After making sure Mike and Nina are gonna to see another daylight and grabbing the reverse taser from the house we eventually pulled up to Mad Max's Auto Park also known as one of Stryker's hidden arsenals with one of the world's largest gun collections. When we pulled in the garage Trent honked the horn twice before leaning out the window looking around until a few people walked by.
"Yo is that Killa Trick Trent!?" Marko yelled making his way over
"Is that Manic Marko!?" Trent yelled crawling out the window to run over and hug Marko
Marko was around the same height as Trent but he had a bigger muscle mass. His eyes were black and his hair stopped at his shoulders as he was wiping his oily hands on a rag after tieing the shirt half of his jumpsuit down reliving his black t-shirt underneath.
"Hey Marko. What's up?" I asked getting out the car
"Oh no don't act all friendly now remember when I was announcing the 23-19 and you told me to shut the fuck up?" He asked
"I already apologized for that besides my head was killing me that day so hearing you yell over and over again was annoying as fuck." I said
"Oh shit Trent you still ramming her into the headboard?" Marko asked
"Well...ummmm you know I do." He answered with a smirk on his face while I had a blush on mine
"Hell yeah look at her over there blushing hard as fuck." He pointed out
"I thought we came here to talk about painting a car and getting new guns." I said trying to change the subject
"Alright alright. What do we got here?" Marko asked looking over the car
"Kurt said he just want it to be a solid midnight blue color that's all." Trent said
Marko looked all over the car under the hood in the trunk in the glove compartment just everywhere for a moment I thought he was going steal the car by the way he was staring at it.
"Alright but we need to fix these dents first that'll cost you extra." He said
"How much extra we talking about?" Trent asked
"With the family discount that's rounding up to at least a hundred fifty." He answered
"Ok that's cool with me just don't have yo boys over there fuck up the engine or some shit." Trent replied
"Whatever man. HEY JORDAN I NEED YOU TO BUST THE DENTS OUT THIS CAR!" Marko yelled
"DUDE WE HAVE A FULL LOT TODAY WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THAT!" He replied
"I JUST NEED YOU TO DO IS FIX SOME DENTS THAT'S ALL." Marko yelled
"FINE BOSS!" He yelled back
Marko sighed deeply while shaking his head, "Good help is so hard to find these days." He said directing his attention to us
"Tell me something I don't know." I said sitting down in a rolling chair
"And what does that mean supposed to mean?" Trent asked slowly staring me down
"That means you're slow Mike is a jerk and Nina is hopeless but I love you guys anyway." I answered spinning around in the chair
"Hahaha you guys just kill me some times. Come on we can check out the new stockpile while they're working on the car." Marko said leading the way
"Finally some action." I said hoping up and following him with Trent behind me
Marko lead us to the storage room where after pulling on a few tools the wall caved in and pushed over the left relieving a flight of stairs leading to a safe door. He pushed a few buttons placed his hand on a scanner and did a retinal scan the safe door slowly cracked open.
"Oh yeah I forgot to tell you guys we remodel the gun range." Marko said as the lights automatically flicked on shining down on rows of weapons
"Welcome back Marko." A robotic female voice echoed
"What the fuck is that?" I asked looking around
"It's robotic computer assistant named Mia. Stryker brought it in a few days ago along with a new security system." He answered before pointing out a few cameras around us
"Alright cuz. Just show us the new weapons." Trent said just before Marko pointed double barrel Smith&Westen shotgun at him with an axe head attachment on the end
"HOLY SHIT Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" I said taking the gun right out of his hands
"That's a work in progress. I still got to work out a few kinks plus I have to get it approved by Stryker for combat uses until than that's the prototype I'm gonna show him in out next meeting." He said while I was admiring the design
"Oh so this is a Manic Marko original right?" Trent asked
"I don't care who designed it I HAVE to test this baby out." I said before running to the gun range
"Well damn she's excited." Marko said
"No duh. You know she's a shotgun specialist it's her favorite gun." Trent replied
"I wonder where she get that from considering she didn't even know how to hold a gun when she frist came here." Marko said
"I gave her private lessons..." Trent started causing Marko to instantly look at him, "...She got better every single time." He said before walking to the gun range
"Oh ok than "Private Lessons" I guess that's what you guys called it." He thought out loud
"What do you got for me?" Trent asked
"This just came yesterday." He answered holding up a sniper
"Is that the Dragunov SVD sniper rifle?" Trent asked staring at it like it was a gift from God
"Yup. Only 10 in the world were made adjustable stand night vision scope extra clip and is able to hit a tat from 500 miles away in the hands of a professinal of course...Dude is you crying?" Marko asked looking at Trent
"No I just got something in my eye that's all." He said wiping his eyes and grabbing the sniper
"Got anything for Nina?" I asked before chopping the head off a pop up mannequin
"Yeah. I got something for that pyro loving chick." He said throwing something at me
After shooting at a few more targets and chopping up a few mannequins I rolled across the floor and caught a lighter. It looked no different from the standard issue ones we always get until you actually spark the light.
