Back at Sunshine Apartments, BB and his gangsters have successfully barricaded Apartment 103 up, tensely preparing for the worst. Bonbon, Brandy, the still-yet-to-be-named substitute driver, and the unconscious real getaway driver Blaze- as well as the very poisoned and paralyzed Giichi Hasegawa.

  The group were driven to barricade themselves in Bonbon's apartment after the apartment TV displays the ominous message: "... FOUND YOU, BB." Under the assumption that the Boss is the one that sent the message, as well as the fact that they could be attacked at any moment, they needed to prepare themselves for the worst.

  So, working with what they had- and given the additional time to prepare, the gangsters have not only barricaded the front door with a mattress... they used all of Bonbon's furniture, apart from the TV and the stand it's on top of. All of it has been pushed in front of the door. Couch, fridge, bed, drawers- even his toaster. All of it blocks the one easy way in.

  With door covered, that leaves the several unconventional ways to enter the apartment. The front windows and back windows, as well as - quite possibly - the walls, and the toilet.

  So, BB keeps his hand on his gun, actively peeking out the window. Stationed against the countertop as he actively watches for any suspicious fellas, watching out for any single one of the Boss's underlings- maybe a few, maybe a ton- however many fellas the Boss will send to their location. BB's all ready for them.

  Bed Blueprinter Bonbon's instructed to watch the back windows, Big Brain Brandy's told to keep watch of the walls and the toilet, the still unnamed replacement driver is watching the front with BB...

  ... and Rosemary, the red cloud of gas that makes up Giichi's entire breath. Giichi remains unconscious and completely immobile, so instead of any defensive positions- Rosemary just lets out a groan. Unable to move or do anything in particular, as Giichi is still very much subdued by the poison.

  No, all Rosemary could do is speak.

  And speak she does. "More and more evidence that you guys totally screwed up. Completely wrecked all chances of living. Damn," Rosemary insults, feeling like... taunting, especially as they're all sitting ducks to an incoming threat. "Maybe if you let the competent people take over, then... y'know."

  "Cloudy, ain't no wonder how you managed to arrest hundreds of us, with a mouth like that..." BB mumbles, wiping the sweat off of his forehead. Keeping his ever vigilant eye out for danger. His Beady-eyed Bouncer sight. His BB sight.

  "Mouth ain't the only thing I got," Rosemary proudly boasts, deciding to go with hostile intimidation to make sure these gangsters do NOT get any more creative ideas to take her out. "If I had an antidote, man, I'd totally eff all of you and the other gangsters up with my hands, or my fist... maybe the freaking mouth that arrested y'all."

  "W... Wait, okay, boss, I just tuned back into the conversation. M... Mouth?" uncomfortably asks one of the other gangsters, Brandy. The underling man looking utterly shocked by this comment, his eyes still focused on the toilet.

  "Mouth. Total rage fest. I got some good pearly whites that'll chomp the heck out of someone," Rosemary brutally boasts.

  "... oh, you meant biting. Okay. That... huh," Brandy responds with a look of- relief.

  "..." A gangster being relieved by something she said? Can't have that. Rosemary would squint and smirk in that moment, but she didn't have the eyes and mouth to do so. "What, oh what, could you have been thinking about? Do give me some ideas."

  "Uh-"

  Bonbon immediately interjects before Brandy can say anything. "It's trying to get into your head, don't answer that!"

  "Y-You're right!" Brandy exclaims, shaking with the gun in his hands. "Oh my god- I've already shown doubt. A-Are you able to smell fear, cloud?!"

  "... probably," Rosemary casually answers, very... very amused by this. "I can smell your fear, Brandy."

  This prompts Brandy to let out a panicked sound of AUGH as he takes that statement quite seriously, which subsequently leads to Bonbon starting to panic as well.

  "Can it, boys!" BB shouts to them, his eyes widened as he stares past the curtain. "Not a word, they're here! Battle stations, now!"

  "Battle Bearings," Rosemary interjects, almost condescendingly correcting him.

  "Thank you, and can it," BB immediately responds. "Get ready!"

  Quickly, Brandy and Bonbon- both get it together immediately, returning to their vigilant positions, covering the parts of the apartment that BB couldn't cover. The still unnamed replacement driver gangster was very vigilant the entire time, and continues to be- and Rosemary remains on the couch at the door.

