Nyte Blayde's Return (Kiki version)
Author's note: I wrote this version a year ago and had it up on my novelization/rewrite of "Saints Row: The Third," but then I immediately deleted it. This is a version that has Kiki in place of Viola. My SR3 story has Viola in it and does play into the plot, but this version was done as a "what if" type of situation. This does not tie into my SR3 story. It was mainly for fun. Enjoy!
It had been a day since everyone had returned to the penthouse. Vince was ready to bring down the Deckers, but he still hadn't received any sort indication from Kinzie about her virtual reality system being ready yet. So in the meantime, maybe it would be good to put the hurt on STAG.
Vince got ready for the day. He put on a gray jacket with a plain purple T-shirt and gray pants. He almost looked like Don Johnson from the 1980s TV show, "Miami Vice."
Just then, a sound occurred. It came from his phone. Vince picked it up and saw that he got a new text message from Pierce.
Hey, Boss. I got an idea on how to hit STAG. Hit me up. I'll tell you all about it.
Vince picked up the phone and called Pierce.
"Hey, Boss, what's up?" Pierce said.
"Pierce, you worked out a way to hurt STAG yet?" Vince said.
"Yeah, Viola's on her way to meet me now," Pierce said.
"Viola? What does she need to do?" Vince said.
"We need her, uh…talents," Pierce said.
"What are you planning?" Vince said.
"Just swing by, I'll fill you in," Pierce said. "I'm over at Steelport News right now."
"I'll be there in a bit," Vince said.
Vince headed for the elevator and went down to the garage. He took the Bootlegger. Though he loved his Phoenix, he had been driving his Bootlegger more lately. If anything, the only other muscle car to add to his collection would be the Hammerhead. Aside from that, it was time to meet up with Pierce. Why was he at Steelport News? What could have there to show him? And what "talents" did he speak of when he mentioned Viola?
Vince pulled up in front of the place. Through his rearview mirror, he saw a Temptress pull up behind him. It had a purple and black pattern. He got out. The Temptress parked and both doors from that car opened. It turned out to be Viola and Kiki.
Kiki had purple sunglasses but was wearing a suit-like outfit with a black jacket and slacks, as well as a purple shirt. Viola had the same white sunglasses as before. Her outfit was similar with the turtleneck and leather skirt, except they were dark purple instead of black and the chain around her waist had a fleur de lis pendant at the end of it.
"Hello, ladies," Vince said.
"Hello," Kiki said.
"Where's Pierce?" Viola said.
"He must be inside, come on," Vince said.
The three walked in and saw Pierce standing by a rack with comic books that was across from a Joe Cola fountain machine. He looked like he was reading a comic book. This place looked like a convenient store, yet it carried comic books and newspapers, like any other convenient store would.
Suddenly, Pierce looked up.
"Hey, you called?" Viola said.
Pierce saw them, as well as an extra guest to the party.
"Yeah, I got an idea for y'all," Pierce said. "And why is your sister here? I only asked for you to come."
"I go almost everywhere with her, thank you," Kiki said as she cut in.
"Almost? You couldn't make an exception?" Pierce said.
"Well, I wasn't sure what you wanted only me for, so I asked Kiki to come along," Viola said. "Is that a problem?"
"Enough," Vince said. "Pierce, what do you got?"
Pierce handed Vince the comic book he was reading. It was that of Nyte Blayde.
"STAG is using Nyte Blayde as their mascot," Pierce said. "We snatch the punk…"
"…And we draw out STAG," Vince said.
"Set it up right, we'll get the drop on those motherfuckers," Pierce said.
Out of nowhere, the quartet was approached by a bespectacled young man, possibly a teenager. He was seen holding a pen and a comic book in hand. He had a nerdy aura about him, too. He had on a purple jacket and a dark T-shirt with jeans.
"Um, um, excuse me," the nerd said. "My name is Jimmy Torbitson. I am a big fan of you guys. Could you, could you sign this for me, please?"
"Sure thing, Jimmy," Vince said as Jimmy handed the Saints leader the comic book and pen.
