The next morning was a Sunday. Jeremiah ate his breakfast with his family and immediately heads off to his favorite Internet cafe 'DCA' where he is supposed to meet Arnold. So he catches his usual train there.
When Jeremiah gets to the cafe he notices Arnold sitting with a girl at the table that he and Arnold usually sit at.
"Oh hey Jeremiah, this is Anesa." Says Arnold.
"Mmh, hello how are you?" Jeremiah greeted Anesa.
"I'm good thanks." Anesa stammered.
The small talk between Jeremiah and Anesa is a bit dry.
"Did I tell you? We have made quite a bit of money from our last game and not to mention the money we've racked from the competition." Arnold said to Jeremiah.
"How did the game do? Was it popular and what demographic did we sell to the most?" Jeremiah asked.
"We've sold pretty nicely with the game being popular among the young of course. Not to mention that this is only locally. We've made a direct income of $45,000, that's straight income going into our pocket, we have been taxed for the rest. Imagine if we were to expand our game to the rest of the world." Said Arnold excitedly.
"Take it down a notch." Jeremiah said in regards to Arnold's over excited tone.
"Okay then we expand to the surrounding areas." Arnold replied back.
"By the way what did we officially name the game?" Jeremiah asked Arnold as he didn't name the game himself.
"Shaultan city: transit phantom." Arnold replied.
"You guys made that game? I've played it recently as well, I didn't expect someone as young as you guys age to make the game." Said Anesa in amazement.
"Oh don't flatter me, I'm not that young. Only 15." Jeremiah said as they all began to laugh at the joke that's not funny.
As the three of them sit there for another 2 hours just passing the time and coming up with their next projects, Dr. Weiss enters the cafe.
Jeremiah lifts up his head and "what is Mr. Weiss doing here?" He said.
"Beats me, I'm not sure but I think he either invested in this cafe or he bought the whole place but I'm not sure." Says Arnold.
Just then Jeremiah gets up and follows Dr. Weiss to the back of the cafe.
"Hey what are you doing? Where are you going?" Arnold asks Jeremiah as he sees him sneaking away and ditching them.
"Sshhh, nothing don't follow me." Jeremiah responded.
"What? Of course I'm following I wanna see what's going on." Arnold whispers to Jeremiah. "Anesa, you stay here." Arnold told Anesa.
"I wouldn't have come anyway." Anesa shook her head.
Jeremiah and Arnold follow Dr. Weiss to the back of the cafe, which eventually leads them to the outside.
"Who is he talking to and what are they talking about?" Asked Arnold.
"Sshh, I'm trying to listen." Jeremiah said.
"Why do you want to buy this place? My family has owned this cafe for 3 generations now. No amount of money can persuade me to sell it to you." The owner of the cafe said.
"I have a feeling your favorite number is zero. Sell it to me." Dr. Weiss says as he shows the man a piece of paper.
"No, uh uhh." The owner of the cafe childishly shook his head.
"What about I add two more zeros? Take a look now, it looks nice." Dr. Weiss said to the man who eventually looked at the paper excitedly and immediately agreed to sell the cafe.
Dr. Weiss officially owns the 'DCA'. Dr. Weiss leaves the back of the cafe and heads inside again. He immediately goes to the basement of the cafe.
Jeremiah and Arnold continued to follow Dr. Weiss to the basement.
"It's dark down here. Why is it the first place he runs to as soon as he takes ownership of the cafe?" Arnold whispered to Jeremiah.
"Can you be quiet? He's going to hear us." Jeremiah aggressively whispered back to Arnold.
"But I don't like it down here, we should go. This doesn't feel right." Arnold argues.
"You can leave but don't get caught because I can't help you then and I told you not to come." Jeremiah said frustratedly.
"Fine, whatever." Arnold says with a childish pouty face.
Dr. Weiss is on the phone.
"Yes, I have them, they are all down here. Our first original models. These computers have the password I encrypted in the interface."
"What is he talking about?" Arnold blurted out
"Sshh, Shut up." Jeremiah said to Arnold.
"Yes I will have them sent to your exact location, if anything should be wrong contact me here at the cafes number." Said Dr. Weiss while speaking on the phone.
Dr. Weiss gets off the phone. He then goes over to where the computers are and looks them up and down. They all instantaneously flicker on and the screen with pixels all mound like an ocean wave and gather at Dr. Weiss feet. Dr. Weiss opens his mouth and pixels begin to enter into his person and like that the pixels fill his body. His eyes turn a neons green and his entire physique turns to a pixelated state. It's almost as if he is not human, at least in this form.
He finished gobbling down his mountain of computer screen pixels and returns to a normal state. As if nothing ever happened just now. Dr. Weiss heads back upstairs where there are many other people.
"What was that?!? Is that what he eats on a regular basis? Yuck!" Jeremiah says out loud now that it is clear and Dr. Weiss is gone.
"I said we should have left." Arnold replies in a 'I told you so' type of way.
"I know, I know. Do you think he is dangerous? Should we trust him around other people?" Jeremiah asked Arnold.
"Maybe we should just monitor him for a while to observe if he is human or not?" Arnold suggested.
"Yes, he could be extremely dangerous." Jeremiah says.