by Angel Medina
“Now wait a minute, how was my “clone” able to make it to the real world, if he originated from the virtual world? I’m all confused!”
“Like I said mankind has been playing with this world and now the virtual world has the ability to send in clones of human beings with the proper DNA. That would mean for you Angel this has to be an inside job because not too many people would have your DNA.”
“Only one would be Carlos, but that’s my uncle he wouldn’t do that to me.”
“Whatever the situation turns out to be you have to go inside the warp to the virtual world. I sense the bad guys have gone inside the virtual world already hatching up their next devious plan. Plus the fact you are still alive they will probably strike fast. I fear whoever is behind this has a really bad vendetta against you and/or has a really big secret to hide. Remember you must find the anti-matter ball as well and you only have 10 days just like the last time to reverse time. It’s up to you to find out who set you up. I wish I can help further, but you already know that I cannot help.” The Elder God goes into detail.
“Yeah I get it, its time to catch ourselves a big rat. Are you ready Quentin?”
“Yup I’m ready, but I know that this is going to be much deeper that just simply killing a commissioner of an entire police force.”
“Yeah well some really corrupt police officials are about to get a real nasty surprise. Angel Medina is still alive!” Angel and Quentin jump into the warp into the virtual world.
Angel uncovers a much bigger mystery finding plutonium in the underground passage. What were the construction companies along with Mayor Williams trying to accomplish? Were they being paid off by the gloobas by getting power in NYC in exchange for the plutonium? Were the baddies trying to start a new world order behind everyone’s back? Finally what role, if any is Angel’s Uncle Carlos playing? Angel was finding many more questions than answers as he heads to the virtual world to see if he could get any leads.
Area 3 – Virtual Streets of NYC
Chapter 6
Finding Sal
After escaping from prison or at least barely escaping with his life along with Quentin, he and Quentin head into the warp into the virtual world where Angel once again entered the virtual world. With his name and reputation in serious jeopardy, Angel must find any leads to who could possibly be behind everything. Angel needs to find out is it pure vengeance or is it a much bigger plot? Angel enters little Italy on a rainy night with heavy downpours coming down, but water wouldn’t kill anybody. Angel decided to investigate the other person of interest back at the construction site who was Sal the owner of Sal’s construction. What was Sal’s role or what was he given for the construction site, since Boris refused to talk after being arrested. Angel notices this time that they are many more people in the virtual world. Even with him keeping shut about the secret world, people were still intent on getting their nosy eyes to find out more about this world. So finding Sal may not be as hard as Angel once thought. Angel has a funny feeling that Sal has been hiding in this world, which is why he hasn’t been caught yet.
“Well we’re back to this weird world aren’t we?” Quentin says to Angel in a disgusted tone almost like we was wining.
“Yup we’re back alright and I got a funny feeling that Sal knows something we don’t. I think the police force may have a few bad apples in them and I hate to say it, but I think Carlos may have a hand in this. Well Sal lives in little Italy but knowing him he’s probably never home. Let’s see if any of these hoodlums know where he may be hanging out.” Angel replies to Quentin ignoring Quentin’s wining and crying.
It was night time in Little Italy and was coming down at a steady pace along with some thunder at times. Both Quentin and Angel take orange shirts that were put on them in prison. All of the bruises that were received back in prison could be seen in plain sight. Leaving both of them only with their t-shirts and pants they had from prison. Angel wasn’t going to get any answers though after hearing Sal’s name a group of thugs surround Angel and Quentin threatening the duo.
Angel says bravely, “Now if you won’t tell me where Sal is. I have no problem getting it out of you!”
“You’re in no position to be making threats Officer Angel, you and your homie here are going to get the beating of your life!” One of the thugs says to Angel.
“Well let my actions speak for themselves, come on Quentin we can take these guys!” Angel replies to the thug.
One of the thugs with a wooden baseball bat tries to take a swing at Angel but misses. Angel grabs the thugs arm and the baseball bat out of his hand. All of the thugs go after Angel and Quentin.
