Anton's Palace, Metaverse
Afternoon
Avatar's earlier assumptions about the Shadows on the Anton Level were proven correct. Said Shadows were able to put up more of a fight than the ones on the earlier half of the Palace while they investigated these floors.
The four were able to prevail nonetheless and the more Shadows defeated, the stronger they felt over time. Avatar even got to make use of his newly fused Personas with one identified by O.V.I as Kikimora earning a comment from Seeker on why a house spirit visually resembles a mix of an armadillo or pig with bird legs. The wolf didn't know why either.
As they went through the third floor, O.V.I detected something; "Wait! I'm sensing a faint reading nearby..."
"What is it O.V.I?" Avatar asks.
"I don't know but we should check it out before we head on up to the next floor. I'll guide you to it..."
The group came upon an office door. One that has red 'Do Not Enter' tape crisscrossed over it.
"Well, I could be mistaken..." Sly said, a wry grin on his face. "But I think they don't want us going in there, wouldn't you say?"
Rogue's eyes widens. "Is that what I think it is..."
"A Will Seed. It has to be." O.V.I finished. "When these Will Seeds manifest in a Palace, they're always kept behind the barrier along with the core desire. We could never locate a single Will Seed before this because the cognitive barrier has always been the biggest obstruction for us."
"Are the Will Seeds connected to his heart?" Avatar asks.
"Beyond being which Anton's warped desire spawned from? We can safely take a Will Seed and it won't cause any ill effects on the host. The core desire or the Treasure is what the Palace depends on to stay up til we take it."
"In that case, it wouldn't hurt to take it from him." Seeker said as Avatar went up to the door and cuts through the tape with his rapier before opening the door to reveal a black room decorated in gray election campaign posters of Anton with 'Vercua' written on the top portraits and green ivories grown around a organic podium stand holding up a unsettling-looking skull encased around a red gem that makes up the red eyes it has on it. The four could murmurs of voices when the door open before going silent again.
"So we can just take this thing?" Sly eyes the Red Will Seed. "Like, no problem? There's gotta be like a catch, right? Security measures? Countermeasures? Alarms?"
"None I can detect. I do not believe Shadows can come in here, not even himself." O.V.I explains. "This room has the same properties as the Safe Rooms."
Avatar nodded as he looks at the creepy skull, feeling unsettled by it. "Hey Sly, is that Anton's mom by any chance?"
Sly blinked, looking the skull over. "...Maybe? I mean, it could be any mobian lizard's skull... I know Anton's definitely a megalomaniacal narcissist with delusions of grandeur and a distinct hard-on for causing me suffering but I don't think he's the type to display his mom's skull like that... At least not to my knowledge..."
"Really missing the joke there..."
"Whatever..." Sly said with a shrug. "Doesn't matter. Let's just take the creepy skull and be done with it."
"Right..." Avatar reaches out to grab the red Will Seed but as soon as he takes it, the whole room went white around the four...
When the light died down, it faded to reveal a monochrome environment and the four found themselves near a cave entrance. All four were confused by what's going on til Rogue notices Anton Veruca looking in their direction or rather, looking in the direction of the cave while in freeze-frame.
"Where are we?" Rogue questioned, glancing around. "We're still in his Palace, right?"
"I think we are because look..." Avatar points at the frozen Anton. "Doesn't he look different?"
Upon closer inspection, the Anton they're looking at now looks much younger than the one they know in the present. His clothes were more rugged-looking with a damaged shirt, a missing shoe and has some bruises on him including a black eye on the left side of his face.
The expression he had on him is an unusual sight for Sly as it is an upset one. Sly was not used to seeing Anton looking so vulnerable. In fact, it was almost surreal for him to see him like this.
"...Leatherface, go slither back into your cave where you belong and stay there!"
When the frozen scene started moving with the appearance of colour, the four heard a whole bunch of demeaning comments hurled at a hobbling tearful Anton Veruca from a gang of hedgehog boys seen a few feet away. All of them wearing taunting smirks on their faces as one or two of them tossed pebbles at the lizard.
"You and your family should stay out of Hedgehog Town because we don't accept your kind there!" Rogue heard one of the boys say with a sneering tone as he chucks a stone in Anton's direction, scorning a hit on his shoulder. "In fact, you should all get off South Island for that matter!"
