When CJ stepped back outside, he began to get more worried. Ryder still hasn't returned his phone calls, and Catalina was becoming a bigger pain every time he would see her. It was only the afternoon, and already, CJ was exasperated. So he pulled out his cell phone and punched in Ryder's number again.
"Please pick up, Ryder!" CJ yelled as the phone rang.
But unfortunately, for him, after a few rings, Ryder's voice message was heard yet again. CJ was really becoming impatient now
"Dammit, Ryder!" CJ shouted, sounding irritated. "Why won't you answer this fucking phone already?! I'm out here working for some crazy bitch and you ain't returning my calls! I need your help already, homie! Answer me!"
CJ hung up the phone and stuffed it back inside his pocket. He was in desperate need of his friend's assistance, and there was no telling what Catalina had planned for him once he saw her again. CJ was now in a quandary. Should he just suck it up and work with Catalina one final time? Or should he just ditch the psychopath and find his own way to earn the money? Right now, he was feeling rather exasperated of what has happened to him since his return to San Andreas after five years and how it has affected his mentality.
Just then, he heard his phone ring.
"That's gotta be Ryder!" CJ said, feeling somewhat relieved.
With a gleeful look on his face, he pulled his cellphone out of his pocket and answered it.
"Hello," CJ replied confidently, wearing a relieved smile on his face as he expected to hear his friend's voice again.
His smile quickly faded, however, when he heard who was really calling him.
"Why you so cheery?" he heard a virulent-sounding Catalina ask in contempt. "You thought I was one of your cheap whores?!"
Oh, so now me sounding so "cheery" means I think you're a whore now, huh? CJ thought.
Catalina was just being incredibly unreasonable.
"Baby," CJ told her, not wanting to deal with the woman's childish ways, "you gotta chill the fuck out and-"
"I'll chill out when you get here!" Catalina interrupted, yelling so loud CJ once again had to hold the phone in front of his face to avoid Catalina's loud voice penetrating through his eardrum. He was already half-deafened by the gunfire sounds from when Catalina kept on shooting right beside his ear.
"You better hope I don't turn your testicles into kebabs when you do!" the woman continued over the phone.
"Look," CJ started to say, "this ain't no- "
"No more talk!" Catalina interrupted once again. "Get your ass up here, now!"
CJ put his phone aside. He had no other choice. Ryder still wasn't calling him back, and Catalina was threatening to take ominous action on him if he didn't comply to her demands. So he stormed inside his vehicle and drove up the hill of Fern Ridge.
By the time he exited the car and stepped on the porch of the hideout, he saw a sullen Catalina looking holes at him.
"Asshole!" she shouted in CJ's face. She was all of a sudden upset with CJ over something.
"Damn, what'd I do now?!" CJ asked, feeling very irritated at this point.
"You all the fucking same, eh!" Catalina continued, shoving her face near CJ's as the latter took a few steps backwards. "I see it on television. I read it in books. I hear it in music. You all the same. Fuck this, fuck that. Well, fuck you!"
"Baby, I'm sorry," CJ told her, even though he had no idea what he was apologizing for.
"I gave to you, as a woman," Catalina replied. "No! No more!" She stormed inches away from CJ, as if she was getting dumped by her boyfriend. "From now on, we just business partners, okay?" she continued, pointing her finger at CJ.
"Eh, if that's how you want it," CJ replied, trying to sound as if he really liked the unstable psychopath. "But I mean you're breaking my heart..."
"I'm warning you," Catalina hissed, pointing a finger at CJ. "I'm in a really bad fucking mood. Today I kill everybody who fucks with me! Especially you! Move!"
CJ just shook his head and walked towards the nearby vehicle.
"I feel good," Catalina said, feeling all of a sudden cheery, something she chastised Carl himself for being earlier. "Like a woman reborn."
Motherfucker! CJ thought. Just a few seconds ago, this bitch said she was in a really bad fucking mood! Now she feels good?! What a bipolar bitch!
"Cool," CJ replied, not wanting to get into another argument with Catalina. "Maybe you won't go berserk, huh?"
"Oh I go berserk!" Catalina said as she and CJ entered the car. "But not until I'm really pissed!"
