Revenge, Aftermath, and Working for Toni

Asuka continued to give Claude work and introduced him to her brother Kenji Kasen, leader of the Yakuza who hired him to do a couple jobs. During this time Claude was introduced to Ray Machowski who introduced him to Donald Love. After helping Machowski by destroying some rather incriminating evidence, he was introduced to cannibalistic billionaire Donald Love. After assisting Machowski in his escape to Vice City, Donald hired him to kill Kenji Kasen in an attempt to cause a gang war between The Yakuza and The Columbian Cartel. Following this, Claude was hired to retrieve some packages for Love. In his pursuit of the packages, Claude was led to a construction site in Fort Staunton. He went up the elevator of a tall platform, where he saw Catalina and Miguel, who had stolen the package. After a brief, but tense confrontation, Catalina pulled out a concealed gun and betrayed and shot Miguel before leaping off the platform and escaping. Following this, Asuka arrived and to began torture Miguel, telling Claude to come back later for more work. After doing a few more jobs for Donald Love, Claude went back to Asuka. After weakening the Cartel's SPANK business, Asuka hired Claude to destroy a Dodo carrying a large amount of SPANK. When he returned to the construction site. Asuka was dead, shot in the back of the head twice, and Miguel had been impaled on a pole. Maria was nowhere to be seen. On the pole, on which Miguel was impaled Claude found a note reading "I've got your precious Maria. If you don't want her face to look like she fell out with the butcher, bring $500,000 to the Villa at Cedar Grove."

"Maria you idiot, I don't know which one of you I want to kill more, the greedy, money hungry whore or the backstabbing, equally greedy money hungry psycho bitch" Claude thought to himself.

He then hopped into the gold Patriot he got from Ray as a gift and headed to Cedar Grove to rescue Maria. When he arrived at the Cartel Mansion, he was confronted by two Cartel members. After being stripped of his weapons, he was taken to Catalina. Maria was being held by two other Cartel members. Upon seeing him, Catalina smiled a taunting smile at him.

"The real question is did you come to rescue Maria or did you come to get me? Well I got news for you, shooting you was a pleasure but dating you was just business." she told him mockingly.

"Just business, just business?" Claude thought "nine fuckin years together and on day out the blue, it became just business and you decided to fuckin stab me in the back!"

Claude was now regretting not having paid attention to that CJ guy in San Andreas. Maybe if he had, he could have seen this coming.

"throw over the cash!" Catalina told him. Claude then pulled out the briefcase and handed it over, having no other choice.

Catalina checked the briefcase to make sure it wasn't a trick before laughing.

"You have been a busy boy, but you still haven't learned I am not to be trusted!" Catalina laughed before telling her men "Kill the idiot!"

Claude, unarmed and at the mercy of the Cartel members watched as Catalina grabbed Catalina and escaped in a helicopter. With little time to waste, Claude turned around and using all his strength punched a cartel member in his jaw, knocking him out cold. He then picked up his gun and escaped the Cartel mansion. He hopped into his Patriot and followed Catalina's chopper to Cochrane Dam.

When he reached the Dam, there were four cartel members welding M-16s guarding the entrance. Claude hid his patriot in the bushes before stealing an Infernus.

"OK Claude, don't fuck this up" he thought to himself before charging at the gate.

The cartel members opened fire. Bullets ripped through the Infernus as Claude got closer.

"And… Now!" Claude thought to himself as he bailed out of the Infernus, just in the nick of time.

The smoking and burning Infernus stopped right at the gate before exploding a split second later, destroying the two Cartel Cruisers and killing the Cartel members before they had a chance to react. Claude ran over and picked up their weapons and ammunition. Seeing some body armor on the ground he picked it up before heading inside.

Taking cover behind some crates, Claude took careful aim and using his pistol killed half of the Cartel's ground forces. He then used his M-16 to take out the rest of them. Before continuing he picked up a discarded sniper rifle. Seeing it only had 5 bullets, he used it to carefully take out 5 cartel snipers.

Catalina's face twisted in rage. She had failed to kill him again!

"Damn you! You are all fucking worthless, all of you!" she swore to her men. She ordered two of her men to guard Maria, and then climbed back into the chopper.

"Get this thing airborne!" she demanded, and then rummaged around, as if looking for something.

"What are you doing?" the pilot asked as the chopper lifted into the air.

"Does this useless heap of junk have any weapons?" she asked.

"There's a rocket launcher behind your seat, I think."

Catalina reached behind her seat and pulled out the long, cylindrical, green weapon. She was going to finish Claude off, once and for all.

Just as Claude reached the top of the steps, he saw the chopper lift off into the air. He fired at it with the MAC, but the bullets just bounced off harmlessly. The chopper sped off, and Claude saw two more of Catalina's men, standing in front of Maria. Claude fired at them, killing them both. He ran over to Maria.

"Oh, Fido!" she said happily, using her nickname for Claude, "I knew you would come and rescue me!"

The sound of a rocket being fired caught Claude's attention. He spun just in time to see a rocket heading right for him. He grabbed Maria and ran, leaping off the structure just as the rocket hit the floor. There was a massive explosion that propelled Claude and Maria forwards. They landed, hard, on a supply crate.

Catalina cursed in anger, what would it take to kill this man.

"Why the fuck won't you die!" she yelled in anger.

Claude meanwhile was shaking the cobwebs out of his head. Next to one of the dead cartel member's was an M-16. He picked it up and waited for Catalina to circle back around. Claude took careful aim and fired at the chopper. Bullet after bullet pinged off the armored whirly, until at last something good happened. Catalina had been hanging out the open side door of the chopper, aiming the rocket launcher. With a sickening half-crunch, half-splatter, the M4 bullet tore through Catalina's right arm. And severed it. Along with Catalina's arm was the rocket launcher, Claude picked it up and in a few seconds, Catalina was no more.

As he reached the bottom of the dam and grabbed the case out of the water, he looked at the spot where Catalina's chopper had sank.

You shouldn't have fucked me over babe, he thought.

He and Maria then walked away.

"I broke a nail, and my hair is ruined. I mean can you believe it" Maria whined. "This is gonna cost me 50 dol-"

Midway through Maria's sentence, the lone surviving cartel member got up and aimed his AK-47 at them. Claude however managed to sense it, turned around and shot the cartel member dead.