I can't believe I started a fanfic and have kept it up for this long. Everytime I read a review it just motivates me to keep going. As always, special shout out to LynGuerra for all the suggestions and support. Please read and review, it keeps me going. As always, I own nothing, blah, blah, blah...please don't sue me. Enjoy!
Troy was brought out of his thoughts as his office phone rang; he answered the phone only to hear Amy's timid whimpering on the other end of the line.
"Um, Chief" Amy said shakily "Mayor Hughes is on line one."
"Thanks Amy" Troy replied , taking a deep breath as connected to line one. Before he could every answer, he eardrum was almost ruptured by the screaming on the other end of the line.
"What the hell Troy!" Mayor Monica Hughes demanded "First, my husband's killer breaks out of jail…under your watch I might add.."
"Mayor Hughes" Troy started "To be fair…"
"Then, this crazy bitch….who may very well be the most homicidal killer Stilwater has ever known.." Hughes interrupted "…frees the second most homicidal killer from police custody. AGAIN, SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED UNDER YOUR DAMN WATCH!"
"Mayor Hughes" Troy growled "To be fair…"
"And now…." Hughes interrupted once more "There's this 'Rambo Rachel' who's now running loose in my city! Again, all under your watch as Chief of police Troy!"
"Cassie" Troy replied
"WHAT?" Hughes screamed angrily
"Her name is Cassie, aka 'Commando Cassie' and yes I understand that all happened under 'my watch'. It was also under 'my watch' that Anderson and Gat were apprehended while trying to kill me. NOT YOU!"
"Troy" Mayor Hughes began "It doesn't change the facts. And the fact is…"
"…that you should be taking your aggravation out the warden, not me." he replied sternly "The leader of the Saints was kept alive…..at your request mind you…because you wanted to find out more about what happened the afternoon your husband died. And with Cassie, we both wanted to show that young criminals could be rehabilitated, thus placing her in a minimum security facility. Where she was a model prisoner until several hours ago we she broke out."
"Dammit Troy! I know you you're right. I'm just scared" Hughes conceded "Suppose they reform Saints? Then what happens? We don't need another gang running loose on the streets of Stilwater."
"I can understand where you're coming from Mayor Hughes" Troy replied, he anger slowly leaving him "And I will do everything in my power to take down both the Saints and the other gangs here in this city. You have my word on that!"
"And what about my safety" Hughes asked "What if the newly reformed Saints decided to come after me."
"Seeing as how I'm the undercover cop that brought down the gang after they took over Stilwater, I don't think you'll have to worry about them wanted you dead." Troy explained "Me, I'm not so lucky."
"I see" Hughes said quietly "Let me know if you need any additional resources. And Troy?"
"Yes Mayor Hughes?" he asked
"You're an asshole, but an honest one" she replied "So don't get killed. You still owe me for getting you that job."
"Yes Ma'am!" Troy chuckled as he hung up the phone.
Fourteen hours earlier
Cassie sat by herself in the corner of the common room of A- Block, wondering how the hell she had gotten this situation. She went from being a shadow enforcer for the Three Street Saints, to being locked up inside a prison that acted more as an over-glorified daycare for adults. Julius had been an old friend of her stepdad's and asked her about joining the Saints. She had always wanted to clean up The Row and making safer for everyone living. And if joining the Saints could make that happen, she was in for the long haul. Julius explained that he would be using her for only important jobs that could only be accomplished with the specialized training she received from her father. These would also be jobs that carried the possibility of collateral damage, so Julius wanted her operating independent of the gang. This would prevent any blowback on the rest of the crew, while also guaranteeing that she wouldn't catch heat for any of the crimes linked back to the saints. Julius was also weary of having women in gang, but she always checked that up to being some male chauvinistic bullshit. And while the arrangement had its benefits, there were also drawbacks as well. While she considered herself to be a Saint, Cassie was still isolated from the rest crew, which always left her longing for companionship. She also couldn't call on the Saints, whether it was boosting cars from the Rollerz or just hanging out at Freckle Bitches, she was always alone. Only the Lieutenants knew what she was doing for the gang, and only one she had really got close to was Lin. There were a few times that the two of them had hung out, which served as a great stress release for both of them. Lin was able to vent to Cassie about the fact she was stuck around a punk of spoiled rich kids and how Julius had alluded to trying 'alternate means' of getting closer to gang. Cassie in turn vented about being instructed to burned in the homes of VK soldiers, even with the families still inside and blowing up freeway overpasses and Carnales vehicles went pass, all for sake of 'locking down the city'. They were both disgusted with how Julius handled things; Cassie expected to become a homicidal killer who went after innocent bystanders, while Lin was expected to become the new favorite whore for the Rollerz. But despite their disgust with Julius, they still trusted him to ultimately do right by everyone in the crew. It was those precious moments she had bonding with Lin that gave Cassie some form of family. Lin was the big sister she always wanted and needed, and she was more than to accommodate her.
