. Others got up and backed away from the carnage, too terrified to leave. That's when I noticed Jimmy, a skinny little speedfreak who hangs out with th Hell Hounds, frantically fumbling with the pay phone near the pool tables. He must have slipped away from Randy's table during the commotion. He shot me a fearful look, his eyes white with panic. Jackie noticed also, and told him, "drop the phone or I'll break your back. Understand?" Driving her threat home, she grabbed a handful of Ray Ray's filthy hair in her large fist and drew his sobbing head back up. He was barely conscious, his eyes were closed and filled with tears, and bloody foam was dripping off his beard. Still holding his sobbing head in one hand, she slowly drew back her powerful right arm, beads of sweat on her rolling muscles. She held her fist back for a second or two, just long enough for Ray Ray to see what was coming. His eyes flew open in absolute terror, and a whimper escaped his bloody lips as her muscular arm pistoned out with blinding speed and incredible force. He flew back and crashed into a table, sending three chairs clattering away. He landed in a heap, battered face up. His eyes were closed, and fresh blood streamed out of his crushed nose. From across the bar I could see where his lips had been sliced open by broken teeth. She turned and looked at Jimmy still standing at the phone. In the silence of the bar, I could here a voice saying, "911 operator. What is your emergency?..." coming faintly from the receiver Jimmy held in his shaking hand. Now, Jimmy's mind had long since been fried on crank and speed, so I guess I should have seen what was going to happen. He started blubbering into the receiver, "Please, you gotta send some cops! There's this psycho bitch at the Dead End Saloon and she's kicking the shit outta my friends! Please you gotta help oh god shes's coming please pleas help me ogodogod..." He was cut off when Jackie tore the cord out of the phone. Jimmy just stood there, stupidly blubbering into a dead phone. Jackie said softly, "Why did you have to do that, man? Now I have to break you. You understand that, don't you?" Jimmy, too afraid to even move, just stood there shaking like a rabbit. She sighed and bunched up a handful of his filthy shirt in her left hand, pushing him against the wall. Slowly she brought up her right fist leaving it right in front of his face. "You see this, punk? Do you know how much damage I could do to you with just this fist?" She then brought her arm up, flexing her immense bicep under his quaking nose. Fully flexed, her arm was unbelievable, with a massive, dense bicep surrounded with thick striated muscles. Fully flexed, the arm easily measured 16 to 18 inches. I was awestruck staring at that arm, fear mingled with inexplicable lust gnawing at my guts. "You see these muscles, baby? Do you have any idea how easily I could snap you in half with my bare hands? I could beat you to death, little man. I could punch the heart out of your chest. I could twist your little head off and there is nothing you could do about it. If I wanted to hurt you, nobody, nothing could stop me. I can do anything I want to you, and I will. I can crush your skull to powder in less than one minute. It'll take those cops at least fifteen minutes to get here. By the time they arrive, I could have broken every single bone in your scrawny little body. They can't stop me. Nobody can. You should have just done what I told you to. All that phone call did was make me angry. Now I'm going to punish you. Do you understand?" Jimmy was frozen, his wide eyes fixed on the bulging, powerful arm inches from his face. His knees buckled, but she held him up against the wall by his shirt, supporting his weight with one arm. The useless phone receiver dropped from his nerveless fingers. He grabbed her arm with both hands, pathetically attempting to break her grip to no avail. Her arm was unmoveable, he pushed and strained and it didn't give an inch. He pounded his fists against her thick, muscular forearm, but his blows just bounced off like they were striking dense steel. I could smell the sharp odor of his piss as his fear took complete control. Smiling, she drove her right fist deep into his stomach. He convulsed with the terrific impact, the air forced from his lungs in an explosive whoosh. He would have crumpled right there had Jackie not been holding him up. Jimmy was weakly struggling to break Jackies iron grip on his shirt, to somehow escape the unbelievable punishment he was enduring. He was quite literally fighting for his life, we all knew it, and we also knew that