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'''Grand Theft Auto: The Untold Stories''' (2006 - 2011) was a fan-fiction series written by [[User:Carl "CJ" Johnson|Zach Marsh]]. During its' short run, the series failed to become well-known amongst fan-fiction writers or Grand Theft Auto fans. The very small audience that had read the series had mixed to negative reactions - some loved the attempt to bridge the gap of the GTA games, while many saw Marsh's immature writing style and plot contradictions to be a turn-off.


Grand Theft Auto: The Untold Stories (2006) is a Text-Based Series written by [[User:Carl "CJ" Johnson]]. In the series itself, it explains: WHY did Big Smoke and Ryder join the Ballas? Was Claude ALWAYS, or was he EVER, a "Mute"? WHY did 8-Ball start a Company? Well, the series can tell that to you. If it is turned into an ACTUAL series by Rockstar Games and Rockstar North, (which [[User:Carl "CJ" Johnson]] hereby gives them permission to use), it would take the Split-Screen Format of 24. It already takes the Real-Time Format of 24 (and you'd be surprised about how long an hour can be from these Characters' Perspectives, each episode takes up about 17 pages of Microsoft Word). In Carl's profile, you can get a link to the site where he hosts the episodes.
The series itself had 4 episodes that started to bridge the gap between [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]] when the series itself had suddenly come to a halt. After five years of a hiatus, Marsh finally pulled the plug on the series in 2011, along with his two other mini-series [[User:Carl "CJ" Johnson/Daily Dude Damage|Daily Dude Damage]] and [[User:Carl "CJ" Johnson/Lost Cause|Grand Theft Auto: Lost Cause]].


GTA: The Untold Stories has inspired a VERY mini Mini-Series called [[Daily Dude Damage]], where 3 Male (and sometimes Female) Characters from the GTA Games battle it all out. The Episodes can be as long as a Harry Potter Book, or as short as a Sentence. Sometimes More or Less Characters will be involved.
The series made an attempt to bridge every [[Grand Theft Auto]] game together, with [[Tommy Vercetti]] and [[Carl Johnson]] taking the roles of the primary protagonists. It took place in "real time", and each episode took the place of one hour. An entire season took place over one day. Marsh's series, however, was also going to chronicle the days of Johnson's parents, and that story was going to be told in a format similar to a regular story, fragmented and with gaps in-between. The story of Vercetti’s parents wasn’t going to be covered due to the fact that it wasn't written to be as eventful as that of the Johnson family's first generation.


==Seasons==
The series' earliest point chronologically was August 15th, 1928, with the birth of Brian Greaves, who would later become the father of [[Sweet|Sean]], [[Carl Johnson|Carl]], [[Kendl Johnson|Kendl]] and [[Brian Johnson|Brian]], and who is the initial protagonist - the entire series was going to revolve around his actions up until the time Carl is born. The series after that would largely go into detail about Carl's childhood along with that of Tommy Vercetti, a character who's family never makes any kind of appearance in the series until Tommy's birth. Despite the fact that Carl's family were the exclusive focal point of the series before this, Tommy would end up being the main protagonist due to his rivalry with [[Giorgio Forelli]] from his teenaged years onwards. Forelli would become the series' main antagonist. The [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] storyline would not have been directly involved with the series - it would've been mentioned in passing, and Niko Bellic would likely have been the only character to appear. The games L.A. Noire and Red Dead Redemption would not crossover with the storyline at any point in time.


===GTA: VC - GTA: SA Series===
Marsh may continue the series at some point in the future due to his personal enjoyment of it, but that is unlikely. If this does happen, the four episodes that were initially released will likely be re-written entirely while staying true to the plot.


====Season I====
==History==


Main Characters: 7 Characters:
===Premise and inital run===


Tommy Vercetti, Carl "CJ" Johnson, Sean "Sweet" Johnson, Jimmy Lincoln, Mickey Willows, Kendl Johnson, Jordan Liles.
The series was first conceptualized in 2005 when Marsh was actually playing Vice City. He decided to put his ideas to paper and would eventually type the first episode in 2006. The series follows a "real-time" format - of course, this can't be followed on paper, but if the series was a visual one rather than text-based, that means that the amount of time passed watching an episode is how much time passes in the lives of the characters as well.


Jimmy Lincoln and Mickey Willows were not even mentioned in the Games.
Marsh released the first episode of The Untold Stories, a story that picks up a day after the story of Vice City and was aptly named "Storyline", in 2006 on fanfiction.net and his own website to largely positive reviews, albeit he only attracted an audience of a few people on either site. The few reviews that the series had recieved mostly praised the attempt to tie Vice City and San Andreas together, and there was universal approval of the choice of Tommy Vercetti and Carl Johnson as protagonists. Criticism laid on Marsh's immaturity as a writer - overuse of capitalization was prominent as were extended sentences. This was largely due to his age, having only been 11 at the time of the series' premiere.
Jordan Liles has not yet appeared, and is based on a real person.


