The task force hadn't so much as traveled from Juárez to Tokyo via El Paso when they got ambushed and cornered deep inside a locked-down Narita Airport, which, fittingly, and unfortunately for them, was just far enough away from downtown that they couldn't hope to escape even if they wanted to. The perpetrators of the impromptu lockdown were not yakuza members, but rather, they were more Mexican drug cartel agents, infiltrating Japanese cities if only to turn them into "wastelands", since they had just about run each other out of Mexico over the course of many years. The main man leading the drug cartel group inside Narita, however, was not a Mexican: it was the man who unexpectedly addressed the force in Juárez: Yamiguchi-gumi kumicho ("Godfather"), Kenichi Shinoda! Shinoda's first words to them inside Narita were initially words of "welcome", as any syndicate leader would probably be wont to do, but soon turned boastful:
"Hello there, men who allegedly fight organizations... I understand that you arrived here expecting to find many of my own men, but, as you can tell, the drug cartels have decided to "pinch-hit" for them for the foreseeable future, so I hope you enjoy fighting this new yakuza of my creation, composed of battle-toughened drug cartel fighters!"
He then addressed Giunta and Scangalore directly:
"You only think you're so tough... I'll have you know that before I purged my original clan of corrupt jerks, I was still planning on implementing some of the cartels' ideas..."
Hannelman felt compelled to respond in Spanish to interrupt Shinoda's monologue, so he did:
"Vayate de aqui con tu ******... Supongo que tu organización tiene las capacidades de infiltrar varias ciudades y infligir dolor y sufrimiento masivo, pero nosotros no te dejáremos progresar con tus planes muy siniestros!"
Shinoda responded in kind:
"Who do you think I am-Alberto Fujimori? We might hold people hostage now and then, but we don't shut down whole countries and governments to seize control of any of our territory!"
"Con tu ignorancia sobre esta tema, creo que estarías mejor servido en ser un alcaide de prisión, con tus métodos de torturar a la gente extraña!"
"You never got understood me, did you? I proclaimed my innocence in ransacking cities, not innocence in surrendering to enemies!"
Hannelman soon changed to a language that everybody in the JR terminal, Narita Airport Station, could understand:
"That's what you might think, but that's why we're here-to end whatever "streak" you're too busy laying claim to right now instead of actually testing our abilities!"
He also preemptively silenced Giunta before he could back himself into a verbal corner:
"...and quit talkin', Giunta, before you get even more opponents on you and the rest of us 'cause you're too busy talkin' smack to this yakuza guy!"
Giunta fired back at Hannelman's sudden order almost immediately:
"Why you tellin' me to shush when we got this crazy Japanese gangsta all up in our faces right here, lookin' to bust our ***** in his way to controllin' all of this here island?"
In any normal situation, said confrontation would most likely settle down rather soon, leaving any physical battles to a future meeting. While this confrontation was happening, however, there was a caravan of drug cartel men, obeying Shinoda's orders, fast approaching the Marunouchi district of Tokyo, about an hour away from the standoff between the Yamaguchi-gumi clan leader and the task force. Among the men planning the infiltration of Marunouchi was a man from another drug cartel: Timoleón Jimenez, leader of the Colombian paramilitary group FARC, who was under even tighter orders from Shinoda, considering his status as a drug cartel "leader". Little did Timoleón know, though, that the General of his country's Policía Nacional, Rodolfo Palomino, was boarding a plane from Lima, Perú, first to arrest him, and then join in the battle against the Mexican drug cartel-controlled yakuza! Before he boarded the plane, however, he spoke with a reporter for América Noticias in Lima to outline his role in the operations against the FARC leader and the new yakuza:
"Para que nuestra operación triunfa, tenemos que navegar cuidadosamente, por que estamos luchando contra dos fuerzas criminales, no solamente uno... La así-llamada 'yakuza', y sus secuaces con los carteles Mexicanos..."