Vince looked at the cover. "The fuck is this?"
The title read "Gangstas in Space." The artwork depicted Johnny dressed in a purple spacesuit and holding a gun from that movie, "Aliens."
Pierce said, "Dude, it's Johnny's comic. He sold his likeness to Ultor, they're making a movie out of this shit."
"Remind me to call Legal Lee about this," Vince said as he was autographing Jimmy's comic book. "I may need to talk to Johnny about this to see if he knows about the movie."
Vince handed Jimmy the comic and the pen, to which the boy said "thank you" and quickly sped off and yelled "YES!" with so much glee in his voice.
"So how do we find Birk?" Vince said. "The chump could be anywhere."
"Look, we lay the right bait and he'll come to us," Pierce said. "That's why I need you and one of the new girls."
"Hold up, we have names, you know," Viola said.
"What is you want one of us to do?" Kiki said.
"Look and you'll see…," Pierce said as he looked toward Viola and showed her a picture on a page of a nun dressed in a rather skimpy outfit. "…Bloody Canoness."
Viola's eyes widened as she saw that image. "You can't be serious!"
Vince looked at the same picture. "Works for me."
"I'm not going out there dressed like that," Viola said.
"You guys need some disguises," Pierce said. "Me and some of the crew went to Let's Pretend to pick up the outfits."
"Okay, okay, hold up," Kiki cut in. "Clearly Viola doesn't want to dress like that comic bimbo. So maybe I could do it?"
"Are you sure about this?" Viola said to her sister and looked to the two men. "If Kiki is willing to volunteer…"
"Well, one of you has to do it," Vince said. "Look, you two decide for yourselves on who gets to do it."
"No, no, I can do this," Kiki said. "Trust me on this."
"Okay, sounds good," Vince said and then turned to face Pierce. "By the way, what am I dressing as?"
Pierce turned the pages on the comic book.
"You're the Cardinal," Pierce said, showing Vince a picture of what looked like a priest or cardinal in a black cassock with red lining, as well as a red biretta and glasses with green lenses.
"Wow, I could work with this," Vince said. "Do you know where Birk will be?"
"Last I heard, he's at the STAG PR Center," Pierce said.
"Cool," Vince said. "Now we just need to change."
Kiki walked up a little closer to the two men. "Where's the gear that we need?"
It took some time for both of them. Vince got into his cardinal outfit, but it took even more time for Viola to get into her canoness outfit. Kiki came out in a black and white wimple, a red long coat, and what looked like a rather revealing monokini that showed a lot of her torso, ranging from her covered breasts all the way down to just below her navel. She also had red shades on and high boots.
They both got out of the place and saw Vince's Bootlegger parked in front. Viola even told Kiki that she'll hold on to her clothes. Vince just put his jacket in the car.
"Okay, let's get this shit done," Kiki said.
"Wow," Vince said as he looked at Kiki's rather skimpy outfit. "You pull it off really well."
"I feel a little weird," Kiki said. "But unlike my sister, I actually wasn't opposed to doing this."
"Nice to see that someone was willing to volunteer" Vince said. "Come on, let's go."
Both of them got into the Bootlegger. Vince started it up and they were off.
As soon as they started rolling on the road, Vince started talking.
"I won't lie, I thought that with how cultured you two are, I thought you would be a bit above doing something like this as well," Vince said.
"Vy and I share lots of things," Kiki said. "But we have our differences. When we were in college, she would devote most of her time to studying and being at home, while I would be out partying and getting into some wild shit.
"So I guess the wild side was still in you in somehow, huh?" Vince said.
"You could say that," Kiki said. "Not to say that Viola didn't take part in some stuff, but I was always the one who would be out on Friday and Saturday nights. Sometimes I even had to drag her ass out."
"Did you ever flash your tits on camera when going to Spring Break?" Vince said.
Kiki shot him a look of derision when he made that comment.
"Hey, I was just asking," Vince said. "I mean you and Viola ran a prostitution ring and S&M club, for crying out loud."
"That was just a business, it's not like we were taking part in the action ourselves," Kiki said.
