Chapter 10 Who's the Don Now!
The first thing i needed was some more clips, and the cash I got on the mission should cover it. Riker was also looking hungry, and I was too, but we needed ammo in case of an attack, or those bandits want to show up again. Also, by chilling here, I could wait for Cloud and Aeris to come by. I went looking for the junk shop, for thats were i believed I would find some. There it was, down the row of many different stores, scraps everywhere the eye could see. The sheer mechanics of every machine he has was amasing. I went inside to see a man working on a tank. "Shotgun clips please." I ask the other man behind the counter.
"Aren't you a little young to be carrying a weapon?" the man asks me.
"Listen, ok, I need some clips to defend my self, if I get hurt, this fellow wouldn't like it." I pointed at Riker, walking in with fangs glaring.
"Selling weapon grade materials to minors is illegal." He responds, even though he was a little intimidated at the one inch fangs of my friend.
"Whats going on here?" The other man, coverede in grease walks by. "I don't want any trouble now and..." he noticed my metalic arm."Sweet lord, a working, fully operational mech arm, I would give you the store for it!" He was all excited and stared at it.
"If I let you look at it, can you give me a lisences to buy clips or something. Apparently, self defence is illegal in Midgar." I said, acting cool and tough. The grease monkey looks it over again and again, and finally agrees that I have a top quality grade mech arm shotgun. Like i didn't know that before. I buy ten rounds, costing a good 1000 gil, and with 500 left, I went to work. If I could clear away all the debris in front of his house before dinner, I would get my money back, and I needed some cash, so I agreed. Telling him to get the area cleared of people, he waited for me to do my worst to the junk. Riker went inside the shop and was waiting for it to be safe. I took of my jacket, reveiling the full length of my arm, which went into part of my right side of my chest. I aimed at the pile of junk and concentrated hard. "HELL BOMBER!" I shouted. The painful feeling I got in my arm came back as a missle fired out of my arm, heading right for the debris, clearing it against the wall in one blast. The crowd gathering around cheered as I put my jacket over my white muscle shirt and buttened it up. The Grease Monkey (Man obsessed with the machines) was crying at the strenght of the power which resided in my arm. The crowd actually wanted me to work for them, so I agreed to advertize the gym. Before I left, I got my cash and Riker and went on. While walking up towards the gym, i checked my ammo storage, ten left, the rocket consumed ten bullets, which was alot to me, but I woulg get more cash...I hoped.
The gym was reaking with the stench of body oder, and the look was so ugly, it would probably take more than me to get this place booming. The fact the the men here liked to dress up as women didn't help either, it also kinda gave me the chills. The deal was, Arm ressle our strongest man, if you win, half of the intake is given to you for the next day. I was short so I agreed, To my surprise, at the bench, there was sitting in a chair, a shorter man, whoi didn't look strong at all. I sat down and saw that this was televised, and I was told that I was the biggest thing sence the don. I thought about it, Don Corneo was who they were talking about. If he is considered big, not much must go on around here. I sat down and placed my mechanical elbow on black spot, and my other hand on he grip."Lets get this over with ok, I got things I want to do." I tried to dound tough to impress the people.
"OHHH Big bro is the strongest." one of the men stated.
"He has never been beatened." another one brags about.
"WOULD YOU ALL SHUT UP!" the man, now known as Big Bro shouted. I agreed to that because, man or machine, your still to young to win."
"My age means nothing, and if you have a problem with my arm, you can talk to it with it's barrel in your face. ready?"
"Lopp, start the countdown."
One of the men started to count. "THREE...TWO...ONE...GO!" The friction started. I fought against him with all my strength, but he was stronger than I thought. I went at him like I had hated him my whole life as he did the same. We were deadlocked at the center, waiting for one person to give in. I was holding on tight, trying not to crush his hand, but I could feel tention that he wanted to crush mine. 5 minutes have past and we were starting to wear, the table looked like it was slightly cracking from the pressure. I saw his attention start to wander to the crack and i seized the oppertunity to take him out before I overloaded. I used all my strength and pressed his arm as hard as I could against the table. As his hand hit the table, it shattered and pieces went everywhere. I sat there in the chair staring at him, his goons were crying and he stood up and gave me a slip, it said. :Trade this paper for half the profets of the day, Big Bro. There was silence and then I walked out, smiling on the inside.
Riker was waiting outside, for he couldn't stand the scent. We started to walk away when this man in black starts to me. "The Don wants to see you and leave your mutt." When he said mutt, I grabbed hin by the collar.
"THIS 'MUTT' PROBABLY HAS MORE INTELLIGENCE THAN YOU, AND IF I GO HE COMES." I held him.
"Fine, just put me down." I let go and let him drop to the ground. We started to head for the mansion. (Why did the Don want me) I thought to myself. I started to walk in. He told me to go into the upper office and wait. I went up and opened the doors. I sat in a chair against the wall and Riker layed on the carpet. After about ten minutes he came out of his room and sat down. I probably don't want to know what he could possibly need to take over ten minutes in his room.
"M'boy, M'boy, I watched as you proved your strength and I would like you to become by bodyguard. Two other men walked in and stood next to him.
"Join and you get all the girls you'll ever want." He said. I never liked this guy, and he would be on my hit list for life, but the chance was so great, I had to take it. I stood up.
"LISTEN YOU LOUSY SON OF A BITCH, I HATE ALL PEOPLE LIKE YOU, WHO THINK THEY CAN GIVE AND TAKE CONTROL WHENEVER THEY WANT. ALSO, THE WAY I HEARD YOU TREAT WOMEN IS HORRIBLE." I converted my arm into its shotgun phase. The two men took out a pistol. "Please, Riker poison fang." The fang jumped up and bit the man to he left where the sun don't shine. I shot out the pistol in the others hand and walked towards the Don. He ran into his room and as I walked in I told Riker to wait outside, and to make things better, I felt the instinct build up. I stepped pass the trap door as it set of and he started to panic
."Your not going to kill me, are you?" he pleaded as the fat man in a pimp outfit was huddled into a ball in the corner.
"People like you do not deserve to live, just tell me all you know about AVALANCHE and Shinras plans to take them out?" I wanted to prevent Cloud the imbarrisment of wearing a dress.
"If I tell you, they'll kill me."
I fired the beam cannon throught the roof shattering it to pieces and, holding my gun up in the air I gave him a serious face. "What makes you think I won't kill you? Or maybe, how would you like a nice piece of hot lead through your balls?" He wet his pants, and I really wanted to laugh at him, but I kept a straight face.
"Tomorrow, at dusk, they are going to drop the plate above sector 7, the believed location of the group, now please, don't casterate me"
"Get out of here now, and never return." He got up and ran out, Riker chasing him to make sure he left. "Who's the Don now, Bitch." I lowered my gun and let out all of my built up laughter. Riker came back in with a piece of his pants.
