Nightmares and Monsters

Part 21

Chapter 21

We were in our respective rides listening to Leo going on and on about his website and the mysterious guy we were now heading to meet that could possibly help us.

"This guy, Robo-Warrior, everything about anything alien, he's supposed to know. One time we revenge-hacked his site and maybe I saw some of your alien drawings or whatever." He said as I gently stroked a now dozing Anubis, who had woken up a short while ago in a panic — for a reason none of us could figure out.

After 4 hours of driving we finally arrived at our intended — at least by Leo's standards — destination, definitely not some place I would expect an Alien Know-it-all to reside at.

"This is it. Yep." Came Leo's voice over the radio in Jazz's Alternate Mode and smiled as we parked in a line along the sidewalk outside of the building. I watched as the three teens — Leo, Sam (wearing a baseball cap) and Mikaela - climbed out of Bee's Alternate Mode and started talking. At this point I rolled down the window and listened in.

"Deli. Good front!" came Sam's voice as he looked around trying to spot anything out of the ordinary, specifically Cops.

"All right, wait here. I'll give you the go/no go. All right?" was Leo's response as he turned to head on in. Deciding that I should go and wait with Sam and Mikaela, I climbed out of Jazz and after closing the door I started walking towards Bee's Alternate Mode, but not before I ran a hand down the hood of Jazz's Alternate Mode, at which I smirked when he jerked back slightly with a 'barp' from his horn. I can be a sneaky bitch when I want to be and vice versa with my Guardian, he can be a rather sneaky Mech at times — comes with his job being Spec-Op's.

After getting a snigger out of Mikaela and Sam and a sound clip out of Bee, Sam started walking towards the front door of the Deli. Deciding to ere on the side of caution Mikaela and I walked after him — sometimes he could be such an idiot.

As we walked through the door we were assaulted by the noise of a busy shop. "Number 42, we got your kishka, knish, kasha-varnishka and kreplach combo right here. Cash only. Who's next?"

I stopped short when I heard that voice, one that I hadn't heard in two years, a voice that made me want to shoot the idiot just for what he did back then, when he tried to offline Anubis and tortured Bee. Just as I was about to walk up and slap him to see if he remembered me at all I heard a female voice yell at him.

"I told you to cure the lox in the brine and then smoke it." I sniggered and tried to cover it up when I caught Mikaela looking my way with a raised eyebrow. Shaking my head at her with a smile she caught the message... don't worry about it.

"Ma, you want me to cut my hand off, or what?" came the irate yelling response from the idiot, and if what the female voice yelled next, he truly was one.

"You... You ruined a beautiful piece of fish, you retard!"

The idiot's response to that made me smirk wider and walk over to the counter, pretending that I was perusing the wares behind the glass. "I'm like a ninja with a blade. It's an art form."

He finished serving the customer in front of him and then rather rudely said to the customer, "Give me your money. Get out of here!"

Shaking my head at the language usage — in a busy store no less — I started towards the idiot and stood behind Leo. Luckily I had had my hair cut since the last time I had met this man and the clothing was different, including the jacket so he shouldn't recognize me too quickly. He was currently yelling at another of the employees as we waited for him to acknowledge that we were waiting to be served like any of his other customers. "Hey, Sal! Watch your reach, huh?"