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WARNING: This story does contain violence and language! Don't say I didn't warn you!
THE BATTLE OF LIBERTY CITY
A GTA3 YARN
BY JayJay Bakes
PART 2 STREET SMART
Joey Leone had once witnessed his brother kill someone, right in front of him. It was when they were kids, about 12 years old, and they had been sneaking into this Italian restaurant and stealing freshly made dishes of meals and then running off with them and eating them in the seclusion of the dark alleyways of the Red Light District. They had been doing it for about a month and had been getting away with it until that frightful day when they were caught by the owner of the restaurant, a short, barrel- chested man with arms like trees. Having caught them in the act, he chased them out the back of the store and caught Joey by the back of his shirt. Sonny, who had already gotten a safe distance away, turned at the sound of his brother yelping in pain as the owner pulled back his hair. The owner smacked him in the face then punched his back, kicking him in the side as he dropped to the ground. Joey looked up just as Sonny grabbed the man from behind. He swung a small clenched fist into the man's gut and the man toppled over, his eyes wide. Joey did not think for a second his brother had that much power and strength, but when he saw the bloody switchblade in his brother's fist, his eyes widened. Cursing, Sonny grasped Joey's hand, pulled him forward, as the two of them ran, Joey looking back as the owner moaned on the ground, holding his stomach and looking with wide eyes into nothing. They found out a day later that the owner had died, found three hours later after Sonny had stabbed him. He had bled to death.
Joey had known Sonny had killed the owner after the owner fell to the ground, he could feel it. After they had made it safe distance away, he looked at his brother who didn't seem to be bothered at all by the recent sinful act he had just done. Sonny tossed the blade into a dumpster, but went back the next day, unknown to Joey, took the blade and threw it as far into the sea as he could from the back of their father's mansion.
At that moment, Joey wasn't thinking about that right now. All that was on his mind was the welfare of Sonny, after hearing the familiar sound of Uzies roaring from inside the apartment.
As he got to the door, he first saw Toni's bodyguard lying on the floor, his chest ripped apart by bullets. Then, much to his relief, he saw his brother rise, pulling out a handgun. Sonny had taken cover behind a huge leather couch and then pulled his gun from his belt. Joey wondered where he had gotten the gun but then suddenly, Sonny fired the six shots into the Triads that stood before them. The first two shots caught the closet Triad in the chest, slamming him backward. The next two shots hit the next two Triads in the face, one hitting right below the eye, and the other hitting across the jaw of the next Triad. The last two shots ripped apart the neck of the final Triad, and he gasped for breath as he dropped. Only two of the shots had killed, and none of the Triads had any time to react, for they had made the dumb mistake of firing their entire clips and none reloaded a fresh clip afterward.
Sonny did not look at his brother as he walked over to the two still-alive Triads. He fired three more rounds into the Triad who had been shot in the chest then fired another round into head of the gasping Triad. He let the clip fall out and slid a fresh clip into his gun.
"Holy shit!" Toni muttered as he rose from behind the tall stereo cabinet. He shook his head and took a deep breath.
Sonny held the gun at his side. "Where's the kid?" He asked, looking at Toni. Toni leaned down and picked the kid up by his shirt collar then threw him into the wall and start jabbing at his face.
Sonny yelled at him and told him to keep the kid and question him later. Toni stared at Sonny then nodded. Only when he turned to walk out the door did Sonny notice his brother.
"You allright?" Joey asked. Sonny nodded, rubbing the back of his head. He looked back at Toni as Toni pulled the kid forward, walking out the apartment building. They all turned and left, leaving the bodyguard sitting in his own blood.
Joey got in the driver's seat of the car, Sonny got in shotgun, and Toni got in the back with the kid, as he did, he bumped the head of the kid into the car, something he remembered cops loved to do when they arrested a guy.
They drove back to the restaurant and Toni sent some men back to the apartment to pick up the dead body of the bodyguard and dump it in the trunk of a car about to be crushed at the car crusher and make sure it was. After the men had left, Sonny told Toni to get whatever information he could out of the kid and come to Luigi's club when he was done. Sonny could tell Toni did like being told what to do by a person younger then him but nodded in agreement. Then Sonny and Joey left, as Toni took the kid down to the basement of his restaurant and told his men to get a pair of pliers and a blowtorch and join him below.
Sonny returned to Luigi's club and told him the entire account. Then Sonny took a shower and sat with Luigi to have a drink while Joey took a shower also. They chatted for a moment then Sonny motioned to the man standing by the door and the man walked out the room, closing the door behind them.
Sonny leaned in and Luigi did the same. "What do you know about this 'Ghost' character? The one that hit the old man?" Sonny said, in a low, soft voice. Luigi nodded and leaned closer.
"Yeah, he did some work for me." Luigi replied. "He was a good kid, did what he was told, no complaints."
Sonny nodded. "Anything else about him?"
"Naw, like I said, he was just normal muscle."
Sonny nodded again, scratching his chin. "You heard anything about him, y'know, on the street?"
Luigi shook his head. "Nothing big. There's some word going around that he's up in Shoreside, no one knows for sure. Did some work for some people, now and then. Don't know nothing for sure, though."
"Yeah." Sonny nodded. Just then they heard the shower turn off and Sonny said, "Lu, right now you're the only one I can really trust."
Luigi stared at Sonny as Joey came out the shower, with a white towel wrapped around his waist. Sonny turned in his seat and looked at him. He smiled. "You're still a fat shit, Joseph." No one called him Joseph except the old man and Sonny when he was making fun of him. Joey smiled and turned around, dropping his towel. The fatty cheeks of his buttocks shook as he slapped them. Luigi roared in laughter as Sonny picked up a pillow and threw it at his brother as Joey laughed and walked back into the guest bedroom. Minutes later he returned, fully dressed. Toni had now arrived and was sitting with Sonny and Luigi.
Joey got himself a drink from the bar as they conversed in front of him.
"The kid said this new boss, a guy named 'Sidney', he's the one who ordered the hit he thinks. Says he was kept mainly in the dark, he was just an informant for them."
"Did you kill him?" Sonny asked, chewing on an orange.
Toni looked up at him and nodded. "Yeah, but I got all out of him that I could."
Joey sat down at the forth corner of the table, with all of them at their own seats. Sonny continued. "And this 'Sidney' character, he's the Triad head? He's running everything?"
