Chapter 3

After all the mayhem of the last day, Hellboy decided to treat himself to a day at the casino in Vegas 2999, recreated perfectly to replicate the Vegas of Earth. Robot, being a robot, was unable to enter the casino for risks that his technologies might interfere with the machines. Hellboy seemed to fit in as a normal everyday person at the casino, even though he didn't look like a normal person. The reason for this is when Earth was destroyed, aliens from around the galaxies gathered to help clean up the debris. Pre-warning of the destruction of the Earth allowed scientists to create ships, large enough to collect all six billion of Earth's population. These aliens then set to work on creating a new astral form of Earth for the humans to live, and eventually these aliens decided to live with the humans themselves. The Earths population jumped to a massive twelve billion.

Realising he wasn't winning anything on the roulettes, Hellboy moved onto the poker table. There he put down ten dollars from his coat pocket. Ten minutes later he had forty dollars.

"Heh, I could do this with my eyes closed." Hellboy said. "Hit me again will yah." he said to the staff member laying out the cards.

It was a full two hours that Hellboy was in the casino for, and by this stage, Robot was getting bored and fed-up of waiting.

"Hellboy. Any Time Soon Would Be Just Great." he told him over his com-link.

"Patience, little buddy. I'm on a role here." he replied.

As soon as Hellboy had replied to Robot, a sleek-black hover car parked right in front of the casino. The car's door opened and Mr. Unknown and two henchmen emerged from the car.

"Uh-Oh!" Robot said, scurrying around the side of the casino's building. "What's He Doing Here?" Robot said quietly. Unfortunately for Robot, Hellboy had heard Robot over the com-link.

"What's who doing here?" Hellboy asked the robot.

"Mr. Unknown Just Entered The Building."

Inside, Hellboy started muttering to himself as he gathered his winnings and went to the cashier to cash them in. As soon as Hellboy had done this he walked over to the gents toilets. "Robot, you there?" he called out the window.

"Yes, Hellboy."

"Catch this bag of cash, I'm gonna see if I can get out the front entrance without Mr. Unknown or his men seeing me." he dropped the bag of $200 out the window, and went to leave the gent's toilets when one of Mr. Unknown's henchmen walked in.

"Uh-oh." Hellboy said. "Hey! I know you! You were at the snooker hall yesterday. You're the fella that Zapper barred."

"What's it to you?" Eruption asked.

"I also know that you're Mr. Unknown's henchman. So if you could let me just leave in peace, I'll leave you be."

Eruption looked at him for a few seconds. "Wait a minute--your Hellboy!"

"Yeah." Hellboy smirked, glad of the recognition.

"Man, your ugly! Boss!" Eruption said into his walky-talky. "Code red: Hell is in the building."

"Take him out." Mr. Unknown replied.

"Now look what yah started!" Hellboy said punching Eruption in the gut.

"Yargh!" Eruption yelled. And then, literally, erupted. The gent's toilet blew-up, Hellboy and Eruption within the explosion.

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