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05/05/25 Racap
Snakes, Floppers, Sole Leaders
Waking up to Disheartening News
• Benji wakes up to Reggie’s call and gets picked up where he is taken to the Seaside Towers. Benji meets up with Reggie, Louis and Kj and gets a run down of how Ray has started a new gang already with Perez and Marlo and has poached people from Hades without discussing with Benji first. In addition to the poaching Ray set up meetings with the mayors to discuss selling the warehouses to split assets. Blindsided by the events that have unfolded; Benji is saddened to find out Ray is not the brother he thought he was and has been moving differently after Perez decided to leave Hades. Mona shows up to explain why she preemptively took stuff from the armory, (she felt Benji was getting snaked and wanted to protect some assets for Benji) but returned it when scolded by Reggie. Benji also finds out that Ray as a joke made Billy a member of Hades again (those loyal to Rico find this incredibly disrespectful). In addition, Ray’s new gang showed up outside the Abyss on bikes and were “joking” with Hades by shooting out tires. Louis didn’t take it as a joke and told them to leave the block after shooting out their tires as well. Also to add more salt to the wound, Benji hears that the entire city knows about Hades disbanding before Benji does. To confirm Benji calls Flippy who says he knows EVERYTHING and can’t believe Benji had no idea.

Meeting with a Former Brother
• Benji then has a meeting with Ray, where Benji discusses how he is shocked that Ray moved on so quickly and didn’t talk to Benji first before deciding to end the gang. Ray explains that he thought Benji was testing him (would Ray choose Perez over Benji), and Benji clarifies that Hades was a test for both to see who they would want to work with again in the future and who they could trust, not a test against each other. From Benji’s point of view they were going to take at least a week to see how Hades worked without Perez and how Ray would fair without his right-hand man. Benji also reminded Ray that he offered to walk away from Hades with Ray and they both could make something else from scratch. Benji further explains how he feels about the Perez situation and feels like he didn’t have the trust of an underboss, but Ray has never been mistrusted by any of the high command. After much back-and-forth Benji concludes that Ray only hears what he wanted to hear or doesn’t listen to Benji, and their communication skills were a big part of their downfall. Although Ray says he is sad he sounds excited at times and Benji takes notice. At the end of their meeting Ray mentions that Louis is also forming his own gang so Hades will be split three ways. Louis clarifies with Benji that he is not making his own gang but offered a place for those who had nowhere to go; a home until final decisions are made, (those who decided not to leave with Ray still had a place to land). Not wanting to wait any longer for the Hades meeting, Benji calls the meeting early and everyone groups up outside the Abyss.

Hades Meeting and the Divide
• The meeting starts with Benji giving everyone a run-down of events that led to the current state of Hades. He details how Perez decided to execute a mission against another gang, (ADMC) for his friend Ivy, who Benji has never heard of and deliberately did not tell Benji about it. Benji originally had two options to deal with the situation as a precedent was already set on how things would go if he was left out again from an operation after Reggie left Benji out of the Faceless details. Benji told Ray either Perez could be shot and blooded out of Hades or Benji would leave Hades, so Ray didn’t have to kill Perez. Ray did not like either of those choices and Benji, realizing the predicament that would put Ray in, gave him another option. Perez could leave the gang on his own will and not be harmed, OR he could be demoted to member, but would have to bring Ivy to Benji and Ray shoot her in front of them and return all the guns he stole from ADMC back to Barry the leader of ADMC. Perez opted to leave the gang and in essence turn his back on not only Ray but all of Hades. Benji explained that he thought Ray and him were going to take time to see how Hades would work without Perez and if Ray still wanted to proceed going forward, but that obviously didn’t happen. Ray then gives his point of view as to why he started to form his own gang saying he thought Benji was trying to test him mistakenly. The underbosses and LTs are given a chance to give their opinions on the matter and KJ steps up to say forming a new gang while the original isn’t even dead yet is disrespectful. Respect can be given but when it is lost it is hard to get back if ever can get back. Ray agrees and brings

