Aisha's Favor

It had been a day. After that meeting, Vince had talked with Troy, who was Julius's right-hand man about what he could do to prove his worth. Sure, he may have been "canonized" and shown that he could handle a gun, but he was still the new guy. Troy had filled him in on an abandoned storefront that supposedly had Carnales hanging out there. So Vince and some others went to the place to check it out. They got into a shootout but still managed to come out on top.

However, it was now time to see what he could do to help out the gangs. It appeared that the Saints wanted to just put a stop to the gang violence. There were three gangs to deal with, but there was only one place to start.

Vince wanted to see about helping out Lin, since he may have his eye on her, but he also wanted to see what the others at the church had to offer. He got to the church and looked around. Several Saints members were hanging out inside. He walked around to the back of the altar and found more areas, like offices. He passed by one and saw Johnny and Dex just hanging out and talking, with Johnny sitting down and had his feet on the table, and Dex standing up in front posters of R&B singer Aisha, as well as sexy lady posters. It could even be said that the Aisha posters were a bit risqué as well, with the woman dressed in revealing attire and posing rather provocatively.

Johnny and Dex turned their attention and saw their latest recruit walk in.

"Oh, hey, take a seat man," Johnny said.

"Hey, what's up?" Dex said.

Vince didn't say anything but just walked up to the table and pulled out a chair, but rather than sit down in the standard way, he decided to sit in the chair backwards, like how some people did it in the 1990s.

"So you're Julius's new boy, huh? You don't look like much," Johnny said. "Then again, I don't look like I have an eight-inch cock, so I guess we're both full of surprises."

Vince rolled his eyes at that comment, but then started to mildly chuckle.

"Come on, really?" Vince said.

"Too much information? I get you," Johnny said. "Anyway, onto business. The Vice Kings are named after one guy – Benjamin King. That shit don't happen unless you're a professional or a badass, and in King's case, he's both."

"Wow, that has to mean something," Vince said.

"When you're both, you're not one to fuck with," Dex said.

RING! RING! A phone rang. It was Johnny's.

"Hold, I got to take this," Johnny said. "Aisha, what a pleasant fucking surprise. Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down."

Vince and Dex heard the voice from the phone. It sounded like to them something was going down.

"Okay, that's not slower, that's louder," Johnny said. "Shit, where is she head? Don't worry, I got this."

"What's up?" Dex said.

"Some motherfucker's grabbed Aisha's sister right off the street," Johnny said.

"Shit, man, that's the sixth girl this month," Dex said. "Do we know who's doing this?"

"Yeah, the Vice Kings," Johnny said.

"No way, man, kidnapping ain't King's style," Dex said.

"Maybe that slut Tanya's going behind King's back, don't know, don't fucking care," Johnny said. "Aisha said they were driving a yellow sedan. I'm going to set this shit straight."

"Hold up, how about if I do it?" Vince said. "What can I do?"

"Tail those bitches to back to wherever they go and get those girls back," Johnny said to Vince.

"You got it," Vince said and walked out of there.

As soon as Vince left, Dex looked at Johnny and said, "Are you sure that sending the new guy out there is a good idea?"

"Come on, he's got to prove himself somehow, right?" Johnny said.

"Yeah, but this is your girl's sister, I could imagine she would want you to go and handle it," Dex said.

"Eesh will be fine with it," Johnny said. "Besides, let's see what that guy has to offer. After what Julius and Troy said about him, I need to see more."

Dex sighed. "Okay, man."

As soon as Vince got outside the church, he saw a purple Hammerhead parked out there. He had quite an interest in muscle cars and this was no exception. He went right to the car and was tossed a key to him by a fellow Saint. He got in and started it up. He rolled right towards the intersection and looked both ways, his left, he saw a yellow Capshaw driving out of an oncoming lane and turning right. It had to be it.

That's got to be them. Vince thought. He quickly swerved to make a left and had the yellow car in his sights. He was not going to lose this vehicle. He drive as close as he could, but not too close because he didn't want to cause any suspicion. Any moment he saw the Capshaw turn, he would go over there and make that exact same turn as well. He followed him the areas of Harrowgate and even went into Rebadeaux and even went through Bavogian Plaza, where the yellow car made its stop.

