Max has a dream about losing the thumb on his left hand and getting it replaced with a fake artificial robot thumb. In his dream, he is in a hospital room where human body parts are kept in tubes filled with water. Max then wakes up in a night club, where a strange little boy is playing jazz tunes on a harmonica.
Back at camp, Vivi is hungry and searches for food and finds only a can of pokemon food. Poochyena is waiting by his food dish, but instead of giving it to him, she eats the last can of pokemon food there is right in front of him.
Max and Zet are at a night club for kids and adults, talking about the blues and jazz. Max then spots their 3000 dollar bounty head named Rafe. Zet then tries to say hello to an old friend of his.
ZET: Darn that blues harp sounds sweet.
ZET: I knew it would.
MAX: I thought you liked jazz.
ZET: I started singing the blues when the doctor whacked my bottom on the day i was born.
MAX: A baby hipster is very rare.
MAX: (looking straight at Rafe from a distance) No doubt about it.
MAX: (looking straight at Rafe from a distance) It's Rafe alright.
ZET: Alright, i'm going in on the right.
ZET: You take his left side!
MAX: Lard boy is in the way.
ZET: Oh that's Fatis.
MAX: Some one you know from your past?
ZET: Yes!
MAX: Make a move then, Zet!
ZET: Observe!
ZET: (yelling) HEY FATIS.
ZET: (yelling) LONG TIME NO SEE FATIS PONDER.
FATIS: (yelling and talking) OH, who would have guessed it would be Zet.
FATIS: (patting Zet on the left shoulder) Well well, when the heck did you blow in here?
ZET: (patting Fatis on the left shoulder) How about you?
ZET: (patting Fatis on the left shoulder) You're looking jolly.
ZET: (patting Fatis on the left shoulder) What happened?
ZET: (patting Fatis on the left shoulder) Did you catch a nice big one?
Both boys start laughing.
ZET: I had no idea you were a fan of the blues fad, Fatis.
FATIS: You kidding me.
FATIS: I listened to the blues when i was still in my father's sac, if you know what i mean.
Both boys start laughing again.
Rafe leaves the club and Max begins to trail him. They watch the kid, Wen, from the night club enter a taxi with an old man in a wheel chair named Zeb. Max follows Rafe, who followed the taxi to a sky rise hotel. Rafe enters a suite and goes crashing through the window on to Max and the ground. Max, riding his bike, barely catches the falling Rafe.
MAX: (holding Rafe in his arms) Hey, wake up you!
Max lets Rafe go.
MAX: Hey!
MAX: If you die, i lose the reward money.
RAFE: Don't be fooled by him, by the way he looks.
MAX: (yelling) DON'T TALK!
MAX: (yelling) TRY TO STAY ALIVE!
RAFE: Not me.
RAFE: He needs help now.
RAFE: Help him!
RAFE: (handing Max a special stone and then saying his last dying words) This stone.
MAX: (yelling) WAIT!
Back at camp, Max and Zet talk about selling the stone.
ZET: (looking at the stone) I can't be sure, but this stone could be worth a hefty sum.
ZET: (handing the stone back to Max) So what do you want to do with it?
MAX: (taking the stone and looking at it) I have no idea.
MAX: (holding the stone) The dude gives it to me on his own and then dies on his own.
MAX: (holding the stone) I don't see why we can't keep it.
VIVI: (taking the stone out of his hand) There is no reason.
VIVI: (looking at the stone) You're not in charge of that kid after all.
MAX: (quickly swiping the stone out of Vivi's hands) Gimme that!
MAX: (holding the stone) This thing is going to pay for our food.
MAX: (holding the stone) Our food and not yours.
VIVI: I think you have a stone for a heart.
ZET: Not like me.
ZET: I'm a nice dude.
ZET: (handing Vivi a bill) I have a gift for you.
VIVI: (yelling) YAY!
VIVI: (taking the piece of paper) What is it?
VIVI: (looking at the piece of paper) An official in voice.