"You gonna cry to your mommy? Oh wait, reptiles can't shed tears!" Said another of the tormenters with the mention of South Island from them more or less confirming this memory is from several years ago in Anton's life. Sly looked on at the scene sorrowfully, beginning to feel empathy for Anton. It was a little, very little in fact but he still felt it and it would be wrong for him not to feel empathy for anyone's suffering; even if it includes him.
The then-youthful Anton made his way into the cave which was incidentally his home as well and the four followed him inside by walking through the walls since it was a memory. They'd find him crying in the living room and they would see a female lizard with a chunky build there as well which Avatar guessed is Anton's mother Vera Veruca.
"What happened now?" They'd hear Vera say in exasperation, the large woman lounging on the couch. Looking completely disinterested in what's going on other than the television set she's focused on, the set showing a soap opera program.
"T-They picked on me again mom..." Anton whimpered out. "They beat me up a-and took my guitar too..."
"How dreadful..." Vera says, making the group think that's addressed to the abuse til she added; "I don't only just have a loser for a son, he's a pushover too. Letting himself be those needle rats' favourite punching bag instead of choosing to be a man."
She'd run a hand down her face, not caring how hurtful her words were to her son; "Ugh, why can't you be a talented prodigy instead of a pathetic bitch like your father was!?"
"M-Mom—"
"With the way they'll all walking over you like that everyday, you're going to be amounting to nothing in life if you don't start growing a pair and manning up to be the son I want instead of a useless nobody..." Vera brushes him off dismissively with the wave of her hand. "Now get out of my sight kid, I'm watching my soaps!"
"…" Sly remained silent, continuing to watch. The young Anton would tearfully rush over to his room in the cave and slam the door shut behind him. The four went over to the door to listen in on his despair from the outside.
"It's not fair!" They'd hear him say, screaming into his pillow. "Why am I treated like I'm beneath them? Why do they all point their arrogant noses down on me like I'm inferior to them and what gives them that right? Is it just because we're not made of money like some of them are and they can pick on us for that!?
Avatar looks to Sly, waiting for the memory to end to speak with him.
"...Mama's right, I am a loser and I will end up as a nobody..." The young Anton would mournfully say before his voice took on a darker tone; "Fine. If people like them aren't going to accept me or my family, then why should I? If those kids and their parents want to treat me like I'm an outcast, then I'll be the biggest and baddest dude around!"
They would soon hear Anton's inner monologue echo around them as the environments slowly faded to white; "Never again would I let myself be someone else's punching bag and I took charge of my life. I became the Number One Hooligan that got payback on those bullies who always got away with everything they did to me while everyone else including their parents constantly turn a blind eye to their actions because I was the poor kid in the elementary class and when I got my taste of revenge; I realised I could do whatever I want by being infamous. I made their lives hell..."
The four found themselves back in the Will Seed Room and Avatar saw he was holding the Red Will Seed in his hand. Tempted to make the obligatory Shakespeare reference but decided against it as they seemingly felt themselves being reenergised a little following the trip down memory-lane.
"Okay... What was that we just witnessed there and why?" Seeker was the first to break the silence.
"Stellar question…" Sly murmurs. "The hell… What the hell was that?"
"I think..." Avatar would speak up, the other three turning their heads to him. "We just witnessed the genesis of what Anton would eventually become."
"Astute thinking there Avatar." O.V.I commented, commending him on his reading of the memory. "To be more exact, we are seeing the beginning of his distorted desires taking shape."
"So that's what these Will Seeds are. They're the three points of the desires' development. The beginning, the middle and the end or the child, the teen and the adult."
"I see…" Sly crossed his arms. "So after this one, there's two more to get…"
"Both of them containing the most significant memories that defines his present self." Avatar finished and pocketing the Red Will Seed. "The one we just saw would be from when he hadn't become quite distorted yet. Seems like both those boys and his mother had a hand in all this just as I suspected."
"Suspected?" Seeker questioned.
"Remember when I mentioned Migu approaching me and telling me things about him? She also made an interesting comment of how her mother's the reason her, Anton and their brothers turned out the way they are." Avatar told them. "Based on what we just saw there, I believe she may be right. At the lowest point in his life, Vera chose to not comfort him."
"Thus he changed from then on." Rogue nodded. "What else did she tell you?"
"I'll... Save it for when we get to the next Safe Room..."