This Season is strange, in the way that it begins at 8:00 AM on December 31, 1986, and will end at 8:00 AM on January 1, 1987, making the Season go across 2 Years.  Marsh did this so Brian could be killed in 1986, instead of 1987, and make it still have been 5 years ago at the point in time San Andreas takes place, thus not contradicting The GTA Series' Canon.
===Hiatus and demise of the series===


==Plot==
However, when the next three episodes were released, the small audience Marsh had initially attracted washed their hands of the series. Episode 2 was met with mixed reviews due to its' rushed explanation of the death of [[Brian Johnson]], and one fear was that the series would get too far ahead of itself, wrapping up a story after only a few episodes/hours and leaving the rest of the season/day as a bunch of filler.


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Episode 3 recieved scathing reviews and was the worst-recieved of the entire four episodes. It was considered all over the place with its' plot and droned on and on with far-fetched action, including scenes where characters used technology inconsistent with 1986.


* ???: London: 1961, and London: 1969's protagonists are born.
Episode 4 was also negatively recieved, and the post on Marsh's website was actually attacked by a fan who said the episode contradicted "everything in [Vice City and San Andreas] it was trying to bridge together." After the extremely negative - and even sometimes cruel - reviews that the last 3 episodes recieved, the series went on a hiatus until 2011, when Marsh finally confirmed the death of the series along with his two other mini-series [[User:Carl "CJ" Johnson/Daily Dude Damage|Daily Dude Damage]] and [[User:Carl "CJ" Johnson/Lost Cause|Lost Cause]].


* September 11, 1955: Tommy Vercetti and Carl Johnson are born.
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* Carl's father mysteriously disappears the day Carl is born. He is/was a cop, and may have been killed in a gang-related incident.
 
* Tommy's parents move to San Andreas, in what would eventually be Sweet's house, for Tommy's first birthday.
 
* Tommy and Carl meet eachother at the age of 3.
 
* Tommy's mother dies when he is 5, from a drive-by. She was out shopping.
 
* 1961: London: 1961's events occur.
 
* When he is 13, Tommy and his father move to Liberty City. Carl urges him not to go, but Tommy says he will keep in touch.
 
* 1969: London: 1969's events occur.
 
* At 15, Tommy is, whether he wanted to or not, recruited by the Forelli family, headed by Sonny Forelli.
 
* Tommy and Sonny's cousin, Giorgio Forelli, who is the same age as Tommy (to the day), begin to argue, and eventually get into a fight in which Tommy suffers minor injuries, whereas Giorgio is smashed across the face with a beer bottle. Shards of glass are permanently stuck on the right side of his face.
 
* 1971: Several things happen that will have an effect on the rest of the series:
** Tommy gets into an arguement with his father (who's name is Jack, and who has a Tommy Gun for protection, hence the name of his son, as he always thought his son would protect him just the same), who has found out Tommy is working for the Mafia, and doesn't care about making money. He wants Tommy to help him at the Printing Press (now General Autos), as he makes a fair share of money anyway, with a legit job. Tommy refuses. His father goes out for a smoke. Just then, some Sindacco goons gun down his father in a Drive-By, intending to kill Tommy, and then drive off. Tommy comes out, sees his father on the ground, and shoots at the car with a 9MM Pistol. Everyone but the Shooter dies. He escapes, as Tommy runs out of ammo. He checks on his father, who is mortally wounded.
 
Tommy: "I'm here, dad. Stay with me. I NEED HELP! SOMEBODY HELP! I HAVE A MAN WHO HAS BEEN SHOT!"
Jack: "Maybe... you were right... if you had worked at the Press, it may have been... you... who came out here... and was shot..."
 
He coughs up blood.
 
Tommy holds him closer and embraces him. His father returns the hug, as tears start forming in Tommy's eyes.
 
Tommy: "Dad... st... stay... stay with me, OK?"
 
His father then goes limp.
*** The Johnson brothers (Sean, Carl, and Brian, Kendl has also been born, but is nowhere to be seen) smoke pot in Sean's Room. Kendl smells it, and this causes the infamous conversation heard in San Andreas, in the beginning of the game:
 
Kendl: "Carl, Brian, stop it! Brian, stop it!"
Sean: "Quit it! Moms will hear!"
Kendl: "Mom, they're up to something!"
 
So they leave the house. They go see Lance Wilson at his house. Melvin Harris is also there, playing Blackjack with Lance. They've also been smoking pot. They go outside. Sean wants to form a gang, and recruits all of them.
 
