Starlight Saint

Starlight, Paul and Troy enjoyed some burgers and fries from the local Freckle Bitch’s fast food place after taking out a patrol of Vice Kings roaming around the area near the church. However, now that the thugs had been taken out the Saints had no problem claiming the rest of Mission Beach, the neighborhood where the church was located. With this, the Saints had claimed the first piece of Stilwater from the rivaling gangs and established a foothold in the gang war.

When Troy didn’t have his mouth full, he addressed some parts of their war that they hadn’t gone over yet. “While Julius said that we should be droppin’ muthafuckas wavin’ the wrong flags, it won’t mean a thing unless you do something big to move them out of the neighborhood. Even then they ain’t givin’ up the area unless you can lock down your rep.”

“What do you mean?” Starlight asked.

After he finished his meal, Troy took out a cigarette and lit it. He took a puff before explaining, “Get the unaffiliated locals who have some influence in the area on your side and your reputation will drive them off. Julius has some contacts who might help with that. Help them out with whatever they need you to do and they’ll spread the word that the Saints are the real deal and we get the respect needed to make those muthafuckas back off.”

“So what do we need to do to take the city from them?”

Troy blew out a puff of smoke into the air. “Sometimes we gotta fuck up their operations and scare them off. Other times we locate places where a whole crew is holed up and we gotta clear them out. The Saints move into those neighborhoods either way.”

So what do we need to do now?”

“Right now, we need to build our rep before we can make another move. We don’t dare move too deep into enemy territory just yet though so we need someone nearby who can get us started. You wouldn’t happen to know anyone nearby who can boost our rep, would you?”

Starlight thought about that for a time before an idea popped into her head. “I think I know someone. I just hope he isn’t pimping Peggy again.”

Before they headed to her acquaintance’s usual pimping spot, Troy took Paul and Starlight back to her house so they would use their own wheels to get around since he wasn’t their chauffeur.

The household owned two cars thanks to the money her mother was getting paid. With that money her father bought a Venom sports car painted purple with a golden serpent dragon on the sides and gold rims. That car wasn’t at the house right now since Johnny was out and about.

Starlight’s car was kept in the garage. It was a Reaper, also known as a hearse. The Reaper was customized with a V8 engine, wheel-rim spikes, quality hydraulics and had a lilac paint job which felt right to her for some reason. The doors also had the star symbol with twin vapors icon like her birthmark. The vehicle was also equipped with a music player containing a list of Starlight’s personal favorites.

Paul whistled in awe at the custom job on Starlight’s vehicle while the girl looked at it with pride. She then pulled out her keys which had a Decepticons icon keychain attached to it. She then jumped into the driver’s seat while telling Paul to hop in.

As Paul continued looking at every feature of the car, Starlight answered the question he wanted to ask. “I got this car from a summer job I had last year. Mr. Wong likes spoiling his employees who do a good job.” Starlight anticipated that Paul would wonder if he should work for Mr. Wong for a nice car so she added, “Back then, he only wanted me to deal with people who owed him money as a warning to make them pay up. I got those people on the FBI Most Wanted list and they paid up quickly. Last I saw him he was pretty pissed about something and was starting to look around for hitmen to hire. He had me quit working for him because he didn’t want to see me get arrested for murdering his enemies.”

Paul then wondered how much Wong was willing to pay to have those people dead. He considered visiting him at some point.

Starlight knew that her contact operated in Harrowgate, a neighborhood controlled by the Rollerz and was west of Mission Beach, so she drove around the area while avoiding traffic until she located the contact. He was a dark-skinned man wearing a maroon shirt along with a purple jacket and pants. He was carrying a goblet.

Much to Starlight’s disgust, it appeared that he was overseeing his only bitch, Peggy, who was as homely as they came. Paul was also cringing from looking at her.

“Hey Will,” Starlight greeted. “I see you haven’t gotten rid of Peggy yet.” The woman in question gave Starlight a dirty look.

“Well, if it isn’t Starlight!” Will greeted. “You finally ready to wave that fine ass of yours? Wish I could get rid of fugly Peggy but she’s the only bitch I’ve got. Can’t be a pimp with no bitches.”

Starlight cringed at his question before responding with barely contained irritation. “Okay, one, I’m still underage for that kind of work. Two, no, just no. Three, how about I steal some bitches from the other pimps in the area so you can stop making people go blind from looking at Peggy. Finally, FUCK NO!”

“Easy, I was just yankin’ your chain,” Will assuaged. “Though I will take you up on that offer for some of them fine bitches turnin’ tricks for other pimps. Do that for me and I’ll cut you in on what some of the bitches make and spread the word that the Saints are the real deal.”

