Tank fucking detonates.
He slams his fist against the brick wall with a roar that shakes the very air around us.
“NO!”
His voice cracks, not with fear…withrage.
Pure, animalistic, soul-ripping rage.
“ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT!”
He storms toward the helicopter like a man possessed, shoving past Bones, past Maverick’s men, pasteveryone.
“I’ll kill him…right fucking now,” Tank snarls. “I’ll fly straight into Mexicali and carve that bastard apart with my bare hands!”
“Tank!” Spike barks.
But he doesn’t stop. Doesn’t slow. He’s breathing like he’s been stabbed in the lungs, fury shaking his entire massive frame.
“That motherfucker thinks he can have her? He wants…”
His voice breaks, then comes back harsher.
“He thinks he can take her? He thinks he can make her his?”
He grabs the helicopter door and yanks it open so hard the hinges scream.
“That chopper belongs to the Italians,” Spike warns.
Tank’s eyes are wild. “They can bill me when I bring back Cortéz’s fucking head.”
Before Spike can answer, Maverick steps forward with a shrug.
“I’ll take the pilot seat,” he says casually. “Better odds of us not dying in the air.”
Spike whips around. “Absolutely not. Neither of you is flying into Los Fantasmas territory without a fucking plan.”
Tank growls like a feral animal ready to break off his leash. “He threatened Abigail, Spike. We both know what that means. I’m not sitting on my fucking hands while he plans to—”
“I KNOW WHO HE THREATENED!” Spike roars back, slamming his hand against the side of the chopper.
His chest heaves.
His face is carved from stone.
“She ismy fucking sister.”
Spike steps closer, voice dropping to a deadly low rumble.
“And I promise you,” he says, every word shaking with lethal conviction, “We will take down Cortéz before he gets within ten miles of her.”
Tank’s jaw pulses hard enough to crack teeth.
Spike doesn’t stop.
“He won’t touch her. He won’t look at her. He won’t even breathe the same fucking air. I swear on my wife. I swear on my son. I swear on my uncle’s patch.”
He steps even closer, eyes locked with Tank’s.