When Lin was killed, Cassie felt like she lost a part of herself that could never be replaced. Her rage was further enhanced when Julius informed her that she wasn't allowed to attend her funeral, seeing as her presence might be bad for the security of the Saints. She knew the real reason was that Julius didn't want her being traced back to the Saints. Especially if any of the work she did for the Julius was ever connected back to her, and in turn the gang. Losing one of the few people she was close to didn't sit well with her, especially since Julius had prohibited her paying her final respects. Surprisingly, Gat suddenly took it upon himself to contact her after the funeral, and keep in touch with her regularly. While the two of them meeting up in person were rare occurrences, it did help to alleviate some of the pain brought on by Lin's passing. She also made it a point of stepping up her efforts in killing any banger she saw not flying purple.
When the Saints finally locked down the City, it was the greatest feeling in the world. It not only meant that they had made things safer, but that she finished what Lin and many other Saints had died trying to achieve. All of that ended once word got out that Troy was a cop and started rounding everyone up that they could find. She had been in Steelport on Julius' order doing a gun running job for Julius that went sideways when she heard over the radio what had happened in Stilwater. She got ahold of Gat, and they went after Troy together. Unfortunately, Troy knew they would be gunning for him and was one step ahead of them. Cassie and Gat waited for him outside the police station and tried to spray him with machine gun fire, only for sniper across the street to take them down with tranquilizer rounds. Cassie took three darts to the back and was down instantly. She found out later than after shooting Gat with over thirty darts, it still took an additional 10 S.W.A.T officers hitting him with tasers to finally bring him down.
When she heard about Mei's breakout of Stilwater Penitentiary and her later rescue of Gat she knew the time escape was now.
In her cell, she retrieved a had a glass jar filled with nail, needles, broken glass, metal shavings, various shampoos, and some electrical wire running from the top of the glass jar's lid to a handmade switch she constructed. Using stolen electrical tape from the prison workshop, she strapped the jar above the doorframe of her cell.
"Nice!" Cassie said to herself "Time to get out of this shithole!"
Cassie placed her small trash can into the middle of the cell and began throwing old newspapers and magazines into it. Then she lifted up her mattress and retrieved a small zipgun she fashioned from scrap metal around the prison, small bag of filled with beef jerky, a plastic spoon that was melted into a shank, and a lighter she pickpocket from one of the guards. She then lit the lighter and threw it into the trashcan. As smoke began to build, she threw the small bag over her shoulders and placed her zipgun and shank into her white jumpsuit pockets. She then angled the mattress sideways and crawled behind it as a makeshift shield as she picked up the handheld switch.
"FIRE!" Cassie screamed "I burning alive! Somebody help me"
Guards rushed to open her door, and where greeted by a wall of smoke. She could hear her cell door being opened and the guards yelling as they entered.
"What the.." one of the guards began, but his words were cut off as Cassie pushed down on switch. The explosion was almost deafening , as the force of the bomb pushed her back against the wall. After a few seconds, she moved from behind the mattress and took a look at her handiwork. Of the four guards that entered her cell, three hand been killed in the blast, while the fourth guard withered in pain, unable to scream due to the shards of metal lodged in his chest. Cassie coldly walked up to the injured guard and crouched down, bring herself eye-to-eye with her victim.
"Nothing personally buddy" She said nonchalantly "But I got places to go, people to kill. Catch ya later homie."
The fire alarms had been triggered and it would be long before she had company. She walked over the security station in the middle of the block which was no unmanned, and proceed to open every cell door in the prison block.