“It’s a deal then.”

Paul and Starlight decided that they could capture more bitches in separate vehicles so Paul decided to find a four-seat car driving down the street and carjack them. Paul was glad a cop wasn’t watching or things would have gotten troublesome for him.

Starlight drove around until she found a pimp wearing a blue fur robe watching over three of his bitches where she pulled out her revolver and shot him in the head, frightening the sex workers. “Get in the car right now!” Starlight commanded. The sex workers felt the commanding presence of the girl and obeyed her without question, getting into the car.

Starlight started to head back to Will when she noticed a blue sedan barreling toward her carrying thugs wearing the blue shirts of the Rollerz. Starlight cursed as she realized that the pimps would obviously have some security. Still, dispatching the thugs wasn’t difficult and she made her delivery. Paul arrived with his own group of sex workers and Will was imagining the money he would soon be making. Of course, he also offered to help the Saints in their war as well.

When Will was satisfied, Paul abandoned the stolen car and returned to Starlight’s vehicle where the two headed toward the church to plan their next move.

However, as they were heading that way, Starlight received a call from Troy. To save the explanation, she put the phone on speaker. “What’s up?” Starlight asked.

“I heard a rumor that an old liquor store in Athos Bay is being used as a hideout for the Carnales. Why don’t you two go and check it out.”

Athos Bay was a neighborhood located south of Mission Beach so it wasn’t far from where they were.

Invading the store was easy and while they were slightly outnumbered, it wasn’t by much and there were only a few Carnales in the store using the tables and machines as cover. Paul charged in and a few bullets grazed him but he managed to take down a few of the thugs while Starlight used the distraction to blast more with her shotgun.

While Paul was cleaning up, Starlight headed out the back to look for the one in charge of these thugs. The Carnales lieutenant in charge of the place noticed her coming and tried to make a break for it in his car but Starlight used her magic to teleport into the escaping car in the passenger seat, freaking out the lieutenant for a moment. “Shotgun!” Starlight called out as she blasted him with said weapon.

With the lieutenant dead, the car began to swerve so Starlight opened the door and rolled out of the car moments before it crashed into another car.

Once the hideout was fully cleared, the Saints moved into the neighborhood and claimed Athos Bay from the Carnales.

The sun began to set but there was still time to do more today so they returned to the church. Of course, the sun was setting but the excitement was not winding down yet as Julius and Troy exited the church. They spotted the two arriving and ran toward them.

“You two got here just in time,” Julius said. “I just got off the line with Johnny and he told me you could handle it since he wanted to have some private time with Aisha. He tells me he taught you everything he knew about fighting. I wanna see if there’s any truth to those words.”

“I got a tip that there’s a turf war going on right now in Harrowgate,” Troy added. “If we crash their party we can take out all those sons of bitches at once.”

“Hope you two are strapped, cause we’re about to go in hard.”

“I hope this is as big as you say, I haven’t had a real challenge all day,” Starlight said.

“Now you’re starting to sound like Johnny,” Troy lamented.

By the time they reached the dockyards where the turf war was taking place there were already a few Saints moving in while the other three gangs were fighting one another. Bullets were flying all over the place and a few cars painted in the respective gang’s colors drove in to cause havoc. The dockyards were in utter chaos.

A group of Rollerz were pincered between the Saints and a group of Carnales so they were the first target as the four left Starlight’s car. At first the Rollerz were mostly focused on the Carnales since there were only a few Saints attacking before Paul, Julius and Troy charged in and each took one of them down. Starlight moved in and started cutting down more of them with her katana before shooting one of the Carnales with her revolver when he spent too much time gawking at the girl’s carnage.

The four left a trail of bodies in their wake as they began tearing into the Carnales while more Saints arrived to reinforce the offensive. A couple of red cars moved in to reinforce the Carnales but Troy’s marksman skills he picked up at the academy helped him take out the drivers so the cars sped through the railing and into the lake.

While Paul and Julius were busy treating the red-shirted thugs like the stock characters they made themselves out to be, Starlight rushed straight for the lieutenant who was too busy shooting at a group of Vice Kings so he didn’t notice his assailant until he saw a blade sticking out of his chest.

Dealing with the Vice Kings was a little more difficult since the Saints were their only competition in the area at this point. At first there were only a couple of VKs to deal with in their path with a critically damaged car at the end. Troy and Paul took them down and continued down the path.

A few VKs were foolishly standing next to the damaged car when a reckless Rollerz car barreled into it and took them all out in the blast. One of the VK lieutenants was caught in the blast but somehow managed to survive it long enough for Starlight to finish him off with her revolver.

