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Another pencil sketch with a different kind of shading.
This nerd is pretty spooky to look at! Onto the third part.
First Part: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6985449/
Part Two: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6986652/
Part Four: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6988723/
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The next day, the Su Ai corporation thanked Arnold for his "clean-up" of their long time business rivals. With Kaijuro dead, Su Ai was able to buy the entire group (or what was left of it, anyway) [8]. As a reward, they left all of Kaijuro's possessions, including his Rolls Royce and 12,000 sq. ft. mansion, to Arnold. Now, Arnold thought, he would finally be able to impress Her. He drove to Her apartment in his new ride, and walked up to her place. Again, she didn't seem to be in. This was getting to be extremely frustrating! Arnold asked an older tenant of the building what he should do; she suggested that Arnold wrote her a letter saying that he was her "secret admirer". And so, Arnold began writing letters to the Woman. And surprisingly, he got letters back.
The letters She sent were quite unique. On the outside, the recipient and the return address appeared to have been typed out using an old typewriter. The keys on it had worn down, leaving smudges around most the letters, but it was still legible. Opening it up, only a letter was found, as was to be expected. It was written on a pink card stock, very light and delicate paper. The paper had patterns of flowers on the border, and on the bottom was an illustration of a fox chasing a chipmunk. But what was most interesting was the writing. Her handwriting was fine, but her grammar seemed to veer everywhere it pleased. The letter he received from Her had messages like "You are of mine,Arnold I care about you so..." and "The power love and dream have in the world change can all!" This text was also accompanied by various sketches, which were usually either hearts, flowers, or some sort of jackal-like creature making faces. After a while, Arnold didn't question it. She was communicating with him, and that means she loved him, right?
But suddenly, his letters stopped being answered. He soon found out why; the landlord of the apartment building told Arnold that She had moved out a few days ago, being accompanied by a well-dressed gentleman, who was quite short and wore a rough beard. Arnold asked the new Excelsior V.3.4 where She had went, and it divulged that she had moved into an area that the Borough Knees had recently taken over from the East Side Eyeballs. If She was truly Arnold's lover now, why did she move without telling him? Had She fallen for someone else? Arnold began to investigate the matter. Whoever it was, they were going to stay out of his love. Friend or foe, they had to go.
His thoughts were interrupted by Mr. Unmanly, who had called Arnold for his help with an emergency. Julius had foolishly tested something out for the EBS, and now their entire inter-framework omnigig system was totally bioblasted. Rushing back, he and Sabre went to work on fixing up the network from the dastardly System32 virus. The two worked for three days straight, not much for Arnold but extremely tiring for Sabre. The two did not get along very well. Sabre bragged about how his superior autistic mind allowed him to communicate with the GETH (General Engine Terabit House), which irritated Arnold. He thought about ditching the Borough Knees once he finally married Her. Julius was becoming increasingly more distant with the rest of his gang, and had barely even acknowledged Arnold's victory over Kaijuro. Something was definitely up, and he left the remainder of the project to Sabre. Sabre successfully finished but installed an obnoxious OS that constantly reminded both Julius and Arnold of how awesome he was. Arnold made the wise decision to delete it.
After that bullshit, Arnold was soon contacted by the Su Ai Corporation's president, a half American / half Mandarin man named Travis Rodger Sang-Terrible [9]. Travis told Arnold that the Borough Knees were sabotaged by the EBS, and asked for his help to lead of team of their cyberhackers to gain information on an EBS project called REPO-TEED. Arnold wasn't too sure at first, as he knew full well of what the EBS was capable of doing to whoever had wronged them. But Travis had a large amount of money set aside for him after successfully securing the files, and Arnold didn't know what he was up against. This new "lover" of Her could be some sort of huge mafia leader for all he knew, so he needed as many resources as he could pool together. Agreeing to Su Ai's plans, he arranged his hacker troops to infiltrate the EBS mainframe.
The ensuing cyberbattle was long and arduous, and had nearly depleted all of Su Ai's emergency snack resources. The team had to rush past exploding datamines, dodge incoming gigamissiles, and use every amount of wit and skill they had to backtrace IP addresses back to the brainnodes littered everywhere. It was a mess, but Arnold didn't back down. The newly finished Excelsior program was ready to use. Activating the program, it launched the OneTrueMind; a virtual brain that could calculate any problem in mere nanoseconds. The OTM processed data faster than a voltdriver in a mainfrag protocol, and it easily broke through the EBS terrabarricade. He locked in on the REPO-TEED files easily, but the EBS discovered Arnold within their mainframe, and set their negapixels after him. Arnold had to hop from server to server, avoiding the negapixel's destructive JPG compression, and had EXcelsior manifest two virtual gilded MAC-10s (like Julius himself used) and destroyed the ensuing party of pesky pixels. He escaped with the files in folder. Travis and the rest of Su Ai thanked Arnold for his diligence and bravery in the cyberscape, and awarded him with 10% of the company.
