Ghetto Samurai

The Next Conflict

December, 3 3017 HQ It's been a few months since we broke out of D'Mob's palace my brother now joined us permanently and his girlfriend. It so happened to be that I was actually hoping for someone who knew the palace well enough to be able to get around unnoticed even though the place is half ruined and probably deserted we might be able to find some clues as to where they went or what they are planning. I'm going to visit grandfather with my brother later on today so they can meet for the first time, lets see how they react to each other I only hope for the best that me and my brother don't end like our fathers brotherhood did. End of entry.I closed the laptop and put it back in my bag, I walked over to the stairwell and went down to the workshop room. The room was fully lit, the machines were off, and Sarid was watching Derrick who was trying to tune his twin energy blades. Sarid kept nagging him that he was doing this or that wrong, and that he should've practiced this skill instead of being lazy. He seemed to be taking it calmly but I knew he was about to say something so I walked over and pulled Sarid from the holo stand Derrick looked at me and said "thanks I was planning to shoot the stand if you didn't pull her". I smiled and looked at what he was doing then I took one of the swords and started to show him how to tune the sword, I also showed him how to fix the weapon if it got damaged out in the real world. It was a good time for the both of us to bond like we did, and I hoped that I could keep my bond with him till the day we died and even after that.It was 1:30ish when we walked to master Cloud's house the building still cold and wrecked on the outside seemed to be a safe haven when I wanted to escape my reality. As we walked in Master Cloud came out from the kitchen with a pot of tea. He looked at us and his hands started to tremble fiercely the pot dropped to the floor as he walked over to my brother who was a few steps ahead of me. The two seemed dumb founded by the sight of each other and Master started to cry a little then a little more and a few seconds into that he seemed to be crying and laughing as he hugged my brother like a father who had found his long lost son. They stood there for a few minutes which felt like an eternity, while I cleaned up the glass pieces from the shattered pot on the floor. Thankfully Master had a spare pot hiding somewhere in the kitchen.The three of us sat down and talked for a little bit we talked about how was life, what had Derrick done in life, how he enjoyed his life in the palace. We talked about the way he was trained to fight, the things he did, the people he met, and the places he went. Then we talked about my life how I ran into Master and we shared some laughs and tea as we talked for hours.After we ended our conversation about our life, master mentioned to us about some friends my father had, a group of skilled people like ourselves that could help our cause. We got deeper into the conversation about our father's team and he mentioned that two of them were still very much alive, the first was a man by the name of Arlan Smith Richmond he was a weapons crafter and a hacker the other one was more mysterious his name is Shadow Fang.After the few hours at grandpas house we went back to our place as I ran through the conversation a few times in my head I realized that I had heard of Arlan before and when I thought about it a little more I grabbed my brothers arm and told him we have to hurry within a few minutes we were crashing through the door and as I looked I noticed Axel and Samuel plugged into the virtual reality system.I went to the computer and got Sarid to unplug them for me. A few seconds later the virtual reality pods opened and the two stepped out Axel started yelling at me when he came out and Samuel was looking a bit down about it as well. I stopped Axel and asked him if he knew about an Arlan Smith. He looked at me as if I was mentally retarded and said "who doesn't know Arlan Smith he's the creator of the biggest virtual tournament and the game he designed has the three biggest maps and the four most played formats for virtual reality systems anywhere and he runs ARCADE here in Worcester".Axel looked at me and before I could say anything else he was walking out, getting in Samuel's car, and anxious to go. I looked at him in amusement then looked at Samuel who shrugged and got in the car. I looked at my brother who took the liberty of throwing my bike keys to me and we drove off. A few minutes on the road and three streets later we parked in front of the arcade; Axel was the first one out and into the building. We slowly walked in behind him seeing no harm in taking a little time off I let the others go and enjoy the video games.I walked over to the bar and grabbed a Triple Magna Molt Drink (an energy drink with some sort of a margarita mixed in it). I finished my drink and noticed this young man who was about my age or maybe a little older, his hair was ruffled and dark brown, and his eyes a stale blue. He looked at me and challenged me to a game of VRF (Virtual Reality Fighter) seeing no harm in it I accepted the challenge. We got into the next two available pods and entered the next tournament that came up. I wasn't