46 & 2 Issue Eighteen

No History No Furture

46 & 2 Issue 18:

By

Zachary Smith

PAGE 1.  SPLASH PAGE.

Chino is slumped over on the ground, blood pouring out of his head.  B.M. is leaving the room.

B.M.:  “I win.”

PAGE 2.  PANEL 1.

Chino is alone in a white space.

Chino:  “Here again.  Where’s the boy, the people?”

Chino:  “Am I dead?  Is there anybody else here.”

PAGE 2.  PANEL 2.

Chino is joined by a ethereal man and woman.  The man is MYTHOS, visually based on Morpheus from THE SANDMAN, long flowing cloak, pale skin, black eyes.  The woman Wiki, based on PROMETHEA.  Mythos walks on the right side of Chino and Wiki walks on the left.

Mythos:  “The boy does not take this journey with you because you’re not going the way you need to.”

Chino:  “Where am I?”

Wiki:  “Stuck in your head.”

PAGE 2.  PANEL 3.

Mythos indicates to walk, Chino follows, closely behind, and Wiki is keeping stride with Mythos.

Mythos:  “In Hell.”

Chino:  “She just said I was in my head.”

Wiki:  “It can be the same thing.”

PAGE 2.  PANEL 4.

Mythos motions again to continue forward.

Mythos:  “Before you were at a point of ascension.  Now you are starting again at the bottom.  Which is not necessarily a bad thing.  All things start in the mud.”

Chino:  “Ascending?  To where?  Was that where I was before?  How come it was so shitty?”

Wiki:  “Because change is always difficult.  Did you think becoming Weltall would be easy?”

PAGE 2.  PANEL 5.

Mythos motions with his walking stick, which creates the cosmos. 

Mythos:  “The void, nothingness, spewing forth life.  Waiting for the trigger to be delivered.  Ain Soph Aur, meeting the crown, Keter.  Its all just dirt and dust out there at first.  Nothing living for a long time.”

Chino:  “Is this…the Universe?”

Wiki:  “Weltall.”

PAGE 3.  PANEL 1.

The three of them walk on an empty planet.  No plant life, only rocks, water, and some tiny bits of atmosphere above.

Mythos:  “Life begins in dust and mud.  Like Prometheus, Allah, and Nuwa forming man out of clay, or Yaweh breathing life into the dust.”

Chino:  “Is this earth.”

Wiki:  “No.”

PAGE 3.  PANEL 2.

The clouds shoot out lighting, into the water, dust, and mud.

Mythos:  “Fire from the heavens, breathes life into the earth.  Uranus and Gaia, Odin and Fjorgyn.” 

Chino:  “Where are we then?”

Wiki:  “The first place life existed in Weltall.”

PAGE 3.  PANEL 3.

Chino has stopped moving, little forms of life are springing up around him, as the other two walk on ahead.

Mythos:  “These are the first kind, they will battle that which cannot be killed.”

Chino:  “Stop this.  You’re just talking at me.  Why am I here?”

Wiki:  “You are at your end, so we thought it best to show you the beginning.”

PAGE 3.  PANEL 4.

The two of them continue to walk, the life was simple in the last panel has become very technologically advanced, and looks similar in ways to human life forms, but also unique in their own ways.  Chino is still stuck, there is tree behind him.

Mythos:  “All knowledge requires sacrifice.  Like Odin on the tree, Christ on the Cross, or Prometheus bound, you now will know things that you did not before, but it’s because of the sacrifice you have made.”

Chino:  “I am dead.”

Wiki:  “Maybe.  Don’t forget what you are.”

PAGE 3.  PANEL 5.

The society is supremely technologically advanced.  The nature and technology blend seamlessly, the regular tree that was behind Chino before, is now a glowing iridescent tree.

Chino has begun to run after them.

Mythos:  “These beings we watch will also make a sacrifice.  Breaching the membrane of this universe with another, and inviting something here that cannot be destroyed.”

Chino:  “You two were there when I had that dream, when I was playing chess with that bald guy, and Myung was with…oh god.”

Wiki:  “How do you know it was a dream?”

PAGE 4.  SPLASH PAGE. 

The three of them walk on now in a society in ruins.  They are on a road far below, and above them in the demiurge, but in his bodily form.  I want the most imposing, terrifying figure that can be thought of, and yet we will only see his back, and his face turned back to see the audience.  His eyes are glowing red.  The city is being torn apart by tentacled monsters, think Cthulu, and hentai monsters.

