Marcus awoke to the morning rays that had begun to break through the half-shut blinds on the large bay windows of the bedroom he began to recall the wild night and soon felt the soft form of Shaundi who was still asleep and resting her head on his chest. He carefully move a stray strand of hair away from her face and just watched her sleep but soon he felt her begin to wake she opened her eyes and smiled as she curled closer to him.
"morning" she said still not fully awake. Marcus placed a kiss on the top of her head and just enjoyed the moment.
"I should get dressed, those Ultor ass hats want to meet and finish this deal of there's" Marcus removed himself from there tangled limbs and proceeded to find his clothes. While sitting at the edge of the bed. Shaundi embraced him from behind planting small kisses on his shoulder but figured she should also get ready.
"so what are we going to say to the others" Shaundi asked as she began to get up and walk towards the bathroom which caused Marcus to stop what he was doing while he followed her nakedness with his eyes full of hunger for her.
"well I don't think we have to worry gat won't care Pierce will probably bitch as always and the others well fuck'em one of the perks of running a gang I can do whatever I like..or whoever" Marcus replied which caused a small smirk to show on his face.
"Fine by me, but now I'm gonna take a shower care to join me" she asked standing in the door way with a sultry look.
"very tempting but I need some coffee" he said as he struggled to walk towards the stairs once he was heading downstairs he heard the water start and made his way to the kitchen.
A short while later Shaundi came downstairs dressed and looked for her keys. Marcus was already ready to leave and was waiting for her by the door.
"ready?" he asked and she nodded and both walked out together.
Saints Hideout
Marcus and Shaundi walked into the hideout together and were greeted by the others most didn't notice Marcus had his arm around her but Pierce was the first to notice. It took a few seconds for him to figure out what was going on "You gotta be kidding me!" he said louder than he probably should've. Gat just had a smile on his face as he suspected that there was something going on between the two.
"whats the matter pierce?" Marcus asked he loved to push his buttons
"you too are shacking up now god damn it can't I ever get a break around here" he said and walked off still muttering to himself.
"He'll be fine. but I think its time we got this deal of yours over with" Gat said as he walked up to the two. Shaundi gave Marcus a peck on the cheek and went to talk with the others.
"ya let's do this" Marcus said as he walked into the office where Gryphon and a couple other suits were waiting.
"good your finally here have you given are proposal some thought" Gryphon asked
"Will sign your deal Gryphon but be warned we will not be burned again" Marcus said in a stern deadly tone.
"relax we want this more than you know" Gryphon said as he handed him the paper work. Marcus signed the papers and shook his hand.
"Well here's to a new partnership" Gryphon stated as he and the others walked out.
Over the following year the saints fame had sky rocketed with the saints going from a well-known street gang to a world-famous organization. There focus moved from petty crime to more organized legitimate business.
Gat had been given his own comic book and had done many advertisements for the saints including the new saints flow energy drink. While Pierce had become well-known for his work in japanese commercials and had begun to launch his own record label. Shaundi had been given her own talk show called "I want to sleep with Shaundi" which was a big hit and had gained international fame. Although Marcus himself remanded head of the saints he let the others take up the spotlight he tended to shoot the cameras.
Ultor had kept their word and had put much backing behind the saints and their brand and was rewarded with their profit and stock price doubling three-fold and was in the process of getting a saints row motion picture off the ground they had picked famous actor Josh Burk to portray the leader of the saints.
Meanwhile Monica Hughes had become a rising star in the political circuit and had become a senator and had taken a hard-line against organized crime although the saints did not have to worry since Ultor was her leading campaign contributor.
Ultor had also converted the entire Stillwater branch into the Saints Ultor media group which was based in the newly renovated Phillips building and Marcus and many others of the saint leadership had been given run of the place. The lights on the building exterior had been changed to the saints trademark purple. The hideout had been turned into a club called purgatory which was the hottest place in town everyone wanted to get in and party with the legendary saints.
Saints club Purgatory/Hideout
Marcus and the others were waiting for the actor that was going to be staring in the saints movie. Marcus was looking at his watch for the tenth time while Shaundi was quietly reading an article about her latest show. Gat and Pierce were sitting at the bar talking about the latest episode of some game show they had both become long time fans of.
