The Boss woke up after one of the Saints alarmed them that the Morningstar wants to take back the penthouse they once owned. With Viola turning her back at the Morningstar and serve the Third Street Saints, she was the one who told the Boss that the Morningstar is ready to take on the Saints right in their territory. They were bold enough to confront them, but will they succeed to reclaim their once-solidified glory?

"Get the fuck up, Miguel! Loren might be dead, but it doesn't mean that the Syndicates are over." Viola was opening the hidden containers to get themselves some guns to use.

"What the fuck is happening?" Miguel finally woke up after falling into a deep sleep.

"It's Phillipe Loren's younger brother, Jacques. He has taken over the Morningstar and he's about to set a new treaty with the new members of the Syndicate." Viola explains everything while the Boss is putting his colors on, fixing his suit before letting out a huge yawn.

"You were saying? Shit, this looks pretty bad... Now, where's the next fight?" Miguel wielded two Assault Rifles for himself.

She rolled her eyes before showing him the Morningstar gang trying to infiltrate the penthouse. "There they are, Boss. I take care of them while you call the others."

"Right, right. Make sure you leave a bunch for us to kill, alright?" He requested that Viola should hold back so that they could finish it off with a bang.

"Whatever." Viola scoffed as Miguel calls for the rest of the gang to form up and fight off the Morningstar.

"Hey, hey, hey. Stop that stupid chess game. Morningstar's here to take this place back and we ain't letting that." Miguel flipped the chessboard over, and the player's Pierce and Oleg stood up because of it.

"But I was winning, man! Why do you always have to ruin my moment for us?" Pierce was disappointed about how their game was disrupted.

"We don't have time for games, Pierce. Morningstar's up to something big and we should be ready for anything. Call the others, now." The Boss calls for orders as he told Pierce that he should get the rest of the gang by now.

While Oleg and Miguel are putting the penthouse on maximum security mode, Pierce calls for the Saints to get to the action. Angel gears up by wearing his mask, Kinzie has her laptop, Zimos sets his hoes aside to grab his gun, Josh dresses up as NyteBlayde, Cheapy D arriving just in time, but there is one who isn't in the mood, and the Saints wouldn't be fine as it is if it's missing someone.

"Did you get everyone, Pierce?" Miguel asked if every Saint is present.

"Everyone except Shaundi, boss," Pierce tells him that she is absent.

"Fuck... We'll get to her once this is over. For now, it's time to get us back to the old days." The Boss equips his guns, telling everyone to go and protect the penthouse from any Morningstar gang member that tries to trespass it.

Once the Morningstar members entered the HQ, the Saints used their weapons to fight them off. With the majority of the Saints using guns, the Morningstar was forced to take cover as the opposing gang was the one putting on the pressure to make them hesitant to take the next move. The Boss started to notice that they aren't putting effort into intruding the place, and it starts to get suspicious by him.

"Something's not right..." Miguel held up his hand to commence the ceasefire.

Pierce looked around if there are still Morningstar gang members inside, and when they heard a continuous beep, they knew that there are explosives. "Shit, they got bombs!"

It turns out that Morningstar has added a brand-new unit to their gang, and those were the suicide bombers. One-fourth of the Headquarters was blown out due to the explosion, and Miguel gets upset that they haven't noticed it earlier. "What the fuck, Pierce? You should have told us before they blew up!"

"That's what I did!" Pierce started to argue with the Boss in the middle of the gunfight between them and the Morningstar.

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"Boss, I've shut this floor's electricity down since most of it was gone. I think we should use the RC Processors in case they have aerial units." Kinzie suggested if she could contribute something to the team.

"Go right ahead, Kinzie. Oleg, and wait a minute... Josh? Why are you wearing that thing?" The Boss tried to hold his laughter upon seeing Josh Birk in character.

"The reasons are beyond your understanding, Saint." NyteBlayde shows off his swordsmanship skills.

"Yeah, whatever. You and Oleg go join Viola and protect Kinzie upstairs at the same time. While Cheapy, Zimos, Pierce, Angel, and I will keep an eye here on the second floor. Use your flashlights in case the sun drops, this would be a lengthy fight..." Miguel changes plans slightly.

"You do not own me." Josh stays in character until the Boss gets pissed.

"Just go!" The Boss shouted at NyteBlayde that forced him to transfer Kinzie into a safer place alongside Oleg.

Soon as they heard the loud banging beneath the penthouse, it gets uneasy for them to deal with. The Boss orders Zimos and Pierce to check what is going on inside the basement, and there's Cheapy D and Angel left on the second floor to secure the place. A brute came out from the basement's elevator, shoving Zimos which caused him to scream with his autotuned voice. Pierce was left to deal with the gigantic brute, throwing grenades at it until it slows down.

The Morningstar's gunmen have finally entered the HQ, and it gets heated up by their exchange of bullets with the Saints. Miguel was waiting for them to empty their magazines in their guns before they shoot, and he gave Angel and Cheapy a signal so they could take the horde of Morningstar gang members down. The second wave soon starts to enter with their grenades, throwing everything they have at the Boss and others forcing them to get out from their covers.