Mythos:  “They made the ultimate sacrifice: their world was butchered and obliterated.  This thing that they found in the dimensional void was just a conqueror from a dead universe, waiting for the next victim.”

Chino:  “But they defeated him right?  It hasn’t come to earth, so he must have been defeated.”

Wiki:  “It lost its battle, but it was such a strong energy force that they could not completely eradicate it.  They sent it out of phase, back through time.  The bodies destruction released energy sufficient to start the big bang, but also caused a black hole at the center of the universe, and its been growing for billions of years drawing us all towards it.  And its soul…”

PAGE 5.  PANEL 1.

Two glowing eyes are staring right at Chino as he is about to get blasted by the bullet from Blicero’s gun in Issue 4.  The three of them watch this.

Mythos:  “The soul is the possession of the owner, it cannot be given or taken away.  It sits at the transition point, the ascension point.  The top of the Tree of Life, at Keter, waiting.”

Chino:  “For what?”

Wiki:  “Something strong enough to contain it.  Maybe something like you.”

PAGE 5.  PANEL 2.

Mythos walks them pass this incident.

Mythos:  “You could not handle it, its energy and what it represented.  It would have been like Athena bursting out of Zeus’s head.  But it’s possible that you could reach a point where your body is usable, it is going through a change.”

Chino:  “46 & 2.  What is that?”

Wiki:  “For that we will need to switch over to another place.”

PAGE 5.  PANEL 3.

They are walking on the sands of Mars.

Mythos:  “Mars.”

Chino:  “It’s beautiful.  So sad and lonely here, but pretty.”

Wiki:  “I like the color.  We are here as the planet is dying.”

PAGE 5.  PANEL 4.

We now see from their perspective dying Martians, similar to J’onn J’onzz.  Choking, holding each other.

Mythos:  “They lost their atmosphere four billion years ago.”

Chino:  “That’s horrible.”

Wiki:  “Yes, but without them dying, there would be no you.”

PAGE 5.  PANEL 5.

A rocket is leaving the surface of Mars.

Mythos:  “As they are losing their atmosphere, a near by planet is finally getting to the point where it can sustain life.”

Chino:  “That thing made it to earth?  That’s what started life?”

Wiki:  “In a sense, yes.”

PAGE 5.  PANEL 6.

An asteroid slams into the rockets as it has left the atmosphere, blowing it to pieces.

Mythos (off panel):  “Maybe it was just their time to end.”

Chino (off panel):  “I hate this.”

Wiki (off panel):  “Haven’t you learned anything yet?  Sacrifice always brings on something more.”

PAGE 6.  PANEL 1.

Some of the asteroid fragments are heading towards earth.  But the continents will not look the same.

PAGE 6.  PANEL 2.

The rock is passing through some clouds that have thunder and lighting.

Mythos (off panel):  “Lighting again.  Think as to why so many of your gods have this aspect, Thor, Zeus, Indra, Susanoo, Set, and so many others.  And why so many of them are high in the pantheon.”

Chino (off panel):  “I don’t know why.”

Wiki:  “Because lighting means something else is on the way.”

PAGE 6.  PANEL 3.

The asteroid, and lighting hit the ground at the same time.  Near a coastal setting.

PAGE 6.  PANEL 4.

The three of them are watching the smoking crater be enveloped in water from the ocean, and rain.

Mythos:  “Water means life, rain means crops.  Vegetation will grow with these influences.  Mars did not have enough, which is another reason their fate was sealed.”

Chino:  “This is the start of life?”

Wiki:  “The very beginnings.  The small chemical compounds colliding over and over again until there is a mixture that is not volatile.”

PAGE 6.  PANEL 5.

A microbe is seen under the water.  The three of them are in a water bubble seeing the microbe.

Mythos:  “It will divide and spread, ad infinitum.  This is where it all comes from.”

Chino:  “I can’t believe I’m getting to see this, it’s so…”

Wiki:  “Small.  But it will get bigger and bigger.”

PAGE 7.  SPLASH PAGE.

This is a collage of the events on earth, its like the three of them are walking in a time tunnel.  We’ll see plants, fish, bugs, dinosaurs, the asteroid hitting the earth, covering it in darkness, snow and ice, woolly mammoths, saber tooth tigers, monkeys, cave people, and at the end lighting striking a bush, as a group of these cave people try to stay warm.