Back at the EBS base, the members were in an uproar over Arnold's insolence. The recovery of the EBS datadriver did not take long, as their own hyperprotocol generator was state-of-the-line. The presidents of the EBS had a meeting, although some were already pre-occupied with "other dissenters". The leader of the EBS, Manticore, told everyone not to worry; this was all according to plan. Another member, Quail, had revealed the truth about the REPO-TEED files, in that they were merely reconfigured back taxes from previous business escapades. In other words, it was a dummy document to lure out any organization...or lone man...who dare oppose them. They knew both Julius Romo and Arnold Wesker were responsible, and their insolence could not go unpunished. The Lifeguard was especially angry at Arnold. He had given him life, and THIS was how he repaid this EBS? So he knew he would have to get revenge, not for only his sake but for the honor of the syndicate. So he got an "old friend" on the line who could help them out.
This friend was Destana Wulf, who had survived the confrontation with Phandra. Sure, Destana was missing a few digits and her left eye, but she was still a powerful figure in underground dealings. The Lifeguard gave Destana a number of sea vessels, and in return, she would provide a distraction for a plan that was about to hatch. Operation "Romo-Cop-Out" went into effect, by two other members of the EBS; Moai, a seasoned infiltrator and manipulator, and Horseradish, a former fashion model turned shady informant, who was polishing his craft as a wordsmith. First thing was first, they had to separate Julius and Arnold. Moai hatched a dastardly plan, and he and Horseradish got to work on their surprisingly simple plan.
The next day, Julius got a letter from Her, with only one thing on it: "Julius, Be Mine". However, Arnold, ever watchful, caught a glimpse of the letter he had received. HE was the one stealing Her away from him! Arnold was furious and told Julius that he had been working for a long time to get Her to like him, but Julius didn't care. He was also under her spell, and was therefore his rival in love. The two wrestled, furious at each other for interfering in their plans to impress Her. Finally, Julius threw a computer monitor at Arnold, who had foolishly forgotten his Anubis katana. He was hurt, but more on the inside than out. The bruises would heal, but now one of his greatest friends had betrayed him. He left in a rush, barely hearing Julius' threat to "cap his butt if he didn't get out of town". A few days after, Sabre had told him that the Rancorous Chavs had clearly set him up. Julius cried out; his friend was gone and he was not coming back.
It worked out perfectly for the EBS. Soon after, the Rancorous Chavs started a gang war with the Borough Knees, armed with EBS-brand Pulse Rifles. The Borough Knees didn't stand a chance, but Julius wasn't with them as per the plan. He was still at the main base, ready to send in his remaining members to fight the Rancorous Chavs off, but his plans were interrupted. The LAPD, tipped off by the EBS, located Julius via provided documents of laundered money and theft, and things quickly escalated into a battlezone. Both Cops and Knees were capped and busted, and the gore littered the streets. Julius stood over the horror, mortified at what had happened to his empire. He was both apologetic and infuriated at Arnold's treachery, but there was no time. He had to leave, lest he get slammed by the po-po. Julius and Sabre (who was helping the remaining members close to the base), ran towards the escape route out of the base, but Sabre knew there was no chance of both of them making it out, so he sacrificed himself to deter the police away. Sabre valiantly held them off while Julius escaped. The slaughter ended with the Rancorous Chavs taking over Los Angeles, Sabre killed in a shoot-out, and the whereabouts of Julius Romo were unknown. No one had seen him again after he escaped.
Now with the Borough Knees out the picture, the EBS had another problem with a Mr. "Gato Viejo" up in Antioch, CA. They were too occupied with him to pay any sort of attention to Arnold, who had retreated to his sub-basement since his conflict with Romo. To get him out of a slump, and to orchestrate something wonderful in the future, Moai contacted a subsidiary group of the EBS called Borealis. Borealis was a collection of professional cybercriminals, training since the early days of cyberspace, and were now skilled hackers that could blow Arnold's abilities out of the water. They didn't have to actually harm him or his computer in any way, just mess with him long enough so that he could be used when needed. Borealis eagerly accepted the assignment; they hadn't messed with a sap like Arnold for a long time.
