Homeland Security

The streets of Mission Beach were a bloodbath. Angelo Lopez and Victor Rodriguez, as well as fellow Carnales soldiers engaged in an all-out battle on the streets of Mission Beach, close to the church. Many bodies of Saints and Carnales were seen lying on the road. Though some members of the Saints had fallen, that didn't mean that there weren't going to be any reinforcements.

Many of the members of the Carnales were outnumbered as they were taken down by the Saints. One member named Leon went to the church for cover and to reload his ammo. Angelo found himself pinned down by three Saints soldiers, as he was covering himself near a read convertible. The Saints were ready to take out the co-leader once and for all, and maybe to take down the other co-leader, Hector soon enough.

Angelo looked on both ends of the car, and then saw an African-American Saint with a purple hoodie and Stilwater Sharks cap. The driver's side door was open, causing the black soldier to kick it towards Angelo, causing him to drop his pistol. Angelo was now on the ground, the Saint was ready to finish him off, gun pointed at him and everything...until he felt a presence behind him.

The Saint felt that his arm was now behind him and BANG! BANG! It turned out that Victor used that Saint's own gun to take him down as exit wounds came out of his stomach.

"Hola, mi amigo," Victor said to Angelo as he still lied on the ground.

BANG! Only Victor now felt a gunshot hitting him on his side and it came from his left, causing him to look in that direction and noticing a chubby white Saints soldier pointing the gun at him. The shot did not faze Victor, however, as he approached the Saint, shaking his head with an expression of, "oh no you did not just do that."

"You got to be fucking kidding me," the Saint said.

Without warning, Victor grabbed the Saint and drove him right towards the driver's side door, causing him to drop his pistol. Angelo went and picked it up and as soon as he saw the third Saints soldier come and try to flank him, BANG! One shot to the Saint's soldier. It didn't take him down as Angelo fired another shot right to the man's chest, doing him in.

Meanwhile, Victor kept banging the other Saint's head into the car door and shoved him to ground and SPLAT! He laid a hard stomp right to the man's head. Just then another Saint ran up but was quickly taken down by a shot to the chest by Angelo.

"Gracias, Victor," Angelo said.

"De nada," Victor said.

"Volvamos a Hector," Angelo said. ("Let's get back to Hector.")

"Sí, pero primero, vamos a comer a Pecas de Puta," Victor said. ("Right, but first, let's go grab some Freckle Bitch's.")

Angelo laughed, like he was up for it. "Voy a comprar." ("I'm buying.")

Angelo drove off with Victor. Leon looked on in amazement at what just happened. He needed to tell someone about what he had witnessed, especially the gunshot that Victor took.

Vince had gotten back to the church after the explosion. He found his way back. Once he got to Dex's office, Dex was on the phone talking to someone.

"Thanks, I'll swing by to pick that up," Dex said and looked up. "Hey, man, just the guy I was looking for. Samson's got the truck all patched. I'm gonna go…"

Out of the blue, Leon walked on and said, "We got a problem, Dex."

"What's going on?" Dex said.

"The Los Carnales are…," Leon said.

"It's not the Los Carnales," Dex said. "Jesus, what's wrong with you?"

"Dex, they're attacking the Row!" Leon said.

"What happened?" Dex said.

"Angelo and his boys came out of nowhere," Leon said. "They fucked us up pretty hard, but it finally looked like we had Angelo pinned down, but then that big motherfucker, Victor, he came in and fucked one of our boys up. Shit, Dex, he even got shot and took it like it was nothing!"

"What else happened?" Dex said.

"Angelo shot some of our other boys," Leon said. "It wasn't long until they got out of there."

"So they left?" Dex said.

"Angelo and Victor did, but there was a lot of LC still out there," Leon said.

"Alright, let's split up, the Row's a big place, and got to make sure that smoke all those motherfuckers," Dex said. "You go with our boy out there. I'll look for some more to try to look for more of the Carnales out there."

Vince and Leon headed out of the church.

"You're the new guy, huh?" Leon said.

"Yeah," Vince said.

"Name's Leon."

"Vince, but everyone calls me 'Playa.'"

"No time for chit-chat," Leon said. "We got shit to take care of."

Vince looked around and saw Jazz hanging around with a white female member, who was a brunette.

"Hey, Jazz," Vince said.

Jazz looked up. "Oh, hey, what's up?"

"We got work to do," Vince said. "Why don't you and your friend help out? The Carnales are fucking up the Row."

"You got it," Jazz said.

"My name is Jen," the white girl said.

Vince looked and saw a purple Hammerhead with two Saints inside driving side-by-side with a red Hollywood with two Carnales inside. Vince pulled out a K-6 Krukov and quickly opened fire on the driver and the passenger who tried to fire at the Saints. Vince, Leon, Jazz, and Jen quickly moved out of the way and watched as that red Hollywood crashed into the church. Good thing the church didn't have any damage. The car didn't move very fast anyway.

Leon got out a T3K Urban. The ladies got out SKR-7s and a K-6 Krukov. They're going to need a lot of firepower to take down these guys. Another red Hollywood came driving up beside the church. All four Saints fired at the people in the car, as blood splattered all over the windows and windshield and the seats, causing it to crash into a brick wall across the street.

Realizing that the four of them need to move around to look for more, Vince saw an Aqua rolling up despite the carnage taking place. He quickly ran up to the driver, who was a Hispanic woman.

"Sorry, miss, but we need this," Vince said holding the gun right to her face and pulled her out. They quickly rolled out, much to the woman's surprise of them not harming her save for pulling a gun on her.

Leon rode shotgun, while the ladies rode in the back. Vince drove around to find anymore Carnales rolling around and causing damage to the Row. Who knows where they could be trying to go to take down any Saints?