"Hey, I knew someone back in Stilwater who ran a prostitution business and even fucked around herself," Vince said. "Maybe you and your sister could try to partner up with Z."
Kiki shot him another look.
"Will you relax? It's just a suggestion," Vince said.
Kiki sat there in silence. If she and Viola were now with the Saints, maybe they could get back in business. However, they may need to clear up their little conflict with Zimos first.
"Are we even positive that Josh Birk will even be at the PR Center?" Viola said.
"I've met this guy," Vince said. "He's probably practicing on camera already."
"He is that devoted to his work?" Kiki said.
"No, he's that in love with himself," Vince said. "Well, and Shaundi, the point is he'll be there."
He continued to drive as silence filled the air for a few minutes.
Kiki broke the silence, however. "So what's the plan?"
"Go in, find Josh, get out," Vince said.
"Uh, doesn't really sound that easy," Kiki said.
"We're dressed as actors, we improvise," Vince said.
"You better be right about this, because I sense those guys will shoot at us once we have Birk," Kiki said. "We may need some protection on this."
"Don't worry, we're covered in that department," Vince said.
"Good," Kiki said.
It wasn't too long until they finally reached the place. Like before, Vince parked his car a bit far away. He didn't want anything to happen to it. He quickly went for the trunk and got out a Kobra and a D4TH Blossom. He holstered his Kobra and unzipped his cassock and hung the D4TH Blossom around his neck and zipped up his cassock. Kiki got a Kobra and hid it inside her outfit in one place that was covered, even if the gun pressed against her skin.
"Alright, we're here," Vince said. "Hide the guns."
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing," Kiki said.
The two walked up in a slow fashion. Many STAG soldiers stood there at attention. Vince shifted his vision towards any of the soldiers. Through his peripherals, he noticed that at least one or two STAG soldiers turned their fields of vision towards Kiki. He couldn't see through the glass on their helmets, but he had an idea why they were looking. However, both Vince and Kiki just walked in like they were on a mission and paid no mind to the STAG soldiers.
Unbeknownst to them, a blue and black Solar pulled in from the opposite end, as well as a Kayak of the same color scheme. That can only mean one thing. However, the Deckers had decided to go in through another way, especially after the last incident at this place.
Vince opened the door. He and Kiki walked in and went up to the front desk. From behind, the two STAG soldiers turned around and looked as they walked in. Several people stood in the lobby and immediately looked up. Some of whom were men all looked in the direction of Kiki. Vince, however, walked up to the STAG soldier at the desk.
"Uh, we're here for the, um, Nyte Blayde shoot," Vince said.
"Yeah, yeah, go in," said the STAG soldier at the front desk and also turned his attention towards Kiki.
Vince saw that happen as well and looked around. Despite some of the destruction that occurred the previous week when he and Pierce came and dealt with STAG and the Deckers, it seemed like business as usual. STAG even put up some new banners in the lobby.
The two walked towards the stairs. Kiki walked beside Vince as they tried to maintain their discretion. It wasn't long until they got to the stairs as they passed some of the men in the lobby, some of whom were checking out Kiki in her outfit.
"Notice some people giving you the eye and drooling at you," Vince said as they walked up the stairs. "Seems like this plan is working."
"Well, just know that I won't be doing something like this anytime soon," Kiki said. "Unless it's for Halloween."
"I got my costume for that," Vince said.
The two walked across a platform that led another flight of stairs and then onto another floor. Right up ahead were two elevators behind another desk with a couple of STAG soldiers standing guard. As soon as Vince walked up, he told the lady at the desk what they were there for. The lady told them which floor it was on and soon after, Vince and Kiki walked into the elevator and went up.
The elevator opened. The walls contained banners of STAG propaganda even with Nyte Blayde on it, as promotional banners with the characters that Vince and Kiki were dressed as. They even included the actors' names, too.
"This must be it," Kiki said.
A door was open to a room that looked like it had cameras set up. Two STAG soldiers stood guard on both sides of the doorway. From a distance, Birk stood there in costume talking with some people. The others walked away and Birk started to stretch.
