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Chapter 6: Tensions Rise
-La Fuente Blanca-
Martin Madrazo, head of the Madrazo drug cartel was seen sitting at his chair in his room talking on his phone with an unknown caller. He was a man who always spoke with a calm voice but if he was pushed he could turn from a shrewd businessman into one of your worst nightmares if you crossed him. It didn't help his anger issues at all that he had lost several men to a rising crime group and he was determined to bring this so-called Ken of the Morimitsu gang down should he continue to be a thorn in his side. However, he had a feeling that the Japanese man losing one of his men a few nights ago struck a nerve and the Japanese man decided to call a sit down. To Madrazo, he saw this as a sign of Ken seeing the threat of the cartel and he hoped that the Japanese mobster knew what he was getting himself into.
He was walking around as he was talking and slowly he made his way toward the large windows in his room that gave him a beautiful view of the Senora freeway, a view that seemed to calm him down a bit.
''Yes Javier, I request you mobilize your Mayans against this threat. These annoying little flies have already done enough damage to me. We've already killed one of theirs and there's no doubt this Ken will retaliate soon and from what I heard with my teniente Miguel SAMLOS is on their side as well. Come by the ranch and we'll see what we can do with these Japanese and Sons. Let your whole club know about this because we'll have the numbers on our side and when we win we will share the spoils together. Muchas gracias hermano.'' he said to the other person on the line.
Putting his phone down he inhaled deeply and let it all out and a small growl could be heard as he sighed.
''These fucking parasites, SAMLOS knows that siding with anyone that is against us will cost them their lives. The Mayans are the perfect counter to these scum.''
The rage he was feeling at having competition was really eating at him since he first found that he had lost men to an unknown assailant. Now that he knew Ken's identity he was determined to bring the man down for daring to mess with his men and organization. The sit down was merely a set up for his death..
-Chumash Manor-
Ken, Shigeru, Arthur, Miguel and the other cartel lieutenants stared each other down in a moment of silence, neither side wanting to say anything to each other due to the tense situation arising between all their crews and they had every right to feel the way they do. Miguel had a hunch that accepting Ken's proposal could cause the Japanese mobster to put his guard down giving him the perfect opportunity to wipe him and the Morimitsu-kai out as well as SAMLOS.
The butcher however, had other plans and only initiated the sit down with hopes of taking out more lieutenants reducing Madrazo's chain of command to the point where only he would be the last big shot left for the infamous drug cartel. He came very prepared too against the cartel as he had Shirase come to the Manor a day before to hide some guns that he and SAMLOS can use to gun down the cartel should things go sour and the butcher had a feeling things might just go to shit considering the current tension that can be felt in the room right now. Miguel didn't come off as an honest man either so there's that.
''So, what do you want to discuss with us Mister Ken?'' Miguel began.
He didn't show it, but despite his professional, business like tone he deep down held an intense feeling of hostility for the Japanese gangster and despite both sides agreeing to come to the sit down unarmed he had other plans for these pesky Japanese.
''I'm glad you asked but let me start in the beginning as to why this little dispute started. I arrived here almost two weeks ago and began setting up for my boss to expand our gang's influence into Southern California, more specifically the area of San Andreas alone. I was to meet up with my brother here and I found out he was dealing drugs for your cartel and saw several of your men beating him up. So of course, being the amazing big brother that I am I gunned those morons down for hurting my little brother.'' Ken said.
Miguel and the other tenientes looked at Shigeru and remembered seeing him before when they were doing their weekly cocaine distribution to their drug dealers and did not give any reaction to the former dealer, he knew that if he tried to take Shigeru out Ken would only respond by killing more of their men and they couldn't do anything about it right now since both sides agreed to this meeting so he had to go with the flow.
''I see, I remember seeing your brother a few times with Jose when we distributed our cocaine, I'm sure there was a reason for Jose having his sicarios beat him.'' Miguel then turned to look at Shigeru, ''Why did you hit him?''
He was the quieter one of the brothers, but he knew he had to answer.
''He told me the tribute was doubled from fifteen to thirty last minute so it pissed me off.'' Shigeru answered with some disgust in his voice.
Miguel merely nodded. ''I see, I guess the punch will slide for the sake of this meeting then. That was very unprofessional of Jose to do especially without us okaying it so please continue.''
''After that we went back to his place and later on that night I was abducted by three more members of your group and well, you know where this leads to.'' continued Ken.
