Nothing But the Second Best

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"Nothing but the second best, why can't we sit over there, mano?"

―Marcelo talking to Alphonse over Claudio's seat

Nothing but the Second Best is the second chapter in Max Payne 3.

Plot

The Chapter starts with Max riding a helicopter to a party in Club Moderno with the party goers who are Fabiana, Giovanna, Marcelo along with helicopter pilot Raul Passos. When they arrive at the club, all party goers including Max heads out the helicopter while Passos was stay put in the copter. The four was escorted by one of Marcelo's friends to the party where both Marcelo and Max goes to the VIP room and the girls were in dance floor. During that time, He and Marcelo were having a brief talk about each other (E.G. Max mentions that he cannot stand the electronic music with in front of "robotic people"). While Marcelo who was mad about getting the other spots in the VIP lounge due to Galations soccer star Claudio. Soon after, Serrano the leader of the Commando Sombra gang later silently uses hand gestures to order his gang members kidnaps both the sisters as he sends a signal which result the gang members (including Serrano) don thier balaclava then shoots the ceiling leading the gang kidnapping Fabiana and Giovanna and killing a few civillians (including the famous soccer player Claudio). Max is forced to fight his way as he saves Marcelo's life by bodyslaming a member through the glass after the member shoots Claudio in the head as Max was finishing off the remaining gang members in the area. Max then phones Passos that Faba and Giovanna was kidnapped. Passos mentions he is going come and assist him but Max declines saying they need quick exit route. Max then proceeds to kill the kidnappers but the CS manage to block Max's path via an elevator. Max manages to find a way to the girls through the nightclub building but a member pops up and helicopter arrives at the same time with Marcelo and Passos inside the copter. Max succeedly jumps to the copter with the help of Marcelo who then triggers an conversation with the trio (eg Marcelo complaining about how Rodrigo is going to hear when his wife was kidnapped). Afterwards Max then grabs the red-dot sighted Mini-30 and protects Giovanna from Commando Sombra trying to attack and kill her, providing covering fire from the helicopter. Upon arriving over the helipad, the CS begin to use RPGs to try to destroy the helicopter which resulting in Max falling out of the copter and grabbing hold of the landing skid, but this makes him lose all of his remaining Painkillers. Max fends off two waves of gang members who were trying to destroy the helicopter. After fending off the CS members Max slowly losses his grip and falls off the helicopter but luckily, he lands safely on the helipad. Max then continues to soldier on killing the remaining members in order to find Giovanna. After the gun fight, Max succeeds on finding Giovanna hiding safely. Giovanna then signals Passos and Marcelo who then finds relief that Giovanna was safe but unfortunately, Fabiana was taken away.