The hivemind is conquering for me?

The drive with Jinx was pleasant, if you ignored the insane speeds she was driving. It took Thirty minutes of driving straight southbound before Jinx finally slowed down the bike and pulled over to the side of the rode.

She then took out a communicator and affirmed that she was in the right spot. “Ok baby, this should not take long. Should we grab a bite to eat afterwards?” she asked me as we got off the bike.

“Sure, but can you tell me what we are doing here?” I asked as I took in my surrounding. As far as I could see, there appeared to only be residential skyscrapers which left me curious about the nature of Jinx’s errand.

“Oh, did I not tell you? Sorry baby, I have been distracted with mom in my ear the whole time I was driving. Ok so do you know Aaron?” Jinx asked. I nodded in affirmation, he was a drug dealer basically.

“Ok, one of Aarons suppliers is holding out on him. We are hear to ask them to give us the already paid for goods, or I will turn their bodies into mincemeat. Pretty simple job so hold your girlfriends hand so you don’t get scared.”

I rolled my eyes and walked past Jinx, ignoring her joke. Jinx however, looked saddened that I did not take her hand, but did not let it last long before she caught up to me and met my pace.

Entering the apartment complex, I could tell first thing that no one of great import would be living here. The entranceway was bare with very little other than a broken elevator and a flight of stairs.

“Ok, from the message mom just sent me on Aarons behalf, The building is 10 stories, 11 if you include the penthouse and the drug operation takes place from the 8th.” Jinx said as shook her head from under link haze.

“And from the looks of it, that elevator has not worked in years so stairs it is.” She followed up. She then grabbed my hand instead of asking this time as we made our way up the stairs. As we made our way up the stairs, I could see down a long hallway on each flight.

On some floors, people were just sitting in the halls, clearly having partook of some product while on others, children were playing innocently with one another, being hushed inside when there parents noticed us new comers.

A few minutes later and we arrived on the 8th floor. We were immediately greeted by a man so large that your cholesterol was at risk just looking at him. The man however, was mentally sharp so upon seeing the fresh faces, he reached for his laser rifle and yelled from his seat.

“Hold it there fuckers! Who are you and what do you want? This floor is off limits to nosey fuckers.” The mans voice was gruff and despite his appearance, was clearly adept and comfortable with the weapon in his hand.

I decided to stay quiet in case I said the wrong the wrong thing and let the blue menace do her thing. Jinx let go of my hand as she crossed her arms and extended her leg out to the side as she took a stance, her face cold and unimpressed by the man and his gun.

“I am a friend of Aarons, your friends have something that belong to us and we are here to collect. Oh and lard ass, drop the gun before you get to know what a gun barrel tastes like coming up through your shitter and out your cum guzzler.”

I blinked in surprise as I looked down at Jinx, giving her a look that yelled. ‘What the fuck?’ I was so unprepared for the insult and the big guy seemed like he was unprepared as well as he could was not portraying anger; Only a look of sheer confusion was evident on the mans chubby face.

“Um, go on through and leave any weapons here with me.” He said, pointing to the door to his right after lowering his gun. “Smart man.” Jinx said with a smile before she took of her gauntlet and let it thud loudly on the mans desk.

I was currently weaponless as I left Zircon and my armour back in the club. I was not planning on entering any drug dens tonight after all, so I simply entered through the doorway with Jinx into what was from my limited knowledge, a large room for creating drugs.

The room was divided by what looked like plastic sheets and was filled with beakers, flasks, burners, Industrial machinery as well as a shockingly great amount of sterilisation equipment. ‘Guess these guys take their craft seriously.’ I thought to myself before Jinx and I were greeted by another man.

The man looked us both up and down warily and lingered on Jinx’s form quite a while longer, lecherously or knowing she was a threat? That I did not know. Anyways, after his look he spoke. “Boss wants to see you upstairs, follow me to the elevator.

As we followed the man, he stopped just before the open elevator and turned around. “look up there at the camera. Boss man wants to make sure you are not on his no sell list.” I complied and looked up to the camera, Jinx complied as well, but she stuck out her tongue and flipped the bird in the camera’s direction.

The man leading us just rolled his eyes at the behaviours, it was not his first time seeing it after all. Not long later, he nodded to us. “Ok go on up, but be warned, our men are heavily armed up there so don’t try anything funny, the last thing we need is more blood dripping through the floor and contaminating the product room.”

The man then stepped aside and allowed to to enter the elevator. Once the doors closed, Jinx turned to me and said. “Fucking hell he was a chipper one, never seen a more polite ganger in my life. He’s going in my not to kill list.”

I just gave Jinx a curt smile. I was out of my element and did not know what to really do as I had no way to relate to their lifestyle like my blue haired companion. A minute later, I grew confused by the elevator door not opening after we stopped moving. “Was there a power outage or something?” I muttered. “Nah, they are probably just setting up little firing nests, all pretty common.

We should be allowed in any moment now.

*Ding*

“See.” Jinx smiled proudly as if she was the one to cause the door opening. As we left the elevator, true to her word, we were lined on all sides by groups of men that were hidden behind makeshift cover.

Jinx was unfazed by all the weapons as she casually went. “Evening fellas, you all having a good night? Me to, moonlight drive with my boyfriend to pick up some product. What could be better? Now where is Tobias? Wanna get this done early so I can have a good date night.”

“Hahahaha!” A laughing voice boomed from behind one of the more sturdier pieces of cover. “Stand down lads, I’ve never seem a couple come pick up this much product before, It will make for a good story so lets not spoil it with needles hostility.”

In unison, the men stood down and removed the ends of their weapons from mine and Jinx’s general vicinity. It was shortly afterwards that Tobias rounded from his cover to greet us. The man was 6ft tall and had a little bit of a beer gut. With his unkempt beard and ragged hair, the man looked rough.

But the way he dressed in a luxurious suit and held himself with great posture told me that the man seemed well educated and was clearly smarter than any other one of his men in the room.

” A pleasure to meet the two of you, as you said previously mentioned, the name is Tobias, but Toby works if you want.” He walked forward towards us and extended his hand. Jinx returned the handshake and with a mild look of respect replied. “Names Jinx, this is my boyfriend Apollo.” I went to shake the mans hand, but he looked at me sceptically. “Why don’t you speak proper?

Does my humble abode offend you in some way?”

Jinx was angered by the statement. “Oi! My man is not some northern toss pot! He-” I placed my hand on Jinx’s shoulder, indicating her to stop. “Sorry If I have caused any suspicion Tobias, I am from the outer rim, not native to the Ecumenopolis’ like you fine lot. I have lived a quieter life so I was just staying silent to avoid accidentally offending anyone.

Has that alleviated some of your scepticism so we can get to the matter at hand?” I said in a calm and collected tone.

Tobias stared at me for a moment, tension was building among his men at the silence. Before it could bubble into trouble however, Tobias smiled and said jovially.

“So you are a bumpkin? Ah no sweat brother. Come on then you two, lets go sit down and talk how your pal Aaron tried to fuck me in the ass.”