"Stop!" She heard a voice from over her shoulder. She turned around to see two guards with pepper spray drawn
"Don't move bitch!" The guard ordered "You not going anywhere!"
"I know some people who are of a different mind who say otherwise" Cassie replied coyly "And their opinion has more pull than yours. So I'm just going to be hitting that ole dusty trail and getting outta here."
"Oh yeah?" the other guard sneered "What people?"
"Those people" Cassie replied, point to both her left and right simultaneously
The guards soon found themselves surrounded by prisoners who were overpowering them and beating them to a bloody pulp.
"Catch ya later!" She called to the guards as she exited the block through the same entrance the two guards enter from. In the ensuing chaos, she managed to reach to prisons loading bay which was almost vacant except for one guard standing at the edge of the bay while two civilian workers offloading supplies from the back of their Anchor . Cassie slowly snuck up behind the guard with her shank in one hand and her zipgun in the other. She crept up to the guard tapped him on the shoulder, as turned around she plunged the shanked deep into his chest. The sound of the guard collapsing to the ground got the attention of the two dock workers who stood there in absolute fear. Before they could even register what happened, Cassie aimed her zipgun at the dock workers.
"Listen very closely" Cassie said calmly "I'm not going to hurt you, I just want the van. I leave and you knew see me again, sound good?"
"Terry, there's no way this bitch will let us go free! I say we rush and tie her up." one of the workers replied "Besides, I bet that thing's not even real. She's probably just trying to pull some John Dillinger shit."
"Let find out" she said coldly, as she fired a shot through the workers left eye that exited the back of his skull as he slumped to ground dead. "How about you 'Terry', do you want to find out if I'm on some John Dillinger shit too, or is your friends dead body proof enough that my gun is real?"
"nnn-nn-no" said Terry "The keys are in the ignition"
"Thanks" She replied as she hopped down from the bay and walked over to the unloaded Anchor. She turned back to Terry the dock worker and gave him one final glance. "Take care of yourself Terry. Maybe I'll see you around town now that I've been 'paroled' for good behavior."
She climbed into the Anchor and drove out of the facility, driving through the prisons two chain-link fences as she sped away.
Present
After clearing the dead bodies with Gat, Mei headed out to recruit some new lieutenants for the gang. First, she met up Carlos and helped him repo a Reaper from some jackass named Ramon who owed him money. Then, she hooked up with Pierce Washington, an ambitious young guy who wanted to see her waste some rival bangers. After coming across some Ronin on their motorcycles, Mei speed up full speed and rammed them from behind. After sending their bodies flying, Mei proceed to get out of the car with her Kobra in hand, and proceeded to shoot each of them twice in the head while Pierce cheered her on from the passenger's seat. From there, Pierce told her about this hippie chick named Shaundi who had a lot of connections and was extremely skilled with computers. Shaudni wanted to see how wild and down Mei was by making her drive through a dirt covered off-road track with her car. Mei nailed every jump perfectly, much to Shaundi's delight. After dropping Shaundi off with directions to the new hideout. And after a quick stop to Freckles Bitches and a call to Kat about the new hideout, she made her own way back to see how things were coming along. When she got there she was greeted to the sight of men and women, broken in pairs, fighting each other.
"Wow" Mei said amazed , walking over to Gat "You don't waste any time!"
"Told you I was gonna make some phonecalls." Gat replied "Had to do some canonizing. Hold up..." He grinned deviously as he looked around and pointed the guy standing next to him "You…You're next"
" ?" the man asked before being punched in the face by Kat
"This place don't look half bad." Carlos commented
"you guys actually hang out down here?" Pierce asked
"I dunno…." Shaundi chimed in " Add a flat screen, some throw pillows,, and a hookah and this place would be alright."
"Yeah. And you definitely need a stripper pole up in this bitch." Pierce added
"No doubt!" Mei said "You Gat, Lets talk."
"Sure Boss" Gat said "What's up?"
"We seem to have some promising recruits" Mei commented "What do think of the people I brought in?"
"Met the people you recruited. Most of them seem alright." Gat replied "Although I got my ufcking doubts about Pierce and Kat."
