Starlight Saint

The day after they prevented the convoy raid, Starlight and Paul spent some time checking out the sights in Chinatown. They explored the Chinese Gardens and looked at the lion statues. They also checked out the Sad Panda Building.

While they were looking around, Starlight listened to some of her favorite songs on her phone. Some part of her wanted to take a day off from the activities but she figured that she could once the Rollerz were history.

Paul had gotten bored out of his mind as exploring things was not interesting to him. He tapped Starlight on the shoulder to get her attention. “What’s up?” she asked. He pointed to her phone and in the direction of Misty Lane. “New developments with the Rollerz? Not yet, Lin and Donnie are probably still brainstorming how to make up for the loss of the parts from the delivery trucks.”

Paul groaned. Starlight could tell that her friend wanted to do something that was not looking at things so she thought about what they could do.

Starlight’s phone rang. She found that it was her father calling so she quickly answered it. “Hey daddy!”

“Hey there little Star, would you mind doin’ me a favor? An old friend of mine runs a club on Misty Lane. He called me askin’ for some help but he didn’t specify what. He seemed worried that the pigs might be tappin’ his calls for some reason. You mind headin’ over there and find out what’s got his panties in a twist?”

“Sure daddy, we’ve actually been thinking about what we want to do until Lin gets us more info.”

“Thanks pumpkin, see ya.” The call ended and Starlight received a text from her father of the man’s address a few moments later.

“Looks like we found something to do,” Starlight said. Paul then looked really eager to get going.

About fifteen minutes later the two were at the club. Upon entry they met with a dark skinned man with a black hat and gray jacket who stood in their way. “One of you Starlight?” he asked.

“That’s me,” Starlight answered.

“Reno is expecting you.” He then moved aside to allow them through. “One other thing, Aisha is your mom, right?”

“Yeah, why?” Starlight wasn’t sure why he asked that question but it made her a little suspicious that he might try something which made her slowly reach for her Wado Ichimonji. However, she stopped when she noticed him pulling out one of her mother’s music albums from his pocket.

“Can I get her autograph?” he asked.

It was relieving that the man was one of her mom’s fans. Plus she had a feeling that the man wasn’t the stalker type because of his line of work and that Reno hired him. With a giggle she took the CD. “If my mom got paid for every autograph she gave out we’d be living in these suburbs.”

“Yeah, I hate that her company is squeezin’ her dry like they are. At least she has a husband who’d make a better bouncer than me.”

“So, who should she make this out to?”

“Make it out to Jack.”

Once Jack let them through to the back they spotted Reno, a bald man with a lighter shade of dark skin wearing sunglasses and having a pair of women leaning on him. “Hey, it’s Johnny’s little girl!” Reno greeted. “I hear you’ve been takin’ after your dad. Which is good because I need a huge favor right now.”

“My dad said you were worried about cops tapping your calls?” Starlight inquired.

“Yeah, some cop just transferred to town and he ain’t payin’ me any respect. The bitch come in here runnin’ his mouth tellin’ me he was gonna put me out of business. What he didn’t know, was I got a couple cops on the payroll and they told me the raid was tonight. I want you two to go out there and stir up so much shit the cops gotta look elsewhere…while they on yo’ asses I can hide all the K. I know it sounds risky, but I’ll even throw in hazard pay for your troubles.”

“Sure, anything for a friend of my daddy,” Starlight accepted. “This actually works out to our benefit because Mr. Wong has someone on his hit list who works for emergency response. Once they are lured into the open we can take them out.”

“Ha, you really are Johnny’s girl. I owe you so many birthday presents already, I need to keep up.”

“So how should we go about causing shit?”

“Jack will take you to my personal weapon stash. Find a place and go apeshit. Don’t care what happens after that, just don’t do it near my place.”

A short time later, Jack showed Starlight and Paul a secret room. Opening the door, what they found was the dream of any would be psychopath and terrorist. They found a secret armory loaded with a huge cache of weapons, including explosives like grenades and RPGs. There was enough in the room to start a small war. Paul loaded up on the explosives while Starlight, not wanting to carry around the dangerous explosives because she didn’t have Paul’s strength and because carrying around so many explosives all at once was almost as terrifying as wearing one of Jigsaw’s death traps from the Saw movies, Starlight chose to carry a pair of SMGs and load up on ammo for her main weapons.

