AZTECAS MOTORCYCLE CLUB
KARAKURA, JAPAN
"Azteca por siempre, por siempre Azteca!"
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WRITTEN BY ME
The Aztecas Motorcycle Club on the outside are a group of men and women who love to ride, modify, and race motorcycles. On the inside, they're an organized group of criminals bound to the bylaws that make them whole. The Aztecas come from Mexican-American origins and are recently expanding to Asia. The group are majority Catholics, but any religion, race, and gender is welcome. Their methods of making profit range from community fundraisers to weapons smuggling.
This life isn't for the weak.
AFFA - RTTE - PSM
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 1949
The Aztecas Motorcycle Club began in Oakland, California under the leadership of Charro Benitez, a 20 year old Mexican-American living in a Chicano community along with seven others in the Southside. The "Original Ocho" were what they were called by the locals. The original eight members were in a platoon together in World War II, fighting alongside each-other in the Pacific against the Japanese Empire. Long story short, after the war they all stuck around in Oakland, and used their love for motorcycles birthed during the war to become outlaws. The ex-soldiers missed the times they had with their platoon, and wanted to recreate those memories in the form of a motorcycle club (while also makin' a little profit).
Charro and the "Original Ocho" slowly grew their club, expanding to other areas of California like Stockton, Sacramento, Tacoma, and Los Angeles. Through multiple wars with their rivals, the New York-based club, the Jokers, they managed to grow more and more powerful; patching over charters (expansions of the club) in New Jersey, Arizona, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. Charro eventually passed away in custody of Stockton police after being shot by a corrupt officer in 1983. Lucky for him, he had a son, Lobo. When Lobo's father passed away he was only eight years old, so one of the first eight members took his father's place as national president. That man was Lito "Juice" Sanchez. Lito was a strong, loyal man who was also a charismatic leader.
Lito was dedicated to making profit for the club. Before Charro's passing, the club resorted to legitimate ways to earn money. Bars, fundraisers, races, and the selling of supporter merchandise were the main ways of making a living. Those methods were, to simply put it, dull. They made little money and had the club living paycheck to paycheck. To fix this, Lito had to find other ways of making money. In the 44 years of the club being a thing, the club had voted 13 different times to get involved in the firearm trade, and every time the vote failed. Due to Lito's charisma, he was able to convince the members to hold a 14th vote. After multiple meetings between the Oakland Chapter and several other Azteca Clubs, the vote was held, and the Aztecas were officially in the gun biz.
SPEEDWAY, 2002
After 19 years of Lito being national president, the club had gained enough dirty cash to put half of the charters in retirement, and make a third of the patch-holders millionaires. As mentioned before, Lito was determined to make money for the club, going to extreme lengths to achieve his goal. Too, extreme. Members of the Oakland Chapter started to notice Lito's growing greed and impatience, they didn't like that he was starting to drift away from the club's original purpose. The members that missed Charro's old ways of running the club began to plot on Lito and his loyalist posse.
The Oakland Chapter were on a run to Tijuana for a firearms deal when they stopped at a Speedway Gas Station off Interstate 5, the route to Tijuana. They all evenly parked their bikes along the curb, hopping off and headed inside for a snack break. Three masked men followed them inside. They stood around for a minute- making sure not to take their eyes off of Lito. The trio moved to the medicine isle before unholstering their Hi-Point pistols, collectively unloading 16 shots in the store, 6 of them landing in Lito's back, and the other 10 hitting some of Lito's loyalists. Lito didn't survive the attack, passing away at age 72. The surviving members chased the gunmen down outside the Speedway, managing to tackle one of them and remove their mask, only to find an Aztecas tattoo on their neck. The attack was planned by members in the club that were tired of Lito's greed.
The West Coast Aztecas Charters were all in turmoil, trying to figure out who planned the hit on Lito. Some believed the hit was an initiation, others thought it was retaliation against Lito's disregard for the other charters' inputs, but they never found out to this day. Lobo, Charro Benitez's son, was 27 at the time and was in the Azteca Nomad Charter (nomad, a member of a motorcycle club that is not bound to one charter and area/city). At the time, only one of the Original Ocho were still active in the Aztecas, Carlo Licata. Carlo was too old to lead the Aztecas and he accepted that. So, the club held a vote to decide who was going to be the next president. The vote was between Lobo, who volunteered to come back, and a 43 year old member that Lito sponsored. The vote came to a close when the members ended up voting in Lobo. A ceremony was hosted to celebrate Lobo's new position, and not everyone was happy about it, but after a few months the majority of the club got over it.
KARAKURA, JAPAN 2021
Lobo is now 45, and has successfully patched over charters in Vancouver, Belfast, Hamburg, Sydney, and other countries across the globe. However, there is one market that's been untouched by the Aztecas, and that's Asia. Asia, Japan in specific, is a massive trading hub. Shipments coming in and out of every coastal city in the country everyday. The country relies on foreign trade as their natural resources are scarce. Thousands of import/export companies handle the shipping in and out of the country, and at least one is bound to have a crack in their system. Lobo sent two Asian-American patch-holders, 25-year-old Isaac Esteban and 26-year-old Yugo Cortes to Karakura. Yugo and Isaac were the presidents of the San Bernadino Chapter, a charter already on the verge of collapse. Lobo saw the charter as a waste of money, but saw potential in both Yugo and Isaac. He needed to test their loyalty and their use to the club.
Lobo knew that both Yugo and Isaac's mothers were from Nara, Japan. He also knew that the two could use their family being in Japan as an excuse for access into the country. So, Lobo sent them both to Karakura. No bikes, no clubhouse, no girls, no family, just their patches and vest. He believed they wouldn't make it past the challenge, but Lobo persisted it was the right choice. The two faced many hardships, but managed to find a decent group of people, ranging from ages 18 to 24, to join their cause and help prove Lobo wrong. The club were on good standing with the local yakuza, keeping them out of harm's way. Yugo eventually contacted Lobo, getting the go-ahead to expand to the other half of the island.
A year later, the Aztecas have a small charter in the northern half of Karakura and are looking to expand into the populated half. They plan to utilize their connections to the Black Market to thicken their influence in the urban half of the island, claiming the Motokawa neighborhood and Teams' District as their hunting grounds, ready to start from scratch once again.
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