"Think you guys could just take everything from me? You guys are Loren's cocksuckers from the start." Miguel gets so serious suddenly.

"Like the old times, baby!" Pierce cackles while shooting the Morningstar goons.

Meanwhile, Kinzie succeeds in controlling the aircraft that the Saints have using the RC Processor. And just in time, the Morningstar has their aerial support hovering over at the penthouse. And while an intense shootout is taking place inside, a battle between aircraft around the sky is about to embark. Missiles, bullets, and lasers were sent flying over near the skyscrapers and Kinzie seems to enjoy it.

"You're enjoying it too much, Kinzie. This isn't the right time to seek joy." Oleg grabs the RC Processor from her.

"No, let me have that! I need to do something because of my OCD." Kinzie tries to reach the device from the sophisticated brute, but she failed to do so because of his size.

"Are you no-brainers just going to stall around?" NyteBlayde gets annoyed by their argument.

"Who you calling no-brainer?" Kinzie gets provoked by it.

"Guys! Can't you just work as a whole? We're a team, okay?" Viola had enough of their foolish behavior.

Shaundi could hear the gunshots, explosions, and foul words coming out from her teammates. She was brooding in the right place at the wrong time as this wasn't the period to do it. She doesn't want to see everyone right now, but she couldn't let them struggle either. Shaundi kept on hearing the same noises until she had enough of it, deciding to get up from her bed and help the Third Street Saints to win the battle against the Morningstar once and for all.

"Fuck it, I'm down. Whose ass I'm going to kick?" Shaundi goes downstairs with a Mercenary LMG in her grasp.

"Glad you decided to come by, after all. We got the Morningstar trying to take this place back at their asses." Pierce summarized what is happening.

"Good, so they're still here... Hey! This is for Johnny, you assholes!" Shaundi starts to tag their heads with bullets as she goes berserk once again.

"Shaundi's a one-woman-army, Boss. I didn't know that." Cheapy stopped shooting the pursuing Morningstar gang members just to watch her take them all down.

"Oh, baaaaaby... Shaundi's on the goooooo, she's a natural-born killeeeeeeer~" Zimos has recovered from the brute's assault earlier.

"Holy shit, Shaundi. You've gone nuts!" Pierce also focusing on her from the stairs.

Miguel and Angel paired up to eliminate the upcoming Morningstar members who have melee weapons in their hands, using their skills in Pro Wrestling to take them all down. They coordinated a move where they both grab the legs of a Morningstar thug who was rendered laying on the ground after a severe blow from both of them, and they started to yank and make the body spin around, causing the goon to hit the floor head and back first. The move was called 'The Wheelbarrow', and they have practiced it a lot.

"Um, Angel? I think we overdid it." They could see that the gang member they took down has his skull broken, and Miguel realized it.

"Doesn't matter. I've done far more brutal moves in my matches." Angel ignores it as he was watching Shaundi butcher every Morningstar thugs entering the Saints Headquarters.

"Die, you pricks!" It seems like Shaundi is venting out by releasing her anger towards the rival gang.

Soon as the magazine in her LMG is now emptied, Shaundi takes one of Miguel's Assault Rifles by snatching it, firing it with rapid succession and accuracy. Now that the Morningstar's assault is now neutralized, the televisions around the penthouse have been hacked mysteriously and even Kinzie couldn't figure it out.

"Hey, what happened to the TV here?" The Boss noticed the changes taking place with the appliances.

"I don't know, man. This is a thing better left for Kinzie to operate." Pierce replied despite not having a clue.

"Does this ring any bells, Saints?" Jacques Loren's voice was heard from the television.

"Hey, Loren, fuck you. You almost cost me-" Miguel flips out by cursing in front of the TV, but Loren interrupts him.

"Say again? Cost what? The Saints is fine at where it is standing still, for now. Perhaps you all have some explaining to do after my brother Phillipe's death courtesy of you." Jacques could see the Boss right on the screen.

"So what is this? Some sort of a family business now?" Miguel guessed wildly.

"Actually, yes. Do you think that the Syndicate would sink below that fast? Think again." The live feed would transition as Miguel's brother Manuel is now the one appearing on the screen.

"Now what? You two reforming the Syndicates? Where's Miller, by the way? Oh, he's behind the bars. Hehe, sorry." The Boss gets to be absurd even being threatened by Loren and his brother.

"Don't worry about Miller, we found a replacement for him," Jacques announced that the Deckers would be under new management.

"What does that mean? Miller's out?" Viola soon came running downstairs to see Jacques Loren on TV.

"Miller might be out, guess who's in." A deep female voice with a thick accent was heard, arising from the screens.

"Lady Kalashnikov?" Oleg was familiar with the new leader of the Deckers.

"Surprised, Oleg?" Lady Kalashnikov smiles at the TV screen devilishly before Miguel shot it with his pistol, knowing that the tables have been turned now. Their situation depends on how they will stick together, and they should work as a functioning team. A powerful gang with unity, rather.

To be continued...