very surprised to find Axel and Samuel participating but to find my brother was a shock I thought he wasn't into this kind of thing.As the game began I saw a flashing light, then a set of lists came up with a timer of 300 seconds, I choose four weapons, three skills, a special, and gear within 250 seconds. I waited for the rest and noticed that 9 out of 36 of us were done, I decided to use the chat to talk with my brother who was adding on weapons, I revised my equipment while asking my brother how he was, added a new weapon and removed my gear something special that wouldn't be expected.As the time ran out the pod seemed to fall out from beneath me and I dropped into a world covered in thick forests and mountains which I recognized as the dark forest map that I played against Axel a few months ago. I walked around a little bit till I found my first opponent, it was a man dressed in total armor from the time of Vikings. He carried a claymore, short sword, hand axe, his gear which if I had to take a guess would be a potion of greater strength. I pulled out my two katana's and challenged him, he drew the claymore and rushed at me. I stepped out of the way in the final moment, sliding around him, and kicked him in the back dropping him to the floor in a mud pool.He got up as I put my swords away and I challenged him again to come at me this time he came at me with a web of death maneuver, I jumped back as he got closer to me then launched my self up as he came to the end of the attack with an overhead slash that split the old broken tree behind me. I landed on the tree that was a few feet behind him and a good 50 feet up I looked down on him as he searched around for me. I took a deep breath extended my arms and fell backwards to the ground I spiraled once landed on my feet crushing the earth around me as I looked up he turned and the world seemed to slow down I could see his every move as he rushed at me with the swift strokes of his blade which I evaded and slipped around over and under every attack as if I could read his mind or was it his body movements that I was reading.The fight lasted a while before I decided to finish it by kicking him in the face and stabbing his head with his own blade the world sunk out from beneath me and a message appeared across the screen 'you have won the first round proceeding to next round'. I checked the remaining competitors and noticed that the map was reduced to 18 people. From my previous fight I gained an extra weapon slot and an extra skill slot so I took up a compound bow and the skill zero gravity it gives me a few minutes while airborne to stay levitating with out worry of falling. I cleared the screen and got set up for my next match I took note of the next battle being in an old church the ruined church of Saint Altair the knight of the Iron Forge.I started at the bell tower to the far east of the Church the view was spectacular and the sun felt so real as I looked around I noticed how huge the building really was, it was the size of a town almost or even a small city. I jumped off the bell tower and landed softly on the floor folding my wings back under my clothes. I walked around for a little while keeping my left hand on the hilt of my katana. The virtual day went on and finally my opponent came out of hiding with two machine guns one in each hand he looked at me with a grim smile. I looked at him with a blank expression, and he started swearing and cursing at me, and he looked furious because I didn't answer him. I looked at him a little more and said. "And you kiss your mother with that pig pen you call a mouth how pitiful I hope she had a good life before she gave birth to a stupid glutton of a pig like you". With that he put up his guns but before he could act I was in his face with my double barreled pistol under his chin. He looked at me and I shook my head then pulled the trigger blowing his brains out the other end of his skull. The world dissolved after that as a message appeared across my screen once more.'You have won the second round of your tournament your next match will be a three way battle you also have won a gear slot and one more special slot'. So I took the gear of regenerating barrier and the special phoenix heart it gives me an extra life in case I die but I lose some stuff in the process any gear and one weapon if I die. And I don't plan to any time soon but better safe than sorry. I looked once more at the battle map my brother was taking on two random people while Samuel and Axel were fighting the guy who challenged me and I was up against a summoner and a knight. The match started and I was dropped into the arena named the Shadow Maze it was an elaborate maze with no entrance and no exit that spanned three floors going up and down and the size of the great coliseum in Rome I ran through the place with both of my blades drawn and ready for anything.DERRICK'S VIEWPOINTI was placed in the map of Odin's Tomb a large grave with a cliff fort that went fifty feet up. I looked around and noticed two men and I figured out these two were gunslingers. One was a sniper the other was a tactical fighter looking up at the cliff I saw the flash of the metal against the sun, with a quick move I pulled the barrier trigger and dropped to my knee as the bullet crashed into