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Chapter 6 - Act I. A warm welcome

Jack walks slowly towards the door with Zick watching. The both of them suddenly have a sense of unnerving suspicion, like if they were at a crime scene and their partner officers would point their guns at them.

The door opened, all on its own, almost like when it was with the mysterious woman that Jack encountered. this time though, the door leads to a dark room, barely being able to see what's inside.

Preparing themselves for something bad to happen, Jack is prepared to charge in with his hands, making them shape like guns, with only ten bullets, each bullet in a finger he has. While doing so, Zick's four mechanical spider like legs are coming out of his back. Both of the brothers are ready to enter the building and go through the worst.

They charge inside the dark room, yelling a battle cry, being ready for a battle. The room shines bright immediately after entering, showing Christmas like decorations all around the big green room with fancy lighting and a brown wooden stage at the middle.

Confused yet again. The brothers ask each other what's going on, knowing that both of them don't know what is up although still trying to figure out what they are unknowledgeable of.

A red curtain appears out of nowhere on the stage as behind it an unknown light English tone of a young lady comes out.

"Gee. I waited for you to come. Pleasure to meet you. Uhmmm.... gee... sorry I'm just excited... I really tried my best surprising you... can accept my gift?"

Jack has a questioning expression on his face, taking a step or two back. "Eh... I think we entered the wrong house. Sorry miss. We won't bother you again." He said a bit nervously.

The door behind Jack and Zick close with force, shocking both brothers while the curtains burn to bit only a split second after. Revealing what it appears to be an assassin sent by the boss of Rose.

The assassin appeared to be a young looking, brown curly haired lady. Wearing a light blue dress and a white top hat with three pipe tree branches coming out of it. Yet what was the most confusing was the fact that her arms were claws, and instead of having two legs like any normal robot, she had one, one that at the bottom has a wheel attached to it.

A rope falls right on the two brothers, trapping them both as the rope swindles around them. All tied up and helpless now.

The lady starts laughing while in the meantime she wheels closer to them with her hands behind her back, trying to sound like an old cartoon villain.

"Well well well... gee." She goes around them with a smile, being so happy to capture the two. "Would you look at that? A spider has caught her prey in such ease." A giggle comes out of her. "Now that I have you two, I'll be ranked up and be the boss's right hand! Of course I'll get rich but money isn't everything for me... hehe... now say good night! Hahahahaha!"

The trapper pulls out a big rusty pan out of nowhere while keeping on the crazy laughter, the brothers close their none existent eyes at the same time she swings it with her full force.

A bang is heard. Jack and Zick look at the lady getting smacked out of nowhere. Making her fall to the floor and get knocked out.

Some man appeared behind her. A small general mustache, with money and napkins on his brown adventurer's suit's pockets. On the tip of that, he is pipe smoking while having on his face's right side a shiny, silver, monocle. On one hand he has his brown steel cane with its golden tip while on the other hand he has a white glove that was just used by him to smack the lady with, speaking a low toned, British accent.

"Bloody hell. What a throw off... I was just about ready for the celebration day of Metasteam even though it will come in a few days and then BOOM! A weird bloody lady appeared and tied me up for a couple of minutes. At first I thought she was a hooker I got by mistake that had some really nasty fetishes but then she just bloody left me! After freeing myself pretty easily, I find her trying to knock you two out like it's a bloody circus or something here! Oh. Yeah, you two need to get free as well. Welp. Here you go."

Both brothers get filled with excitement as the man pulls out a bronze mechanical arm that has only three fingers from his back, similar to how Zick pulls out four mechanical spider like arms from his back.

The man's mechanical arm in a split second cuts the rope that tied the two together with a small green pocket knife. Freeing the two while they call out the man. The one who freed them tied the lady so she won't surprise attack them when she wakes up.

"Sam! Darn! You really saved us buddy ol' pal! How's it been?!"

A grin rises up on Sam's face, giving Jack a handshake and a hug with excitement.

