Chapter 1 - Feeding Trouble

  Drug dealer's middle-man Dodge has done a runner after promising to give evidence against his boss. At the opening, we see Bonnie take out to Police guarding Dodge, but she fails to get Dodge himself as he jumps out a window. Bonnie then swaps the expended rounds from her revolver with the cop's, too make it look like there was a gunfight between them and Dodge.

  When Rally and Minnie-May turn up, Rally hunts out a secret weapon's locker, but doesn't reveal to the cops that she thinks someone other than Dodge shot the guards. After talking to Dodge's lawyer, Phil Jones, Rally agrees to chase him down for $10k plus expenses. She and May return to the shop to pick up more firepower in anticipation of dealing with pro hitmen.

  As soon as they get there, two guys from Dodge's old employer turn up to try and "persuade" them not to go looking for him, as they don't want him to testify. The girls soon deal with their attackers, and extract details of the yacht moored up that Dodge may have gone to. As Rally's getting into the car, they discover a bug, and she high-tails it to get to the yacht, and Dodge, before anyone else does.

  While staking out the yacht club, Rally gets car-jacked - by none other than Dodge. At that moment, the car is side-swiped by Bonnie, who demands the location of the 200kgs of cocaine Dodge stashed, or she'll kill his wife. While pretending to hand over her gun, Rally blows Bonnie's thumb off and makes a break for it with Dodge. They make it to where Minnie-May is waiting, and she blows Bonnie's car off the road with a grenade.

  In hospital, Bonnie confesses everything - that she was hired by Phil Jones, the lawyer, to find the cocaine and waste Dodge. It was Jones who let her know where Dodge's wife was, and they planned to sell the drugs and split the cash. Jones gets hauled off to the pokey, and his law firm cough up the cash plus repair costs on the Cobra. Minnie-May's reward for her help is the pluralisation of the Gunsmith Cat business name, and a shopping trip with the cash.

Chapter 2 - Revolver Freak

  Rally's freaked out by a guy who's ordered one of her "Rally Specials", mainly because he requests armour-piercing ammo - despite saying he want's the gun for hunting. Illinois must have some mean deer...

  Rally get's Becky to trace him, just in case. She tracks him down to a high-class brothel called The Almond Club, and offers to do some sneaking around inside - for a price. This promptly makes May end the call, because she knows that Becky lacks the "special skills" to get a job there - but she can. After a practical audition with the manager (schlurp), May's hired.

  Meanwhile, revolver man (turns out he's called Baker, BTW, though he uses the name Hamner at the club) is busy testing out his new toy in the traditional manner for .44 Magnums, by blowing holes through engine blocks. Listening to the radio, Rally has worked out that he's probably doing an assasination job at the opening ceremony for a building across the street the next day, but needs May's information on his exact location.

  Despite nearly having her cover blown by an old colleague, and taking time out to subject one of the guys working for the club to her full repertoire (I think she broke him...), May manages to ring in the room number for the shooter to Rally with minutes to spare, and get the doors unlocked for her.

  Rally manages to stop the shooting just in time, and nails Baker when his gun jams on him, thanks to his choice of ammo fouling it up. It turns out that he always uses revolvers, as a kind of trademark, and laments on the fact. Either way, Rally has succeeded in preventing one of her custom guns being used for murder.

Chapter 3 - Bonnie and Clyde

  In hospital, Bonnie (now minus two legs, in addition to her thumb) has a visitor - her brother, Clyde. He's as up-to-no-good as she is (must be all the orang-utan jokes), and breaks her out by slicing up the guard with a ceramic knife. Meanwhile, Rally's at home polishing up the Lotus Elan she's had as a loaner while the Cobra's in the shop. She's interrupted by Roy bringing news of Bonnie's escape.

  Discussing what happened in a coffee shop, they narrowly avoid being blown up when May's explosives-trained sense of smell detects a bomb left in a suitcase. Roy flashes his badge and gets everyone evacuated just in time, and Rally and May chase after the guy who left the bomb. They tail him down to an alleyway, narrowly avoiding wiping out a group of kids playing - turns out it's Clyde in a dodgy wig.

  Clyde tries to ram them in reverse, but hitting the sloping nose of the Elan launches his car skyward, and he ends up jammed mid-way up between the walls of the alleyway. Rally let's him go (as suspected by Roy) so that he can let Bonnie know that she won't go down easy, only to later remember that she's now got a totally trashed loan car to pay for repairs on.

