Pimps Up, Ho's Down
It had been a few days since the stripper assassin raid. Vince had gotten some people to work on the walls, windows, and floors of the Saints HQ after the shootout that occurred there. He had been handling other tasks on the side. He even did some favors for Kinzie by getting some of her contacts from the Deckers. He also did some more training with Angel. Even then, he tried to get Angel to get out of the gym every once in a while, but he refused. At least with Kinzie, she was willing to leave her warehouse, depending on the situation.
But it seemed that Zimos had other ideas. Though Vince had provided some women for his prostitution ring, the Morningstar still wasn't done. After all, with some of the other higher-ranking members of the Morningstar finished, it was just a matter of time until they were completely finished.
It was almost evening. Vince had looked on at the progress being made on the penthouse. Everyone else was out doing some stuff. There were a few Saints members in the penthouse to keep an eye on the maintenance workers, however. Vince decided it was time to get out for a bit.
He went down to the garage and got in his Neuron. He hadn't talked to Zimos in a few days. Not because he was upset at him, though he kind of was regarding the assassin raid. No, it was because he needed to take a breather after the incident and wanted to get some tasks done. He found him on his contacts and made the call.
The call went through. "Hey, I'm glad you called," Zimos said.
"Why, so you could suggest more hookers that'll try to kill us?" Vince said.
"Don't be an asshole, that coulda happened to anybody," Zimos said.
"It's a common problem, I'm sure," Vince said with mild sarcasm.
"Look, I got a plan to pay back the Morningstar," Zimos said.
"Mind filling me in?" Vince said.
"Let's meet up, then I'll give you the details," Zimos said.
"Better be worth it," Vince said. "Where do you want to meet up?"
"Somewhere in Downtown, Loren Square, playa,"Zimos said.
"See you there," Vince said. He started up his Neuron. It wasn't too far from where he was. So Zimos shouldn't be too far away. He was off and ready to handle his business. If only he knew what Zimos's idea was.
It wasn't long until Vince got a call from Zimos about where to meet him. He said to meet him on some corner where a large screen was. With the way this city was at night, it was hard to be specific. That was until Vince saw a crowd of people gathered and looking up at said screen. From what it looked like, it had Senator Monica Hughes speaking, probably an address of some sort.
He parked the Neuron and walked up to the crowd of people looking on.
"…And while no group has taken credit for the attack in Stilwater, we have ignored its root cause," Senator Hughes said. "Our uncontrolled media and the goods sold to our children have fetishized gang culture and turned sociopathic madmen into heroes. No more!"
Applause was heard on-screen. The graphic on the screen, which was supported by News 13 Live, read "Senate Launches STAG Initiative." Underneath the headline, it read "Government turns up heat in Steelport; Hughes makes vow to 'take back the streets of America'; City braces for more violence."
Senator Hughes continued, "Those responsible for this act of terror will be found and held accountable." More applause.
"The STAG Initiative marks a milestone in taking back the streets of America!" Senator Hughes said to more applause.
Vince and Zimos looked on like they didn't know what to think about all of this.
"What the hell is the 'STAG Initiative'?" Vince said.
"Hmmm, if it's free porn for everyone, I am down," Zimos said.
"Not in the least surprised, Z," Vince said as they started to walk away. "So what's the lead?"
"Oh, I got you hooked up, slim," Zimos said.
The two walked up to a van in an alley nearby with a zebra-print paintjob on the sides and on the doors, it read "Boogie Bus."
"Very discreet," Vince said.
Zimos dug through a pocket in his jacket, handing Vince an envelope of some sort.
"That's an invitation to kick the Morningstar right in their collective pussy," Zimos said. "They're having an auction tonight. Flash the card, and you're in."
Vince took out the card in the envelope. It appeared to be a ticket, even though what was written on the card seemed a bit odd for him as he had experienced what it was like at Safeword that one night.
"So what, I pretend to be an eccentric millionaire?" Vince said.
"Kind of," Zimos said. "I'm gonna auction you off as a sex slave."
Vince looked up the moment he heard that. "Fuck. That."
"Oh, quit being a bitch, and get in the van," Zimos said.
Vince took a deep breath. He wondered what he was getting into, but if Zimos said that this could put the hurt on the Morningstar, then maybe he'll go with it.
"All right, I hope this is worth it," Vince said. "You better not be shitting me on this."
"Relax, slim, I know what I'm doing," Zimos said and opened the door to the back of the van.
Vince took another deep breath and got in the van.
