Editing Marty Marcano (section)

=== Working with Hans and Marty’s Kidnapping ===
On March 5th 2025, after settling into life in Los Santos, Hans found himself needing extra hands for sourcing narcotics. During the Yakuza Crisis, Hans had given Marty flying lessons, and the two were already familiar. In need of money and eager for action, Marty agreed to help—and asked if his close friend Morgan could come along. Hans approved.

What began as a simple job expanded rapidly. Now piloting helicopters instead of just planes, Marty, Morgan, and Hans worked together to source narcotics cargo across the state. Their efforts caused a significant oversupply, steadily plummeting the price of street drugs. However, Marty’s good fortune was short-lived. During one of the sourcing runs, Marty accidentally destroyed some valuable cargo, an incident that silently angered Hans. 

Two weeks later, after leaving his factory in La Mesa, Marty was ambushed by masked men and brutally kidnapped, they put a sack over his head, punched him in the stomach and put him in a van. He disappeared from everyone's radar. While some speculated that his mistake during the sourcing job might have played a role, the true reason was far more sinister. [[The Phantom]], operating from the shadows, had ordered Marty's abduction as part of a larger plan to destabilize San Andreas. Nobody knew the Phantom’s full motives—only that Marty was now a pawn in a much larger, more dangerous game.

When Marty woke up, he found himself tied up in a dark, windowless warehouse. It was here he first heard the chilling voice of a figure known only as The Phantom. Marty was savagely tortured over the course of two gruelling weeks, kept alive but malnourished and broken. On April 2nd, Marty was handed over to [[Yorinobu Honda]] and [[the Yakuza]], who had arrived aboard a submarine. Life aboard the vessel was even worse. Marty was degraded, starved, and isolated, slipping further into despair and madness.

Roughly two weeks later, gunfire erupted aboard the submarine. In the chaos, Alexa Morrison emerged—leading an operation that freed a barely recognizable Marty. Weak, gaunt, and unkempt, Marty was spirited away to Alexa’s agency, where her team worked to rehabilitate him.

It took one full week of care before Marty physically recovered, though the emotional scars ran much deeper. When Giuseppe later visited him at his home in Pillbox Hill, Marty confronted him—furious that his father had seemingly done little to find or rescue him. Giuseppe, hurt but defensive, insisted he had done everything in his power, though Marty was hurt, the confrontation did not create a full rift between him and his father. Instead, Marty gradually grew closer to Alexa once more, unknowingly becoming a pawn caught in the ongoing power struggle between Giuseppe and Alexa for control over his loyalty.