Chapter 3
"I love the part in the movie where you kicked Chucky off the roof and then quickly grabbed that shotgun off the ground and quickly shoot Tiffany in the chest, right after she stabbed you in the thigh," said Betty with enthusiasm.
John leans back into the chair with a smirk on his face. "Yeah, that's my favorite part of the movie. I'm great friends with Brad Dourif and Jennifer Tilly. They sometimes catch some of my games when they get the chance. In fact, they are going to join me for a few rounds of bowling for a charity event that I'm hosting. If you want you can..."
"Yes, I'll love to come with and bowl with you and your amigos!." Betty spoke with a large grin on her face. "What type of charity is it?."
"Well, shoot Betty, you took the words right out of my mouth." John looked at the young girl with his smile in place. "Yeah, you can play with us. Just don't try to get some poker advice from Jennifer. She doesn't like giving away her poker playing secrets to anyone. Unless you're willing to pay her for each question. Trust me, I spent about a couple of thousand dollars worth answering my poker questions. The charity rasing is for homeless families."
John was riding in Betty's green car after the game had ended with the Saints winning score of '45-6'. After getting another earful from the head coach in the locker room with all the team, John catches a ride with Betty who unhesitating offered to drive her hero home. She was fortunate enough to get this golden opportunity since John rode with one of his wide receivers this morning for the game. During their time on the road, the two began talking about normal things like CNN news, favorite comedian, and favorite movies. So far, John learned a lot about Betty. She is attending Central Piedmont to get a sports medicine degree and was focusing her studies for the finals in high school. He admired her dedication to trying to better herself and having the willpower to juggle through school and work.
"And, we are here." John motion her to park in front of his house.
Betty turned the engine off to her car before getting out to have a good view of the house. John's house was located in the fancy suburbs as the home looked very identical to the one from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Betty looked in awe with her mouth slightly open. Never in her life, she would ever see a real-life fancy house that is worth over a thousand dollars. John walked up beside her with his Panthers gym bag on his left shoulder. He noticed her facial expression and have looked at his own home.
"You've got one fantastic casa, Mr. King." Betty looked back at her hero.
"Well, a couple of years back, my wife and I have used to live in our old neighborhood. The time where I got drafted to the Charlotte Hornets in the first round," explained John. "The reason why we moved out is that some punk had broken into our home and Gwen had chased his butt down the neighborhood with a freaking shotgun in her hand. The worst part about it is that I have to give my all to convince my wife not to kill the guy and make her hand over the gun."
"Oh, that is nice of you to stop Mrs. King from killing that person." Betty smiled.
"As if." John bit the inside of his cheek. "I only did that because I too wanted to shoot his ass."
"You're kidding me, right?." Betty looked shocked.
"I kid you not." John walked in front of her. "Well, I guess I'll see you later. If you want you to stay over and hang out with my family. Gwen won't mind making an extra plate for dinner. That is if you..."
"Yes!. Yes, I'll join you and your family for dinner tonight!." Betty grinned like a crazy person. "I'll call my mom and dad to let them know that I'm having dinner tonight with our favorite former NBA player!."
John watched the young adult pulling her phone out and instantly begin calling her parents. Sure, he had his fair share of having strong loyal and dedicated fans over the years but, Betty?. She is the true definition of devotion.
"At least I know who is my ultimate fan is," John told himself while heading to his mailbox to get the mail.
Little did he know that his giant Alaskan Malamute had woke up from her nap after hearing her owner's voice and got out of her bed. Next, she walked to the front door and poke her head through her doggy door to see who is outside. She wagged her tail when catching sight of her owner and quickly ran out to greet one of her beloved owners. John did not notice his dog charging at him due to looking at his mail.
"Well, shoot, they're all fan mails for myself and Gwen. Heck, and these letters are from states of this country. Oversea fan mails are soon to follow." John walked in his grass and still looking at each fan mail envelope.
Just then he heard barking in front of him and quickly looked up to see his dog. He put his hands and begin waving them before trying his best to call her off but no prevail. The beautiful giant feminine husky jumped up and pounced on John, thus causing him to hit the ground with all the mail falling out of his hands. Let alone letting go of his gym bag. Betty stopped talking to her parents to see her hero being jumped on by his dog and can not help but take a quick cute picture. John sighed in positive irritation, he allowed his dog to lick him with pure joy.
