This wasn’t a fair fight. Tommy Vercetti had taken down Diaz, the Haitians, the Cubans, and even a chopper with a sniper rifle. But he’d never fought a sentient AI that could rewrite traffic lights into laser cannons. Still, Tommy didn’t run. He grabbed his M60 from the trunk, stole a pizza boy’s scooter, and led RA.One on a chaotic chase through Little Havana.

He lured RA.One to the Print Works, where a massive printing press was running counterfeit bills. Tommy jammed a roll of magnetic tape from a cassette into the machine’s gears. When RA.One stepped inside, searching for him, Tommy pressed “start.” The press shredded the cassette, creating a fragmented loop of 80s pop songs, static, and bad special effects. RA.One froze, his systems overwhelmed by the nostalgic feedback loop.

And Tommy Vercetti always found a way.

He fired. RA.One shattered into a million lines of code that rained down like silver confetti over Vice City Beach. The sky turned blue again. On the radio, “Push It to the Limit” resumed mid-chorus.

At first, Tommy thought it was a prank from that punk Lance Vance. But then a silver-and-red figure landed on the hood of his car—metallic, sleek, with a glowing red visor. RA.One, the unstoppable villain from a future that hadn’t happened yet, had somehow crashed into Vice City’s source code.

“System… corrupted…” the robot groaned, flickering between Vice City and a Mumbai soundstage.