Angel cleans house with the baseball bat and says “Looks like a grand slam to clear the bases!” as he takes four thugs out with the bat.
Quentin with his refined marital arts skills takes out the rest of the thugs leaving only one thug left. The thug tries to pull a gun on the duo but Angel hits the gun off the thug’s hand.
“I wouldn’t try anything funny if I were you, Quentin grab the gun and point it at this bastards face! Now where can I find Sal and I want the truth!” Angel says angrily at the thug.
“Sal is in his house that’s all I can tell you seriously! The thug says in a panicked tone. Angel then hits the thug in the leg and places the bat towards the thugs face.
“Fire a warning shot Quentin! Now for you are you tell the truth or do I begin to play rough. I have no problem finishing you off with this bat or shooting you for that matter! So what’s it going to be?” Angel says as he threatens the thug.
“Ok ok Officer you can find Sal in the “Underground Speakeasy” bar where he does many of his deals. Watch your back cause I heard the cops are after your ass as well. All I can say is…” He gets cut off as Angel strikes him with the baseball bat knocking out the thug.
“Thanks a lot see that wasn’t so hard.” Angel says after hitting the thug.
“Why did you hit the guy after he told us where Sal is, the least you could have done is let him guide us.” Quentin says to Angel shocked.
“Well Quentin I would’ve let him go, but as I learned before you can’t trust anybody. He tried to pull a gun on us. If I’m too nice someone could just stab me in the back.”
“I know Angel but violence isn’t always the answer…”
Angel cuts Quentin off saying, “Listen Quentin you heard the expression nice guys finish last. I have to protect my ass and I recommend you do the same. Everyone is out to get us! Now let’s get going we got a party to crash!” Angel and Quentin head towards the bar, but are approached by gun-welding thugs.
One of the thugs says in an Italian accent “You’re a dead man Angel!” then proceeds to say swear words in Italian.
Quentin finds cover under a car while Angel takes out the thugs with the gun he stole from the thug. After taking out the thugs Angel picks up the guns left behind by the dead thugs and gives one to Quentin to hold.
Angel says, “Time to kick some butt!”
Quentin responds, “Watch out above you!”
Angel and Quentin are attacked by thugs armed with Uzi’s. The duo armed with only pistols hide in an alleyway one of the thugs go in hot pursuit of the duo. Angel ambushes the thugs taking his Uzi while holding him. Angel decided to shoot the thug anyway. Angel goes back out taking out the thugs in the streets while Quentin takes on the thugs located in high areas such as roofs and fire escapes. A speeding car driven by a thug tries to hit Angel, but Quentin is able to push Angel out of the way. The car crashes into a gas station causing an explosion, the driver goes out in a blaze of glory. The rain continues to come down like gangbusters. In fact so hard the rain felt like spikes hitting our heroes’ skin. In fact whatever pain the duo had from any bruises was made worse when the big raindrops mad contact with them.
The duo continues through the rain until they see the underground bar but are forced to hide as Angel spots a police cruiser going around patrolling the area. Once the cruiser leaves the area
Angel and Quentin prepare to go inside the bar with guns drawn. Angel assumes that Sal is aware of his presence and will make sure he isn’t caught. Angel and Quentin enter the bar and a shootout begins as bottles began to break one by one in seconds. Angel uses a table for cover while Quentin uses a pool table to cover himself.
Angel spots Sal and says, “Hey Sal stop right there or I’ll shoot!”
Sal says, “Screw you Angel! Guys kill those two!”
Angel and Quentin clear the room full of thugs picking up a couple of AK-47 assault rifles along the way one for each of them. The duo enters a gambling area with poker tables, roulette wheel and some slot machines when more of Sal’s henchmen come inside after the duo.
Angel says, “Looks like some unlucky thugs are about to bust tonight!”
Quentin follows saying “Yup time to give this illegal casino the red closed slip and put Sal out of business.”
