After the assault courtesy of the Morningstar, the Saints HQ has been eroded and almost inaccessible. The Boss knew that they would pay up for the damage that had been done from the shootout, and he couldn't do anything but to facepalm as he couldn't even look at the place's current state. Miguel knew that he had to reach out to Mayor Reynolds and report what happened between the Saints and the Morningstar.

"Fuck... Look at this place, all powdered and shit. How are we supposed to live in this thing now?" Pierce also didn't like the aftermath of the encounter.

"Let me call Mayor Reynolds for a minute, and yes, I know. This place is a fucking mess, would you shut up about it?" The Boss brought his phone out to dial the Mayor of Steelport.

Even if late to the action, Dustin has arrived at the HQ with a STAG VTOL. "Don't! I got some bad news, Boss."

"You're late, Dustin. We had to smoke them all." Miguel reminded the young STAG enforcer.

"Ugh, really? Do you have to bring bad news? We almost died here!" Shaundi still couldn't calm down after shooting the raging Morningstar thugs.

"Mayor Reynolds has been impeached, Boss. The New Syndicate framed him up. And now they're pushing old Cyrus to run as Mayor for the next elections." Dustin told them that Burt Reynolds is no longer the Mayor of Steelport.

"Why don't you just tell us that you're a fucking snitch on both sides?" Viola did not like how Dustin sounded.

"Relax, Viola. He practically turned himself a Saint. He has money problems with STAG, and now they're rejecting him. And look at y'all here! You joined the Saints because we're on the same page, right?" Miguel reminisced them on how they became a member of the Third Street Saints.

"Eh, whatever. He's kinda cute though..." Viola rolled her eyes and mumbled.

"What was that?" The Boss heard her mumbling but wasn't sure of what she's saying.

"Nothing. Look, we better get the plans going after we find a better place. This place might use a renovation when we get to it." Viola went back to what they should do.

"Any places you know where we could move in? Anymore?" The Boss asked if there are available places they could go in the meantime.

"My pad is the best place to goooooo~ I got some fine ass bitches that y'all could haaaaaave..." Zimos suggested that they should go to his pad.

"My warehouse doesn't welcome all of you guys. I don't even have a bed to sleep, remember?" Kinzie doesn't recommend her warehouse.

"My gym is a place where true warriors are honed, and most of you aren't." Angel implies that his gym is closed.

"Why are you guys looking at me like that? The apartment is too small for all of us!" Shaundi's Loft isn't either.

"So far, Zimos has the best suggestion so far! But fuck it, we're going to Safeword." The Boss was the one who came up with it.

"Then why did you even suggest a place for us to go?!" Shaundi gets furious Miguel.

"Oh, so I can't make mistakes now?" The Boss responded rudely, crossing his arms while staring at her.

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"Shut the fuck up, Miguel. This isn't the right time to remember the past." Shaundi starts packing her things, the same goes for the other members of the Saints.

"Says by you who still couldn't move on to Johnny's death. He's gone! What are we supposed to do? I pity you, Shaundi." Miguel still has the nerves to argue with her.

"Excuse you, prick. This conversation is over." She concludes the heated disagreement between them both.

"Oleg, get to the garage. We need three or four cars for the evacuation. Y'all have packed up already? Good, let's go." The Boss pretended that nothing happened.

"Now that's weird... You two are just shouting at each other." Pierce noticed the sudden changes in how they act.

"Forget it, Pierce. If you guys got what you need, so do I. Let's get the fuck outta here and transfer ourselves to Safeword." The Boss gets out of the penthouse before the rest of the gang, seeing Oleg in the exterior part of the HQ with the cars they need.

"Here's the cars we need, Boss. I'm driving the upgraded N-Forcer, about time I haven't driven a vehicle." Oleg was done preparing the transportations they need.

"Pierce, Zimos, Dustin, you're with me. Shaundi and Viola are on the Bloody Canoness. Kinzie, Oleg, Angel, Josh, you guys take the N-Forcer. And Cheapy, you take care of the other members." Miguel called for the vehicles that they will occupy, and once they're in it, they started to go for a long trip.

The Boss was driving a lowrider, and it felt like it was a slow and smooth cruise for him and the Saints. He took a glance at Pierce who looked so dull and exhausted until they smirked at each other. "You know what that means, Miguel."

"Yeah, yeah. You pick a song and we'll sing along." The Boss agreed with what Pierce wants.

