Chapter 31: The Big Rig Job
"Alright," Sunny announces "let's go through the plan one to be sure what everyone is going to do".
"Geraldine is going to follow the truck all the way to Sandy Shores-".
"I'll keep on followin' the motherfuckers while-".
"I follow them from up above in the bird" Chelsea joins in "And then when we're in position -".
"I'll take out the security and then the driver with the rifle" Sunny goes over that detail in sync "When that happens-".
"I'll drive the thing back here to Los Santos and we get our money's worth" Geraldine finally smiled
Sunny went to put her harness around her body. She grabs the rifle and inserts the clip "Geraldine, make sure to stay back as far as possible; don't let them see you; otherwise things are going to go ape shit" she ordered "Got it" Geraldine grabs her walkie talkie "Go on channel two, let us know when the time is right" "I'll be in touch man, don't worry" she takes the AR-18 and loads it into the muscle car. "Stay safe" Sunny wishes "Don't worry, I'm on top of this" she casually reminds, Geraldine starts the muscle car. The engine comes to life. The muscle car backs away and rapidly exits into the street, it thunders to it's destination at the port.
Sunny sits at the edge of the helicopter. She loads the magazine into the chamber. Chelsea comes up from behind and hooks up the harness to her back. Sunny puts her aviator glasses on, it was mostly gave her that deadly edge. Death from above in a literal sense. "Okay, let's get this show on the road" Sunny orders "Here you go" Chelsea handed her the headset.
Chelsea turned the rooter on and flipped on the switches. The dust is blown away as they take off.
"Hey can you hear me?" Chelsea spoke over the mic "Yeah I hear you" Sunny answered.
"Told you'd have some fun" she chirped "I'll be happy once we secure the load and get our money" Sunny looked down at the city below "Hey, let me ask you something" Sunny spoke through the piece "Yeah?".
"This cargo isn't hot or anything is it?" she wondered "Hot? W-What? You think I'd lie to you or something?" Chelsea nervously chuckled "I'm not saying that, but something about this seems very off for some reason" Sunny voices her suspicions "Come on!"Chelsea cheerfully says through the radio "This is a simple heist! Nothing more!" she laughed "I mean, what, you think I'd trick you two and made this whole thing up?" "I didn't say trick..." Sunny looked back at her "Uh, didn't catch that!" Chelsea made a fake static noise "Their's some interference! C-C-Can't H-Hear you...! You're-breaking up!". Sunny looked back at the view, something else was coming in more than just platinum. Something that wouldn't need that much security unless something more was inside that container.
Port of Los Santos
Geraldine looked. She parked herself outside the port.
Truck after truck came by. She didn't know what was in them. Her phone read 4:53 pm. It was almost time. Within a number of moments she'll follow a truck containing a lot of platinum. Suddenly two SUV's stroll on in. They didn't bother checking in with security since the guard just let them. He must be on the payroll she thought. She looked at her phone again and it read 5:00 pm.
It was time.
Seven minutes later the chain link and their cargo along with it's escort drive out.
"Hey," Geraldine radioed in "the truck and those guys just left the port" "I see them, get on them" Sunny radioed back "Right".
Geraldine turned the engine back on. She turned and stayed two cars behind. It would be at least a couple of hours before Geraldine would arrive in Sandy Shores. If she knew that this would be a long ride, she would have packed something to eat.
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The trip along the coast was great. Geraldine had never been outside the city before. Seeing the ocean and the numerous sailing yachts gliding on by was something that she never thought of ever seeing before. She turned the radio to pick up some tunes. Depressingly enough, all it was available was country music. It sounded depressing. They said that country music would make one think of home but for anyone listening it's more likely to blow their brains out. She quickly turned it off "Geraldine? You there?" Sunny chimed in "Yeah, I'm right here" she chirps back "We're right on top of you, everything is going good so far" "Like I said, it's all good". The freeway winds and turns, they pass gas stations and some stores; along with some motels that were shady at best. Geraldine saw the forest and the hills that surrounded the area. She never saw anything that green before, other than weed of course. This place would be perfect for hiking.
"Geraldine?" Sunny chimed back in "Yeah?" she answered "We're getting near Sandy Shores, we're going to fly on over, we'll see you there" "Roger that". Everything was running it's course so far.
