"Ay yo. You alright?" Marko asked peaking into the breakroom
"I know you set me up for this on purpose because you know I want to get demoted but that was NOT part of the plan! We're supposed to just scare him not make me look like a murder." I said
"Look you got demoted and Trent got promoted that's all that matters right now. Wether you like it or not you got what you wanted." He said
"I wanted to at least have a higher rank than Mike." I said sitting down in a chair
"Beggers can't be choosers Alex. You're just gonna have with deal with it." He said grabbing a seat in front of me
"Yeah I guess but these glitches are killing us. Thanks for showing me how to fix my wires." I said rubbing my wrist
"It was nothing so what really happened to Trent's hands?" He asked
"I can't really put it in words it happened so fast I didn't even record it. It was like he wasn't himself." I said
"Do you think he's using again?" He asked
"No it can't be that but the way he got so angry...it was scary. He was scary... no matter how strong I get I can't help him when he's like that." I said nervously
"Everything is gonna be alright but you're probably right. After all your injuries and his are completely different." He replied
"How so?" I asked
"Your injuries left you physically impaired meaning you know your limitations and you know how to fix it when you do reach your limits. Trent's injuries are mental meaning he can't just go in and move a few wires around to make himself feel better. He has to suffer through whatever it is that's messing with his head." Marko said
"Well can't you do something?" I asked
"I need to get my hands on the updated program maybe I can modify it to make it safe but until than you need to find away to keep him calm during his episodes." He replied
"Alright. I'll try to do something until than you need to hurry and make it safer for us to get upgrades cause I don't know if we can keep this up." I said
"Don't worry I'll take care of it you just take care of dumb dumb in there." He said before Trent knocked on the door
"Am I interrupting something here?" He asked
"Not at all just a little pep talk to cheer her up. Well I better go see if Stryker is gonna approve the Double Headed or not." Marko said before getting up and walking passed Trent
"Alright man good luck with that hopefully we didn't do to much damage." Trent said
"Word of advice...take her advice and don't bring up the down grade in rank." Marko said before leaving
Trent nodded before directing his attention to me, "Look I had no clue that he would do that to you. I think you're an amazing squad leader." He said grabbing Marko's seat
"Oh well I can't do anything about it now besides it's not so bad now that I think about it." I said
"What do you mean? You worked you're ass off to make Caption and you're saying it doesn't matter to you anymore. " He said
"Of course being Caption matters to me but I don't care if I'm squad leader or not. That position would have drove me insane if it wasn't for Nina watching Mike for me." I said
"Wait. Why would you get her to watch Mike?" He asked
"Because I was busy either watching your back filling out paperwork or trying to stay on the Professor good side. Mike is useless when he's drunk but somehow Nina always convinced him to stay sober so since you're in charge Nina is with Warren and Mike is a hopeless drunk I think you should save you're energy. This is gonna be a long mission Caption." I said
"So you're alright with me being the boss?" He asked
"As long as you keep me from doing anything embarrassing for Mike I'm cool with it. I'm actually proud of you for not losing it back there." I said
"You told me not to take up for you anymore and even though I wanted to beat the living shit out of Max for pointing a gun at you but I knew you could take care of it." He said
"Yeah. I wonder how dummy and dummier will react to the news." I thought out loud
"Well let's go Stryker gave me the green light to leave and I'm ordering you to come with." He said
"Yes Sir Caption Garcia." I said leading the way out
"Sooooo your demoted to a rank lower than Michael Trent is promoted and he's the boss of this entire operation...and you're actually cool with this?" Nina asked a little surprised
"Yeah I'm fine with Trent being in charge what I'm not cool with is having to be a drunk's assistant." I said
"WELL THAT'S TO DAMN BAD! Finally! I've been waiting to get pay back for all retard punishments you had me do." Mikey said
"They were punishments they didn't have to make sense. You just needed something to keep you busy so you wouldn't get drunk all damn day." I replied
"And now you have to do what I say so you can start by fetching me another beer clean up the livingroom kitchen both bathrooms and MY ROOM!" Mike said
"OH God please tell me I don't have to clean up that porn infested room." I said
"You don't have to do anything as long I'm here." Trent said
"Thank. You. Jesus! Come on Sissy lets go before Mike tells me to do something else." I said jumping off the couch and heading out the door
"You just found out that A.J is your assistant and you're already taking advantage of her..real nice Michael." Nina said before following me
"What the hell Bro!?" Mikey yelled
"Look you're not just gonna come in and start running shit especially with my girl. You're my little brother and everything but I will not hesitate to beat you into the middle of next month. Got it?" Trent asked
"Yeah yeah yeah until than I'm celebrating! Big bro is in charge and living large." Mike replied cracking open a beer
"Take it easy with that stuff we're still on duty remember?" Trent asked
"Don't be a stiff like you're girl. YOU'RE IN CHARGE! LIVE A LITTLE!" Mike yelled offering Trent a beer
Trent glanced at Mike before taking beer and while Mike was chugging his down Trent poured his into the trash can before dropping the can inside. While Mike found an excuse to party Trent started to keep track of how much alcohol Mikey was really drinking.