A half-hour to an hour had passed. Vince had woken up inside a large room. It was round, had a European feel to it. He was completely naked. He looked around and it seemed like in his vision, the walls and the floor were moving.
"Whoa, pretty colors," Vince said as he looked on and saw some weird movement and fell to the floor. Either it was the wall moving, or he was moving. "Okay, let's do this."
He quickly approached the two doors. Zimos stood there in a hallway with red walls and what looked like a red or pink light glaring.
"Here's your gun back," Zimos said in a much slower way. "You will need it."
The way Zimos spoke sounded slower than ever before. It was like he was distorted. Zimos handed Vince a Kobra pistol with a suppressor on it. Being that it was also an effective weapon in its own right, this should be useful.
"Should be fun storing ammo," Vince said as he ran down the hall completely in the nude.
"That's on you to figure out, baby," Zimos said. "I would rather not know."
Once Vince went around the corner to right, a front desk was seen, along with some Morningstar soldiers just hanging around. A guy in a black and red outfit was at the desk, while a female in a black jacket and pants with a red low-cut top was outside of it. Another guy stood outside of the desk in a similar to the guy in the front desk.
This moment was a bit unpleasant because though he had streaked before, the only times in recent memory he was naked with anybody was if he had a one night stand or something. He was even skeptical about doing a favor for Shaundi involving taking out an old lady who had a thing against public nudity.
He ran right towards the female Morningstar soldier and gave her a flying clothesline and rolled right on the floor, where the male soldier was ready to open fire. But Vince thought ahead and quickly shot the man twice in the leg and then a third shot to the head and quickly shot the female soldier in her head to keep her down.
The guy behind the desk sounded the alarm and was ready to flank Vince, but met a buckshot to the back as multiple holes were shown after he was dropped.
Vince looked up. "Thanks, Z."
"Don't mention it, Playa," Zimos said. "Now find somethin' to shut off those alarms."
Vince ran towards the desk and saw some computers there. However, running made his current condition worse as right when he went to the desk, he vomited, but he still went to a computer. No such luck.
"Damn things are still goin'," Zimos said. "We'll have to go down to the find the security room."
Just then, a couple of doors had opened. Behind door one, a couple of Morningstar soldiers barged in. Behind door two, a few sex workers had come out, armed as well, whether it was with guns or a rather large purple dildo that had a handle on it.
"Hey there, ladies," Zimos said. "Come on, roll with us. We'll keep you safe."
A few of the Morningstar soldiers tried to open fire but were met with gunfire from Vince, Zimos, and a couple of hookers.
"Damn, what's making the floor vibrate?" Vince said and dropped to ground. He put his hand out to help himself get back up to his feet. "Come on, let's get going."
Vince opened the door. He saw that he was inside Safeword, as the main area was all too familiar to him. Except this time there were only Morningstar members.
One hooker was armed tried to get out through the doorway. However, a couple of shots to the chest caused her to drop to the floor. A male Morningstar soldier stood right next to a pillar that faced that exact door. But he was met a few bullets to the chest himself as another hooker laid a few shots into him.
"Should be clear now," the woman said.
The hooker stepped outside, but she quickly dropped as a hole burst from her chest through her back with blood splattering on both ends. She landed right by the doorway in a fetal position.
"What the fuck?" Vince said, even though he was still dizzy, but not enough to notice some red lasers lighting up the main area of Safeword. "Shit, we got snipers in here."
There was only one hooker left of the three that left the room. She quickly picked up one of the TEK-Z10s that a Morningstar soldier dropped. Vince did the same. He could only get so far with that Kobra, which he dropped because he had nowhere to hold the weapon.
Vince led the way for Zimos and the other hooker, whose name was Venus and was African-American. The main area was crawling with Morningstar. Snipers were around, as were other soldiers. They were as good as dead, except for one thing. Vince ran back to the desk and broke through some of the drawers. For some odd reason, they had some flash-bang grenades in there. The dizziness was halfway to wearing off, but he still had that euphoric feeling. A single bullet, especially from a sniper could do him in.
Vince handed Venus and Zimos a few of the grenades. They both checked a few and big flash occurred all over the area. Zimos and Venus just went forth gunned down all of them, while Vince went up the stairs and pumped one of the snipers full of lead and quickly grabbed his McManus rifle and fired away at any other snipers. That's all what needed to be done. Everyone was down and Vince raced down the stairs with the machine gun and met up with Zimos and Venus.
"Come on, let's go," Vince said.