Yeah, he loves his dog Lola for showing her loyalty to him, still, he wishes that she doesn't have to do it every freaking time he comes home from either his games or charity events. After feeling that this was enough attention that he needed, John pushed Lola off of him and grab her by her collar.
"Lola, I need to find you a mate. Because It's getting really old and embarrassing. Betty can you do me a favor?." John asked after Betty calmed down from her laugh.
"Sure boss, I'll take Lola inside and play with her a little bit," answered Betty with her hand out for the keys.
"How the hell did you that I'm about to tell you that?." John asked when handing her his keys.
"I have a few Chihuahuas at my house and my old man has always wanted me to play with them for a while. You can say that I'm truly your amiga." Betty informed when grabbing the dog by the collar and take her inside.
John crossed his arms with his head shaking. Smiling at knowing that Betty is an okay kid and very willing to make sure that nothing won't bother him. Knowing that he really does not need her to do those things since he is down to earth, caring, respective, and never-ending positive person.
BEEP! BEEP!
John turned around to see a long green school bus that belonged to one of his charity organizations. This particular bus is used in his charity youthful basketball camps for every young boy and girl to go have fun, as this camp is free of charge to those who can not afford certain things for their kid's fun activities. The one year retired basketball player watched as the double doors of the bus have flown open and out came the campers. About twenty-one kids were all wearing the same black basketball shirts with red words saying 'JK's Charitable B-Camp For The Youth' and matching blue basketball shorts, were all screaming of joy and happiness from another day of fun at basketball camp, right after the bus drove off. John looked happy when seeing his firstborn son jumping out with a huge smile on his face while having his basketball trophy in hand.
John and Gwen have named their two sons and one daughter off the three kids from the Boondocks show, due to loving the show and loving the names themselves. However, they did not expect the three to sound exactly like them. His ten-year-old firstborn son who had his skin tone and haircut let alone had his mother's green eyes came running towards him smiling happily.
"Hi, Dad!." Huey hugged his father with happiness.
John hugged his son back with great joy as he loved his kids to death. "Hey, Huey. How was B-ball camp?."
"It was awesome, Dad!." Huey looked at his dad and showed him his small trophy. "I won the most valuable player award. Cool huh?."
"Oh, yeah, that is outstanding. Keep that up and you might outshine me, Huey." John honesty said while rubbing his son's head and in return hear Huey laugh. "Why don't you go and meet Betty. She's my new personal trainer and our guest for dinner. Make her feel right at home, okay?."
Huey nodded. "Sure, Dad, I'll say what is up to Betty and maybe ask her if she wanted to play some NFL Madden after dinner."
After letting Huey go and introduce himself to Betty, John turned around to see his second son. Riley looked exactly like his older brother except for having an identical hairstyle as Boondocks Riley. Instead of the boy having an enthusiastic facial expression like his oldest brother, Riley had a disappointed look on his face while tossing his basketball up in the air. The look on his son's face concerned John. This is not the first time he saw Riley like this when every time he comes home from school or at the playground, right after playing a few rounds of basketball, and ends up losing each game.
The cause of it is none other than himself. For some reason, Riley thinks that he has to be the star of the court and always ball-hogging the ball. Just like his old man, the boy has the exact skill potentials. Riley can cross people up, break ankles, shoot at a faraway distance, and even slam dunk no matter how far up the rim is. But still, the boy lacks team effort skills. John and Gwen have tried teaching their son that there is no I in team or thinking that it is a one-person band. Unfortunately, Riley still can not comprehend that through his head and gets extremely frustrated when losing in the game.
"Hi, Riley." John put his fist out for a fist pump to his son.
"Oh, hi, Dad," Riley said, after stopping to look at his dad for a few seconds and then walked past him with his head hanging down.
John looked hurt to see his boy like this and was about to talk to his second ten-year-old until hearing a familiar tone.
"Daddy!. Daddy!. Daddy!. Daddy!."
John looked back and got immediately welcomed by a strong loving hug. And lastly, his eight-year-old daughter Jazmine, who by some God-given reason looked extremely identical to Jazmine Dubois from Boondocks!. Neither John nor Gwen can not to this day figure out how their daughter looked the same as the cartoon character. One theory that the two have come up with was that one night of them binge-watching all seasons of Boondocks before decided to have sex that same night. Still, they love Jazmine along with the boys and spoiled them rotten, but not too rotten compared to both of their grandparents.