Mona into the conversation explaining that she took majority of the armory. Benji clarifies that Mona did that without his instructions and did so because she felt he was being snaked. Once Reggie found out about it, Mona was reprimanded and returned the things that were taken. Benji gives his final speech to the current Hades members. Benji tells the group that he will be the sole leader of Hades and he is not disbanding and will continue to hold down Vespucci. If people want to stay as Hades they need to be in the Abyss in fifteen minutes or they are kicked. He lets everyone there know that if his group is retaliated against, he will not discuss splitting assets. As Benji starts to leave to head to the Abyss Ray asks to speak to Benji, Benji lets Ray that they will a lot of conversations in the future but right now he needs to be at the Abyss for those people who want to stay. On the way back to the Abyss Benji tells Chico to complete the order, (transferring all properties into Benji’s name essentially wiping locking everyone out of the properties that he doesn’t want in them). Mari will do the same when she wakes up. After 15 minutes most of the people who will stay are in the building. Benji does talk to Lance and Aleks who have a hard time deciding on what to do but they eventually leave and join Ray. Initially Beasu and Lucian also join Benji in Hades but later that day decide to leave. Lucian says he is just not sure what he wants and plans to be alone for a while. *Please see full complete list as of today for current Hades members https://nopixel.fandom.com/wiki/Hades_Gang

New Beginnings “Stay Humble but Deadly”
• After the 15 minutes are up, Benji talks to the remaining Hades. The gang will be operating differently in the future. Benji will have the final say in all matters and nothing will be withheld from him. He expects for everyone to help out including leaders with the day to day grind. Hades will now be more of a Southside Gang and he hopes everyone can meet those standards. Benji asks that everyone look to find things that can help the gang and point out gaps they see will need filling. In addition, people brought into the gang will be vetted more and expected to meet everyone in Hades not just leadership. No more cliques within Hades and you are expected to hang out and get to know everyone. Benji keeps KJ, Reggie and Louis as underbosses. Jayde, TicTac, Winter and Mona when she is back are LT, Marco, Rich and Emmy promoted to Prospect. Lucian, (later leaves Hades), Gabby and Rommie promoted to Member. Benji and Reggie remind everyone that Hades will be tested by other gangs since the city knows they split and to stay humble but deadly.
Benji, Underbosses, and LTs have another meeting discussing the future and how the previous meeting went. Benji starts his PR campaign meeting up with various leaders of Los Santos

Share the Tea
• Benji starts out his press tour by speaking to Barry on the phone. Barry gives Benji the run down of what has been happening in ADMC with the failed coup, their armory being heisted (he knows Perez was involved) and Barry blooding out traitors. Benji reassures Barry that he didn’t know about the armory heist and tells him how the start of the Hades divide with Ray making a new gang while Benji was asleep. Benji also talks to Shang, Cora and others of ADMC on their block about what happened with people leaving Hades, Perez choosing to leave Hades, and him not knowing about the heist of ADMC.
One the way to the next stop Benji has a brief phone call with John Joyce of the Manor to let him know that he kept Hades and all is well. John wants to stir and Benji tells him if he joins Hades he can stir all he wants. The conversation ends when Benji and the gang meet with up Edgar and 3Pas. Benji gives another brief rundown of events and how Benji ended up with the majority of the gang including properties. Benji apologizes to Edgar about the past with the clothing store shooting and would like to work together in the future. Edgar is happy and offers to take Benji to Guarma with him.

Panels, Dinners, Loyalty and Floppers
• Benji, Reggie and Mari go to the Hades properties in Benji’s name and add Hades IDs to the panel. In the middle of adding IDs, Benji finds out that Beasu and Lucian are leaving. Lucian decides to leave because he feels like Hades isn’t the same with both Ray and Benji and wants to spend time for himself, Beasu says he wants to leave because he doesn’t want to grind and didn’t like that people were given promotions out of the blue. Louis is upset with Beasu because he feels that the reasons he gave are not the real reasons he wants to leave.
Benji and part of Hades go to Dragon’s house to have dinner and celebrate Dragon being back. Benji has a one on one with Dragon and asks him why he decided to stay with Benji. Dragon says he wants to be there for Hades even though it is different. Benji asks Dragon if he needs time to think about things and tells him to let him know in a day or two if he really wants to stay with Benji or go to Ray. Benji says they should have treated Dragon better and it will be different this time around.
Benji then thanks Louis and TicTac for staying with him and he feels ok that Louis, TicTac, Reggie and KJ stayed with him. Benji feels like TicTac and Louis are the vibe and while Reggie and KJ are feeling burnt out he sees TicTac and Louis as picking up the mantel. Benji then calls Winter and thanks her as well for sticking by his side.

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