"Alright, whatever you say." Pierce started to tune the car's radio, putting the station to K-Rhyme 95.4.

Both Miguel and Pierce started to hum from the intro of the song Paper Planes by M.I.A. and the Boss starts rapping the first stanza. "I fly like paper, get high like planes, If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name, If you come around here, I make 'em all day, I get one down in a second if you wait."

Pierce chuckled from hearing the Boss nailing it, and he starts to go along as they go to the second stanza that is the same as the first. The Boss was into it, and Zimos could feel how they were enjoying their sing-along session. Zimos started to dance around while Dustin is getting annoyed by it. "Oh boy..."

Miguel and Pierce resume the verse as they were in the third and fourth stanza of the song. "Sometimes I think sitting on trains, every stop I get to I'm clocking that game, everyone's a winner we're making our fame, bonafide hustler making my name."

They soon raised their voices at the chorus, singing it while doing gun and money hand signs around. "All I wanna do is *gunshot sounds* and take your money!"

The same lyrics were sung by them in the chorus until the second verse played, and they were still singing it. They were vibing into the song too much that Miguel almost bumped into a police car. "Watch out, Boss! You don't want us to get arrested."

"Alright, this might be a bad idea." The Boss turned the radio off as they are now entering Rosen Oaks.

Pulling over in front of Safeword, they went out of their vehicles and started to grab their cargo. And while transferring all of it inside the place, Viola couldn't believe that they have maintained the brothel that she and her late twin sister Kiki owned. "Wait, this shit still exists?"

"Apparently, yeah. Zimos and I run the brothel." Miguel confirmed that the Safeword is still operating.

"Where to, Boss? I mean, these bags? This thing is heavy." Pierce asked if where he should bring the baggage.

"You know that I have crates all over my new office, right? And in case you're wondering, those are your collectibles. Not mines." Miguel told him where he could drop it.

"You mean, the sex toys?" Pierce asked if the Boss is talking about his collection.

"Oh boy..." Miguel rolled his eyes in disgust, entering the crib after the rest of the gang.

"Ooooh~ Look at those pretty lil' thaaaangs~ Ain't they such angeeeeeels?" Zimos removed his sunglasses to take a peek at the hoes working inside Safeword.

"Look at them until you can, Zimos. But they're also humans and they also need rest. Girls, you may rest now." Miguel gave them the time for a break.

"So this is Safeword, huh? It looks vivid than the last time I went here." Dustin shared his time and experience as a customer in the mega brothel.

"I haven't seen you here before, Dustin. Are you sure about that?" Viola raised an eyebrow as she was unfamiliar with the STAG enforcer amassing their services.

"No, I was one of those... Gimps. Right, I used to be a gimp. As an undercover but you know, STAG's been a dick to me so I backed out." Dustin reveals that he used to be undercover.

"Are you sure you're with us and not with STAG?" She crossed her arms and faced Dustin.

"Want to learn how I got here in Safeword? I go by the name of 'The Vindicator' because... Reasons. I'm not that typical gimp who gets padded around, okay? My days as a slave are over." He also crossed his arms and faced Viola.

"What the fuck, Dustin... You used to wear that thing?" Miguel pointed at a stored gimp suit with a barely visible deer logo in its crotch.

Dustin goes near to the suit and tore it apart. "You didn't see anything..."

Viola awkwardly walked out, recalling the suit that Dustin ripped using his bare hands. "I'm outta here..."

"What the fuck is that?" Miguel shrugged at them both in confusion.

"Wow. Bad ideas could be worse, it seems." Shaundi sighed in exhaustion.

"Why so negative, Shaundi?" Pierce was playing with the Penetrator, shoving its tip around her.

"Get the fucking thing away from me." She swats the weapon around before taking it away from Pierce.

"Seriously? That's the weapon you only have?" The Boss looked at Pierce sternly.

"What? We ran out of guns after the shootout with the Morningstar." He has his alibi about not having any firearms in his arsenal.

"Good point and I think I know what's next for the Saints." Miguel fixed the curtains on the living room to look at the gleaming dawn.

"And what is it exactly?" Oleg asked if they have plans.

"This better not be some kind of suicide mission again, Boss..." Angel muttered weakly.

"Dustin, we need to steal weapons from STAG. You think we could pull this off?" The Boss reveals his plan, and that is raiding STAG's shipments.

"I see no problem with that, Boss," Dustin affirmed that they could.

"What the fuck? That's suicide!"

To be continued...