Chapter 10
--Stroke the Noodle--
Liberty City, 1981
"You got the info?" "Yep." Ronny hands Sonny a piece of paper, which is shread in half, the top half containing a paragraph of writing. "Good..." Sonny folds up the piece of paper and shoves it into his pocket. "Get the guys ready, I have to make a stop first." "To your uncles?" "Yeah, they can't say I didn't try..." The pair head outside of the bistro, Ronny heads right into a black vehicle and drives off down the hill. Sonny goes the opposite way and gets into his own car, and goes to see his uncle at the top of St. Marks.
Sonny drives steadily up the road, checking his mirrors occassionally, mostly looking forward. "This shouldn't be too hard." Sonny's car comes to a screeching stop in front of the mafia's building behind St. Marks. Sonny gets out, and walks up the steps into the house, containing his uncle, who recently had a stroke, leaving him unable to talk, nearly braindead. An assistant is inside the house helping Sonny's uncle. As Sonny comes in he motions for the assistant to leave for a while. Sonny moves over to his uncle, who hasn't even noticed he came in.
"Uncle!" Sonny says optimisticly, but his uncle continues to stare forward not paying attention to anything. "Glad to see you too. Anyways, Ronny and the boys have found out where some of them Chinese bastards are holding up, and we're going to hit it tonight. Of course, I would never do such a thing without asking permission from the elders of the family." Sonny grins, still getting no response. "I knew you'd understand. I'll make sure they never mess with the mafia again. I'll see you soon, Uncle."
Sonny grabs a telephone that is hung up on a wall inside of the house and exits the building, he whips the telephone out and dials a number. "Yeah...Ronny? ....Go ahead.....I'll meet you all in China Town...Good." Sonny tosses the phone into the house through the back door, and it lands on the floor, and he walks over to his car, getting inside and speeding back off the way he came.
The change was very noticeable when going into China Town. Quickly the language and the architecture changed from the surrounding city. Sonny watched through his windows and mirrors, making sure he was safe. Turning a corner, he notices three other mafia cars right away and drives up next to one of them. Both cars roll down their windows. "Alright, it's that building down there to the left, next to the corner. When you see them leave, drive up and bust them." All the men in the other cars nod, listening in to the instructions.
After a good fifteen minute wait, the door to the building slams open. Two thugs come out of the run-down building, and a Triad leaders follows behind them. The line of mafia cars begins to move forward down the road toward the building, led by Sonny. The triads come down the steps, and onto the sidewalk, not noticing anything unusual. Sonny's car goes flying past them, the triads look at the car as it goes by, but keep walking down the street. The three mafia cars that followed all roll down their passenger side windows and open fire on the triads.
The two thugs drop immediately as a mirage of gunfire comes from the cars going by. The triad leader ducks behind a garbage can that is adjacent to the old building. They fire, but can't hit him as he continues to hide behind cover. The next two mafia cars zoom past him, and as the third one is about to go past, they launch a gernade out of the window, flying across the sidewalk and blows up the general area. The four mafia cars, including Sonny's all leave just as fast and organized as they had came, leaving a bloody corner behind them.