Chapter 6: The Empress and The Gunman Part III

The Jol family is a family that originates from South Korea. They have been known for having extremely fast and precise finger movements. So much that when the type writer was introduced to the Koreas, the first Jol to use it could type a 6 page essay in under a minute with correct grammar.

When the most recent addition to the family, Jol Min-Jun, was born. They moved to America for an increased job opportunity. Which was right at the time when the video game genre 'First Person Shooters' or 'FPS' was just starting out.

His father got him a computer that was installed with DOS and with the game known as Commander Keen by the company id Software. Turns out, the Jol family and video games go hand in hand.

Jol Min-Jun proceeded to by a bunch of games for DOS, and when he bought the game Doom, he was introduced to the world of online competitive gaming.

As he begun to play, he established himself as one of the greatest online players ever. Every time a new online was released, people would wonder 'What would Jol Min-Jun's call himself in this game?' because he never stuck to a name. Until one day.

When he was playing a deathmatch in the Quake II multiplayer, he met a hacker that was so powerful, he wasn't able to be banned by the admins. That was Marcus Hilepold. Nothing could stop him. But Jol Min-Jun wanted to test himself, see if he could beat the "unbeatable".

Jol Min-Jun was fighting a one-sided battle in his favor.

This cemented his identification as "The Hacker Killer." and made his name officially "Teh_Trumpotar".

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"I still have every single rage of any hacker I've beaten ingrained in my memory. Especially yours, Marcus." He smirked when Judgement said his name. "You mentioned rape of my mother 8 times, arson 11 times, and homicide 16 times. I wouldn't have been surprised if I found out you were a sociopath." Judgement stared up at Marcus. "And look at you, a few minutes ago, you used your chain gun in a public area just to kill one person."

Marcus kneed Judgement right in the gut. He then crumpled on the ground clutching his stomach, almost puking up what Rin thought would be his breakfast.

"Now that everything's been cleared up. I'm going to kill you as payback!" Marcus then grabbed Judgement by the collar and tossed him up in the air. His stomach opened up again revealing the chain gun and began to gun him down. Judgement acted quickly by recovering in the air and launched a barrage of beams from his finger tips that collided with the bullets.

Once Judgement landed on the ground, he tackled Marcus back to the center of the lobby. Rin looked behind the pillar to watch the fight. But as he watched, he remembered something. During their fight with the man in the gas mask, Judgement used a grenade he made with energy to launch himself towards the airport. Rin had heard about that technique, it was called blast jumping. You'd propel yourself using an explosion. Impossible in real life, your legs would get blown off. But completely feasible in video games. Rin couldn't believe that he didn't figure out that he was a competitive gamer.

In the center of the hotel lobby, Judgement and Marcus walked in a circle, glaring at each other. Each one waiting for the other one to make a move. Almost as if this was a scene from an old western. The entire lobby was silent, until Judgement shouted "DYNE PISTOL!" and made a finger gun to launch a beam at Marcus.

Marcus jumped up into the air to dodge the beam. Just as the beam passed below Marcus, Judgement redirected the beam, causing it to make a bent 60 degree angle and hit Marcus in the leg, causing him to crash to the ground. Judgement then dashed over to him but then Marcus' mouth opened up to fire a revolver bullet which was at such a close range that Judgement couldn't block it. It hit him in the shoulder.

This caused him to sprawl onto the floor, clutching his shoulder to stop the bleeding. "What was that?" Judgement questions. He then took his hand off his wounded shoulder to check the palm to see that he was still bleeding.

"Do you like it?" Marcus asked with a grin. Rin and Judgement saw the barrel of the revolver slide back into his mouth. "I completely replaced my body with an android one, filled with guns! I'm living artillery, A walking gun store!" Marcus began to chuckle. Rin could only wonder if the Illuminati gave him this power or if he did it himself.

"Now fear my wrath!" Marcus' shoulders popped open revealing the barrels of two different grenade launchers; Rin and Judgement's eyes widened at the sight. They began to launch grenades at rapid fire. Marcus not caring for if he killed a civilian or not. Judgement jumped up and grabbed a ceiling light that was dangling down while Rin hid behind the pillar again. Though the grenades blew up the pillar, leaving Rin slightly exposed.

Judgement was trying to figure out his next plan of attack. Though he was panting quite hard. He thought he'd cough up a lung. He began to just stare down at Marcus. 'This man is serious about trying to kill me. He even modified his entire body just to do so.' Just as Judgement finished his thought. Marcus looked up at him and angled the grenade launcher on his right shoulder down and then fired a grenade. It bounced off the ground and went vertically and stopped right in front of Judgement's face.

