Malkemus and the Little Sisters

"Shit..."

"Damn, these *little* women are tough!" Malek grunted, wiping the blood from his forehead, "I mean... can't one of you call for backup?"

The group of guards stood in silence and stared at him. After a few moments, one of them finally broke the silence, "No."

Malek growled a little under his breath. Great. He had reached the enemy's base without being intercepted, but there was a problem: all of the guards were still alive. The only sentries he had been able to take out were the ones outside the base. He had planned to sneak in through the back and avoid detection, but with all of these guards watching his every move, that plan was out the window. There was no way he could do it alone; now he would have to use his backup plan.

He sighed as he pulled out his phone and dialed up one of his contacts. A few seconds later, a woman's voice answered on the other end, "Yeah?"

"It's me," he said flatly, "I'm inside their base."

"And?" she asked expectantly, "You need backup right? Where are you? I'll bring some people over."

"I know where you live," Malek said with a sigh, "I know where your mother lives. I know how much money your ex-boyfriend owes you. I know what your school mascot is supposed to be and that your favorite color is supposed to be green and not purple... but I'm asking you nicely to help me with this one thing..."

There was a long pause on the other end before she finally replied, "Fine... where are you?"

Malek gave her the coordinates and hung up. He looked at the group of silent girls again and shook his head with annoyance. The leader of these little sisters was quite an interesting woman - smart enough to start an empire but stupid enough to take on a job like this. She had chosen some stand-in fighters for bodyguards or something because she knew that if Malek got past her regular army then this group wouldn't be much trouble for him either. No doubt they expected him to get frustrated by their lack of reaction and attack them just so they could kill him in self-defense... which meant they knew next to nothing about Malek himself. They didn't know that he could easily handle more than ten women on his own while still looking completely nonchalant about it - even if one of them actually managed to land a hit on him that didn't even break the skin! The only reason there weren't more dead bodies lying around here was because Malek needed some leverage later on when negotiating with the big boss herself; chances were good that she actually liked most of these girls for whatever reason so he couldn't afford to kill them just yet. Unfortunately for him though, it seemed like things were going to have to get worse before they started getting better!