"were the Hell is this dip shit actor, he was supposed to be here an hour ago" Marcus said as he got up and walked to get another drink.
"Maybe he got lost" Pierce replied not long before the actor had arrived and was making his way done the stairs
"hey, uh ya sorry I'm late had a late meeting with the nyte blade producers. Hi names Josh Burke you've probably heard of me" he said as all the saints looked at him and just continued what they were doing.
Marcus looked him over noticing he was average height and had a normal build but was he saints material. Walking up to Josh he just looked at him before shaking his hand.
"right so you want to know what its like to be a saint, not gonna lie kid you don't look like much" Marcus said as he walked back to the couch and sat down once more
"oh don't worry I do my own stunts" he said while trying to act smooth
Josh looked around and quickly noticed Shaundi sitting off to the side and made his way over to work his charm. sitting next to her and giving his best smile.
"Hi Josh Burke famous TV star, you might recognize me I play nyte blade" Shaundi just looked at him and gave an annoyed sigh as she got up and went to sit next to Marcus
"Thats okay a lot of women are intimidated by me." he said as she walked away
sitting next to Marcus she leaned over and said quietly "I already hate him" to which Marcus just laughed.
"alright Josh will show you what it means to be a saint, meet us here tomorrow and will see if you got what it takes." Marcus said as he and Shaundi walked out.
Gat looked to pierce "forty bucks says he dies tomorrow." Pierce just looked over at the actor talking to one of the dancing-girls "I'll take that bet"
The next day they drove to the new bank that had just opened downtown pierce had to stay behind to manage things while the others showed Josh the ropes of gang life and entered the elevator and hit the emergency stop and got things ready. Gat handed out mascot heads with his likeness.
"your robbing a bank dressed like yourself's" Josh asked with confusion
"fuck ya who doesn't want to be Johnny gat" Gat said as he cocked his gun.
"oh.. ultra post modernism I dig it" Josh said as he turned on his voice modulator
"hey, your just a ride along man so don't go all Hong kong style in there" Shaundi said as she waited for the elevator to open.
"don't worry everything will be fine" Marcus said to the others
once the elevator arrived they walked out and began to split up while Shaundi followed Marcus "look I'm cool with the saints movie but do we really have to drag this asshole actor along with us." she said with annoyance.
"cut Josh some slack he's just researching his part" Marcus said calmly
"ya well I hope he signed a waiver" Shaundi replied in an even more exasperated tone
"alight people you know the drill" Marcus yelled as everyone in the bank looked to him
"ya nobody moves nobody dies!" Josh cut in as he jumped up on a counter and waved his gun at everyone.
"Burke!" Gat yelled but just shook his head and walked away
"oh, right jumped the line can we do that again?" Josh asked but just followed the others.
The saints lined everyone up and proceeded to collect the money and valuables from the customers and tellers. Some of the people in the bank wanted autographs and pictures with the Boss which he accepted.
Josh just watched and wondered just what was going on this wasn't the saints he heard about. He looked over at one of the tellers and pointed his gun at her.
"get in line bitch" Josh said trying to act hard. Shaundi noticed this and decided to chastise him for it.
"Hey, don't be a dick" She said and went back to watching the crowd
"you call yourselves gang bangers you guys are a bunch of pussies we should be all up in there- SHIT!" Josh yelled as he ducked just in time to miss the teller who he had threatened moments before shoot past his head.
As if on cue all the tellers pulled weapons while unknown men in black euro type suits and sunglasses came pouring out of the back behind the tellers. The saints had all taken cover behind the small counter in the middle of the bank
"well that's interesting" Marcus said as he ducked as more fire hit counter
"you got a plan or are we just gonna kill all them bitches" gat yelled over the noise to which Marcus gave a grin "That is my plan"
"i like it" gat said as he leaned out and downed three of the unknown men while Shaundi and Marcus took out the tellers who quickly fell and caused the more heavily armed men to fall back behind the tellers counter.
All three saints approached the backroom door while Josh who was hiding during the fight tried to kick in the door "That's right bitches we're coming for ya" Josh said as he kicked the door but fell back wards onto the floor.
