"So, where am I?" Johnny asked the suited man, both on a balcony looking out to the city.
"I told you, the afterlife." The man answered. "My name's Kenton by the way."
"Where is the afterlife?" Johnny asked.
"Okay, imagine a blue ball and a black ball. The black runs parallel to the blue. All people on the blue can't see the black but when they die, they go inside the black ball. That's the afterlife, the black ball." Kenton explained.
''You never answered my other question. Where is my wife?'' Johnny says.
"She's... oh now that's rare, that is very very rare." Kenton says, holding his Ifruit pad. "You've got a phone call, from the other side. Somebody named Carly Klebitz?" He says, Johnny instantly going to him.
Regular world...
"We'll leave you two to it." Jake says before he and IVO leave the room.
"Question him, refuse to believe it, get the proof that he's real." Sam says before following Jake and IVO.
''Johnny? Can you hear me?'' Carly says, her voice trembling.
''Yes. Are you okay? Is our baby okay?'' Johnny says.
''We're okay. Our son is okay.'' Carly says, tears falling down her face. It felt good to hear Johnny's voice but she wanted to reach out and hold him in her arms.
Johnny breathed a sigh of relief. A boy. He and Carly are having a little boy. Then, he started worrying again. He couldn't let their son grow up without him. He had to find a way back to them.
"How can I get back to you?" Johnny asks.
"Sam is working on it. She says there's no real afterlife and that you're in some fake place with your memory blocked." Carly says.
"Nope, nothing fake here. I'm standing in front of a city built on the inside of a massive ball, city upside down above me, sideways on either side of me and the right way up where I'm at. Then again, I suppose I could be the one on the ceiling." Johnny says, looking out again to the beyond belief and impossible city ahead of him. ''You have to let me go back to her, Kenton.'' He says, looking right at Kenton.
"Even if I was in charge of that, which I'm not, you're dead. You can't go back." Kenton says.
''Then who's in charge because there's no way in hell that i'm letting my son grow up without a father!'' Johnny says.
"In charge would be my boss, IVO." Kenton says.
"IVO? That's an information bot." Carly says.
"No, he's quite human." Kenton says. Slight amounts of static were forming at the corners of the screen, slowly spreading inwards.
"John? Johnny!" Carly called before the signal was gone.
"What the hell is happening?!" Johnny asked as all the lights of the city started to go out.
"Well in short, looks like we're all going home." Kenton says, confusing Johnny.
"From the afterlife?" Johnny asks.
"Well, I say afterlife, it's more like a cloud." Kenton says.
"We're on a cloud?" Johnny asks.
"And what happens when the cloud gets too full? It starts to rain, letting all inside fall back to earth." Kenton says
Meanwhile
"I think it may be time to start the process boss, they're here." Jake says to IVO while Sam was looking more closely at one of the water tanks, a skeleton inside.
''Start the process? Are you out of your mind?'' IVO says.
''You were never going to tear them apart no matter how hard you tried! That woman needs her husband and their child needs his father!'' Jake says, angry but keeping his voice low.
"Okay, that's it! You always like to cause me trouble or try to run my operation your way! Say something nice!" IVO says, removing a combat pistol from his pants.
"Jake, it seems your android is malfunctioning." Sam says, walking over.
"That's not an android, that's my boss!" Jake says, giving away that IVO was a real person.
"I'm going to kill you unless you say something nice." IVO says.
"I... I've really enjoyed working with you and truly believe that you'll find it in your heart not to murder me!" Jake says quickly. Of course, IVO shot him anyway.
"Oh well, looks like I've got no choice now then." IVO says, removing and pressing a trigger unit. At once, the skeletons all stood up from their chairs, every one of them. The one next to Sam and IVO smashed the glass door, letting the water flow forward and briefly make the clothes it touched invisible.
''Carly?!'' Sam says when she hears Carly screaming. Sam started to run to Carly, only for IVO to aim the gun at Sam and Sam stopping, staying completely still.
''I have to get back to my sister.'' Sam says.
"Your sister is in my guard's company. Why don't us three go outside?" IVO says, pointing Sam to the door. Only now did Sam see the metal humanoid frame around the bones, the joints on adjusting black spheres. "Oh dear Sam. Didn't you know where you were?" He says, pointing to the city of Los Santos in front of them.
''Your guard could end up hurting Carly and her son!'' Sam shouts, now facing IVO.
''He won't. Can't say the same about me. Why shouldn't I snuff out the Klebitz bloodline before the little one is born?'' IVO says.
"Who are you?" Sam asks as he walked to her, holding her in a way that could've been described as romantic, with one hand holding Sam's right and the other on her left shoulder.
"You know the key strategic weakness of the human race? The dead outnumber the living." IVO says.
"Who are you?" Sam repeated.
"Oh you know who I am. I told you, I'm IVO." IVO says.
"Who s IVO?" Sam asks, now bracing to hear something bad.
"Oh please, try to keep up. Short for my old name." Sam removed herself from his grip. "...well, couldn't very well keep calling myself Ivory now could I?"
Sam entered total shock, fear and above all else, confusion.
''Why?! What the hell could Carly and Johnny have ever done to make you so angry?!'' Sam says.
"Dear Sam, I'm not angry. I just want to give Carly a gift." Ivory says.
Carly hid behind the desk she'd just been at as the skeleton in it's human looking metal case walked out of it's open glass box, heading towards the main door.