the barrier. I looked at him and he shot me again and again, I got up and ran at him going at a semi light speed using the skill quick move that allows me to run twice as fast. That's when it hit me they were working together to lure me in, so I decided to do the smart thing pulling out my only gear item an implosion grenade. I looked up pulled out the grenade and threw it, as it got more than three quarters to the top it opened sucking everything within a twenty foot radius taking most of the cliff side and a small part of the fort walls.I ran out of the way of the boulders hearing the satisfying shout of the sniper falling down, and then total silence. As the dust cleared all I heard was another rifle shot as it crashed into my shield once more I pulled out my two pistols and started shooting back into the dust. I saw him surrounded by an energy field, I put away my guns and pulled out my two long swords and rushed into him. Within seconds I heard the crushing of metal and the warmth of blood running down my blades I looked into his eyes and saw they were glossing over meaning he was dead, I ripped my blades out of his body letting him drop to the floor and turned around to find the other opponent of mine behind me.I smiled at him and put my blades in the ground next to me and put my hand up he looked back at me and took a step around me picking up one of my swords. Big mistake I unsheathed my concealed blade from my right hand and plunged it into the back of his throat watching him spit out lots of blood I put my foot up against his back and kicked him off my blade the world dissolved around me and a message appeared on the screen telling me I was advancing to the final round with no bonuses from my victory but a refill on all my stats, gears, weapons and specials.Dante'S VIEWPOINTIt was now the final round my brother, me, and that strange man that challenged me. The next map was the great coliseum the three of us were dropped behind the gates facing the coliseum center a few minutes later the traps came up and the gates opened. I went straight in running, my brother was already clashing blades with the mysterious person while they were both trying to evade traps. I came into the mix and clashed them both slicing at the mysterious person first, he dodged and jumped over the trap. My brother slashed at me but I blocked and pushed him into a trap that hit him in the back and threw him to the floor in pain. I looked around and saw the mysterious man casting a spell by waving his hands into the form of some kind of serpent; I grabbed my brother and threw him out of the trap area as the serpent came straight at me.I took my blades and rushed into the snakes' mouth putting both swords out through the sides splitting it in half I came out the other end with a great raging shout. The mysterious man jumped back to avoid my blades but only landed on my brothers blades ending him from the tournament now my brother and me were left standing face to face in a duel for the second time except with no one to get in the way and a fair playing field. We put our blades away I jumped over the traps and came down over him with a drop kick. He dodged and came back with a punch to the face that nearly got me as I grabbed his arm and threw him to the floor he got up and used a combo of punches and kicks similar to mine as we canceled each other and avoided each other.The constant string of blows and blocks went on for sometime I lunged at him with and upper cut before that he was unable to avoid. As he landed on the floor and got up I notice he was reaching for his gun. I pulled mine at the same time and we shot bullet for bullet into each other making guns useless. We pulled out our blades after running out of bullets in our clips and the clash of steel against steel made me see something that was not there D'mob appeared in my brothers' place laughing with a grim twisted demonic laugh the smile of a mad man and the eyes blood colored. I jumped back and shook my head as the vision faded I was rammed into the wall of the coliseum. I pushed him back and slashed him in the arm, he pulled out in time to avoid the blow and with his right hand sword tried to impale me to the wall. I pulled out of the way and gave him a knee to the gut making him drop to the floor in pain. I put my blade to his throat and told him to stand down. He looked at me and instead activated his shield pushing my blade out of his way and grabbing me by the throat. I looked at him and again the flashes appeared and faded, they kept coming back and I was still fighting for my life. It felt like my will was draining and my body was becoming weak but still I fought with every fiber of my body.AXEL'S VIEWPOINTI was sitting at the bar table hearing everyone argue about Dante and Derrick cheating them of their victory but none of it really mattered to me. What did bother me was the man in the corner of the bar he had a Poison Fang Bite for a drink and was wearing a mask that seemed to mirror everything as it had no design on it.He looked similar to someone I had met before but I couldn't quite tell who it was I looked away to order another drink and when I looked back he was gone like a ghost, I ignored my skin crawling and the hairs on the back of my neck standing on edge. In doing