AN: In this chapter, Matthew gets brought along as Brooke and the rest of the Saints take out Phillipe Loren, and afterwards, Brooke and Matthew catch up on old times.
Chapter Four: The Fall of Phillipe Loren
It was a quiet car ride back to the Saints HQ, mostly because Matthew knew that he better be quiet around Brooke because he does not know what might set her off. She drove like she would normally, at least for Steelport, anyway. Once she turned around a corner, Matthew knew exactly where they were going. Oh of course they would be heading here.
"Wait, wasn't this one of the Morningstar's building's?" Matthew asked Brooke.
"Yeah, it was, but now this building is the new Third Street Saints headquarters while we are in Steelport." Brooke said, giving Matthew a smile.
"How did you take it from the Morningstar?" Matthew asked.
"I parachuted in, and killed the Morningstar there." Brooke said. Matthew should have been shocked, but with this being Brooke that he was talking to, he really wasn't.
"Well, that would do it." Matthew said.
They got out of the car, and walked into the lobby of the building. Matthew hit the button from the lobby of the building that was going to send the two of them to the penthouse.
"So, judging by the way that you are working the elevators, I take it that you have been here before?" Brooke asked as they got into the elevator.
"Yeah, you know that I worked for Phillipe Loren, right?" Matthew asked her.
"Right. What else is there that I need to know?" Brooke asked him.
"Nothing else, really." Matthew said. "Also, killing Phillipe Loren is not going to be the end of the Syndicate, you know."
"Of course I do." Brooke said.
"So you aren't going to stop with just Phillipe and the Morningstar, right?" Matthew asked her.
"Of course. All of them are going down." Brooke said with a smile.
"Damn. I guess that makes sense. Why cut off the tail when the head kills the snake?" Matthew said out of the blue.
"I'm sorry, what was that?" Brooke asked, giving him a little chuckle.
"No idea, I just remember hearing that from somewhere." Matthew said, laughing with her as well.
They arrived soon enough to the penthouse, and once they stepped out of the elevator, Matthew could see that they were really getting ready for something heavy. All types of guns were sitting on a table, and there were a lot of them. Brooke made her way inside, toward the table, and began to stock up on guns.
"Boss, who's the suit?" Pierce asked once he and Shaundi saw Matthew.
"I'm a friend of hers." Matthew said. "Pierce Washington, right? Man, your commercials are hillarious."
"Thanks. You a fan of Saints Flow?" Pierce asked him.
"I drink it once in a while, but not really." Matthew said.
"Your loss." Pierce said.
"Okay you three." Brooke said, coming out with an AK-47. "Let's go."
"Fine. Let's get this over with." Matthew said, grabbing a McManus sniper rifle, and following the three of them.
"You gonna be able to handle that thing?" Brooke asked him.
"My dad did not teach me a lot of life survival skills, but he did teach me how to shoot a gun and sniper rifle." Matthew said. "Then again, growing up in Stillwater, knowing how to shoot a gun is really all you need to know."
"No argument here." Pierce said.
Matthew, Shaundi, Pierce, and Brooke soon arrived at the skyscraper where Phillipe Loren was held up. Of course, Phillipe knew that the Saints were coming for him, after Shaundi, Pierce, and Brooke shot up Powder, Phillipe Loren's gun store. So of course there was resistance at the Loading Dock, the same place the four of them showed up in.
"Well, being stealthy is out of the question." Matthew said, taking cover with Brooke.
"Yeah, feel dumb grabbing only a sniper rifle now?" Shaundi shouted from across the area.
"No, I am going to use it when I have to." Matthew shouted back.
After the filling of the Morningstar stopped, in came a Brute.
"Oh, of fucking course they had a brute." Matthew sighed, taking pot shots at the Brute with his sniper rifle. Brooke took a grenade that she had, and threw it at the Brute. He picked it up, and stupidly put it in his mouth as it blew up, taking his head out with it.
"Now that's done, let's go." Brooke said, moving up towards an elevator.
After Phillipe shut down the elevator that they were riding in, which only confirmed that he was in the skyscraper, they found themselves running through the building, killing the Morningstar as they swept through the building. Then they came to find the big guy that the Morningstar modeled the Brutes after.
"Okay. Let's see if I can get him down." Matthew said, heading to a keyboard.
"You know this guy?" Shaundi asked him.
"My name is Oleg." The guy locked up said.
"Any reason why you are locked up?" Brooke asked him.
"Phillipe copied my DNA to make his brutes, but since the brutes lack my intellegence, I was kept around." Oleg said.
"The minute that he would have found some way to give the Brutes your intellegence, you are dead, you know that right." Matthew said, freeing Oleg.
"Are you sure we should be letting him go?" Brooke asked him.
"Like Matthew here, as long as you oppose the Syndicate, we should have no problem."
"I'm sorry, Oleg being naked is really distracting." Brooke said as Oleg lead them towards Phillipe's office.
"Yeah, welcome to Steelport." Matthew said.
Matthew, Shaundi, Pierce, and Brooke followed Oleg around a corner and caught a glimpse of Phillipe getting in an elevator, going to the ground floor.
"Shit, we aren't going to catch him!" Matthew said. He looked around, and saw Brooke climbing up a big black thing, and Shaundi and Pierce trying to get it loose.
"What the hell are you doing!?" Matthew screamed. As he approached the big black ball, it came loose, and she fell downwards.
"You crazy-" Matthew said, running like a mad man to try to catch up with her...
Matthew, Pierce, and Shaundi got to the ground floor to see the black ball that Brooke was on rolling away, along with a giant bloodstain as well. Matthew felt his heart jump into his throat, but a closer look around saw Brooke pulling herself up as well.
"Jesus, are you alright?" Matthew asked, helping Brooke to her feet.
"Yeah. I'm alright." Brooke said, wincing a little bit.
"So what are we going to do with this building?" Pierce asked.
"We keep it. Whatever Phillipe Loren was doing here, it is now ours." Brooke said, a smile crossing her face.
AN: Well, that happened. In the next chapter we will see Brooke and Matthew sort of become more than friends, and things take a turn when Viola and STAG get involved.