"get up Burke" Marcus said as he drag the actor to his feet and shoved him outta the way. While Shaundi just shook her head at the idiot actor.
Gat took position in front of the door and kicked it open causing one of the guards behind the door to fall and was quickly dealt with by Marcus. Gat and Marcus cleared out the ground floor while Shaundi followed taking out the guards on the second floor they quickly pushed up the stairs and past the offices overlooking the main bank floor.
"uh guys I think we have company" Josh said in a cowardly voice as he pointed to more Guards pouring out of the elevators as the three saints focused their fire on the new threat Marcus wondered just who they were fighting. "who are these guys?" Shaundi asked as they head up another set of stairs "who cares just keep shooting" Gat replied as he rushed up the stairs.
Once at the top Shaundi was jumped buy a guard who tried to disarm her but was quick to counter by rolling left and forcing him into the wall and fire point-blank filling him the rounds.
Once at the vault gat inspected the vault door. while Josh was struggling to breath. Shaundi pulled the mascot head off of him and tossed it to the side "idiot" she said as she and Marcus removed theres as well.
"we ain't getting through this with out some heavy hardware" Gat said
"plan B then?" Marcus asked with a grin
"ha, I thought you'd never ask" Gat replied as he went to the bag Josh was carrying and grabbed plan B
"so whats plan B you gonna drill it" Josh said jokingly
"ha, fuck no we blow it" Gat said producing a large block of c4
"what, seriously guys come on" Josh said in a
With the explosives in hand they made their way to the offices above the vault and placed the c4 on the floor right above were the vault was located once that was done everyone took cover from the explosion while Gat just stood there unfazed and lightly shook off some of the dust.
"alright let's get to work" Marcus said as he looked at the now exposed vault
Josh still cowering behind a desk noticed a large red button. "hey guys, found a way to open the vault" Josh said as he pushed the button and immediately caused the alarm to sound. All three saints looked at him with severe anger.
"Josh, are you trying to get us all jail time" Shaundi said in a harsh tone
"w..what I don't want to be some dudes bitch" the actor said now frightened and bolt for the nearest exit leaving the saints behind. The Saints just stood their and shook there heads while Shaundi was glaring at the actors exit "do I have to go after him?"
"forget about him he'll be fine" Marcus said turning back to see that the saints helicopter was arriving to lift the vault out and secure it. They quickly hooked up the cables. But soon the sound of police helicopters had arrived and they knew their time was running out. Gat looked out the nearby window and saw dozens of police and swat members storming the bank.
"we got company" he said as Marcus came over and looked for himself. Theres like what ten waves of swat guys. Gat just smirked "ya normal day at the office right" he replied as he took up position behind some over turned desks on the left side of the room. While Shaundi took the right side and Marcus finished attaching the cables to the vault.
Before long police and swat were coming in from both sides of the room and were being cut down by accurate fire from the saints. "i don't think we can keep this up much longer" Shaundi yelled over the noise of the gunfire and helicopters.
"we don't need to I'm done go, i'll meet you back at the safe house" Marcus yelled as he held one of the cables as the vault was pulled from the building.
He watched as Gat and Shaundi made a break for the only other exit. But his focus was soon drawn to the large police presence on the roof. He immediately opened fire and cut down many waves of cops but the pilot of the helicopter was having trouble controlling the vault as one of the cables cut free from the vault. With now only three cables holding Marcus struggled to maintain his footing. Until a red attack helicopter came in and buzzed the transport helicopter and turned to take out the saints helicopter.
Marcus had only seconds to jump from the vault as the chopper carrying the vault exploded into a large fireball of death. He was able to grab the ledge of a window and pull himself up and rolled onto the floor were he was surrounded by police and swat.
"Well shit" Marcus said as he looked around and realized that he was caught.
After being cuffed and taken outside to the police transport he noticed Gat and Shaundi had also been caught. They were being searched, the young cop who was getting a little to hands on while searching Shaundi was on the ground after she had delivered a swift knee between his legs and caused the poor man to scream in pain. "I told you to watch the hands" She said as she was put into the back of the prison transport along with Marcus and Gat as both men both had large grins on their faces as they were taken to Stillwater PD.