What Quentin was referring to was that Sal was operating the bar/casino without proper permits and licenses. Who’s to say if Sal’s construction is even a legally owned business? By the looks of it though Sal looked more crooked than the normal blue-collared thief. Angel and Quentin shoot the thugs one by one killing them. One of Angel’s bullets hits the slot machines just at the right spot causing the machine pay out the jackpot and many coins began to fall out of the machine.
Angel says sacristy “Whoa looks like I hit the jackpot next time if I want to hit the jackpot just shoot the machine. What I really want though is Sal!”
After the dust settles all of the thugs are dead. Angel and Quentin investigate the scene and try to track the steps of Sal to see where he went could have gone. Angel heads for the managers office not knowing Quentin wasn’t following him. Angel backtracks to the gambling area, but Quentin wasn’t there. Angel screams his name but gets no response.
Angel notices that Quentin is missing. Where he could have possibly gone? Angel hears the sirens of the police as they begin to get louder. Angel believes that Quentin was either captured by Sal’s henchmen or arrested by the police. Angel had no time to find out as the police were probably hot on his tail. He heads towards the managers office in pursuit of Sal in hopes of getting some information about the construction deal.
Angel continues through the hallway and he takes out several of Sal’s henchmen along the way. Angel gets to the managers office where he sees Sal’s assistant Mark lock himself behind a gated area as he ordered to Sal’s men to kill Angel. Angel made quick work of the henchmen and then grabbed the key to the gated area as he confronted Mark.
Mark says in an Italian accent, “What the hell do you want with me? Whatever you do don’t shoot! I know nothing I just check and pay bill.”
Angel says angrily “You know a whole more than nothing lets start with this, got any iron?”
Mark answers, “The locker behind me, take everything if you want.”
Angel says to Mark, “Now where’s Quentin and no stupid answers or else!”
Mark answers, “You mean baldy I have no idea where he went. I just follow order from the boss.”
Angel says with an angry tone, “Fine now you mind telling me where Sal went?”
Mark responds. “Sal, he went to the “Tuscany Massage Parlor” that he owns as well.”
Angel replies, “Illegally, I assume but fine I’ll spare your life but don’t try anything funny!” The cops break into the bar.
Angel asks Mark, “Hey did you call the cops?”
Mark answers, “No I don’t cops you crazy I call backup. Cops come by themselves.”
Angel takes whatever guns he can get his hands on and then he sees the cops entering his location. Angel didn’t want to shoot any of the cops. They were just doing their job. Angel instead takes the back exit out of the bar as the cops were ordering him to stop and get down on the floor. Angel heads outside through the back exit where he sees more henchmen and a whole lot of boxes carrying illegal goods. Angel takes out the henchmen, but has to be careful as there was a sniper ahead. Angel zig-zags through the alleyway so the sniper couldn’t get a good shot at him. Eventually Angel gets close enough to shoot the sniper on his legs causing him to fall. After the sniper falls down Angel takes the sniper rifle away and snaps the neck of the sniper.
Angel had to be fast as the cops were catching up to him. Angel sees a taxi up ahead decides to hitch a ride to the massage parlor although it was a train ride away, but Angel wanted to lose the cops at the same time.
Angel says to the cab driver, “Take me to the “Tuscany Massage Parlor” and make it snappy I don’t have all night. I’ll pay you extra if I have to.”
The cab driver replies, “No problem sir whatever you say.” Angel was on his way to the “Tuscany Massage Parlor”.
Angel lost Quentin, but he had two bigger problems. The first was that Sal got away and according to Sal’s assistant Mark he went to his illegally owned massage parlor. The second and bigger problem was that the cops were hot on his tail to his surprise. That alone gives Angel strong signals that all of these events setup against him took place in the virtual world and not in the real world. Angel is able to get away from the cops as he did not want to kill any of the cops and catches a cab outside the alleyway. Angel gets into the taxi off to the massage parlor, meanwhile the cops wonder where Angel went. One of the cops calls Carlos to say that Angel got away. Carlos understandably upset curses out the cop along with his comrades due to Angel getting away. Carlos orders the cops back to the station immediately. Was Angel going to find Sal and if he did find Sal, what is Sal’s role in all this? Angel begins to wonder did Boris really kill his brother or was it Sal or perhaps it was none of them. There was also the possibility that Sal and Boris were used as a diversion for the real killer. Finally why was Carlos who is Angel’s uncle so determined to catch him? Was it because of the job description or was Carlos in the whole scheme of things?
