Equilibrium
Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson
Chapter 1: Calm before the Storm
Chicago, December 26th, 2023.
Chicago, the place where it all started. Alan Jackson's hometown, one he didn't really want to admit.. but still his hometown.. His father, Alexander Jackson died here, many believe It was just a simple accident that claimed his life. Alan thought so too.. but like a scent picked up by a deer, Alan knew something doesn't add up, and so he returned. Returned exactly to where It all started, his home.. Now owned by a Family of Five, he stood across the street of his own home.. reminiscing of a simpler, yet happier times. He snapped out of it as he looked down to his hands in his pocket, remembering what he's really here for.
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Karakura, December 10th, 2023.
It was a cold winter afternoon in the Shinsei Senaru Monastery. The same day Alan conversed with a Spirit, named 'Kitsa' others say.. It's words caused a stir in his mind, further feeding into his... odd dilemma. He hasn't quite understood it but.. It didn't stop him from acting to what he think the spirit is referring to. While incorrect, he act on what he believe would get him out of this hellish loop he's been in. A chance at freedom, a chance at... Redemption.
Alan Jackson conversing with 'Kitsa' a Spirit in the Shinsei Senaru Monastery
Chapter 2: Two-Faced
[REDACTED], Chicago, December 27th, 2023.
11:50 AM.
A gated mansion, in the outskirts of Chicago. A lovely place many would say, surrounded by suburbs... nice neighbors... kids playing in the afternoon. Away from downtown where the crime rate is significantly higher. The mansion is sizeable with guards patrolling the fences and three guards on stand-by at It's front gate.
The night is quiet, all you can hear is the wind and the occasional suburbs animal roaming such as dogs, cats and sometimes raccoon.
"Hey, I heard something over there.. Phillip check it out." One of the guards said, pointing across the road from the front gate a house with It's lights off, probably not occupied. As the guard walked across to check out what's on the sides of the house, something walked out of a bush near him... It was a raccoon. The guard smile at the cute raccoon, putting his hand out on the ground to lure the raccoon to get closer when out of the blue, He heard a distant sound of a suppressed firearm going off, He looked back immediately only to see a figure in the dark at where his fellow guards were holding a suppressed M1911 that is pointed right at him, the figure walked slowly in a steady posture towards him. "Keycard, now." The figure got closer revealing to be Alan. The Guard fearing for his life now, can only do as he say, putting the keycard down on the ground and kicking it over to him. "Good, I hope you understand this predicament, buddy." Alan said, before aiming at the guard's head, pulling the trigger. The sound of the suppressed gun going off scared the raccoon back into scurrying back into the bush.
Alan would kneel down, taking the keycard before walking back to the mansion's front gate, entering through the Security Guard's front post building. He stayed low behind the waist-high bushes of the front yard, going to right alongside the fence, spotting another guard who's walking towards the front post, along the fence, He hid in the bushes waiting for him to past right in front of him. He took out a stiletto blade as he waited. The guard would finally arrive just outside of where Alan is hiding, Alan swiftly pulled the guard down and put his arms around his mouth so he couldn't scream, He jammed the stiletto blade into the Guard's chest right into his lung and twisting the knife, holding it there till the guard succumb to the stab, before hiding the body behind the bushes. Alan looks around, surveying the front yard of the Mansion again, spotting a guard over at the other side of the yard smoking by the fence, spotting another on the Balcony looking over the direction of the second guard on the front yard. Alan took the opportunity to sneak closer to the main building just under the front porch's stair under the balcony, in the balcony guard's blind spot, He picked up a rock and throws it as hard as he can to a concrete pathways behind one of the bushes, It created a somewhat noticeable thud.