"...So, the words he said to your friend were just the punctuation point. Not the cause of the suicide as we had previously thought." Avatar finished. When the group made it to the fourth floor, they located the Safe Room on it and took a break there as well as giving the wolf the chance to relay what Migu had told him earlier in the day.
"...What about the funeral?" Rogue asks.
"According to his sister, he only said sorry to the parents to save face because he got in hit waters over it and he was smiling about it too whenever her family left. I don't think anyone else outside of his family knew what really happened then."
"So, he lied to his own family about it then?" Asked Sly.
"Well, I don't think Migu knew where Anton was really getting his money from til I challenged her to ask him about it. I'm not sure his parents knows much about what he does either rather than the fact he's earning a good amount."
"Hm… Still seems like there's some form of deception going on."
"Then she mentioned something that caught my attention. While describing what happened at the funeral, she says she overheard him saying; 'Another one bites the dust for Manic' which I'm still trying to make sense of what he meant by that if her recollection's accurate."
"You and Little John mentioned you've lost a few people over the years." Rogue added, looking to Sly. "But none that are directly attributed to Anton or the Hooligans."
Sly nodded in response. "Not many were to be honest. Most just sorta left after my drug conviction."
"John mentioned one died to a car crash and another to acute enteritis." Avatar taps his chin. "If Anton's referring to that, then why say it at the funeral?"
"Perhaps we'll know more as we uncover these floors." Seeker said, leaning an elbow at the table they're sitting at. "From our investigating of these floors, we know for sure that he's been making regular payments to Captain Krouch and know he's been snitching on his rivals or feeding his rivals to him. It explains why the top members of the rival gangs often end up getting arrested by him or one of his cronies and pinning Anton's crimes on them. Plus we also know that he's the one who had Marc of the Jebroni Gang marked because of his knowledge of the secret deal between them."
"No doubt he's had several others marked for similar reasons when they have the information to expose him to the police or the media. It's why Anton and his gang aren't on the police's radar to our knowledge because of Captain Krouch. Even Fumfer is protecting him because of his help in pushing forward his housing plan in Geno City."
"I guess then we'll have to look for more Will Seeds to get the full story." Sly mused.
"That and scoring some more loot along the way to be pawned off later." Rogue added. "We'll be needing the money for Little John's sake since he doesn't have life insurance."
"Hopefully, he'll live and pull through this one..." Avatar sighs as the shock of today's incident still not worn off on the four yet. Once they were done with their break in the Safe Room, the four resumes their trek through the Palace.
West High Resort, Westropolis. Mobius
Afternoon
"...We will keep you updated on the arson attack in the slums of Cyber City when there are further developments on the case." The T.V in the suite was playing the news, a reporter touching on the fire attack that happened in Cyber City before cutting to other news reports of the day. The anchor discussing some fluff piece as usual.
Team Dark plus Topaz had been hard at work in investigating the Downtowns, the Nasty Hyenas and a few other crime outfits as their leads on the conspiracy behind the deceased Director of the Mobius Mint. The latter of whom still hasn't a successor appointed yet.
Recent intelligence from the C.I.A branch of G.U.N on the Downtowns doesn't indicate the gang nor their leader Downtown Ebony Hare to have any real tangible links to the recent fatality in Westropolis which only left the Nasty Hyenas as a major suspect on their shortlist. The latter group proving to be a challenge lot to track down due to the matter in which they operate as a gang and having no specific base of operations they could find so far.
Topaz was hard at work sifting through files on her laptop with fast food takeout wrappers and trash beside her from the many hours spent investigating. Rouge on the other hand was currently lounging in the suite's in-floor hot tub in the bathroom, sipping a mojito while occasionally popping a chocolate bon bon in her mouth.
Shadow was currently away to review the Director's last known movements and the people who saw him in the days leading up to his death, attempting to locate the individual responsible for leaking information of the new plates to the benefiting party. The ebony hedgehog informed of the connection that's going on.
Omega got the task of handling some of the bulk of the paperwork that none of his non-lab grown colleagues has time for, Rouge most of all. The ex-Badnik was also handling the updates on the mental incidents they were assigned to investigate originally whenever the others have their hands full on the counterfeit case.
"…This seems promising…" Topaz said aloud, having been reading a particular file; "Apparently the Vastas had reportedly purchased printing ink and printing paper according to an insider in the black market."