Sean: "Now now now, uh, we need to make nicknames. I'll start with... Sweet."
Melvin: "Big Smoke."
Lance: "Ryder, baby!"
Brian: "Uhh... CrackHead!"
Everyone Else: "FUCK NO!"
Sweet: "YOU STAY WITH BRIAN, MAN!"
Carl: "THAT IS, IF YOU'RE GONNA THINK UP THAT KINDA SHIT!"
**** Sonny Forelli has tracked Jack's killer. He sends Tommy to kill him, as he has "business... except this time, it's PERSONAL business!" to take care of. Tommy does the job with the 9MM, but 10 other guys shoot at him. He takes cover, and, with his father's Tommy Gun, he takes them all out. 11 men. He leaves, but then the Police are right outside. He drops the gun, and his 9MM, and is arrested without resistance.
***** Carl is watching TV. He looks at the news, and sees live footage of a trial. He sees Tommy Vercetti being tried, and can't believe it. He killed 11 men. Sonny Forelli, thankfully, comes to the stand, slips the Judge $1,000,000,000 (where he got 1 Billion is unknown) in special (and not counterfeit, somehow) $1,000,000 bills. After Sonny says all 11 men (in reality, only the first guy Tommy killed) were responsible for the death of his father. The Judge chooses the penalty on his own, not without controversy, and not without utter awe and shock, as 15 Years Without Parole Or Bail.
 
* Until Sometime In The 1970's/80's:
** The GSF, A.K.A. Grove Street Families, maintain a stranglehold over San Andreas, mainly due to Sean, Carl, and Brian. The Ballas, Vagos, Da Nang Gang, Sindacco & Leone/Forelli Mafia Families, and MoFos (almost instantly eradicated), among other gangs, then move in.
 
* 1984: Vice City Stories' events occur.
 
* Until 1986:
** Tommy Vercetti is in Jail.
*** The Forelli/Leone Families share a truce, and are united. Before, all 3 Mafia families were at peace. But then, all 3 are seperated, but the Leone & Forelli families do not war with eachother, they just want to branch out. The Forellis leave San Andreas.
**** 1980: Carl Johnson begins working in Liberty City, and becomes friends with Joey Leone.
 
* 1980:
** The Grove Street Families pay Kent Paul for heavy weapons. Such weapons are used to take out the MoFos. The Ballas and Vagos steal some, and so an All-Out war begins.
 
* 1986: The events of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City take place.
** Sometime in the middle of Vice City, the Grove Street Families are losing turf, and fast.
*** Carl Johnson goes back to San Andreas.
**** Brian Johnson is killed.
***** A vendetta begins against Giorgio Forelli.
****** Tommy & Kendl are apparently in love. From what Tommy says at one point, it would be for Kendl's well-being that she does not begin a relationship with him, as Carl would apparently be pissed if he ever found out. Nonetheless, they kiss at one point.
******* An unsuccessful attempt on Tommy's, and (presumably) Kendl's, lives, is made, and Carl Johnson is kidnapped, and thus happiness is short-lived between Kendl & Tommy.
******** Tommy Vercetti (presumably) will go after Carl to rescue him.
 
{{endspoiler}}
 
==Official Info (From Zachary Marsh)==
 
{{spoiler}}
 
MAJOR SPOILERS!
 
Note: Info also pertains to future episodes, and episodes that take place in the past, but have not been made.
 
* Real-Life Cities, Objects, People, And Other Things, will be used, along with the made-up things (I.E. a Harrier can be used, but so can a Hydra), albeit, probably not in the near future.
* The first season of the GTA: VC - GTA: SA Series has started at 8:00 AM, EDT, on December 31, 1986, and will end at 8:00 AM, EDT, on January 1, 1987 (due to Brian's death happening in 1986, to keep it at 5 years before San Andreas, Zach has made it be in Late 1986). This indicates that the GTA: VC - GTA: SA Series will only have 5 (likely), 4 (slightly less likely), or 6 (nearly impossible) Seasons. Any number larger is impossible, smaller is closer to impssible than 6 is.
* Brian's death will be a cause of several deaths throughout the series, especially in this Season, and most of the deaths will be Giorgio Forelli's men, as acts of revenge by CJ, Sweet, and Tommy.
* Giorgio Forelli is the main antagonist of the series, and will remain so until his eventual, and inevitable, death at the hands of Tommy and/or Carl, and then someone "you won't believe" takes his place.
* Tommy and Carl have known eachother since they were 3.
* Tommy and Carl are close friends.
* Tommy and Carl are the main Protagonists of the series.
* Tommy and Carl were both born on September 11, 1955.
* There are many plot branches and twists.
* The series will probably take at least 30 years to complete, as a sheer 3 episodes are complete, and it's almost been a year.
* There are continuity errors, like things appearing on TV and such, that weren't around until after the time that episode/season takes place. These are intentional, however, as the actual GTA series itself has several in every game, or at least most of the games.
* Kendl will do something "unimaginable" at some point. Possibilities include killing someone, or turning on the protagonists.
* The yet-to-be-seen character of Jordan Liles is based on a person in real life, Jordan Liles, A.K.A. d8cam, the infamous creator of the "GTA Trilogy Tribute", on YouTube, which was unfortunately stolen.
* A preview of the current season shows that a building somewhere in Downtown Los Santos will explode, taking out electricity all over San Andreas.
* A "Zachary Marsh" character may appear at some time, as a Protagonist, and if so, will be born on May 29, 1995, the birthday of series creator Zachary Marsh, and/or a major event may take place on this day. However, it is possible neither of them will happen.
* Tragic events regularly happen.
 