"Don't know for sure. He was just the one who recruited the kid. And by that, I think there's still someone else in the background running the show." Toni took a swig of beer out of the bottle he nestled on his lap.
"Where can we find Sidney?" Sonny asked, swallowing a piece of his orange.
Toni shook his head. "Kid crapped out before he could say. Pain was too much I guess."
Sonny looked at him for a moment longer then turned to Luigi. "Lu, what time you got?"
"1:26." Luigi replied, looking under his wrist.
Sonny turned back to Toni. "Ok, here's what's going to happen." He leaned back in his chair and looked at all of them. "This morning I called some of my people in Vice City. They should be arriving within three hours. They are some of my top people, good people. I will meet them at the airport when their plane arrives in Shoreside. Now, before they arrive, I want men on the streets sniffing out the Triad base. I want good people, people who know to how to watch their backs. Lu, get some men tailing some of the Triad fish trucks. They should come up with something. Toni, you get some men on the streets, find out what you can about the Triad businesses and where they operate. Find out who the major players are." He pointed at them. "Yet make this clear to your men. I want no action. Not one body. We start capping off rounds the Triads are bound to hear the echo. Are we clear?"
They all shook their heads in agreement but all held a state of shock on their faces. Sonny Leone had disappeared before their eyes. Sitting before them was a man who demanded obedience, a man who demanded respect, a man more like the Don. What's more, this man frightened them.
"Ok, let's move." He lifted his hands in the air and Luigi and Toni both stood up and walked out the room. For a moment, silence hung in the air as Sonny reached forward and took his glass in hand, and then drowned it down his throat. He looked at Joey as he placed the glass down. "Joey, I want you to come with me when I go to pick up my men at Shoreside."
Joey nodded and said, "You got it."
Sonny stood up and stretched, creaking his neck. "Before we do that I want to take a little trip. C'mon." He walked toward the door, taking his long jacket off the couch beside him and putting it on.
"Where are we going?" Joey asked, pulling on his jacket.
Sonny opened the door. "You'll see." They walked down and got into a car with two men sitting in the front seats. Sonny directed the man where to go as they drove out, telling him to turn right out of the club then left. He went through two green lights then turned right. He stopped at the red then turned left. The drove up the hill up into Saint Marks and from there drove all the way down the road to a small dirt path which they turned into. Joey knew where it led.
The old man's mansion was a simple one-story building with a large garage and huge basement below. The front room, the living room, was equipped with a bar and soft cushion couches with sliding doors leading to the outside. A piano sat in the corner of the room on a raised platform, which played an automatic tune the Don loved to play. On either side of the piano were two doors, one leading to a bathroom, which also lead to a suite, and the other leading to a private office the Don used often to sort of family problems. Beyond that was a small guest room, which had secret compartment of arms in it in case the place was ever hit. In the basement, pool tables and working out equipment was set up. The Don hardly used it, but he did play pool with his two boys whenever he got the chance, always beating them. Sometimes mattresses would be set up in the basement so guards could stay down there.
Everything was almost exactly the same. Sonny was expecting things to be destroyed, remains of a bomb going off or things stolen. Yet everything was almost exactly the same as he remembered it. He hadn't grown up in this house; but the Don had had the house his whole life. Sonny had loved the place and often visited whenever he could.
Sonny walked in the living room and stood for a moment, his hands behind him, and breathed in through his nose. He smiled, closing his eyes, and remained still for a moment. He then walked about the room, looking at everything, going in the back rooms, especially the Don's office, which he stayed in the longest. Joey followed behind him but let Sonny explore alone, staying quiet and out of view.
"I really missed this place." Sonny said, then looked back at Joey who, after a moment, smiled at him. "Let's go around back." Sonny started to walk out the house and around the side, two bodyguards following behind him.
The Don's mansion was on a cliff that jetted out into the ocean. The cliff was surrounded by Portland Beach, but the edge of the cliff jetted out just a bit farther, right into the ocean. Sonny walked out right to the tip of the cliff and stood there, looking out. The winds were hard and whipped at their legs, but they held their ground. Joey came up and stood beside his brother.
"When these troubles with the Triads and Diablos are over," Sonny said in a calm voice. "I'm going to move in here."
Joey looked over at him. "Diablos? What do you.?"
"I'm going to take back what ours, Joey." Sonny said. "Portland is ours, it should be ours. Pop knew that, but gave up territory to those scum anyway."
Joey turned his body to face Sonny's. "Sonny, the only reason Pop did that was because he didn't want a drawn out war with those people. He wanted to keep the peace for as long as he could. And 'those scum', Sonny, are tough sons a' bitches." His voice raised a little. "You go into a war now, it's going to be costly and not pretty."
"All wars are." Sonny said, not looking to his brother, still starting into the water. "But it will be only the beginning." Sonny licked his lips with his tongue. "And after it's all done, after we're on top, then I'll go after the man who killed our father."
They arrived at the airport a half an hour before the plane arrived which carried Sonny's men. They sat in the back seat of the car in silence. Another car had followed them, waiting to pick up the rest of Sonny's men.
Sonny did not tell Joey anything about them, so when the plane landed and the doors opened, Joey waited for his brother to react to seeing them.
People streamed out the door and finally Sonny got out the car. He walked briskly forward and a smile grew on his face. Four men carrying different size bags walked toward him, seeing him and smiling. One of the men did not, just nodding.
Joey and the bodyguards hurried behind Sonny as Sonny hugged three of the men, not hugging the same one that did not smile. After much laughter and pats on the shoulder, Sonny turned to Joey.
"This is my brother Joey. He's one hell of a mechanic. He can fix anything you need." Sonny smiled, pointing a hand at Joey.
"Joey." The men said almost in unison. He shook hands with the three of them and the man who did not smile simply nodded again.
"Joey, let me introduce to you some of the best men I've ever worked with." Sonny went down the line, patting each man on the shoulder as he went to him.
"This is Victor. We call him Vic. Victor is the man you go to when you need things done. He knows how to get things done and how to clean things up." Victor was the about the same height as Sonny, as all of them were. He was clean-shaven except for a small thin mustache that seemed to drop around his lips. He had flashy hair that stood up in different directions. He looked about thirty-ish and was very muscular. A huge duffel bag hung over his shoulder while he held a packed gym bag in his other hand.