"Yet no examples of counterfeit bills produced by them has turned up for examination or analysis." Omega countered from his spot. "It is probable to assume that those materials are being used for other means such as the production of counterfeit travel guides and novels."
"Maybe. Still, that's a lot of printing materials for that many counterfeit travel guides…"
"Counterfeit bookselling is an common problem in the market."
"Yeah but I dunno, it seems too easy of an explanation to me... Maybe that's just my inner investigator talking..."
"There could be a correlation going on between them and the Hyenas. Perhaps the former have an awareness of themselves being monitored even."
"It's very possible. Think we should pursue them both?"
"They're the only two likely suspects left on the list and we're awaiting Shadow to return with the information on the leaker."
"I suppose then we could start with the Vastas."
"Logical choice." Omega said in acknowledgement.
"Right. We can start making arrangements to surveil them with the local police and we could probably start as soon as possible."
"Then I'll let Shadow know of the plan..."
Anton's Palace, Metaverse
Afternoon
The four navigated through the fourth floor up the sixth, fighting some Shadows and solving a puzzle in-between that involves a set of paintings to acquire a key to unlock a room to progress on further. Their investigations turns up with interesting clues such as the fact that it's Fumfer who's been paying Anton an amount to muscle in on the businesses that were refusing his offer and that he's had an hand in the mishaps involving his political rival during the mayoral election that he'd eventually win through his under the table assistance.
They got a look at the papers too and one of them indicates Anton's involvement in the counterfeiting business but doesn't specify which area he's in or what's the full extent of his connection to it though. Avatar saw a document touching on a recent batch of drugs Anton had purchased through the manufacturers which confirmed the wolf's theory that the illicit street items aren't made by his group and he's getting them from another party.
The Persona users would soon run into an Enforcer on the sixth floor whom they couldn't get around and had to fight him with Avatar summoning Kikimora when the Shadow turned into a demonic one, casting Zan on it. The other three dishing out their attacks with Seeker casting Kouha to target the big Shadow's weakness to Bless through O.V.I's analysis. Soon, they'd vanquish the Shadow and continued on their way.
"It seems like were pretty close to the Treasure, doesn't it?" Sly spoke up. "Because to me it seems like we're close but no doubt there's probably some final gauntlet challenge, right?"
"Mate. We're only on flour six, we haven't found the second Will Seed yet and you asked the were we there yet question last time we came here together before we ran into that elevator problem." Rogue replied in slight annoyance. "When we got to that elevator, you assumed it would just lead us to the Treasure Room without understanding that's not it works in the Palaces. We'll start getting close when we reach floor seven."
"Alright, alright... Jeez… Take it easy. Even with that; it's nothing we can't handle. Right?"
"You detected a second Will Seed yet?" Avatar asks O.V.I.
"I am picking up a faint reading of one somewhere on this floor. We'll have to look for it as the chamber would be hidden from the main path. Your Third Eye might be needed for this."
"Well, go for it, Leader-boi~" Sly encouraged, giving Avatar a friendly pat on the back to encourage him. Avatar took point and led the group in the search for the second Will Seed chamber, using his Third Eye to look for clues as to it's location on the floor. It took a good amount of observational work to find a path that led to the chamber hidden in an office, being tucked behind a shelving unit that they had pushed aside once the group figured out the secret.
In a short hallway, there lies the second chamber and Avatar wasted no time in slashing through the tapes on the door to then open it to reveal their prize. A Blue Will Seed on an organic podium with the interior walls having magazine covers of Don Chairman Anton alongside more of the Sagittarius motifs that still largely puzzles the four as their true significance to the Palace Ruler himself.
"Jeez, what's with all this Sagittarius crap?" Sly asked, looking at the designs. "I mean, I doubt that's Anton's sign but still... Man, that's a massively confusing motif; at least to me anyway."
"My guess..." Seeker held his chin in thought. "Is either that Anton was born between November 22nd to December 21st or the Sagittarius represents his nature as a person."
"He does show several negative traits of one. Hotheaded, tactless and over-confident for starters." O.V.I interjected. "That could be why the Sagittarius shows up often in his Palace. Although, I do not know for certain if that is exactly why the Zodiac symbolism is present here for us to see."
"Maybe it's a metaphor?" Sly suggested. "...Then again, I can't imagine what it'd be a metaphor for exactly..."