Alright, let's get back to Arnold. Arnold, after being chewed out and kicked out of the gang, was merely a sad sack of fat and shit crying in tears in his computer room. Everything had gone wrong. While he did have more money than he knew what to do with, his friends had either died or wanted nothing more to do with him. Not only that, but She had mysteriously vanished after Julius had been slammed. He searched, high and low, every place that She had lived or frequented. He found nothing. He asked the OneTrueMind to monitor any progress in the area, and he nervously awaited a response. A few minutes later, he had an e-mail sent to him. It was a video of Her, and she was in some sort of small room. A man, completely naked except for wearing a horse head, began to beat Her senseless with a pool noodle. Another man walked in front of scene, wearing a pair of Groucho Marx glasses and a lumberjack's uniform. He held up a sign reading "We have the girl. Do not look for any longer." Naturally, this only made Arnold's resolve to find Her even stronger, and he called up a couple of friends. One of them was former enemy Chris Reeding. Sensing Arnold was desperate, he told Arnold that he had spotted someone matching her description up in San Francisco. Arnold began to prepare for his journey north. He took his old Camaro, his favorite laptop with Excelsior Final on it, and last and most important, his framed picture of Her. He did not look back on his old life any more. Nothing mattered at all. He had to find and save Her from her horrible fate, and he could only do it alone.
Unbeknownst to Arnold, the video he was sent was actually an extremely well done video by Borealis. Under instructions from Moai and Quail, they had begun to send Arnold down a staircase of madness.
After a long and arduous journey, Arnold had finally made it to Antioch. He stayed at a motel for a few days, getting to know the town and to hopefully learn the whereabouts of Her. He had the feeling that he was going to be staying for quite a while, so he bought an old house in the dilapidated part of town. The seller had mentioned a "lovely addition to the basement" which intrigued Arnold. The addition turned out to be an old war bunker underneath the house, so Arnold decked it out with a new lovely set of computers, and used his computer skills to hack into a satellite observadroid to see if he could find her. He managed to get some information.
She was staying at another hotel, this time even fancier than Her last. But like many years ago, she was with another man. His name was Brenton Escaroso; the same man who had chased Julius out of Antioch when Julius was just starting out in the criminal underworld. Now, it seemed, Arnold was going to have to finish off the enemy his former leader and friend couldn't defeat. First, Arnold would have to lure Brenton out of his comfort zone, you know, make him feel vulnerable. He started out by sending nasty letters to his house, and when those went unanswered he stepped up to prank phone calls. Since Brenton didn't seem as computer-savvy as Arnold, attacking him on the virtual plane wouldn't be as effective as old-fashioned harassment. He went on to writing mean things on bricks and throwing them at his cars and through his windows. Brenton, who had been rather irritated by the whole thing, was finally adequately pissed off enough to send some of his men after Arnold.
After serving Arnold a classic "Shit-For-Breakfast" [10], Arnold retreated back to his secret base. He would have to prepare an appropriate battle place so that he and Brenton could fight without interruption. A decision that came just on time, as it seemed Brenton was behaving rather oddly lately. He had been exploiting his immense power over the city as a drug lord by openly having people smoke weed out in the city streets. Arnold was waiting in anticipation for Brenton to get slammed, but why would a formerly cautious individual like Brenton suddenly order his gang to distribute and use drugs in the middle of the most populated places of the city? He soon found out, as a letter had arrived from Her. The letter told Arnold that She had given Brenton instructions to openly ridicule and ruin his own company, so that he would be out of the picture. Brenton foolishly believed that She was helping him, but She still needed Arnold's help in finishing him off once and for all. Arnold couldn't wait to face his nemesis, but where would be an appropriate place for their final battle? He was going to need a little advice.
Arnold later met with an informant in San Francisco by the name of Ceeb Niggen. People around the area said Niggen was a rather unpleasant fellow of the promiscuous sort, and didn't seem to have jack shit when it came to worthwhile information. Somehow, he was able to pull through this time, and gave Arnold the location of where Brenton had first started his drug trafficking ring: an old abandoned warehouse bordering the San Francisco bay. Not knowing the exact location, he wandered the grounds until he met an old man wandering the premises. He told Arnold that the warehouse he was looking for was at the very end, and would smell of various chemicals. Information in tow, Arnold went off to prepare. The old man chuckled to himself as he saw Arnold walk away. Moai undisguised himself and called back into headquarters. It was time to finish Brenton's side of the fight.