"We call this guy Morris. He's our prof." Joey knew that by 'prof' that didn't mean a professor. It meant professional killer. Joey had noticed in this line of work that hitmen did not like to be called professional killers outright, like it hurt their feelings, these men who killed for a living. They didn't even really like the term hitmen, but didn't mind it as much as professional killer.
Morris was the best looking one out of all of them. He was more attractive then Sonny. He had thick black hair slicked up, but not back, with very handsome features and a perfectly muscular body. Joey first noticed Morris' eyes. They had courage and confidence in them, something a prof needed desperately.
"This is Maddie. He's my lieutenant." Sonny tapped Maddie's shoulder. "I may be in charge, I may be the head, but Maddie runs everything for me." Although they were all generally the same height, Maddie was the shortest of them. He was physically the smallest, and Joey could tell his power was in his brains, not in any physical matter. Maddie couldn't scare a mouse, but looking at his eyes you could tell he had a man with a gun at the back of your head, ready to fire. He had his hands in his pockets and didn't smile as much as the other men when he shook Joey's hand.
Sonny did not introduce the forth man. The forth man carried no luggage at all and was dressed completely in black. Completely, even a black tie. His face was attractive yet scared you at the same time. He had an aura about him of a stone, completely still and never showing any emotion. Joey did not ask who he was and just turned away from the man. They drove back in the same car, with the man dressed completely in black in shotgun, and Joey and Sonny in the back. The same man drove them back. Vic, Morris, and Maddie got in the other car, Victor getting in shotgun and talking to the driver as they drove back.
Unknown to Joey, as ordered previously by Sonny, the two cars separated, one taking the tunnel the other taking the bridges. Sonny's car took the tunnel, and when they arrived in Portland they drove straight to Luigi's club, greeted by Luigi. As they got out, Sonny took Joey aside. He motioned to the man in black.
"That's Castor." Sonny almost whispered. "He follows me around everywhere I go. He's my right arm, my bodyguard. Everywhere I am, he'll be there. Sometimes you won't even know he's there. He doesn't talk 'cause no one talks to him. He's the most trust worthy man I know. He knows all my secrets. Not because I told him, but because he was there when they happened or I spoke of them. We're not friends, but we don't like or dislike each other." Sonny looked at Joey. "Don't ever talk to him or acknowledge his presence, he doesn't exist." Joey nodded as Sonny stared directly at him and nodded in reply. Then he turned and walked in the club, followed by Castor. Luigi met him at the door and walked in with him.
Minutes later, they were all sitting in Luigi's suite. Chairs from other rooms and couches were pulled in and all sat around the glass table in the middle of the room. Everyone was present except Toni, who called in every now and then to give a report on his findings. So far he had come up with nothing. Luigi's men were still out tailing fish vans as Luigi waited for their calls.
Sonny introduced everyone as Luigi prepared drinks. They chatted for a moment then Sonny went aside with Maddie at the bar and they talked quietly to themselves. Joey watched them as they spoke. They were completely alike and in tune with what each other were saying. Even though he couldn't hear them he could tell that Maddie was getting all the info he could from Sonny and they were planning out something. They never smiled or laughed as friends as they spoke, but Sonny could tell they were close. They knew each other perfectly. But business came first, and they were in business together.
Luigi and Victor were talking and laughing. Victor had a great taste for women and was asking what the women in Liberty were like and Luigi laughed in reply, naming some of the best broads he had. He promised a night with each of them. Their conversation trailed off and they began talking about their professions and Joey could tell they liked each other.
Morris sometimes became involved in Luigi and Victor's conversation but remained mostly quiet. Castor leaned against the wall beside the door, his arms crossed. He stared at Sonny across the room and remained absolutely silent. Joey never looked straight at him but stared at him for moments out of the corner of his eye. He didn't know, but Castor knew Joey was looking at him.
The phone rang and Sonny looked at Joey, who sat beside the phone. Joey turned and picked up the phone. It was Toni and he asked for Sonny. Joey handed the phone to Sonny. Sonny said "yeah" and "yes" many times and then hung up the phone. He turned to the group and pointed at Victor.
"Vic, I want you and Morris to go with Luigi. Lu, take 'em for a ride around Portland, give 'em tour, let them get the lay of the land."
"You got it, Sonny." Luigi nodded, and stood up with Morris and Victor.
Sonny turned to Maddie. "Maddie, Joey, we're gonna' head over to Toni's." He put his hands out in front of him as Maddie tossed him a cellphone. "Lu!" He called back and Luigi walked back in. He tossed him the phone told him to use that phone from now on. "Call your men and tell them to use that number then call me once you get any info. The number's under 'Redhead'."
Luigi nodded and walked out the door. Sonny turned back to Maddie and Joey. "Let's go."
Castor drove the three of them over to Toni's as Sonny gave him directions. They parked and walked into the restaurant. Sonny made introductions and they walked into a back room.
Toni had the cooks bring out plates of spaghetti for Maddie and offered Castor some but he declined.
"What you got?" Sonny asked leaning back in his chair.
"The Triad's got a main business somewhere near the Portland docks. We don't know for sure if it's on the docks or around them, but somewhere in the area. They've totally dropped all their laundry business, we've taken over all of their shops in the past war. Most of their money is now coming in from protection money and Spank, a new high they introduced into Liberty a couple months ago. We've tried to get rid of it but they keep operating from different places and we never get them in time. They front as a fish market factory, that's their legitimate front, but we don't even know where that is."
Maddie spoke up; his voice sharp and coarse. "Do have any men down at the docks now?"
Toni looked at him a moment then nodded. "Get them out of there." Maddie said, "Pull them out right now." Maddie moved in his seat and pulled out his phone. He dialed a number and spoke quickly. "Hey, I'm gonna' need you to pull a job for me tonight. Talk to you later..right..ok." He beeped the phone off and looked at Sonny, who nodded. He looked at Toni who got up and talked to one of his men who then turned and ran into the back of the restrauant. He came back and sat with them as Maddie chewed down the rest of his spaghetti. He pointed at Toni and then pointed down at the spaghetti. "That was amazing."
"Grazie." Toni replied, even though he himself was not Italian and neither was Maddie.
When they returned to the suite, Luigi and Vic were laughing with one another while Morris kept to himself, walking behind them. They came in to Sonny and Maddie sitting and talking. Joey was up at the bar making a drink for himself, while Castor stood beside the door.
