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Chapter 17 - Act I. Down to business

"Welcome to a new morning in the brightest city! Metasteam! This is your host! Galileo speaking! Today is the 16th of July, 2614 as the bright side of our moon shines greater than ever marking an exciting and amazing week for this moon's 300th anniversary, spectacular! Quite a grand show to celebrate our time of thrive, CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS MY FELLOW FRIENDS?!

Sadly." A deep voice of Galileo hits as he sounds furious. "Ahem. Someone actually caught the two bar owners!" He lowers his voice, trying to not make everyone hear. "And it just HAD to be a distorted robot..." his voice rises as he tries to talk with excitement. "Ahem Ahem! I meant. SURPRISE SURPRIIIISE! Lina from north city won the bounty prize! All that six million to her! Ain't that exciting?! Even somehow the turf war stopped all of a sudden! Quite weird ain't it? Now ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've been waiting for. The weather!"

The hour is 07:10. The radio shuts off as Zick wakes up, seeing himself tied to a bed, a small, almost claustrophobic room surrounding him with dark blue walls, glowing now and then with a green light as some metal closets are at the edges of the small stinking place.

The distorted brother sees as at the end of the room in front of him there is a silver door. Surprising him as the door opens slowly, showing the trap master Lina, wheeling towards Zick while holding a white plate with brown beer and a mineral burger.

Singing to herself, coming closer to the young gentleman, trying not to drop the plate.

"Sometimes I wish I wasn't like this

Sometimes I wish I was a hit and not a miss

Yet I never really was worth any-."

Her singing gets cut off by Zick yelling at her as he tries to untie himself with his four spider arms, making Lina jump and fall from surprise while the plate drops on her with everything that was on it.

She scratches her head, laying on the floor, looking up, seeing Zick cutting the ties with his sharp mechanical spider arms, giving her a shocked expression.

"W-WAIT!" she gets up while shouting. "Please! I can explain! Don't frickin' leave!"

She pushes her hand towards Zick, crawling back to the door, making the young brother furious and shouts at her.

"Don't?! What do YOU fuckin' mean don't?! I can just fuckin' push you to the side and open the door. Give me ONE, and I mean ONE GOOD FUCKIN' REASON to not leave and probably beat the shite out of you?!"

Lina looks at him as she gets up, keeping to shout at him as a reply.

"BECAUSE YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL! YOU'RE FRICKIN' DISTORTED JUST LIKE ME!"

"I said one GOOD fuckin' reason!" He says with steam coming out of his mouth as the rage fills him.

"I-I-I..." the distorted trapper says nervously with hesitation, getting cut off yet again by Zick's screaming yet again.

"THAT'S. FUCKIN'. IT! LET ME OUT NOW!"

The angered brother picks Lina by her her cloth with one of his four mechanical spider arms while tearing a hole in it, tearing up her clothes as he throws her to the side, away from him.

Lina falls to the ground again just like how she fell a minute ago with the plate.

She screams with fear, anger, hesitation and regret at him. One quote coming out of her mouth, surrounding the room with Lina's shout.

"I know who's Jack!" The lady says while looking down. "I know why the bosses are after him!"

Zick still doesn't even think about looking at Lina, reaching the white and bronze door knob, turning it while replying to her with a cynical yet mad tone.

"Yeah yeah. I know. He fought with the boss of rose at our fuckin' bar and whatever-."

He suddenly gets cut off by Lina's shout. Surprising him with the reply he got.

"HE'S BEING CHASED AFTER BECAUSE HE'S THE THIRD PIRATE!"

She takes fast breaths, holding her arms as she has terror in her voice, trying to mumble to herself non existent words.

Zick turns as quick as he ever turned in his life, looking down at Lina with a surprised expression, piercing her green and dirty top hat.

"W-what?! Why would I even think about believing that?! First you lie to us! and then turned us over! So why would you think that I would even give a fuckin' pron in hell about this?! For all I know this may also be a fuckin' lie! So tell me. Why should I believe that?!"

"Because I have his pirate's suit! Including the bosses's pirate's suits in my closet!"

Silence suddenly hits the room, Zick's being more confused, slowly turning his head right to the metal closet next to him.

He points with a spider arm slowly to the closet, shaking his body. With a confused expression he speaks, replying to Lina.

"T-that one?"

She nods, confirming that it is. That it is the closet to reveal the truth. If Lina tells the truth or not.

He caresses the door of the closet, feeling sudden pressure and fear from what might be behind it.

His hand reaches lower to the closet's door knob, slightly turning it over as Lina watches Zick do so, barely even moving from fear of him getting mad as his spider arm is still pierced through her top hat.

The closet gets opened slowly as the young brother look at it with shock, seeing three pirate outfits hanged in there by wooden clothes rack, each suit showing under it the name of the pirate with a drawing of him.

The first on to the left was Joshua's. The first one on the right was Jean's. On the middle tho.... there was shown a drawing and a name that is too familiar to Zick. Showing that the middle suit belonged to.... Jack.