"It's anyone's guess at this stage..." Avatar walks up to the Blue Will Seed. "His actions in the real world and how he sees the city tells us everything we need to know about how he thinks of it all. Be ready everyone..."
He'd reach out to touch the Will Seed and the chamber room fades to white like before...
The four soon found themselves in another of Anton's memories from the past and they see they were standing next to a then-older but still youthful version of him. Wearing a purple pair of sneaker boots, blue dotted pants, black gloves, a black yellow lightning bolt t-shirt with torn off sleeves and a backwards baseball cap.
The frozen in place Anton Veruca is staring through a glass window where a row of television sets are displayed and some of the screens showing an image each on them, duplicates of each other. Sly looked over at the TV sets, wondering what was playing on them. When the monochrome gave way to color, the scene would play with the younger Anton sneering at the TVs as they were playing the local news. The news anchor taps on his earpiece.
"...'Just in: Dr Robotnik, ruler of Robotropolis has now been ran off from South Island by the same new blue hero who had caused a local sensation when he took on a small time local delinquent that was terrorising Hedgehog Town one week ago.'..." They'd watch the younger Anton snarl loudly when the news channel reporting the latest breaking news story shows a one week old recording of him wielding a guitar taking on a familiar looking blue hedgehog in red and white sneakers. Avatar realises this news story takes place early in the hedgehog's career.
The footage shows Anton trying to fight the blue hedgehog Sonic but the latter being the speedster he is effortlessly dodges his attacks with a taunting smirk on him, his lips flapping to say something inaudible for the camera to pick up on and Anton in the recording getting more angry in his attempts to get him; leading to the same results as before. Infuriating him even further.
Then the hedgehog proceeds to let Anton make a right idiot of himself when Sonic dodges a swing from his electric guitar with the lizard swinging too far forwards, causing the delinquent to stumble forwards with his guitar in front of him. Smashing his head right through it and lying on the ground dazed before the clip ends. The angry expression on the Anton near them sums up what he thinks of what is likely the most humiliating moment in his life.
Sly was silent; he would normally be laughing at the expense of Anton upon the sight of that footage showing his folly, deservingly so but there was something about Anton's expression that told him that laughing at this would be wrong of him. The irony of the conundrum was what stung the most and internally that infuriated him the most.
"...'Better luck next time there buddy. Maybe you'll get him on the next meeting.'..." The news anchor cracked a joke at Anton's expense. "...'The blue hero whom has been recently identified as Sonic the Hedgehog is last seen heading back to Green Hill to see the Mobinis that he had freed from a metal contraption a few days ago. Wherever you are now Sonic, you have our thanks.'..."
"Small time delinquent!?" The younger Anton growled to himself, slamming a fist on the window of the electronics store. "I'm the mean, green number one punk that ruled this stinking joint and they write me off as some delinquent just because some blue arrogant jackass happened to get lucky that day!"
"Talk about self-denial..." Seeker murmurs.
"...He's so cool!"
Avatar looks across the street to see two young kids walking and talking to each other. "The way he can travel far distances in seconds and trashing those robots is so rad!"
"He must be so fast that he can outrun a rocket!" One of them said excitably to his friend. "He can make any fistfights look easy for him."
"Didn't a guy tried to get at him a week ago?"
"Yeah but it was so one-sided that it's embarrassing. What was that dude's name again?"
"Warty was it? No, I think it's Footsy... Or was it Lumpy?"
"I don't know. Guy defeated himself in that fight and destroyed his own guitar while he was at it; I just called him Guitar-Head because of that. The whole school was making jokes about it."
"Like how he finally got a band? A band-aid." The two children giggled to themselves while Anton fumed at the pair, a fact that didn't go unnoticed by them. "Uh-oh, someone's looking grumpy today."
"Ain't that the guy from the video?" The other kid says to his friend.
"I think it is him."
"It's Anton Veruca to you!" Anton yells at them from across the street. "I'm the baddest motherfucker in this dump you little shits!"
"Someone's being edgy today..." One of the children whispers to the other. "Thinking swearing would make him look cool."
"Hey Anton, you been to the guitar store lately?" The other child said to Anton, having a cheeky grin on him. "I heard the last time you went there, you couldn't think of getting a good one off the top of your head!"