From there, the two went to various neighborhoods away from Reno’s holdings and started behaving like terrorists by blowing up everything they could. Starlight held many cars at gunpoint and forced them to leave their vehicles so Paul could blow it up with an RPG. He also threw grenades through windows and scared the residents into leaving before he hurled molotovs into the buildings which set them on fire.

As the neighborhood was set ablaze, emergency crews entered the area which included police cars, fire trucks and ambulances. Paul used grenades to blow up the police cars while Starlight looked for the EMT that resembled Jackie. After a few minutes of searching she found her target and shot her in the head with her revolver. It was a pistol anyway so should have still counted.

Once they started running low on ammo the two decided to end their spree of destruction there while the two stole one of the Nightingale model fire trucks and drove through a Forgive and Forget to get the law enforcement off their backs. They then turned the truck over to Dennis.

With their fun time over, Starlight checked her phone and noticed that something was going on at the mansion so she turned on her spy app to find out what was going on.

Sharp and Price were in the living room with the former looking a bit stressed and more than a little irritated. “I know he’s your friend, Joseph, but I will not let that nimrod ruin my plans.” Starlight guessed that he was talking about Donnie.

“Your plans?” Price questioned.

“Our plans,” Sharp corrected.

Price decided to let the matter go and defend his friend. “Look, Donnie may be a little flaky, but he always steps up at the end.”

“I certainly hope so.”

Donnie and Lin then entered the living room with the former looking proud of himself. “Lin and I got this shit down,” he declared.

“This should be compelling,” Sharp snarked.

Donnie continued, “Alright kids, check this shit out. So we lost the parts the buyers wanted, and there’s no way a shipment like that is going to roll through here any time soon. Lin and I did the math, and there are a couple key cars that we can strip down to get the parts we need.”

“See? What’d I tell ya? This guy’s a fucking genius!” Price then headed toward the exit. “I’m gonna go get the boys ready.”

“So your plan is to go steal cars. You really know how to think outside the box, Donnie.” Sharp snarked.

Surprisingly to Starlight, Lin seemed intent on standing up for Donnie. “Don’t talk to him like that!”

“I’ll take your advice to heart.”

“It’s not advice.”

“A threat? How refreshing.”

“Listen up you–”

“L-Lin, don’t worry about–” Donnie weakly tried.

“Shut up, Donnie!” Lin and Sharp said in unison.

“You were saying?” Sharp asked.

“I was about to tell you to go fuck yourself,” Lin growled.

“And here I thought we were bonding.”

Having enough of Sharp’s snarky tongue, Lin led Donnie out of the room. “Let’s go, Donnie.”

“That’s probably the smartest thing you’ve said all day,” Sharp said with his typical snark, earning him a good look at Lin’s middle finger.

Starlight sighed as she turned the app off. “Lin is playing with fire right now. It’s one thing to get emotionally close to an enemy, to piss off the smartest member of the Rollerz is just asking to get your cover blown. I wouldn’t be surprised if Sharp already suspected that Lin was a double agent.” Paul shrugged.

A few minutes later the two received a list of cars from Lin, showing them the vehicles that the Rollerz intended to steal. Leaving the matter of the potentially outed spy aside, they needed to work on making sure the Rollerz didn’t get the parts they needed to continue to deny the gang the cash they needed to continue functioning.

Still, Starlight and Paul took a moment to look at the list. Paul whistled in awe at the featured vehicles while Starlight added, “Say what you will about the Rollerz but you can’t say they have poor taste in cars.” Looking away from the list, Starlight had a quick discussion with Paul about the plan of action, “So, how should we go about this? Demolition or something fancy?”

Paul pulled out one of the grenades he had left over from using Reno’s arsenal and juggled it with one hand. “Fireball it is,” Starlight agreed. She then used her communicator to her drone. “Laserbeak, scan the area for vehicles according to the specifications of the list on my phone.”

A few seconds later, Starlight’s GPS highlighted the locations of several cars in the area. “Let’s get going before they hijack those cars.”

Once they reached the first car on the list, they noticed the Rollerz were already getting ready to steal it. Paul threw an unpinned grenade into the back of the car just as a thug was getting into it. The shattering of glass in the back seat gave away what was about to happen so he dove out of the car knowing that he wouldn’t have been able to get rid of the explosive in time. The blast still got the thug pelted with debris where a hospital visit was in his immediate future.

Starlight and Paul made it to the second car in time just as the Rollerz arrived so Starlight used her Wado Ichimonji to cut down the thugs before blasting the car repeatedly with her shotgun until the engine was ruined.

