‘As I told you before, my friend is first.’

‘Yes, and after that, you gonna help me too.’ Says Rowan and throws a stubby to Paulina

‘Fine, and where is it?’

‘First of all, I wanna give you a warning, guys, not only you… what was your name?’

‘Jeongin.’

‘Ripper, if you try to manipulate me, you shall pay…’

Everyone was seeing each other, even Paulina, who was surprised, trying to guess if he said it in truth.

‘Don’t worry, Rowan, that’s not our goal.’ Said Jeongin and activated a light thumb.

‘Yes, friend, our path will create a new the eighth wonder of the world.’

‘Ok, so, let me take some stubbies to celebrate.’

‘Yes, let me help you,’ said Jeongin and was silent after seeing a vending machine. ’ Why is this machine turned over and here?

‘Let me explain to you…' said Rowan and stood up, opening his arms.

Paulina whispered some words and tried to make Rowan stop explaining.

‘I stole it.’

Jeongin smiled sarcastically and put his hands in his hips.

‘Why don’t we sit down and have an enjoyable moment? Just for a while.’

‘You gonna return that?’

‘No, I won’t.’

‘Oooh! Let me! I’m gonna change this music! I feel like the Espiritu Santo is robbing my soul!’ shouted Paulina, standing up and going to the speaker.

After 2 hours of enjoying.

‘So, Paulina, do you know if we should know something more before we arrive?’

‘Sí, the flat looks nice, like rich people, but don’t be surprised, all of them are the same shit in this world, and we can’t go just like this.’

‘That’s true, Jeon, I was going to ask you about the outfits.’

‘Yes, did you make that suit? It’s cool,’ says Paulina, who tries to touch it.

‘Eh no, I asked for help from Dilka; she drew it, and I did it.’

‘Good, Dilka, I’m gonna give my recommendations.’

‘Me too, but what about the material? Is that bugger resistant?’

‘No, I didn’t have enough money to buy an updated outfit. ‘

‘Are you sure you can do it without powers?’ asked Rowan, and scratched his foot.

‘Trust me.’

‘Just watch your back, please, and fix your other gadget.’ Dilka mentioned, and touched his wrist.

‘Perfect. So, let me fix this, and for Dilka and me to create your outfits.’

‘My only recommendation is… I want it black, and a cube head.’ Explained Rowan, and sipped.

When Jeongin was leaving around Dilka, Paulina shouted, ‘Hey boy! Could you show us another trick?’

Jeongin activates his music, and a hologram with light letters: ‘Congratulations! We’re team no…’ the announcement starts to spark and says now: ‘we´re dead snow!’

‘Oh, so…sorry I didn’t mean to—’

‘Nah, don’t worry, it's cool, I almost forgot you were that idiot, hahaha’

‘No, man, it’s cool, you gonna fix it!’

Jeongin didn’t know how or where it came from, but he experienced a happiness that made him cry; no one saw it, because before showing a tear, he activated the light helmet and continued walking with Dilka.’

‘I told you, they’re lovely!’

3 days later.              

‘So, what do you think?’

‘Ripper.’ Said Rowan, nodding.

‘Oh yeess! You really did a great job.’

‘Are we gonna practice?’ asked Jeongin.

‘No, we can do it; we know our own powers. Just don’t mess with us, or you will be burned.’

‘That’s the reason I suggested practicing before.’

‘Don’t worry, I’ve never burned a person, at least, not with intention.’

The team finally arrived at the street; they saw the big flat, with pale orange light. They didn’t know if every floor played music or if the speakers were so loud.

The flat had some balconies where there weren’t only normal people, but also people with guns. Some people were taller than Rowan, due to the amplification.

Other people had blades replacing their arms or legs.

When they entered, there were two guards: a man with two big muscles, probably a prototype with missiles. And the other guard was another man, but with a naked woman's boobs.

The two guards didn’t say anything, but Paulina knew they were watching her ass.

At a table, there was a captured man, probably punished or just for entertainment. People around him were using programs or holograms that everyone could see. They used his body for sick and depravity fetishes.

One of the clients uses that body as an avatar, where he raped a woman, another one, to kill and cut the body into parts. The most normal was a man who uses that body as an avatar to fuck with tentacles.

Jeongin was so disgusted; he saw his friends with terror, but Dilka took him to the counter.

‘How can he be so surprised?’ Rowan asked, with a disappointed face.

‘He used to live in a modern and nice society, where rich people think everyone is doing great, and we live in harmony together. Or that’s why, I think.’

‘Are you sure your friend is here?’