"HOLY HELLFIRE!" I yelled watching the flame touch the ceiling before closing it
"And that was just the low setting." Marko said slightly laughing
"You better not show her this cause the way she feels now she's gonna burn down everything in sight." Trent said grabbing the new M79 Grenade Launcher
"That's for Mikey...speaking of Mike and Nina how are they? And how come they didn't with you guys?" Marko asked
"Well...ummmm...Trent." I said try to come up with an answer
Trent covered his ears with headphones while lunching grenades across the field range to avoid answering the question.
"It's a complicated answer. Can we go somewhere private to talk about it?" I asked
"Yeah my office is this way." Marko said before leading the way
"You have an office?" I asked
"It's more like a design studio." He answered
"Finally they're gone. Hey Mia do you play music!?" Trent asked pulling down the headphones on his shoulders
"Name an artist song or album you would like to listen to." Mia answered
"Let's see here..." Trent started
"So now Mikey is recovering at the medical part of the house and Nina is talking to Warren." I concluded
"Damn. I thought they would last as long as you and Trent but I guess I was way off." He said
"I don't think so if Mike would just stop drinking and actually apologize she'd most likely give him another chance." I said
"I don't know this Warren guy really likes her and he has no problems showing it." Marko replied grabbing a some sodas from a cooler
"Yeah. That is true but everybody knows that Nina is Mike's girl no matter what." I said looking over some blueprints
"Either way he needs to get his shit together like last week ago fast." He said cracking opening a soda
"Is this a design for a reverse taser?" I said pointing it out
"That one isn't mine actually. I had an apprentice who made that she made a prototype too." He said glancing down
"Was it her? Was X-23 your apprentice?" I asked
"Laura was my girlfriend." He sadly answered
"Really? I thought she wasn't a social agent." I said
"She was at first. Stryker wanted us to create a reverse taser and like good henchmen we did with no questions asked. A few days later she found out why he wanted them and after that she burned most of the blueprints stole the prototype and disappeared she didn't even say goodbye. A few years later she popped up and told me to never create another reverse taser again cause if I do you guys would end up hurt." He explained
I pulled out the blueprints on the table and laid the reverse taser stun gun on the top of them. Marko stared at it like he was sick to his stomach but somehow he calmly sat down and just quietly stared at it.
"I got that from her a few days ago." I said
"I saw this coming actually cause whatever Stryker wants Stryker gets even if is to get a second rate gun smith to recreate Laura's design. What he doesn't get are these..." Marko got up and grabbed some owners manuals from the shelves. He quickly flipped to some pages in each one before taking out four tasers
"What are those for?" I asked
"These tasers are the most powerful tasers I have made. One touch from these and you will instantly go into hyper drive if Junior thinks he's gonna take over everything we worked hard for he's got another thing coming." Marko said
"What do you know about the new upgrades?" I asked taking the tasers
"I'm not getting that shit. A few agents who used to work here got it a couple of weeks ago and they haven't left Stryker's nuts since. I swear they're like mindless emotionless spiritless androids and I refuse to become just a machine." He said strambling around
"Well it's not like he's forcing people to get the upgrades." I said jokingly
Marko paused and stared at me like I was crazy, "I became a mechanic for a reason and it's not just because I liked cars but I never trusted Junior ever since he drove Laura away from me. When your powers glitch up or your limbs feel like there gonna give out on you come to me first. It'll happen when you least expected it so be on your graud." He replied
"They don't know." I muttered
Marko sighed deeply before sitting down pitching the little space between his eyes, "She made you promise didn't she?" He asked before looking up at me
"Yeah. I can't even tell Trent nor anyone else for that fact." I said
"Alright I guess just make sure you take care of him. He's the only family I got the only family we got." Marko said
"And he's the only love I know don't worry I'll take care of him." I said before trying to leave
"Hey you forgot something." Marko said holding up the reverse teaser, "If Laura trust you with this than you should keep it with you...and if you see her again can you tell her I miss her?" Marko asked
"Yeah. I'll tell her but something is telling me she already knows." I said grabbing reverse taser and walking out
When I went back the gun range the room was silent and some of the lights were dimmed. After a few minutes of looking around I found Trent asleep on the floor holding his rifle like it was his favorite Christmas toy. I quietly giggled before trying to take it away from him but as soon as I would lay a finger on it he move away. I eventually gave up before cradling him and getting caught by Marko who was kind enough to give us a blanket before laughing all the way back up to the main floor