so I went back to one of the arcade machines it was a classic world cross racing game that came out who knows when except restored and made better with more tracks and new cars. I jumped on the chair and selected my car a few other people were playing so I had to wait for the next race to begin. It was a good game actually, I won a few races and I also won the final race unlocking a new car for my profile card.I looked around and saw him again staring at the tournament pods that Dante and Derrick were in. I unplugged my profile card and walked over to him and he looked at me or so it seemed and asked me what I was doing. I looked at him and asked him who he was. He kept looking at me but didn't answer I looked back at him and kept on running through my mind that I know him from somewhere.He looked at me then turned his head and said "you believe you know me from somewhere but you don't remember where right?" as he ordered another drink I looked at him and nodded my head in agreement. He face me and told me to take a step back and find some cover as things were going to get messy in here. I looked at the entrance door of the arcade as a large group of armed soldiers walked in the arcade. I thought they were D'mob's but the uniform was different and their weapons were in worse condition as if they were made of scrap parts.The man in the mask looked at them as he walked over and pulled out a short energy blade while the group of soldiers came in weapons raised to the hip incase they needed to shoot. The man with the mask acted as if he was drunk on of the soldiers yelled at him and shoved him off only to be sliced across the chest. The rest of the soldiers reacted and started to open fire on the man who didn't even flinch as the bullets bounced off his shield. I looked at him from the shelter of the bar counter, some of the people at the arcade had already run out the door and others were shot. The fighting continued for a few minutes and I kept hidden but was able to see what was happening. The man in the mask was gracefully moving in and out of the attacks of the scrap soldiers and slicing them down as he went along, in the end there was five of them remaining.Samuel came out of a back room with two SMG's pointed at them, one of them went to shoot Samuel but swiftly lost his arm as the man in the mask cut it, the rest were going to react but three of them were shot down by Samuel and the other two were sliced through the chest by the masked man. I came up as Samuel and the masked man were talking, the masked man said to Samuel "it's good to see you again Samuel." Samuel smiled and said. "It's good to see you again Shawn." I looked at him and said "the same Shawn that graduated from college with us and then vanished for a few years?" he nodded and we all started to laugh until we realized we were in an empty arcade surrounded by dead bodies.Dante's VIEWPOINTIt was who knows what time of the day and we were both extremely tired, I tried to clear my head but the flashes kept appearing in my head my brother was covered by D'mob and I felt my body lose control of itself. I rushed him flipping over his right slash cutting him across the chest I looked at the wound and it was a severe cut that seemed to be bursting in flames. I swiped him off his feet with a low spin kick and he landed on the floor hands out stretched. I pierced them into the floor with my swords he screamed with an unholy tone that sounded like a banshee. I took one of his swords and my chain belt tied his feet together and pierced them with his own sword then I took his other sword and stabbed him in the middle of his chest.I watched as he faded and in his place my brother appeared, I had won the tournament and would return to the real world. I closed my eyes and awaited a few minutes to hear the sound of the arcade busy with people cheering and laughter but only heard the sound of a man clapping his hands. I looked into the seating area of the Coliseum and noticed a man dressed in full battle armor, his hair was red and cut in a crew cut hairstyle, and he had a long beard that made him look like a hermit knight. He walked down a few steps then vanished and appeared behind me. I turned to look at him and he had this fake smile as he rubbed his beard and said in a deep woodsman like voice "so you truly are your father's son the first born of the twins of the great Gerald Archille Hero of the slums." I looked at him and realized that he was Smith my dad's old partner he smiled and lifted his hands the world around us melted away and changed into a burning cathedral. He created a Great War axe from his flesh and took a battle stance. I looked at him with shame but I decide to play his game but I was in his world now. I pulled my blades out of the ground and he rammed me into a wall, I got up quickly and he came at me again. I blocked his chain of strikes but he used a speed boost skill on me to get in a punch to my face throwing me to the floor. I wiped my face with my sleeve and noted the blood on it that came from my mouth. I got up and got ready, he rammed me into the wall but this time I went through it and started to fall.I opened up my wings and floated back up to his level he had come out and his entire person had changed he had long rough red hair no beard