The limousine sat at the curb quietly purring as only an extremely expensive automobile could. A liveried chauffeur stood at attention next to the rear door of the car. Down the street, a tall lean man wearing a black beanie with twin stripes on it came hurriedly towards the building in front of which the limo was parked.
"Oh my, oh my, Eddy is going to be so upset that I am running late this morning of all mornings." mumbled the man as he made his way down the street. As he neared the door of his building a man dressed in a black suit carrying a briefcase came slamming out the door. Double Dee had just reached the door as the man came out and they crashed head-on, knocking Edd to the ground. "Outta my way asshole!" As he stepped over the fallen man he delivered a kick to the man's ribs. "Stupid fucking dork! Kicked your ass in high school and still have to step over your stupid ass."
The man then walked to the car and got into the back seat. The chauffeur slammed the door and ran around the car and got in behind the driver's wheel. Double Dee slowly got to his feet and checked himself all over. Then he staggered into the building and down a long hallway to an office in the back where he could hear yelling and things crashing behind the closed door. He stood there for a moment listening to the noise behind the door and then turned to go to his own office which was basically a broom closet stuffed with an architect's desk and a chair. He would deal with Eddy once he cooled down.
Just as he put his hand on the knob of his own office door he heard the door behind him open with a crash. "Sockhead, where the hell have you been. Today of all days you had to break a lifetime of tradition and come in late. Are you trying to lose me, my business? Is this the way you repay me for taking me in after your parents threw you out because you got thrown out of college? You owe me man, what kinda friend do you call yourself?"
"But Eddy..."
"Shut it Sockhead, where are the plans for the next big scam... er I mean project. That guy that was here for the meeting this morning needed to be assured that we could pay back the money that they loaned us. I needed those plans to appease him."
"Right here on my desk, where they have been for the past week if you had bothered to actually look, you would have found them. And, if you remember you were the reason I got thrown out of college in the first place."
Oh ho, you're trying to blame me for your failure in life, is that it. Is that why you missed the meeting this morning? You want me to be a failure just like you!"
"It was one of your scams that caused all the trouble at that college, but no I am not trying to make you fail. I want you to succeed, if for no other reason than the fact that you did help me when I needed help."
"You better remember that fact next time you want to mess me up, or so help me I'll put out on the mean streets. And, then what would you do. Now get to work!"
Eddy stopped on his way out the door and turned back towards Edd. "I'm going to try to interest them into taking some stock in our company; draw up some dummy stock for me while you ain't doing anything."
"But Eddy, the SEC..."
"But Eddy nothing, get on it Sockhead. I ain't worried about that, how they gonna find out unless some big mouth blabs. Just do what I tell you and shut the fuck up. I'm the brains of this outfit." Eddy stormed out and slammed the door behind him.
Meanwhile across town the long black car pulled into a parking garage and stopped before the elevator shaft. The chauffeur jumped out and opened the rear door of the car. The large man got out still holding his briefcase and started for the elevator.
"Did you have to kick the dork back there?"
The large man turned around and glared at the chauffeur. "What's it to ya? I have a job to do and I do it my way. What does it matter if I did?. You do your job and keep your nose out of mine."
"You do know that that guy is the main asset of that company. He's the reason for the action that the company is taking towards Eddyco Inc."
The big man walked up to the chauffeur and punched him in the gut. "You may have been the big man on campus during high school but you ain't nothing but a hired flunky now. So if you want to keep your job stay out of mine. Put your nose in my business again and I'll fuck you up. Mr. Goldberg only gave you this job because he felt sorry for your stupid ass. Now get the fuck out of my way." He turned back towards the elevator and pushed the up button.
After the door closed behind the man, the chauffeur laughed. "We will see about that Chad." He then laughed to himself again.
"Are you ok, Sir?" Asked another man who had been sitting in a small office watching the whole show.
"Yeah, Jenkins, I'm ok, I think I need to get back in the gym and work on my abs. Park the car will ya, I got to get upstairs. Nat in yet?"
"Yup got here a few minutes ago."
The chauffeur then took off his cap and ran his fingers through his red hair. He then tossed the cap to Jenkins and pulled a red baseball cap from his back pocket and placed it on his head. Turning swiftly he entered a private elevator the went directly to the top floor of the building. After arriving at the top floor he exited the elevator and went into one of the offices located there. In the middle of the room was a large walnut desk with a credenza behind it with a built-in trophy case that held many sporting trophies, awards, and sports memorabilia. He smiled to himself and walked over to the wall on the right of the room. He pressed a button and a panel slid aside. Behind the panel was a window into another office. From the other office, it held a mirror but from the main office, one could watch what was going on in the other.
He smirked to himself when he saw Chad walk into the room and place his briefcase on the desk. Behind the desk sat a well-dressed man with teal hair. He looked up at the large man and said something. Kevin then pressed a button so that he could hear what was being said in the other room..
"... how did it go, did Eddy pay the money or did he ask for another extension?"
"He said he needed a little more time to pull things together, but, that he should be able to make a deal soon and get things settled up."
"Did you remind him that time is of the essence. That we are tired of waiting for him to make a move on this matter. That if he didn't pay up soon that we were going to have to seize certain assets of his company?"
"Well not exactly in those words. I told him that we would kick his ass out and take his shit."
"Chad, chad, chad, what am I going to do with you? When I send you on this kind of missions I wish you would act a little more business-like. I also have to reprimand you for kicking Edd. I don't think that was a necessary action."
"What's it matter if I did kick the dork. Nothing but a freak anyways. So Kevin ratted me out did he, I told him to keep his nose out of my job and mind his own business."
"I haven't seen Kevin yet this morning. Nat then pressed a few keys on his laptop and a video came on the screen on the wall. It was taken from an angle across the street and showed him walking out of the door and bumping into Double Dee and then kicking him. "I didn't need anyone to tell me about your actions, I saw it all and if I ever see it again you will be terminated. Now give me your report about your meeting with Eddy."
Kevin then walked over to his desk and turned on his laptop listening to a recording of a certain conversation between two people about some fake stock. He smirked to himself and turned off the recording. He leaned back in his chair and pressed his fingers together in deep thought. After a while, the door between the two offices opened and the tall teal haired man entered the room. He was grinning ear to ear.
"Chad is such a useful tool. He thinks he is more important to our scheme that he really is."
"I don't care how useful he is if he hurts the dork again..."
"Did you listen to the recording?"
"Yes, with this latest stunt we will have Eddy just where we want him and he will have to give us the assets that we want or we will send him directly to jail."
"You do realize that if we do that Double Delicious will go down with him."
"We will have to make sure that doesn't happen. Now lets up the heat on Eddy and get what we want." Kevin leaned back in his chair smirking and pressing his fingertips together. "I've worked hard and invested a lot of my baseball earnings into this scheme and it cannot fail."
"I have invested a lot into this company as well. We will succeed and when we are done even Eddy will realize that this was a great scam. You still haven't told me just why we are pulling this in the first place."
"Never mind about that just make sure everything goes as planned."
Nat thought to himself, sure I know just which "Asset" you want, why won't you admit you like the double dork that way and get it over with. I have been trying for years to get you two together. He just sat there and grinned at Kevin.