"Vic." Maddie said, waving him over. Vic nodded at him, patted Luigi on the arm and sat down next to Maddie. Luigi went over to the bar and chatted with Joey.
"We want you to check out this area." Maddie said, pointing at a part of the map they had on the table.
Vic put a fresh piece of gum in his mouth and titled his head, looking down at the map. "The docks?" Maddie nodded in reply. "What am I looking for?" Vic said, chewing the gum.
"Anything Triad." Maddie replied. "We got sources saying that the Triads operate somewhere down there, but we don't want anything giving us away so we want you to look around there."
Vic looked at the map a moment longer and then took out a notebook and wrote something down. He looked at it again and wrote something else. Then he nodded. "You got it." He stood up. "Tonight?"
"Yes, late." Maddie replied. He looked at Sonny.
Sonny shrugged his shoulders. "2 or 3." He looked up at Vic.
Vic nodded and chewed his gum. He walked out over to Luigi. "Lu?"
Luigi laughed at Joey and turned to Vic, still laughing. "What's up, Vic?"
"I got some free time on my hands." Vic said, leaning against the bar. "You got any broads free right now?"
"Oh, yeah, sure." Luigi replied, smiling. He put his drink down. "C'mon. Be right back, Joey." They walked out the room as Joey downed the rest of his drink and looked at stared at Sonny from across the room. Sonny almost turned to him but Joey looked away.
Vic looked at the watch. 1:47 AM. He sighed, almost waking the woman that lay on top of him. She stirred and pressed against him, just as he slipped out from under her and got off the bed. He got dressed in less then five minutes and looked down at the woman on the bed. She looked older then him. He enjoyed her many times that night and then slept for about four hours. He was awake from 1:00 and let his body rest for some more time then got up.
He went upstairs and found his bag still in the Luigi's suite. Joey was sleeping on a couch, and Maddie was sleeping on the ground. Sonny was in the guest bedroom and guessed Castor was in there too, standing by the window. He looked about but couldn't find Morris. Then he saw him by the bar, propped up against the wall beside it. His eyes were open and he smiled at Vic. Vic smiled back and opened his bag, putting on some dark clothing and other materials.
He didn't notice Morris as he padded over to him. He asked him what he was doing.
"Some surveillance." He whispered. "Got check out the docks." He looked up at Morris. "Wanta' come?"
Morris looked down at Vic's bag. "Sure, I got to check my night anyway. I got a new one." He walked over to his bag.
"What happened to the old one?"
"Broke it on my last hit." Morris replied. In less then five minutes both of them were ready to go. They walked out the back, fully dressed in black and Morris carrying some night vision lenses in his hand. He had a strap from them to go around his head but didn't bring it. Neither of them were armed, they knew they weren't to leave any bodies around. It would only alert the Triads.
Luigi had given Vic a car to use whenever he needed it. It was a black car with a very low engine and Vic thanked him greatly for it. They got in the car but Morris drove. Vic knew Morris loved to drive, one of the things almost no one else knew about him. Morris had very little interests, and only liked and cared about his job.
They drove around the city and headed toward the dock. They parked the car in the parking lot of a place called 'Supa Save.' After this, they ran, huddled over, around the right side of the place, then turned right and ran down along a fence. They looked for an entrance through but found none. They kept running along, and went along the edge of the dock, the cold water sloshing below them. They found an opening between two buildings and almost laughed to themselves at how bad the security was and what a waste the fence was.
They moved slowly down between the buildings and Vic stopped, letting Morris slip past him. Morris looked around the side of the building with his night vision lenses, looking from the ground. Morris had learned this tactic from numerous hits, figuring out that when a person turned to look at something, they looked at their normal height, so something below their focused line of sight could easily hide in that instant, and the person would never have seen them.
Vic watched Morris as he looked around the corner with his night vision lenses, looking for only a few seconds, then stepping back and handing the lenses to Vic, who leaned down and looked for almost the same amount of time, then turned back to Morris.
"I count two guards on the west side of the buildings, and another four standing guard by that huge building in the middle of the plaza. Let's wait for the next shift of guards then check what's in those buildings." Morris whispered.
Vic did not nod back but simply handed the lenses back to Morris and moved back with him, hiding behind the building and waiting. Vic was almost amazed with how much Morris had become so good at his job. He remembered the old days where Morris was just a hood and worked under Vic and Vic taught him all he knew about the business and how to sneak about undetected. He didn't know that Morris would become a prof then, but now he saw how much skill Morris had and was almost amazed. His tactics were perfect. Morris wanted to wait for the next shift of guards because he had seen that they did not have night vision on and when the next shift of guards came on, their eyes would not be used to the surroundings and the night. Vic smiled to himself.
A half an hour later, Morris, who had set up between the buildings to watch the guards, waiting for the next shift, ran back to Vic. He told him the shift had changed and they went about, helping each other into buildings, up into windows and looking about. They had definitely found the Triad base. All sorts of equipment were lying in these buildings, including many cases of Spank and numerous weapons.
Morris said he would check out the big building in the middle which Vic thought was impossible to get to and Morris disappeared into the darkness. Ten minutes later he returned and said it was filled with offices and cabinets and men working late at night. They snuck back to their car and drove back to Luigi's club, waking Sonny and Maddie and telling them what they had seen.
Many hours later, several bombs exploded in the Harbor area, destroying the Triad base. Triad fish vans were routinely blown up all day long, until no more were in working order. Several Triad members were found killed all over the Chinatown area and abroad, some bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Within an hour of this, the Triad boss, all with lieutenants and closest men, were found dead and whoever was left was on the first plane out of Liberty, although very little made it that far. Not soon after, the prize automobile of El Burro, the leader of the Triads, was found burning on the Portland bridge, along with El Burro inside of it. The Diablos, without their leader, were soon wiped out and by the end of the day; most of the streets were empty, everyone fearing for their lives.
Portland Island now belonged to Sonny Leone.
END OF PART 2
To be continued
Author's note: There's part two! I hoped you like it! I hoped you liked the new characters! Their stories will only get cooler and cooler. You find out about their pasts and stuff later in the yarn!
Next chapter: Sonny Leone now owns Portland Island, but do you think that's quenched his thirst? I don't think so! Be prepared to meet Sonny's next enemy, the new head of the Yakusa, in the next chapter: ENISHI!