Chapter 7
The Italian Connection
After breaking into Sal’s bar the “Underground Speakeasy”, Angel comes up empty handed when it comes to capturing Sal. Angel is told that Sal is at the “Tuscany Massage Parlor” by Mark who was Sal’s assistant. Angel was also trying to lose the cops who were still in hot pursuit of him. Angel was beginning to find out that this case was more than just a fight for a construction site at Brooklyn. Both Boris and Sal were involved with illegal activity. However that doesn’t explain the murder of Angel’s brother or the murder of police commissioner Frank Kelly. Angel feels in his heart that there is a bigger piece that he still needs to uncover and it probably involved the police as he found plutonium under the prison. Angel has another theory that perhaps the Italian mob was involved and bribed the police. Angel figures that it could not be a coincidence that such a rich substance was under a prison. However Angel had to focus on one thing which was survival and finding Sal.
Angel gets out of the cab and heads into the massage parlor where he is greeted by the hostess. Her name is Lotus, is wearing a green dress, with blond hair and an Italian accent.
The hostess says in her Italian accent, “Welcome to the Tuscany Massage Parlor. How can I help you?”
“I’m here for a massage, but I’m also here to see Sal I got some business to talk about with him.”
“Really what business?” The hostess asks questionably
“We’re talking about a $10,000 deal, you want more proof or you wanna search me?” Angel in a convincing tone. “I’ll put my iron away that’s not a problem.”
The hostess cordially invites Angel inside the parlor and says, “Ok Angel just wait in here and Sal will be with you in a little while, hope you enjoy your massage.”
Angel says in his mind, “Sal will be here in a little while but I don’t have that kind of time the cops are probably on my ass still.”
Angel steps out of his room where he was staying and realizes he has been setup. That’s because he saw the hostess grab two thugs dressed in causal suits and pointed them in his dire
ction.
Angel says, “I should have known this was a setup it looked too easy. Well a couple of thugs shouldn’t be too much of a challenge for me. Come and get me guys if you can that is.”
Angel easily beats up the thugs and gets the keycard to Sal’s private room. Angel heads to Sal’s private room where he finally gets Sal all to himself. Angel never gave up his gun. Angel gives Sal a sinister look after closing the door, the fire could be seen in his eye.
“Hey Angel what’s good, what the hell do you want? You want money, gold or plutonium? Just don’t hurt me please!”
“Well Sal it’s time to start talking! What you know about the construction site and the death of my brother! By the way Sal I don’t want your damn plutonium, I want answers!”
“The construction site was just… a deal I made with the owner ok… and plutonium is only the richest resource around come on now.” Sal begins to stutter a lot as he talks. “As for your brother… I didn’t kill him. A man named Patch working for my rival Boris killed your brother. If Boris told you he didn’t put the hit on your brother he a damn liar.” Sal begins to stop stuttering as he wanted to prove his point to Angel “Now you wanna know the owner of the site I was supposed to get…” Before Sal got to reveal the name of the owner he was shot by a woman wearing a blue jump jacket along with a black t-shirt, panty hose and platform boots.
The woman says to Angel. “Angel Medina I presume no need to worry I have no problem with you I just wanted Sal out.”
“Why did you shoot him though?” A puzzled Angel asked
“Sal killed my brother. My brother threatened to whistleblow on Sal for his illegal practices. I just wanted to get revenge that’s all.”
“So basically your brother got killed for being a snitch.”
“Yeah pretty much, let me introduce myself I’m Ana.” Angel can’t help but stare of how attractive Ana was. “What’s your beef with Italian meatball there?”
