Chapter 14 - The End of the Line
Fido, Red Banshee, on the highway to Darkel, 2002
It was the weirdest thing that had ever happened to me, there was someone following us but they didn't even make an attempt to try and stop us in the middle of the highway, there were no bullets being shot. I dreaded to think what psychology this person driving had. We had put the hood up on the car so if the man in the car tried to shoot he wouldn't be able to do it with ease.
"Fido, I'm getting worried by this guy, who does he think he is?" Tommy asked
"I dunno Tommy" I said
"When are we gonna try and stop him?" Tommy asked
"I know a park just off this highway, it's on this map. We'll turn and then shoot at the car, have you got a weapon?" I questioned
"I've got a double barrelled shotgun" Tommy
"I've got an Uzi" I said
As I neared the park I took a swift hard left turn and smashed right through the gates with a tremendous force, I spun round right away narrowly missing the pond and Tommy opened the roof. I blasted my Uzi at the car and Tommy shot at the wheels with his shotgun. We stopped when Tommy had blown all the wheels out; the car seemed to be bullet proof. Suddenly out of the car came two figures, we didn't stop to see who, as soon as we had stopped shooting, we made a run for it. We could hear the bullet shots behind us. As we dodged the bullets there were loads of bystanders screaming. Suddenly after a few minutes of running we came to a brick wall, it was a dead end. The two men came up to us before we could even begin climbing the wall. One of the men was... Joey Leone, he was wearing the same Mafia suit as when we had met before and he had an AK47. The other man I recognised, but I couldn't remember where from, somewhere in the dark past. This man was a negro; he was wearing a light blue jacket with jeans and a blue hat and he was holding a Desert Eagle. That is how I remembered him; it was the hitman who had shot me, I recognised him from the jacket, but I also somehow remembered him from his face. I distinctly remember not seeing his face after he had shot me, so I had seen him before he had shot me. We dropped our weapons on the ground.
"Well, look who we have here," Joey said "it seems we have a double catch, we have caught two Leone enemies, Fido and Tommy Vercetti, Vercetti you're an ex-Forelli man aren't you?"
"That was a long time ago" Tommy said
"Yes but now you're working for the Capelli's which is just as bad" Joey said "and as for you Fido, I think I should just blast you to pieces just now, do you think you can escape the Leone's, we would still catch you no matter how far you went no matter how low you hide, you mute"
"I'm no mute" I said
Joey chuckled and looked towards the hitman who was standing looking down at the ground "The assholes learned to talk, check that" Joey said
The hitman nodded in forced agreement
"Fido meet my friend Carl Johnson" Joey said "he's the man who should have had you dead but somehow you managed to escape the clutches of both of us, well now I'm ready to take my revenge, you should have been dead months ago, and after we get you we'll get your other traitor friend Toni Cipriani, who we know you're working with"
Carl Johnson, Carl Johnson, Carl Johnson. I searched my mind for that name, then it clicked, Carl Johnson was Catalina's boyfriend before she met me way back in 1992. But this man wasn't the CJ that I had met, the man I met seemed to be a gang banger from some ghetto in Los Santos, this man seemed like a professional hired hitman. But it was CJ, you could tell by his face.
"So how do you two wanna die?" Joey asked "In a hail of bullets or one single bullet to the temple"
Suddenly a bang was heard, Joey was now lying on the floor headless in a pool of blood. I looked up to see who had blasted him. It was Toni Cipriani.
"I knew something was up" Toni said now placing his shotgun to the hitmans head, the hitman dropped his Desert Eagle "as soon as I left I knew something wasn't right, I dropped Tony off around the corner and hurriedly followed you"
"You shouldn't have" Tommy said picking up the shotgun "we could've managed by ourselves"
"So do you want me to waste this piece of trash or what?" Toni asked
"No" I said "leave him to us"
"If you say so" Toni said before hurriedly walking away
"So we meet again" the hitman said
"You're Carl Johnson aren't you" I said
"There's no point in telling you any more, you're going to waste me anyway" Carl said
"I might not" I said
"How would you not?" Carl asked
"If you told me why you shot me in Liberty, and then followed me to Darkel" I said
"One word, M-O-N-E-Y" Carl replied
"Money? You waste people just for money, so you don't, I mean didn't work for the Leone's?" I asked
"No, I hardly know Joey Leone, I didn't even know who you were until I saw you just a minute ago" Carl said "When I shot you in Liberty I saw you from behind so I thought you were just another punk"
"Are you telling the truth?" I asked
"Fo' sho'" Carl said
"Why do you need this money so badly?" I asked
"My hood has gone down the drain in the last few years; I need money to buy weapons to fight against the Ballas since they've took over all our land except Grove Street, I promised to my bro' Sweet that I would get enough money to buy weapons" Carl said
"Would you help us if we gave you money?" I asked
"Fido have you gone off your head?" Tommy asked "you're offering help to a hitman that shot you"
"Shut up Tommy" I said "I know this man from a long time ago, well we met briefly"
"I would gladly help you if you gave me money to send back to my brother" Carl said
"Only if you apologize for shooting me" I said
"Only if you apologize for stealing my girlfriend" Carl said
"That b-tch double crossed me nine years later" I said
We both laughed and shook hands, Tommy didn't look very happy. Suddenly the beep I had waited weeks for suddenly sounded out of my pager.
'FIDO, MEET ME IN CARONTO TONIGHT, 8-BALL' the message said
"What is that Fido?" Tommy asked
"My pager, 8-Ball asked me to stay in Shirago until he had finished his business then we were to meet, would you two come with me" I asked
"I'll come with you" CJ said "I've never been to Canada"
Tommy looked with a gloomy face and agreed too.
"Who is this 8-Ball?" CJ asked
"One of my old friends" I said
Carl took off his blue jacket and hat and threw the Desert Eagle away; he then took all of Joey Leone's money out of his pocket.
"Well I hope you trust me" CJ said "I never want to be a hitman ever again"
We strolled out of the park and then followed along the pavement of the highway. Tommy Vercetti, Carl Johnson and I began towards Canada as we watched the sunset fall of what had been a hectic day for all three of us. We continued strolling and dreamed of what lay in store for us. An hour or so later of walking and we were at the borders of Canada, we had no baggage and we had all threw our weapons away on the way there. We walked across the border as daylight turned to night.
They all lived happily after... well until the next big criminal activity came along.
Fido introduced Tommy and Carl to 8-Ball, the four then managed to work well together for a few years.
Tommy managed to run his criminal empire in Vice while living in Caronto.
Carl never betrayed Fido and Tommy and he sent as much money as he could to Sweet, the Orange Grove Family soon were a much stronger gang than the Ballas in Los Santos.
Fido managed to kill Darkel a few years later.
THE END
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