CJ woke up after a quick nap. He could hear the fire in the distance, the chaos of the second massive gang war to hit the area in two weeks. Los Santos was one screwed-up place at the moment, but unlike five years ago, Carl wanted to stay. His hood had grown stronger, his respect had increased, and overall, his life had improved dramatically. But all that hard work was going to be put to the test. Picking up his three most reliable weapons, he headed into the living room where Cesar and Sweet were both beefing up on their weapons. Once they were all armed to the teeth, Cesar and Sweet with AK-47s and dual sawn-off shotguns, plus dense body armour and four grenades each, and Carl with an M4, Desert Eagle and dual-SMGs, and three grenades, they headed outside.
"Ok, here's the plan. Cesar, you and Sweet go around to Aztecas turf, connecting to Ballas turf. I'll muck around here. Every thirty minutes, we'll-" Carl's plan was disrupted by a bullet barely missing Cesar's head.
"Holy shit! They're here! LOCK AND LOAD!" Cesar yelled.
A spray of bullets struck the Ballas guy who was stupid enough to try and take a peg shot at them.
"Well, I guess we'll have to stick together." Carl said.
They ran across the street, pretty quickly for people absolutely armed from head to toe. A group of Ballas were blown away by one of Sweet's grenades, and Cesar blew off four Vagos and their heads with his dual sawn-off shotguns.
"You want some of this, YOU KIDNAPPING BASTARDS!" Cesar yelled.
Meanwhile, the Triads and the Da Nang Boys were having their own gang battle. The Triads were absolutely blowing away the Da Nang Boys with their powerful AK-47s, and pools of blood were lying around. Even Woozie was there, M4 in his hand, spraying at where his men were telling him to. He wasn't doing too badly either.
Meanwhile, Tommy woke up in his room in Sunshine Autos. Ken was just dressing, fidgeting and murmuring to himself. When he saw Tommy's eyes flicker open, he said:
"Morning, Tommy."
"Hi Ken. You know if Mike and Jamie are up yet?" Tommy asked.
"Don't think they are."
"Well, wake them up. I'm showing them my mansion before we go hit the Cartel." Tommy said.
Both of them got dressed, and they knocked on the doors of Mike and Jamie's doors. The four of them got into the everything-proof Admiral in the garage, and drove off towards Vercetti Estate.
When they got there, Colonel Cortez was waiting for them, M4 in hand.
"Tommy, my friend! And how was your trip to Liberty City?" Cortez asked.
"Ah, it was ok, Colonel. These two men here. This is Jamie, one of my old friends, and this is Mike, Jamie's friend. And I presume you remember Ken Rosenberg?" Tommy asked the Colonel.
'Let's go inside, Jamie. I'll show you around before we get to taking out the Cartel." Tommy said.
Meanwhile this was happening; three Squallo speedboats with four Columbian Cartel members in each of them were cruising towards the back pier of Vercetti Estate. Two of them carried bombs, while the rest carried M16 assault rifles. They sped along from the Shark base they had overtaken a week ago.
Tommy and Jamie were walking around the newly-painted mansion that was now black, when they heard gunshots in the distance.
"Holy!" Tommy gasped.
He ran off
quickly, and returned with a chrome shotgun and an M4. Handing the
shotgun to Jamie, he yelled:
"Follow me!"
The two of them sprinted off downstairs.
Twelve Cartel men were jumping off the Squallo II boats, M16s blazing. They had killed a couple of Vercetti men already.
But Tommy, and Jamie, both very accurate shooters, blew all of them, including the bomb carriers down. Tommy ran over and spotted the bombs.
"Oh man. How are we supposed to defuse these?" Jamie asked.
"I got an idea! I'm going to rig these two bombs to that Sea Sparrow over there. I can order another one anyway when I blow the old one up. I'm pretty sure the Cartel has their base over on Prawn Island, since it seems likely that they would take down the Sharks to get those flashy speedboats they have."
"Let's put on the disguises of the Cartel first." Jamie said.
After they had hidden their old clothes and phoned Ken, they both climbed into the helicopter. As Tommy readied the Sea Sparrow's engine, Jamie, riding shotgun, gave him a thumbs-up. They were ready to finish this fight, and kick the Cartel ass.
Carl dodged a stray bullet, before firing at two passing Ballas in a dark red Greenwood doing a drive-by. The powerful M4 killed both of them with lethal headshots. His phone rang.
"Hey, Tommy, I'm sending over two Hydra jets, ordered right from a secret hideout," came the Truth's voice.
"Okay, thanks. Just tell the pilots to watch out for us." Carl replied.
"Ok and they'll drop off some ammunition if you want it. Good luck."
Carl switched off the phone and threw a grenade under a Rancher full of Ballas trying to reverse from the wall. The grenade exploded, blowing the Rancher up and sending all the Ballas inside into hell.
Then, came flying over two SWAT helicopters along with five FBI trucks and three SWAT tanks. A couple of Hunters joined them. It was inevitably a police convoy that had decided to show up to stop the action, being the second time in a few weeks that this trouble had happened, and with a new police force trying to redeem themselves.
"Damn." Carl muttered, wishing he had a Stinger SAM missile launcher right at this moment.
The FBI trucks slid to a stop, and four FBI men all carrying MP5s got out. They started crouching behind their trucks, gunning down Ballas and OG members alike.
"YOU CORRUPT BASTARDS!" Carl yelled.
He pulled out his dual-SMGs and sprayed hard at the about twenty FBI men. He killed about eight of them, before diving behind cover as two grenades from Cesar blew up three trucks, and caused a chain reaction among the others.