  Through the window, BB has a good view of several cars incoming on the apartment lot. Many suited men closing in on the apartment building from the front, various unnamed gangsters simply pulling up- from a distance. Strategically, it would have given BB an advantage, a quicker and more stable shot if the gangsters parked close to the building.

  So, guns drawn, dozens of gangsters get out, with a few closing in as cannon fodder. Cautiously incoming, ready for the worst... given who they're dealing with.

  BB remains ever so tense, thinking... very... carefully. It's a numbers game, BB thought... there ain't a lot of people in the gang that can beat BB on their own. These are just normal boys with guns and normal human clothes.

  The strength comes with the fact they're fully stocked with bullets and manpower, which- well, BB checks his gun for a moment... tensely counting what he had left in his magazine clip. A look of utter disappointment and stressed caution forms on his face as he... takes note of the fact that he only has near empty magazine and only two backup ones in his pocket. The gangsters outmatch him in terms of gunshots, even with his various BB shots...

  "... ghk." He puts the magazine back in, tensely staring out the window. "Boys... if we ain't making it out of this, I want you all to know something, see...?"

  "Y-Yeah?" Brandy asks.

  "Mhmm?" Bonbon asks.

  "...?" the replacement tilts his head.

  "I just want to say... you all have been wonderful boys, and- and I'm proud to call you all my boys, see?"

  "... it's- been an honor too, boss..." Brandy tells the man... "But- don't worry, we'll best those baddies, boss!"

  "Yeah...! We'll make a break for it, and beat these odds, boss!" Bonbon exclaims.

  "..." BB just- smiles and... lets out a vigilant eye, continuing to watch the gangsters as they come closer to the apartments. "Alright, boys- get ready, we're in for a-!"

  Suddenly, a loud thunderous strike of lighting suddenly echoes out, shooting down and striking one of the approaching gangsters. A pure blast of electricity immediately hitting one of the gangsters, completely centralized on the closest gangster in sight.

  BB's eyes- widen at this, watching this sight unfold before his eyes. His train of thought completely interrupted as the lightning-struck gangster's hair is fried off, rendering the guy bald and beardless... as his clothes explode off of his body (except for underwear), his gun turns into pure ash, and his teeth fall out of his mouth.

  The other gangsters watch as this occurs, bewildered by this, as... one continues to move forward- and is struck with a bright green beam of light. His face hit directly by the light as his hair - instead - grows all the way down to his ankles... ends up having the other gangster's clothes tied around his wrists and ankles, and then has an extra set of teeth grow into his gums. Turning him into a snaggle-toothed hairy monstrosity with a thick layer of hair covering his entire body.

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  BB is utterly bewildered by this, lowering his gun and just- blinking several times, just to make sure he's not hallucinating. Out of everything that- could have happened, this is one of the last things BB could have ever expected. "What in the...? Boys, I just saw- there was just a- I- w...what did I just see?"

  For some reason, one gangster has been hit with a tiny little green ball that hits their forehead and causes them to ascend high into the air, flying up into space. One gangster is bonked on the head by a green bat and is morphed into a goldfish into a bowl. One gangster ends up petrified in a thick layer of translucent caramel corn, and one gangster is promptly hit by a piano falling out of the sky.

  Several people felt like they were losing their minds when that gangster ended up turning into Benjamin Franklin, the living reincarnation of Benjamin Franklin, crawling out of that piano.

  "... B-Ben Franklin's alive?!" BB shouts loudly, his eyes utterly wide as the founding father whips out a kite and starts flying it in the middle of a gang fight.

  "What?!" Brandy shouts. "What in the- WHAT?!"

  Bonbon whips his head to the front as well, bewildered. "I- I just- what?"

  Rosemary, especially, just... looks bewildered for a moment, before- "... oh. Oh my god, okay." The gaseous entity looks around for a bit, and calmly- ever so calmly sighs. "... uhm, yeah, it may have just occurred to me that we're in an apartment- I feel like asking, what building is this?"

  BB looks at Rosemary for a bit, raising an eyebrow. "W... Why does that matter-? We ain't got no reason to tell you, see?"