Birk started to say things under his breath while he was stretching, trying to get into character.
Birk took a deep breath. "I'm Nyte Blayde. I have no fear. I will save Marion. I will destroy Mr. X."
Birk turned around and saw Vince and Kiki, both in costume.
"Hey, you guys want to do some warm-ups before we shoot?" Birk said as the two got closer.
He took a closer look at Vince and said, "You look familiar." Only to be met with a hard right cross to his face.
Kiki scoffed. "Really?"
Vince immediately picked up Birk and put him over his shoulder. "Let's get out of here."
"Was that necessary?" Kiki asked.
"I know, I just…really wanted to punch him," Vince said. "Those assholes are gonna come for us. Get your gun out."
A STAG soldier came running right to the doorway the two Saints entered from. Kiki quickly drew the Kobra and aimed right for the glass on the soldier's helmet. She let out a couple of shots and the soldier dropped. She wasted no time in moving out of the sight of any potential STAG operative on the prowl.
Vince reached for the area he had his Kobra and saw another STAG soldier coming in from the doorway on the opposite end of the room. He wasted no time in opening fire and did the same thing, especially after last time when it was hard to take down the STAG soldiers, not to mention the Deckers were around that night.
Vince put Birk down and unzipped his cassock a bit. "Here, take this."
Vince handed Kiki his D4TH Blossom after he pulled it from around his neck. "If you need ammo, just say it."
"I got you," Kiki said. "He's going to be okay, isn't he?"
"He'll be fine," Vince said. "He just can't take a punch for shit."
"What if he isn't?" Kiki said.
"Then I've done the world a favor," Vince said. "Come on, let's get the fuck out of here."
The two, or three if counting Birk, got out through the other doorway, which led into the technical and production room. A couple of were seen and quickly ducked. Somehow they had an idea that the two people dressed like Nyte Blayde's adversaries weren't actors.
The group got out of the room and into another hallway. This was going to be hard. Vince never had to carry someone like this before and use a gun at the same time. He had to do what he can.
Down the corridor, through a door way, a couple of STAG soldiers came out. Vince started to open fire, even with his pistol. Kiki quickly dropped one. Vince dropped the other, as the only way to get out of there quicker was to shoot them in the head. In a doorway across the hall, a man and a woman were seen running out of there and then went through that doorway.
Vince, carrying Birk over his shoulder, saw the staircase through that door where the STAG soldiers walked through. He and Kiki went down the stairs and saw another open door to a room with cubicles.
But it turned that STAG was waiting for them right there. Several STAG soldiers came running in their line of view. It wasn't long until they saw a red laser coming all the way out of the doorway, and it wasn't a laser from the Vipers that they wield.
"Oh, this is great," Vince said sarcastically and signaled to Kiki to hide behind the wall to the right of the doorway with her gun ready.
Kiki peered from one side of the wall and saw that STAG was spreading out. They weren't in their sights anymore. Kiki quickly ran to get behind Vince, as he backed up a bit. She had thought of getting in front, but with the stuff she was wearing, she had no protection. So she went behind him.
"Man, all of this for this guy?" Vince said. "You would think they were guarding someone important."
"Doesn't surprise me," Kiki said. "It's all about publicity. Then again, these guys don't seem to care who they hit."
"I hear you on that," Vince said.
"So what do we do now?" Kiki said.
"Well, holding this guy is kind of slowing me down," Vince said. "I would run out there, but I know that lasers will zap me and Birk, or we'll both be sniped in a quick second."
The three waited a bit before it was clear to get moving. The red laser pointed out into the stairwell. Vince knew that they would be screwed if he and/or Kiki walked into that sniper's crosshairs. But suddenly…BANG! BANG! BANG!
"What was that?" a voice from the office room said. "Did you hear that?"
"Yeah, could it be those guys we're after?" another voice said.
"The sound came from downstairs," a female voice said. "Let's go look."
Vince peered from one side of the door and saw that the STAG soldiers were moving around. It was hard to get a good look with all of the cubicles in the way.