he was wearing a pair of black jeans that were fastened by a chain that wrapped around his waist and leg. He had two large wings that were a crimson red and instead of an axe he had a claw that was attached to his hand. I looked at him coldly and he raised his hands once more the world melted again and reappeared as a sky temple that was in near ruined conditions.I rushed at him and he used feather shot on me I spun my blades blocking the feathers and struck him in the gut with my fist, he went back into a pillar of floating rock. He looked at me with a sinister smile and ripped himself free of the stone floating up to my level. Again we rushed at each other, he used a new gear that I had never seen or knew it existed, it was a chain made of darkness and it started to pull me into a dark void. He laughed at me as I struggled and looked at him as I focused my inner strength and kept everything else out of mind thinking that I was non material within seconds I felt the chains slip through me and I heard the void closing behind me. I opened my eyes to see Smith shocked at my escape I spread my wings again and flew straight at him running my blade into him I felt nothing but the wind when I turned to look he had turned to smoke.He used a clone spell on me to get through my attack I looked around and heard him laughing like a mad man. I kept looking and suddenly it hit me that he wasn't here, he used my focus to escape this room and jump into another room. I went down to the ruins and walked inside and boom I was struck in the back with a crossbow bolt filled with electricity. I got up but he was gone again, so I kept walking when he tried the trick on me again, I jumped over the bolt but didn't expect him to launch a spear at me. I went down and crashed into the floor pulling the spear out of my body while holding back my tongue from yelling in pain. I got up and used my med kit to patch up my wound this time I was fully alert and he tried it again but I was ready I jumped over the bolt, turned caught the spear and threw it straight back at him. He was struck in the chest and he fell out of his worm hole, I jumped on top of him my blade pressed to his throat and told him to end the game.A few seconds went by and I saw the world fade around me I opened my eyes and the pod screen flashed in front of me saying I had won the tournament and I was to go to the director's office on the 50th floor. I got out of the pod to find the arcade empty with only my group of friends and brother sitting around doing nothing, and a strange man in a mask that looked like someone I knew from someplace. Everyone looked at me and wondered what had happened that took me longer than them to get out of the pod. I explained it to them and realized that I still had to go to the 50th floor. I got up and ran to the elevator and hit the button to the 50th floor.The door started to close but someone else slipped into the elevator with barely any trouble as the door closed behind him. I noticed his eyes were completely white, he was wearing a black pair of jeans that were torn in a few places, a shirt that was cut a few times and under it was a chain plate that seemed out dated. I didn't like the looks of him he was bald and had a few scars across his face and down his arms on both hands he had a set of gauntlets that were covered with a scorpion tail weapons.I looked at him once more and got ready for a fight, he swung his right hand at me I ducked and came up with an uppercut getting him in the jaw. He stumbled into a wall and retaliated with a left hand swing I jumped back into the wall and his blade scratched me across my face leaving a scar. I gave him a few quick jabs and a kick to the knee that he avoided by jumping and kicking me in the face. I stumbled a little and he went to punch me again I dodged and his hand got stuck in the wall. I took advantage of this, grabbed his free arm and broke it upwards. I kicked him a few times and as he ripped his arm free I heard a pop and realized that he had dislocated his arm trying to get free of the wall. I looked at him with a pitiful disgusted look and to keep him from yelling any more I pulled one of my pistols and shot him twice, seeing value in the scorpion tails on his arms I took them as they could be sold for a pretty penny in the black market.The rest of the way up seemed uneventful as I picked off him a small fortune of 120 dollars. I smiled a little as the elevator came to a stop 12 floors before I was supposed to, the door opened and in my face was someone I didn't want to see it was Ritz one of the lieutenants of D'mob's. I put up a defensive stance and all she did was smile and looked at me as the door closed and the elevator started to go down. I heard the cables snap one by one clank, clank, clank, I had to move fast otherwise I would be dead I put the gauntlets on and released the hidden blades shoving them between the doors and pushing both sides apart. I put the next blade in and did the same only this time the entire door opened and I was between floor 38 and 37 it wasn't pretty but it would do. I pushed my self through the small opening and into the hall way as the next two cords snapped and the elevator went down with a shocking boom. As the sound waves came up and dust filled the elevator