"You're handling this naked thing better than I thought you would," Zimos said.
Vince led the other two down the hallway and saw a door on the right.
"I mean, this just feels…right," Vince said.
Venus added, "I'll say. You got quite a body on you. You ever want a good time, let me know."
Vince chuckled a tad, "Maybe, we'll see."
The door led into a few flights of stairs. This probably was the same flight of stairs where Vince and Pierce went through to get to the pony barn, except he wasn't sure where the security center was.
"Where you headed? We got to go down, remember?" Zimos said.
"I'm just trying to see where it could be, you know?" Vince said.
Vince found a door that was open. Inside were some crates and a brick wall, as well as a chain-link gate. Vince opened and saw some cages down a corridor with some women inside. It's like they were locked in cells.
"What the hell?" Vince said.
Zimos and Venus saw the other women. Venus was the only one of the three who survived earlier, but she stuck by.
"Shit, we can't leave them like this," Zimos said. "I say we let 'em out."
"Hey, the more bitches for your biz, we can do this," Vince said and looked towards Venus. "I see you can handle yourself a bit."
"The other girls did, too," Venus said. "But we didn't see that coming. I'll roll with you guys." She looked towards Zimos. "If you ever need a bottom bitch, I'm game."
"Sure thing, little lady," Zimos said.
"You can call me Venus."
From a distance, an accented female voice yelled "They're in here!"
"Fuck, we got to take some people out," Vince said.
Vince ran and led Zimos and Venus down the way and saw a computer. He figured that he should clear out some of the Morningstar before freeing the ladies.
All three of them just quickly opened fire on anybody who got in their way.
"Damn, wouldn't want to be Morningstar right now!" Vince said.
Everyone dropped and Vince ran back to the computer and entered a code, letting out some of the women in the cells and they followed the trio. They reached a corner and turned left and saw an open door, as well as an open area with crates, tables, and water coolers. Morningstar soldiers just happened to have been waiting for them.
"Ladies, out of the way!" Vince said. The other women got out of the way and hid behind the trio as the trio just opened fire. They needed to do that, especially if Vince was still completely naked and didn't want to leave an unpleasant sight of wounds on his chest, despite already having some scars on his body.
Inside the room with the open door, a Japanese woman with a long coat stood over what looked like a woman with a bag over her head. Turned out the woman in the coat was Clara, one of the heads of security at Safeword.
"You are going to cooperate with us," Clara said. "Andre is running things here now and now you have to be a sex slave!"
Vince pistol-whipped Clara in the back of her head, knocking her down and right towards the woman and pulled the bag from over her head. The woman turned out to be Hispanic, likely Mexican. In fact, this woman looked rather familiar to Vince.
"Luz, is that you?" Vince said.
"Oh my god!" Luz said as she looked at Vince up and down, and down and up.
"Long story, what are you doing here?" Vince said.
"Long story as well," Luz said. "I should ask you the same thing, and why are you…?"
"I'm not answering that question, but I am going to say that I'm helping my boy with his business," Vince said.
"You know this lady?" Zimos said.
"Yeah, we've met before," Vince said.
"Listen, I can't stay here," Luz said. "Let me help you."
"Uh, I don't know," Vince said.
"Listen, you didn't kill me that one night and you also protected me from the Ronin when I worked as a drug mule," Luz said. "I can help you!"
"Okay, we'll talk more, but right now, you need to stay with us," Vince said. "Come on, let's keep going."
All four people, along with the freed hookers kept going down the way. More women were seen in the cages.
"More to let out," Zimos said. "Get on that."
"I will, just let me find another computer," Vince said.
Everyone kept walking and running to find another door to head to another area. One thing that they came across was a brute that was dressed like a hooker as well. There was no way they were bringing that…thing with them.
"Hey, Z, I got something to tell you," Vince said as he headed to another door.
"What's that, playa?" Zimos said.
"You know you're never getting me like this again," Vince said.
"To be honest, I didn't think it would work the first time," Zimos said.
Right on the other side of the door, more Morningstar soldiers awaited their arrival. Oddly enough, even though the Morningstar soldiers were armed, many of the freed hookers just went worth and started beating them up. The Morningstar soldiers had little time to draw their weapons but the amount of rage following through the veins of these women was just that intense that these soldiers were no match for them.
But Vince and Zimos wanted to set the other women free. While the other women took down the Morningstar soldiers, some of whom even savagely stomped and kicked them to a bloody mess. Vince found another computer and let every one of them free from their cells.
"Okay, that should be all of them," Vince said.