"Follow me," Vince whispered. They all started to slowly walk into the area. Vince held Birk on his shoulder with all of his strength no matter tired it was getting by that point. More gunfire was heard, as well as gunfire from the laser rifles and the shotguns that STAG wields.
The area was clear. It was time to break for it. They all walked towards the elevator at the other end of the room. They entered and hit the button for the first floor.
DING! The elevator door opened. They got out. STAG was all over the lobby.
"FUCK!" Vince yelled.
"Shit, they're all over the place," Kiki said.
"I've been here before," Vince said. "I know another way. Why didn't I think to go down there in the first place?"
"No time, let's just go!" Kiki said.
But suddenly, some British-sounding voices yelled, "Hey, they have Nyte Blayde!"
"We must take him to Sir Matt!" another British voice said.
Vince and Kiki looked up to one of their sides. The Deckers had raided the PR center once again. Several other Deckers mercenaries got into yet another gunfight with STAG. These were definitely the kind of mercenaries that were skilled in firearms and/or melee combat. Several lasers flew across the lobby. Other Deckers ran right to one of the other elevators. Kiki, along with Vince carrying Birk quickly got into the elevator and went down to garage.
DING! The elevator door opened. But another sound was heard. The other elevator door opened. Vince and Kiki turned around to see who was coming out.
"Shit, Deckers!" Vince said and they all ran behind a pillar. Vince noticed that Birk had woken up.
"Get Birk in a car and let's go," Vince said.
"The Deckers are coming for us," Kiki said.
"Okay, you take Birk, find a car," Vince said and signaled to Kiki to hand him his D4TH Blossom. "I got this."
Kiki and Birk saw a blue Infuego parked there.
"That's my car," Birk said.
Kiki got out her Kobra and aimed it at the actor. "Keys, now!"
"Okay, okay," Birk said, trembling as he reached for a pocket in his costume and handed her his car keys. A honking sound was made. Birk went into the backseat of his car. Kiki looked out for any Deckers or STAG that could be in the area.
Meanwhile, Vince hid behind the pillar and popped out to drop the Deckers that were searching the garage area, ready to flank Kiki and snatch Birk for themselves.
Vince looked around to see if any other Deckers or STAG soldiers were close by. Either group wasn't anywhere to be seen, so he ran right to the blue Infuego. Viola handed him the keys. She went into the backseat with Birk, while Vince took the driver's seat and started up the car to get out of there.
"Now what's the deal?" Kiki said.
"Keep him quiet until we get back to the crib," Vince said.
"How should I do that?" Kiki said.
"You're the Bloody Canoness, you'll think of something," Vince said as he started driving out of the garage.
"Eh, I'll think of something," Kiki said.
As soon as they got out of there, several STAG N-Forcers surrounded the place, as well as soldiers, firing lasers at them. Vince hit the gas harder and quickly got out of there. At least STAG wasn't only focused on them, as more Decker cars were seen and some mercenaries and specialists went in to do battle with them.
It wasn't just the Deckers, however. Green and black Compensators and Bulldogs pulled in as well, as some Luchador mercenaries came in to assist the Deckers.
Even some helicopters, as well as red and black Justices and Infuegos came pulling in. Looks like some of the Morningstar came in to help.
"Man, it looks like the Syndicate wanted Birk as well," Kiki said as she looked around. "Didn't think they had the same idea as you."
"I thought the Morningstar was done," Vince said.
"Phillipe still runs things and has some other Morningstar affiliates elsewhere," Kiki said. "Maybe he called in some favors."
"But who could be leading them?" Vince said.
Just then, the thought had occurred to Kiki that someone may already be back in town. After Barry's demise, it seemed that the Morningstar was done, but maybe not completely.
Birk looked at Kiki and at Vince.
"Great work, guys, that was classic Boal," Josh said.
"Yeah, about that," Vince said. "Uh, we're just kidnapping you."
"Wait, what? Why?" Josh said.
"Come on, seriously? Do we really need to tell you why?" Kiki said.
"You'll never get away with this," Josh said. "STAG, my agent, and the Nyte Blaydettes, they'll all come looking for me."