"Well, hello there sweety pie." John lifted Jazmine off the ground and hold her. "How is my favorite IHOP pancake?. Have you been on your best behavior with mommy?."
"She sure did."
John met with a pair of soft lips and kissed his beloved wife. Gwen had grown a perfectly busty body figure during her time in college and currently playing in the national women's football association, better known as the NWFA. The beautiful pale woman looked at her husband cheerfully before using her nose to a romantic nose snuggle with his nose. John snuggled back with glee.
"Hey, Gwen. How's my favorite girl?." John smirked while putting Jazmine down to go in the house.
This leaves John and his wife to hold hands.
"I'm fine now since my husband is home," said Gwen, wearing the referee outfit that she used for the camps basketball games.
They talked about how their day was with Gwen telling John about Riley's ball hogging and having an attitude on the court. To John's dismay of hearing this in full detail, he found himself in the kitchen fridge pulling out two long foil-covered trays and set them on the countertop. Gwen began washing her hands before beginning to make fresh coleslaw for dinner. Smiling to herself, Gwen can not wait to serve dinner and get to know their new guest without noticing her husband's facial mood. Gwen chopped with her blender with no sweat while talking up a storm about what her coach has told her.
"And then he had the nerve to tell me that I need to get out of the pocket more often and run more. I looked at him and said, my line can not hold the defenders off long enough for me to make a clear run for it," said Gwen, glancing up at her man and stopped chopping.
She eyed John when he is currently seasoning slabs of boneless bass and catfish meat with a depressed look. It concerned Gwen so much that she had to come over to John and start nuzzling up against his back. John eased up and relaxed completely. Next, he turned to face his wife to see her worried face.
"John what's bugging you?. You are never this depressed. Talk to me." Gwen wrapped her arms around his neck.
Sighing, John then said, "Was joining the NFL the right move on my part, Gwen?. Because I feel so, so, so out of place when I play. It's hard for me to be...me."
"Oh, John..." Gwen felt guilt building up within herself as she holds on to her husband hard and said. "You really shouldn't have to keep that promise to me on that night. Just because I both love to play football and felt good in that career field, doesn't mean that you should give up what you love to do. Especially if it's your passion."
"Yeah, but...that just shows you how much love I have for you and..." John paused after hearing his name being mentioned from the living room. "Baby hold on to that thought for a second."
Gwen let John go as he headed to the living room to see what his kids were watching. Once he walked in he saw his kids all seating down on the long black sofa with their eyes glued to the long flatscreen tv. He then noticed Betty was in his big comfty chair with the footrest out to make herself real comfortable. John took the time to look at the tv to see it was the NFL Network on halftime and have to seat between Huey and Riley. On the tv they were discussing about his poor playing skills and not showing that quick drive as a quarterback. Then one of the men who on the long table begin commenting on saying that he needed to stick at what he is good at and leave football to people who can actually play.
"Don't let them get to you, Dad." Riley spoke up. "You just need to find your rhythm and you'll be good."
John looked at Riley with an eyebrow raised, "You think so?."
"If the Tennessee Titans can find their rhythm and win the Super Bowl last year, then you can do the same as well." Huey informed while still eyeing the screen.
Then Betty said, "Don't you worry about a thing, Mr. King. Once I get done with you, you will be the most talked about in the NFL."
John chuckled, "That will be the day when pigs fly." Next he grabbed the smart remote from Huey's hands and began changing the the tv. "You four need to watch something more kiddie and less sports."
When going through his apps on the tv he then pushed the VRV app and instantly pressed the now showing new episode of Konosuba.
"There!. Konosuba. You four watch that while start firing up the charcoal grill so I can get dinner started. Right after I finish talking with your mom you three." John got up and went to his right to go leave before messing with Jazmine by imitating Kazuma. "Steal!!!!!."
"Daddy!." Jazmine laughed when closing her legs thinking that her dad can steal panties like Kazuma the cad.
The four lean back with smiles on their faces as the screen showed Wiz's shop and Wiz herself, who was tighting things up along with her best friend Vanir.
Wiz heard the door being opened and turned to see her other friends and smiled. "Oh, hi, Megumin. Darkness. What can I do for you today?."