"Serves you right for being the town's bully and to think we thought you were anything scary!" His friend added as the two sped off before Anton could give chase to them, laughing to themselves. Anton stomped his foot in anger.
"Screw you Sonic!" Anton kicks away a pebble afterwards as he storms off. "This was my town and my turf before you showed up to ruin everything!"
The scene starts fading to white as they'd hear Anton's inner monologue again, one with a deeply bitter tone; "I loathed that blue spiny rat for humiliating me and overshadowing me, the Number One in town as the talk of Hedgehog Town. After he showed up and became famous around the world, I was casted into obscurity by virtually everybody as they viewed me as yesterday's news. All they ever talk afterwards is how great Sonic is or how he saved South Island from Dr Eggman with me reduced to a minor footnote in it all out of spite from the locals that hated me or ridiculed me for all the times I terrorised them. I hate Sonic for making me forgotten on my own home island while they treat him like a famous celebrity before me and my family eventually moved away from it..."
The four were back in the Will Seed chamber along with an accompanying feeling of refreshment as Avatar removes the Blue Will Seed from it's organic stand and pocketing it.
"Now we know why he despises Sonic..." The wolf spoke up. "Because the hedgehog not only showed him up but did so to the point of rendering him a joke to the locals who he was terrorising then. Then to add salt to injury, Sonic who would have been near the start of his storied career became so well-known to the people of South Island that he practically overshadowed anything Anton ever did before or since that day. So much so that even his fans forgets about his existence including myself."
Sly taking in the scene quietly he just saw all in and processing it internally. Getting a new insight into Anton's psyche is something of a shock for the lizard's favourite victim.
"Sly?" Avatar calls out to the green hedgehog, hands in his pocket. Having thought over his previous interactions with Anton and learning the new context behind some of his statements.
Seeing the second memory gives the wolf the impression that the lizard is a bitter, resentful and jealous mobian being who only ever cared about being famous above all else. Everything he's ever done in Cyber City is him trying to be someone noteworthy again because of how he got forgotten about back on South Island once someone more famous like Sonic came along which speaks volumes of his character to him, a mediocre punk trying to make himself out to be a significant figure rather than a bit player.
He wouldn't be surprised if Anton was really nothing noteworthy before he became the troublemaker he is today. It is tragic what happened with him then because it wasn't his fault but no one else made him do the terrible things he's doing now, that's on him for choosing to be a worse person than his childhood bullies and that's based off his take on the guy as someone who has little to no history with him compared to Sly.
"…I think I'm starting to get it…" Sly spoke; "He… Anton seems to have been done dirty by his bullies and because of that, he wanted to get even by becoming a bigger bully. And then not long after he got beaten by Sonic; that other guy goes to beat Robotnik and pretty much everyone around Anton did him even dirtier by pushing him out of the limelight for Sonic."
Sly looked down. "I don't fully forgive him yet… But I'm starting to understand why he is the way he is and not only that but because of his history with Hedgehog Town, I think I am understanding why he took particular exception with me."
"Even if that's how it is, it doesn't excuse the fact he's been a piece of shit towards several people including his own brother Tod and how little empathy he has for anybody except himself." Avatar said bluntly to Sly. "He could have chosen to do better like you have, yet didn't do that and him being an asshole to you because of you being a hedgehog is like condemning every human in sight because Dr Robotnik happens to be one too. We may understand his motives better now but his crimes still happened and we haven't seen the third memory yet to get the whole picture of why he's become the way he is now."
"Yeah, you're right. Better to save any further judgements until after we've seen that third memory." Sly sighed, shaking his head with a downcast expression. "I'll be honest guys… I'm still worried about Little John and Jean… You think we could visit them in the hospital after this?"
"Knowing how things are looking currently, visiting them could be difficult with Anton's gang likely on the lookout for us from today on. We could go see them but we'll have to be very careful in where we're going. I didn't think they'd have found the hideout today of all times..."
"Probably Little John either got followed back to the hideout or they just happen to get lucky in locating the hideout today." Seeker commented. "What's done is done. You and Sly are in the most danger here as long as his Palace still stands."
"They likely won't let us see them until they're both settled in and treated for." Rogue added. "With the physical evidence we have on them gone, changing his heart looks to be our only choice left. We keep on going forwards here til we make it to his Treasure..."
To Be Continued...