Miguel translated for his fellow tenientes and one of them spoke angrily in Spanish at Ken and all he could do was inwardly laugh at the man's feeble attempts to scorn him despite the language barrier.
''My friend here says you're really digging yourself a deep grave you will not be able to get out of.'' said Miguel, ''I presume that after this incident with Jose and these particular men from our group is when we sent our men to snoop around to ask the Russians, Italians, Irish and Chinese if they had anything to do with it. This all leads up to the meeting place in the Palomino Highlands with SAMLOS.'' Miguel then looked at Arthur and glared at him, ''Care to explain your part Presidente?''
''Don't mind if I do.'' Arthur said as he leaned onto the desk and looked Miguel in the eye, ''Your men told us that you've reached out to other gangs and clubs and decided to blame it on us before changing his mind. Excuse the language but that little brown bastard said we would be on your shit list regardless. Now I admit, there was a minor altercation between my men and yours but we both steered clear of a fight and left each other alone that night. I guess you can say that's how the tiniest bit of tension between SAMLOS and you guys started.'' explained the President.
''My men reported back to Mister Madrazo the following day after visiting this restaurant that Ken supposedly owns. The Rising Sun in Little Tokyo district I've been told. I heard you drew guns on them, why?'' Miguel asked slightly annoyed.
''Correction, your men made the first move I was only reacting in self-defense. So in actuality both sides drew guns on each other and my men were ready to fire if yours tried anything funny.'' Ken explained, ''Had they did you would've lost a few more men and I doubt you or Madrazo wants that.''
''I give you that, since our men drew guns first we'll let this slide with your brother punching Jose. Let's hold that part for a second.'' Miguel then looked to face Arthur, ''I heard there was an incident between some sicarios and SAMLOS in the Morningwood district and you bikers seemed to did a number on them. One with a broken nose, another with both his eyes swollen and the other two with busted lips. Care to explain what caused this incident?''
''Your men opened fire on me and my Sons and we tried everything we could to escape but we ended up backed into an alleyway so what else were we supposed to do? That's right, we resorted to defending ourselves against your men so we finished the fight they started. Either way, had they killed us that only would've sparked a war right away between us.'' explained Arthur.
As much as he wanted SAMLOS and the Morimitsu-kai to seem like the ones who started the conflict, Miguel knew they were all defending themselves, but killing over eight men from his crew was overkill so there had to be a price paid, and paid it was.
He turned and translated everything the other two have said so far to his fellow tenientes before speaking again. One of them smirked and chuckled.
''Okay, I hear after that little brawl our men drove to Ken's restaurant and did a drive-by shooting killing one of his. Is this true?''
''Yes it is, but do you think I'm scared because you managed to take out one man? I took out way more than that from the cartel so I must tell you that we all need to come to an ultimatum to avoid anymore bloodshed which is why I called for this sit down here.'' Ken said.
Miguel translated for his fellow tenientes once more.
''Are you sure about that? You make it seem that you believe that further fighting can be prevented but you know what I think?'' the teniente narrowed his eyes at Ken Shigeru and Arthur with spite and leaned onto the table, ''I think you're all afraid of the Madrazo drug cartel, we're the most powerful drug trafficking organization to ever come out of Mexico. We're only a few hours away from the Mexican border too so going to war with us means you'll be dealing with our brothers from down there too. I believe that puts us at a massive numerical advantage against SAMLOS and Morimitsu-kai. Not to mention we have the East Side Vago street gang and the Mayans Motorcycle Club to back us up.''
Miguel did not notice that he was letting his negative feelings toward Ken take over and the tension within the room began to reach an all time high. Ken had a feeling that this would go down south but he had to try and keep diplomacy on the table as long as he can so he decided to play along.
''Okay you're right, I don't want to fight with the cartel because of the influence you have in Los Santos as well as in Mexico and I am afraid of being killed. If I called for reinforcements from Japan yours would get here way faster than them. I have ways we can prevent more fighting between all parties involved.'' said the Butcher.
''Ken is right Miguel, SAMLOS never had any quarrel with your crew and we see no reason to escalate the situation.'' Arthur added.
Ken's proposal eased some of the tension and once again Miguel translated for his men.
''What would these ways be then?''
