Mako's Message: Ya know, I completely forgot just when Kick-Ass released. Turns out it was April 16th 2010, ten years ago from this chapter's update. Thank you to Chloe Grace Moretz and her live stream( on Instagram at 12pm Pacific) with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Christopher Mintz-Plasse to celebrate the movie's Ten Year Anniversary, which (as of typing this) hasn't happened yet and I wont be able to see because I have to work. At, ya know, WORK. (For better or worse all thigns considered). But it made me realise it would be an absolute crime if I didn't uplaod a chapter of this today, and hopefully this will reach enough people in time for them to catch the stream if they didn't already know about it.

Anyway, just a fun chapter adding something I've been wanting to do for a long while now, as well as getting Dave and Mindy some time together.


We FINALLY found a tenant for the first floor. I'm so happy about this. We'd be paying the same amount every month anyway, but now we have money coming IN as well, and with an actual store front on the building people will be less curious about people going into the stairs.

And I know Dave was kinda hoping we could convince Atomic Comics to open another branch there. I kinda liked the idea too but I wasn't hopeful. I also didn't think it was a great idea.

But this is so much better. Our new tenant is a chocolatier! Or at least that's what he calls himself. He's going to be making and selling gourmet chocolate. Custom made stuff as well. Including hot cocoa. So I think I've found my new favorite store.

When he came to look at the place, he brought some fudge for us to sample, and I convinced John to offer him an additional hundred off the monthly rent if he made a batch of the stuff for us every month. We weren't really asking a lot anyway, since the building is basically paid for and we just wanted someone else in there to provide cover for us going in and out. The more people going in and out of the building, the less people will notice people going in and out. But it'll still be good to have some steady income. I mean, busting up a drug dealer's operation can bring us a few hundred thousand on a good day, and even more on a great day, but it's not like we get to do that every month.

He's kind of a dork, or maybe eccentric, but that just makes me like him. He kinda has a Bill Nye meets Willy Wonka style going on, and his name is William Sell so he's calling his store Will Sell Chocolates. With a name like that it'd have been a waste for him to NOT go into...sales. Or whatever. Retail? I dunno.

Dave's a little nervous about it since I've been known to fire guns in the Clubhouse, but that's why I made sure they installed as much sound proofing as I could get away with. If any noise gets through I'll be fucking amazed.

And NYBC started selling this years Valentine's special sundae today, so Dave brought me one. It's amazing as always. We didn't get a lot of training done today though. Between the ice cream and the new tenant we spent most of our time talking.

I was in one of those moods, so when we were wrapping up I asked him if he wanted to come back to my house and try that game I was telling him about.

He looked at me with his eyebrow cocked so hard I thought it'd get stuck like that, but then he started smiling, and laughed, and said, "Sure, I'd love to."

With how happy that made me I must be more desperate than I thought.

But we went to my place and I was going straight for the Blast game, but as soon as the game select screen came up Dave went, "Hey! Pikmin! I haven't played one of those games in years. Can we give that a shot?"

I figured there was no reason not to, since if it was bad we'd go to the game I wanted to play, and if it was good...it was good.

As soon as we started playing it Dave started laughing, "What is this? This isn't Pikmin."

I told him the game was themed like an amusement park, so all the games were "attractions" based on other games. We kept playing though, it was kind of a beat-em-up and we had a lot of fun headbutting clockwork monsters to death.

We played pretty late. Late enough that when Dave realized how late it was and was getting ready to leave, Marcus said he could spend the night on our couch, if he didn't NEED to go home. He thought about it for a minute then dropped his stuff and jumped back on the couch and we played for another hour. It was great.

Yeah, it sucked getting up, but it wasn't much worse than our normal late nights. And getting to spend all that time with Dave was DEFINITELY worth it.


More Message: Their new tennent is based on a real guy who ran a real chocolate shop of the same name near where I grew up.