VIVI: (holding the piece of paper in her hands) An in voice for what?
ZET: All the expenses you've racked up while being on our team and thanks for your business.
VIVI: (sarcastically talking and holding the piece of paper in her hands) Yeah, any time.
The next day, Zet goes to lunch with his old friend, Fatis Ponder, who was also trying to catch Rafe. Fatis explains that Rafe and Zeb were the leaders of the self defense volunteer squad and Wen is supposedly Zeb's son.
ZET: Enjoying the sweets i see.
FATIS: I always do.
ZET: So what info do you have on Rafe even though he's dead?
FATIS: Alright, Rafe was after his old friend and business partner Zeb.
ZET: They were friends?
FATIS: I'm shocked that you didn't know that.
ZET: Why was he after his old friend and business partner?
FATIS: 10 years ago they had a confrontation with some space raiders.
FATIS: A land dispute.
FATIS: It all came down at some R&D facility near Czar.
FATIS: A few days later, the raiders were wiped out, Zeb was missing, and Rafe was found blind folded in a silo.
FATIS: They say Zeb double crossed him so he could run the squad solo.
FATIS: Later, Zeb turned up in a wheel chair with the kid.
FATIS: Guess it didn't turn out the way he planned.
Back at camp, Zet and Vivi discuss what they know so far.
VIVI: So the bottom line is that Rafe was killed off over internal politics.
ZET: Betrayal may come easily to women, but men live by iron goals of honor.
VIVI: You believe that?
ZET: I'm trying to real hard.
Max goes back to the night club and follows Wen and Zeb after the show to a ware house. When Max walks inside, the lights turn on and he sees Wen with a gun and Zeb in a wheel chair, standing from a flight of stairs.
WEN: (holding a gun in his hand) Tell me who you are?
Max points his gun at Wen.
MAX: (pointing his gun at Wen) Just a curious stranger.
WEN: (holding his gun in his hand) What do you want?
MAX: (pointing his gun at Wen) Rafe asked me to come here to help you.
Else where, Zet and Vivi find Wen in an old news paper article he got from Fatis at lunch where Wen is seen shaking hands with some one and is with his father in the news paper snap shot. Vivi looks closer to find out that the man in the wheel chair is not Zeb and then she finds the date on the news paper and shows it to Zet. They are both shocked to see the article was published 30 years ago and that Wen looks exactly the same.
Back at the ware house, Max and Wen exchange words and bullets with each other.
MAX: (holding his gun in his hand) Come on.
MAX: (holding his gun in his hand) There's nothing to be afraid of.
MAX: (walking slowly towards Wen and holding his gun in his hand) Come here and lets talk!
Wen shoots Max in the right arm, causing him to drop his gun several feet from him.
BANG!
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) You better stay out of it!
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) A little twerp like you sticks his neck out too far and you might get it cut off.
MAX: (holding his injured bleeding right arm) Don't call me names kid!
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) I'm not a kid.
MAX: (holding his injured bleeding right arm) Lots of kids say that line.
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) I know what i look like, but i was a live when this place was an out post before the meteor hit.
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) Get the picture?
Wen has a flash back of his child hood and what happened to him. In his flash back, it was his 6th birth day and his father gave him a harmonica. He and his parents were on a windy grassy hill top and he was playing his harmonica for them. He stopped when he saw a bright light in the sky that was not the sun. It got closer and brighter until BOOM! It crashes right on him, killing his parents and annihilating the environment around him. Wen, on the other hand, emerges from the charred remains of the ground unharmed and with modified genes.
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) My family was blown to bits.
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) From that day on, my body completely stopped aging.
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) I can't die.
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) There was always some body discovering me and doing experiments on me.
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) They all died and i kept on living.
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) The end for this guy started when his self defense volunteer squad hit our R&D lab.
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) I needed a new cover.
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) Some one to play the part of my parent.
WEN: (pointing his gun at Max) I think he's the third guy i've used like this.
He then asks for the stone and when Max plays dumb, he continues to shoot, missing Max every time.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!
