The Fall of the Danni Empire
Chapter 6
Niko stood silent in his apartment, holding his mobile loosely while he thought about Danni's request.
"Can you kill Luis for me?" Danni previously asked, which caused Niko to have flashbacks of his past. Danni also stayed silent, waiting for Niko's answer.
"Well... Don't leave me on the other line like an idiot." she finally said.
"Yes, Danni... I umm.." Niko managed to say. "I don't think I can do that..." Danni did not reply, instead he heard a loud crash and some scurrying around.
"Thats unfortunate Niko... I'll be in touch." Danni hung up the phone. Niko could sense the anger in her voice, this was going to cost him. He had to get to Luis' apartment before she sent one of her friends over to do the job. He used the fire escape attached to his balcony to get to his car quicker.
After a short drive around the corner, he got out of his car and began to run towards the front door, but something caused him to fall to the pavement. He looked over to she what had happened. A woman wearing a black turtleneck and dark blue jeans had tackled him to the ground. Niko grabbed his gun out of his jacket and pointed it at this mysterious new woman. She had blonde hair under a red bandana, he thought it might be Danni.
"Woah, hang on, we're on the same team." she said holding her hands up. Niko was confused by this, so he continued to aim for her head.
"Listen, you want to take Danni Hill down?" she asked, getting up and looking down on him. "I was once like you, Danni tricked me into working for her, I'm Janice"
Flashback
Janice drove up to the meeting point and got out of her car. She waited up against the wall with one of her legs resting on a cardboard box. Two Jamacian looking men walked up to her and shook her hand.
"You work for Miss Hill?" One of them asked. "You got the stuff?" Janice nodded and removed a large sachet containing green plants from her turtleneck.
"Great, here is the cash." The other Jamacian man handed Janice a briefcase containing a lot of money.
The Jamacian men walked away and drove off. Janice received a call on her mobile.
"Hello?" she answered. "Great job Janice, bring it to the usual meeting place, you will receive your cut." the other voice on the other side of the line was Danni. Janice got in her car and drive to the meeting place, which was on the top of her building. Once she reached the roof, Danni, Heather and Pierre stepped out from behind an air duct.
"You got the cash?" Danni asked. Janice walked over and handed over the briefcase. Danni signalled Heather and Pierre to follow her.
"Hey what about my cut?" Janice yelled. Danni stopped. "Here's your cut." she said calmly before turning around and shooting Janice in the chest with her hand gun. The pain was overwhelming for Janice, she began to stumble backwards and she fell, fell off the roof of the building.
"Lets go." Danni said as she put her handgun away and returned inside.
End Flashback
"So how did you survive?" Niko asked her as he put away his gun.
"Luckily, Heather gave me a grapple hook, so I was able to hook onto a pipe before I hit the ground." Janice replied removing a small gun shaped object from her turtleneck. They both walked into the door and found Luis sitting on the couch with his head in his hands.
"Luis, we have a plan." Niko said walking over to him.
"Oh really?" someone asked from behind the door. Pierre bursted through the door holding an assault rifle. "I'd like to hear this plan of yours." Janice gasped and hid around the corner in the bedroom. Pierre noticed her move.
"Is that you Janice? Goodness how did you survive that fall?" he asked slowly moving around the corner.
Niko reacted quickly and pulled his gun from his jacket and shot Pierre in the back. Pierre yelped and fell to his knees. Janice came out from around the corner and grabbed Niko by the arm.
"Quick! We better get out of here!" Janice pulled Niko out the door and Luis followed, but before he left, he also shot Pierre in the back, causing him to fall to the ground, coughing.
They ran outside and jumped into Luis' car, Janice turned the key and stomped down on the accelerator.
"All of Danni's assassins will be after us now!" Janice exclaimed. Niko and Luis looked shocked and began to reload their weapons. As Janice continued to devise where to go, they all heard the rev of a motorcycle coming up behind them. Luis looked back to see someone riding a motorcycle speeding towards their car.
It began to get closer and Janice gasped. The motorcyclist drove up to the right of the car and threw something on it.
"Shit! Get out of the car!" Janice yelled before leaping out of the car, as the car began to swerve towards oncoming traffic, Niko and Luis jumped out of the car, before the motorcyclist pushed a button, which cause the car to explode instantly.
"That's Heather! She uses Sticky Bombs as her main weapon when on the roads." Janice informed them as Heather took of her helmet. Her brown hair fell over her shoulders and her sunglasses reflected the street lights into their eyes.
"You'll never catch us, Heather!" Janice yelled as Niko and Luis grabbed their pistols and aimed at Heather. She laughed at them and threw her helmet to the side.
"Whats so funny bitch!" Luis yelled.
Heather slowly stepped towards them, Niko and Luis gripped their handguns tighter and Janice removed her assault rifle from her turtleneck.
"Whats funny is, I've already caught you" Heather said pointing to something behind them. Pierre laughed and snatched Janice's assault rifle and binded her arms. An elderly man knocked Niko's handgun away and binded him also. A third man with black and purple hair grabbed Luis.
"Shit.." Janice said. "Sorry guys, should have watched our backs." Pierre kneed Janice in the back to cut off her sentence.
"You don't get to talk." The sound of a helicopter filled their ears and Heather smiled at them. The buzzard landed in the middle of the road, which was a shock the the onlooking public and Danni stepped out with a grin.
"Oh good, the gangs all here." she said. Luis struggled to break free of the man's grip so he could get to Danni, but despite his appearance, he was strong.
"Niko! How disappointing you didn't kill Luis for me." Niko gritted his teeth and glared at her. She removed a pistol from her jacket and held it to Luis' forehead.
"I'll do it now if you want." Luis gulped at looked down the barrel of her gun. She laughed at him and put her pistol back. "I'd rather make you suffer for stealing from me."
Niko struggled against the elderly man's grip, he did not understand why he was being captured if Luis was the one who took the money.
"I do believe that some introductions are in order." Danni said walking up to Niko.
"Niko, the man holding you is Winston, my care taker and a Vietnam veteran, so don't get on his bad side. Luis, the man holding you is Alejandro, my boyfriend." Heather walked away from the group and got into the buzzard.
"Enough chit-chat, you're coming back to my place." Danni said before turning around to walk to the buzzard. "Oh! Before I forget" she turned around and walked over to Janice. She raised her right hand and backhanded Janice across the face, causing her to cough and her lip to bleed.
"I don't know how you survived, but its... terrible to see you again, thief." Danni's cheery tone turned bitter before they were all thrown into the buzzard and flew away.