Wick was about a couple hundred meters away until he heard the begging of his old friend Papyrus, asking them not to kill him because of his spaghetti cooking skills.

"I'm a five-star chef back in the Underground!" cried Papyrus on his knees. "My spaghetti is sure to please you!"

"Paps, sorry to disappoint, but we don't even have tongues. You have no idea how your spaghetti tastes." But Sans wasn't paying attention to his plight. Out of the corner of Sans' eye socket came a strange bush. It seemed to be moving in their direction. Sans, with his mind filled with questioning thoughts, looked over to the light switch that he had seen Papyrus turn on. Before the Skull Troopers could react, Sans had already gotten to the switch and flicked it down, shutting all the lights off. The mysterious bush seemed to see the opportunity and charged in and shot one of them in the back. He fell to his knees and started to crawl behind the wall. The other two Troopers whipped out their ARs and started firing. The Bush had gotten shot and appeared to be- wait- JOHN WICK!? He shot the second Skull Trooper in the head. He then frantically reloaded his gun without needing to and shot the other Trooper in the chest. The hit marker counted 72 HP and the Trooper fired back. John took a few shots and whipped out his blueprints to form a wall. He was barraged by the sounds of bullets and wood breaking. He healed up using a bandage and jumped out with his shotgun, blasting the last Skull Trooper's head off in quick succession. John skeptically walked towards the bone heads and aimed his shotgun at them.

"HEY! YOU'RE BACK!" exclaimed Papyrus. He got up but was quickly kicked back down, with John's foot firmly pressed to his chest.

Sans quickly yelled, "Yo, what's your deal?"

"What's MY deal?" questioned John, "You just went off with some other people and now you're wondering why I'm putting both of you at gunpoint? I should just shoot you right now! You know what? I'll do it!"

"Please don't," said Sans, "We're new to this world, we barely even know what's going on!"

"...Fine. I guess I should be more understanding, the Skull Troopers are infamous for tricking new players. And they've been taking backpacks from their own squad, too? That's pretty unepic. C'mon, you two, let's sort out this mess."

And so the three beings walked over to the storage closet which contained the fallen Skull Troopers. Papyrus was about to take a backpack for himself before John Wick stopped him. "Not cool, gamer! These backpacks are theirs. We should put 'em back, not take them!"

"BUT I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU NEEDED TO KILL ALL THE PLAYERS TO GET A VICTORY ROYALE!" stated Papyrus.

"Gosh it's a Victory ROYAL!" replied John, "Anyways, I do. But it's not really winning if they were killed unfairly. You gotta be a good sport, or you ain't an epic gamer." He placed a backpack on top of all of the fallen Troopers. Drones flew into the building, scanned the bodies, and teleported them back to home base, ready to fight again. After there was only one corpse left, Sans reluctantly gave up his backpack and the final Trooper was warped back. With their business complete, John Wick and the skeletal brothers exited Retail Row, starting for Tomato Temple with only 7 players left standing. The final battle had begun for the trio of friends...