  "Oh, you want a good reason?" Rosemary frantically exclaims. "I'll give you a good one. If this is the apartment building I'm thinking of, you all have exactly thirty seconds to pray to whatever god you believe in that you survive- NOT because of the gangsters, but because my friend has the power to press a single button and completely reverse the female to male ratio in this apartment."

  An eerie silence as Rosemary blurts all of that, only broken up by the sound of utter carnage going on outside.

  "... what, so, like, turning us into women?" asks Brandy. "I don't see how putting us in clothes and stuff will-"

  "Emphasis on... invert," Rosemary interrupts.

  "... in- invert?" asks Brandy.

  "Invert," Rosemary repeats in the exact same way.

  "..." A horrified look forms on Brandy's face as he realizes what's being inverted. "Oh, god, what the f-"

  Brandy is then interrupted by a loud explosion setting off, launching the entirety of the gangsters' cars high up into the air. Then, one by one, lasers fire out and launch the cars off, delivering them to different countries around the world.

  "Holy..." BB calls out, watching this in- astonishment. "The hell kinda friend you got that does this for some random apartment?!"

  "Mmm..." Rosemary idly noises, letting out a very- VERY amused sigh... "Purple haired? Green eyed? Had a bunch of robots, maybe?"

  "... oh shit, it's the dollface," BB calmly responds, having the most mortified look on his face that he's ever had in his entire life. Knowing full well he totally shot that dollface, and subsequently repeating those exact words with more panic. "Oh, shit, it's the DOLLFACE!"

  "Oh, so you met her," Rosemary idly responds.

  "C-Cloudy, what do we do?!" BB asks, taking an urgent tone, an anxious look on his face. "T-The hell's we gonna do to get on her good side?!"

  "Nah... nah. You had your chance to play nice with me," Rosemary condescendingly comments. "God's problem, now. Like I said, start praying..."

  "..."

  Collectively, in the following five seconds after Rosemary says this, the gangsters are all in panic mode, now subject to a new threat rather than the Boss.

  Five. BB's eyes narrow into a glare, taking a deep- deep breath... hand on the gun, as he loudly shouts to the other gangsters to take cover. Raising the gun and taking aim at Giichi, gritting his teeth hard.

  Four. Brandy runs straight into the bathroom, lunging his body into the apartment bathtub. Hoping in some way that this serves as sufficient enough cover. Gun in hand, the most terrified look plastered on his face.

  Three. Bonbon, being the apartment owner, is- frantically unsure what to do, and... decides- to start running into the bedroom. There's a window in the back, and - worst case scenario - he has to secure their escape from that way, having a short time to.

  Two. The unnamed gangster - the one that still, to this very moment, has no name to identify himself amongst BB's forces - runs quickly to grab the unconscious Blaze. If he's going to go down a woman, he might as well spend his last moments in the arms of one- wrapping his arms around the woman, closing his eyes and accepting his fate.

  Every gangster spread apart, BB takes a calm breath... finger pulling back, ready to shoot Giichi. Preparing his BB shot to have her go down with them...

  One.

  Suddenly, the front door's barricade - all of the furniture - is launched backwards as the door is forced open. Giichi, and the two respectively unnamed and unconscious gangsters, launched backwards into the walls with a hard thud. The furniture crashes straight into Bonbon, who falls over with a coffee table bashing against his back.

  BB's eyes widen as this happens, tensely- ever so tensely backing up. Pressing his back against the wall, every thought frantic in his head. It can't be the gangsters that did that, not so soon- not when the utter insanity was happening right outside.

  No...

  Instead, several airborne robots fly through the door, all of them resembling the same drones that were at the hospital. Their green scanners active and surveying the entirety of Bonbon's apartment.

  "... ah. So I was not seeing things... hello," speaks a familiar voice...

  ... as a flying television monitor coming into the apartment, showing Peritzal. Currently still at the hospital, her neck stitched and bandaged as she sits in a wheelchair. Goggles over her eyes and staring at BB through them.

  BB stares at this girl, staring her down. A cold air between the two, with the crackling of fire.

  "... can we- talk this through?" BB asks.

  Peritzal has a drone aim one of her lasers at BB, taking an immediate shot at the man.

  Shit. BB- reacted to the sound and takes a quick shot at the laser, firing on instinct. The laser was aimed straight at his head, and survival instinct simply kicked in.