For the oncoming confrontation, Arnold bought a large assortment of materials. Cheap vodka to make Molotov cocktails, a Glock for shootin' fools, some pipe bombs from a black British woman who hid herself behind a makeshift cage, and a whole lot of Silly String. He spent a few days setting up the warehouse for his encounter with Brenton, and returned home to get mentally ready. He had started snorting a wonderful powder that he had originally mistaken for his favorite cola, and did another line to get his head straight. He opened the most recent letter he had received from Her, offering him encouragement and told him to be strong. For some reason, Her letters had been quite different ever since he had arrived in Antioch...but it didn't matter. As long as he had Her, everything would be just peachy.
What Arnold didn't know, is that the EBS had been sending letters to both Arnold and Brenton egging them on to fight each other. It was a very mentally straining task, as Moai and Horseradish became exhausted trying to mimic Her bizarre speech patterns. They were soon approached by The Lifeguard, who had spoken with the leaders of Borealis; Vince Foxglove and Kane Knight. The two had already gotten their men to create fake videos of Her being tortured to screw with Arnold's head, and the whole "encouraging love letters" thing the EBS was instigating would mess with the continuity they had created. After inviting everyone into one room, they all argued about how Arnold would eventually put two and two together and realize he had been duped. Finally, The Hound, the EBS's interrogator and voice manipulator, debated that Arnold had already been affected by Her spell of love, and he wouldn't consider the conflicting messages. Quail and Vince also made valid points that Arnold was probably kind of retarded when it came to critical reasoning. Eventually, both the EBS and Borealis came to the conclusion that there was nothing to worry about, but the "fake videos" thing would probably be more entertaining. And when you're a leader of a multinational crime syndicate, the thing you value the most (second to money, anyway) is a good laugh!
Finally, the day had come. The police after a bizarre month-long delay began to finally shut down Brenton's "Toke-Offs", and Brenton himself was on the run. Just as Arnold had planned, he had retreated to his old warehouse. Arnold watched Brenton as he silently took a drag of one of his joints and thought introspectively. Now was the time to strike. Arnold crawled out of the cabinet he was hiding in and revealed himself, and demanded that the two fight to the death. Arnold, who had tasked himself with rigging the place, had stupidly forgotten to bring his Glock. Fortunately for him, Brenton was without a firearm as well. The two instead fought using whatever they could find in the factory. Arnold took quite the beating; but it didn't matter. No matter how hurt he got, now matter how many times he was beaten, burned, shunned or scorned; as long as he had Her; everything would be fine. Besides, it was only a matter of time before the pipe bombs detonated. The two were already quite worn out when the first pipe bomb went off. The explosion had attracted the police, who were now closing in on the warehouse. Arnold took the Molotov he had brought with him and flung it into Brenton's face. It exploded in a brilliant flare, and the stray flames ignited the various chemicals that lay on the warehouse's floor. Using the oncoming surge of adrenaline, he escaped the warehouse and returned to his base. Now that Brenton was supposedly dead, he could now finally be with Her.
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[8] Many of the Faruko group's members and former higher-ups eventually formed Gaijin Unlimited, which made a successful business of selling all of their useless outdated trends to "foolish westerners".
[9] Travis Rodger's parents were both part of powerful companies, which allowed him to easily start up the Su Ai Corporation. His father, Mao Sang; who was a Triad member and had ran a restaurant chain in Hong Kong called "Asp Burgers", and his mother, Ashley Terrible; whose father ran Terrible's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
[10] "Shit-For-Breakfast" is a horrific schoolyard bullying prank turned torture that makes waterboarding look like a walk in the park. It involves three people, not including the victim, to begin ████████ opening the mouth beneath his ██████████████ horrible stench ████ rooster ███████ could be challenging to consider putting all that into their own ██████████ AFTER he plugs in the ██████ which results in the victim being doused in ███████ campfire lass ██████ pudding ████ daffodil ████████ food processor which can cleanly shred solid █████████████ and then comes the plunger which is suddenly █████████ completely fucked up, then the two must ████████████████████ ending with the victim having their entire being devastated. Arnold could never walk correctly after this happened to him, especially due to the use of a whole ██████ all up in his ████████████.
