Chapter 18 Beer & Pretzels

A bar somewhere in New Mexico

“Who are you?” A voice says as Julius sits down.

The man next to Julius was a man named Gwen.

“ I used to be the principal of an assassin school. It was fun” Says Julius “What’s an assassin school” asks Gwen. “ I was 20 looking for people who were worthy of mafia found some true mad mafiosos” says

Julius. “Why would you tell me this?” asks Gwen

“Because you're a rat!” quickly Julius grabs a gun that has a silencer on it from his jacket pocket and

Click! Gwen has a bullet through his head he falls off his Barstool and thuds to the ground blood pours out of his brain. “Check and I’ll pay for the guy next to me” says Julius as he walks out of the bar with everyone absolutely astounded from what he did.

Julius puts on a Hockey mask which resembles Jason Voorhees and puts his jacket hoodie on. He hopped in a 1992 acura that painted black the car matched his jacket which was also black. “I need to erase some of my enemies. I have some snitches I need to go” Says Julius while he is thinking out loud.

“But It will be such a drag” Says Julius while still talking out loud. Julius drives down the road at immense speed while driving near a street in new mexico he finds The people associated with the man named Iglesias. Iglesias people were always a danger towards the Mafia since they were a cartel but ever since Ryker betrayed them The cartel was not on good terms with the Mafia and ever since Ryker betrayed Iglesias’s Cartel which is in new management aka under The Nephew. Since Marvin supposedly died. Now the people are a target towards Julius who owns his own mafia separate from Ryker’s.

But all of the Mafias and Cartels are not on good terms just to put it into perspective. Julius wants to take out both but knows that taking out Ryker’s would be harder than taking out Iglesias. Since the war is weighing heavily on them.

Julius drives to the next area in which his target, a fat guy by the name of Franco Barbara street name Fatty Frank, would be dealing in some products. This man would be executed under the villainous eyes of Julius. Fatty Frank really wasn’t a big guy Julius needed to deal with. Yet Julius wanted no errors or mistakes possible. Once he takes out most of the cartel he would try to over run it. Greed was the only thing on this man’s mind and he swam deeper and deeper into his greedy despair of an ocean of the mind. Fatty Frank was ready for the deal; he sat in a suspicious alleyway; it looked just like how everyone imagines one of these deals would go down. A skinny almost skeleton like crack addict walks up to the fat guy and they shake hands like best buddies before a check slips to Fatty Frank's hands.

Fatty stares at the check. “Looks good” Julius watches as he thinks “this man is a complete amateur” Fatty slips crack straight to the man. Julius watches this go down and in a blindspot Julius grabs his Sniper in which he shoots the ear off of The Buyer. Fatty sees this happen and before he realizes it there is also a shot in his stomach.

A bullet is then shot in the eye of the Buyer taking out all witnesses. Julius drives to the nearest restaurant in which he takes a lunch break and grabs a Chuga-Cola and a burger.

A tv played in front of Julius. It was the news

The News reporter said that “the war going on in Mexico was temporarily canceled and put to a halt”.

“Hopefully a forever halt Too many have been hurt” says reporter B a Tall white male. Julius hears a watch ring “Oh it's mine what do I need to be doing now, That's right my doctors appointment” Julius drives to the doctors. The doctor put Julius on the doctor table he was going in for a surgery they were gonna get one of his failing kidneys. The surgery was about to start but Julius kept hallucinating until he saw the surgeon maniacally stab him and blood sprays out of him. The surgeon started seeing Julius start having a seizure. The Lights started flashing and voids appeared all around Julius. Hands started reaching out of the void. The hands from the void broke falling out. The Hands started crawling around. “What The Hell” The Surgeon Screams.

Julius starts to float towards the ceiling.

His closed eyes opened, no pupils just white where his eye color would be. “Aah!” Julius wakes up from his dream and falls on the floor out of the doctor's seat. “You okay?” The Surgeon asked. “Your surgery was a success” “What the heck was that?” Questions Julius. “You were in a deep sleep, it seems you had a bad dream” says The Surgeon “No Crap!” says Julius. ”Ring Me Up i’ll pay full” says Julius.