''Quite simple, the Madrazo cartel controls the drug trade in all of San Andreas right? How does it sound to have the Morimitsu-kai and SAMLOS become distributors for your cause? We will give the cartel one-hundred percent of the profits made.'' suggested Ken, ''In return we request that no harm is to come to any of my men or Sons. If you were to obtain all our profits from selling cocaine for you you would definitely come to rival the Italian mafia in the San Andreas underworld.''
"Eso suena aceptable, solo si el jefe lo quiere.'' (That sounds acceptable, only if the boss wants it.) said one of the other tenientes.
"Recuerda que al ser el segundo después del jefe también puedo elegir." (Remember that being the second after the boss I can also choose.) Miguel responded, ''As much as it is quite obvious we would crush you in a war I think an idea like that could work. However, I will give you just this fair warning, if any of your men step out of line, we will massacre both gangs for disobedience is that understood?''
Ken and Arthur nodded in response.
''I will also give you one-hundred percent of my restaurant's earnings as tribute and to show my subservience to the cartel as Arthur with his auto repair shop.'' said the Butcher.
Arthur quickly shot a glance at Ken with a look that made the Japanese mobster seem like he was insane.
''Boah what are you thinking!?''
Miguel smirked at Ken's proposal and had a feeling that he was afraid after losing only one man, if only his men can take out some Sons it would even the score in his mind.
"Nos están ofreciendo todo su dinero de sus negocios, aparte del narcotráfico.'' (They are offering us all their money from their businesses, apart from drug trafficking.) Miguel said.
''Tomemos todo el dinero que podamos y luego eliminémoslos.'' (Let's take all the money we can and then eliminate them.) one of the other tenientes chuckled.
Even though Ken did not speak Spanish Miguel, his fellow tenientes, Shigeru and Arthur were unaware that he had secretly been using his phone to translate what the cartel members were saying in the entire sit down and quite frankly from what he was getting from their current conversation, it did not please him and only proved that this sit down was going to go south despite his proposal.
''Don't worry, we'll take good care of that little restaurant of yours Mister Ken and you Arthur, we'll give that repair shop to the Mayans MC, we'll probably even convert Little Tokyo into Little Mexico.'' Miguel mocked.
''The hell you are!" Arthur shouted, almost standing up from his seat but was quickly shut down by Ken.
Shigeru could feel the hostile feelings from both parties and he knew that Ken might pull the first shots at them so he went and tried to defuse the situation.
''Hang on everyone, we're here to discuss peace proposals so no more from either side dies! Come on Arthur you agree with me right?''
''Hold it Shigeru.'' Ken ordered with a wave of his hand, ''Relax Arthur, everything is gonna be fine.''
''Tch, whatever you say boah.''
The SAMLOS President then resumed his seat and the three men sat there as the tenientes were speaking in Spanish again.
"El cartel no quiere la paz, queremos asegurarnos de que no haya competencia.'' (The cartel does not want peace, we want to make sure there is no competition.) said one of the tenientes.
"Dejen que nos den la mayor cantidad de dinero posible, tal vez un par de semanas, y luego aniquilen a Ken y Arthur.'' (Let them give us as much money as possible, maybe a couple of weeks, and then annihilate Ken and Arthur.) said another.
Miguel chuckled at his fellow teniente's proposals and thought they were a better idea than Ken's so he decided to go with that. If he could collect as much money as possible until Madrazo was satisfied then Ken and Arthur's death will come.
''My fellow lieutenants find your proposal acceptable.''
''Excellent, so how about territory?'' Ken asked.
''You guys can keep any and everything within the confines of Downtown and of course Little Tokyo, SAMLOS must remain within the areas where their tattoo parlor and auto repair shops are. Neither of you are to venture into the area surrounding Senora road as that is our plaza, turf. If we catch any of you bullets will fly.''
Ken shrugged, ''Sounds fair, what say you Arthur?''
Arthur could only play along with Ken and nodded, ''Yeah, sounds fair to SAMLOS as well.''
Arthur and Shigeru noticed something and looked downward without tilting their heads and saw that Ken was doing a series of motions, it looked like he was imitating the actions of pulling a trigger and immediately they both caught on to what the subliminal message was.
Miguel and his guys were way too busy chatting about their plan to wipe Ken and Arthur out despite having them pay tribute to the cartel to notice the three men at the other side of the table about to end them. After several minutes they would stop talking and turn to face Ken.
''I think we have come to the agreement of accepting tribute from the Morimitsu-kai and SAMLOS. Mister Madrazo would be very pleased with this. We expect our first tribute tomorrow evening, meeting place will be the old Army bunker near Mt. Gordo.''