This nerd is pretty spooky to look at! Onto the third part.
First Part: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6985449/
Part Two: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6986652/
Part Four: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6988723/
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The next day, the Su Ai corporation thanked Arnold for his "clean-up" of their long time business rivals. With Kaijuro dead, Su Ai was able to buy the entire group (or what was left of it, anyway) [8]. As a reward, they left all of Kaijuro's possessions, including his Rolls Royce and 12,000 sq. ft. mansion, to Arnold. Now, Arnold thought, he would finally be able to impress Her. He drove to Her apartment in his new ride, and walked up to her place. Again, she didn't seem to be in. This was getting to be extremely frustrating! Arnold asked an older tenant of the building what he should do; she suggested that Arnold wrote her a letter saying that he was her "secret admirer". And so, Arnold began writing letters to the Woman. And surprisingly, he got letters back.
The letters She sent were quite unique. On the outside, the recipient and the return address appeared to have been typed out using an old typewriter. The keys on it had worn down, leaving smudges around most the letters, but it was still legible. Opening it up, only a letter was found, as was to be expected. It was written on a pink card stock, very light and delicate paper. The paper had patterns of flowers on the border, and on the bottom was an illustration of a fox chasing a chipmunk. But what was most interesting was the writing. Her handwriting was fine, but her grammar seemed to veer everywhere it pleased. The letter he received from Her had messages like "You are of mine,Arnold I care about you so..." and "The power love and dream have in the world change can all!" This text was also accompanied by various sketches, which were usually either hearts, flowers, or some sort of jackal-like creature making faces. After a while, Arnold didn't question it. She was communicating with him, and that means she loved him, right?
But suddenly, his letters stopped being answered. He soon found out why; the landlord of the apartment building told Arnold that She had moved out a few days ago, being accompanied by a well-dressed gentleman, who was quite short and wore a rough beard. Arnold asked the new Excelsior V.3.4 where She had went, and it divulged that she had moved into an area that the Borough Knees had recently taken over from the East Side Eyeballs. If She was truly Arnold's lover now, why did she move without telling him? Had She fallen for someone else? Arnold began to investigate the matter. Whoever it was, they were going to stay out of his love. Friend or foe, they had to go.
His thoughts were interrupted by Mr. Unmanly, who had called Arnold for his help with an emergency. Julius had foolishly tested something out for the EBS, and now their entire inter-framework omnigig system was totally bioblasted. Rushing back, he and Sabre went to work on fixing up the network from the dastardly System32 virus. The two worked for three days straight, not much for Arnold but extremely tiring for Sabre. The two did not get along very well. Sabre bragged about how his superior autistic mind allowed him to communicate with the GETH (General Engine Terabit House), which irritated Arnold. He thought about ditching the Borough Knees once he finally married Her. Julius was becoming increasingly more distant with the rest of his gang, and had barely even acknowledged Arnold's victory over Kaijuro. Something was definitely up, and he left the remainder of the project to Sabre. Sabre successfully finished but installed an obnoxious OS that constantly reminded both Julius and Arnold of how awesome he was. Arnold made the wise decision to delete it.
After that bullshit, Arnold was soon contacted by the Su Ai Corporation's president, a half American / half Mandarin man named Travis Rodger Sang-Terrible [9]. Travis told Arnold that the Borough Knees were sabotaged by the EBS, and asked for his help to lead of team of their cyberhackers to gain information on an EBS project called REPO-TEED. Arnold wasn't too sure at first, as he knew full well of what the EBS was capable of doing to whoever had wronged them. But Travis had a large amount of money set aside for him after successfully securing the files, and Arnold didn't know what he was up against. This new "lover" of Her could be some sort of huge mafia leader for all he knew, so he needed as many resources as he could pool together. Agreeing to Su Ai's plans, he arranged his hacker troops to infiltrate the EBS mainframe.
The ensuing cyberbattle was long and arduous, and had nearly depleted all of Su Ai's emergency snack resources. The team had to rush past exploding datamines, dodge incoming gigamissiles, and use every amount of wit and skill they had to backtrace IP addresses back to the brainnodes littered everywhere. It was a mess, but Arnold didn't back down. The newly finished Excelsior program was ready to use. Activating the program, it launched the OneTrueMind; a virtual brain that could calculate any problem in mere nanoseconds. The OTM processed data faster than a voltdriver in a mainfrag protocol, and it easily broke through the EBS terrabarricade. He locked in on the REPO-TEED files easily, but the EBS discovered Arnold within their mainframe, and set their negapixels after him. Arnold had to hop from server to server, avoiding the negapixel's destructive JPG compression, and had EXcelsior manifest two virtual gilded MAC-10s (like Julius himself used) and destroyed the ensuing party of pesky pixels. He escaped with the files in folder. Travis and the rest of Su Ai thanked Arnold for his diligence and bravery in the cyberscape, and awarded him with 10% of the company.