  This subsequently causes the bullet to hit into the path of the laser, and... through some miracle, it deflected the entire laser away from BB. The laser and bullet bouncing off of each other, sending them in opposing directions.

  The laser flies straight through the bathroom doorway, and hits the wall- Brandy having just narrowly avoided the laser. The bullet, meanwhile, is sent flying straight into the window, BB's shot crashing into the glass and shattering it to pieces- each single shard sent flying outward, all around anything and anyone in the front of the apartment.

  "..." Peritzal stares at this, astonished, and- continues to fire. Shooting laser after laser at BB, a violent glare in her eyes. She isn't taking any chances with this guy, given their previous exchange- and the scanners have already found where Giichi is. Best to take him out, now.

  BB, however, now- knows that his shots deflect those lasers. Quickly starting to run straight towards Giichi, he fires at any of the lasers that were closely aimed and target at him. His keen eye making the most out of this- this miracle, aimed in such a way to stray the laser away from his body- as the bullets are fired outward, hitting into the drones. A miracle of physics...

  "Tch-" Peritzal noises, her gaze turned to a violent stare as she stops shooting. Glaring at-

  "You rotten traitor!" a gangster shouts from the front door, right behind the flying television screen- taking aim at BB.

  BB takes a look at that gangster and- immediately takes his gun off of Giichi, aiming at the gangster.

  Peritzal- registers what that gangster said, and... huh.

  ...

  A giant mechanical robot arm proceeds to grab the gangster's whole body and throws him incredibly far away to the East, forcibly launching his body into the ocean.

  "So you're a traitor, huh...?" Peritzal asks, raising an eyebrow.

  "Y..." BB begins to answer, gun pointed back at Giichi's head. "Yes. We're- we're traitors, see...? After our little skirmish at the hospital. Boss's after our heads after got his wife..."

  Peritzal squints her eyes at this, looking- over her tablet for a moment, discreetly staring at whatever was in front of her.

  And Odette is the person that is, in fact, right in front of her. The two of them in the hospital's hallways, conveniently to the side while doctors and nurses pass them. The man just- listening to all of this with a bewildered look on his face.

  He shakes his head- Uncle Talon didn't have a wife at this hospital...?

  "... I see," Peritzal responds, pretending that BB is telling the truth. "If you're on our side, now, put the gun down... and we can, in fact, talk."

  BB- tensely, ever so tensely glares at Peritzal. "I don't- I can't trust you, dollface. I need your word that we have your protection against the Boss."

  "And I need your word that you can keep my friend there safe..." Peritzal responds, gesturing to the- still unconscious Giichi that lies limp right next to BB.

  "..." BB stares at Peritzal with a calming breath. "Lower the drones... and I lower the gun."

  "..." Peritzal stares back as she- lowers half of the drones with a finger swipe. "Okay. Lowering half... now, the gun..."

  BB... slowly lowers the gun down, the gun aimed at Giichi's lungs...

  Peritzal lowers another drone...

  BB now aims at the side of Giichi's hip, aiming at her stomach...

  Peritzal- lowers another one...

  ...

  And BB completely lowers his gun, as Peritzal's drones are lowered as well.

  A calming breath shared between the two, the tension between them easing up in that moment. Both of them acknowledge each other just... calming down, at a current stalemate and agreement.

  BB- does take a moment to calmly note that- thanks to all of this, all of his boys - except Big Brain Brandy, who is currently hiding in the bathroom - are all taken out, at the very least unconscious.

  Now he's looking at the purple-haired girl who can wipe out an army of gangsters. The carnage outside is a testament to all of that. For now, this agreement comes with the best odds of getting out of this alive.

  "... alright, dollface... let's get to talking. What do I do with the girl here?" BB asks, arm still around Giichi.

  Peritzal opens her mouth, about to respond...

  ... before the TV suddenly- splits into thirds, as if someone had cleanly swiped through it. Slicing it ferociously.

  BB's eyes widen at this- watching the remains of that TV fall apart, and staring at the silhouette that stands before him. The towering presence that stands at the door, a violent- primal glare in this silhouette's eyes.

  The shadow of feathers, and the ominous aura of pure darkness...

  "... B-Boss...?" BB calls out, staring at the man...

  ... Talon stands at the door... glaring straight at BB. Seeing the girl in his arm, staring.