Chapter 4 - Hot Feeding

  Bonnie sets up a meeting with some mobsters, and then double-crosses them to get hold of the $500k she'd arranged to sell them drugs for - using a sub-machine gun built into her new false leg, and a "jumping jack" anti-personnel mine hidden in her fake foot. She and Clyde deliberately let Becky follow them, then shoot and capture her.

  Having got her Cobra back, Rally returns from her initial test drive (with a distinctly car-sick Minnie-May) to a busy day at the gun store. The prospect of some easy money from another skip (bail jumper) means she posts the details on her informants-special BBS (Hey, this is the mid-90's, remember?), and soon gets a call from Becky with info for sale.

  Rally's suspicious of Becky under-charging compared to her normal rate, and with good reason - turns out it's Bonnie and Clyde laying a trap so they can catch her and then torture and maim her horribly. Luckily, Becky was able to let Rally know something's up by deliberately not responding to Rally's "mistakes" on the bank transfer, and she and Minnie-May stock up on weapons just in case.

  Arriving at the warehouse specified in the false info from Becky, and knowing it's probably a trap from Bonnie (who, incidentally, has now replaced her leg with a shotgun version), Rally decides to grab the element of surprise by ramming her freshly-repaired car through the wall.

Chapter 5 - Burst

  It turns out that Rally and May's choice of entry has avoided them being got by a grenade booby-trap on the main door, but they've alerted a security guard to their prescence. He doesn't manage to call the incident in, however, thanks to Clyde blowing off his hand that was holding the radio. He threatens to kill the guy, on top of lopping bits off Becky, if Rally doesn't surrender.

  Back at the cop-shop, Roy finds out about the stunt Bonnie pulled with the mob from the statement of one of the mafia-men made shortly before he died. Although Bonnie's got a professional driver lined up for an escape run, Roy knows how sadistic she is, and that she won't leave town without finishing off Rally and May.

  By now, Bonnie and Clyde have searched and bound Rally and May, and Rally's getting pretty badly beaten - including getting a knife through her hand. The bad guys are just about to kneecap her and add in a grenade they've taken off May, when May notices that it's one of her specials, and manages to warn Rally. Sure enough, it's just a flashbang - but still manages to take off the hand Clyde was holding it in.

  Rally uses the element of surprise to grab her gun, take out Clyde and get a shot into Bonnie, but is herself surprised when someone comes up behind her, and nearly gets her head lopped off by Bonnie with a cheesewire. End victory goes to Rally, though - despite losing the nose of her CZ, she still gets Bonnie smack between the eyes.

  The mysterious newcomer declares no interest in fighting Rally - he was just there to pick up Bonnie, and now she's dead, he'll be leaving. Rally asks if his choice of cargoes makes them enemies, but the guy isn't up for a debate, and walks away. He says that he and Rally will almost certainly be meeting again.

Chapter 6 - CZ75

  Rally is not having a good day. Not only does her skip get away with a hostage, she gets arrested by a rookie cop - which causes no end of amusement for Roy. Rally blames her inability to hit the guy on not having her favourite gun anymore, and procedes to educate Roy in the finer points of the CZ 75. Also, she reminds him that he promised her the first one that turns up as a confiscated item.

  Leaving the station, after Roy has successfully threatened his subordinates into not trying to take advantage of Rally (perks of the job and all that...), Rally get's a ride with lawyer Mr Scott, whom she knows as a keen target shooter. At a set of lights, Scott asks to have a look at Rally's gun - and promptly turns it on her. It would appear that the hostage taken that morning was his daughter, and he's arranged to swap Rally for her.

  Scott drops Rally, weaponless, in an old industrial estate, and pulls back. He calls the kidnapper to say he's kept up his side of the bargain. Instead of releasing Scott's daughter (whom he already seems to have raped), he puts a bullet in her head, and goes out to find Rally.

  Having fought off some punk and taken his gun, Rally is dismayed to find that it's just a Saturday-night special - no match for whatever her opponent might be carrying. Using the charge from a round, and some matches, Rally is able to create a crude flashbang and distract the guy just long enough to get a shot in. As he goes down, he drops his weapon - an early-model CZ 75, just like she's been looking for.

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