"Oh, nothing really." spoke Megumin with a cheerful smile. "We just happened to be in this area and decided to drop by."
"Is that all?." Vanir eyed Darkness with a sly smirk. "Because I thought Darkness would only want to be here after hearing that we have a freshly shipped case of attracted scent spray, that will attract unwanted strays and wild monsters."
"What?!." Darkness hold herself while blushing red. "What do you take me for?. A kinky pervert knight?."
"Well if the shoe fits. In fact, I do have a magic potion that can cause people to throw their shoes at you," informed Vanir.
Darkness gasped for a short second before moaning out in pleasure. Megumin sighed in complete embarrassment with Vanir snickering in victory.
"Anyways, have any of you have seen Kazuma in the last few hours?. He hasn't returned home from his solo quest," explained Megumin.
"No." Wiz tilted her head with a look of concern. "You, Darkness, and Aqua did not join him on the quest?. Why?."
"Well, we wanted some me-time, and we declined on the day of adventuring," said Darkness, after stopping her pervert moment.
As if on cue, Yunyun jumped out from her hiding spot and pointed her finger at Megumin with confidence.
"At last, you're here, Megumin!. Now, we can continue our rivalry and end it here and now!." said Yunyun.
The teen crimson demon looked at her. "Uh, who are you again?."
Yunyun then cried out in anger, "I hated every time you do that, Megumin!. You know good and well who I am, and you're not going to pretend that I..."
Just when Yunyun was about to finish her sentence the door of the shop shoot open and in came a panic, Chris. Causing all five to draw attention to.
"Stop everything!. Stop this anime show!." Chris yelled on the screen and then turned her attention to her friends. "We've got a serious emergency Konosuba Union Meeting to go too. Everyone in this city is attending."
The five looked at one another after hearing the urgent announcement before looking back at Chris and all said at the same time, "For real?."
"Yes, for real!." Chris panicked even more. She looked back at the screen and noticed that it was still showing them. "Why is the screen still on?!. VRV turn us off now!."
The screen popped up with a mini Chris as she spoke the show's name in break down.
Ko-No-Su-Ba!
With this the screen exit out of the live stream and brought them back to the VRV home screen. Leaving Betty, Huey, Riley, and Jazmine confused as to what they just witnessed. It took the four to comprehend on just happened not too long ago.
"Damn, what the hell just happened?." they all said.
"Huey!. Riley!. Jazmine!. You three have better not be swearing in this house!." Gwen spoke in a serious motherly tone.
"No, ma'am, it was Betty!." said all three siblings.
"Sure, go ahead and put all the blame on me, kids," Betty spoke with sarcasm.
Back in the world of Konosuba, everyone from beginner-level adventurers to citizens of Axel, Belzerg were heading to the Adventurer Guild in the middle of the night. Everyone entered the building both talking amongst themselves and wondering what is tonight's subject of the meeting is going to be about. Upon arrival, they all took a seat at the variety of tables from the first floor to the second floor before receiving refreshments from the multiple waitresses. With no time wasted the whole building is filled up with everyone and all waiting for the meeting to start.
"What did you do this time, you shut-in neet?. I was having the most wonderful spa treatment ever until one of the attendants have informed me about your trouble. Just because I'm the goddess of water doesn't mean that I have to come rescuing you every single time." said Aqua, with a frown.
Aqua was the first person of Kazuma's party to arrived first to the guild and already starting to give a chained-up Kazuma an earful. Kazuma looked at his useless party member with full irritation. Here he was the one to get jumped by five strangers who did not belong in the world of Konosuba. Kazuma just wanted to choke the hell out of the so-called goddess for everything including that huge ass debt, which is buying everyone in the whole town drinks and food from the day they returned from their vacation. It is as if she was a drag to his party. But he can not deny that she has her moments at times.
"Well, I wouldn't be in this situation if you guys have joined me for a quest." said, Kazuma.
"Agree." Darkness shivered when looking at Kazuma in chains with a blush. "If I would have known that we're going to get chained up then I'll gladly take that opportunity. You're making me jealous, Kazuma."
"Geez, Darkness, can you ease up with your kinkiness?." Yunyun questioned when having a seat beside Chris.
"All right everyone the meeting will start now," Kazuma announced before seeing everyone grab a seat. "Um, these guys have something to say to us."
