Chapter 10: The Other Realm.
That was close. Well, at least everyone's ok here. Should we go back to the base?
The Rebel was in the front seat and, as usual in deep thought, Mona was driving, Tyler was in the back sleeping, and Wario and Jimmy were in the back as well, talking about business.
"How do long do you reckon I have before they shut me down?" Wario asked,
"About a week," said Jimmy, "Maybe even less."
"How am I supposed to pay my debt in only a week, the price is so high it could take more than a month!"
"Do what you always do man."
"That won't work this time. They made sure of it."
There was silence once more until Jimmy broke the ice: "So, what was it like?"
"What, New York?" The Rebel asked,
"I thought it was called the other universe or whatever-"
"The other realm" Wario said, "For what I saw it wasn't that different from here."
"Besides the fact that it's a lot less violent and shitty," the Rebel said,
"I don't know man, from what I saw the crime and violence rate was only two or three percent less."
"Is the entertainment better?" Jimmy asked,
"Eh, we usually never had enough time to catch a flick. From what I saw, it was ok." Wario said, "but what's really odd is the way they do TV around there."
"What do you mean?"
The Rebel sat up and turned to the back seat,
"Well, the thing is, whenever you cuss on a television program they replace it with a sound or they just erase it entirely. Also, the TV guys tend to show little to no violence what so ever."
Jimmy got out a cigarette and replied: "So, you can show whatever the hell you want in movies, but on TV, you have to make family friendly bullshit."
The Rebel sighed, "Not all adult stuff has to have cussing and blood and guts you know."
"That don't fucking matter, the point is why the hell do these people show violence in movies, but pretend it don't fucking exist on TV."
"Well Jimmy, some people don't like to watch nothing but violence and cussing on TV."
"Bullshit," Wario said, "I say the reason they censor that stuff on TV is because it's free."
"Oh I see," Jimmy said, "You have to pay to see the good stuff!"
"Look, I'm sure it's not that" the Rebel said,
"What's with you all of a sudden anyway," Wario said, "the guy I know would've agreed with us."
The Rebel started to defend himself but stopped dead in his tracks:
Holy shit, I have changed!
The Rebel remained quiet until Mona broke the ice this time,
"So what was it that you guys actually did."
The Rebel released a sigh of relief,
"We were basically agents of the king. We were sent there to study the residents and other dimension overall. You know, what they ate, where they slept, how they lived through life, the climates, the land, all that good stuff."
"It must have been interesting," she said sarcastically,
"It actually was for the most part."
"Hey," Wario said, "Remember the football game?"
"Oh yeah" the Rebel said while chuckling a little, "That was overblown as hell."
"What do you mean?" Mona asked,
"Ok so first of all," Wario began, "We have to wait two hours in a line of people. Then we see an entire jungle of shops and food stops and whatnot."
"Then, we finally go to the stadium or whatever it's called," The Rebel said, "But first we have to wait an hour or so because the players aren't ready. Then, we see guys in suits run around the arena and me and Wario think "Did we just pay seven dollars for this?" THEN, the residents stand up to sing some sort of national anthem as we just sit down, wondering what the hell is going on."
"So finally the game starts," Wario said, "It's basically guys running around trying to catch a diamond shaped ball while the guys suits run in the background. So him and me are watching the game as we both say:"
The Rebel and Wario both said: "This is just an excuse for people to beat the living shit out of each other."
"Really?" Mona said,
"We're not kidding." Wario said,
"Oh look" Mona said, "We're here."
Wait, what? Where are we?