We arrived at Frank's shop and were greeted by Frank and his new assistant Nigel. The first time I met Frank was when Tony asked me, Henry and Luca, to take care of a problem with some 6th street punks who had been disrupting our business.

Frank supplied us with some flame grenades to torch their cars and a baseball bat just in case things got a bit messy. As for Nigel, I don't know that much about him, just that he used to be a vet and met Frank a month ago.

"If it isn't Max and Henry, how can I help you gentlemen?"

"Hey Frank, I need you to look at this." I lifted my shirt to reveal the wound on my stomach.

Frank inspects the wound and informs me to take a seat so that Nigel can patch it up as he's more of an expert in that sort of stuff. I found that to be a bit strange as Frank was a pretty good medic himself back in the day.

Nigel went to grab his medical kit while I took a seat in his chair. He began to look at the wound.

A sharp pain was felt as soon as Nigel ran his hand across the wound. "Ow fuck! Sorry."

"Apologies for the pain. The pain should go away shortly but I would ask you to keep calm and relax." Nigel said in a calming voice

It's a bit embarrassing letting out a little scream, seeing as though it's not the worst pain I've felt in my life.

A short while passed, and Nigel managed to stop the bleeding and stitch up the wound.

"There we go. I would strongly recommend that you stay away from getting involved in a gunfight, but I know that this is impossible given your line of work, so I would recommend that you stay away from getting involved in hand-to-hand combat, also take this."

Nigel handed me some Bounce Back.

"It will ease the pain," he said.

I handed Nigel over the number of eddies that he requested and headed back to Henry and Frank.

I let Henry know that I am ready to head to where the Redeye deal is taking place. Pulling up outside the bar in Little China it is quickly revealed to be owned by a gang who call themselves The Mox.

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"Are you sure that this is the place, isn't this not Mox territory?" I said confused.

"What… scared of some girls, that's not like you, Max?"

I gave Henry a cold look almost telling him to shut up.

We entered the bar, it was quiet, the only people in the bar were members of The Mox and some drunks who didn't have anywhere to go.

"What can I get you two?" asked the bartender.

I ordered myself a soda while Henry did not order anything. A while later a couple enter the bar and make their way to the bar sitting next to us. Two minutes later the man gets up and makes his way to a room labeled storage. This raised Henry's suspicion.

Henry made the excuse of going to the restroom so he could follow the man, however outside I heard cars pulling up outside. I thought that couldn't be a good thing.

Within a blink of a moment, bullets were fired at the bar. Henry and I dived over the bar and took cover.

"What the hell is going on?" said a puzzled Henry.

"No idea but I'm not letting these bastards get away."

I pulled out my handguns.

"Are you sure we should get involved; This isn't our business Max."

"Hey, they started it."

I activated my sandevistan and leaped over the bar and began to open fire on the attackers. Bullets filled the place, the constant fire from the attacker's machine guns was no match against my sandevistan giving me the advantage and making it easy to pick off some of the attackers without much fuss.

They were mostly concerned about the people running for cover instead of me returning fire at them. Once they finally saw me returning fire on them, this allowed Henry to get the ambush on the remaining attackers killing them.

After the bloodshed, I deactivated my sandevistan while Henry looked at one of the bodies and noticed that the tattoos on their bodies were identical to the tattoos that the notorious Tyger Claws have. This wasn't good as the Tyger Claws and Mox have been in gang warfare ever since some merc and a Mox member killed essential people within the Tyger Claws to take over a place called Clouds back in 2077.

"You fucking happy now Max! We have now gotten ourselves involved in the gang war between the Mox and Tyger Claws." Henry looks around and notices that the couple who entered the bar had left, which confirms Henry's suspicion that they had the Redeye.

"Shit". Utters Henry.

"If you had just fucking stayed still, we wouldn't be in this god damm situation!"

"Oh, my deepest fucking apologies Henry that I'm more concerned about protecting people from Tyger Claws opening fire on a bar than some random fucking couple who have the Redeye!"

I spotted a Tyger Claw crawling across the floor in my peripheral vision. Not wanting any survivors, I fired off a shot from one of my handguns hitting them right in the head and delivering the killing blow.

We began to make our way out of the bar before a member of the Mox stopped us and thanked us for helping to defend the bar and if we were looking for work to head to their main bar in Watson called Lizzie's.

Outside Henry notices tire tracks heading toward the highway,

"Max look... Come on we can still catch these bastards."