Just as Miguel was about to reach over to shake hands with both leaders...
-Hallways, Chumash Manor-
''What the fuck are you looking you fucking asshole?'' Big Mitch asked one of the sicarios who were standing guard to the management office where the sit down was taking place.
''Gringo loco.'' the sicario replied with a smirk.
''Hey shut the fuck up with that shit.'' Teller growled.
The Mexicans laughed at the reaction they got from the other Sons until they heard footsteps and saw that it was Shirase and Marston coming back from the restroom.
''Your turn.'' Shirase said.
''Turn? Turn for...'' Teller couldn't finish his sentence due to him seeing Marston using his eyes to look in the direction of the restroom in a way that told him that it was urgent.
So Teller and Mitch excused themselves from the group leaving Marston and Shirase with the sicarios. Heading down the hallway to the employee's restroom what they saw a piece of paper directing them toward one of the stalls. Doing what the paper instructed they reached into the toilet paper dispenser and were in for a surprise.
5 minutes later...
''Man that was the biggest and best piss I ever had in my life.'' said Teller as he was zipping up his pants.
''Fucking guy pissed like a damn race horse.'' Mitch added to the humor.
The English speaking sicario didn't pay much attention to them using the restrooms and just wanted the sit down to be over already as he just wanted to go home and bang his prostitute.
''Fucking Gringos.'' he thought.
His thoughts were interrupted when there was the sound of gunfire erupting from within the management office which caught the attention of him and his fellow sicarios. It was the biggest mistake they ever made in their lives because as soon as they turned to face the door Marston, Teller and Big Mitch quickly drew their SIGs and the Desert Eagle and opened fire on the cartel sicarios. At the same time Shirase drew his tanto blade and sliced the English speaking sicario's neck open severing his internal jugular veins and carotid arteries causing the man to gag on his blood and Shirase didn't stop there as he continued to stab the man to death for good measure. For Mitch, Marston and Teller they emptied their magazines into their respective targets making sure that they were completely and utterly dead.
-Management office, Chumash Manor-
As quickly as they opened fire on Miguel and his tenientes it stopped revealing that the tenientes and Miguel had been shot multiple times from the hidden firearms Ken had Shirase tape under the table. The three men slowly raise their arms to reveal their weapons still smoking from recently being fired into the cartel tenientes. Shigeru was completely shocked, he really just helped his brother and Arthur kill more members of the cartel? He must dreaming, he wasn't the type of guy to kill and he hoped he didn't have to kill when his brother made him a member of the Morimitsu-kai gang.
Arthur wasn't fazed by it at all as he has killed Taliban insurgents up close when he served in Afghanistan with the 5th Special Forces Group and Ken? Hell, Ken wasn't even fazed like Arthur as he has killed before, let alone killed off an entire rival Yakuza group as well as dozens of Law Enforcement officers so killing a couple of cartel lieutenants was nothing to him.
While Arthur and his brother had already set their guns down Ken took an extra magazine and loading it into his Beretta 92 he fired all rounds into Miguel's corpse before blowing a hole through his skull despite him already being dead.
''Fuck you.'' was all Ken said before turning to Arthur and his brother, ''Here.'' he said taking out some rubber gloves and tossing them to the other two, ''Search the bodies, let's see if they have intel that'll help put this fight completely in our favor.''
''You got it.'' Arthur said without hesitation.
Shigeru just stood there looking at the bodies before snapping himself back to reality.
''Well shit man..''
-Meeting Room, Rising Sun-
Ken, Arthur, Shigeru, Shirase and the other big four of SAMLOS were all seen sitting at the table in the meeting room. In Ken, Shirase, Marston and Arthur's hands were several cellphones from the corpses of the sicarios that were killed in the hallway as well as a small handy dandy notepad Miguel happened to have on his person. Teller and Big Mitch were seen looking over a few scrap papers with some useful info as well. If two organized crime groups were involved in a war against each other intel was one of the most important thing no matter how small it was, but having a few cellphones and a notepad from their latest victims was like striking it rich with gold. Not only did they get some useful information, they had also taken the Cavalcante the cartel drove to the Manor as well as pistols and knives off all their bodies.
Ken had laughed and spat on Miguel's corpse upon seeing that they had come armed.
''An iFruit store near El Burro heights where the basement is used to store cocaine, a cocaine lab under a restaurant near Mirror Park. We've really hit the mark on this one everybody.'' Ken explained as he looked through Miguel's iFruit.