From a distance, he saw a guy in yellow walking at a fast pace to approach the front passenger's side. He opened the door, with a gun in hand and pointed it at the passenger, who was a young black woman. From that same distance, that young woman was being guided at gunpoint to get out of the car and was shoved into a building of some sort. This was definitely the place. He got out his Vice 9 and his T3K Urban. It was time to get that girl back.

Vince pulled into the area, which looked like a loading dock for trucks. The same yellow Capshaw was parked there and got out his T3K Urban to get inside the building. He had picked up some extra magazines for his weapons at Friendly Fire. Now it was time to make his move. He kicked the door. It seemed like it wasn't shut all the way. Many of the guys inside yelled "What the fuck?!" and "Who the fuck is there?!"

Inside was a storage area with boxes and crates on top of each other. Out from a behind a stack of boxes, a Vice King member quickly opened fire. Vince quickly went back outside and stood right by the doorway. The VK member stopped shooting as he saw that Vince was outside. He tried to fire at the brick wall. Many small pieces of brick dropped from the hail of gunfire. The Vice King member slowly walked towards the door. As soon as he peered to the outside, a hand grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and felt some steel poke against his chest.

BANG! BANG! BANG! Vince had grabbed the VK member and took him down by pressing the barrel of his pistol and pumped three shots into his chest. Blood squirted out of three wounds in his back and was pushed to the ground. Knowing that more would be crawling, Vince got out his T3K to handle his business.

As soon as he got inside, gunfire hailed through the air. Vince plopped right to the ground and crawled. Bullets broke pieces of wood and cardboard from the crates and boxes respectively. Some pieces even fell on him as he lied face down on the pavement of the warehouse. It wasn't long until he saw a guy in yellow slowly poke out from behind a corner where some crates were. Vince looked up and saw that the man was strapped. He got out his Vice 9 and BANG!

"AAAGHH!" The VK member screamed and winced in pain as he felt the shot right to his right quad. Visibly in pain, he looked to his left and saw Vince lying there looking up straight at him.

"Fuck you!" The Vice King yelled and slowly raised his arm to point the gun at Vince, who fired a round right as his stomach. The yellow on his shirt had a red stain slowly running down his shirt and the bleeding did not stop. The VK member slowly dropped, as he fell to right knee and then finally to his side.

It was now or never. Though he was still outnumbered, Vince was not going to back down. He got out his SMG and slowly ducked and snuck behind the stacks of crates and boxes. He peered out and wasted no time in opening fire on the other three Vice Kings in the area. If he had to reload, he did just that. It didn't take long until the other three finally dropped.

He looked up and saw a doorway into another room with some shelving. That had to be where the girl was. It was time to set her free. He ran in there and went right up to the door in the back area.

KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

"What do you want?" A female voice said.

"Relax, I'm not one of them," Vince said. "I'm here to rescue you."

"Are you a cop?" the girl said.

"No, but I'm with the Saints," Vince said.

"Oh, okay, but you can't let us out now," the girl said. "The guy with the key went to Tee'N'Ay."

"Okay, I'll be right back," Vince said. He ran out of there and jumped over the corpses of the Vice King soldiers that were laid out in the area. He ran outside and went right to the Hammerhead. Last time he checked, Tee'N'Ay was just across the way, as he had driven by that establishment before.

He sped to that area, where there was a road that went under, like an underpass and tunnel hybrid. He only saw from the back, but he figured that was where it was. He quickly parked the car in an alley where some dining tables were. He got out and ran towards the steps to get into the club.

Inside, a muscular bald man stood there. He was probably the bouncer but Vince walked right past him. He went into the main area. Music was blaring. Several guys in yellow were hanging out, but it didn't seem like anybody was dancing on stage, nor was there a bartender there to serve drinks.

The Vice Kings looked up and only saw a man in purple. Vince wasted no time. He just drew his T3K and just started blasted. No questions, no hesitation, nothing, all he wanted to do was let the girl go free. He shot the one guy he believed he saw get out of the car and put the gun to the girl's head. He was the first to go down. Many of the other Vice Kings opened fire. Vince dove right behind a wall where some seating was. Bullets kept on piercing holes in the walls of the club. Vince peered out and pumped four shots into the one closest to him the moment he heard a pause in the shooting.

