Battles // Battle for Baker Street // June 4th (The Gauntlet)

Battle: Battle for Baker Street
Factions: Vulture Team vs. Conqueror Worm
Date: June 4th
Forces: About 3000 Vulture Team Footmen, 40 of Ryder's Gang is among them vs About 4500 Conqueror Worm Footmen, about 100 of which were Death Worshippers, another 50 were Trollbloods
Casualties: 1482 Vulture Team Dead, 443 Wounded, Duda, Gangsta Pimp. 3800 Conqueror Worm Dead, 673 Wounded, Gari.
Notable Officers:
Conqueror Worm: Jade Fenton, Gari Bellua, Rourke, Mocha, Catherine, Kraven
Vulture Team: Homewrecker, Elliot Payne, Ivy, Gangsta Pimp, Ryder, Wynn
Results: Vulture Team Victory, Conqueror Worm is severely weakened. The death of Duda before it, the deaths of Gangsta Pimp and Gari.

Description: Following Vulture Team's defeat at Vulture Bunker, and its retreat to Highend, it began to grow in numbers once again. After the retreat from their bunker, Vulture Team realized it had to grow in numbers, which both Gangsta Pimp and Homewrecker set out to do. However, days after their retreat, Vulture Team suffered a horrible loss: the death of their officer Duda. As one of their senior officers, Duda's lost was both a personal and tactical loss. Hours after the discovery of her death, Kraven, also known as Father Death, arrived at Highend claiming to be her killer. Almost immediately after claiming to kill her, Kraven was attacked by Vulture Team. This broke Vulture Team's agreement with The Family in Highend, and they were forced to leave.

After leaving Highend, Vulture Team began an operation to make an offensive against the then-dominating Conqueror Worm. These actions would later on be known as "The Gauntlet" which would include The Battle for Baker Streets, The Battle for Crater, and The Krieg Incident. The latter two battles will be covered in different entries. The Battle of Baker Street was the biggest battle of the Gang War yet, and the stakes were high. A win here for Vulture Team meant they were back on their rise to power, while a loss to Conqueror Worm meant a severe loss in power. It goes to say the battle ended in tragedy for Conqueror Worm. The Worms were the first to deploy in Baker Street, taking control of the city, only for Vulture Team to bomb and destroy the street entirely upon arrival. It should be noted that the infamous drug smugglers of Baker Street had left the street before the battle commenced. When Vulture Team destroyed the street, Conqueror Worm lost nearly 1000 men, in mere minutes. This was the real deciding factor in the battle, even with the support of the Deathworshippers and Trollbloods. Ryder and Wynn, the leaders of Ryder's Gang, would face off against Jade's nurses Mocha and Catherine. This is while Kraven and Jo would engage in a deadly battle of firearms and CQC. Meanwhile, the vengeful Gangsta Pimp targeted Jade.

Another important part of this battle was Elliot "Inferno" Payne's rise to command, with every other officer busy in their personal fights, Elliot would lead the Vulture Team forces. This lead to personal development for Elliot that would become essential in the future. The battle raged on for an hour before most of the officers of Conqueror Worm retreated. But the damage was far from done, Gari Bellua, injured from her battle in the Bunker with Elliot, interrupted Gangsta Pimp and Jade's duel. Gangsta Pimp was killed by Gari immediately, only for Gari to be killed by Jo mere moments later. In a matter of seconds both factions had lost essential officers. It was then that Gangsta Pimp revealed his true identity as Jack Harrison, a man from Paladin sent to assist Jo on her mission. He died on his birthday, June 4th. While both factions mourned over their lost, Jade refused to accept retreat and continued to attack Vulture Team, despite the failure of his footmen. Elliot and Jade faced each other briefly, only for Elliot to convince Jade to call for a retreat before his men were completely decimated. The war could have gone very differently if Elliot had not done that, in retrospect many in Vulture Team viewed that as a mistake. The Conqueror Worm footmen could have been entirely wiped out, and even Jade would have most likely have lost his life if he stayed to fight without the aid of anyone else. In the end, Vulture Team won, gaining an advantage in the war, but it was not a day for celebration, not after the amount of deaths that day.