"Arizona"
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??? : Yup, yup I know. Yes I kno- Oh come on! How many times are you gonna repeat it?
(A man said as he was walking up the stairs while eating biscuits. He was talking to someone on his mobile phone.)
(The year is 1999, second of July. Today marks a special day, as the biggest competition in history is going to take place - the Void Game. Organised by Apex Industries, this competition is a life threatening race for courageous people with a total winning amount of 300 Million Makenzis and world recognition. And among them is a man, named....)
??? : Arizona? That's the name you have registered for me? Oh come on Billie you can do better.
BILLIE : No I can't, Arizona. It's the order from the higher ups.
ARIZONA : (Sighing) Alright alright.
BILLIE : You remember what your mission for the race is, right?
ARIZONA : I told you not to tell me again and again. I know it's to assassinate a man with the name... What was it again?
BILLIE : His name is Bad Habits. That's why I am telling you to repeat it again and again. You are a skilled assassin, but you are short on memory because of the Kezonas Incident.
ARIZONA : Yeah yeah, Bad Habits. What kind of name is that.
BILLIE : It's the name he registered for the game. And yeah, you should go to your locker to collect your number. I guess it was No. 404.
ARIZONA : 404?! That's an unlucky number for me!
BILLIE : Don't wimp.
ARIZONA : You are rude.
(Arizona walks to his locker room. He searches for the number 404. He finds it and opens it.)
ARIZONA : (to himself) Hmm... Guns, knives, some clothes.... Okay.
BILLIE : Is everything you need there?
ARIZONA : Yup. Well it was not necessary to include those knives and guns. Just clothes were okay. I have my Cube with me.
(He checked his waist. There was a small bag. Arizona opens the zips and inside was a black cube. He zips it again.)
BILLIE : Your cube is powerful, and we have no doubts. But the race will be dangerous. And you are the only person brave enough to participate from our team. So as your manager, your safety is my duty.
ARIZONA : (Putting the weapons and clothes inside another bag to carry them) Oh my dear Billie, how much you care about me.
BILLIE : It's an order from the higher ups.
(While Arizona was busy talking, a group of drunk thugs entered the locker room. They started looking around and found Arizona. They walked towards him, with the intention of looting him.)
THUG 1 : Hey there lad, whatchu got in that bag of yours?!
BILLIE : Arizona, is that other people I hear.
THUG 2 : Oh! A voice of a chick! She sounds sexy!
THUG 1 : Gimme that bag, boy.
(He raised his hands to reach the bag. Arizona noticed this and grabbed the thug's hand.)
ARIZONA : ....
THUG 1 : Hmm? Oi! Let go!
ARIZONA : ....
THUG 3 : (Grabs Arizona from behind) You tryna fight, lad? One for five? You are lucky that you are a guy, otherwise if you were a chick then.....
(The thugs started laughing. Arizona gripped the hand of the thug tighter.)
THUG 1 : I said let go, fucker! (Punches Arizona on his face.)
ARIZONA : ....!
(Arizona fell to the ground. The thugs laughed even more loudly. Arizona got up. He slowly looked up at the thugs with a cold stare.)
ARIZONA : (Pointing at the thugs) Look men, I don't have much time left. The race is gonna start in I guess 4 more minutes. And I also don't want to make the locker room stink blood. So my guess would be that you guys just live and let live.
THUG 4 : Oh you trying to be slick eh? Whatchu think we? Five year olds? We have heard those kinds of threats a million times now.
(Arizona sighs. He reaches down his bag in which the cube was kept.)
ARIZONA : Well then, your bad.
BILLIE : No wait, Arizona!
ARIZONA : I could have shot you down, or stabbed you guys. But that would take more time than this.
(He pulls out the cube and holds it with his hand forward.)
ARIZONA : Now, length, width or depth? I give you the choice.
THUG 1 : The fuck you mean?
ARIZONA : Illiterate suckers.
(Arizona tapped the cube with the index finger of the hand he was holding it with. The cube made a noise. Immediately, a square appeared on the face of the thugs. They were confused, but then, the square started coming out of their skin, taking the flesh and bones with it. Their faces started cutting into square shaped pieces.)
(The scene cut. Arizona walked out of the locker room with his bag. And inside the locker room, there were several hundred pieces of what looked like a living thing. They were the pieces of the thugs, still living, but divided.)
BILLIE : Why so brutal?
ARIZONA : They would have done many things till now. It's their punishment from me.
BILLIE : Who's talking.
ARIZONA : You are rude.
*TO BE CONTINUED*