"Huh...?" The guard take a step towards Alan's side of the balcony, peering over Alan towards the location of the thud sound, before speaking in Italian. "What the hell was that..." Alan aimed his pistol up towards the balcony, right at the underside of the Guard's chin, Alan squeezed the trigger sending a bullet through the Guard's chin and into his brain. Alan sneaked over past the front porch towards the last guard in the front yard, sneaking up behind him from the bush, before wrapping his arms around their head, covering their mouth with his arm and pointing his gun right into their head. "Now, tell me where the key to the house is.. and be quick." Alan commands him letting him speak. "T-There's a guard at the pool... his name's uhh- Tommy- about... 6 foot wearing a Cap-" The guard said giving Alan what he wants to know. However just so happen the Guard's radio speaks out. "Front yard intruder check?" Alan looked down at the radio. "Answer it." Commanding the guard again. the Guard nodded and takes his radio and in their calmest voice says into the Radio. "Front Yard's clear, n-nothing's going on out here, just some urban animals-" The guard finished the pager hoping for Alan to let him live. In return... Alan threw him into the ground, aiming the gun to the guard's head and pulling the trigger twice.
Alan having cleared out the front yard, immediately walked around the house making sure to check each corner before entering the backyard, He hid behind a low concrete wall as he scans the yard. He observed 3 guards bunched up together talking, while 4 others are scattered around, with two to the right of the 3-man group, and the other two over by the patio smoking. He observed around again, noticing each guards are significantly more armed than the guards at the front yard, The guards in this area are armed with AR-15s and Shotguns, Alan took note of this.. thinking that they might come useful. He starts to plan his move, sneaking around to the other of the low concrete wall, checking behind as well to make sure nobody from inside the house peeked out. He then manages to make his way to the other of the concrete, closest to the patio with the two guards in it. Alan looked around the corner and starts to plan on how he should approach this before conveniently the 3 group bunched together played a song on a bluetooth speaker, sitting down on one of the sunchairs by the covered pool. Alan took this opportunity to move towards the bush by the Patio's entrance, not going into the bush he made sure that he didn't accidentally brush up against the bush before peeking around the corner with his handgun and aiming it at the two guards, squeezing the trigger on the first guard's Head, and immediately onto the next guard's head, dropping them both very quickly due to his fast draw.
He went into the Patio, checking the guards he just took down, one of them as it turns out happens to be the prime target, he searched the dead guard's body for the key into the house. Upon finding it, he pocketed it and grabbed his Beretta A300 Ultima Shotgun, before moving over the edge of the wall of the patio, checking around the corners to see if the group by the pool and the duo at the other end is alerted. Fortunately they aren't prompting Alan to decide that being stealthy is no longer an option. Alan took a deep breath as things about to go hectic, He then put his handgun in his holster but keeping the hammer ****ed back for faster switch.
In a split second of a moment, Alan holding the Shotgun turned out of the cover, aiming at the three group and keeping the other further two in his field of vision, he fired three shots at the direction of each of the person on the sunchairs, hitting them all with lethal shots. The guards further heard the gunshots and immediately turned around and raised their firearms firing at the Patio, Alan flinched a bit before aiming at their general direction with the Buckshot loaded shotgun, firing two shots at their direction respectively taking them down as well. After taking them out, Alan wastes no time to circle back to the house's backdoor, readying himself to breach in.
He takes the keycard and scans it to the card reader, unlocking the rear door before entering slowly into a hallway, He checked left and right with his shotgun incase someone turned around the corner. Alan went to his left aiming at the corner at the end of the hallway, unbeknownst to him three guards would appear on the other side of the hallway he's walking towards. "OVER HERE, SHOOT HIM!" The guard yelled out in Italian, Alan hearing this immediately swung around and aimed to the other part of the Hallway as he started shooting the rest of the ammunition in his Shotgun's gradually, trying to keep them in cover as he backed into the corner of the other hallway, he checked into the corner making sure no one was there. It was a closet fortunately, Alan took this opportunity to reload his shotgun, grabbing 3 of the shells from his pocket in his palm, lining them up correctly before tri-loading them into the shotgun's magazine, repeating the process again and then topping the magazine off with one more as he pulled the bolt back and load one more round, maximizing his ammunition count. He peeked over the corner, seeing that the guards are slowly closing in on his position, He then pushed himself off of the wall and take angle where he can peek out and back in quickly, he then peek out aiming the shotgun down the hallway at the guards, firing two shots, taking out one of them. "SHIT- SHIT- HE GOT US PINNED, FALL BACK!" The guards yelled out backing out while giving some cover fire. Alan used the delay between fires to peek out again and firing three more shots, hitting one of the lethally and disabling the other one. Alan immediately walked out of cover and down the hallway, aiming at the corner as he aimed down the sights. He then use his right hand to reach into his pocket and pulls out more shotguns shells, loading them into the shotgun topping it off again.