''You're telling me, we have a list of where they meet the Mayans and Vagos for their little cocaine distribution. Looks like this does confirm the Mexicans all working together.'' Arthur added.
''Goddamn, it's a fucking goldmine for sure.'' Marston said, ''Look, the contact lists has that bastard Javier in here too and look at some of these texts. They're talking about shit like exact amount the Mayans will be supplied with guns and how much the Vagos who are running protection for some of their shipments are being paid.''
Just then Miguel's phone rang and Ken looked at the caller ID and had a very large smirk on his face.
''Who is it?'' Shigeru asked and when his brother showed him the ID he almost shat his pants.
''Fucking Madrazo, damn boah.'' Arthur chuckled.
Ken just looked at the phone and waited until the ringing stopped.
''How come you didn't answer? I would've to let that son of a bitch know we're coming.'' said Marston.
Ken's only response was to smirk at the others and clicking on messages he begins texting something when he saw a text from Madrazo himself.
[Where are you?! Why aren't you picking up!?]
The Butcher just continued his text and when he was done he clicked send.
''Was that him?'' Shirase questioned.
''Hai.''
What did you say to him?'' Arthur asked.
Ken showed everyone his answer.
[I'm coming for you.]
That was all he texted back to Madrazo because he didn't want to send something long, threatening and unnecessary because that was all he needed to let Madrazo know what was coming his way. Looking at the phone again he did the most sensible thing he could think of in his opinion and blocked Madrazo's number before turning the device off.
''La Fuente Blanca ranch up Senora road, that's our biggest target everyone.''
''So are we going to attack the place?'' Shigeru asked curiously.
Ken shook his head.
''No ototo, that's going to result in a lot of our men dying.''
''So what would your plan be boy?'' asked Arthur.
''We'll scope out their cocaine lab and where they're keeping their stashes. Like I said before whatever profits we make from taking over the drug trade we'll share it.'' He knew they were still at a numerical disadvantage and he couldn't just ask Otomo-san for more men as reinforcements against the combined Mayans, Vagos and cartel onslaught so he had one other option, ''Arthur.''
''Yeah?''
''A chapter in a biker gang is like a crew in a mafia family right?'' Ken asked curiously.
''Yeah that's exactly right.''
''Do you have any you can call upon to come to our aid? I mean, there's only at least five dozen of my men here and what? Thirty-seven Sons in Los Santos, the GSF and hopefully the Cambodians. The cartel can phone hitmen from Mexico to ride up here so do you have any other chapters that will want to help?''
Arthur looked at his fellow Sons and they consulted with one another. The Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club was a very close knit group of bikers and even if they weren't in the same state several chapters were very close with one another. There were two other Sons of Anarchy Presidents that Arthur was very close with and he knew they couldn't refuse to help him out if he and his chapter needed it. Plus one of them was heavily armed and that would help out a lot.
''Ken you are in luck my friend. There are two chapters I know will come to our aid if we ever needed it.''
Ken was grateful, at first he was doubtful the Sons small numbers in Los Santos wasn't enough to bolster his own but this like the intel off of Miguel and his men's corpses was a jackpot.
''Great, which two chapters would those be?''
''The other two chapters we are really close with is the Farewell chapter up north in Oregon and the President is a close friend of mine named Deacon St. John and the other one is based out of Saint Denis in Lemoyne which is also near the border with Mexico. Lemoyne is only a day's ride from here and that chapter is run by our other good friend Charles Smith and his Vice President Daryl Dixon.'' explained Arthur.
''Yeah, you can rely on those two to back you up in a fight. We trust them with our lives' Marston said.
''Do you think they can bring some of their Sons to come over here?''
Arthur nodded.
''I'll let them know.''
The two leaders shook hands with one another and with the newly acquired info they were in the position to strike several cartel hotspots. The Sons got up to leave only for Ken to stop them.
''Tell them all the details ranging from our new partnership and the fight with the cartels and Mayans.'' said Ken.
''Of course boy.'' Arthur said with a nod.
The Sons bid their farewell to Ken and his men and walked out into the hallway to ride on back toward their clubhouse with Marston growling in annoyance at having a shift at the auto shop soon.
''You guys go on ahead, I gotta make some calls.'' ordered Arthur.