There was something weird about this grenade. It was a long black cylindrical shape. different from the ammunition he fired before, which were shell shaped. Suddenly there was this bright light that blinded Judgement and he fell off the light and on to his back. The fall was hard and could have broken his back.

Judgement's eyesight went white for a bit and a loud ringing was present in his ears. "Fool? Fool, where are you?" He shouted out for Rin, though all he could hear was a muffled voice that seemed to say 'What happened.'

"The fucker hit me with a flashbang!" Judgement was wiping his eyes as he heard the muffled voice again, asking. 'What's a flashbang?'

"It's a type of grenade that stuns an opponent, causing temporary blindness and deafness. I'm only assuming what you're saying." Judgement continued. "It caused by the pyrotechnic metal-oxidant mix of magnesium or aluminum and an oxidizer." Rin watched as Judgement stumbled around the center area of the lobby. "He must of used the flash bang to take cover somewhere; did you see where he went?" Rin shook his head, but assuming that Judgement was still blinded he continued.

"Watch out, he could be any where in this lobby. There's no way he'd flee with just two of us facing against him." Rin then noticed that Marcus was quietly walking behind Judgement and out of his elbow, silently extended a double barrel shotgun that was aimed at Judgement's back. However thanks to Marcus' flashbang, Judgement couldn't hear a warning from Rin. "Luckily, my eye sight and hearing have returned to normal. So now he shou-" Rin acted quickly and interrupted Judgement.

"Behind you!" Judgement stared at Rin, his eyes slightly blood shot from the flashbang.

"What?" Then there was a click, the sound of Marcus arming his elbow-shotgun. Judgement's eyes shot open when the click was heard but by that point it was too late.

KER-CRACK!

Marcus fired both barrels into Judgement's back. The buck shot leaving multiple holes in his brown hoodie.

"Judgement!" Rin shouted and reached his hand out as he watched his companion collapse to his knees and then fell with his chest to the floor. He couldn't believe it. Rin just knew this person yesterday. And he was already dead. "No…" Rin collapsed to his knees in the same fashion that Judgement did with his head peaking out from behind the pillar. He was in complete shock.

He then heard a chuckle from Marcus which then turned into a full on cackle. "I did it! I fuckin' did it! I killed Jol Min-Jun, Teh_Trumpotar!" He then began to disrespect him by squatting down on Judgement's corpse. A gesture known in the gaming community as 'tea-bagging'. Rin looked upon in horror.

After a minute or two Marcus stood up straight and glanced over towards Rin, who currently felt like a scared child as he hid behind the pillar again. Marcus reached by the pillar and pulled Rin out by the collar. "Now to deal with you." Rin began to curse himself. If only he had brought the Kurikara with him, he could have sliced him up in a few motions. "Look at this! All I need to do is return to that Michael guy with you and that corpse over there, and I'll be 37 million richer!" He gave out a hardy laugh.

Then, something that no one thought could've happened. A small, light purple beam pierced through the left side of Marcus' chest.

"What!?" Rin and Marcus both said surprised. They looked behind them to see Judgement standing straight up making a finger gun at Marcus.

"I killed you!" Marcus said stumbling from the attack.

"Well, you did ruin my favorite hoodie!" Judgement put his hand underneath his hoodie. "And next time, check to see that someone doesn't have any improvised armor under their clothes." He then pulled out a slim sheet of metal, which was large enough to cover his back, that had indents from the buckshot. "You didn't think I didn't notice you? I'd say you'd stick out like a sore thumb, but then a sore thumb would be harder to find than you."

Marcus dropped Rin and backed up against the front door. Scared of his life long rival. Then for some reason Judgement took off his hoodie and the shirt underneath. and on the back, there was a tattoo of an angel blowing a trumpet. Rin assumed that this was a reference to his gamer tag.

"Fool, I want you to listen up real clearly. And this advise is coming from Teh_Trumpotar, so you better listen." Judgement looked over at Rin with a serious glare on his face. "You aren't fighting monsters that hide under a children's bed anymore. These are REAL PEOPLE. And I suggest you get used to the fact that your going to be harming, even killing, REAL PEOPLE." Judgement then glared at Marcus who was trying to stand up.

"Because if you don't, then you'll never be able to save your friend!"