Mythos:  “This is life, and really how you see it flow before you is how we see it progress.  It is nothing more than moments, and then it is over.”

Chino:  “I can’t believe, I.... so much time wasted.”

Wiki:  “Hmmm…time is a funny thing.  You get so little of it, and you can never get back what you lost, but there is an infinite amount of it all around you.”

PAGE 8.  PANEL 1.

Cave people wander through the passage way of Russia and America.  The snow is harsh and blinding. 

Mythos:  “Under these icy conditions man eventually flourishes.  Like Audumla setting man and frost giants free, while simultaneously nourishing them.”

Chino:  “The first Americans.”

Wiki:  “Haha, very true.”

PAGE 8.  PANEL 2.

Volcanoes are erupting.  Ice steams up as it melts.

Mythos:  “Nifelheim’s influence ends this latest age of ice, and we have many deluges that Noah survived, Manu was saved from by Vishnu, that Kwi-wi-sens Nenaw-bo-shooo caused when the sea god killed his wolf.”

Chino:  “I wonder how many people were killed when this happened.”

Wiki:  “I assure you it was many, but it was not without hope, with the ice gone, the humans were able to farm and travel more.”

PAGE 8.  PANEL 3.

African tribesmen dealing with their cattle.

Mythos:  “This growth necessitated a change in humans.  At first they are one with the environment and each other, because they had to be, or else nature would easily kill them.  Now things are a little easier, it is time to move on and up, away from the group and focus more on the individual.  Lucifer breaking away from heaven, Loki’s motivation to survive, Prometheus’s defiance.”

PAGE 8.  PANEL 4.

Greeks dealing with their goats.

Chino:  “I never really thought about how fucked we are without each other.”

PAGE 8.  PANEL 5.

Vikings on horse back with their sheep.

Wiki:  “Hmmm…but it is not time to worry about others.  It is now the time to worry about ourselves as we begin to journey more and more places.  42 & 2 becomes what we have now, 44 & 2.  The individual mind set.  Different nations, gods, peoples, who are all the same.”

PAGE 9.  TOP HALF OF THE PAGE.

Chino is watching as there are scuffles, African Tribe vs. African Tribe, Romans and Celts,  Conquistadors on horseback and natives of South America on foot, Christians and Muslims, , Native Americans and Vikings.

Mythos:  “Brother battles brother, nation versus nation.  This is a time of great strife, horrible blood letting, and butchery.”

Chino:  “This…this is awful.  You can’t tell me that what came before this was much different.”

Wiki:  “It wasn’t, but these assaults were for different reasons: crops, livestock, wealth, land, religion.  Very little of it was about survival, and more about what could be gained.  Yet there was more to this than just common strife.”

PAGE 9.  BOTTOM HALF OF THE PAGE.

The native African tribesman heals the others head wound, Americans and Vikings are trading necklaces.  Knights are copying arithmetic from Muslims, Celts are drawing Jupiter and Latobius together, Natives from South America are seen riding horses, and herding sheep.

Mythos:  “Fire from the gods.  Each new spoil brought a new discovery to each side, they learned what they could, and traded in the purest thing: information.”

Chino:  “I sometimes wonder why we haven’t been wiped clean from the planet.”

Wiki:  “It’s because this is all sacrifice.  All this pain and hardship is working towards something that will make you better.”

PAGE 10/ PAGE 11 SPLASH PAGES.

PAGE 10:  Chinese immigrants are coming over on boats. 

The next phase/panel is Chinese workers working on a railroad.

The next phase/panel Chinese workers standing together, with a sign reading Chinese Six Companies

The next phase/panel a Chinese worker is painting letters on a shop window:  “San Francisco’s Finest Chinese Fo”

Next phase/panel A Chinese grandfather/grandmother father and mother who is holding a baby are being photographed in front of their restaurant, in Blackfield.”

A young Chinese man, this is Chino’s dad, waits on a Hispanic woman.  The Hispanic woman will be on the other side of the page.

PAGE 11:  Early 20^th century Mexican farm workers are picking cotton.  A concentration of houses are around them, and there is a canal that was set up to instill farming capabilities.

Mexican workers are being turned away, Chinese workers are working the field.

The next phase/panel A Mexican woman and man are walking along the canal.

The next phase/panel The couple is now older, and are working on their farm, tending to sheep.  There is a younger couple with an infant, while teens work on the land.

