Alex 10

Chapter 8

Title: Lil sick fo today

At an old, abandoned apartment building, a man named Bob is knocking the building down with a wrecking ball, he chuckled a bit. "Ah, I love being paid to smash some shit! Gotta love this job.", he said as he used the wrecking ball to destroy another part...

Then suddenly a figured stepped out of the hole, you could tell this figure was a male due to his height and build, and was noticeably a strange looking man with bluish skin, a goatee, and black hair kept long and messy. Also, he had overgrown, blackened fingernails and fanged teeth. He wore a black hooded shirt with a beetle on the front, a pair of blue-grey pants with the knees torn out, and a brown leather coat torn at the shoulders. His name was Clancy

One of the men noticed this and stopped his partner from doing it again. You could tell that this man had these cockroaches and spiders crawling all over him harmlessly and paying no mind to his movements. "Get out of our home.", he said with a calm yet venomous tone.

"Heh, yeah right. Listen pal.", Bob hopped out of his vehicle and crossed his arms. "This building is condemned by order of Councilwoman Liang."

"Yeah, so move it or lose it.", Joe said as he looked annoyed and kinda mad this guy was making this a lot harder than it already was. "This place is coming down."

Infuriated and releases a swarm of wasps from his sleeves. The bugs chase down Bob and they lift him up to Clancy. Bob tells him to put him down, but Clancy replies with a threat if they continue what they are doing. "If you think we're bugging you know, just you wait!", he said with a sickly grin as a centipede crawled onto his face then nodded along with him.

In another part of the city, a sick Alex sneezed longhouse, rubbing his nose with his sleeve. Why? Easy, Alex had been chasing a thief with the help of Rush... and may or may not gave into temptation and ate some ice cream inside a cold ass ice cream truck, you'd think he'd be smarter than this but, not really.

Alice snickered at his predicament which earned a glare from Alex. "Oi, don't make me sneeze on you.", he said before coughing out his lungs again.

"Maybe you'll think twice before having snack time in an ice cream truck.", Alice shot back with a grin, earning a facepalm.

"Where are we goin again?", Alex looked at his grandfather who snickered a little bit.

"Easy, I'll be giving you my San Ju Yen Pien cold medication.", Max said having a fond- if not slight embarrassed- look on his face. "In short, Chinatown."

In Chinatown, a celebration is occurring. A dragon dance is taking place, as well as a parade of people in costumes. Alex, Alice, and Max leave a store just after the parade passes. "Y'know it's so difficult to find fresh potaigadon root, since it's freeze-dried these days."

Alex coughed a bit and rubbed his throat. "Ugh, can I get a cough drop or a milkshake or somethin? My throat is killing me."

"Don't worry stinkweed honey in the San Ju Yen Pien will do the trick.", Max said as he handed him the medication, Alex unscrewed the cap and took a wiff... god it was repulsive.

"Where'd you learn this anyways?", Alice asked as Max just shrugged.

"I learned this from a monk when I was in Guangdong China.", Max said as all he received from her was a blank stare. "What? They have to deal with aliens too y'know."

"Ladies and gentlemen.", on a nearby platform, an Asian-American woman who wears a blue executive outfit with a pencil skirt, heels, gold earrings, and a gold necklace. This was Councilwoman Liang. "I'd like to thank all of you for your support on my downtown redevelopment program.  It's truly a dream come true.", her speech is interrupted by a swarm of wasps, and they scare off the crowd. Clancy then flies up, riding on a cloud of wasps.