"Oh... well, that's a relief to hear," CJ replied as he made a left turn.
"Perhaps this time no cowboy motherfuckers will get in our way," Catalina said as CJ drove down the hill.
"Amen to that," CJ replied.
"Come on, drive!" Catalina demanded.
"What's wrong?" CJ asked, trying his hardest to reason with the woman.
"Nothing," Catalina snapped, "I just hate men."
"Well give me a break," CJ said in a querulous tone of voice.
"Here's your break," Catalina answered in a condescending manner. "Your break is that you're not on my barbecue being eaten!"
Ah, so now this crazy bitch is a cannibal now, huh? CJ thought, wearing a disgusted look on his face.
"Well that's one way of looking at shit, I suppose," he snapped as he finally reached the road.
"Now, try to be a man this time," Catalina told him. "Drive, lover!"
I thought this bitch said she didn't love me anymore - just business partners! CJ thought. Make up yo' fucking mind already!
As CJ continued to drive on the road, coming across a few hairpin turns and under the bridge, the weather was starting to become rather hazy.
"Carl," Catalina told him, "you have to be faster and totally ruthless! No fucking around like in the betting shop!
"What?!" CJ asked, remembering very well what really happened there hours ago. "If you hadn't started busting, things would've been sweet!"
"They had to die because you were slow and stupid," Catalina replied, "like a big fat brat that eats chocolate while his father gives nothing to his stepdaughter but stale bread."
Who the fuck is this bitch talking about?, CJ thought.
"What?" he asked out loud. "Where did that come from?"
"Enough!" Catalina yelled. "I'm not speaking to you anymore!"
CJ was not in the mood to argue with Catalina. He just continued driving and finally reached Palimino Creek, where he spotted the bank. CJ parked in the front and he and Catalina exited the car.
"You're on crowd control so don't take any shit!" Catalina told CJ as she handed him a shotgun while the two walked inside the bank.
"Yes'm, Miss Catalina, Miss!" CJ replied in a sarcastically obsequious manner. He pointed his pump-action shotgun at the security guard. "Don't even think about doing anything, motherfucker!" he warned.
"Hand over every last dollar, NOW, BITCH!" Catalina demanded the employee.
While Catalina made her way to the safe behind the counter, four employees become hostages, with CJ pointing his shotgun at them.
"I'm going to empty the safe," Catalina told CJ. "Keep these idiot covered!"
"A'ight, you heard the lady!" CJ told the employees. "No heroic shit!"
So CJ pointed the gun at the staff to keep them afraid and under control. But he then noticed that some of them were gradually lowering their arms. CJ started to hesitate. He was just one person, and he couldn't hold them all at gunpoint at once. Before he knew it, one of the members of the staff lowered his arms fully and set off the alarm.
"Oh shit!" CJ shouted, shooting the member.
"Shit!" Catalina scolded. "I give you one simple job! Idiota!"
Little did the two bank robbers know, the police were onto them. While two policemen were having doughnuts and coffee at the bakery shop, they heard their radios static.
"Attention all units!" another policeman announced through the radio. "Some psychos are robbing the bank at Palomino Creek!"
"Shit!" one of the policemen at the shop complained. "I just bought another doughnut! Don't criminals have any consideration?"
"We can collect that bribe later," his partner told him. "Might as well go and take a look."
The two dashed out of the shop and hopped into their vehicle. They arrived at the bank just in time to meet the other cops to surround the building. "We know you're in there!" one of the cops announced through the megaphone. "The game's up! Come on out! Come out real peaceable, like!"
"Smash the ATMs and get as much cash as possible!" Catalina demanded CJ back inside the bank.
CJ stared at the ATM machines. He remembered how sturdy they were and found it impossible to break into them, even with his weapons. But he had to comply to Catalina's demands. So without another word, he used his shotgun to shoot at the first ATM. It took about twenty shots, but he finally pried it open and collected a stack of cash.
"Give up!" one of the cops warned as he entered the bank. "You're surrounded!"
"Quick!" Catalina told CJ. "We haven't have much time!"
CJ went to the other two ATM machines on the other side of the wall and shot one of them about twenty times. He finally blew it open, collected the wad of cash, and repeated the same process with the final one.
