"Hello this is Domin pizza." Domin says, as Hill Watchers walks into the store.
"Yes, I'd like to order 10 pizzas with bullets for my AK48 on top."
"Pick up or delivery?"
"Pick up." Hill Watchers responds, ignoring the bizarre nature of the question in this context.
"It'll be about fifteen degrees."
Hill turns fifteen degrees to the side, and finds that the pizzas are right there on the counter. He loads up the bullets into his AK48, and then leaves while eating a slice.
"Don't forget to try our secret sauce!" Domin calls out as Hill leaves, before turning to the nearby group of pizza people. "Can I get one of you to follow that guy?"
One of the pizza people, named Petrogux, quietly follows Hill and starts to monitor his activity, setting up a stakeout point as he watches Hill engage in his usual duck hunting activities. Before Petrogux can get very far in his scouting duties, though, Hill Watchers mistakes him for a duck and shoots him in the foot as he dives behind his cover, and slowly dies from sauce loss as the wound causes him to bleed out.
Gamerman rides through Costa Brava on his Gamermobile, which is a modified gaming chair. He arrives outside of "Dan's Diet Clinic", and steps out of his chair, tightening the strap on his power glove as he pushes the door open and barges inside. Inside, Gamerman spots Aquar by the newly replaced water cooler, and starts walking towards her.
"Uh, sorry, we're not open right now. You can schedule an appointment online." Aquar says, not thinking much of Gamerman. Gamerman stops a few feet away, raises a single hand, and flicks his fingers together, sending out a shockwave powerful enough to completely decimate the water cooler and the wall behind it. Had Teck Sport still been alive, he would've definitely been slain by this maneuver. Aquar, having narrowly avoided being destroyed by this, just stares at Gamerman in shock.
"Are you serious? We JUST got that water cooler replaced!" Aquar groans.
"You killed my kin. I'm not gonna stand for that." Gamerman says, before performing an advanced button combo to unleash the super death uppercut, splattering Aquar all over the walls. Paalgae starts to exit the elevator at the end of the hall, but sees what's going on, and promptly goes back into the elevator and shuts the doors. Gamerman cracks his neck and looks around, before speaking out loud.
"Where are the other two?" Gamerman seems to be trying to bait out an answer from someone who may be in hiding, but nobody responds, for completely logical reasons. "I know someone is here."
"Alright, you got me. Sorry, I'm new on the job." A voice says from behind the broken wall, and out comes an older man, who Gamerman doesn't recognize whatsoever. "Name's Tek Gek. What can I do for ya?"
"Lookin' for three people. Well, two now, I guess. You know of a green-hair guy or a pyromaniac around here?"
"Well, I know of them, but I don't think either came to work today." Tek Gek responds, as he seems to be fiddling with something behind his back.
"What's that? Put your hands where I can see them."
"Alright, yeah, you got me again, nothing slips past you, I guess." Tek Gek reveals what's in his hands, and it's a game cartridge, one which Gamerman has never seen. "Y'see, I'm working on a new game here, but I can't find anyone to playtest it, and I'm no good at playing games myself. Say, ain't you that reviewer that's all the rage online?"
"Yes…that is what I do."
"How 'bout you give this one a try? It's in VR." Tek Gek says, handing over the cartridge. Gamerman accepts the cartridge, but doesn't budge.
"I won't leave until I know where those two went."
"Well, something tells me you'll find what you need…soon enough." As Tek Gek says this, the cartridge splits open, forming into a sort of robotic creature, which rapidly crawls up Gamerman's arm and wriggles into his ear, before implanting itself in his brain.
"I'll be seein' ya shortly." Tek Gek says with a wave, as Gamerman's eyes glaze over, and he robotically walks out of the building. "Alright, you two, he's gone, you're safe."
After a few minutes, Aquar fully reforms, and Paalgae exits the elevator.
"The hell was that all about? I thought you were just the new database guy." Aquar asks in surprise.
"Oh, I've got plenty of tricks up my sleeve." Tek Gek chuckles to himself. "Now, I think we should maybe move locations. This place is getting a bit…popular."
Meanwhile, irc arrives at his destination: a porta potty near the convention center, which is actually the secret entrance to Cherie Canarie's underground lab. Inside, Cherie is monitoring a large array of computer screens with strange graphs and charts on them.
"Alright, what's up?" irc asks, standing next to Cherie.
"As you can see, the timeline is at great risk at some point in our near future. It seems like something is going to come along and cause it to twist like a pretzel, which obviously can't mean anything good." Cherie explains, pointing at one of the monitors, which does in fact show a line that looks shockingly similar to a delicious salted treat.
"You got a culprit in mind?"
"No, but it seems like whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen right in this city. So the plan is, we wait around, some guy shows up, starts trying to mess with the timeline, and we beat their ass."
"Sounds pretty easy. How will we know that they're messing with the timeline, though?"
"Oh, I'll know." Cherie pushes up his sunglasses, and they glint. "Trust me. I'll know."
Suddenly, from the heart of Costa Brava, the dark and dastardly bells begin to chime, indicating the beginning of the migration season. While this seems innocent enough, it is common knowledge in Costa Bravan culture that migration season only ever occurs right before times of great calamity. Sure enough, in the distance, a figure coated in dark energy is flying towards Costa Brava: Zicko, who has finally pinpointed Wikk-In's general location, and who is ready to do whatever it takes to destroy him.