Danny (4)

"What job?" Danny is reluctant to shake Daisy's hand.

"I'll pay you 3000 Khristels," Daisy states matter of factly. "No hidden fees."

"Okay, but what do I do?" Danny looks at Daisy with a concerned look.

"2850, ask more and I'll lower it to 2700." Daisy starts tapping her foot, signalling Danny to speed up and pick his choice.

"Shit..." Danny thinks internally. "She did just save my life! But I can't trust anyone around these parts...but I do need that money!" Danny is in conflict as he raises his hands to his forehead, slicking his hair back.

"2500." Daisy yawned as she covered her mouth with her hand.

"Okay! Deal!" Danny, not knowing what to do, instinctively shakes Daisy's hand.

"Great, I'll see you at 8:30 at The Broken Barrel, don't be late!" Daisy pulls a card out of her long coat, raising it to her mouth. She presses her lips on the card and marks it with her lipstick. She let go and passes the card to Danny.

Danny takes the card from her and receives it face down, lipstick on a plain white card. He flips it around and sees her full name written out as 'Dedeath Von Fulmer IV' with her number listed underneath it, '663847#AJI'

"Add me to your Home System, it'll make it easier for us to communicate." Daisy smiles at Danny, twirling her fingers at him. "Ciao." She says slyly as she snaps her finger, causing her person to glitch out of existence and teleport her away.

"Dedeath eh?" Danny looks down at his card, her bright pink lipstick covering her name. "Not like I have much to live for." Danny places the card into his pocket and kicks his tie on the ground into the large water fountain, creating a splash of water. "Yes!" Danny erupts into excitement as he kicks the side of the water fountain, causing water to splash back at him.

"I can finally live again!" Danny crumples his hand into a fist.

x x x x x

"Where you at Danny?" Daisy is waiting outside of 'The Broken Barrel', a local pub near central Cathode city. "It's freezing out here." She's wearing a scarf with thick layers of cotton on, her signature jacket draped over her winter clothes. The rain in the sky freezes into snowflakes and fills the street with snow.

"I know!" Danny is running through the streets of Cathode city covering his mouth with a scarf as he's ankle-deep in snow. The snow had started to seep into his shoes and dragged him down. The snow around the large, industrial skyscrapers melted into water from the water being emitted from the holographic ads plastered on them.

Cathode City looked much different at night, in the morning it was uneventful and full of businessmen going to their nine-to-five jobs at an office. At night it becomes a den of illegal activities and a place to waste your nights away.

Occasionally, the heavily polluted night sky of Cathode city artificially modifies the rain and turns it into snow, flooding the streets with snow. "Wait!" Danny speaks into a bracelet on his hand. It was grey with a hard drive attached to it. It looked like it had been installed into his hand, the skin fused with the bracelet. "I'll be there in three!"

"Better be three seconds," Daisy says sarcastically as she shivers in the cold. She turns around and looks inside the Broken Barrel. She stares at the people inside with a blank expression, her face reflecting back to her.

"Ay!" Danny is running towards Daisy, completely out of breath and panting wildly. "I'm here!" Danny stops in front of Daisy, his hand on the door of 'The Broken Barrel' and he's sweating profusely, the singular sweat droplets turning into snow the moment they hit the ground.

"Come on in." Daisy walks past Danny and walks to the entrance of The Broken Barrel, pushing the door and ringing the bell situated on a string system attached to the door.

Danny removes his hand from the door and follows Daisy behind. The smell of freshly bake goods and alcohol smacked Danny in the face like a punch. The warmth of the cosy lighting above him immediately put him at ease.

"Have a seat." Daisy walks over to an unoccupied table with two empty chairs. She drags one of the chairs out and offers it to Danny who gracefully accepts her offer.

Daisy walks around the table and drags her chair out, sitting down. She rubs both of her hands together before reaching into her pocket and pulling out a yellow envelope. "I was only teasing you, here's 3000 Khristels as promised." She slides the envelope towards Danny.

"For what?" Danny doesn't move his hand.

"For what you'll be doing in the next..." Daisy looks up and looks at the clock on the wall with the ugly white and yellow wallpaper. "23 minutes."

Danny turns and looks at the same clock. It was exactly 8:37 PM. "Why me?" Danny turns around and looks back at Daisy.

"I'll be using you as bait." Daisy started playing with her thumbs, acting out the exact plan. She raises her right thumb and twirls it around, swaying back and forth. "This is you, Danny." Daisy twirls her thumb happily. She raises her left hand and turns it into a gun. "This is you if you don't listen to me." She mouths the sound of a gunshot from her mouth as she shoots her thumb with her finger. Her right-hand falls and her thumb smacks against the wooden table. "Blegh!"

Danny swallows his own spit as he looks on in confusion.

"But this is you if you listen to me." She raises her right hand again and replays the same exact scene. She raises her left hand and places her index finger up to the side of her thumb.

In one movement, she moved all of her left fingers at once and opened her palm. "Boom!" She exclaimed as her left hand fell to the table. Her right thumb started moving away from her other hand. "But first we're gonna have you do a little initiation test, a little ice breaker with the rest of them team." Daisy smiles innocently. "Oh, and did I forget to mention that we're gonna rob the International Bank of Cathode."