Kazuma looked at the five and said, "You guys have the floor."
Shego looked at Mokuba. "You suggested the idea to the boss and so you are going to speak."
"Yeah, come on, Mokuba. Before I get too drunk from the free booze," said Masane, with a slight slur speech and a mug of beer in one hand.
Mokuba looked at both Kale and Shippo, who gave him the thumbs up for encouragement. Rolling his eyes, Mokuba stepped forward and looked at the crowd before clearing his throat.
"You." Mokuba looked at everyone while pointing at everyone. "All of you...are now our boss's slaves!."
Mokuba raised his fist in victory with an evil smirk. Everyone was silent for a short second before bursting out laughing as if they heard a joke.
"Are you serious?." said a laughing female priest.
"Oh, we're scared now!." said a laughing male knight.
"Man, to think that I have heard everything." Aqua laughed hard while holding her side.
Mokuba dropped his evil smirk and raised his fist down. And in return, he had an embarrassed look on his face and felt like he just blew it. Shego frowned at seeing her friend being laughed at like a poor loser and stepped up.
"Just what my friend, Mokuba said. You guys are our boss's slaves starting tonight."
"We're taking you all outside of this world and take you to outer space." Kale began with a serious tone.
"Yeah, no fooling!." Masane drunk her twelve rounds of beer and spoke with a slur.
Kale wiggled her nose to get the smell of alcohol off her scent from her best friend, "Like you, all will be our main attraction to Moron Mountain and forever entertain our guests with your usual work."
"Oh, please, if you wanted slaves in your amusement park then I recommend you five go to the world of Pokemon," informed Megumin while lifting her staff. "Now, be gone from my city and release my best friend/party leader before I unleash my deadly explosion magic!."
Darkness pulled out her sword in support of her best friend. "That's right, we're not afraid to throw down from the lights of you."
"Uh, guys, maybe you should not do that if I were you," warned Kazuma while letting Chris unlock his chains from head to toe.
"Nonsense, Kazuma. If we kill them now we'll get a quest reward," said Aqua, pulling out her magic staff.
This by itself just motivated all the adventurers to pull out their weapons and began pointing at the five unwanted guests. Shego and the others kept their cool and easily showed their seriousness to everyone.
"We're going nowhere!." said a black knight with his sword pointing at Shippo.
In Shippo's response, he pulled out his blaster and shot the guy into ashes. After seeing that, everyone in the building immediately dropped their weapons and then quickly put their hands up in the air in fear, all except for Darkness who is breathing through her mouth and drooling.
All five scanned the room to see that everyone was now complying with what they said.
"Now, just wait a minute, you guys." Kazuma got their attention. "You guys can not just come here and then enslaved us without letting us defend ourselves. Otherwise, it's pointless."
"Pointless?." Masane questioned while pointing her gun at Kazuma. "Who says so?."
"Why the rules of being an adventurer. Um, right, Luna?." Kazuma looked at the beautiful head staff woman.
Luna tilted her head with a confused look on the face, before understanding what Kazuma was planning. "Why yes, that is in the rules!. Adventurers must perform their duties or otherwise, they'll lose their stats and capabilities."
"Is that true, Mokuba?." Shego asked with a confused look.
Mokuba can shake his head, "Probably so, Shego. After all, this world's rules are much different from ours."
"Great. Just great," said Shego in sarcasm. She looked back at Kazuma with suspicion. "Well, don't just stand there. Pick the challenge and will comply."
Kazuma made an uneasy laugh before nodding in understanding, right before pulling his party members to go have a private discussion. The only private place in the guild was the janitor's closet that was surprisingly big enough to put a couch in.
"Alright, you guys we truly don't need to actually fight them. We just need to do something that doesn't involve much," said Kazuma.
"True. It would be such a waste of a good explosion on my part. What do you guys suggest?." said Megumin, looking at her best friends.
Aqua lifted her head high, "Simple. We challenge them to a fun duel. I recommend playing to see who can make an awesome dance when using Nature's Beauty. I for one can easily beat them in that area."
"Forget it, Aqua," Kazuma said plainly with a none impressed look.
"Agree! Don't you three see a golden opportunity in front of you?!." Darkness looked at them with an excited look on her face.
"Say what?." Kazuma, Aqua, and Megumin looked lost at what their knight was getting at.
