The Fall of the Danni Empire

Chapter 8

Niko looked over at Janice and she looked back at him with a disappointed look on her face. They were tied up on wooden chairs in the basement of Danni's yacht, with Pierre and Alejandro standing guard. Soon after Winston left the room, Heather walked down the stairs with a devilish smile on her face and Danni walking slowly behind her. Seeing her face made Niko grit his teeth and try to break free from the ropes.

"Pierre, Alejandro, guard the top deck please." Danni said as she stopped in front of Niko and glared at him.

As Pierre and Alejandro walked up the stairs, Heather slammed the door and stood in front of it with her hands crossed.

"So, Janice." she began. Janice looked up and glared at her. "How ever did you survive?" Janice hesitated for a second, thinking back to that night.

"You don't need to know, I survived and want to take you down" Janice said with an evil grin on her face. Danni smiled back sarcastically before slapping her across the face.

"Good luck with that, because for helping Luis and Niko, I'm gonna kill you again."

Niko gasped, which got Danni's attention.

"Mr. Bellic! I bet you wonder why I've taken you as well." she said moving over to him.

"Yes, I am." he replied angrily. Danni walked away to a wooden desk and opened the draw, pulling out a large file with lots of papers sticking out the side. She threw it over to Niko so it landed in his lap. It had a title of "Contacts" on the right hand corner. Danni walked over and picked up the file. She opened it and showed Niko some of the pages. Niko's eyes widened when he saw some of the people in the file.

"Pegorino, Dimitri, Ray Baccino." she said as their picture came up. Niko was astonished to see some of his previous employers, ones that he had killed.

"All of them.. worked for me!" she yelled closing the file and throwing it against the wall causing papers to fly everywhere. Niko looked over to Janice, who looked just as confused as he was.

"But... what about the Mafia and the Commission?" Niko asked her. She sighed and moved down to Niko's eye level.

"Fuck... the Commission." she began. "I have more workers than all of them put together." After Danni backed off and walked away, there was a knock on the door. Heather turned around and opened it. Pierre stood there looking concerned.

"Danni.. wasn't Winston meant to come back by now?" he said as Danni realised he was meant to be back by now and stormed up stairs. Pierre followed her and closed the door behind her, so Heather was the one who had to guard Niko and Janice.

After a long silence, Niko decided to make conversation.

"So Heather, why did you want to work with a psychopath like Danni?" he asked. Heather looked at him oddly. She walked over to the wooden desk and pulled the chair out from behind it and put it in front of Niko and sat down.

"I don't think you'd think this, but I was once married."

Flashback

Heather sat in the armchair in her apartment, slightly paying attention to "I'm Rich" on CNT. It was 12 o'clock at night and she was waiting for her husband to get home. She looked over to the small coffee table with a picture of him. He had short brown hair and green eyes, slight stubble and a perfect smile. He was also wearing a police officer uniform.

"David... when are you getting home?" she asked out loud. She rolled back over to face the TV and completely lost attention in the show. She couldn't keep her mind off her husband, she didn't want him to be a private investigator, but he has real talent for him. She nodded off at around 3, dreaming about their wedding day.

A knock at the door woke her up. She slowly got up, rubbing her eyes and shuffling in her slippers. She opened the door to reveal a French looking man wearing a black suit.

"Who are you?" she asked in a sleepy tone.

"That's irrelevant, I'm here to relay a devastating message." he replied putting his hand on her shoulder. "I'm afraid your husband, David Blake, has been murdered."

End Flashback

"That didn't answer my question.. but I'm so sorry for your loss." Niko replied as he could see Heather was getting slightly emotional.

"I joined with Danni because she lead me to the man who killed him, his partner Oscar." Janice laughed after Heather said his name. Heather looked over to her and turned her head sideways.

"Something funny, Janice?" she asked with anger in her voice.

Janice was still chuckling and trying to hold back laughter.

"Oscar wasn't the one who killed David." Heather raised her eyebrows and looked at her in confusion.

"The real man who killed him was..." Janice's sentence was cut off by the sound of an explosion and the yacht rocking back and forth, causing Janice's chair to fall on its side. The buzz of a helicopter filled their ears. Danni bursted through the door and looked at Heather.

"Heather, Luis escaped and killed Winston, now he's come back to blow up the yacht." Heather looked at Janice and walked out of the room. Danni looked over at Janice who was on her side and smiled.

"I'll kill you two later, if you survive the explosion that is." she said before leaving the room.

Niko and Janice looked around frantically.

"Luis isn't really going to blow the yacht up is he!" Janice yelled struggling to get up. Niko thought that to kill Danni and get her away from his mother and Tony, he would sacrifice anything.

Luis continued to fire the machine guns at the yatch, causing shards of wood and glass to fly in the air. As he was destroying the front of the yacht, he noticed Danni, Heather, Pierre and Alejandro get into a power boat floating next to the yacht. Pierre held up the assault rifle up to the helicopter and emptied a magazine firing at the left engine.

"Sit down you idiot!" Danni yelled pulling him down as Pierre started the engine. Luis flew over to them and prepared to obliterate them, until he noticed Heather step away from her seat and pulled out a bright yellow rocket launcher.

"Say hello to my little friend!" she yelled with a smile on her face. She pulled the trigger, causing an explosion of smoke from the end of the launcher and a long yellow rocket to be launched from the other end, towards Luis' annihilator.

"Shit!" Luis yelled as the rocket slammed into the tail of his helicopter and caused him to spin out of control. He quickly grabbed a parachute hanging overhead and put it on. As the helicopter fell to it's impending watery grave, Luis jumped out and parachuted on to the yacht.

He looked over to see the helicopter sinking in the Humbolt River and Danni's power driving off in the distance. Luis turned and ran down the stairs to the basement to find Niko and Janice on their sides with rising water and fallen planks off wood on the floor.

"Luis!" Niko yelled as he ran over and untied him.

"We thought you would have let us die." Janice said as Niko untied her. Luis walked up the stairs and Niko and Janice followed.

"I wouldn't of, we need all the firepower we can get to take down Danni Hill." he said as they looked around for a way off the sinking yacht. Luckily, there was second powerboat near where Danni left, but it's engine had been removed recently.

"Quick! We don't have much time, lets just paddle!" Janice yelled jumping in and leaning over to start paddling. Niko and Luis followed and began to paddle also. Very slowly, they began to get away from the sinking yacht, and soon they arrived on Happiness Island.

"What should we do now? We can't hide anywhere in Liberty City." Niko asked panting as they sat down on a bench.

"Do you have any friends that could help us?" Janice asked looking at Niko and Luis, trying to dry the sleeve of her turtleneck.

"I do have a few, some people in the McReary family, Little Jacob and maybe even Phil Bell and Elizabeta Torres." Niko said thinking back.

Janice looked at him strangely.

"Are you serious? Gerald McReary and Elizabeta Torres are in Alderney Penitentiary, we can't just walk in and ask for them." Janice yelled throwing her arms up and standing.

"Maybe we can." Luis said. Niko and Janice looked at him and raised their eyebrows.

"I have some friends that could help us. Armando and Henrique, Yusef Amir.. they would be happy to help me seeming as I helped them out."

Niko sighed and stood up.

"Fine, if Gerald and Elizabeta are willing to help us, we'll plan to break them out."

"I think they would be happy just to be out of that hell hole." Janice said laughing. Luis looked at them and crossed his arms.

"Well then, we can't waist anytime with Danni planning on how to find us. Lets get started." he said as they all looked over to Alderney State Correctional Facility.