Vince looked around, until Leon pointed to a red and white Hollywood. With Vince driving, Leon rolled down his window, while Jen fired through her window, and Jazz popped herself out shooting over the roof of the car. All three Saints fired at any Carnales ride that they saw, or any Carnal they would see. The three would open fire at any car. The good thing about this was that many other Saints soldiers did their part and fired at any ground troops of the Carnales, because some of them weren't just in their cars trying to pull drive-bys.

One example in particular was a shootout taking place near the L-train station in Harrowgate. Many Saints soldiers and Carnales soldiers were going at it, but there was one thing they did not expect.

BOOM! A purple car blew up, as well as some fellow Saints were sent flying from another blast. One the stairs up above was a Carnal wielding an RPG launcher.

"Relax, we got this," a voice said behind Vince. It turned out that Johnny and Troy found themselves involved.

"Johnny, you sure about this?" Vince said.

"We're all in this together," Johnny said as he pulled out a rocket launcher of his own. "You guys go scope out for some more Carnales on the streets. Me and Troy, we got these motherfuckers."

Troy got out a K-6 Krukov. He had a reason to be involved in this mess as Johnny did. It didn't matter who was in charge of taking down which gang. This was a problem for the gang as a whole.

Meanwhile, on the road that crosses from Athos Bay into Mission Beach, a white and blue Voxel rolled on through. It turned out that Lin was only passing through because she probably needed to talk with Julius about something, or maybe was going to get some stuff from the church that belonged to her as she was currently staying in Chinatown, where the Rollerz ran things.

However, she saw what looked like debris on the ground and took a closer look. It turned out they were the bodies of some purple vehicles that had been exploded. Worse yet, there were even bodies of her fellow Saints lying in pools of their own blood. Some even had limbs broken off from explosions as she saw that the bodies were missing some parts. She figured what was going on here. Despite working undercover with a rival gang, she knew her place and where her standing was. So she put the car in reverse and then quickly in drive and shifted gears and continued shifting more gears as she was getting closer, noticing some Carnales standing on a platform looking over the road that was near an overpass and the L-train track.

On that platform, the Carnales posed in victory with the kind of cockiness that implied that they think they've won.

"We took down those Saints pendejos, ese," a Carnal said.

"They should have known better than to fuck with us, carnal," another member said.

However, a female member looked up and saw the Voxel speeding towards them.

"Hey, chicos, is that a Rollerz car?" she said. "The fuck are they doing here?"

The Carnales looked up and saw that the Voxel made its way onto the sidewalk which got into that platform. Much to the Carnales' confusion, they all drew their weapons, but before they could open fire, Lin rammed all of them down, sending them flying off onto the street or just flat out running them over. As soon as she passed all of them, she looked through both of her rearview mirrors to make sure that was all of them. She sighed at all of this happening with so much confusion, as well as grief over her fellow Saints. Though some of the male members might show some sexist qualities, she still felt a sense of loyalty to her gang.

At that point, she made her way back to the church. At which point, everyone had regrouped. Vince, Leon, Jazz, Jen, Troy, Johnny, and Dex, among others, they all had regrouped after all of the carnage that took place. They saw the Voxel pull up.

Leon said, "Are we dealing with the Rollerz now?"

"No," Dex said. "That's just Lin."

Lin parked her car and got out. "What the fuck happened out here?"

"Lin, what an amazing surprise," Dex said.

"Yeah, I'm surprised to see bodies of the Carnales, what happened?" Lin said.

"They came at us, so we fought back," Dex said. "By the way, what brings you here?"

"I just needed to talk to Julius about something," Lin said. "Is he here?"

"Right here, Lin," Julius said, who stepped out of the church. It turned out he got involved in the fight as well. "We needed to clean shit up. What can I do for you?"

"I just needed to pick up something in my old space in the church," Lin said, who then saw Vince standing there. "By the way, come here, I need to talk to you."

Vince walked away from the group to have a discussion with Lin. Johnny and Dex looked on, as well as Troy, and the two ladies.

"Looks like this guy gets his shit done, especially if Lin needs his help," Dex said.

"I just hope she doesn't get in too deep," Troy said.

Lin led the way over to the cemetery by the church.

"So what's up?" Vince said.

"I got something going, but it might take a little bit," Lin said. "Samson told me that the cars are done. Don't worry, if I'm getting in good with the Rollerz, they might have to trust me enough to let them know where those cars went. But I might call you later to let you know what the plan is."

"You got it," Vince said.

"Oh, and one more thing, I told Julius about some other places the Rollerz have their operations," Lin said. "I got to go get my stuff and I will take off. I will call you later, okay?"

Vince nodded and smirked a bit. Lin turned around and walked towards the church, while Vince watched as she walked away. While she was indeed a pretty lady, he will admit that she has an edge and a style to her. If only he knew what she had done moments ago.

Nonetheless, it was now time to talk with Troy and Dex about what their next move on the Carnales will be.

Author's note: That's it for this one. The mission itself is really just the Saints striking back against the Carnales and I could only do so much with the action, which was why I wanted to have more of the Saints' involvement in this, even Lin getting into it. So I didn't put a lot of detail in the action and I don't think I really needed to. I may do it in the next one, however.

Also, the name, "Pecas de Puta" was used as the name of a Freckle Bitch's location in Saints Row 2. It wasn't used in the first game, even though I haven't actually played it but know the story from watching YouTube videos multiple times, as well as looked at other information for research. I figured I would use that name, as "puta" means "bitch," and "pecas" can mean "freckles."

With that being said, next up, the Saints strike back some more against the Carnales, except this time it's on the Carnales' own turf. Stay tuned.