A SWAT helicopter was now dropping off four SWAT guys with Uzi 9mms, but they were sprayed at by Carl's M4 and Cesar's dual sawn-off shotguns. The SWAT tanks were being fired on by the numerous number of OG men with shotguns, and although they weren't doing much, they were distracting the drivers inside. But yet another ten cop cars had come pouring in, trying to run over the warring gangsters. They needed something dramatic to happen, to break this stalemate and the triple alliance between the Vagos, Ballas and the Da Nang Boys.
The Sea Sparrow made its way to towards the Cartel base on Prawn Island. It was an old Shark base, one that Lance had flown Tommy over in a helicopter, where Tommy had used an M60 to gun down the Shark leader and take back Diaz's money. There were three Speeders and one Cuban Jetmax at the back, and there were three Cartel men in the Speeders readying for another cruise to Vercetti Estate. Tommy knew that Ken, Mike and his men wouldn't be able to hold for long, so he had to do this quick. The Cartel out back saw the Sea Sparrow, and fired, but noticing the two disguised Cartel men, they stopped. One of them ran right up to Tommy and Jamie when they landed.
"What's that?" he asked.
"A Sea Sparrow. We stole it from Vercetti's mansion. Built-in machine gun and all. Beauty, isn't it?" Tommy asked, trying to say the words in a Spanish accent.
"Yeah. But we'll use that for later. Get in the boats. What's with the men who went up first in the Squallos?"
"They're fine. Last time I saw them, they were mowing down Vercetti's men."
"Well, go join them. It's going to be our operation now."
"Don't know what's coming to them, eh Jamie?" Tommy joked as they ran for the Cuban Jetmax.
There were four Cartel men in the Jetmax, all holding formidable M16s. The driver had a Tec-9. But just as the Jetmax turned and headed for Vercetti Estate, Tommy and Jamie could hear the bomb blow. There was a massive rocking and the Jetmax capsized. Desperately, Tommy and Jamie swam for Prawn Island, through the back path of the Movie Studio entrance, where Tommy's Skimmer was. He and Jamie took off their Cartel disguises, got into the Skimmer, and flew off for the mansion before the Cartel could figure out anything.
As the Truth had promised, two Hydra jets had flown over. Carl had told the Truth for the Hydras to hit the Hunter helicopters and police helicopter circling the place, and it had just done so. Four missiles had softened up the police air convoy, and another four blew them all up. The cops were taken down by a wave of combined gunfire from the Triads, Carl, Cesar and Sweet along with their OG and Aztecas homies.
As CJ picked off two Ballas with easy headshots, he received a call from Woozie.
"OK! We're going to frame the Da Nang Boys! Two of my Maverick helicopters will be dropping off a bomb near your house. Get a Da Nang disguise; label it something to do with them, and then head to that crack palace Smoke used to own! Give them a surprise of their own for messing with us Triads!"
Woozie was definitely getting very emotional. CJ understood what it meant for a Chinese man, to fight for their country, even in something as low as a gang war.
He phoned the Truth to tell the Hydras to protect two Mavericks coming on the way, and to watch out. He also quickly whispered a word into Cesar and Sweet's ears about his little ambush from the inside, and told the triads about that as well, so he wouldn't get fired on.
The Mavericks dropped off a small package that Carl guessed, was the bomb. Picking off the clothes of a dead Da Nang boy, which was disgusting but needed, he jacked a Virgo trying to drive through the area unharmed, and drove off for the crack palace he had marched right through a few weeks ago. The palace had been repaired pretty fast, but CJ hoped it couldn't get fixed after this job today. He ran into the crack palace, avoiding the Ballas. He planted the bomb on the ground floor, behind a table where not many people could notice it. He then ran off, throwing off his disguise as soon as possible. Even as he ran back to his stolen Virgo, he could hear a massive explosion rock the place. The Ballas were in confusion as Carl sped back to OG turf to find Cesar and Sweet.
When Tommy and Jamie had got back to Vercetti Estate, the smell of death was still all around. Most of the dead were the Cartel, who had been held back by a grim and dogged counter-attack by Ken, Mike and Tommy's men. Tommy and Jamie ran to a weapons cabinet that Tommy had when he wanted needed some firepower, and they grabbed M4s and an MP5 and Colt Python each, before going out to join several of their business partners. Cortez was holding a Ruger. Ken had a shotgun. Mike was using dual Micro-Uzis and an S.P.A.S 12 shotgun. Even one-armed Phil Cassidy was there, standing on the roof, with a sniper rifle. Phil had told Tommy that he could still snipe with one hand, and had even proved so by hitting several moving targets from about a hundred yards away a couple of years ago. He waved at Tommy and Tommy waved back.
Four Cartel Cruisers pulled up, trying their luck, but were blown away by an absolute hail of gunfire.
"Look, Tommy, do you reckon the Cartel are gonna stop?" Ken asked.
"They certainly got resources." Tommy replied.
"But we're going to run out of ammo, sooner or later!"
"I can always drop in on Phil's Place and AmmuNation to grab some cannons."
"We're gonna punish the Cartel for trying to take me out of my operation. Everybody stay here. I'll go grab some heavy weapons and some explosives. Now all we need is to find out where the Cartel is mainly based in at the moment." Tommy said, as he drove off in his Admiral.
Carl had driven back to Orange Grove turf, where he spotted the Da Nang Boys battling it out with the Ballas. Their alliance had been broken, and now CJ's own alliance, the Orange Grove Families, old dominators of the turf, Varrios Los Aztecas, the passionate Mexicans, and the Triads, the hardworking Chinese, had taken the advantage. Now it was just time to finish the job.
