What A Bargain

              Lasso kept running. He didn't stop and take a break. Not once. Well until he was held at gun point. Tiger stood in his path holding a pistol, pointing the barrel at his head. "I see you got my daughter." Tiger said but Lasso didn't say a word. "She's in rough conditions huh" he motioned to the limp girl in Lasso's arms. "Get out of my way." Lasso finally demanded and Tiger chuckled. "Don't bother trying to save her she's already pretty close to dead anyway." He shrugged but Lasso wasn't giving up. "Put the gun down and get out of my way." He demanded again and Tiger walked off to the side and grabbed something from behind a bush.

       Lasso was about to run again but froze when he saw Shiny be dragged out from behind the bush. "I believe this is a friend of yours" Tiger chuckles and Lasso frowns. "Just kill her and he'll live, don't and they both die. Simple as that and we'll go our separate ways." He tried to bargain and Lasso was trying to decide. Cypher was loosing blood quickly and chances of her surviving were very slim. Shiny was bleeding but not as fast, he wasn't exactly in fatal condition but he wasn't stable either. In reality he wanted both to survive but was Cypher really worth the death of Shiny too? "What's it gonna be cowboy?"  He grinned as he watched Lasso slowly put Cypher down. The movement caused a groan of pain from Cypher.

       "Good choice." Tiger chuckled and dropped Shiny. "Ow..." He groaned and Tiger walked to Cypher with a grin. Lasso silently stepped out of the way and behind Tiger. He knelt down and gently lifted his daughter's head and gently stroked her cheek. She didn't stir. "Say hi to your mama for me" he mumbled while pointing his gun to her head. He felt something wrap around his wrist and yank his arm up, shooting a bullet into the air instead of Cypher's head. "Hey!-" Tiger switched his gun to his other hand and spun to see the old cowboy yank his lasso that was now around Tiger's wrist. Tiger then wrapped the rope around his hand and yanked him forward. Lasso was a bit smaller then Tiger, being 6'2 and only weighing about 200 pounds. While Tiger stood at about 6'6 weighing about 280 of solid muscle.

Lasso was yanked forward and had lost his footing. He let go of the rope to try to tuck and roll but got grabbed by his neck instead and slammed against a tree. "That wasn't a fun trick you played cowboy." Tiger snapped a little while putting the barrel of his pistol under Lasso's chin. Before he could pull the trigger Lasso kicked him in the stomach with both feet to get him to let go. He had to quickly duck out of the way to avoid getting shot since the sudden hit caused him to pull the trigger, shooting a branch that was only inches from Lasso's head. The cowboy quickly shoulder checked him out of the way and dove for his gun that flew out of Tiger's hands mere moments before but Tiger dove for Lasso.

"Did you hear that?" Ret asked Jet. He had heard a gunshot in the distance and started to get up. Mama Williams had heard it too. She was looking in the direction it came from. Another shot could be heard and Mama was now debating on whether she should take her team to go check it out. "Hey lady can we check that out?" Jet asked and Mama sighed. "Fine let's go boys." She got up and Bones used Jet's bat to help him stand and they all started to go to where they heard the noises and the closer they got they started to hear 2 men yelling. "Aye that sounds like Lasso-" one of the guys started to walk a bit faster and so did Mama.

"Get the fuck off me!!" Lasso yelled as Tiger pinned him to the ground and using the cowboy's lasso to tie his hands up. "You're really pissing me off." Tiger snapped and grabbed his machete out of its sheath on his back. Tiger had Lasso pinned to the ground on his stomach and made sure his hands were behind his back so he couldn't do anything. Before Tiger could diminish a killing blow with his machete he felt someone ram into him and knock him off Lasso. When he looked up he saw Shiny on top of him and throwing Tiger's machete out of reach. While Lasso got himself untied Shiny tried to keep Tiger on the ground but was easily thrown off. "Oh your awake." Tiger snapped while running to where is machete laid. "Yeah...kinda..." Shiny mumbled while slowly rising to his feet. The world was spinning and he kept one hand over his stab wound. "You alright Las?..." he asked then looked at Lasso who just got his hands untied and quickly got up. "Fine." He muttered. "Get out of here, go find Mama Williams" Lasso demanded but Shiny didn't move.

Shiny simply drew one of his knives and lightly swaying while standing. Tiger turned after picking up his machete. "I guess I'll just kill you two and let Cypher bleed. Or you two can leave Cypher and just walk away" he shrugged and Shiny grinned. "Here kitty kitty." He teased and that was when Tiger frowned and lunged forward towards Shiny. Lasso took a few steps behind Tiger and used his lasso to wrap around Tiger's neck and yank him back, well tried to. Tiger simply turned and grabbed the rope and yanked the old cowboy to him but Shiny was now on him trying to stab anywhere vital. Tiger managed to step out of the way and pull Lasso in front of him as a shield but Shiny just nicked his coat with the knife.

       Lasso tried to wrestle Tiger to the ground when he felt something loop around his neck and he started trying to gasp for air. Tiger had wrapped the cowboy's own lasso around his neck and was now trying to strangle him while kicking away Shiny. "Agh!-" Shiny collapsed to the ground after he gotten kicked in the stomach where he was stabbed. "One to go." Tiger mumbled while he watched Lasso struggle to slip his fingers through the rope around his neck to loosen it but Tiger just pulled tighter. "Oh come on cowboy it'll make things easier if you quit fightin" he tried to coax and he felt Lasso start to go limp.

         Lasso began to give up. He couldn't breathe and his body was giving out. His vision was starting to go black when he felt Tiger drop him and the grip on the rope loosen. He began gasping for air but he didn't bother get up. He felt someone gently take the rope off him but he didn't look up to see who. He just laid there trying to fill his lungs with air again. Then he saw Tiger collapse to the ground next to him. Asleep? No that wasn't quite right. His head was bleeding. Did someone hit him? Lasso didn't care what happened to that asshole, he was silently hoping he was dead but only one could hope.

       "God I hate that guy." Ret mumbled while holding his now bloodied bat. He was standing behind now unconscious Tiger. Jet on the other hand was trying to help Shiny with his stab wound. "Hey hey- I'm trying to help- hold still-" Jet tried to reason with him but Shiny wasn't exactly buying it. "Get away from me..." Shiny groaned while lazily trying to swat his hands away. Jet won the small battle of trying to keep Shiny's hands out of the way to help him only because Shiny ran out of energy.

     Mama Williams quickly ran to Lasso. "Are you ok Lasso?..." she gently moved his head to where he was looking at her. His eyes were bloodshot and there was a rope burn around his neck. His face was also very pale. "I'm fine..." he mumbled. "Is Cypher alive?..." Lasso asked but Mama Williams looked confused. "She was here?" She asked and Lasso sat up. "She's gone?!..." he looked to where he put her down and all that was there was a pool of blood.