Up over Sandy Shores
"Gotta say, I never saw that much forest in my life" Sunny says with a smile "See, told you this place was cool!" Chelsea boasted "Your city might have beaches but we have the forest here", Sunny looked at the desert landscape with the number of rusty trailers and some farms on the land. Their was a strange smell coming from one of the farms. It smelled noxious with a hint of vomit "What's that smell? It's making my nose twitch" "Probably all the local meth labs" Chelsea answered "Meth labs? Christ, an hour already here and we're already smelling ice" Sunny complained "I didn't drag you around here on purpose okay, like I told you a million times already I don't do any type of drug.
"I don't know how many times I have to tell you that; getting very annoying" "I mean, you do fit the part" Sunny implies "I'm naturally skinny okay! God!" Chelsea irritably shouts through the piece "I'm just kidding Chelsea" Sunny laughed "You don't have to get mad" she laughed some more "It's not funny! It's not my fault that my body's like this!" Chelsea fires back "Okay! Okay! I'm sorry little girl, no more messing with you anymore! Boo hoo hoo!" Sunny taunted "I'm so going to fucking ram this thing into the mountains if you don't stop that" she warned "You fit the part!" "Fuck you! I'm fucking come back there and rip your face off!". Sunny laughed again "God that was so worth it! Seeing you angry really put me in a good mood".
"Fuck you, hope you choke on a sausage; you mean spirited cunt" Chelsea spat out "Okay, no more screwing around; are we almost there?" "Yeah we're nearly there; hope you fall out of this chopper" Chelsea grumbled under breath "You know I can hear you right?" Sunny said back "I didn't say anything! It was...static, of me supposedly wishing you fall out of this chopper" Chelsea says back "Uh huh" "Well, we're almost there; better radio Geraldine".
"Geraldine, we're almost there; be ready" she ordered "Alright, they haven't notice me yet; this shit might actually work" "And you two doubted me" Chelsea giggled "Still have some doubts in my head, don't celebrate just yet" Sunny quickly shoots down "You're no fun! You're just jealous that I thought of this and you didn't!" Chelsea sheepishly looks back and sticks out her tongue "Shouldn't you keep your eyes on flying us over our destination and not into a mountain?" "Hey! Work first! Bicker later!" Geraldine snaps at them.
The helicopter approaches a cross roads. Sunny cocked the rifle. Taking down a moving target was going to be tricky, especially if it was something like a truck. The rig starts to pull up at the cross roads.
Sunny aims down the scope. She see's the driver looking straight ahead, he doesn't realize that his light is about to get extinguished. Sunny squeezes the trigger. Because of the silencer she didn't feel the recoil of the rifle, just a small tug.
The bullet travels faster than usual. It smashes through the windshield. It turns red from the blood, bits of skull and brains splashed against the glass. The rig manages to pull over to the left side and stop, Sunny notices somebody in the passenger's side holding a walkie talkie. So much for this going smoothly. "Geraldine! Take out your rifle right now! It's going to get heavy!" Sunny quickly ordered "What's going on?" she questioned "Just do it!". The other vehicles stopped when they realized that this was a raid. "Crap. they're onto us!" Chelsea said with surprise "No shit! We got to take them out fast!".
Geraldine stopped the muscle car in it's tracks. The SUV's stopped, a trove of men wielding AK's and Armalites come out "Shit!" Geraldine cursed as she ran to cover behind the car. Rifle rounds slam into the side "Goddamn!" Geraldine cursed some more as she covered herself by shooting in their direction.
Sunny takes aim at the man with the walkie talkie in his hand. He exits the rig and run towards the men. A bullet quickly goes through his back.
"Hey man! I need some help right now!" Geraldine radioed "We're coming! Just hang in there!" Sunny shouts back "Come on! We got to help her out!" Sunny ordered "Right!". The helicopter flies to the area. Sunny stared down the scope and takes a shot at one hiding behind the tire. His abdomen opens up and sprays red anatomy on the dirt. The others look up and see them, they point they're rifles at the helicopter. "Shit! They see us!" Sunny quickly points out. Bullets start slamming into the chopper "Hey! You assholes are scratching my chopper!" Chelsea shouts at them. Sunny takes two well aimed shots at the men and they swiftly go down. She struggles to maintain her aim "Chelsea! Hold it still! I can't take a shot!" "I'm trying to! Not easy when people are shooting at me!".
Geraldine shoots her rifle at the ones who are shooting at her. In her mind everything was supposed to go off without a hitch but it was too soon to think about that. She changes the magazine and returns fire. She manages take three down and wound a couple more. Geraldine quickly get's back down. That was the things about plans, they just never seemed to go right. They started to yell her at in their language; which wasn't familiar to her.