Shout out to Melv, Maximus Desimus, and uncle Pat.
WARNING: This story does contain violence and language! Don't say I didn't warn you!
THE BATTLE OF LIBERTY CITY
A GTA3 YARN
BY JayJay Bakes
PART 2 STREET SMART
Joey Leone had once witnessed his brother kill someone, right in front of him. It was when they were kids, about 12 years old, and they had been sneaking into this Italian restaurant and stealing freshly made dishes of meals and then running off with them and eating them in the seclusion of the dark alleyways of the Red Light District. They had been doing it for about a month and had been getting away with it until that frightful day when they were caught by the owner of the restaurant, a short, barrel- chested man with arms like trees. Having caught them in the act, he chased them out the back of the store and caught Joey by the back of his shirt. Sonny, who had already gotten a safe distance away, turned at the sound of his brother yelping in pain as the owner pulled back his hair. The owner smacked him in the face then punched his back, kicking him in the side as he dropped to the ground. Joey looked up just as Sonny grabbed the man from behind. He swung a small clenched fist into the man's gut and the man toppled over, his eyes wide. Joey did not think for a second his brother had that much power and strength, but when he saw the bloody switchblade in his brother's fist, his eyes widened. Cursing, Sonny grasped Joey's hand, pulled him forward, as the two of them ran, Joey looking back as the owner moaned on the ground, holding his stomach and looking with wide eyes into nothing. They found out a day later that the owner had died, found three hours later after Sonny had stabbed him. He had bled to death.
Joey had known Sonny had killed the owner after the owner fell to the ground, he could feel it. After they had made it safe distance away, he looked at his brother who didn't seem to be bothered at all by the recent sinful act he had just done. Sonny tossed the blade into a dumpster, but went back the next day, unknown to Joey, took the blade and threw it as far into the sea as he could from the back of their father's mansion.
At that moment, Joey wasn't thinking about that right now. All that was on his mind was the welfare of Sonny, after hearing the familiar sound of Uzies roaring from inside the apartment.
As he got to the door, he first saw Toni's bodyguard lying on the floor, his chest ripped apart by bullets. Then, much to his relief, he saw his brother rise, pulling out a handgun. Sonny had taken cover behind a huge leather couch and then pulled his gun from his belt. Joey wondered where he had gotten the gun but then suddenly, Sonny fired the six shots into the Triads that stood before them. The first two shots caught the closet Triad in the chest, slamming him backward. The next two shots hit the next two Triads in the face, one hitting right below the eye, and the other hitting across the jaw of the next Triad. The last two shots ripped apart the neck of the final Triad, and he gasped for breath as he dropped. Only two of the shots had killed, and none of the Triads had any time to react, for they had made the dumb mistake of firing their entire clips and none reloaded a fresh clip afterward.
Sonny did not look at his brother as he walked over to the two still-alive Triads. He fired three more rounds into the Triad who had been shot in the chest then fired another round into head of the gasping Triad. He let the clip fall out and slid a fresh clip into his gun.
"Holy shit!" Toni muttered as he rose from behind the tall stereo cabinet. He shook his head and took a deep breath.
Sonny held the gun at his side. "Where's the kid?" He asked, looking at Toni. Toni leaned down and picked the kid up by his shirt collar then threw him into the wall and start jabbing at his face.
Sonny yelled at him and told him to keep the kid and question him later. Toni stared at Sonny then nodded. Only when he turned to walk out the door did Sonny notice his brother.
"You allright?" Joey asked. Sonny nodded, rubbing the back of his head. He looked back at Toni as Toni pulled the kid forward, walking out the apartment building. They all turned and left, leaving the bodyguard sitting in his own blood.
Joey got in the driver's seat of the car, Sonny got in shotgun, and Toni got in the back with the kid, as he did, he bumped the head of the kid into the car, something he remembered cops loved to do when they arrested a guy.
They drove back to the restaurant and Toni sent some men back to the apartment to pick up the dead body of the bodyguard and dump it in the trunk of a car about to be crushed at the car crusher and make sure it was. After the men had left, Sonny told Toni to get whatever information he could out of the kid and come to Luigi's club when he was done. Sonny could tell Toni did like being told what to do by a person younger then him but nodded in agreement. Then Sonny and Joey left, as Toni took the kid down to the basement of his restaurant and told his men to get a pair of pliers and a blowtorch and join him below.
Sonny returned to Luigi's club and told him the entire account. Then Sonny took a shower and sat with Luigi to have a drink while Joey took a shower also. They chatted for a moment then Sonny motioned to the man standing by the door and the man walked out the room, closing the door behind them.
Sonny leaned in and Luigi did the same. "What do you know about this 'Ghost' character? The one that hit the old man?" Sonny said, in a low, soft voice. Luigi nodded and leaned closer.
"Yeah, he did some work for me." Luigi replied. "He was a good kid, did what he was told, no complaints."
Sonny nodded. "Anything else about him?"
"Naw, like I said, he was just normal muscle."
Sonny nodded again, scratching his chin. "You heard anything about him, y'know, on the street?"
Luigi shook his head. "Nothing big. There's some word going around that he's up in Shoreside, no one knows for sure. Did some work for some people, now and then. Don't know nothing for sure, though."
"Yeah." Sonny nodded. Just then they heard the shower turn off and Sonny said, "Lu, right now you're the only one I can really trust."
Luigi stared at Sonny as Joey came out the shower, with a white towel wrapped around his waist. Sonny turned in his seat and looked at him. He smiled. "You're still a fat shit, Joseph." No one called him Joseph except the old man and Sonny when he was making fun of him. Joey smiled and turned around, dropping his towel. The fatty cheeks of his buttocks shook as he slapped them. Luigi roared in laughter as Sonny picked up a pillow and threw it at his brother as Joey laughed and walked back into the guest bedroom. Minutes later he returned, fully dressed. Toni had now arrived and was sitting with Sonny and Luigi.
Joey got himself a drink from the bar as they conversed in front of him.
"The kid said this new boss, a guy named 'Sidney', he's the one who ordered the hit he thinks. Says he was kept mainly in the dark, he was just an informant for them."
"Did you kill him?" Sonny asked, chewing on an orange.
Toni looked up at him and nodded. "Yeah, but I got all out of him that I could."
Joey sat down at the forth corner of the table, with all of them at their own seats. Sonny continued. "And this 'Sidney' character, he's the Triad head? He's running everything?"