"That's too bad, Shaundi was really looking forward to seeing you," Vince said.
"Oh, Shaundi's here? I'll play your game," Josh said.
A smirk rose on Vince's face, like he wanted to laugh. But this was a way to get back at STAG, but with the Deckers wanting him, as well as the other gangs of the Syndicate joining in on the battle at the PR center, it was good that they diverted STAG's attention from the Saints.
As soon as they lost STAG, they headed straight back to the Saints HQ. Vince went straight for the garage and headed right for the elevator to go up to the penthouse.
The doors had opened. Vince led the way for Kiki and Birk. Johnny, Pierce, Oleg, and Shaundi stood there and looked at Kiki. Shaundi put her hand to her mouth, clearly smiling like she was ready to laugh, while Johnny was looking at Kiki a certain way. Oleg smirked, but being the gentlemen that he was, or at least tried to be, he looked away.
"Looking good, Kiki!" Johnny said.
"Thank you," Kiki said in a somewhat sarcastic and joking manner. "Have you seen Viola?"
"Right here, Kiki," Viola said as she walked up. "I got your clothes."
"Good," Kiki said. "Now I need to change."
Kiki walked away and followed her sister to go change her clothes.
Shaundi looked at Vince and then saw someone who she didn't expect, nor wanted to see.
"What the fuck is he doing here?" Shaundi said.
"Whoa there, Shaundi," Vince said. "We're trying to get the jump on STAG."
Birk looked at Shaundi and looked her in the eye.
"Hello, my love," Josh said, trying to sound smooth but it didn't work.
"Oh, hell no," Shaundi said. "If you're keeping him around, you better have a good plan on what to do with him."
"Relax, you said you'll be calm," Vince said. "Try to play nice here. I'll talk with Birk about this, okay?"
Shaundi sighed in annoyance. "This better be worth it. I hope this has nothing to do with what we talked about."
"Not at all," Vince said. "Just a little plan to stick it to STAG. I'll have a word with Birk. You try to play nice, okay?"
Shaundi sighed. "Oh, okay."
Shaundi walked away, as did Vince.
"Hey, sir," Birk said to Vince, who turned his attention towards him. "Hey, you think you can try to get me some regular clothes or something? I don't want to be in my costume for too long."
"I will see what I can do," Vince said. "Let me get out of this cardinal outfit."
"Okay, thanks," Birk said.
Meanwhile, back at the STAG PR Center, all of the Syndicate had retreated, even though bodies of Decker mercenaries, as well as Luchador and Morningstar mercenaries, along with STAG soldiers were laid out in the lobby. Some bodies of civilians were seen.
Cyrus Temple, along with Kia went to check on the place. Accompanied by STAG soldiers as well, they saw that it hadn't been that long since the shootout with STAG and the Deckers, as they, along with the Saints were after that supercomputer.
Temple led his team up the lobby. Some civilians survived the carnage but they quickly got out of dodge when the gunfire died down. Temple, Kia, and the other soldiers took the elevator up to the floor where the shoot was supposed to take place.
"Kia, go check the other rooms," Cyrus said.
"On it, sir," Kia said and walked with some other soldiers to check out the area.
Cyrus and the soldiers searched the office area. They stormed through a door and saw some civilians laid out on the floor. Whether it was from the Saints, the Deckers, or even his own people, it was uncertain.
"Check the bodies," Cyrus said.
The soldiers scoped the room and did their part. However, one found a piece of red cloth that hung on a table. The soldier handed the piece to the commander. He got out his scanner.
"Get me Monica Hughes," Temple said. "They have Birk."
"What? Well find him, god damn it!" Senator Hughes said.
"I assure you, ma'am, we'll get him back," Temple said. "Temple out."
"Sir," a female voice said. Temple turned around and saw Kia and her fellow soldiers.
"I had received word from some surviving civilians that a couple of people dressed as Nyte Blayde characters had Birk in possession," Kia said. "Maybe we should check security footage."
"Good call, Kia," Temple said. "Let's go see."