They Find a Hostage

It's actually fairly easy for the group to smash their way through in order to find the leaders. They pretty much just go for anyone that attacks them. Eventually, they find a larger house which is obviously better fortified. The guards aren't too difficult to defeat and they soon realize that they've found a prison house where hostages are kept. It would seem that they are too late to save any of them (even if they'd wanted to) except one. Jessy Smith herself walks in and looks around the room at the bodies littering the floor and the lone man chained to the wall. The man himself is barely an adult at all, likely no more than eighteen. He's a somewhat short and small framed man with long and curly black hair and very pale skin. He's nearly naked and has obviously been beaten badly over time. However, despite all of this, Jessy recognizes him. His name is Gentry Cross, but is known to all of Sticky Fist as The Gentleman. He's the one person who can reliably get them anything they want when it comes to weapons and armor. What he doesn't have access to, he builds and modifies for them. Nearly every weapon or piece of armor that they have was crafted by those two small hands now chained above his head. He's breathing shallowly and Jessy's teeth grind together in rage. It's not just that these creeps have captured Sticky Fist's chief mechanical and technical genius, but Gent is one person that Jessy herself (and many other members of the group) genuinely like. He's sweet, treats them with respect, and more than that has always been trustworthy.

"These assholes are going to fucking pay," growls Jessy and then she looks to the others, "I want those leaders' heads on a fucking platter, you got that? Move out, find them. That is except for you, Suze. You and me are going to see what we can do for little Gent here."

There's an added tension now. The mission has become personal. Suze, the gang's chief medical person, assists Jessy in getting Gent down from the wall. He comes to just as they're doing so and finds himself looking straight into Jessy's eyes.

"Oh, hello Goddess," he murmurs weakly, calling Jessy by the little knickname he always uses for her, "sorry I missed last shipment...but I was kinda tied up at the time."

"Shhhh, baby," says Jessy, "don't talk. You just relax. Me and Suze got you."

"Good," Gent manages, managing somehow to lean forward and kiss her cheek, "thank God you found me."