The shooting stopped. He went down the steps. The bodies had blood gushing right out of their bodies and the carpeting had started turning dark red. Vince went right to that guy and searched the pockets of his pants. He found the keys to that room of the warehouse.

He walked out of the strip club. The bouncer from before stood outside, he saw Vince walk right past him, as if he paid the man no mind. Though the bouncer may have witnessed the carnage happening, gang violence was something that the people of Stilwater may have gotten used to. Usually any criminal would eliminate a witness, but Vince didn't do that. He just went up to the man and handed him some money to keep his mouth shut and to maybe give the owner for some of the property damage. He had also taken some money off the fallen Vice Kings not just from right now, but also before when he got into some of the carnage from the previous day.

He got back into the Hammerhead and raced back to the warehouse. He went right to the room and got out the key to open. The door opened. Inside were three women. Two looked Hispanic and one was black, wearing a tube top that had a picture of Aisha and even had the singer's logo on it. That had to be the girl.

"I'm back, come on, ladies," Vince said.

"Wow," said one of the women.

The other two women, including Aisha's sister even smiled at him. Was it out of a relief or was it because they found Vince to be handsome?

"Let's get going, come on," Vince said. "Follow me, ladies."

All three ladies followed him. The two Hispanic ladies smiled about this, while Aisha's sister walked closely to Vince. All four people walked towards the exit of the warehouse.

But suddenly, some yellow cars started to pull up. How they knew about what went down was anybody's guess. But Vince had to think about what to do. Johnny told him to bring the ladies back to the church earlier, but he couldn't use the Hammerhead. He had the keys, which included the key to that Capshaw. It was the only way and more Vice Kings started to pull in.

"In the car, now, ladies," Vince said.

The two Hispanic women got into the backseat, while Aisha's sister rode shotgun. Vince started the car and took off. He went around and swerved at any turn. Considering the color of the car, he wanted to make sure that he would lose them and for them to not be too aware of who was driving that car.

It wasn't long, but he had lost them. Now it was back to the church they go. Once they crossed into Harrowgate, Vince went down the road to get to Mission Beach and pulled up and everyone was home free.

Johnny and Dex walked outside. Vince and the ladies got out of the car.

"Holy shit, you did good," Johnny said.

"Thanks," Vince said.

"Impressive shit," Dex said.

Johnny approached them and saw Aisha's sister.

"Hey, Latisha," Johnny said.

"Hey, Johnny," Aisha's sister said.

"Are you okay?" Johnny said.

"I'm totally fine, after this guy saved all of us," Latisha said as she shifted her eyes towards Vince.

"We were so scared what the Vice Kings would do to us," Latisha said. "If it wasn't for our hero, they would have abused us into prostitution."

Latisha couldn't help but look at Vince with so much admiration because of it. Johnny glanced at the young woman, as he suspected that she may be in awe because of this new guy's determination and heroism.

"Listen," Latisha said as Vince turned his attention towards her. "I can't thank you enough. In fact, all of us can't thank you enough for what you did."

Johnny and Dex looked on at what was going on.

"Uh-oh, looks like Latisha is crushing on Vince," Dex said.

"I think I see that myself," Johnny said. "You know, I may have to talk with them about this."

"Whatever, man, I got to look at some of my own shit right now," Dex said and then walked away.

After a while, Latisha walked away with the other two ladies.

"Hey, Playa," Johnny said. Vince turned around and saw Johnny approaching him.

"I see you got yourself a little admirer," Johnny said.

"It's really nothing," Vince said.

"I don't think it's 'nothing,'" Johnny said. "Listen, that takes a lot of balls to do what you did. I would have done it, but I wanted to see what you got out there. Listen, if you want, I'll try to talk to Aisha's sister for you."

"I don't know about this," Vince said. "I just met her."

"I know what you mean, but I see the way she looked at you," Johnny said. "Just give it some thought, okay?"

"Okay, I will do that," Vince said. "Right now I got to check on other stuff. I'll be back in a flash."

Vince walked away and got in the yellow Capshaw and drove off.

Author's note: I will do the missions in a certain way. Like the one for my SR3 story, I will do some interludes. I also felt like characterizing Aisha's sister a bit, because in the game, she was never mentioned again after this.

Next up, the Saints crack down on the Carnales' drug compound.