I took Meggy home in the dead of night and told her I would be at Moray Towers if she needed me. Guess who coincidentally happened to be standing up there watching down below? Yep. Infinite the Jackal. He stood on the edge, staring into the distance. I walked up next to him and climbed up onto the ledge.
Infinite: Hey, Orange.
Me: What's going on, Infinite?
Infinite: Well, I hear you're in a bit of a conundrum with Meggy, are you not?
Me: Yeah. She's not doing well. No money, and her rent is coming up soon.
Infinite: Fuck. Well, we need to get some, and fast.
Me: How? I mean, I can't go back to my old job, assuming I had one.
Infinite: Well... I did see something about a jewelry store down the road a bit.
Me: No.
Infinite: What? Just because your father hanged himself from a tree and your mother died of cancer doesn't mean you can control me.
Me: Wait... I think...
I fell to my knees and clutched my head in pain. The memories started flooding back to me. My mother, my father, who I was and what I looked like, everything. The pain subsided, and I picked myself up off the ground and shook my head.
Infinite: What was that about?
Me: I... I remember. I remember who I was. What I looked like. Who my parents were.
Infinite: You good?
Me: No. It's... something inside of me. Something doesn't feel right. I think... Alright. That jewelry store is ours now.
Infinite looked over at me with the strangest look in his eye.
Infinite: What?
Me: Let's take the store.
Infinite: What are you talking about?
Me: That jewelry store is the only way to get money for Meggy.
Infinite: It's not the only way.
Me: It's the best way. Easy pickings.
Infinite: I...
He looked down at the street, then back at me and tossed me an older looking version of his own mask. All gray, but with a few slashes on it.
Infinite: My old replica. Try it.
I fit it over my head and adjusted it so it could fit.
Infinite: You look like an older version of me.
Me: Because the mask is an older model, it reminds you of your past.
Infinite: Come on. We can get probably six or seven stones within a minute or two. Probably worth around $120,000 for six of them.
Me: Let's take it.
Infinite: We could either do this smart, or dumb.
Me:How for each?
Infinite: Smart, we go in, carefully break the glass, take the rocks, get out. Dumb, go in, get out.
Me: We have to break the glass quickly, so alarms will sound.
Infinite: You'll need these.
He handed me a pair of white gloves, which I gladly took and immediately put on.
Infinite: Covers the prints.
Me: Good idea. Let's go now.
Infinite: Alright.
He teleported me and himself from the top of Moray Towers to the front of the jewelry store. A small business, but big enough to be robbed.
Infinite: We go in quiet.
Me: Alarms will sound no matter how hard we break the glass.
Infinite: Change of plans, we bust as many of the cases as we can, grab as much as we can, and get the Hell out of dodge. Here.
He handed me a black draw-string bag.
Infinite: There's probably ten cases full of stones for us. A case should be enough, but the best part we can do is take as much as we can before the sirens blare.
Me: Did you track the response time?
Infinite: The closest police station is a mile and a half away, with interconnected roads. The quickest they'd get here would be around two minutes.
Me: We get two minutes from the time that alarm goes off. Got it?
Infinite: Got it. Now, what to do about the door...
I pulled my tail around me, and using its ability to become a liquid, I was able to bypass the lock-pick entirely. I shifted my tail back into a solid and pulled it behind me.
Infinite: Smart. Now, we're in, we're out.
He pushed open the door, and the siren immediately went off. I booked it into the store and used my tail to break some of the cases open.
Me: WE GOT TWO MINUTES!!!
Infinite: I KNOW THAT!!!
I swiped up as many of the jewels as I could from the broken cases and shoved them into the bag. I hopped over the counter and broke another case and took those precious little shiny bits.
Infinite: WE GOT PROBABLY A MINUTE AND A HALF LEFT!!!
Me: I GOT SIX!!!
Infinite: I GOT TWO, GETTING THREE!!!
I ran over to the last case and punched the glass, breaking it and giving me access to the sweet, sweet jewelry, which I happily swept up and shoved into the bag.
Me: GOT IT!!!
Infinite: I'M DONE!!! LET'S GO!!!
He teleported is away from the store long before anyone showed up and placed us onto the roof of Moray Towers again. I looked down at the city and saw the red and blue lights flash down a street and towards the store.
I backed away from the ledge and pulled off the mask. I saw that Infinite set his bag on the ground, and I did the same. Hey, stealing that much of jewelry gets tiring. I looked over at him as he was taking off his mask.
Me: So. What's the split?
Infinite: I'm saying 60-40 you.
Me: 60 me?
Infinite: Yes.
He took off his mask and set it on the ground. His discolored eyes kind of threw me off a bit, but I understood it. One yellow, one blue, with a scar over the blue eye.
Infinite: I think 60-40 is a good enough spread over it. We have probably at least 6 or 7 million here.
Me: And you said we'd only get six or seven a minute.
Infinite: Yeah. Kind of downscaled it.
Me: We got balls. That's for sure.
Infinite: There's plenty here for all of us.
Me: I'd get $3.6 million, you get the rest.
Infinite: To be honest, once they're actually profitable, it drops the price a bit. So, instead of seven million, it's probably near three.
Me: I can deal with it. We should do it again sometime.
Infinite: Keep this little... secret to yourself.
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The Crystal Of Darkness
Aventura(Sequel to Once Human). It's been a year since Orange had taken his own life at his hands. Infinite had a crazy idea to try and bring our hero back to life again, and it works. It soon seems detrimentally clear that all all is not well. Orange has s...