his life was completely in her control. Another punch and her fist seemed to be swallowed by his abdomen. She put even more brutal force into this blow, and I could hardly imagine the damage she was inflicting on Jimmy's internal organs. A gout of bloody saliva spurted from his lips and landed on her shirt. "You little fuck!", she screamed, and smashed the heel of her hand up and into his face. The numbing force of the blow whipped his head back into the wall behind him. She released her hold on his shirt as she drove her right fist into his belly, following it up with an equally devastating left. She alternated, right and left fists slamming into his guts, her flurry of body blows preventing him from falling to the ground. She kept this up for maybe 20 seconds, with one crushing blow landing every second while I watched in shock at this display of raw animal brutality. Her powerful back and shoulder muscles lent each obliterating blow enough force to actually raise his feet from the floor. From what I could tell, Jimmy's been KO'd since the fourth punch. She was hitting him like a boxer hitting a punching bag, except punching bags didn't have bones, blood or tissue. Jimmie's abdomen must have been just reduced to pulp, a thick paste behind his bruised and lacerated flesh. With Jackies attentions focused on poor Jimmy, the bulk of the remaining bikers decided to make a discrete exit. The place was pretty much cleared out except for 4 bikers standing around the bar, two more Hell Hounds who looked on in disbelief, a couple of drunks who had no idea what was going on, and a trio of biker chicks who stared at the grisly scene in open fascination. Ray Ray was still unconscious and bleeding in a heap, but Randy was slowly crawling up the bar, his teeth clenched from the pain of his broken leg and ribs, blood trickling into his matted beard. He shot a frantic look at his two remaining friends, motioning for them to attack Jackie while her back was turned. Exchanging uncertain glances, the two Hell Hounds, Billy Ray and Animal, crept toward the occupied Jackie. Animal, an ex-marine in his early 30's, drew a long wicked knife from a sheath on his hip. He was just under 6 feet tall, lean and strong. Billy Ray, a notorious drinker, was about 5' 6" but built like a linebacker. He unscrewed a pool cue and brandished the butt like a club. They got to within 6 feet of Jackie's back before she noticed them behind her. She moved like lightning, grabbing the incapacitated Jimmy by the lapels of his greasy jacket. She turned to meet her would be assailants, roughly throwing Jimmy's battered body on the floor between them. I could see dark wet stains on Jimmy's shirt where her devastating fists had reduced his abdomen to hamburger. Animal and Billy Ray stopped in their tracks, staring at what was left of their friend. Jackie wore a toothy smile, and she fixed them each with a cold glare. She was breathing a little heavy, her massive rippling chest straining the fabric of her blood spattered shirt. She lifted her powerful foot and slammed it crashing down on Jimmys pulverized stomach, grinding her heel in the bloody abdomen, crushing out out his life like she would crush out a cigarette. He spasmed for a moment, and a thick clot of blood and bile shot from his mouth and nose. His twitching subsided, and he stopped moving altogether. The human body can only withstand so much punishment. That final act of brutality was enough to send the rest of the Dead End patrons fleeing for their very lives. The bar was empty except for myself, Jackie, and her four stunned or dead opponents. Without ever taking her eyes from Billy Ray or Animal, who watched Jimmy's death with dumb shocked horror, she raised one bloody fist and pointed a finger at them. "eenie, meenie, miney moe, catch a tiger by its toe...", her finger pointing from one to the other, dripping blood like a grisly metronome. Animal and Billy Ray did not wait for her to finish. They spun in unison, dropping their weapons and running for the door. Before they got 2 steps, Jackie had grabbed each of their collars, holding them back with her powerful arms. From my vantage point behind the bar, all three were facing me; two large men in complete panic being held in place by a single woman, a woman more powerful than both combined. With her right arm, she pulled Billy Ray off his feet and tossed him tumbling back into the wall behind her with a crash. He started to get up and she pointed her finger at him, saying, "If you try to run, I'll catch you." He slumped down, fear overriding his flight instinct. He knew he could never outrun