"Please- Don't kill me- Please-" The remaining single guard begged in Italian, as he watched Alan coming closer to him. Alan skipped past the dying guard, checking around the corner with the shotgun. "Oh god- Thank you- Tha-" The guard's gratefulness was cut short by Alan shooting him in the head with the shotgun, like a cherry popping spraying blood everywhere. Alan with a stoic expression on his face, continues through the mansion. Guards started flocking into the location of the fight but was stopped by Alan's deadly aim and quick hands with the Shotgun, Alan then arrives at the front door of the mansion from under the stairs. Alan flicked his aim to the top of the stairs and then back to the at the front door, checking left and right as well for any guards coming to him. It was clear... rather quiet... there's no yelling, It's too quiet. Alan slowly made his way up the stairs into some sort of a living room.
"Die you piece of shit!" A Guard yelled out as they peeked out of cover from behind flipped over table, prompting all of the guards in that room to peek out, a total of 6 guards ambushed Alan. Caught off guard by the ambush, Alan immediately find the nearest cover, hiding behind a couch. Alan composes himself as bullets fly past him over his head and also through the couch, He's lucky it didn't hit him at all, after composing himself he would go on the offense and peeked out from the right side of the couch, started firing at the first guards he sees, seeing one peeking out from behind a cupboard, He fired a shot that instantly hit the guard lethally before ducking into the middle of the cover again as bullet flies past the side of the couch he just peeked out of. "We got one down, fucking keep shooting till his cover's gone!" One of the guards yelled out, Alan managed to guess the location of the guard that yelled out through the sound of firearms going off, Alan then hit the deck and aimed through the bottom side of the couch, putting his shotgun sideways to be able to aim straight, He sees the legs of one of the guards hiding on the left side behind another chair, shooting the Guard's leg, causing them to fall on their side, and then finishing them off with a shot to the chest. "Two." Alan counted under his breath, before crouching up and backing away from the couch a bit to get a better peek angle, before standing up to fire back at them to see where they are, flinching down immediately as bullets fly overhead. He take notes of where the guards are, with one directly in front of him and two on the left side behind a table and one on the right side. Alan then would aim straight forward through the couch, shooting two shots, as he heard the cries of pain of the guard directly in front of him, He then peeked out to the right and shot the one guard on the right side center mass, taking them down. "Four." Alan counted again, before moving to the right side of the couch, He then tops his shotgun's magazine again with shotguns shells, quad loading them into the shotgun, before peeking out aiming at the Table the last two guards are hiding in and started sending shotgun pellets through it, killing both of the guards before going out of cover and aiming at every location of the guards making sure they're dead before going to the dying one. Alan walked over to the dying guard and immediately stomped on his hand, causing the guard to cry in pain more. "AGH! FUCK!" The guard screamed out. "Where's DeGarmo?" Alan asked the guard interrogating him with a stoic expression. "NGHHH! AGH! HE'S IN HIS ROOM! JUST TO THE HALLWAY STRAIGHT OF THIS ROOM-" The guard broke and spilled out all the information to Alan, before being met with the barrel of Alan's shotgun to their head, Alan squeezed the trigger completely blasting the guy's head. After taking down all of the guards in the room, Alan searched the guards for more ammo, finding a few slugs shells on the guards with shotguns. "Seek, and ye shall find." He said as he takes it and pocketed it on his left pocket, before walking through the hallway towards the master bedroom.