~Meanwhile at a coffee shop in Town~
"Are you seriously gonna walk around with a blind stick all day?" I asked
"Ummm duh! I can barely see now if you would just let us get the upgrade I wouldn't have this problem." Nina replied
"Look the upgrade is..." I started
"HI! My name is Sam I'll be your server this evening. What can I start you off with this evening?" She interrupted
I glanced up from Nina to the server who just happened to be Laura disguised as a waiter. She laid down a sheet of paper saying that Marko has just gotten an updated program and is working out the glitches now and to remind me of my promise while I was reading I completely forgot that Nina was right in front of us.
"Hello? Anybody here or not? I maybe blind but I'm not deaf people!" She said tapping on the table
"I'm waiting on you to order." I said
"Really? You're asking the blind chick to order first...are you that retarded?" She asked with a straight face
"We've been here a million times and you ALWAYS order the same thing four vanilla cream filled beignets two with chocolate drizzle the other two with powerd sugar and a mocha frappuccino with caramel drizzle." I said
"You know me so well." Nina replied
"No duh. Let me get a black coffee before I get a headache." I said after taring up the paper and throwing it away
"Alright. I should be right back with your order." Laura said before heading to the kitchen
"So what happened on your last date with Warren?" I asked
"That's the first and last time Trent is gonna be a cockblock for me. At least you know when to comeby disappear and still leave a friendly vibe where as that idiot of yours ruins the entire day." She said
"What happened?" I asked while Laura came by and dropped off our orders before taking off an apron and running out the door
"Me and Warren went out to see that new Friday the 13th movie right? Everything was cool at first because scary movies are always stupid within the first five to twenty minutes. So everybody is having a good time all of a sudden Trent walks in loud as hell on his phone yelling at somebody. He crashed into a seat right in between us and started eating all kinds of loud foods." Nina started
"Well they didn't give him the nickname King Cockblock for nothing." I said giving her a beignet and taking one for myself
"Yeah well halfway into the movie he got bored stood up and yelled this I quote word for word verbatim, 'This movie sucks he's gonna die come back and the virgin get away. There I just saved everybody 10 bucks and another forty-five minutes.'" She said
I nearly choked trying to laugh and eat at the same time, "What the hell!? What happened after that?" I asked taking a sip of coffee
"Security came in and tried to escort him out but he ratted out a few people before leaving." She said
"Like who?" I asked starting on my second beignet
"Well he pointed out three people recording the movie a few people eating outside food and one guy was ummmm doing something with his girl a few rows down." She said
"What was they doing to end up getting thrown out of the movie theater?" I asked
Nina leaned over and whispered the answer in my ear. After taking a moment to keep from throwing up and gathering my throughs, "What the fuck is wrong with people these days?" I asked
"Anyway Warren figured out why you guys come around and now I can't have Trent around us unless you're with us too. Meaning don't you leave us alone with him again." She said
"Speaking of Trent...his birthday is coming up you got any ideas for a gift?" I asked
"Other than you tieing you to his bedpost necked I have no clue." She replied
"Are you insane or just naturally this freaky?" I asked
"I personally blame Mike for how I act but overall it's just who I am at this point." She awnsered
"CHECK PLEASE!" I yelled raising my hand in the air
"Really A.J? You are so dramatic some times." She said shaking her head
"It's not that we have to get back to the school before 9 and I know you wanna get some shopping done." I said while another waiter handed me the check
"Yeah especially since I gotta raise in pay." She said happily
"How much you're getting now? My old pay?" I said looking over the check
"Yeah actually and Mike got my old pay." She said a little sadden realizing that I'm making the bare minimum
"Hey chill out. I've been saving 55% of every single check I earned since Stryker Senior was in charge. I still have more than enough to live off of." I said paying off the check
"Really? Why didn't I think of that?" She asked
"Cause you rather blow your money off on shoes." I answered
"Well...a girl can never have to many shoes." She replied
"Lets go you hopeless shopaholic." I said getting up
"Yeah. I'm gonna need a little help walking around." She replied getting up
"How many fingers am I holding up?" I asked
"I can't see shit right now so can we just get out of here." She answered
"Alright Blind Bandit let's roll." I said escorting her out