"Don't know for sure. He was just the one who recruited the kid. And by that, I think there's still someone else in the background running the show." Toni took a swig of beer out of the bottle he nestled on his lap.
"Where can we find Sidney?" Sonny asked, swallowing a piece of his orange.
Toni shook his head. "Kid crapped out before he could say. Pain was too much I guess."
Sonny looked at him for a moment longer then turned to Luigi. "Lu, what time you got?"
"1:26." Luigi replied, looking under his wrist.
Sonny turned back to Toni. "Ok, here's what's going to happen." He leaned back in his chair and looked at all of them. "This morning I called some of my people in Vice City. They should be arriving within three hours. They are some of my top people, good people. I will meet them at the airport when their plane arrives in Shoreside. Now, before they arrive, I want men on the streets sniffing out the Triad base. I want good people, people who know to how to watch their backs. Lu, get some men tailing some of the Triad fish trucks. They should come up with something. Toni, you get some men on the streets, find out what you can about the Triad businesses and where they operate. Find out who the major players are." He pointed at them. "Yet make this clear to your men. I want no action. Not one body. We start capping off rounds the Triads are bound to hear the echo. Are we clear?"
They all shook their heads in agreement but all held a state of shock on their faces. Sonny Leone had disappeared before their eyes. Sitting before them was a man who demanded obedience, a man who demanded respect, a man more like the Don. What's more, this man frightened them.
"Ok, let's move." He lifted his hands in the air and Luigi and Toni both stood up and walked out the room. For a moment, silence hung in the air as Sonny reached forward and took his glass in hand, and then drowned it down his throat. He looked at Joey as he placed the glass down. "Joey, I want you to come with me when I go to pick up my men at Shoreside."
Joey nodded and said, "You got it."
Sonny stood up and stretched, creaking his neck. "Before we do that I want to take a little trip. C'mon." He walked toward the door, taking his long jacket off the couch beside him and putting it on.
"Where are we going?" Joey asked, pulling on his jacket.
Sonny opened the door. "You'll see." They walked down and got into a car with two men sitting in the front seats. Sonny directed the man where to go as they drove out, telling him to turn right out of the club then left. He went through two green lights then turned right. He stopped at the red then turned left. The drove up the hill up into Saint Marks and from there drove all the way down the road to a small dirt path which they turned into. Joey knew where it led.
The old man's mansion was a simple one-story building with a large garage and huge basement below. The front room, the living room, was equipped with a bar and soft cushion couches with sliding doors leading to the outside. A piano sat in the corner of the room on a raised platform, which played an automatic tune the Don loved to play. On either side of the piano were two doors, one leading to a bathroom, which also lead to a suite, and the other leading to a private office the Don used often to sort of family problems. Beyond that was a small guest room, which had secret compartment of arms in it in case the place was ever hit. In the basement, pool tables and working out equipment was set up. The Don hardly used it, but he did play pool with his two boys whenever he got the chance, always beating them. Sometimes mattresses would be set up in the basement so guards could stay down there.
Everything was almost exactly the same. Sonny was expecting things to be destroyed, remains of a bomb going off or things stolen. Yet everything was almost exactly the same as he remembered it. He hadn't grown up in this house; but the Don had had the house his whole life. Sonny had loved the place and often visited whenever he could.
Sonny walked in the living room and stood for a moment, his hands behind him, and breathed in through his nose. He smiled, closing his eyes, and remained still for a moment. He then walked about the room, looking at everything, going in the back rooms, especially the Don's office, which he stayed in the longest. Joey followed behind him but let Sonny explore alone, staying quiet and out of view.
"I really missed this place." Sonny said, then looked back at Joey who, after a moment, smiled at him. "Let's go around back." Sonny started to walk out the house and around the side, two bodyguards following behind him.
The Don's mansion was on a cliff that jetted out into the ocean. The cliff was surrounded by Portland Beach, but the edge of the cliff jetted out just a bit farther, right into the ocean. Sonny walked out right to the tip of the cliff and stood there, looking out. The winds were hard and whipped at their legs, but they held their ground. Joey came up and stood beside his brother.
"When these troubles with the Triads and Diablos are over," Sonny said in a calm voice. "I'm going to move in here."
Joey looked over at him. "Diablos? What do you.?"
"I'm going to take back what ours, Joey." Sonny said. "Portland is ours, it should be ours. Pop knew that, but gave up territory to those scum anyway."
Joey turned his body to face Sonny's. "Sonny, the only reason Pop did that was because he didn't want a drawn out war with those people. He wanted to keep the peace for as long as he could. And 'those scum', Sonny, are tough sons a' bitches." His voice raised a little. "You go into a war now, it's going to be costly and not pretty."
"All wars are." Sonny said, not looking to his brother, still starting into the water. "But it will be only the beginning." Sonny licked his lips with his tongue. "And after it's all done, after we're on top, then I'll go after the man who killed our father."
They arrived at the airport a half an hour before the plane arrived which carried Sonny's men. They sat in the back seat of the car in silence. Another car had followed them, waiting to pick up the rest of Sonny's men.
Sonny did not tell Joey anything about them, so when the plane landed and the doors opened, Joey waited for his brother to react to seeing them.
People streamed out the door and finally Sonny got out the car. He walked briskly forward and a smile grew on his face. Four men carrying different size bags walked toward him, seeing him and smiling. One of the men did not, just nodding.
Joey and the bodyguards hurried behind Sonny as Sonny hugged three of the men, not hugging the same one that did not smile. After much laughter and pats on the shoulder, Sonny turned to Joey.
"This is my brother Joey. He's one hell of a mechanic. He can fix anything you need." Sonny smiled, pointing a hand at Joey.
"Joey." The men said almost in unison. He shook hands with the three of them and the man who did not smile simply nodded again.
"Joey, let me introduce to you some of the best men I've ever worked with." Sonny went down the line, patting each man on the shoulder as he went to him.
"This is Victor. We call him Vic. Victor is the man you go to when you need things done. He knows how to get things done and how to clean things up." Victor was the about the same height as Sonny, as all of them were. He was clean-shaven except for a small thin mustache that seemed to drop around his lips. He had flashy hair that stood up in different directions. He looked about thirty-ish and was very muscular. A huge duffel bag hung over his shoulder while he held a packed gym bag in his other hand.