The rifle takes four down. Something is going through her head. Like why was there a man with a walkie talkie in the cabin of the truck. Right now she's focused on the current situation at hand. They were putting up a fight, resistance that felt more organized. She saw one of them pull something out from the backseat. A long tube with something sticking out at the end "Fuck!" she recognized what it was "Chelsea fly out of the way!" she quickly ordered "What's wrong?" "RPG!". The rocket bolts towards the bird. Chelsea swings the chopper to the left avoid the projectile. The rocket slams into the tip of the rotter and explodes. The rotter wobbles. "Goddammit!" Chelsea grunts trying to maintain altitude, even with the harness on Sunny had a hard time trying not to fall out. She grips onto the seat and hangs onto it. The chopper manages to maintain it's balance "Okay, going to try too try and keep her in the air" Chelsea announces.
Geraldine saw the rocket collide and nearly take out the chopper. These weren't ordinary thugs somebody could beat up and rob, this was over the top; especially with that rocket. Three go down as the Armalite takes them down. She keeps shooting, a couple are wounded in the leg; it's the others that she desperately wants to get rid of; but they're not making it easy. Sunny quickly puts one through the rocket man. The man next tries to pick it up, a bullet shatters his skull. Sunny just aims and squeezes the triggers, three men fall dead. It's the last four that are giving the most resistance. She takes the first one down with a round to the chest. The second one goes down with a round between his eyes. Geraldine comes from the side and empties the whole clip into them. She see's the wounded ones and quickly pulls out her Beretta and coldly shoots them.
"Hey!" Geraldine hastily chirps in "Man this shit was crazy!" "Yeah I know!" Sunny chimes back "I thought you said that this was easy!" she scolds the pilot "It was! I didn't think they'd have a rocket!" "Well they fucking did! You fucking chuckle head!" "Well it's too late already! We just got drive back into town! Geraldine, you up for the task?" Chelsea asked "Yeah! How about you guys? You think you can fly your way back?". Sunny peered out and looked at the rotter. It wobbles, the fact that it still spinning is little more than a miracle is the one thing makes Sunny breathe a sigh of relief "I think we can make it but if this thing gives out then we're going to have to make an emergency landing" she says with unease "Start her up and drive, we'll follow you back and make sure that no isn't coming from behind" "Got it". Geraldine hurries over the rig. She opens the side door and grimly looks at the former employer "Damn man, you took half of this motherfuckers face off" "Just take him out and let's get out of here" Sunny ordered. Geraldine unhooked him from the seat belt and dragged him out. She gets into the drivers seat and with a rag nearby, wipes away the bloody anatomy as best she could.
The engine is still running which her job easier "Alright, you two watch my back; I gotta drive this thing back to LS" "Don't worry; we're right on top of you".
Elysian Island
The way back was smooth. No gunfights or anything unexpected. This one part went good but the beginning of the whole thing went bad. The sun had already went down and everything had gotten dark. The rig pulls over; Geraldine see's the chopper. It lands, the rotter still wobbling. Chelsea runs towards her and hops into her arms. "Hey! Get the fuck off me!" Geraldine scolded "Sorry!" Chelsea apologized, Sunny was taking off her gear when a bright yellow Inferious quickly pulls up. Dominic comes out from the drivers side and he wasn't happy.
"Hey! What the fuck were the three of you thinking?" he shouts "What?" Sunny looked confused "Do you have any idea the amount of heat you've pulled onto you?" he grunts "What do you mean? We pulled off a job, a job that you told Chelsea we could pull off" Sunny reiterates "Do you think I plan something like this?" Dominic shrugged his shoulders "Do you think I would let that ginger brained nut plan something as stupid as this?". Chelsea comes skipping towards them "Well, well, looks like we managed to pull something off without without your fancy help!" Chelsea gleefully praised herself "Chelsea?" Sunny looked at her "Hmm?" she purred "Dominic said that he never ever told you that you could pull off a job like this; care to explain?". Chelsea kept the ruse up "You're just pissy that you aren't going to get your fifteen percent" "What the hell is goin' on?" Geraldine joins the awkwardness of the situation.
"Well apparently, Chelsea might be full of shit; since Dominic never really said that we could something like this off".
"The fuck you mean?" Geraldine looked at Chelsea "I-I don't know what you're all talking about! You guys are silly!" she laughed stupidly "Chelsea, what's really in the back of that container; I'm taking a guess that it's more than just platinum" "That's it, I swear!". Sunny nodded slightly "Okay, we'll do this the hard way.