The other three already knew what he meant and nodded as they walked out into the parking lot. Taking out his iFruit he turns it on and goes onto his contact list and clicks on a certain name. The phone rings and after about a couple of seconds his call was picked up.
''Hey, Deek.''
-Rising Sun Restaurant, Ken's Office-
Having decided on what their next move against the cartel would be, Ken, Shigeru and Shirase were discussing any other future fronts they could possibly have to gain more money and when it came down to organized crime, it was always about the money you make and Ken was determined to make a profit. The Rising Sun restaurant was a start and it generated a generous amount of money Ken could share and pay his members but there were other, more profitable ways of making the green.
''So aside from the cocaine business, what other activities can we make money off of?'' Shirase asked, ''We got a really good restaurant running already and stores paying us protection money in Little Tokyo so we're going to need to expand.''
''We can leave sokaiya and loan sharking of extort major businessman in Los Santos to me, maybe even open up another legitimate business like a Japanese steakhouse or even a massage parlor.'' Shigeru suggested, ''I'm not too big on illegal business offers so I'm more for us being legit business and I can manage that.''
''For now, gun running is off the tables since the Russian mafia owns it and opening up more restaurants in the state might get the attention of the Italians. Cartel has cocaine operations so how about meth distribution?'' Ken thought about it long and hard and if there was one thing the Otomo-gumi did not get into a lot it was porn, ''Nah meth is ridiculous not that cocaine is any better so how about porn?''
Shirase looked at Ken with a hint of curiosity, now that was something he could and would get behind. In general the porn industry was a big money maker and that.
''Porn eh? I think we can work with that. First we'll have to open up a studio, get some pornstars from the home country to bang American girls.''
''I agree and it'll make for some great movies and money but we'll talk more about that after this fight with the cartel is done.''
''Agreed, so the total number of men in Morimitsu-kai is at least one-hundred, most are at the restaurant as employees and others are passing off as tourists in the outskirts of Little Tokyo, SAMLOS has at least fifty-five full patch members as they call it, CJ and his Grove Streets have at least a hundred members in their so-called set and the Cambodians the same amount. There's a good amount on our side but we have yet to know how big the Vagos and the Mayans are much less the cartel.''
Shigeru took out his phone and used the to look up what Ken was curious about and found the answer.
''East Side Vagos is a predominantly Mexican gang whose major rivals are the Black and Asian street gangs in the city, we already know who it is. They are located mainly on the east side of Los Santos and have at least several hundred members within the set. Believed the have links to powerful Mexican drug cartels but the law can't confirm this.'' explained the sibling.
''Yep, they're now enemies and they're dead.'' Ken said.
''Sounds like a plan to me, we'll leave that to the Grove Streets since they've been rivals for years. He did mention a big guy from the Cambodian gang is up for this partnership so we can arrange a meeting with them.'' Shirase said.
''Sounds like a plan, I will let CJ know to tell them to come here personally.''
-SAMLOS Clubhouse, meeting room-
''I can trust Ken to be a reliable ally, he's lost one man to the cartel and they attacked us four so that alone is enough for a war with those drug pushing shits.'' Arthur explained.
Much like he did before he had arranged a meeting with the entirety of SAMLOS and it was even better to have their own Secretary, former President Hosea Matthews present for the meeting. Despite being a Secretary now Hosea, being an original member of SAMLOS still held a lot of power within the club and was a great adviser to Arthur and Marston so his word meant a lot to the decisions they made.
''You sure you can trust him? We've never got into a relationship like this with any crime family, let alone the Japanese mafia. The only ones we've ever had ties to are other chapters since we like to keep to ourselves. Remember when I tried to get into business with the Russians for guns? They said no because they wanted nothing to do with us.'' said Hosea.
''Yeah yeah I remember, but the cartel said they're gonna kill us after we got into that little brawl with them and if there's anything I take seriously its threats from other groups. If Ken said he'd kill all of SAMLOS I'd believe him.'' replied Arthur.
''I have to agree with the Pres on this too, he's proven to be very honest and is serious about allying with us against the cartel. He wasn't lying about if the Mayans join on behalf of the cartel their little bar up in Blaine county is ours and we'll be making more money for the club. If you ask me Hosea it sounds like a really good deal plus a powerful ally in him? I wouldn't turn that down considering how strong his gang is back in Japan.'' Marston added.
''The cartel can just call more men from the border, we're only an hour and a half away from Lobos Toledo in Mexico and that's literally gonna give the cartel more men to back them up.'' Hosea inquired.
