Moto walked back into his room and laid on his bed. He was exhausted from all these recent missions Nate kept insisting on giving him. He also seemed very frantic himself and it's caused Moto to use his stress toy, which is something he made to relieve stress.
Getting on his phone, he played some Angry Birds and doom-scrolled as the minutes ticked by. It was just a matter of time until he went on another mission and he was sure he would lose his mind.
After finishing that game he got up and walked around the facility. He heard that recently they added a sector that contained monsters to study and he'd have to do a hunting business. He might as well check it out.
"Look, it's him!"
"Kinda feel bad."
"Nobody deserves a brother like that."
Scientists said around him. Moto tried to ignore it. But with each step and each whisper he heard he grew more and more paranoid.
He reached the entrance gate which had bodyguards and he pulled out his card and gave it to them. They looked at each other and back at Moto with disappointment and disgust.
"Well, have a good day." One of them spoke, and the gate opened. He makes it halfway through the gate until one of the guards gave him a rough shove inside while saying, "And make sure not to abuse any animals today, could you?" The door slam shut and Moto was left with utter confusion.
Looking around, he saw scientists observing the chambers and engineers making little tweaks to make sure it doesn't break and cause chaos within the facility. But every look he got was dirty.
This wasn't normal.
He usually got praised.
What happened?
Why is this happening to him?
He felt his head hurt and rushed out of there
And walked around faster, hoping to get to his room but then he saw Nate, who was running with money flowing out of his pockets. He ran to Moto and glared at him intensely, trying to regain his breath. "Why…did you…abuse…Marco…?" He said, trying to form a normal sentence.
Moto froze. He didn't know. He only remembered putting his hands on him a few times to relieve stress, and plus, it was his fault, all of his fault! Marco was the one behind this. Then news reporters came flooding in with cameras and microphones and surrounded Moto and Nate.
"Nate, how will you respond to the fact that you've had secret labor camps where you kidnapped handicapped civilians to work for you and also scammed and killed the lives of millions in this business?"
"Kawasaki Moto, did you abuse your best friend Marco because he did something wrong? Or were you always this sadistic and evil?" Another one said. They were bombarded with questions and Nate tried to answer them as fast as he could.
"He would never do such a thing! And those labor camps were from another company I partnered up with and didn't know about them—it's their fault, not ours!" He said through sweat and panic.
"We have entire videos here, you see! Of you knowing about these and owning them and giving them out to other companies to even be used for sexual desires! And Marco has bruises and has come out saying he 'does get a little angry sometimes!'" They said.
Moto was breathing hard and Nate noticed this and kept talking while nudging him to leave so Moto slowly left and ran once he was out of the crowd. He ran to Marcos room and the door burst open with Moto's rage.
Marco was there tending to his bruises and froze when he saw him, his ears dropping down. He dropped on his bed and scurried to the edge. But Moto rushed to him and pushed him, knocking a tooth out. Marco, whimpering, backed to a corner and Moto rushed to him again and kept punching him while Marco could only try to use his arms to defend himself.
"I'll be back. You ruined my life so I'll make your life a living hell before killing you." Moto said coldly and walked to his room and kicked a wall. And fell asleep and got a phone call in the evening. "Moto I have an idea. Okay so you know about fusing sand? I'll try to use it to fuse you and Marco together. And you'll be in 100% control. I'll say that you and Marco both died out in the woods and you'll act as a new person. I'll try to calm my company down but 9/10 you'll have to kill some people." Those lines stopped Moto cold.
But he sighed and got up. "Where do I meet you?"
"In my office. I have a secret lab."
Moto got up and walked out; his office was in a big main center at the lobby of the place. He saw his friends or more like "friends." Rheyla looked at him, then looked down, scared. Maya looked at him and tsked with disgust as he walked by; then he was stopped.
He felt bleeding on his cheek; it was from Maya. "YOU DIRTY BASTARD, HOW COULD YOU TREAT YOUR FRIEND LIKE THAT? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" She said it, but Moto ignored her. And walked into the office.
Inside was not an office but it was a room that had an outside part and an indoor part where an experiment was going on. "Oh yeah, bring Marco with you. I forgot to tell you that you'll have to do it. The FBI is on my case down." Nate said, smiling calmly.
"I feel like we're in the climax of a book right now. How I can't even move because every action could lead to my impending doom. I don't want this lineage to end even if our parents were terrible and we're terrible. I don't care if my business is crumbling right before me. I want to be successful still. Maybe retire with a wife and watch the sunsets and wait for my death." Nate said, sipping on his coffee. "Everything will be different now. Everything…"
Moto glared at him for a few seconds, then looked back, heading to Marcos's room. And opening the door, he saw not a scared Marco but just one that was looking down, lost in all hope. "Just make it quick." He said, holding back his tears.
"I'll fuse with you." Marco looked up stunned. "You'll… what?" He said slowly. "WAIT, NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT. GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME."
Moto walked to him as he screamed and begged and hit him knocking him out and went back to Nate. They were placed in a pit. "You'll be killed with toxic gas, which will hurt but man it out. It'll suffocate you to death and we will cover you with sand beforehand though so it'll be faster." He said it and then started it.
He and Marco were covered in sand and Moto felt the suffocation immediately but just closed his eyes and held his breath until he passed out. Later he woke up as a new person.