Chapter Seven: Ryker
That same night, Nick got to his home approximately at 11: 30 P.M. completely exhausted. He expected to just go to bed and tell everything to Carlski tomorrow, but he got an unexpected surprise. In his house, waiting for him, was a muscular man, with short and spiky blond hair with green on the spikes, slightly taller than Nick, and dressed in a black sleeveless shirt with black pants tucked into a pair of black boots. Nick would've pulled out a gun and pointed it right at the stranger if he had had one.
"Stay calm, stay calm." The man told Nick.
"Who the hell are you?" Nick asked right away.
"My name is Ryker Smith. I'm an ex-military marine."
"And what do you want with me?"
"Revolution." Ryker replied firmly.
"What do you mean…?" The skeptical Nick questioned.
"We are going to bring Ansem down baby!"
"And why do you come to me? How do you now where I live?"
"Relax man! You ask too many questions, I know what you've been up to lately."
"What I've been up to?"
"You know…the whole 'investigation' thing going on…"
"Listen, I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm going to call the police if you don't leave right now."
"Do you seriously think more Heartless are gonna help you now? I could easily tell them everything I know about your investigation and they'd steal your heart in the blink of an eye. I would be the hero, and they won't even bother to ask how I knew all this."
"So what do you know?"
"Just enough to know that you have some rebellious ideas going on in that big brain of yours. So I figured you'd wanna help me out."
"You mean start a war against the Heartless? Are you crazy!? Us two against the world!? Forget it."
"No rookie, you got it all wrong. It's not just the two of us. You'd be surprised to know how many people in the world have a thing against Heartless. I already got about five-hundred troops gathered around the globe."
"Five-hundred!?"
"Yeah, you're not alone in this fight against Ansem."
"Whoa whoa whoa, wait a minute; I haven't said anything yet."
"Come on, I know you wanna."
"Besides, how do you spy on everyone that joins you?"
"Well…you see…when you're a marine or military or whatever for a long time you…well…you get a few black magic powers…"
"Oh I see, you're a fugitive aren't you?"
"Well…yes…no…kind of. Anyways, enough chit-chat Bolsey; what do you say you in or out?"
"Give me some time to think about it."
"Right… Thought so. Well, while you 'think about it' I'm gonna go recruit some others that have already 'made up their minds'. I'll see ya 'round rookie!"
Ryker then turned into a dark sphere of energy and disappeared. Nick went to his bedroom and prepared for whatever was ahead of him tomorrow morning.