{{endspoiler}}

Latest revision as of 10:27, 31 March 2013

Grand Theft Auto: The Untold Stories (2006 - 2011) was a fan-fiction series written by Zach Marsh. During its' short run, the series failed to become well-known amongst fan-fiction writers or Grand Theft Auto fans. The very small audience that had read the series had mixed to negative reactions - some loved the attempt to bridge the gap of the GTA games, while many saw Marsh's immature writing style and plot contradictions to be a turn-off.

The series itself had 4 episodes that started to bridge the gap between Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas when the series itself had suddenly come to a halt. After five years of a hiatus, Marsh finally pulled the plug on the series in 2011, along with his two other mini-series Daily Dude Damage and Grand Theft Auto: Lost Cause.

The series made an attempt to bridge every Grand Theft Auto game together, with Tommy Vercetti and Carl Johnson taking the roles of the primary protagonists. It took place in "real time", and each episode took the place of one hour. An entire season took place over one day. Marsh's series, however, was also going to chronicle the days of Johnson's parents, and that story was going to be told in a format similar to a regular story, fragmented and with gaps in-between. The story of Vercetti’s parents wasn’t going to be covered due to the fact that it wasn't written to be as eventful as that of the Johnson family's first generation.

The series' earliest point chronologically was August 15th, 1928, with the birth of Brian Greaves, who would later become the father of Sean, Carl, Kendl and Brian, and who is the initial protagonist - the entire series was going to revolve around his actions up until the time Carl is born. The series after that would largely go into detail about Carl's childhood along with that of Tommy Vercetti, a character who's family never makes any kind of appearance in the series until Tommy's birth. Despite the fact that Carl's family were the exclusive focal point of the series before this, Tommy would end up being the main protagonist due to his rivalry with Giorgio Forelli from his teenaged years onwards. Forelli would become the series' main antagonist. The Grand Theft Auto IV storyline would not have been directly involved with the series - it would've been mentioned in passing, and Niko Bellic would likely have been the only character to appear. The games L.A. Noire and Red Dead Redemption would not crossover with the storyline at any point in time.

Marsh may continue the series at some point in the future due to his personal enjoyment of it, but that is unlikely. If this does happen, the four episodes that were initially released will likely be re-written entirely while staying true to the plot.

History

Premise and inital run

The series was first conceptualized in 2005 when Marsh was actually playing Vice City. He decided to put his ideas to paper and would eventually type the first episode in 2006. The series follows a "real-time" format - of course, this can't be followed on paper, but if the series was a visual one rather than text-based, that means that the amount of time passed watching an episode is how much time passes in the lives of the characters as well.

Marsh released the first episode of The Untold Stories, a story that picks up a day after the story of Vice City and was aptly named "Storyline", in 2006 on fanfiction.net and his own website to largely positive reviews, albeit he only attracted an audience of a few people on either site. The few reviews that the series had recieved mostly praised the attempt to tie Vice City and San Andreas together, and there was universal approval of the choice of Tommy Vercetti and Carl Johnson as protagonists. Criticism laid on Marsh's immaturity as a writer - overuse of capitalization was prominent as were extended sentences. This was largely due to his age, having only been 11 at the time of the series' premiere.

Hiatus and demise of the series

However, when the next three episodes were released, the small audience Marsh had initially attracted washed their hands of the series. Episode 2 was met with mixed reviews due to its' rushed explanation of the death of Brian Johnson, and one fear was that the series would get too far ahead of itself, wrapping up a story after only a few episodes/hours and leaving the rest of the season/day as a bunch of filler.

Episode 3 recieved scathing reviews and was the worst-recieved of the entire four episodes. It was considered all over the place with its' plot and droned on and on with far-fetched action, including scenes where characters used technology inconsistent with 1986.

Episode 4 was also negatively recieved, and the post on Marsh's website was actually attacked by a fan who said the episode contradicted "everything in [Vice City and San Andreas] it was trying to bridge together." After the extremely negative - and even sometimes cruel - reviews that the last 3 episodes recieved, the series went on a hiatus until 2011, when Marsh finally confirmed the death of the series along with his two other mini-series Daily Dude Damage and Lost Cause.