those powerful legs. Jackie's massive left arm and shoulder muscles were bulging as she held fast 200 pounds of wriggling biker. She grabbed the seat of his pants with her right arm and hefted him up and over her head. She stood holding Animal completely helpless above her, her slabs of dense muscle handling the strain with ease. "These are the best you can come up with, pigfucker?" she spat, looking at Randy who quaked with renewed terror. Animal's arms and lags were flailing, but he could not break free of her superior strength. I stared, awestruck by her seemingly endless strength, as she turn in my direction and strode to the bar. "I'd move if I were you" she said, looking at me. I got the hint, and so did the panicked Animal, who renewed his futile struggles with frantic intensity. It did him no good, not with her viselike grip holding him fast. I had barely cleared the bar area when she launched Animal through the air and sent him crashing into the mirrored wall behind the bar. The glass shattered, as did the neon signs which hung on that wall. Animals bloody, lacerated body bounced off th wall and onto the underlying shelf, covered with liquor bottled. The shelf collapsed under him and sent him dazed and sprawling in a bed of broken glass and bloody liquor. She turned and walked past Randy and I, heading for Billy Ray across the barroom who had not moved an inch out of terrified submission. "Good boy. Now what am I going to do to you, I wonder? Anything I want to, I suppose. How could you possibly defend yourself against me?" It was written plainly on Billy Ray's face that he knew she was right. He was pale and shaking, backed up against the far wall, his eyes wide with terror as he contemplated what those bone crushing muscles could do to him. "Tell you what. You were a good boy, so I'll make you a deal. I'll just hit you once. If you're still conscious after one punch, you can go. Ready?" She grabbed him with her vise like left hand, preventing him from dodging the blow. Billy's eyes were riveted on her right fist, which she drew back with chilling slowness. Her arm was flexed back like a steel trap vibrating with tension. Billy Rays eyes were perfectly round as he stared at that fist, positively bursting with potential force. She had released his collar as she launched her punch, pivoting at the waist and throwing her weight behind the her right arm. Every muscle in her body seemed to lend its strength to the blow. Jackie's big fist flew in a sweeping arc, bringing the fist up and around in a blur of motion. The powerful uppercut smashed into Ray's face with a resounding crack. The titanic force of the blow actually lifted Billy Ray's feet off the ground, sending him crashing into the wall behind him. He crumbled to the ground in a boneless heap, his ruined face turned to the ceiling. At first I thought he was dead, since a vicious blow like that could easily have broken his neck or fractured his skull, but I could see his ragged breathing. I was shocked by how much damage had been done to his face with a single punch. Blood was flowing from his broken nose and left eye socket, which was purple and crushed. I learned later that she had shattered his right cheek and eye socket. His eye had to be removed and his sinuses were never the same again. The last time I saw him he'd developed a speech impediment and a healthy dose of gynophobia. She turn and looked at me, ignoring Randy who had used the distraction to crawl around after his discarded pistol. "How about that punch, barman?" "Awesome," I gulped, "it was awesome". "Damned right it was," she smiled callously. "I'm saving the best for fat boy here," she said, pointing at Randy who was furiously searching for the .44 Jackie had kicked into the corner. She reached down and grabbed his broken leg with her right hand and dragged him into the center of the bar. Groaning in agony, he tried to kick away, but he could not break her iron grip. She pulled his 300+ pound bulk across the filthy bloodstained floor with ease. She stopped her grim advance, then twisted his leg just enough to wrench a ragged scream from Randy's sore throat. "Stay still," she commanded through clenched teeth. He obeyed instantly, his body going limp. The scream must have wakened Ray Ray, who groggily shook his head and climbed to his unsteady feet behind us. I turned my head and saw him, his left eye swollen shut, his upper lip a torn strip of meat, his two lower front teeth broken, his jaw and cheeks a canvas of deep blue bruises and welts. He could barely stand up and had to support himself with a barstool, wincing at the