Alan turned the corner to a sizeable hallway with 2 rooms on each side, and also met with heavy resistance from the guards, they've expected him and already set up some defenses, including a guard with body armor and equipped with a M249 Light Machine Gun, Alan went back into cover as the Gunner started spraying down the hallway as suppressive fire. However the SAW would soon overheat, prompting the gunner to scurry quickly to change the barrel of the gun, the other three guards would lay down cover fire as the gunner prepare, Alan took this opportunity and peeked out, shooting the first nearest guard center mass with buckshot, killing him instantly. "Vincent's down, Gunner get your gun up!" One of the guard yelled out in Italian. "I'll give you all exactly one fuckin' chance to give up!" Alan yelled out to them to give them a chance, but It was met with suppressive fire again from the gunner who is now firing in bursts rather the spray he did before. Alan waited for the gunner to be inactive again, which soon the gunner needed to reload the SAW, He take this opportunity to peek out at the guards giving cover fire below his previous peeking height and fires one shot each center mass on each of them before firing one shot on the gunner's chest. The gunner was knocked down on his back but was not dead, Alan went back to cover and emptied the shotgun's five shells and catching them on his hand, storing them for later. He then loaded two of the slugs shells he found, and chambered them. He went out of cover quickly and rushed towards the Gunner who's now just about to recover to pull his sidearm out, Alan fires one shot at the Gunner's chest, knocking them down again harder than the buckshot, and then shooting one more to the gunner's head, killing him.
As Alan cleared the hallway, He immediately walked past the now disabled defense and loaded his shotgun's full with buckshot before blasting one into the door's lock, completely busting it open before giving it a full force front kick, breaching the door open. As soon as Alan breached inside the sound of a lady screaming is heard as Alan sees DeGarmo with a Glock aimed straight at Alan, catching him off guard with his shotgun held by the receiver. But in that split second with Alan's quickdraw, He draw his sidearm as quick as he can and shoot at DeGarmo, hitting him in the stomach. "HEGH! FUCKING SHIT-" DeGarmo yelled out as he fell to the floor with his wife catching him, screaming and crying loudly out of fear. Alan approached DeGarmo and his wife, aiming his sidearm at DeGarmo. "Too fuckin' slow, Vinnie." Alan taunted the man, but all of a sudden the sound of rummaging can be heard from the Alan's left side, a door... presumably a closet, Alan flicked his aim to the closet which is met with scream from Vinnie's wife and Vinnie saying "NO! DON'T!" Alan looked over to Vinnie a bit, before approaching the closet with his gun drawn, opening it quickly. It was a boy.. holding an Infant baby, the sight froze Alan in place for a bit, his breathing changes a bit towards heavier and faster, clearly a part of him is against the idea of making anyone an orphan, He turned back to Vinnie.
"You... You set my father up..." Alan said to Vinnie, holding his gun tightly, pointing it at Vinnie. "Look- Alan, It's not my idea- It's the other Capos, they're the one that wants him dead against the Don, not m-" Vinnie replied, trying to get Alan to stop continuing. "THEN YOU SHOULD'VE STAYED LOYAL TO THE FAMILY YOU TWO-FACED FUCK!" Alan yelled out in anger at Vinnie, pulling the hammer back on his M1911 again, getting ready to shoot. "I had no choice Alan! They either gonna rat me out to the Cops if I don't do it for th-" Alan shoots Vinnie in the leg, clearly enraged at Vinnie's choice in the past. "ERGH! FUCK- ALAN! PLEASE! IT'S EITHER HIM OR ME!" Vinnie begged trying to reason with Alan. "Oh yeah, cause you being in prison for 5 Years is worse than me losing MY FUCKING FATHER!" He said in Italian replying to Vinnie. "I always looked up to you like an uncle, I looked up to you as someone who's loyal to the family and my father, but turns out you're just a Two-faced fuck that only cares for himself!" Alan continued, followed by Vinnie's reply. "Look- Alan- I can tell you where they a-" Only to get cut off by Alan. "They're fuckin' Dead, I already visited them." He raised his gun at him again and fired one last time, ending DeGarmo right there in his Wife's arms, But Alan didn't stop there, He aimed at DeGarmo's wife wanting to shoot her as well but couldn't get himself to do it. Alan lowered his gun and looked DeGarmo's wife. "Go, leave town, all this is done." He said before turning around and walked out of the bedroom, seemingly escaping the mansion and the Area as the sound of Police Sirens is heard in the distant getting closer and closer.
Chapter 3: Coming Soon...
TBD.
