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Jacob ‘Chilli’ Pepper paused to one side of the doorway of the tumbledown Church for a good wheeze.

There was a thud from above, chunks of plaster and brick dust showered down from. Mal shot a look upwards.

“Al hit the wall I reckon.”

There followed a good solid ‘TING’ from the bell above and a fairly solid stream of curses from the goon who was hidden up there.

Mal took a fast glance inside and locked eyes with a man on the upper level. Mal was a shade faster and got a shot off before retreating.

Chilli’s breathing was returning to somewhere near normal. He cracked open one eye with an effort and gestured to Mal to go left while he went right.

They shot into the interior of the church, goon number one who Mal had already got a shot at didn’t know where to fire first; and paid for it, he aimed at Chilli, missed, and got shot by Mal. Gravity took him down to floor level fast and terminally.

The last goon was sticking to the bell tower despite Al’s musical efforts.

Chilli gestured for Mal to take the stairs.

Mal gestured back, that Chilli could go and do something pornographic.

“How in the hell else we gonna get him down?” Hissed Chilli.

“You and Al keep him trapped, I go back to the Jail House get Jayne to bring some grenades, sure as hell he’s got some, and we toss them at the foundations of this dump till it falls down.”

Al was still out front, trying to get an accurate sight on the bell, which was swinging gently; when she became aware of some activity. All of a sudden the bell started to swing and ring in earnest. She frowned at it a moment then moved fast across the open ground and skirted round the base of the Church tower. When she got to the far side she found that the last goon had thrown the bell rope out of the far window and used to climb almost all the way to the ground. Sadly he hadn’t hurt himself, he was running too w