The third car was blown up with the last of the RPG rockets which left one last car in the area to be dealt with. A Rollerz thug was already driving off with it but not before Starlight punctured the fuel tank with her shotgun which left a trail of gasoline as the car moved. Paul smashed a burning molotov onto the trail which ignited the gasoline. The fiery trail chased the escaping car which moved too slowly to escape the blaze before the flames reached the tank and blew the car up.

“I think that should be enough cars to fuck them over,” Starlight noted. “Even with the rest of the cars on the list they shouldn’t be able to get enough parts to satisfy their mysterious buyers.”

Paul nodded. Without the parts the Rollerz were going to be hurting for cash and that was probably going to piss Sharp and Price off. Seeing as they had effectively fucked the Rollerz over, this called for a celebration. He took out a flyer for a sushi restaurant in Chinatown that he was curious about and showed it to Starlight.

“Huh? You want to check out the sushi restaurant?” Paul nodded. “Sure, I’m game.”

Half an hour later the two were trying out the various kinds of sushi which was hit and miss for both of them since some didn’t agree with them. Still, most of it was good and it was a way to pass the time while they waited for the fallout of the gang’s latest failure.

Starlight had a bad feeling that they were going to need to take action very soon and she had a good idea why.

Once the app informed her of another conversation, Starlight opened the app to see what was going on.

Price appeared to be trying to calm Donnie down, assuring him that the latest incident wasn’t his fault. Once his call ended, he threw his phone into a wall with all his might, smashing it. “FUCK!”

“That was productive,” Sharp snarked.

“That’s the second time those two Saints fucked us!”

“Three times, if you count the attack on the garage. Quite a coincidence…” The way Sharp said that sent alarm bells through Starlight’s head.

“Whaddya mean?” Price asked.

“Well let’s think. The same four people knew about those jobs. If I didn’t sell us out, and you didn’t sell us out, who else is there?”

“Donnie? Donnie may not like it when things get messy, but there’s no way he’d turn on me…”

“Which brings us to…”

“Lin…” Price concluded.

“Bravo,” Sharp applauded facetiously.

“This is gonna be a bitch to explain to Donnie,” Price groaned, knowing that his friend was developing feelings for the apparent traitor.

“Luckily, you’re not going to.”

“Whaddya mean?”

“Please, you’re too attached to the boy. I’ll handle this.” Sharp offered.

“I don’t give a shit what you do to Lin, but you better not hurt Donnie,” Price warned.

“Of course, Joseph. I’ll keep that in mind.”

Starlight closed the app and used her communicator to Laserbeak, “Laserbeak, show Lin what you just saw, and hurry. Show the recording to Julius afterward.” She then looked at Paul. “We need to move if we want to be sure Sharp doesn’t get to Lin first.”

Paul nodded and left some money on the table, not bothering to count it since they were in a hurry.

Meanwhile, Lin was working on her car at the mansion when she suddenly spotted Laserbeak perched on her hood. “Huh? Aren’t you Starlight’s toy?” The construct then played the important parts of the recording which made Lin’s eyes widen in horror as she realized her cover was blown. “Fuck! I need to get out of here, fast!” Thankfully she kept her keys with her as she quickly got into her car and turned on the engine. She spotted Sharp walking toward her so she got the car into gear and got out of there as fast as she could.

Once Lin got the message, Laserbeak flew to the other side of the city to the church where Julius was hanging out with the other lieutenants. The flight took a few minutes thanks to the jet propulsion systems installed into it.

Julius and Johnny spotted the construct that landed near them. “Laserbeak? What’s goin’ on?” Johnny asked. Laserbeak then played the recording which gave the two an idea of what was going on. “Looks like Lin’s cover is blown. Starlight will probably be tryin’ to make sure she gets back safely.”

“Let’s hope she got enough info on the Rollerz that we can put ‘em down for good,” Julius said. Laserbeak then played previous recordings, giving Julius the impression that this Will Sharp person was a huge figure among the Rollerz.

“Sounds like killin’ Sharp will fuck up the Rollerz in every way,” Johnny noted.

“Yes, it seems that without Sharp, Price will be easier to take out. It’ll probably make him more dangerous though. For now, we need to come up with a plan of action to take out Sharp.”

Johnny nodded then turned to Laserbeak. “Hey Laserbeak, once they have Lin secured, have the three of them come back here.” Laserbeak nodded and flew away.

“Just what is that thing, anyway?” Julius asked.

“Just one of my daughter’s pet projects,” Johnny chuckled.