‘He must be, now the leader took him, that’s the last thing I heard.’

Paulina and Rowan continue searching for her friend, but they just saw people drugging themselves with syringes and other implements. There was a man who was touching his own brain.

A dark pink meal, as juicy as a pork chop, smelling of corpse rat, and every time he plays with it, it sounds like a lemon being squeezed.

‘Ok, that’s disgusting, even for me.’ Explained Paulina and turned to see the lights.

‘Probably, but it looks interesting. I wonder if he sells it.’

‘You’re a fucking masterpiece of sickness.’

‘We can find your friend over there.’

‘You want that fucking brain.’

‘No, yes, but let me explain myself. Usually, these sick people can know more about the business; they do things others don’t want to.’

‘I got your point, but I won’t ask him; I don’t want to be closer to him.’

‘Nice helmet,’ claims a random girl, with 4 robot legs, and metallic boobs with red lights in her nipples.

Rowan watched her closely, and he took a long breath, to finally say: “ta, girl”.

‘Why don’t you ask her?’ suggested Rowan, after the lady had gone.

‘I don’t want to see her fucking light nipples.’

‘Well, you should know… if you want to find your friend, you will only find him by asking these people, not them.’ Aiming at people without any implants in their bodies, and drinking alcohol.

‘Ok, I followed you, but you ask, his name is Lâm Văn Duệ.’

When Rowan walked into the base of men without brains, she stopped him and begged him to ask anyone, not him.

Rowan asked three women, who used holograms of men avatars to fuck other men; he inquired of a woman who was inserting herself a red colour skin, and he requested a man who put himself an updated eye, after cutting his own right vision.

The answers were the same; no one knew him.

They entered a room, where a woman was without limbs, their members were separated by cables, like a hacked function. Her body was like a human mix, and a man was having sex with her.

There are many tables with purple LED lights, a waiter with green skin, some raised platforms, and holograms to announce spam about drinks.

They started to ask everyone in the room; some didn’t know him, and others threatened them.

‘Ok, no one here knows him,’ said Rowan and moved.

‘Wait, she doesn’t look well.’

‘She’s having sex; what can you expect? Don’t you put the same excited face?’

‘Don’t be an idiot, and that’s my problem; see her.’

Rowan didn’t say a word; he was like a mother deer, after seeing how his puppy was being devoured by a beer, without any chance to save him.

The woman couldn’t resist the pain she was suffering; her face didn’t show any interest in waking up; she was on the verge of fainting. The smell of Oxide and metal was disgusting, and for her should be worse.

She was being penetrated by a dirty, wet dick. She was too tired to ask for help.

Paulina wore a mask like all the team, but inside that mask, she was crying, trying to open her mouth and say something, but it was difficult for the scene, impossible to acknowledge.

‘Just…move.’ Rowan suggested, hiding his head.

‘Go fuck yourself!’

Some men turned to them.

‘Paulina, know your place; we can’t do anything here.’

‘I won’t stand here and let it happen. She didn’t even have their limbs; this bastard hacked her system to raped her, to make it seem to be normal sex, but this is not normal!’

Paulina burned her own hand and threw it quickly at that bastard’s pants.

The man started to shout; Paulina ran to him and tore him to pieces.

The people left their gadgets, and drew their weapons.

“Tha…” said the poor girl, who couldn’t notice very well her saviour, but she knew her pain was over.

Rowan started to dig into the ground and move to different places underground, while Paulina created a fire shield.

They shot through Paulina; Rowan made some paths, around 10 meters deep.

A man with two enormous arms throws a missile, but Paulina explodes it, causing death for 4 vandals.

Three men with light blades entered the fire circle; Paulina crushed their heads, but someone tossed her with a heavy metal arm. The people shot at Paulina, but the bullets floated, and Rowan was sinking every man in his path.

Rowan finally destroyed some paths, and they were being swallowed by the underground around 10 meters deep. The walls were collapsing, and someone with advance suit dropped himself and hit at a perfect time for Rowan.

Many people and the waiter ran away.

Rowan was surrounded by bullets on the ground; some of the survivors stood up and shot from the ground and the top. He just pushed the earth to them, and their bodies collapsed like a sexual orgy they had been enjoying.

There was a man with big muscles inserted in his skin; he jumped on Rowan’s ground, but was killed by a man with a heavy arm who fell towards him, the same guy who tossed Paulina, and Rowan listened to a rain of rocks.

Paulina crossed some alive men with fire, and others, she threw fireballs in their mouths.

Some survivors were still burning, but Paulina tried to save the poor woman, and Rowan was finally on the surface.