Max finds cover and fires back, shooting Wen's gun away.
BANG!
Max shoots Wen in the face, which knocks him down a floor.
BANG!
When Max tries to walk to where Wen had been shot and where he fell, he's shocked to see that Wen has escaped into the night.
Max returns to the camp site the next day with Zeb who is paralyzed and is only able to speak a few words.
ZET: (bandaging Max's arm) You're lucky you only got away with only a scratch.
ZET: (bandaging Max's arm) We can't afford a funeral.
MAX: I know and i'm sorry.
POOCHYENA: (trying to tell the others some thing about Zeb) POOCHY POOCHY POOCHY POOCHY POOCHY!
ZET: Don't be obnoxious poochyena.
ZEB: (having a hard time speaking) Rafe found a way to kill Wen with the power of the stone.
ZEB: (having a hard time speaking) He told me the stone came from the same meteor that killed Wen's parents and that the stone could make him age again and kill him.
ZEB: (having a hard time speaking) Then he shot Rafe out of the hotel window.
ZEB: (having a hard time speaking) He has hurt so many people and i want you to kill him please!
A few hours later, Zet explains to Max how Wen can be killed with the stone.
ZET: When the meteor hit, a space system was created from the resulting twists in hyper space.
ZET: A kind of singularity that drew in vast amounts of energy, enclosing and crystallizing them into a single faceted stone.
ZET: The gem that's a special type of ring.
ZET: The same energy broke Wen's circadian rhythm.
ZET: His pineal body continually produces a substance that prevents aging.
ZET: That's the theory in a nut shell.
ZET: Do you get it?
MAX: Barely hardly.
ZET: I don't get it that much either.
ZET: Which simply means, we won't know for sure until you shoot the gem into the monster and find out.
ZET: Who knows what could happen.
ZET: It could blow him up.
MAX: That makes it interesting.
Zet crafts a bullet out of the gem and Max loads it into his 9MM silver hand gun. Max goes to leave, but Vivi is worried he won't come back.
MAX: Yes my dear.
VIVI: I just thought i'd say good bye Max, since i'm sure it will be the last time i see you.
MAX: You're finally leaving us?
VIVI: No, i mean you're not coming back.
MAX: I don't like that monster Zet.
MAX: I don't like the little monster at all.
Max then rides off on his bike to find and kill Wen. From a distance, Vivi stands alone, near a tree, watching Max ride off to parts unknown.
VIVI: (talking to herself and watching Max all alone near a tree) Boys are such idiots.
Max rides his bike and tracks Wen in a stolen taxi. They travel away from town and Max shoots at the taxi, causing it to crash into an abandoned gas station. Wen emerges from the fiery explosion unharmed and faces down Max, who has stopped and gotten off of his bike.
Wen fires three shots with a sadistic smile on his face.
BANG BANG BANG!
The first bullet is shot at Max's feet, the next misses right of his head, and the third just scrapes Max's cheek. Max shoots Wen between the eyes, who stood still expecting to survive another bullet wound, but the gem works and turns Wen immediately into an old man.
BANG!
Wen falls to the ground and dies, but not before dropping his gun and saying his last dying words to Max.
WEN: (saying his last dying words to Max) I see.
WEN: (saying his last dying words to Max) Yes, i can finally die at last.
WEN: (saying his last dying words to Max) I've killed 33 innocent humans in my life time and now i'm finally getting what i deserve.
WEN: (saying his last dying words to Max) I feel so heavy, but for the first time in a long time, i finally feel at peace.
WEN: (saying his last dying words to Max) Do you under stand?
WEN: (saying his last dying words to Max) Do you?
Wen dies.
MAX: In some ways i do under stand.
MAX: Rest in peace Wen.
This was a freaky chapter to say the least. Looks like Vivi was wrong when she said she was never going to see Max again. Wen was an evil creepy little boy. Once again, Max dodges the grim reaper's finger. Please type me your reviews! Stay tuned for the next chapter! Stay curious my friends!