shaft I looked at the door and heard from the floor above Ritz yelling "move out and make sure to bring back his body to me NOW" a few seconds went by and I could hear nothing.The room I was in had a few benches one on all sides some tall plants in vases, a few glowing lights with peaceful music in the back ground, and three doors connecting to different rooms plus the two arch ways of stairs going up and down I walked over to the nearest room and went in. Inside was a line of computers on both sides and some people playing them ignoring the fact that the building was filled with D'mob's men, but then again I was the only one that was against D'mob and his people. I stayed there for a few minutes as I heard a bunch of rushing footsteps going down the hall and disappearing down the stairs. I opened the door checked around and went back in, I looked around and saw a cabinet. I walked over to it and opened it inside there were peoples jackets, coats, and sweaters. I looked through for a few seconds then grabbed this hoody that was triple x large it didn't fit me but the hood covered up my face pretty much entirely so I took it. I closed the cabinet and walked out smoothly going up the stairs a group of soldiers went running down one of them shoved me into a wall but I said nothing and continued up the stairs quietly and walked past the next group but was stopped by Ritz who looked at me in the hood and asked me what I was doing on this floor.I looked around and said that I was an employee here and that the boss wanted to see me I could feel her gaze upon me feeling and sensing my lie she did nothing but told me to get out of her sight. I walked a little faster up the stairs and kept going to the top where I met Arlan Smith Richmond or as my dad and his team knew him as Smith the weapons crafter. I walked into his office and took of the giant hoody the secretary looked up from her computer and told me to go straight in. I looked at her then did as she said noticing her eyes were a pale white her stare made me shiver as I walked into the main office.The office was large with a light red paint for the walls with white borders it had a line of five windows covering the back wall with a view of D'mob's palace. Around the room were these strange Greek like pedestals and on them were different orb like objects that were in levitation, in the lower left hand corner of the room was a tall bookshelf, on the right a shelf with artifacts and ornaments from all around the world, in the middle was a large circular desk covered with various figures and trinkets and on each side a touch screen computer, in the middle a large spinning chair facing the windows. I heard a few clicks and beeps when the window tint shades came up and the chair spun around the lights came on when the shades were fully up and in the chair was Smith the weapons crafter. He looked at me with a cheerful smile, his hair was black straight and pushed back, his eyes were a light green, and his nose was short and nicely rounded to match his face, he looked like he had a nice build of muscle he was white skinned and smelled like whiskey and strawberry shampoo.I don't know what he did first but all in all he smelled strange as he sat there and asked me in a sharp mellow tone "so you are the son of my oldest friend and greatest ally?" I looked at him and nodded my head. He smiled once more I looked at him and he asked me "so then you were the one who blew up most of the palace? you know its quite a pretty sight when the building is blown up most of the way, now if only it would collapse in into itself" I looked at him as he checked one of the computers on the side then I asked "so Smith how long have you known my father?". He looked up with a strange tint in his eyes like they darkened as he answered "I've known him from when we were teenagers like you and your crew, and we met Shadow when we were down in Japan fighting the mafia alongside your uncle" I looked at him with wide eyes he looked at me then turned around and started to tell me the story of their team."It was a winter night your father, your uncle and me were in Japan on the lower plains rooting out a drug trade for the police since we were bounty hunters and they needed this group out to keep the city in control and under protection. It was pretty good pay, well we went in on some information we had gathered from a few unwilling suspects and it led us into an old warehouse. We went to this place all right and it was one of their store houses for drugs and weapons so naturally we set up some explosives. Only thing was that they were expecting us and we got caught so we were trapped and waiting for our execution but for some reason it never came. We had been saved by Shadow Fang the dark knight of Japan he was always shrouded in mystery but we ended up getting him to join us and it was good. With him in our group we were able to take out the drug lord and his people then we left and Shadow Fang came with us. A few years later your uncle went corrupt and started making his own corporation in the drug and smuggle trade. He started out by taking every small business in the area of our modest part of the city then used that to start climbing into the big leagues. He stole, crossed and double crossed everyone. Anyone who