pain of his broken arm. He took a long, one eyed look at the ruined bar. What he saw must have blown his mind. The only people standing were Jackie and myself (although I was tucked away quietly at the side of the bar). It looked like a tornado had hit the place, leaving nothing but broken glass, blood, and scattered bodies. Jackie turned and noticed Ray Ray, and a sad smile came to her lips. "My my my. You really should have stayed down," she said taking long, powerful strides in his direction. He put his good hand up (his broken arm hung twisted at an unnatural angle) quickly shaking his head. "No no please no more ah god no...", he blubbered through his broken jaw, backing away from Jackie. He backed into the corner where the bar meets the wall, no escape from the woman advancing toward him. I tried to look away, sick of the violence, but I could not. Something deep and primal within me forced me to watch, forced me to watch HER. "You were going to shoot me, weren't you, big man? You are so weak that you needed a gun to take me out? Well guess what, sweetie..." she said, closing the distance. Before he could blurt out another plea, she rocketed a vicious left into his face with a dull crack. "I..." Slam. A punishing right cross which completely shattered what was left of his ruined jaw and sending 2 broken teeth flying. "...don't..." She followed up with another left, her blazing fist bashing his face in a spray of bloody spit, closing his other eye and sending him into spasms. "...need..." A vicious uppercut which interrupted his forward slump, driving him back into the wall. His broken face looked like raw hamburger. "...a..." Her left hand shot out and grabbed his throat, pinning him up against the wall. "...gun!" Holding his head against the wall, she launched five savage crosses into the side of his skull with her right fist. I watched as her arm worked like a sledgehammer, pounding Ray Ray's skull to paste. She held him up for a couple of seconds, his disfigured head flopping in her grip. Twin trickles of bright blood dribbled out of his ear and nose as weak spasms twitched along his limbs. She let him drop to the floor, where he lay in a twisted heap until the coroner arrived 2 hours later. Death due to shock, with massive head trauma, multiple concussions, and a fractured skull. This was getting too much, and I sidled over to the front door to make my escape. I never made it. She crossed the room in a heartbeat and grabbed my lapels, effortlessly lifting me up into the air! I am 5' 10" and weigh 160 pounds, but she hefted me up like I was a child! I have never felt so helpless, I was completely in her power. I hung there, half a foot off of the ground, staring dizzily at the powerful shoulders, deep chest, and massive arms which held me aloft. Not thinking, I grabbed her arms, and even after all I had witnessed that night, I was absolutely amazed. It was like touching polished steel wrapped in silk! I'd never felt such power in a human being. God, it was like she was made of marble, living stone. If she decided to turn those incredible muscles against me, I would be utterly incapable of defending myself. She smiled sweetly and said, "No, I think you should stay, okay?" I nodded like an idiot and she slowly set me back on my feet. Just a taste of her overwhelming strength left me breathless. She smiled and turned her attentions back to Randy, sprawled out on the floor. He was covered in sweat and his thick lips were split and purple. Fully aware of her ability to inflict pain and death, he made a feeble attempt to scramble away from her, but he had no hope of escape, and he knew it. "So...where were we fat boy?" Randy was positively blubbering, tears freely flowing down his bloated face. "Please lady, please," he whimpered, "I'm sorry, okay? I'm sorry!" "Are you afraid of me?" she teased. "Are you afraid or my strength?" "Yes," he cried, "Yes!", blood staining his teeth. She stood in front of him, planting her powerful legs on either side of his head, forcing him to look up at her towering frame. "Good. You should be afraid." She knelt on one knee, bringing her face down to meet his. Their eyes met. "Now I'm going to kill you." "Noooooo please..." he howled, wild animal panic driving his pleas as he begged for his life. Jackie stood over his back, straddling him. She pushed him down with one foot, forcing him lie flat on the filthy ground as he squirmed beneath her foot. She kept her boot squarely on his back, preventing him from moving. He struggled, but his injuries prevented him from summoning any real resistance. She reached down, grabbed his left wrist and pulled his arm straight up. He shrieked, shaking his head and stamping his good leg. 