"Why" she asked
"Pierce talks to damn much for my liking, kinda reminds me of Dex" Gat said "But I can deal with him. Kat? I know she's down and that you think you can trust her, but there's something about her that's bugging me"
"Don't worry about it Gat, she's cool." Mei replied reassuringly " But after what happened with Troy , I understand where you're coming from. I'll be keeping my eyes on everyone at all times"
"But then who gonna watch your ass?" a voice said behind them
The two of them turned around to be greeted by the sight of a pale skinned redhead in a white prison jumpsuit slightly stain with blood.
"CassIe!' Gat cheered pulling for a half hug "I thought you were locked up?"
"Early parole" Cassie said gleefully" You know for good behavior and shit. What about you? Thought you were on death row?"
"Cleared of all charges" he replied menacingly "You know what they say about all Asians looking alike."
"Good one Gat!" Mei laughed "So who's you're friend?"
"This is Cassie" he introduced "a former Saint who, based on the blood stains on her jumpsuit, just broke out of jail."
"A pleasure" Cassie said as her and Mei fist-bumped
"Likewise" Mei said "But I thought me and Lin were the only women in the crew. Why had we never met?"
"Julius had other plans for her." Gat explained "So only the other lieutenants knew about her."
"Why?" Mei asked "There's no reason to hide a fine piece of ass from the crew"
"Right back at cha' hot stuff" Cassie grinned "Julius didn't want to have a bunch of young pussy running around the gang. And since you don't look any older than me, I'm assuming you lied about your age when joined?"
"Pretty much" Mei said "Although Julius would have to have been blind to believe I was actually twenty-one, and not sixteen."
"Seriously?" Cassie laughed "You were to same age as me and joined at the same time! Maybe Julius and homicidal lolicon fetish that none of us knew about."
"Could be" Gat sneered "Don't forget the fact that he had you doing a lot of dangerous shit for the gang."
"And what happened if something went wrong during one of these 'jobs' Julius gave you?" Mei asked
"I would be as good as dead since I couldn't expect help from anyone" Kat explained "Since nobody else outside the lieutenants even knew I existed, let alone would be needing help. It let Julius do things that might turn public opinion against the gang eith complete deniability."
"That's bullshit!" Mei cried "You ask someone to do your dirty work, and then leave them hanging cause it might be 'bad publicity'. Where a gang, not the fucking boys and girls club! We'll if you want back in with the Saints, you're in. And you're officially in the gang too. None of that expendable solider bullshit Julius had you doing. You fly colors like the rest of the crew. Is that cool with you?"
"Been waiting a long fucking time for someone to say those words to me. Thank you." Cassie replied "I'm in Boss, whatever you need."
"Good to hear" Mei said as she walked back up the stairs and stood in front of a crumbling statue.
"So what do we do now?" Shaundi asked
"We listen" replied Gat
All of the Saints present, stopped at turned their attention to Mei. She almost felt let an Empress about to command her troops.
"Everybody listen up!" she yelled "We got some serious shit to discuss. The Saints used to own Stilwater and the only motherfucker that seem to remember that is me, Gat, and Cassie. I think its time we gave these other crews a wake up call."
There was nothing but resounding cheers from everyone gathered at these words. She could in front of the group, nodding his approval.
"I now I ain't gonna lie. Its been a while since I was in the game, so I'm gonna need some help." She continued "Pierce, I want you on the Ronin. Find out about the money, connections, and power structure"
"Done." Pierce replied
"Shaundi, I want you to look into the Sons of Samedi"
"It gotta be them?" Shaundi whined
"The fuck you say?" Mei asked menacingly
"Nothing Boss" Shaundi quickly "Its cool I…I got this."
"Good" Mei said "And Carlos…."
"I got the Brotherhood. I'm on it." Carlos
"Perfect! Cassie, lets start getting a handle on the cops. Find out who's dirty, who we can bribe, and who we need to kill. I doubt Troy is gonna take the fact the three of us are running loose lightly. Also, start looking into any possible operations against us. I don't want a repeat of what happened last time."
"No worries Boss. I got cha covered!" Cassie replied reassuringly
"Alright. Once your done here, talk to one of these guys. They'll have something for the rest of you to do. It's our time now, so let's get this shit done!"
