Final Destination- Chapter 1

Welcome to the final story of my series, this is… ALMOST not a fan-fic at this point, but I still have enough ÄRM action and another twist that I'm still keeping it at FF!

Hmm, originally I was going to time-skip to when everyone was 18+, but I think I'll leave that idea be for now…

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Nick nodded his head lightly as he listened to the barkeep preach. Out of all the housing complexes that were around in this new world, (which was called several different names but they all meant 'Holy Ground'. So Nick just called it Heaven on Earth.) this was the only habitable one where somebody in the staff actually believe he came from another world. The barkeep was a tall…thing with pale blue skin and a rounded, bald head, he had large black eyes and had hands with three fingers and a stubby thumb. His eye twitched slightly as he saw flaps on his neck wobble a little as he rambled on, he could deal with aliens… but gills on an alien was just too much.

"So that's why the economic state of this mining facility has flourished over the last few years…" The barkeep smiled with a large, thin mouth that didn't seem to have lips. "Oh I'm sorry! I forgot you probably didn't get half of what I said." The 'man' walked over and grabbed a bottle of wine; he gave it to Nick and the red-head graciously popped the cork out of it. He raised the bottle and took a quick sip, it was a bitter, salty taste that made Nick gag.

"Wow uh… the wine here's pretty unique." Nick chuckled.

"It's the Yutan special." The bartender pointed to himself. "My people live in the water most of the time, so that wine's made of fermented seaweed and watered-down with processed sea water."

"Ya' don't say," Nick laughed. "Well Mr. Yutan, can I talk to you about a housing arrangement?" The Yutan chuckled.

"I figured you'd want to," The gills on the man's neck continued to wobble and Nick had the incredible urge to touch them. "The transporter system works on a house card, but unfortunately, you can only make a house card if you have the right clearance to work the machine, also by a magnetic strip on the ID badge of an employee." Nick understood the dilimma and smiled wickedly.

He looked around and saw a man working the front desk as a family of what seemed to be lizard's paying him for several cards materializing on the desk. Nick turned around and tilted his head. "So if I were to say… steal that guy's ID badge and swiped it through the machine it would make me as many cards as I need?"

The bartender nearly burst out laughing. "Yes, but I would highly suggest you wait until his break, which considering it's 16:32… should be in an hourthirty."

"Where does he go for his breaks?" Nick smiled as he rubbed the ring on his right hand, it had a cross on it and over the cross an embossed gun was gleaming.

"From what I hear-"

"Which most bartenders hear a lot," Nick interrupted, the Yutan laughed out loud.

"That they do," He pointed out the window to a transit station that held a giant chrome train that was shaped in a large oval. "I hear he takes that transit to the red-light district, and blows his paycheck on a couple of ladies."

Nick got a wicked smile and the image of Winny walking around like a prostitute, it would work, but Nick didn't believe that the spunky nineteen-year-old would take into that plan. Then he thought of Samantha, but she wasn't old enough for anyone to mistake her for legal. He thought of Kira and his stomach churned, he wasn't even going to go there, the hell she would give him over that idea was not what he had in mind. He would have to tail him like a spy… he hated tailing people when he could just beat the shit out of him. Nick took a chug of the disgusting wine and gave it back to the bartender.

"Got a plan?" The bartender smiled.

"Yeah, I'll be back after I get his badge…" Nick thanked him for the drink and stopped himself as he got up. "Hey, what's the legal drinking age here anyways?"

The bartender ran his smoothly padded fingers across his chin. "It depends, but in this mining facility it's on your 18th cycle. Why?"

"I'm 16…" Nick chuckled. The bartender, completely alarmed, started waving his hands back and forth and begging the man not to tell anyone.

"Please! Even if I show you to them I'll still get in trouble."

"Wait… I really look 18?"

"Compared to most of the humans around here, you look 22!" Nick's head sparked an idea and he gave a wicked grin.