"Don't you see?. I say we let them take me to Moron Mountain and make an amusement sex slave out of me." Darkness started to have her kinky and blushing facial expression. "I can see it right now, they'll force me to perform endless pornographic acts over and over again until they reached their climax. Then they'll start dragging me around the floor like a little worn-out rag doll while throwing garbage at me. And finally, one of their customers will throw an empty wine bottle at my head and say..."
Darkness looked at her friends and imitate a man's voice, "Hey, Darkness?. Take your damn clothes off and let me see that thong while dropped like it's hot!."
It resulted in Darkness hugging herself and moaned it out in great pleasure. Leaving the rest to look stunned by how kinky she can go.
"Darkness, remember that you did promise us that you won't be a kinky pervert for the whole day, right?." Kazuma raised his brow.
"R...R...Right!. S...S...Sorry, guys." Darkness spoke while breathing through her mouth.
Kazuma thought real hard on the idea challenge. Something easy but more winning advantage for them. Something...sporty. Kazuma clapped his hands together and smiled brightly. Next, the four exits out of the janitor's closet and approached the five with everyone quiet, and dying to know what Kazuma's party have chosen for the challenge.
Kazuma, Darkness, Aqua, and Megumin stood side by side with confidence on their faces, while Shego and the rest waited for them to say the challenge.
"Me and my party have decided to challenge you to a street-style basketball game," Kazuma spoke with his arms crossed and smirked.
"Challenge accepted," said Shego, smirking back.
Hours Later...
"Does anyone in here know how to play basketball?." Shippo asked in deep confusion.
"I have no idea, Shippo. How about you, Mokuba?." Kale asked when looking at Mokuba.
Mokuba shrugged his shoulders. "I sick at sports, Kale. The only game that I'm somewhat good at know is duel monsters."
The five were talking amongst themselves on their spaceship that was currently hovering around the city. They accepted the challenge that Kazuma and his party have given them, but don't have any knowledge as to how to play basketball. Masane heard about basketball but doesn't know how to play it her own self, as she wasn't into sports. Shego looked irritated as she knows how to play but her playing skills suck. Her brothers can play ball better than her but she can not. This is why the normal skin woman had a solution. Instead of practicing the game that is set for Monday night of the next week after the other week from this week. Giving them one week to prepare for what they call the ultimate game. Shego wanted to do it the easy way. The only issue was finding the right people to make it happen.
Currently, Shego has found what she was looking for. From there, she informed her friends of her discovery and begin to display the hologram projection of a video, that showed five current active NBA players that were the all-star players of the Charlotte Hornets team. Their names were Phillip Colson, Rick Norton, José Lopez, Tyson Ray, and Michael Fury aka Big Mike. In the video, they were the big talk in the sports media as Charles Barkley and fellow hall of famers were discussing.
"I'm telling you these five players are given their all to keep their team's winning streak intact, since now, that John King is no longer a Hornets player and no longer active in the NBA.," said Charles.
"I feel the same way, Barkley. Those five are trying to lead the Hornets to a fifteen championship, without their team leader. Let alone adjust the mindset that John is not going to help carry them this season. They are on their own now" said Shaquille, before looking at the next person talking.
"Well, in truth." begin Kenny. "Those five have learned from the best and know what to do in a basketball game since the six were in college. Heck, each one played each other during their college years in different colleges before being drafted to the NBA Hornets."
"Besides, NBA Hall of Famer and undefeated retired player, John King, aka 'The-Streak-King'. Philip, Rick, José, Tyson, and Big Mike are now officially considered the greatest NBA players of all time. I repeat, the greatest NBA players of all time." said Ernie, with enthusiasm.
Shego paused the video before smirking evilly towards her friends as they all had the same exact look. After seeing the video it was all clear to them. They found their solution and now feeling the urge to take action.
"The greatest NBA players of all time," Kale said with an evil grin.
"And he said the greatest!." Mokuba informed before flying the ship out of the world of Konosuba and go find those players.
This is the start path of achieving the victory for the Ultimate Game.
(A/N): I hope you guys enjoyed it. To all who are reading this story, I have a question to ask. Which girl should Kazuma end being within this story?. Either Aqua, Darkness, or Megumin. You all can submit your answers in the review and see which girl is Kazuma is going to end up with within this story. Until the next chapter. Excelsior!.