"We call this guy Morris. He's our prof." Joey knew that by 'prof' that didn't mean a professor. It meant professional killer. Joey had noticed in this line of work that hitmen did not like to be called professional killers outright, like it hurt their feelings, these men who killed for a living. They didn't even really like the term hitmen, but didn't mind it as much as professional killer.
Morris was the best looking one out of all of them. He was more attractive then Sonny. He had thick black hair slicked up, but not back, with very handsome features and a perfectly muscular body. Joey first noticed Morris' eyes. They had courage and confidence in them, something a prof needed desperately.
"This is Maddie. He's my lieutenant." Sonny tapped Maddie's shoulder. "I may be in charge, I may be the head, but Maddie runs everything for me." Although they were all generally the same height, Maddie was the shortest of them. He was physically the smallest, and Joey could tell his power was in his brains, not in any physical matter. Maddie couldn't scare a mouse, but looking at his eyes you could tell he had a man with a gun at the back of your head, ready to fire. He had his hands in his pockets and didn't smile as much as the other men when he shook Joey's hand.
Sonny did not introduce the forth man. The forth man carried no luggage at all and was dressed completely in black. Completely, even a black tie. His face was attractive yet scared you at the same time. He had an aura about him of a stone, completely still and never showing any emotion. Joey did not ask who he was and just turned away from the man. They drove back in the same car, with the man dressed completely in black in shotgun, and Joey and Sonny in the back. The same man drove them back. Vic, Morris, and Maddie got in the other car, Victor getting in shotgun and talking to the driver as they drove back.
Unknown to Joey, as ordered previously by Sonny, the two cars separated, one taking the tunnel the other taking the bridges. Sonny's car took the tunnel, and when they arrived in Portland they drove straight to Luigi's club, greeted by Luigi. As they got out, Sonny took Joey aside. He motioned to the man in black.
"That's Castor." Sonny almost whispered. "He follows me around everywhere I go. He's my right arm, my bodyguard. Everywhere I am, he'll be there. Sometimes you won't even know he's there. He doesn't talk 'cause no one talks to him. He's the most trust worthy man I know. He knows all my secrets. Not because I told him, but because he was there when they happened or I spoke of them. We're not friends, but we don't like or dislike each other." Sonny looked at Joey. "Don't ever talk to him or acknowledge his presence, he doesn't exist." Joey nodded as Sonny stared directly at him and nodded in reply. Then he turned and walked in the club, followed by Castor. Luigi met him at the door and walked in with him.
Minutes later, they were all sitting in Luigi's suite. Chairs from other rooms and couches were pulled in and all sat around the glass table in the middle of the room. Everyone was present except Toni, who called in every now and then to give a report on his findings. So far he had come up with nothing. Luigi's men were still out tailing fish vans as Luigi waited for their calls.
Sonny introduced everyone as Luigi prepared drinks. They chatted for a moment then Sonny went aside with Maddie at the bar and they talked quietly to themselves. Joey watched them as they spoke. They were completely alike and in tune with what each other were saying. Even though he couldn't hear them he could tell that Maddie was getting all the info he could from Sonny and they were planning out something. They never smiled or laughed as friends as they spoke, but Sonny could tell they were close. They knew each other perfectly. But business came first, and they were in business together.
Luigi and Victor were talking and laughing. Victor had a great taste for women and was asking what the women in Liberty were like and Luigi laughed in reply, naming some of the best broads he had. He promised a night with each of them. Their conversation trailed off and they began talking about their professions and Joey could tell they liked each other.
Morris sometimes became involved in Luigi and Victor's conversation but remained mostly quiet. Castor leaned against the wall beside the door, his arms crossed. He stared at Sonny across the room and remained absolutely silent. Joey never looked straight at him but stared at him for moments out of the corner of his eye. He didn't know, but Castor knew Joey was looking at him.
The phone rang and Sonny looked at Joey, who sat beside the phone. Joey turned and picked up the phone. It was Toni and he asked for Sonny. Joey handed the phone to Sonny. Sonny said "yeah" and "yes" many times and then hung up the phone. He turned to the group and pointed at Victor.
"Vic, I want you and Morris to go with Luigi. Lu, take 'em for a ride around Portland, give 'em tour, let them get the lay of the land."
"You got it, Sonny." Luigi nodded, and stood up with Morris and Victor.
Sonny turned to Maddie. "Maddie, Joey, we're gonna' head over to Toni's." He put his hands out in front of him as Maddie tossed him a cellphone. "Lu!" He called back and Luigi walked back in. He tossed him the phone told him to use that phone from now on. "Call your men and tell them to use that number then call me once you get any info. The number's under 'Redhead'."
Luigi nodded and walked out the door. Sonny turned back to Maddie and Joey. "Let's go."
Castor drove the three of them over to Toni's as Sonny gave him directions. They parked and walked into the restaurant. Sonny made introductions and they walked into a back room.
Toni had the cooks bring out plates of spaghetti for Maddie and offered Castor some but he declined.
"What you got?" Sonny asked leaning back in his chair.
"The Triad's got a main business somewhere near the Portland docks. We don't know for sure if it's on the docks or around them, but somewhere in the area. They've totally dropped all their laundry business, we've taken over all of their shops in the past war. Most of their money is now coming in from protection money and Spank, a new high they introduced into Liberty a couple months ago. We've tried to get rid of it but they keep operating from different places and we never get them in time. They front as a fish market factory, that's their legitimate front, but we don't even know where that is."
Maddie spoke up; his voice sharp and coarse. "Do have any men down at the docks now?"
Toni looked at him a moment then nodded. "Get them out of there." Maddie said, "Pull them out right now." Maddie moved in his seat and pulled out his phone. He dialed a number and spoke quickly. "Hey, I'm gonna' need you to pull a job for me tonight. Talk to you later..right..ok." He beeped the phone off and looked at Sonny, who nodded. He looked at Toni who got up and talked to one of his men who then turned and ran into the back of the restrauant. He came back and sat with them as Maddie chewed down the rest of his spaghetti. He pointed at Toni and then pointed down at the spaghetti. "That was amazing."
"Grazie." Toni replied, even though he himself was not Italian and neither was Maddie.
When they returned to the suite, Luigi and Vic were laughing with one another while Morris kept to himself, walking behind them. They came in to Sonny and Maddie sitting and talking. Joey was up at the bar making a drink for himself, while Castor stood beside the door.