The couple is driving into Blackfield: 23 miles.  The infant is now older, a little girl, and there is another infant in the car, another girl.

A young Chinese man, this is Chino’s dad, Kevin, waits on a Hispanic woman, Chino’s mom, Rosa.  This section meets at the middle of the bottom of the pages.

Mythos, Chino and Wiki will be walking around the edges, and the middle as these events take place.

Mythos:  “All this exploring leads humans to encountering each other, to merge and mix their ways, cultures, and heritages.  They will only grow stronger from this, a close system leads to death.”

Chino:  “Those are…my parents.”

Wiki:  “Yes.  In all the chaos that is modern life these two will meet, and be in love, however briefly.  And from that we get you.  Work and sacrifice.”

PAGES 12/13 SPLASH PAGES.

These two pages will be similar in structure to PAGES 10 and 11.

At the top center of the page we see his parents getting married.  His father, Kevin is on the right, his mother, Rosa, on the left, with the aisle waiting before them, and the audience cheering.

PAGE 12. Filtering down from the wedding, we see Kevin setting down boxes in a new home.

On the opposite PAGE 13, Rosa is setting up a baby room.

PAGE 12:  Kevin is working at their restaurant.  Talking to female customers.

PAGE 13:  Opposite side, Rosa is working as a Check out girl in a grocery store, pregnant.

PAGE 12:  Kevin is playing soft ball and poker with his friends.

PAGE 13:  Opposite, Rosa is nursing baby Chino, and showing him off to her Mother, Rosa Sr. and Sister, Lydia.

PAGE 12:  Kevin is shaking his head as a phone is being handed to him.

PAGE 13:  On the opposite page, Rosa is on the phone.  Chino is a little older, about two, playing next to her.

PAGE 12:  Kevin walks into the front door, drunk.

PAGE 13:  Rosa is on the opposite side, with the light on, arms crossed and pissed.

PAGE 12 and PAGE 13:  Near Bottom, center.  Kevin and Rosa argue, she points her finger into his chest aggressively.

PAGE 12/PAGE 13.  Bottom, center.  Kevin slaps Rosa.

Mythos:  “Love very rarely works out, it turns bitter and hatred arises.  The gods are fickle.”

Chino:  “Hmmm.  I knew he did those things, I just never saw.”

Wiki:  “And you haven’t seen much of him since.  But the thing that matters is that through that short union, you were born.  No matter what became of the progenitors, you came into existence at just the right time.”

PAGE 14.  PANEL 1.

A panel showing the waste that has become the ocean.  Dead sea life, oil spills, over fishing, pollution, trash.

Mythos (off panel):  “A pole shift is coming, another possible age of ice, to thin out the overpopulated world.”

PAGE 14.  PANEL 2.

Cars, smoke stacks from factories, hair spray cans, Glaciers breaking off.

Chino (off panel):  “What’s a pole shift?  Like the planet is going to flip?”

PAGE 14.  PANEL 3.

A massive crowd of people bump and plow through each other on a busy street.

Wiki (off panel): “We stand of the precipice of a new age.  The planet is in danger, and one or more things could send it over the brink.  We hope that you can prevent this massive die off, because nothing is without its use, but it may be inevitable.”

PAGE 14.  PANEL 4.

A pleasant field, trees and grass, sun and clouds.

The three of them walk upon this field.

Mythos:  “This is where you come in.  Ragnarok is here, the trumpets have sounded.  The seven bowls will spill on the earth, and the moon and sun will be swallowed up in darkness if you do not stop it.”

Chino:  “ME!?  I can’t do shit.  I’m dead remember.”

Wiki:  “For what you feel are justified reasons, and they may be so.  But you need to get past that and stand up to your destiny.  No savior was ever perfect.  Buddha was a dead beat dad, Jesus was a bastard, Muhammad liked them young.  We forgive them their trespasses because we know that what they will give to us in the end is worth the pain.”

PAGE 15.  PANEL 1.

They stand in Ice and Darkness.

Mythos:  “Three of the coldest winters precede the end times.  War, famine, disease, and death will run rampant.”

Chino:  “But that is true of any era, there is always people fighting, starving, infecting and dying.”

Wiki:  “True, but did you ever have the capability to destroy yourselves so thoroughly and so easily before?  One man realizes how easy it will be to end it all.”

PAGE 15.  PANEL 2.

The ice recedes slightly, and they see the light of a cabin.

