Vic made it to the InterGlobal Film Studios as quickly as he rode and parked outside. He quickly hopped out of the vehicle and ran inside the studio to see Reni, who was lamenting his imminent premonition.
"Farewell, faithful friend," he said melodramatically. "The phoenix must burn first before she rises... Such is life... "
Vic walked inside the room just in time for Reni to notice his presence. "Reni, hey, what's wrong?" he asked.
"Darling, he wants me dead!" Reni told Vic in a maudlin tone.
"Who?" Vic asked.
"Diego Mendez, that's who," Reni answered walking around the room.
"Why?" Vic asked.
"Because I put you in contact with Ricardo Diaz," Reni explained, "said it was disloyal of me. Not as disloyal as him two-timing me with that tramp."
"Whoa, wait," Vic interrupted holding his hands out in front. "You guys were an item?!"
"Yes," Reni admitted, "but I could not deal with him. He talked too much. Beat me, Reni. Spank me, Reni. Blow coke up my ass, Reni. It was too goddamn much.
Vic just chuckled hysterically. He could not believe someone like Diego Mendez was actually into Reni. "Diego Mendez?" he chuckled. "Jeez... "
"So now I must go to Dr. Horowitz," Reni elucidated. "He's a genius. Tomorrow, new Reni!"
It became clear to Vic. This Reni guy was actually a transsexual. It was no wonder why "he" was acting so melodramatic and flamboyant.
"You're not having another sex change, are you?" Vic asked.
"I only have three," Reni protested.
Vic just wrinkled his face in confusion as he stared at Reni. Three sex changes?! he thought. Somebody needs to make up his or her mind here.
Reni then dropped to "his" knees and hugged Vic's legs tightly. "Oh, please, darling, save me!" "he" pleaded.
Vic just sighed in annoyance. He was actually talking to a transsexual man who was soon to become a woman - just when he thought the decade couldn't get any weirder.
So without a word, Vic guided Reni outside to head to the latter's red Stinger. The sky was now pitch dark black with a hint of purple smother in it. The crescent-shaped moon glowed brightly up above.
Vic hopped inside the vehicle, with Reni taking the passenger's seat, and the former started the engine. He put the vehicle on drive and squealed away, making a right turn on Prawn Island.
"Diego's men will be here any second," Reni told Vic walking to "his" stinger. "I just know it."
"I'll hold them up," Vic told the transsexual German. "You'll have to find your own way to the hospital."
"Find my own way?" Reni asked hopping inside the Stinger. "But darling, I always have."
Vic watched as Reni started the engine to the vehicle and squealed away. Meanwhile, Vic looked around to see if there were any of the Mendez goons out to enter the studio.
He looked ahead of the entrance just in time to spot one of Mendez's goons enter. Vic headed to the trunk of Infernus, pulled out an AK-47, and fired bullets at the goon, who dropped dead before he had a chance to even take five steps inside.
Soon, a prolific amount of the Mendez goons started dispersing around the place, even firing bullets at Vic. The latter quickly dodged the bullets and fired back at them.
The shadows of the goons spread around the area through the glowing moonlight up above. Bullets started rapidly hitting into objects by most of Mendez's goons.
Vic used his vehicle as cover. He had to make sure that none of the goons would discover Reni's absence while the latter was away. So he popped out from behind the vehicle and aimed his weapon at one of the goons.
Vic fired multiple bullets at each goon at a time and ended up killing them one by one. He still ran around the studio to dodge the firing bullets around him while reciprocating with bullets of his own.
The shootout lasted for a good minute and a half, and Vic killed the last Mendez goon. He looked around to find a number of the goons' corpses lying on the ground. He panted hard, trying to catch his breath from all the running and shooting. He was glad it was finally over.
His celebration, however, became evanescent when he heard his pager beep and took it off of his belt to answer it. It was a message from Reni.
"They've found me!" the message read. "Help me darling! I'm near the Malibu... "
Vic rolled his eyes in annoyance and groaned silently. It was the middle of the night, and he still had to deal with protecting someone else from getting hurt. He just darted to his Infernus and hopped inside. He started the engine and drove away, exiting the studio and making a right turn on Prawn Island.
As Vic drove straight down and made a right turn on Vice Point, he saw that there were no cars around the roads as the headlights shone onto them. The lights of the buildings were off, with only a few streetlights on. Empty. Quiet. The road was silent, and not a single vehicle nor pedestrian stirred around.
The silence was finally broken when Vic made a right turn on the road leading to a neighborhood that had multiple gunshots heard. The sounds were coming from inside the apartment area, and Vic parked his vehicle in front of the gate and hopped out, pulling his AK-47 out with him.
He walked through the gates and found Reni crouching behind "his" Stinger, avoiding the gunshots being fired at him by the Mendez goons. Vic crouched down and crept behind the vehicle right next to Reni.
"You're gonna die, you freak of nature!" one of the goons shouted at Reni.
"Freak?" Reni asked feeling offended. "I'm an artist. I'm sensitive... And I'm going to kill all of you fucking filthy fuckers! Vic, save me!"
Vic didn't hesitate as he and Reni popped up from behind the Stinger and fired at the goons, killing each and every one of them one by one as they fired the bullets of his weapon at them, tearing through their flesh as each of them dropped dead on the ground.
After every goon was now dead, Vic guided Reni to the exit of the gate. "This gun makes me feel so masculine," Reni said as "he" and Vic made it to the Infernus and hopped inside, with Vic taking the driver's seat while Reni got into the passenger's seat. "Make love to me, Vic."
"Let's just get to the hospital," Vic urged ignoring Reni's last sentence.
"Then you will make love to me, no?" Reni asked as Vic started the vehicle's engine.
"No," Vic answered bluntly.
He backed up into the road and drove forward through the pitch darkness of the road.
"All this macho bullshit!" Reni said out loud. "I'll be glad when I'm a woman."
"Keep your head down!" Vic shouted as he saw that the Mendez goons in an Sentinel XS were now chasing after the two.
Vic just sped up to avoid them coming any closer to his vehicle. "In your lap, darling?" Reni asked him.
"On second thoughts, keep shooting!" Vic bellowed as he sped away from the goons behind him.
Reni complied to Vic's order and pulled out "his" machine gun to fire at the goons while Vic continued driving forward. It was well too late for such calamity, and Vic wanted to get Reni to the hospital in one peace.
Luckily for him, as he drove through Washington Beach, Reni had fired so many bullets at the Mendez goons' car that it eventually caught on fire and exploded from behind. Vic watched in his rear-view mirror to see the vehicle from behind blow up in flames.
The hospital was just ahead, and Vic sighed as he finally made it to the parking lot and stopped the car to let Reni hop out.
"Ooh... " Reni moaned in delight as if "he" was having an orgasm. "All that shooting. I'm so turned on, Dr. Horowitz is going to need a chainsaw to cut through this wood."
"Man, I do not want to know," Vic replied cringing slightly.
He watched as Reni walked to the hospital building and entered through the front door. Vic was feeling tired and yawned loudly. He backed up out of the parking lot and drove straight through the road. He wanted to get some sleep to prepare himself for the morning.