Chapter 1

The blonde kid punched Arthur right in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him, Arthur fell to his knees coughing some blood on the ground. After a while, they were bored of beating him and left Arthur alone in the dark alley in-between the two huge trash cans, with stray cats for company. Arthur got on his feet and stumbled out on the busy street with his blood stained blue shirt.People quickened their pace, as rain started pouring down the sidewalk, the raindrops refracting the color of neon lights nearest to them.It wasn’t that he got his ass kicked in college, he was used to that, infact he liked the feeling something other that void, it’s just that with a new guy in the play they were terrorizing the college, the neighborhood and him. The occasional beating Arthur received helped him to hide his strength, this with the new guy was getting out of hand.

“This was the third day getting beaten by this new guy, why do people have to ruin my routines” Arthur, thought to himself.

After reaching home he splashed a bit of water over his face and checked on the holo-com, there was one message from grandpa, a hologram of grandpa in his wheel chair showed up

“How are you Arthur?, remember this old man ... the nurse said, I should call someone that i enjoy talking with and here I am calling you, if you feel lonely up there or if you want to make this old man happy come over here ... we can talk about loads of stuff ... don’t forget to meet with people, take care”

That was the only holo-txt you received chimed, the holo-com...

Arthur lived alone ever since his parents died in a crash, the company he gets is that of his grandpa, occasionally grandpa holos him from his old age home.

Arthur sat on the couch and arranged his glasses, he opened his laptop and plugged it to the internet.He reverse image searched the blonde guy that was leading the mob.

Steve age 18, Student. would you like to connect with him?, a window popped up on his laptop.He scrolled through looking at the list of Steve’s friends and related data section, he seemed to have many friends with drug deal criminal record.Arthur could see how everything will fit in. He messaged steve’s right hand man with the photo of all the drug dealing friends, their criminal records, the website in which they are selling and with some instructions to follow, if he wanted Arthur to keep his secret.

Steve was overseeing the packaging of the neural drugs in his basement, when Craig (his right hand man ) came up to him

“Steve. We could dilute the drug, you know?” Craig said

“Neural drugs are hard to dilute, lt will fuck the entire batch...”

Craig took a packet out of his showed it to Steve, gesturing him to taste it.

“Wait, so this is the diluted one?” Steve said raising his eyebrows

“yup add a bit of dopamine stimulants, it feels as good as new”

“I don’t know man, if the supplier knows that I am fucking with them and the customers ... it wouldn’t be go down well man”

A sheen of sweat formed on Craig’s brow, if this didn’t go as well as planned he is fucked by Anonymous [Arthur]

“Listen Steve, Who would know expect for you and me right? ... Think of all the cash that we would get almost double what we are doing now”

“I guess, maybe this will work man ... start mixing the that dopamine stimulant in this, by the end of the week we can buy a fucking neural gaming console if we want to “ Steve replied with excitement creeping in his voice.