''There's no need to worry, I've already phoned Charles and Deacon about sending help down our way. SAMCRO and SAMLIB said they will see if they can spare some men to help out as well but it's no guarantee. Farewell and Saint Denis are a guarantee help though.'' Arthur said, ''SAMVICE is currently under investigation with the Vice City Police so they're unable to help.''
Hosea knew that if SAMLOS was getting into a fight with someone there was no backing down. He retired the President position to Arthur because he would be the President SAMLOS needed. SAMLOS used to be the more relaxed chapter of SAMC as a whole but times were changing. If anyone threatened his club he could back up Arthur's choice to go to war with the cartel.
''Deacon St. John, that man is a monster and will back any chapter who needs help. Charles and Daryl too.'' Hosea thought about it for a bit before coming to his decision, ''Okay Arthur, John. All I ask is to keep me out of this, I'm too old for this crap you know it.''
''You being a former President could make you a target Hosea, but I promise you'll be in good hands with my wife Sadie.''
Hosea chuckled, boy what a bodyguard for him.
''That lady is crazy when she fights, I'd trust her with my life.'' he laughed, ''So is this Ken guy very serious? If the Mayans fight on behalf of the cartel and we win the Mayans businesses are ours?''
''He is serious. He has no plans to acquire Mayan business or turf since his main problem is the cartel. Bad blood has existed between SAMLOS and the Mayans for years so let's take this chance.'' Arthur answered before turning his attention to other members who were present and listening. Aside from him, the other big three and Hosea everyone else was a regular full patch. ''All in favor?''
Without hesitation everyone else raised their hand and that was final. It was war with Martin's cartel and they were going to pay for almost killing the big four.
Arthur picked up a gavel and banged it against the sounding block to finalize the decision.
''Okay then, anything you three want to add?''
Marston nodded, ''Yeah, we want you all to keep your heads on a swivel. The cartel is ruthless and well armed and we're gonna have to ask you to keep a firearm on you at all times. We know you guys have some ARs and AKs so whatever military grade hardware you own from your personal stock, pistols not included bring it here to our gun locker okay?''
''That's right, we will schedule more men to watch the club, leave the parlor to Mitch and I.'' Teller added.
''Deacon and Charles will be here with some of their guys soon so we'll have a bit of a number boost. All missions will be assigned by the President himself so keep your ears open for that.'' Big Mitch concluded.
The other members nodded and cheered for the victory of SAMLOS. Technically they were the smallest club but were the most prone to getting into bar brawls so the members were confident the cartel and Mayans weren't going to step all over them. If Arthur said Ken was good with them then they had no reason to distrust their President's words.
They got this.
-Chumash Manor, Chumash-
It was a grisly murder scene but it wasn't the first for her. Officer Cortez had responded to the Chumash Sheriff's office when they had phoned the LSPD about eight men being killed within the abandoned and due for demolition Chumash Manor. When she had arrived there were already paramedics and forensics specialists on the scene as well as the local Weazel news station.
She saw that Tenpenny was also there and walked over to him to get the specifics.
''What the fuck happened here?''
''Eight more men from the Madrazo cartel dead, can't miss it with their Santa Muerta tattoos.'' Tenpenny said shaking his head.
''Shot to death?''
''For the most part yes, but one of them has their internal jugular vein and carotid arteries severed.''
Now this was making it more dumbfounding for her. She already knew about Jose and his men being murdered. She would point the finger at SAMLOS but she could not prove they committed the act so she had to make sure her suspicions were right. Remembering the night when she went to the Rising Sun she knew something was up but she had to prove and figure it out on her own. What were the odds that a Japanese crime group was possibly making grounds in Los Santos and several cartel members end up dead. On top of that she already knew that it was Sons who were fired and attacked the same night based on description alone.
''I'm gonna get to the bottom of this, don't need a mob war happening in our city and I know just where to start.'' she said.
''I'm with you on that, Chief has reassigned me to back you up on this.''
They both walked over to her car to get some privacy.
''So you went to check out the Rising Sun right?'' Tenpenny began.
''Yeah I did right after dispatch called it in.''
''You find anything?''
''Just the owner, Sons and a Grove Street member.'' Cortez replied.
Now that caught Tenpenny's attention. Grove Street and Sons in one place together?
''Seriously? I'd never thought SAMLOS members and a GSF member would be next to each other.''