"Well bloody hell! If it isn't my favorite pal! Jack! And I see his brother here as well..." Sam looks towards the younger brother's direction. "So Zick! Since you are my favorite guy's little brother I might as well greet you too." He says sarcastically with a bit of a drunk tone.

"Why are ya like this to me Sam?! What did I fuckin' do to ya?"

"The fact that you bloody don't admit the bloody truth of who is the better expert mechanical engineer is enough on its own."

"And THIS is fuckin' why I thought it was a bad idea to stay at his place Jack!"

"Jeez you really are darn annoying sometimes Zick..."

"ANNOYING?! WELL FUCKIN' LOOK AT YA BOTH WITH YER DRUNK HEAD!"

As Jack and Zick start to have a conflict, Sam interrupts the conversation, separating the brothers with his cane while he begins to speak with a worried tone.

"Wait. You two stop for a bloody minute. What do you mean? Stay at my place? What the bloody hell happened to you two?!"

"Oh... yeah... ehm... I darn forgot to tell you..."

"Tell me? What do you bloody mean?"

An awkward silence has filled the room while Jack got afraid and nervous a bit to tell, Zick decided talked to his older brother in a slight loud tone and make him tell Sam what happened.

"Come on. Tell uncle-."

Sam cuts Zick off with an intimidating impression, whispering to the young brother slowly.

"Do not. And I repeat. Do bloody not call me uncle. Jack is the only robot to call me that. Got it?" He says while pointing his index finger to Zick's chest. "He knows that what he'll say will probably bloody anger me and that's why he's afraid."

Shock and surprise strikes down on Zick at the moment that he stops talking, making Jack grab Sam's arm and whisper with a serious tone to the uncle.

"Don't touch my little brother. Got it? You may be a father figure to me but that doesn't darn matter the fact that I care about Zick as well."

Another small grin rises up on Sam's face while he takes Jack hand off of him.

"Well bloody hell. Two confessions to me I see. So this is how you are when you're not all bloody drunk and dumb ay?"

The older brother takes a step back out of Sam and shrugs off. He shows no interest of him being angered at nor getting hit by Sam's cane a lot of times. During that time, Jack looks both at Zick and at Sam, he explains what happened exactly.

Sam, not being shocked at all, as if he expected him to say such a thing. Silence comes from the uncle while he waits for Jack to finish explaining what he and his little brother went through.

After Jack finishing to explain what happened yet again, Sam looks with suspicion at him. About to raise his tone a bit before he begins to speak.

"Wait a bloody minute. I know about the turf war and all but I barely heard about the bloody bosses of each mafia! I never even saw how they look like. I need some more bloody explanation about what's going on with them and who they exactly are you know?"

"What do ya fuckin' mean ya DON'T KNOW?!! No one of yer costumers told you about how they were about to use their weapons or anything like?!"

"Well... No if you're wondering. I just bloody sell the weapons and build new ones. Do you really think I have the bloody time to listen about stupid stories?"

"STUPID?! We are talking about the FUCKIN' BOSSES here!!!"

"I know I know. I just, Didn't really, You know, Give a bloody shit. You know?"

While Sam says so, Zick outrages and starts to curse at him about how he is a lunatic that should just go read a damn book instead of working as a mechanical weapon merchant. Making the old uncle have a big grin on his face.

Jack shushes his brother, interrupting his and Sam's awkward conversation. He knows what happened, being ready to tell what is the bosses story.

"Oh just darn shut up you two. I'll darn say what is their story instead okay?!"

Both Zick and Sam shrug off. Answering Jack and waiting for him to explain.

"Fuckin'... fine then. Say it yourself."

"Telling me to get bloody quiet? I didn't even say anything. Ugh. Never mind. Just bloody tell the story already."

A sudden mood goes in the room. As intensive story telling begins by Jack, the mood becomes more intense, feeling like the story he'll tell will come to life right in front of their non existent eyes even though it's something that happened centuries ago.