Back at the EBS base, the members were in an uproar over Arnold's insolence. The recovery of the EBS datadriver did not take long, as their own hyperprotocol generator was state-of-the-line. The presidents of the EBS had a meeting, although some were already pre-occupied with "other dissenters". The leader of the EBS, Manticore, told everyone not to worry; this was all according to plan. Another member, Quail, had revealed the truth about the REPO-TEED files, in that they were merely reconfigured back taxes from previous business escapades. In other words, it was a dummy document to lure out any organization...or lone man...who dare oppose them. They knew both Julius Romo and Arnold Wesker were responsible, and their insolence could not go unpunished. The Lifeguard was especially angry at Arnold. He had given him life, and THIS was how he repaid this EBS? So he knew he would have to get revenge, not for only his sake but for the honor of the syndicate. So he got an "old friend" on the line who could help them out.
This friend was Destana Wulf, who had survived the confrontation with Phandra. Sure, Destana was missing a few digits and her left eye, but she was still a powerful figure in underground dealings. The Lifeguard gave Destana a number of sea vessels, and in return, she would provide a distraction for a plan that was about to hatch. Operation "Romo-Cop-Out" went into effect, by two other members of the EBS; Moai, a seasoned infiltrator and manipulator, and Horseradish, a former fashion model turned shady informant, who was polishing his craft as a wordsmith. First thing was first, they had to separate Julius and Arnold. Moai hatched a dastardly plan, and he and Horseradish got to work on their surprisingly simple plan.
The next day, Julius got a letter from Her, with only one thing on it: "Julius, Be Mine". However, Arnold, ever watchful, caught a glimpse of the letter he had received. HE was the one stealing Her away from him! Arnold was furious and told Julius that he had been working for a long time to get Her to like him, but Julius didn't care. He was also under her spell, and was therefore his rival in love. The two wrestled, furious at each other for interfering in their plans to impress Her. Finally, Julius threw a computer monitor at Arnold, who had foolishly forgotten his Anubis katana. He was hurt, but more on the inside than out. The bruises would heal, but now one of his greatest friends had betrayed him. He left in a rush, barely hearing Julius' threat to "cap his butt if he didn't get out of town". A few days after, Sabre had told him that the Rancorous Chavs had clearly set him up. Julius cried out; his friend was gone and he was not coming back.
It worked out perfectly for the EBS. Soon after, the Rancorous Chavs started a gang war with the Borough Knees, armed with EBS-brand Pulse Rifles. The Borough Knees didn't stand a chance, but Julius wasn't with them as per the plan. He was still at the main base, ready to send in his remaining members to fight the Rancorous Chavs off, but his plans were interrupted. The LAPD, tipped off by the EBS, located Julius via provided documents of laundered money and theft, and things quickly escalated into a battlezone. Both Cops and Knees were capped and busted, and the gore littered the streets. Julius stood over the horror, mortified at what had happened to his empire. He was both apologetic and infuriated at Arnold's treachery, but there was no time. He had to leave, lest he get slammed by the po-po. Julius and Sabre (who was helping the remaining members close to the base), ran towards the escape route out of the base, but Sabre knew there was no chance of both of them making it out, so he sacrificed himself to deter the police away. Sabre valiantly held them off while Julius escaped. The slaughter ended with the Rancorous Chavs taking over Los Angeles, Sabre killed in a shoot-out, and the whereabouts of Julius Romo were unknown. No one had seen him again after he escaped.
Now with the Borough Knees out the picture, the EBS had another problem with a Mr. "Gato Viejo" up in Antioch, CA. They were too occupied with him to pay any sort of attention to Arnold, who had retreated to his sub-basement since his conflict with Romo. To get him out of a slump, and to orchestrate something wonderful in the future, Moai contacted a subsidiary group of the EBS called Borealis. Borealis was a collection of professional cybercriminals, training since the early days of cyberspace, and were now skilled hackers that could blow Arnold's abilities out of the water. They didn't have to actually harm him or his computer in any way, just mess with him long enough so that he could be used when needed. Borealis eagerly accepted the assignment; they hadn't messed with a sap like Arnold for a long time.