"Better take the back door!" Catalina told CJ as the latter collected the last stack of money. "Follow me!"
Catalina escaped through the door beside the ATM and dashed out. CJ followed her through.
The two of them came across the back alleyway and were immediately attacked by the waiting cops outside. Most of them were dispersed through the alleyway and on the roof of the nearby buildings.
"Cops!" Catalina warned as she and CJ dodged the bullets the cops fired with their weapons. "Take cover!"
"Thought you might try the back way!" one of the cops sneered. "We were waiting for yer!"
Without a word, CJ opened fire on the cops, knocking them down like a bunch of beer bottles in a shooting range. As CJ penetrated through the open alleyway, more cops appeared out of nowhere and began firing back.
"Look out, Carl!" Catalina called.
"Give up!" another cop shouted. "You're surrounded!"
CJ effortlessly shot the cops as he and Catalina continued to navigate through the alleyway.
"Cover me!" Catalina shouted. "Pick it up a little, you retarded asshole!"
CJ just continued to shoot the policemen and kept running through the alleyway.
"Keep going!" Catalina demanded
But as the two finally reached the end of the alley, two police officers arrived on bikes and hopped off.
"You two, FREEZE!" one of them demanded as the two attacked CJ and Catalina.
CJ and Catalina shot them both and each hopped on a bike each. "Grab a bike and follow me!" Catalina demanded. "You think you can keep up with real woman?"
As Catalina started to ride away, CJ trailed behind. But before he knew it, two more officers on bikes chased after Catalina as she sped up.
"What's keeping you?!" she called to CJ. "You slow bastard!"
Before CJ knew it, Catalina had jumped off of a broken bridge and made it across. One of the cops had made it across, but the other cop had missed the jump and fell down the river below.
Ah shit! CJ thought. This bitch done lost her goddamn mind!
CJ felt rather nervous himself, but he took a deep breath, maintained his speed, and jumped off the bridge. He shut his eyes tight, expecting to slam into the side of the cliff and fall into the wet river below. To his surprise, however, he landed on the dirt surface and opened his eyes. He had cleared the bridge! He looked ahead to watch Catalina riding distantly away from the lone cop.
"Are you afraid of speed, Carl?!" Catalina called distantly. "Stop getting lost!"
CJ just followed head and tried to keep up to her. He avoided the trees and bushes ahead of him. The chase penetrated through the dirt fields as the three zoomed under the highway. The cop had lost his handling and finally slammed into a stone, the impact sending him flying right off of his bike and airing over the highway. By the time Catalina had made it to Montgomery, a ranger crashes into her, and several cops surround her.
Shit! CJ thought. Now I gotta rescue this bitch!
As CJ arrived to join the conflict, he pulled out his tech nine and started firing. Catalina came to CJ's side and hopped onto the bike with CJ.
"Take me home, big man!" Catalina demanded as CJ rode away, losing the cops.
"How we do?" CJ asked.
"Is that all you care about?" Catalina asked. "Money?"
"No," CJ answered as he made it up the hill, "but I really need the paper- "
"You revolt me!" Catalina hissed at CJ. "You make my skin crawl!"
"Well I ain't crazy about you either!" CJ shot back confidently.
"Well that's just it!" Catalina snarled as CJ made it closer to Catalina's hideout. "How little you know! Don't talk! Let us enjoy the peace and quiet! Come on, Carl! Move it!"
CJ made it to the hideout and came to a complete stop. Catalina hopped off the bike.
"There you go!" Catalina said, handing CJ the money.
"Thanks!" CJ replied.
"One day, Carl Johnson," Catalina said to Carl, "you will realize... " Catalina closed her eyes and crossed her heart as she continued, " ...she, she truly loved me," she said imitating CJ, "and your heart will break into two. But you are more like the spiny lizard than a man. Goodbye!"
Goddamn, bitch! CJ thought. Do you love me or not?! Make up yo' fucking mind already!
Catalina walked to the hideout swaying her hips back and forth. She opened the door and walked inside, slamming the door shut behind her. CJ sighed in relief.
"Finally, that bitch is out of my ass!" he said under his breath. He rode the bike down the hill and made it back to his safe house back in Blueberry.