'I'm going to break you, fat man. One piece at a time," she said as she began twisting his arm in its socket. Even her considerable strength was tested, but inevitably her straining muscles won out over his sinew, cartilage and bone. Randy's screams of agony were ragged and hoarse by the time I head a sickening ripping and popping come from his shoulder. With a final heave, she wrenched his now useless arm violently to the right and dropped it, where it flopped to the ground, a bluish swollen length of useless meat. Randy had passed out from the pain, his breath rattling from him in wet gasps. She turned her attention to his right arm and duplicated her grisly work, tearing the muscles and tendons from his meaty shoulder before the final snapping of bone left the arm irreparable ruined. A wave of nausea passed over me as I watched her methodically torture this man to death. It was like watching a sadistic child pulling the wings off an insect. As if noticing his unconsciousness for the first time, she rolled him onto his back. His pale twisted arms flopped like deflated balloons. She grabbed a bottle of whisky from the bar and poured it on his face, slapping him roughly. Eventually, his eyes fluttered open, rolling in their sockets. "It's almost over, sweetheart. Don't die on me yet", she purred into his ear. He did not even have the strength to whimper, much less resist. Kneeling, she straddled his chest and unloaded a vicious backhand straight onto his face, then brought her hand back in a cracking openhanded slap. She continued this methodical single handed beating for an agonizing 45 seconds. After the first twenty or so blows, her hand was spraying blood in a splattering arc. From my vantage point, I could not see Randy's face, just her powerful arm swinging like a gory pendulum, obliterating flesh and bone with each swing. She paused, breathless. "Damn, he's out again." This time she reached back and clasped her hand to the crotch of his jeans. Finding what she wanted, she squeezed, the tendons on her dense forearm rising in sharp relief from the force of her grip. I heard a rattling wheeze, which I assumed meant that Randy was conscious again. "That's better," she said, "Time to say good bye." Reaching under his ruined arms, she hefted him clumsily into a sitting position, where he swayed in delirium. When I saw what she had done to his face I had to fight the urge to vomit. His entire face was a mass of raw meat. I'd never seen anything like it before in my life. She had obliterated him. Small eyes glinted under a mask of glistening red pulp. His nose was flattened, one nostril ripped open nearly an inch wide. His lower lip dangled by a single flap of skin, revealing a checkerboard pattern of broken, twisted teeth in a hingeless jaw. He hardly looked human any more. She wound her right arm around his neck from behind, resting his shattered chin and bloodsoaked beard in the crook of her arm. She flexed her arm, her bulging bicep and forearm squeezing shut his windpipe and causing the blood to flow even more forcefully from his many facial wounds. She would relax her huge arm just long enough to allow him to catch his breath, then she would squeeze, her muscles growing enough to nearly black him out. Finally, she wrapped her left arm around her right in an obscene mockery of an embrace. She gave a mighty squeeze, both arms exerting tremendous crushing force. Randy's eyes flew open with this renewed punishment, but I don't know what he saw, if anything. I could hear a muffled crackling stretching sound as his larynx and arteries were crushed. She squoze with renewed strength and his spine snapped with a wrenching pop. She released his shuddering bulk with a boneless crash and stood facing me. Her rippling arms and corded neck were slick with blood which stained her shirt and vest. "Don't be afraid. I'm not going to hurt you," she said as she strode over to me. I was shaking violently, overcome with nausea and terror. She reached into a vest pocket and produced a large roll of bills. "For the damage," she said, placing the bloodstained money on the bar next to me. She walked past me and opened the door. I could hear sirens in the distance. "If you tell anyone my name, I'll come back and tear out your tongue. Understand?" I understood. --------------------------------------------------------- Okay, that's more like it. Thanks for your patience. Stay tuned for more episodes in the "Jackie Kane goes somewhere and beats some big guys to death" series. RC