As they headed toward the last of the VKs at the end of the docks, Starlight had a feeling that they would need to make a quick getaway soon. After all, there was no way the commotion going on here was going to go unnoticed. She reached for a button on a bluetooth communicator she designed herself and pressed it. “Beaky, bring the car to me.”

The last group of Vice Kings had decided to make a last stand at the very end of the dock. They also lacked the necessary awareness of their surroundings to realize that they were standing next to a leaky barrel of oil. A trail of oil led to a small puddle which Starlight fired at with her revolver while just outside the shooting range of the VKs. The spark made by the bullet ignited the oil and led the blaze to the barrel which exploded a moment later, taking out the last of the VKs in the area.

Just then, the sound of police sirens were heard by the Saints and were getting louder. This meant one thing. “Guys, we got company!”

Just then, Starlight’s car drove up to her and she hopped in. Given the situation, Troy, Julius nor Paul decided to question how that happened and just got into the car.

The police arrived just then and Starlight hit the accelerator to get out of there quickly. Their escape would take some effort though as some police cars moved to pursue them.

“Lose the fuzz and get us back to the church,” Julius ordered.

It took some tricky driving and a few near misses of other vehicles before the police realized that chasing their suspect wasn’t worth the effort required to catch them and returned to the dock to investigate the scene of the disturbance.

With the pressure off, Starlight led the group back to the church.

Julius led the others into the church where all of the other leaders were gathered, including Johnny. He had them gather ahead of time because he wanted to make his announcement when he returned. The lieutenants stopped talking among themselves as their leader made his way to the stage to begin his speech.

“Listen up people…I got some serious shit to discuss. Yeah, we took Saints’ Row back. Don’t think for a second that’s gonna stop ‘em. Unless we wipe all those muthafuckas out, they’re just gonna keep comin’, and they ain’t gonna be happy. It ain’t gonna be settled until the Carnales, the Rollerz and the Vice Kings ain’t nothin’ but a memory.

Dex, you got the Carnales. Ever since they hooked up with the Columbians, it’s like they own this town, and with that drug money rolling in, we can’t compete. Be smart how you move against ‘em. The Lopez family been runnin’ that gang for thirty years. There’s a reason they’re still around.”

“Got it,” Dex acknowledged.

“Troy, you’re dealing with the Vice Kings.”

“Not a chance…” Troy rejected. Starlight had a feeling there was a reason Troy didn’t want anything to do with the VKs and if what she overheard him say was true and given how King has the SPD in his pocket, it was understandable that the undercover cop wanted to keep his job when this was all over.

“Fuck you say?” Julius responded indignantly.

“Anyone but them.”

“You scared of going against Benjamin King?”

Seeing Troy begging Julius not to involve him with King, Johnny decided to volunteer himself for the task. “Man, fuck that, I’ll take King out!”

“Johnny, it’s not that simple,” Julius tried to explain.

“Daddy isn’t going to be reckless while I’m around,” Starlight pointed out. “Besides, King’s using mom as a hostage so I doubt he will try anything until we’re ready to move on him. I already have a plan for him.”

Julius looked back to Johnny who shrugged, “It’s true. My little star’s been doin’ her research on the VKs. She can take the lead once she’s ready to make her move on ‘em.”

Julius decided to simply go with it since he’d rather see someone smart leading the efforts against King. “Fine, Troy, help Dex with the Carnales.”

“Who’s got the Rollerz?” Dex asked.

“I do,” spoke a female voice from within the crowd. An asian woman with black hair tied in a floral pattern and held by hair sticks then made her way to the front of the crowd. She was wearing a black, sleeveless short top and blue baggy pants with a white stripe down the length of the sides.

“Lin? The fuck you wearin’ blue for?” Johnny asked.

“I asked Lin to hook up with the Rollerz,” Julius explained. “We don’t know much about these fuckas, so I wanted one of us on the inside.”

“I didn’t know the Rollerz pimped bitches,” one of the thugs crudely remarked, which earned him a punch to his face that sent him to the floor.

“Any other comments?” Lin asked.

“Yeah, when you punch, don’t throw your shoulder so much…” Johnny quipped. “Starlight could throw a better punch than that.”

“Fuck you, Johnny,” Lin responded with a middle finger.

Julius decided to wrap up the meeting before things escalated. “Once we’re done here, go talk to Dex, Lin or Johnny. Starlight, you and Paul are gonna be the key to takin’ back this city so I’ll let you decide what order we take these fuckas out. It’s our time now. Let’s get this shit started.”

Starlight nodded, “One shall stand, three shall fall.”

After the meeting and after the Police had finished their investigation, the Saints moved into Harrowgate and claimed it from the Rollerz.