"Time to go after their heads of security," Zimos said.
"Okay, but what about the girls?" Vince said.
"Don't worry," Venus said. "I'll look after them. I'll find a way for them to get out."
"I'm staying with them as well," Luz said. "We'll meet afterwards."
"Got it," Vince said.
Vince and Zimos were ready to take down the heads of security at Safeword. All of the women went their own way. But where could the heads of security be found?
The two Saints found another door that headed into the garage. Inside, an Afro-Caribbean woman and a European woman were found. They had the same type of getup that the Japanese woman from before wore, with them wearing teddies, bustiers with garter belts and thongs, and also long coats. They were Zoey and Lillian.
"Hello, boys." Surprisingly enough, Clara caught up to them. They even wondered if she even caught the ladies, but no other gunshots were hot.
"Well well," Zoey said. "Looks like we got a situation here."
"You took our best pony and now he's auctioning you off as a sex slave?" Lillian said.
Clara walked around them and pointed her gun right at the two Saints.
"We all knew that you and that one guy were there to cause problems that one night," Clara said. "But now, we won't make the same mistake."
Vince quickly grabbed Clara's gun, setting it off by firing a few bullets up to the ceiling. It led to Zoey and Lillian opening fire towards Vince and Zimos, as they ran along the side. As much as Vince wanted to handle this right now, he was running low on his magazine, while these two had more bullets to blow on them. Vince saw a wrench lying around and chucked it right at Lillian, while Zimos picked up a fire extinguisher and sprayed all of them, letting out a huge cloud so that the two Saints could make their escape.
They ran as fast they could towards the garage door and got out.
"Whew, that was close," Vince said. "Where are my clothes, Z?"
"Don't worry about that, your threads are in the Boogie Bus," Zimos said. "Just go in and put them on."
Vince ran right for the van, which was not far away and went inside. Zimos looked up and saw all the ladies. They all made it out safely.
It wasn't long until Vince put on his clothes and got out of the van.
"Say, ladies, what do you say you take a ride on the Boogie Bus?" Zimos said with a smile and pulled his sunglasses down a tad, as if he was making a double entendre joke right there.
Zimos and Venus went into the main cab part of the van, while Luz stood away from them, but Vince approached her.
"Hey, Luz," Vince said.
"Hey, I never thought I would see you like that," Luz said.
"Well, like I said, it's a long story," Vince said. "Listen, I can probably give you a ride, but one of my cars is in Downtown. I could take you to a hotel or something."
"Okay, that sounds good," Luz said.
"Listen, what happened and how did you get involved?" Vince said.
"Right now, I don't want to tell you too much, but let's just say that involves the Morningstar and my boyfriend Andre," Luz said.
"Andre? Is he a pimp or something?" Vince said.
Luz sighed, "Yes, he is. How do you know?"
"Lucky guess, you sure know how you pick your men," Vince said.
"I didn't expect him to get me involved in this stuff," Luz said. "I moved out here at some point and started running a shoe store."
"Listen, we'll talk more about this later," Vince said. "I'll call one of my boys or girls. They'll bring me a car and I'll give you a ride."
"Thank you so much," Luz said.
Meanwhile, inside the garage, the trio of ladies were rather livid that they didn't take out the leader of the Saints, as well as Zimos. Zoey, who seemed to be their leader, got out her cellphone.
"Hello, Andre," Zoey said. "We got more problems. The Saints took some of our girls. Okay, when do you want us to do this? Just name the time and place. Do you want us to handle them? I could get Norman and Grigor involved. Okay, we'll see."
Zoey got off the phone.
"What did he say?" Lillian said.
Zoey answered, "He said that we'll have to be on the lookout for any activity on our organization. Phillipe and Barry will give us the green light to make our move."
"Sounds good to me," Clara said. "We'll be ready for them. All of us will."
Author's note: That's it for this one. Yes, you saw that I brought in Luz Avalos in this one as well, but really, I had thought of putting her in but I had to find a way to bring her in, not so much shoehorn her in just because.
I had also read somewhere that when you free the hookers, you could recruit them as homies in this mission. I personally hadn't tried it, but in my next go, I shall see. I also had the two hookers get shot at first to make things a little more realistic, as they didn't see those gunshots coming.
I had initially thought of a battle sequence with the lady trio, but then I thought it would be better to do that for another chapter as I like to think of them as bodyguards for Andre, who I will have appear soon.
Next up, the Saints take down the Morningstar's human-trafficking operation. Stay tuned.