"If you don't tell us by the count of ten what's really in that container then I'm going to shoot you".
Sunny went over and grabbed the rifle and points it directly at Chelsea's head "One-ten!" "Okay! Okay!".
Chelsea grunts "It's more than platinum...I'll show you what it is". The four of them go to the back of the container and open it up. They go up and see the wooden crates. With a crowbar they opened some of the crates. The platinum was there, that was the truth. Sunny looked around and started to go towards the end. She knocks around, trying to feel something. She keeps knocking until something feels hollow. With Geraldine's help they pry the hidden compartment open. A number of brown taped bricks are stacked neatly on top of one another. The three look back at Chelsea "Okay, I know what you're all thinking and let me explain" "No" Dominic stops her "I'll tell you all myself.
"This here is pure grade brown heroin and meth from the Golden Triangle, from what I've heard it's worth a lot; maybe in the millions at street level; it doesn't say who it belongs to but it's pretty much very valuable to that someone". Chelsea spat on the ground and "Yeah" she simply says "Yeah what?" Sunny looked at her sternly, with a huff of anger Chelsea decided to spill "Okay! Fine! I lied! Happy?!".
"Was that so hard?" Sunny sarcastically quipped "What do you mean? So all this was for nothin'?" Geraldine sounded disappointed "Pretty much yeah" Dominic states "It's not all bad! We can sell it and make a ton of cash" Chelsea tried to plead her case "We just got to keep this hidden and find the right buyer when one presents it's self". The four walk out of the container "More like we're going to get kidnapped and tortured to death" Dominic snaps at her "We have guns! I think we're capable of defending ourselves!" "Motherfucker these are fuckin' gangsters! They don't give a damn if we have guns or not! All they care about is killin' us! Shit, you and Reggie must be hangin' out together 'cause that's the only way you could have planned somethin' like this!" "At least your friend has ambition! Can't say for you little Miss bounty hunter! Oh I forget, ex bounty hunter turned wannabe thief!". The two start arguing, Sunny waits for a reply on her messenger. One finally comes in. And it was the one that she expected.
"Hey" she says as Geraldine and Chelsea argued "Hey, excuse me..." they kept arguing; she breathes in really deep. "WILL YOU TWO SHUT UP?!". Her shout echoes throughout. Chelsea and Geraldine looked surprised that she lost her cool "Ahem..." Sunny cleared her throat "Now, I have good news and bad news" she announces "Good news, we'll still get some money out of this", Chelsea gives a wide toothy smile and was ready to jump into Sunny's arms "Don't even fucking try it, that's only half the good news" she states "The amount that we're thankfully are going to accept is a reduced amount of $450,000". Chelsea's smile quickly goes away "Wait, that's it?" Geraldine questioned "Because this is supposedly stolen goods so be lucky that we're going to be getting that much" "No-No-No..." Chelsea tried to complain "Shut up, shut up; let me finish" Sunny took a deep sigh "The bad news, we're not going keep it; instead my friends in Little Seoul are going to...requisition it; ie, they have an interest in this". Chelsea's mouth dropped in disbelief "No! No way!".
Sunny rolled her eyes "Yes way, we're giving it away; Geraldine, you and Dominic drive this thing to a small lot on the edge of Little Seoul; you'll see it when you get there. As you soon as you get there just leave and don't look back".
"Definitely feels like somethin' Reggie would come up with" Geraldine sighed "Whoa! Whoa! We are not going to give this away!" Chelsea frantically puts herself in front of the rig "This is our first score! Our first score together! Their is no way that I am going to let you give this away!". Sunny looked at her "Chelsea...we're...going...to...give...this...to... my...people...and that's final" she repeats "No you're not! Over my dead body!" Chelsea threatened. "Can you two just give me a minute" Sunny says to Geraldine and Dominic. She goes over to her and puts her arm over. She takes her over to the side and talk, a quiet conversation.
"No, we're not going to give it up..." Chelsea tells her, Sunny just whispers into her ear "But this is our..." Chelsea clenches her dog tags as Sunny tells her something very important. She says her last bit which makes Chelsea growl. "Okay! Fine, take the stupid thing! I hope you all choke on it!" Chelsea yells at them "But you lot owe me a score!" she warns "You'll get a score, a real score, when we find something worth taking" Sunny abbreviates "And when we do, we'll do it properly and professionally as a team not just the three of us".
