Kinzie

Everyone thinks they know everything there is to know about the Saints. In the digital age, it's not too hard to learn more. Which, of course, makes everyone dead wrong, especially now that I'm in charge of the information that gets out.

Since the mid 2000's, they, we, had been a force of change. I was the first one they recruited after the Boss murdered Loren in Steelport. (stupid Miller and his stupid... anyways.) Along with tracking the Deckers, Boss put me in charge of making sure a lot of Saints information never went too public.

So everyone thinks the Saints are a pretty small street gang-slash-commecial-enterprise.

I swear, if I didn't know any better, and if the Zin hadn't screwed everything up, they might actually have consolidated some serious control over the United States. Though I guess things couldn't get too much worse, all things considered.

Anyways.

Everyone thinks they know the Saints. A Stillwater gang that rose after the Boss was almost assassinated by the former gang leader, Julius Little to become a commercialized gang that made more money doing movie deals and things like that than they ever had as a street gang.

Which, of course, is why the Syndicate tried to take them over. Idiots. You know, they would've walked away once Loren was dead. Killbane was just a poor loser. Which I guess is good for me, since I never would've been pulled off that boat otherwise.

It wasn't hard to pick out information on them, not really. They didn't have a tech person half as good as me, so getting all the files on each and every one of them was child's play.

Which is how I learned how big the Saints really are. If the Zin hadn't attacked Earth, I'm pretty sure there would have been an official Saint gang in every major city.

A girl known as Candy took over Stillwater while the Boss was in Steelport. She's... okay. I've met scarier, but she uses that to her advantage. Who thinks a five-foot-tall, ninety-pounds-soaking-wet white girl with a sugar-sweet smile is a threat?

Then there's the twins. Sunny and Stormy are their nicknames. When the Boss moved to taking out Cyrus Temple, they were left in charge of Steelport. They kind of fit their names; Sunny's super laid back, and doesn't pick fights. She ends them. Stormy picks fights and can be straight up homicidal, but then... I mean, that's kind of normal for the Saints. You know?

Blue runs a town called Amiel, down south. She seems pretty cool-headed. Found out she used to be in the Rollerz until they killed her girlfriend. Like, her actual girlfriend who was a Saint. From what I heard about that event, it was messy... She didn't join up with the Saints until the Boss came out of their coma, and I was told it was a pretty rough fight, but they worked it out.

Then there's Ritsuko. She's... not really a boss. Something about being an anarchistic, nihilistic bitch with no respect for authority, and definitely no desire for it. Boss kept her around to be a bodyguard once they became President, which seemed to suit everyone.

And there's definitely others. The gangs weren't spread thin, but they weren't entirely interconnected either. You had to apply, basically, to be part of the Saints, and being a Boss was less about application and more about... well, owning your murderous tendencies, and being able to lead without killing everyone who questioned you.

So, basically, being the head of a corporation.

And it worked really well. I mean, every Saints gang had their own colors, but they were all tied together by being part of the Saints. Also, the fleur de lis. They didn't exactly report to me, but I tended to get all that information anyways. Boss cared a little, but mostly about the other bosses, not so much the income, or what they were doing in their cities.

And then the Zin came.

Everything's so wrong now. Maybe I should have pushed this harder, or... or just found some way to make the Boss listen to me. I mean, I know I have a thing for conspiracy theories, but it's not really a theory when I'm right.

Maybe then, Boss... the President... wouldn't have died.

I'm out though. They didn't even get me into one of those tubes before I was out and stealing a ship and Keith David out from under them. We're kind of in hiding right now with the ship and the stuff we stole. Zinyak's harvesting people from Earth right now, and even though I want him to stop, I know we're going to need like... an army.

We need more Saints.

Plus, I need more time to study this simulation. It's very Matrix, all layered up in crap. I mean, it's impressive, but it's still computers, and even if it's alien tech, I know computers better than anyone else.

And maybe I'm kind of hoping that one of the others will make it here and I can track them down. I'm tapped into Zin communications, which lets me monitor a lot of their chatter. For an alien species, they sure do speak English pretty well... I mean that does make it easy to figure out what's going on, but it's weird.

Oh well.

Better stop recording now. Back to work.