owned a business or a corporation bigger than his ended up closing down and selling their property and everything else to Dante Mamoru Odell Balint Archille or as you know him now D'mob and when your brother found out he went to stop him but by then D'mob had already built an army and placed the seven lieutenants." I looked at him in a sad way and in a strange burst of anger I slammed my fist and told him "then I'm ending what my father started and you're helping me do it now get up and pack up were leaving" he looked at me and laughed saying "you truly are your fathers son, that drive to do what's right is both a blessing and a curse but its probably what got me into the group in the first place. His firm lust for what was right is well worth it and now I'm at its service once more" our conversation had ended and we had a new member in our team.I walked out knowing that he knew the location of our base therefore I had no need to tell him. Exiting the room I picked up the hoody once more and was going to say something to the lady at the desk but she wasn't there. I walked on outside the room, and two floors down I ran into her again except she wasn't alone she had soldiers with her scrap land soldiers and around them were D'mob's men dead and looted of their possessions. In her hand was a energy pistol made of scrap parts, she turned and smiled at me then spoke with a very twisted tone that sounded like a witch of some kind "You my good friend have a bounty on your head as well as that group of yours and I'm going to trade you in for the reward to supply my fathers troops with weapons and armor so that we can show our strength and take back our city". The men that were with her cheered and laughed while I stood there looking at them. I drew the concealed blade on the lower part of the scorpion tail and rushed at them nailing the first two scrap soldiers in the chest area killing them. The rest looked and backed up to get a clear shot at me so I took that advantage and took out another one of them while the rest started to open fire. I pulled the last guy I killed off and used him as a meat shield taking his gun and shooting back at them while pulling myself into a corner. I took out one more with that stunt leaving about six or eight of them. With the stairs going down behind me and a group of scrap land soldiers in front I threw the dead guy at them and ran down the stairwell.Hearing their footsteps rushing behind me I picked up my pace. I reached the 38th floor when I ran into D'mob's troops and now I was cornered against the elevator shaft door. Thinking back about it the elevator had been cut off so that meant I could try to use it as an escape route the two groups finally met up and they started to argue bout what to do wit me the scrap soldiers were trying to get their bounty off me for supposedly capturing me and D'mob's men were arguing that they had found me first and that Madame Ritz had claimed my head first.So me being who I was slid my blade between the door to the elevator shaft and opened it again the walls had some metal plaiting and a single cord was hanging from top to bottom and I took the chance throwing myself at the metal cord I slid down and felt sharp cuts going up my fingers while above the group had finally noticed I was getting away. I reached the second floor while from what it seemed they were shooting at me from 38, 26, and 14th floors. I used the same trick I had on the previous doors and ran out and down exiting the building I pulled out my hover board opened it and jumped on as I went speeding back to my place. At home I unpacked and waited with the team for Smith who came a few hours after I did. We sat and had a small celebration to commemorate his entry to the team as the afternoon turned to night we had all got set and the room was fixed for Smith. I don't know what it was but for some reason me and him couldn't sleep so we spent the night talking in the workshop room while he helped me to perfect my weapons. He told me all the different adventures he had with my father and all the people they met and how they helped so many people it was like when my grandfather told me stories when I was a kid about the noble warriors of the Japanese culture. This was probably one of the best nights of my life to learn the tale of my father and his conquest against hardships and the difficulties he faced growing up.FROM RITZ VIEWPOINTI turned off the laptop after my briefing with Lord D'mob and he wasn't happy about my failure. I walked through my house and set my laptop down next to the picture of my family and me it was the only one I had of them I stared at the picture my sister was around five years old in that day and I was about ten years old our dad was carrying us in his arms and mom was giving him a kiss on the cheek, the memory of that day brought tears to my eyes. I turned away and tried to fight the tears but couldn't my life changed for the worst that year, we lost our father and my sister became half insane to the point she could barely remember mom, and always talked to herself staring blankly into space waving her hands like if she was writing something in the air. Walking to my room I cried with the realization that I had hurt my sister and her life would be ruined forever because of it.