Sunny motioned Geraldine to go. Dominic got into his car and followed behind her. As soon as they had left, Sunny went over to her car. Chelsea followed suit, angrily and incoherently grumbling "...not fair...stupid cunt..." "Are you going to keep making that noise or are you going to stop acting like a brat?" "Fuck you!" "I'll take that as a yes".
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She stops at the intersection. Chelsea still kept on mumbling. Sunny looked at her, she was acting like that the whole way "Are you going to keep making that face?" "Are you going to keep face? Blah blah blah" she repeats "Stop that" "Stop that!" she repeats again "Chelsea you need to let it go" "You need to let it go!" it really did feel like dealing with a child "Hi I'm Sunny! I'm a bossy faced cunt! I think I'm smarter than everybody! Blah blah blah blee" she makes poking noises "You forgot the part where I stick my finger in your ear" "Wait what-?". Sunny sticks her finger into her mouth and wets it, then she shoves it into Chelsea's ear and twists it. "Oh! Oh! God that's gross!" she squirms "Stop that! Ewww!". Sunny takes out her finger "Gross" she waved her finger "You need to clean your ears, their full of wax" she wipes her finger on the seat.
"Look, I know you're not happy about what transpired but you need to let it go and move on" she suggested "It was a score, our first score together; does it matter where it came from?". The light turned green. "It does if it means getting killed for a half ton of H and meth" Sunny looked at the road "You need to check with your sources to make sure that something like this doesn't happen again" "Oh, I'll do more than that".
"I'll drop you around the corner, you need to cool off" Sunny tells Chelsea "I'm plenty cooled" she growls "Not from where I'm standing" she quips "You're still going to help Geraldine move out" "Whatever".
They reach the beachfront apartment. Chelsea got out without saying bye, she was still pissed off.
Chelsea entered her apartment. The fumes are coming out of her mouth and her ears. She pulls out her phone and goes straight to Big Gus's number. She can't get Sunny's words out of her head.
"This belongs to a certain group of people out there that are causing my people problems.
"I know you thought of this but we're going to give this to my people because someone out there is up to something and they want to get to the bottom of it.
"Like it or not, that's how it's going to be. That's how the cookie fucking crumbles. We'll get something bigger when the time comes but we'll do it as a team. And if you can't accept that then I guess we'll take your share as compensation for the bullshit that we went through and send your ass back to that piss hole in Blaine County, are we clear?
Chelsea hates being told off. She wasn't little. People still treat her like she's nine.
Her finger touches the talk app. Dial tone is heard and he finally picks up "Hello?" "Gus? You and me are going to...talk...right...now".
Sunny's house, Vinewood
She finally gets home, she was tired.
It was late and all she wanted to do rest. The fact that they didn't get anything out of the whole thing. Only half of what they were supposed to knew that Chelsea was lying from the start but she needed to confirm everything before she could confirm anything. She didn't want to tell her, it wouldn't be any fun if Chelsea knew that she knew.
The inkling that this might lead to something bigger lingers on her mind. From the amount of fire that was shot at them, it was to well guarded. This wasn't random amounts of narcotics being pushed around. It felt too sophisticated. It was more organized
She texted Park about this on the phone. Sunny told him it was of the utmost important that they look into this. All she can do is wait.
Sunny walked upstairs to the bedroom. Right now all she wanted was rest.
Roberta lies covered in the blanket. Gently Sunny took her place next to her. "You're back" she tiredly awakens with a yawn "Yeah, sorry about being out so late" "How was your day?" she yawned again "Too much excitement, the usual" Sunny took off her pants and socks "You need to take another day off so it could be a you and me day" Roberta scotches up to her and puts her arm across her chest "I know babe, I'm just so exhausted" Sunny slides her fingers through her curly hair "Maybe one day we'll just be able to relax and never have to worry about anything anymore", Roberta nuzzles her "Right now, I just want to be next to you" Sunny eventually just falls asleep.
The weight of the day just made her too tired to do anything.
Location unknown, time unknown
"What do you mean hijacked?!
"You heard me! Three women managed to hijack my truck and make off with it's cargo!
"Who the hell-?!
"A red headed woman followed them to Sandy Shores, two other women were seen in a helicopter.
"Is that you all you know?
"One of the descriptions matched a certain person you know
He tells him over the phone.
"Are you sure it was her?
"I'm positive, it was that bitch...!
"You need to take care of her! Just get her somewhere and take her out!
"You let me worry about her, she's my problem not your's; okay? And you need to be ready to move on him.
"Oh I will, I will indeed...
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