Julius drops a huge envelope with money in it, the cash checked for that druggie sucker Thinks Julius.

“That will be” The Doctor's voice cuts off as gunshots are heard and Julius walks out of the burning building.

Julius puts on the Hockey mask and drives away. Julius Phone rings. “What was the reason for why you blew up a clinic?” A voice says with anger in the person's tone. Julius responds calmly ”Just felt like it” “what kind of response is that? You know what we're gonna have to do to cover this up?” says The Other Voice. “It doesn’t matter as long as I pay you, does it?” says Julius in an aggressive tone. “You're a terrible boss,” Says The Voice.

“Anyway Julius The Spies have gained information that Ryker has betrayed his friends and is killing them” Says The Voice. “That Psycho Sack of Crap” Replies Julius.

“That Guy Ryker First betrays us then his friends what an idiot just like Luca” Says julius

“Luca betrayed us Sir?” Says The Voice

“Yeah, I told him to wait before he tried to assassinate Ryker and looked who died instead he did” Says Julius.

Julius continued to drive off to a new location, the headquarters where his business would take place.

Meanwhile Kyle,Chris,Tommy, And Ren were all walking to the area they needed to find Tyler at.

Chris is drinking a Chuga-Cola while Kyle is getting really bored. Tommy stares and acts like a navigator actually knowing what he’s doing. While Ren is helping Tommy navigate. The 4 guys are near the place that's when they see something in the chilling dark it is they look into the dojo. There's 3 bodies of people they have seen in photos with Tyler.

Chris In fear stumbles his words “Tha That’s Tyler’s friends and Dj” Chris fiend horns which are permanently attached to him seems to react actually it wasn’t just Chris but all of them felt a dark presence. Did they really wanna enter this area?

Chris punches the window shattering all the glass. His arm is punctured by the glass but he seems to be good. His bleeding stops and they quickly get to the dark room where they see and They hear sounds.

They Hear blows landing and things scrimaging around in the kitchen of the area. The 4 hurry to the kitchen to see Tyler barely standing against the

Pure source of the darkness himself. Oni Mode was in full force; they were battling back and forth; that's when Ryker got his astral Infinity to strike Tyler, knocking him down the stairs. Ryker stood in a dark shade. “Seems there is another astral user, Oh yes a very strong one My senses are tingling with excitement Whom Is it?” Says Ryker. “Astral that's the name for these things I just called it zero that's what it said its name was” Says Tommy.

“So It's Tommy James The Man Behind Zero hahaha” Says Evil Ryker.

Tyler barely stands as he looks into the eyes of the people behind him he looks desperate and harmed. Blood falls down his right cheek as he says “ Masculinity is the power inside of you without it you won’t be Physically strong or Mentally this is what propels me to continue to fight it isn’t only my wrath but also my Pride” Tyler stands proud of his damaged body infront of Evil Ryker. “What makes you think you can beat me with some Pride” Ryker scoffs as he starts to laugh. “Even if I do die These words will follow the example I needed to lead you to defeat Ryker!” Says Tyler. “Heroic Bull crap don’t you know the villain always wins in real life only the heroes win in fiction” Says Ryker.

Evil Ryker starts making hand signs just like Corvina did. That's when Shadow zen surrounds him Just Like Corvina. “I will get Revenge for My fallen comrade so Imma Use Corvina’s Favorite ability in Honor” says Evil Ryker. The sign ended with on both hands together his middle and ring finger were pointing up “Close” Said Evil Ryker. A shadowy Creature came from the abyss of the shadows; it looked like a grim reaper’s Head. The Mouth of the head opened up. “Shadow Play Grim Reaper,” Said Ryker. The creature was at the bottom of the stairs while Tyler stood in the middle of the stairs with Ryker standing on the top of the stairs. One wrong move and the whole thing would crumble down and so would Tyler. Evil Ryker walked Carefully down the steps in a menacing way. It sounded like Tip,Tip, Tip, Tip, and ever so often a creek would sound from the stairs. Tyler looked up at the person from above the menace himself. The robe fell off. Tyler is seen with his fist in the face Of Evil Ryker The mask crumbles away to reveal. The Once Known face Of ryker. Tyler is shaken up and so is everyone else. They see the despair on the face of Evil Ryker.