Alright, let's get back to Arnold. Arnold, after being chewed out and kicked out of the gang, was merely a sad sack of fat and shit crying in tears in his computer room. Everything had gone wrong. While he did have more money than he knew what to do with, his friends had either died or wanted nothing more to do with him. Not only that, but She had mysteriously vanished after Julius had been slammed. He searched, high and low, every place that She had lived or frequented. He found nothing. He asked the OneTrueMind to monitor any progress in the area, and he nervously awaited a response. A few minutes later, he had an e-mail sent to him. It was a video of Her, and she was in some sort of small room. A man, completely naked except for wearing a horse head, began to beat Her senseless with a pool noodle. Another man walked in front of scene, wearing a pair of Groucho Marx glasses and a lumberjack's uniform. He held up a sign reading "We have the girl. Do not look for any longer." Naturally, this only made Arnold's resolve to find Her even stronger, and he called up a couple of friends. One of them was former enemy Chris Reeding. Sensing Arnold was desperate, he told Arnold that he had spotted someone matching her description up in San Francisco. Arnold began to prepare for his journey north. He took his old Camaro, his favorite laptop with Excelsior Final on it, and last and most important, his framed picture of Her. He did not look back on his old life any more. Nothing mattered at all. He had to find and save Her from her horrible fate, and he could only do it alone.
Unbeknownst to Arnold, the video he was sent was actually an extremely well done video by Borealis. Under instructions from Moai and Quail, they had begun to send Arnold down a staircase of madness.
After a long and arduous journey, Arnold had finally made it to Antioch. He stayed at a motel for a few days, getting to know the town and to hopefully learn the whereabouts of Her. He had the feeling that he was going to be staying for quite a while, so he bought an old house in the dilapidated part of town. The seller had mentioned a "lovely addition to the basement" which intrigued Arnold. The addition turned out to be an old war bunker underneath the house, so Arnold decked it out with a new lovely set of computers, and used his computer skills to hack into a satellite observadroid to see if he could find her. He managed to get some information.
She was staying at another hotel, this time even fancier than Her last. But like many years ago, she was with another man. His name was Brenton Escaroso; the same man who had chased Julius out of Antioch when Julius was just starting out in the criminal underworld. Now, it seemed, Arnold was going to have to finish off the enemy his former leader and friend couldn't defeat. First, Arnold would have to lure Brenton out of his comfort zone, you know, make him feel vulnerable. He started out by sending nasty letters to his house, and when those went unanswered he stepped up to prank phone calls. Since Brenton didn't seem as computer-savvy as Arnold, attacking him on the virtual plane wouldn't be as effective as old-fashioned harassment. He went on to writing mean things on bricks and throwing them at his cars and through his windows. Brenton, who had been rather irritated by the whole thing, was finally adequately pissed off enough to send some of his men after Arnold.
After serving Arnold a classic "Shit-For-Breakfast" [10], Arnold retreated back to his secret base. He would have to prepare an appropriate battle place so that he and Brenton could fight without interruption. A decision that came just on time, as it seemed Brenton was behaving rather oddly lately. He had been exploiting his immense power over the city as a drug lord by openly having people smoke weed out in the city streets. Arnold was waiting in anticipation for Brenton to get slammed, but why would a formerly cautious individual like Brenton suddenly order his gang to distribute and use drugs in the middle of the most populated places of the city? He soon found out, as a letter had arrived from Her. The letter told Arnold that She had given Brenton instructions to openly ridicule and ruin his own company, so that he would be out of the picture. Brenton foolishly believed that She was helping him, but She still needed Arnold's help in finishing him off once and for all. Arnold couldn't wait to face his nemesis, but where would be an appropriate place for their final battle? He was going to need a little advice.
Arnold later met with an informant in San Francisco by the name of Ceeb Niggen. People around the area said Niggen was a rather unpleasant fellow of the promiscuous sort, and didn't seem to have jack shit when it came to worthwhile information. Somehow, he was able to pull through this time, and gave Arnold the location of where Brenton had first started his drug trafficking ring: an old abandoned warehouse bordering the San Francisco bay. Not knowing the exact location, he wandered the grounds until he met an old man wandering the premises. He told Arnold that the warehouse he was looking for was at the very end, and would smell of various chemicals. Information in tow, Arnold went off to prepare. The old man chuckled to himself as he saw Arnold walk away. Moai undisguised himself and called back into headquarters. It was time to finish Brenton's side of the fight.