"Vic." Maddie said, waving him over. Vic nodded at him, patted Luigi on the arm and sat down next to Maddie. Luigi went over to the bar and chatted with Joey.
"We want you to check out this area." Maddie said, pointing at a part of the map they had on the table.
Vic put a fresh piece of gum in his mouth and titled his head, looking down at the map. "The docks?" Maddie nodded in reply. "What am I looking for?" Vic said, chewing the gum.
"Anything Triad." Maddie replied. "We got sources saying that the Triads operate somewhere down there, but we don't want anything giving us away so we want you to look around there."
Vic looked at the map a moment longer and then took out a notebook and wrote something down. He looked at it again and wrote something else. Then he nodded. "You got it." He stood up. "Tonight?"
"Yes, late." Maddie replied. He looked at Sonny.
Sonny shrugged his shoulders. "2 or 3." He looked up at Vic.
Vic nodded and chewed his gum. He walked out over to Luigi. "Lu?"
Luigi laughed at Joey and turned to Vic, still laughing. "What's up, Vic?"
"I got some free time on my hands." Vic said, leaning against the bar. "You got any broads free right now?"
"Oh, yeah, sure." Luigi replied, smiling. He put his drink down. "C'mon. Be right back, Joey." They walked out the room as Joey downed the rest of his drink and looked at stared at Sonny from across the room. Sonny almost turned to him but Joey looked away.
Vic looked at the watch. 1:47 AM. He sighed, almost waking the woman that lay on top of him. She stirred and pressed against him, just as he slipped out from under her and got off the bed. He got dressed in less then five minutes and looked down at the woman on the bed. She looked older then him. He enjoyed her many times that night and then slept for about four hours. He was awake from 1:00 and let his body rest for some more time then got up.
He went upstairs and found his bag still in the Luigi's suite. Joey was sleeping on a couch, and Maddie was sleeping on the ground. Sonny was in the guest bedroom and guessed Castor was in there too, standing by the window. He looked about but couldn't find Morris. Then he saw him by the bar, propped up against the wall beside it. His eyes were open and he smiled at Vic. Vic smiled back and opened his bag, putting on some dark clothing and other materials.
He didn't notice Morris as he padded over to him. He asked him what he was doing.
"Some surveillance." He whispered. "Got check out the docks." He looked up at Morris. "Wanta' come?"
Morris looked down at Vic's bag. "Sure, I got to check my night anyway. I got a new one." He walked over to his bag.
"What happened to the old one?"
"Broke it on my last hit." Morris replied. In less then five minutes both of them were ready to go. They walked out the back, fully dressed in black and Morris carrying some night vision lenses in his hand. He had a strap from them to go around his head but didn't bring it. Neither of them were armed, they knew they weren't to leave any bodies around. It would only alert the Triads.
Luigi had given Vic a car to use whenever he needed it. It was a black car with a very low engine and Vic thanked him greatly for it. They got in the car but Morris drove. Vic knew Morris loved to drive, one of the things almost no one else knew about him. Morris had very little interests, and only liked and cared about his job.
They drove around the city and headed toward the dock. They parked the car in the parking lot of a place called 'Supa Save.' After this, they ran, huddled over, around the right side of the place, then turned right and ran down along a fence. They looked for an entrance through but found none. They kept running along, and went along the edge of the dock, the cold water sloshing below them. They found an opening between two buildings and almost laughed to themselves at how bad the security was and what a waste the fence was.
They moved slowly down between the buildings and Vic stopped, letting Morris slip past him. Morris looked around the side of the building with his night vision lenses, looking from the ground. Morris had learned this tactic from numerous hits, figuring out that when a person turned to look at something, they looked at their normal height, so something below their focused line of sight could easily hide in that instant, and the person would never have seen them.
Vic watched Morris as he looked around the corner with his night vision lenses, looking for only a few seconds, then stepping back and handing the lenses to Vic, who leaned down and looked for almost the same amount of time, then turned back to Morris.
"I count two guards on the west side of the buildings, and another four standing guard by that huge building in the middle of the plaza. Let's wait for the next shift of guards then check what's in those buildings." Morris whispered.
Vic did not nod back but simply handed the lenses back to Morris and moved back with him, hiding behind the building and waiting. Vic was almost amazed with how much Morris had become so good at his job. He remembered the old days where Morris was just a hood and worked under Vic and Vic taught him all he knew about the business and how to sneak about undetected. He didn't know that Morris would become a prof then, but now he saw how much skill Morris had and was almost amazed. His tactics were perfect. Morris wanted to wait for the next shift of guards because he had seen that they did not have night vision on and when the next shift of guards came on, their eyes would not be used to the surroundings and the night. Vic smiled to himself.
A half an hour later, Morris, who had set up between the buildings to watch the guards, waiting for the next shift, ran back to Vic. He told him the shift had changed and they went about, helping each other into buildings, up into windows and looking about. They had definitely found the Triad base. All sorts of equipment were lying in these buildings, including many cases of Spank and numerous weapons.
Morris said he would check out the big building in the middle which Vic thought was impossible to get to and Morris disappeared into the darkness. Ten minutes later he returned and said it was filled with offices and cabinets and men working late at night. They snuck back to their car and drove back to Luigi's club, waking Sonny and Maddie and telling them what they had seen.
Many hours later, several bombs exploded in the Harbor area, destroying the Triad base. Triad fish vans were routinely blown up all day long, until no more were in working order. Several Triad members were found killed all over the Chinatown area and abroad, some bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Within an hour of this, the Triad boss, all with lieutenants and closest men, were found dead and whoever was left was on the first plane out of Liberty, although very little made it that far. Not soon after, the prize automobile of El Burro, the leader of the Triads, was found burning on the Portland bridge, along with El Burro inside of it. The Diablos, without their leader, were soon wiped out and by the end of the day; most of the streets were empty, everyone fearing for their lives.
Portland Island now belonged to Sonny Leone.
END OF PART 2
To be continued
Author's note: There's part two! I hoped you like it! I hoped you liked the new characters! Their stories will only get cooler and cooler. You find out about their pasts and stuff later in the yarn!
Next chapter: Sonny Leone now owns Portland Island, but do you think that's quenched his thirst? I don't think so! Be prepared to meet Sonny's next enemy, the new head of the Yakusa, in the next chapter: ENISHI!