"I'll get a fake ID then so you don't get in trouble next time." Nick decided before walking out the side door of the bar. The bartender sighed and took the wine and put it back in the cabinet.

"Damn kid gave me a heart attack." He sighed.

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Winny was sitting down at the café front with the rest of the group, they sighed as Nick came back across the street and sat down next to all of them.

"No?" Winny asked, completely bored of sitting there, ordering more milkshakes and blowing off perverts that were interested in her because of her 'mature appearance'.

"Yes," Everybody's ears perked up and the lunged to him.

"REALLY?" Kira yelled. "GREAT! LET'S GO!" She got up and started to run but Nick caught her by the shirt.

"Not so fast," Nick mentioned. Kira sat back down and Nick leaned in. "We don't have any money, so we can't afford rent, so the bartender let me i-" The group glared at him. "I swear I didn't have a drink." Nick lied. The group eyed him warily. "Anyways, one of the clerks get off in and hour-thirty, I'll tail him down this train to his usual spot at the red-light district," The glares were reconstituted. "I swear I won't get a hooker, and who the hell do I look like to you anyways? Nanashi?" Nick complained at the untrusting nature of his friends.

"So you'll tail the guy and steal his room key or something?" Robert piped up.

"No, I steal his ID badge, go back, order us some rooms with the badge," Nick smiled as he looked over to the man. "Free of charge, of course." Then we get in the house teleporter-elevator thing and we'll all be transported to our new headquarters."

Catherine gave a toothy smile that rivaled Nick's smile. "And then we live happily ever after!"

"Exactly." Nick smiled. He looked over to Winny, who was giving him a dreamy look. "What are you looking at?"

Winny seemed to snap out of it and gave him an embarrassed look. "Just thinking about that date you owe me." Nick's head fell to the side in annoyance and Kira's eye started twitching, even though Nick didn't love her anymore, it still sucked to see Winny hit on him.

"Whatever Peanut-chan." Winny's forehead grew red and she started clawing across the table at the boy, who leaned to the side and let the others restrain the black-haired woman.

"Nick-kun! I'll kill you!" Winny yelled, the café goers stared at the sight and one of them walked up to Nick timidly, the person was a tall woman that looked to be his age, she had subtle curves and a nicely sized bust. She had long blonde hair and it reminded Nick of Samantha a little with the same vibrant blue eye color.

"Excuse me… did that girl just call you Nick-kun?" Nick nodded. "That's an… odd name, I'm sorry." Nick rubbed the back of his head and stood up, he was half a foot taller than the girl.

"No, my name is Nick, where we used to live they had little titles at the end of names." The girl nodded her head and blushed a little.

"So your… new in town?" She looked away slightly. Nick found himself slightly attracted to the girl, but nothing emotional.

"Yes actually," Nick smiled. He pulled out the wallet he 'liberated' from a petty thief who tried to steal the Release ÄRM around his neck. "Would you like a drink?" Kira and Winny both twitched before lunging at Nick, Robert and Catherine held back Kira while Winny was short enough that Samantha could hold her back easily. The girl blushed and nodded. Nick led her into the café and ordered one milkshake, the woman ordered a drink called a Uton and Nick smiled.

"A milkshake huh? Must be a foreign delicacy to you, I've never heard of it." She admitted as they sat down at another table, the girls started to break through their restrainers arms but they held them back as well as they could.

"It's milk and iced cream mixed together." Nick smiled. "So what's an Uton?"

She leaned forward and whispered something in his ear. He blushed incredibly and leaned back to see Robert giving him a confused look. Nick gave a subtle thumbs-up and Robert face palmed.

"So they stick an supplement in there that…"

"Great for first dates don't you think?" The girl seemed a little more mischievous now.

Nick smiled devilishly. "Well if you want to get like that," Nick smiled. "I'll have a house from that broker in about two hours, maybe we could…" The girl smiled and reached her hand across and grabbed his. Nick smiled widely and the girl gave a similar smile.

Robert and Catherine were sobbing as Kira was hitting them both yelling at them to let her go, Winny was doing the same by kicking backwards at Samantha's kneecaps.

