"So. We need to discuss our next move against Cyrus Temple." His manager was pacing as he spoke to the room. They'd been tracking him, but he'd taken so much tech when he'd disappeared, he'd been managing to evade them so far. They were all getting pretty desperate, trying to find any way to take him down.

"What about the Saints?" He said quietly, looking at the floor.

"What about them?" His manager snapped at him. He was not a nice man, and hadn't been briefed on Matt's history when he had joined this team. All he knew about him is that he was good with computers.

"They stopped him. They might know something." His manager raised an eyebrow at him.

"How would we even get into contact with them? Their leader is notoriously hard to get hold of, and she probably wouldn't even work with this government anyway!"

"I have her phone number."

"…What? How?" The older man stopped, taken aback

"She gave it to me." The room burst into whispers at that, and Matt knew that rumours would be circulating for the next few weeks. But at this point they were too desperate to deny any help.

"You know what, I'm not even going to go into why- You really think it'll work?" Matt nodded. "Great. It's your job on the line here kid. Call her."

Pulling the phone out of his pocket, he thought about the last time they'd spoken. After everything that happened in Steelport, he'd gotten the first plane out of America and laid low for a while. Somehow- though he assumed it had something to do with Kinzie- she had called to check up on him. It was one of the weirder conversations that he'd had, but she'd offered him a chance to work with her. Said he had a good work ethic, he just didn't make a good gang leader. When he'd declined, she just told him to keep her number.

He connected the phone to the speaker and dialled. It rang for a minute, and he was starting to think that she wouldn't pick up but the line clicked.

"This better be good, Matt." Her voice rang out across the room. What time was it over there? Too late to be calling, he knew that for sure. The agents around the room were stunned into silence. He was just a kid to them; they knew nothing about what had happened in Steelport, and for good reason. He didn't want to be known as the one who used to be a cyber terrorist, he wanted to turn his life around and actually do some good. He'd already almost messed that up on the first day when someone had seen his Nyte Blade notebook.

"Yes! It is. I need to ask a favour-" His manager was nodding at him to continue, but a man screaming in the background cut him off.

"A favour?" She sounded intrigued, but another scream made him falter.

"…What are you doing?"

"Spring cleaning." A single gunshot, and the screaming stopped.

"Do I want to know?"

"Probably not."

"Anyway, about that favour…." He could hear someone shouting in the background, and it took a moment for him to hear what they were saying.

"Boss, they're coming!"

"Ah, shit. Hang on Matt." Matt shrugged at the agents in the room with him and turned to his laptop, holding the phone to his ear with his shoulder. It only took him a few seconds to pinpoint her location, and only a few more to hack into the cameras at the club.

Police were storming the building, and there were Saints everywhere defending their positions.

"What's going on?"

"New Chief got this fucking stupid idea in his head that he wanted to clean up the city. Starting with us." Matt watched the cameras as Shaundi threw her a gun and they both turned to rain bullets down on the men that were running down the stairs of the main area. She was shooting with one hand, phone in the other. His co-workers had moved behind him and were watching her intently. Most of them would have never seen her in action before, and he had to admit- it was pretty impressive to watch. She was like a one-man army, and had the body count to match. He heard one of them let out a low whistle as she moved, making a lewd comment that Matt wished he hadn't heard.

"Are you watching me?" She sounded amused, turning to face one of the cameras and waving coyly. Blowing him a kiss, she turned back and tackled someone, knocking them to the floor.

"That comment better have not been from you, because an international booty call was not on my to-do list today." Matt could feel his face going bright red, and he wished he wasn't in a room full of people having to do this right now.

"No!" She laughed, smirking at the cameras pausing her movements for a moment.

"I would eat you alive." He choked then, wishing he could melt into the floor. She laughed again, clearly enjoying this.

"Don't worry honey, you're not my type. Unless MI6 have figured out a way to make you age like fifteen years in the last two… Then we'd talk."

"How did you- Oh. Kinzie?"

"I like to keep tabs on people I left alive." Taking a knife off of one of the tables, she slammed it into the head of one of the officers who had advanced on her while she spoke to him.

"You think that's all of them?" She shouted across the room, and Pierce shouted something back at her that Matt couldn't hear. One of the bodies moved, and Matt shouted to warn her, but it was too late as a gunshot rang out. The room went silent and the Boss froze, her face screwed up. Reaching up, she touched her hand to her shoulder and brought it away covered in blood.

"Excuse me, Matt. I have to deal with something." She was too calm for a person who'd just been shot. Putting the phone down on the nearest surface, she walked toward the man who had pulled the trigger. The cameras didn't catch the look on her face, but from the expression on the poor man's face- Matt assumed that he didn't want to know. She extended her leg and pressed her heel into his neck, pressing down. She allowed herself a second, and then completely lost it.

"That was fucking Chanel, you motherfucker!" She shouted, stamping on the man's head. Matt looked away from the cameras the moment his head caved in, wishing he hadn't seen what just happened. He didn't look again until he heard her picking up the phone once more.

"Honestly, no respect for labels. You'd think he'd aim somewhere that would actually do something more than just piss me off."

"You've been shot!" Matt exclaimed in horror, watching as she peeled off her top to inspect the wound.

"It doesn't hurt that much."

"But you've been shot!" He couldn't understand why she was so blasé about this. If he had a bullet in his shoulder, he'd be screaming in agony on the floor.

"Honey when you've been blown to shit on a boat, nothing really hurts that bad anymore. Or maybe they fucked up my nerves when I was in a coma. I don't know." She jumped up on a table as someone ran over with a first aid kit. He gulped as he watched her, trying not to focus on the fact that she was half naked, because Jesus Christ Matt, she's a scary psychopath- why are you looking at her boobs?

"I swear to god, I don't have a single pair of loubs that don't have blood all over them. It's like they pick the day I wear them and go- 'hey, today's the day we'll try to kill her!' I'm honestly sick of it." She was complaining to Shaundi who was laughing at her, and Matt cleared his throat to remind her that he was still on the other end of the phone.

"I'm flying over later today, can we meet?"

"Meet me by the church tomorrow, we can talk then." The phone clicked off and Matt exited the cameras, turning back to his colleagues, who were just staring at him in shock.

He didn't even stick around to explain. He'd left the building and booked on the first plane to Stilwater. He'd been obsessed with the rise of the Stilwater Butcher when he was younger, but he'd never actually got a chance to go to the city. Had thirteen year old Matt known that in a few short years he would've met and almost been killed by the person he'd been reading about for years, he would've probably freaked out. He knew all about the positive influence the Saints had had on the city itself. Homelessness and poverty were down. There was a housing boom with new and affordable properties being built and affordable mortgages meant that thousands of people had real homes that were in place of what were- for lack of a better word- slums before the revitalisation had happened. Stilwater University had flourished and had become one of the best in the country. Money was being poured back into the city and instead of making Ultor executives richer, the people of Stilwater were benefiting greatly. Not bad for a street gang.

He had a hunch he knew exactly which church she had meant, and was glad to see her standing there waiting for him. He took a moment to take in the church. He'd seen the pictures from before Ultor had cleaned it up, and he understood why she'd picked here to meet. She was an intelligent woman, she must've known he had a fascination with her past, but actually being here was starting to sink in now. This is where this now world-famous gang had started. Right on the steps of this church.

Jogging across the road, he approached her. She turned and smiled at him.

"Matt Miller. We meet at last." Reaching out her hand, he took it and shook it. Shaking off the image of the man with the caved in skull, he nodded.

"So what do MI6 want with me?" She was still smiling, and he knew from the look on her face that she wouldn't be saying no to what he had to offer.