His Face Looked the same as Rykers, just there were some weird marks on his face. His left eye was The Infinity eye Spiral it was never visible though but now they saw a clear view of it. The Right eye was

Infinity Eye Mobius Strip The one which controlled The Astral Infinity and had the sticker ability plus the Ring.

Tommy’s eye started hurting as he looked at the Eyes of Evil Ryker. Slowly Tommy’s Omni Eye Observation turned to a new pattern signifying his full control of his astral.”What Is This” Muttered Tommy. Blood started spewing out of his eye. Pain he had never before felt all of sudden hit him. He groveled at his knees. His eyes Started turning red. That’s when Tommy’s powers of uncovered zen were released “This is Zero Point Zen” Says Tyler who is watching this event unfold. Dark Lightning shows up at the fingertips of Tommy. He stands proud staring at Evil ryker. “Null Void” Says Tommy The Lightning shoots and turns into a void which captures Tommy and Evil Ryker into a dark territory. The two astrals stand near each other while they stand shoulder length apart. They waited and waited for the other to commit to an attack.

“You Killed Jake,Dj, And many others” screams Tommy.

Evil Ryker looks unfazed by everything. He looked like he couldn’t care less the domain did not scare him into retreat like it probably would to any normal villain No this man was as scared as a predator to their prey. Evil Ryker looked like he was just going directly off instinct this was his

Primal Instincts.

Back to Julius. “So It seems that the reason the war ever started in Mexico was because of some stupid drug details, They wanted more expenses from the trades from Ryker Sanchez the Mob boss who is still running a business with less product to sell Ryker was the one who caused the war!” Says a man on the radio for Julius. “Thanks for the information I need as much as details as possible”

Says Julius. The radio turns to static.

“What The Absolute Hell am I supposed to do with that Information that's all this new hire gave me I could have clued that out myself This Information is Hot garbage it’s literally like a known fact” rages Julius. He throws his walkie talkie on the ground and stomps it. Breaking it as he continues to drive to an unclosed location in which he needs to get back to his safehouse so he can rest. His business for the day was done and he could finally get some shut eye. But Julius hated the idea of rest. He could be doing something more productive yet chose to sleep, wasting hours of hard work based on rest.

But since he had no more work to do he seemed to rest his case and get ready to nap. His dreams were full of darkness, nothing was there. It was just him and his thoughts. The void had consumed all his sleep. He stared into the abyss of nothingness.

Julius walked around in his subconscious; he looked at the darkness stared into it and saw nothing staring back. He was getting a terrible headache and stomach ache The more he liked the worse it got he realized soon he couldn’t wake up. This wasn’t a dream anymore was it. No It seemed to be a dark reality he was walking in his subconscious.

Julius looked ahead and he could see something: it was the battle of Evil Ryker vs Tommy. Evil Ryker summoned The Shadow Play technique once more and brought back Corvina's favorite Reaper, the mouth laid wide open ready to close. Ryker’s Astral started punching Tommy straight towards the Reaper’s mouth. Tommy Flew back into the mouth of The reaper.

Chomp! The Arm of Tommy’s was severed. The right arm fell down into the void Tommy looked around and realized by putting himself in the zero point void it wasn’t helping him that's when all of sudden Tommy’s severed arm started floating towards him. The Arm reattached itself to what power was doing this. Tommy looks up to see Zero his astral standing over him his power says “Your attack has been nullified” Tommy felt like the attack had never happened Ryker was shocked. “This Power is gonna be a lot to deal with” Says Ryker.