"I'LL KILL HER AND THEM KILL HIM!" They both yelled simultaneously. Nick and the girl looked over to see the girls and Nick shook his head.

"They uh… act like my older sisters, always looking out for me." Nick lied quickly, he loved being able to lie so easily.

The girl smiled and waved at the girls. "Well it's nice to have siblings isn't it? My brothers and sisters were all killed in an air cruiser accident." She frowned. Nick got up and took her by the hand.

"Well don't get too unhappy yet…" He walked her over and they grabbed their drinks. "Do you like snow uh…" Nick realized they hadn't introduced themselves. "By the way I'm Nick."

"Tana." The girl smiled. The two sipped their drinks and both walked over to the transit. "Where are we going?"

"I hear there's an awesome ice-skating rink the town before the red-light district." Tana cringed.

"The towns around there are really… eww…" Tana said. Nick shrugged.

"I promise you'll have the time of your life." Nick smiled. The girl's cheeks turned redder and she got a glazed look in her eyes as she sipped the Uton. She reached her hand down and pinched Nick's butt as he paid to get on the transit.

Winny, Kira, and everyone else simply stared in disbelief that Nick just picked up a girl and is most likely going to go all the way in under thirty minutes.

"Well… what now?" Samantha asked.

Robert thought for a second, he remembered the thumbs up, he didn't look at Rob, he didn't smile at him after wards, he didn't make any eye contact. If it was a real girl, he would have gloated about it subtlety the whole time.

"We stay here," Robert smiled. "I know exactly what he's pulling."

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"You look sooooo sexy in that undershirt." Tana said drunkenly as they wobbled out of the ice-skating rink. Nick laughed and slapped her butt playfully, Tana grinned and tackled him in the little dugout used for a game that Nick knew wasn't hocket by the rockets that were in the boxes under the benches. Tana forced herself on him, kissing him deeply and moving her hand down his pants. Nick got alarmed as he saw the digital clock on the side of the dugout and gently moved Tana off.

"Not here, let's go get my house key from the guy who was handling it." Tana huffed and quietly complied as Nick walked her up the steps of the dugout and took off his own skates, he walked closer to the transit station a block away, it was slowly stopping and Nick and Tana walked up the stairs to the transit just in time to see the clerk from the complex getting off. Nick walked up to him and pointed to him. "Hey man, where's my house key? You said the room would be cleared by toni-" Nick punched him in the stomach really hard and he passed out when the transit started moving away. He looked behind him to see Tana in a stupor, trying to process what just happened. Nick sighed and pressed his two fingers into her chest, onto her heart, she blushed and Nick pushed hard enough that a surge of pain shot into her and she passed out.

"Good night my dear," Nick said with a widened smile. He pressed a button and the transit stopped in the distance and started to come back to him. He took the ID badge from the clerk and shoved it in the pocket of his pants. He looked up to see the sun setting and silently walked into the transit as it stopped.

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"WOW! THIS PLACE IS SOOOOO BIG!" Catherine exclaimed as they walked out of the teleporter hallway and into a large mansion with a unique style that could not be compared to any style of housing back on Earth. On the outside it looked like a futuristic Victorian. On the inside it looked like a modern day mansion with little perks that made it seem more classical.

"Did I deliver or what?" Nick chimed.

"Oh you delivered something all right." Winny scowled as she brushed past him. Nick looked over to Robert with a confused look, the robed boy rolled his eyes.

"What? What did I do?" Nick asked. "I didn't touch her all right?" The rest of the girls rushed past him angrily, except for Samantha, who unzipped her leather jacket to let it the air to her mostly bare chest.

"Don't worry about it, just mention to Winny you have a date tonight and she'll be a-OK." She smiled. Nick's eyes grew and he smacked his forehead.

"Damn it, I forgot to reserve a restaurant." Nick groaned, cursing his inability to not show off his knowledge of who to show a girl a good time… and his bad memory.