No Place Like Steelport (Saints Row Fanfiction)

Chapter 14: Flight Fight

After the Saints were arrested on the account of Josh Birk pushing the alarm, Philipe sent the DeWynter twins and several other Morningstar members to bail the Saints out. Eva and Antoine accompanied Philipe on an airplane to fly back to Stilwater for some unknown reason.

"Yes?" Philipe answered on his cell phone.

"The Saints should be boarding the plane now," Kiki replied.

"Excellent, we'll see you in a few," Philipe replied.

Eva and Antoine followed Philipe inside the plane and waited until Kiki notified him once more. As the plane started to take off, Eva and Antoine stood behind three other Morningstar members as  Viola and Kiki accompanied Philipe, who was seated in between them at the  upper section of the plane, with the 3 members of Saints bound to chairs. Eva easily recognized Shaundi and Johnny Gat, but couldn't identify the third person.

"Do you know who you're fucking with here?" The unknown woman seated next to Johnny broke the silence.

"I can say the same for you, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Philipe Loren and I am the chairman of the criminal organization known as the Syndicate."

"The Syndicate? Never heard of it. Shaundi replied.

"Obviously not or you wouldn't have robbed our bank." Philipe retorted.

"I'm here to make a proposition, you give the Syndicate half your income in exchange for your lives." Philipe proposed.

After a short presentation from the DeWynter twins which detailed an unfair exchange of profit between the two gangs, the three Saints looked unimpressed.

"That's not going to happen you French fuck!" The woman started off.

"Please, I am Belgian." Philipe corrected.

"So make yourself a fucking waffle, we're done here." Johnny Gat responded.

"We tried to be reasonable, but it had to come to this," Philipe replied as a Morningstar gang member approached the Saints at gunpoint.

Suddenly, Johnny Gat sprung into action, lifting up the bolted down chair with all of his strength and taking out the gang member. Philipe became enraged as he pulled out a switchblade and stabbed Johnny, who in return smashed Philipe's face into the window causing the plane to decompress. In the midst of all the chaos Antoine, Eva, and the DeWynter twins escorted Philipe out of the room.

"Stand guard of the plane and come back when the Saints are taken care of," Kiki instructed.

Eva and Antoine took out their pistols and started shooting at the Saints, who seemed to escape their bullets, Antoine and Eva stayed close to one another during the standoff until some fatal gunshots ranged out on the intercom.

Eva stopped in her tracks as she heard the barrage of gunfire over the intercom, Antoine grabbed Eva's hand and led her to the very front of the plane where Kiki and Viola were taking over the controls and Philippe doctoring his injured eye after Johnny bashed his face through one of the windows.

Eva peeked to see if any other Saints were on the plane, but all she saw was Johnny's unconscious body sprawled out on the floor in the other room, crimson red blood painted his jacket from multiple bullet wounds. Eva's heart sunk a little because she kind of wanted to meet Johnny and the other Saints, but she knew she couldn't because she was afflicted with Morningstar, even though she never really agreed to the idea of joining them or any other gang for that matter.

"Do not worry about Monsieur Gat Eva, he's gone and now the Saints have lost a key member." Philippe boasted.

" Kiki arrange a meeting with Killbane and Mr. Miller quickly."

"Yes, sir" Kiki responded as she did was she was told.

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Shortly after landing the plane back in Steelport, Eva and Antoine accompanied Philippe at the meeting in the Syndicate boardroom, on a large plasma screen appeared two people, one man was dressed in a green suit and a wrestling mask while the other was dressed like in cyberpunk like outfit.

In Henry Steel Mills lies the Syndicate Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Steelport and the meeting place of Morningstar, the Luchadores, and the Deckers. Eva and Antoine sat down at the table while Kiki and Viola tended to Philippe's wounded eye, they provided him with an eye patch. Momentarily the group was joined by Killbane and Matt Miller for an emergency meeting,

"Gentlemen the Saints have arrived in Steelport and they seem like trouble, but Steelport belongs to the Syndicate and the Saints need to know; Killbane gather up your men and be ready at on my signal, Mr. Miller hack into the Saints bank account, leave them nothing," Philippe ordered. 

Matt Miller did what he was told and hacked into the Saints back account, he indeed left them nothing, he was the self-proclaimed "cyber-god" as he calls it. A towering shadow appeared over Eva who slowly lifted her head up to see Killbane towering over her.

"I don't think we met, I'm Killbane and you are?" Killbane extended a large hand in Eva's direction.

"I'm Eva, nice to meet you?" Eva accepted Killbane's tight handshake, her hand was slightly numb for a minute but it regained it's feeling shortly.

"So Killbane, is that your real name?" Antoine asked.

"It's more of a stage name, next to "The Walking Apocalypse" it is sort of my name. Killbane replied flexing, Kiki and Viola rolled their eyes as they attended to Philippe.