For the oncoming confrontation, Arnold bought a large assortment of materials. Cheap vodka to make Molotov cocktails, a Glock for shootin' fools, some pipe bombs from a black British woman who hid herself behind a makeshift cage, and a whole lot of Silly String. He spent a few days setting up the warehouse for his encounter with Brenton, and returned home to get mentally ready. He had started snorting a wonderful powder that he had originally mistaken for his favorite cola, and did another line to get his head straight. He opened the most recent letter he had received from Her, offering him encouragement and told him to be strong. For some reason, Her letters had been quite different ever since he had arrived in Antioch...but it didn't matter. As long as he had Her, everything would be just peachy.
What Arnold didn't know, is that the EBS had been sending letters to both Arnold and Brenton egging them on to fight each other. It was a very mentally straining task, as Moai and Horseradish became exhausted trying to mimic Her bizarre speech patterns. They were soon approached by The Lifeguard, who had spoken with the leaders of Borealis; Vince Foxglove and Kane Knight. The two had already gotten their men to create fake videos of Her being tortured to screw with Arnold's head, and the whole "encouraging love letters" thing the EBS was instigating would mess with the continuity they had created. After inviting everyone into one room, they all argued about how Arnold would eventually put two and two together and realize he had been duped. Finally, The Hound, the EBS's interrogator and voice manipulator, debated that Arnold had already been affected by Her spell of love, and he wouldn't consider the conflicting messages. Quail and Vince also made valid points that Arnold was probably kind of retarded when it came to critical reasoning. Eventually, both the EBS and Borealis came to the conclusion that there was nothing to worry about, but the "fake videos" thing would probably be more entertaining. And when you're a leader of a multinational crime syndicate, the thing you value the most (second to money, anyway) is a good laugh!
Finally, the day had come. The police after a bizarre month-long delay began to finally shut down Brenton's "Toke-Offs", and Brenton himself was on the run. Just as Arnold had planned, he had retreated to his old warehouse. Arnold watched Brenton as he silently took a drag of one of his joints and thought introspectively. Now was the time to strike. Arnold crawled out of the cabinet he was hiding in and revealed himself, and demanded that the two fight to the death. Arnold, who had tasked himself with rigging the place, had stupidly forgotten to bring his Glock. Fortunately for him, Brenton was without a firearm as well. The two instead fought using whatever they could find in the factory. Arnold took quite the beating; but it didn't matter. No matter how hurt he got, now matter how many times he was beaten, burned, shunned or scorned; as long as he had Her; everything would be fine. Besides, it was only a matter of time before the pipe bombs detonated. The two were already quite worn out when the first pipe bomb went off. The explosion had attracted the police, who were now closing in on the warehouse. Arnold took the Molotov he had brought with him and flung it into Brenton's face. It exploded in a brilliant flare, and the stray flames ignited the various chemicals that lay on the warehouse's floor. Using the oncoming surge of adrenaline, he escaped the warehouse and returned to his base. Now that Brenton was supposedly dead, he could now finally be with Her.
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[8] Many of the Faruko group's members and former higher-ups eventually formed Gaijin Unlimited, which made a successful business of selling all of their useless outdated trends to "foolish westerners".
[9] Travis Rodger's parents were both part of powerful companies, which allowed him to easily start up the Su Ai Corporation. His father, Mao Sang; who was a Triad member and had ran a restaurant chain in Hong Kong called "Asp Burgers", and his mother, Ashley Terrible; whose father ran Terrible's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
[10] "Shit-For-Breakfast" is a horrific schoolyard bullying prank turned torture that makes waterboarding look like a walk in the park. It involves three people, not including the victim, to begin ████████ opening the mouth beneath his ██████████████ horrible stench ████ rooster ███████ could be challenging to consider putting all that into their own ██████████ AFTER he plugs in the ██████ which results in the victim being doused in ███████ campfire lass ██████ pudding ████ daffodil ████████ food processor which can cleanly shred solid █████████████ and then comes the plunger which is suddenly █████████ completely fucked up, then the two must ████████████████████ ending with the victim having their entire being devastated. Arnold could never walk correctly after this happened to him, especially due to the use of a whole ██████ all up in his ████████████.
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