For General Palomino's planned cornering of Timoleón's group to work, however, he would have to fly into Haneda Airport closer to downtown Tokyo, which would put him at risk of getting cut off by some of the Mexicans. That was easier said than done, however, being that a huge force of Tokyo Metropolitan Police men were heavily guarding Haneda Airport to counter the takeover of Narita Airport by Shinoda, who had his units guarding stretches of all the major highways between Haneda and Narita, particularly the Marunouchi district, since the cartel men were planning on "breaking and entering" into various bank headquarters buildings throughout Tokyo's equivalent to the Manhattan Financial District. They had their plan, but did they have their success? Only time would be able to tell that aspect of the fight...
"Hello there, men who allegedly fight organizations... I understand that you arrived here expecting to find many of my own men, but, as you can tell, the drug cartels have decided to "pinch-hit" for them for the foreseeable future, so I hope you enjoy fighting this new yakuza of my creation, composed of battle-toughened drug cartel fighters!"
He then addressed Giunta and Scangalore directly:
"You only think you're so tough... I'll have you know that before I purged my original clan of corrupt jerks, I was still planning on implementing some of the cartels' ideas..."
Hannelman felt compelled to respond in Spanish to interrupt Shinoda's monologue, so he did:
"Vayate de aqui con tu ******... Supongo que tu organización tiene las capacidades de infiltrar varias ciudades y infligir dolor y sufrimiento masivo, pero nosotros no te dejáremos progresar con tus planes muy siniestros!"
Shinoda responded in kind:
"Who do you think I am-Alberto Fujimori? We might hold people hostage now and then, but we don't shut down whole countries and governments to seize control of any of our territory!"
"Con tu ignorancia sobre esta tema, creo que estarías mejor servido en ser un alcaide de prisión, con tus métodos de torturar a la gente extraña!"
"You never got understood me, did you? I proclaimed my innocence in ransacking cities, not innocence in surrendering to enemies!"
Hannelman soon changed to a language that everybody in the JR terminal, Narita Airport Station, could understand:
"That's what you might think, but that's why we're here-to end whatever "streak" you're too busy laying claim to right now instead of actually testing our abilities!"
He also preemptively silenced Giunta before he could back himself into a verbal corner:
"...and quit talkin', Giunta, before you get even more opponents on you and the rest of us 'cause you're too busy talkin' smack to this yakuza guy!"
Giunta fired back at Hannelman's sudden order almost immediately:
"Why you tellin' me to shush when we got this crazy Japanese gangsta all up in our faces right here, lookin' to bust our ***** in his way to controllin' all of this here island?"
In any normal situation, said confrontation would most likely settle down rather soon, leaving any physical battles to a future meeting. While this confrontation was happening, however, there was a caravan of drug cartel men, obeying Shinoda's orders, fast approaching the Marunouchi district of Tokyo, about an hour away from the standoff between the Yamaguchi-gumi clan leader and the task force. Among the men planning the infiltration of Marunouchi was a man from another drug cartel: Timoleón Jimenez, leader of the Colombian paramilitary group FARC, who was under even tighter orders from Shinoda, considering his status as a drug cartel "leader". Little did Timoleón know, though, that the General of his country's Policía Nacional, Rodolfo Palomino, was boarding a plane from Lima, Perú, first to arrest him, and then join in the battle against the Mexican drug cartel-controlled yakuza! Before he boarded the plane, however, he spoke with a reporter for América Noticias in Lima to outline his role in the operations against the FARC leader and the new yakuza:
"Para que nuestra operación triunfa, tenemos que navegar cuidadosamente, por que estamos luchando contra dos fuerzas criminales, no solamente uno... La así-llamada 'yakuza', y sus secuaces con los carteles Mexicanos..."
For General Palomino's planned cornering of Timoleón's group to work, however, he would have to fly into Haneda Airport closer to downtown Tokyo, which would put him at risk of getting cut off by some of the Mexicans. That was easier said than done, however, being that a huge force of Tokyo Metropolitan Police men were heavily guarding Haneda Airport to counter the takeover of Narita Airport by Shinoda, who had his units guarding stretches of all the major highways between Haneda and Narita, particularly the Marunouchi district, since the cartel men were planning on "breaking and entering" into various bank headquarters buildings throughout Tokyo's equivalent to the Manhattan Financial District. They had their plan, but did they have their success? Only time would be able to tell that aspect of the fight...
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