''Oh I'm serious, the owner was so calm about it but I found no spent cartridges whatsoever and it smelled like bleach.''
''Bleach? Must've just been cleaning their floors or something.''
''No it was coming from the doorway, who uses bleach to clean a floor unless there they were cleaning a bathroom?''
''Guess we'll never know. If we're gonna build a case against anyone are you thinking of going against the owner? What's his name?''
''All he told me was Ken and yeah I know I'll have to collect evidence to build a case against him. If we do that we send him to jail or even deport him back to Japan if he's a crime boss or something, there's definitely more to this guy than meets the eye. If anything we'll send the big four to jail too for association.''
''Sounds like a plan I can get behind partner. I'm all in.''
The two officers bid farewell and Cortez began to drive back to the Police station. With more men dead she had a feeling in her gut Madrazo and his cartel will retaliate against whoever did it and she decided to use that to her advantage to see who's really responsible. Madrazo acting out against whoever it is will also give enough reason for the police to charge him and send him to jail as well. Knowing that she had to keep her eyes on the Rising Sun her best option was to wait until shots were fired, it was against her own rules but it was all she needed to bring down the rising power of Ken.
-Downtown Los Santos-
Time: 9:00 PM
Thankfully Ken had given him and his friend some time off from working at the Rising Sun, he personally did not know them but they were two average members of the Morimitsu-kai and having worked non stop since the place opened it was nice to be able to relax. Having never been in America before Morimitsu-kai members Kyo and Tetsuda were eating at a Burger Shot in downtown to try the famed American cheeseburger they heard so much about in Japan.
''This is really good.'' Tetsuda spoke with an accent.
''Indeed, I can get addicted to this and become a sumo wrestler!'' Kyo joked.
The two men were having a hell of a time but they were unaware that they were being stalked. It didn't take long before Madrazo and his organization saw the news coverage of more of his men being killed off and there was no other person to blame it than this Ken he had heard about. He knew about the Rising Sun restaurant from his men who fired upon it and that the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Los Santos chapter and that was the boiling point for him. To Madrazo, it was war and he was going to inflict death upon the two in revenge.
Several blocks away a black Boxville was watching them. Thirty minutes later when they finished their meals and headed back to their car was when the sicarios within the Boxville jumped right out wearing ski masks and had rifles on them. Tetsuda and Kyo saw them coming and quickly pulled their guns to try and fight but they were already getting jumped and beaten by the cartel sicarios.
They screamed and grunted in pain and there was no way of fighting back as they were overpowered by over five men kicking and hitting them with the butt of their rifles. The sicarios then dragged them back to the Boxville, loaded them up and drove off as if nothing happened. One of the sicarios took the key from Kyo and followed the Boxville in their gray Karin Sultan. Lucky for the cartel there were no witnesses and for Kyo and Tetsuda...a horrible fate awaited them. A message that Madrazo hoped would make Ken piss his pants when he sees his men again.
-Madrazo warehouse, Murrieta Oil Field-
The two Yakuza gangsters were blindfolded and had their hands bound on their knees and they couldn't see it, but they were surrounded by several dozen members of the cartel, most of them armed with rifles and pistols but that wasn't the tool that was going to be used to end them. They couldn't see the two sicarios who walked out of the group with a chainsaw and a machete in hand. The sicario with the chainsaw pulled on the cord and once the tool roared to life the view switches to outside the warehouse where the sounds of flesh being chopped and sawed as well as the agonizing screams of the Japanese gangsters filled the air.
-SAMLOS clubhouse, same time-
''Blackjack boy!'' Arthur shouted.
''I swear you're cheating man!'' Marston growled.
''Cheating President man, that's so unfair.'' Teller added.
''He's not wrong Pres, either you're a fucking God at blackjack or well, cheating.'' Mitch said.
Little did they know they were having too much fun playing the card game to notice what sounded like an SUV driving up to the clubhouse from the street portion of it. It was a black Cavalcade and when the windows rolled down a thunderous blast of gunfire erupted and peppered the exterior walls of the table room catching the Sons completely off guard.
''What the fuck?!'' Arthur yelled.
The four of them got under the table and ducked as it was their only hope of not standing in the direct path of the bullets. A minute later the gunfire stopped and just as they thought the coast was clear gunfire erupted again forcing them to hide under the table once more.
''Goddammit..'' Arthur thought as he reached for his phone, Ken would never deny to help him and he knew it.