Mythos:  “In addition to the climatic changes that are happening, there is also one amongst you who works with the destroyer.  A pariah.”

Chino:  “Who?”

Wiki:  “White death.”

PAGE 15.  PANEL 3.

They peer into a window as a man in drag is warmed by a fire, this is Blicero.  Around his lap are young men and women performing sexual acts on each other and him.

Mythos:  “You are moving towards a pole shift that will bring about a shift in human consciousness.  You are the precursors.”

Chino:  “46 & 2?”

Wiki:  “Yes.  The end of the individuality scaffold.  It has supported you long enough, now you will merge yourselves to fight something bigger.  Like white blood cells in a body work together to fight a disease, you will merge yourselves.”

PAGE 15.  PANEL 4.

Blicero has grabbed a red haired girl from the group, he has a knife to her throat.

Mythos:  “But just because you exist, does not guarantee any sort of victory for you.  You will have to work together.”

Chino:  “This all sounds well and good, but I’m dead.”

Wiki:  “’I am the resurrection and the light.  He who believes in me will live, even though he dies.’  Don’t forget what you are, and what you can do.”

PAGE 15.  PANEL 5.

There are five Chino’s, all with different demeanors and manners, and looks.  Superego Chino is calm and collected, clean and in control.  Id Chino is disheveled and dirty, with a smile upon his face, Shadow Chino has no expression on his face.  Anima Chino looks insecure and is about to cry.  Ego Chino has his hands in his pockets, blood pouring out of his head.

Mythos:  “A part of you clings to the old ways, like Zeus devouring Athena, yet she comes bursting out of his head.  You cannot accept the death that you caused so you split.  Your psyche is in turmoil.”

Chino:  “How do I fix it.”

Wiki:  “Accept what and who you are.  Accept yourself.”

PAGE 16.  PANEL 1.

Breanna, the old preacher, Kevin, the burning man, and dead security guard, on fire all stand before Chino.

Mythos:  “None of us are perfect.  We all have defects, but we must overcome these things to be useful.  Tyr lost a hand, but was still the bravest of gods.  Jesus questioned, but still went on to save so many.”

Chino:  “We’re all flawed, but I don’t think my crime can be forgiven.”

Wiki:  “Then don’t forget it.  It’s okay to forgive, just don’t forget, so you do not repeat your mistakes.”

PAGE 16.  PANEL 2.

The burning man begins to fade, as does the old preacher, Breanna, Kevin and The dead security guard remain, but the security guard is no longer on fire.

Mythos:  “Its natural to hate your father, Kronos, Zeus, Athena, Thor, will all tell you of moments where murder was the only solution, for sometimes the father is death.  But it does not mean they were right, or wrong.”

Chino:  “I hate him with everything in me.  He’s everything I don’t want to be, some uncaring bastard, who doesn’t give a shit about anyone else.”

Wiki:  “Maybe he’s not these things, or maybe he is.  First know him.  You’ve been avoiding something since you got into this city.”

PAGE 16.  PANEL 3.

Kevin is the only focus right now.

Mythos:  “Confront and overcome.”

Chino: “How?”

Wiki:  “You will know.”

PAGE 16.  PANEL 4.

Chino is choking Kevin.

Mythos:  “Just because its in your head…”

Wiki:  “Doesn’t make it not real.”

PAGE 16.  PANEL 5.

Chino has Kevin on the ground, he is thrashing.

Chino:  “Never loved me you piece of shit.  Never cared about anything.  Showed me the way of the world though, everyone leaves in the end.  That is why I have this bullet in my head.”

Mythos:  “Thor had the whetstone stuck forever in his head, after he slew the giant.”

Wiki:  “Let it be a reminder of two things: why you fired in the first place, and that victory comes with sacrifice.” 

PAGE 16.  PANEL 6.

Mythos and Wiki stand side by side, fading away.

Mythos:  “Don’t let the fire consume you.”

Wiki:  “You must stand against it, even if it burns you.”

PAGE 17.  PANEL 1.

Kevin has become the security guard.  The place is all black now.  The other Chino’s are behind him, he has blood rushing out of his head.

Chino:  “I’m…sorry.  Don’t leave.  WHERE DID YOU GO?  HELP ME.  I’M STUCK HERE.  PLEASE HELP ME.”

Chino (superego):  “They left.  They want us to find our own way out.”

PAGE 17.  PANEL 2.

Chino is on his knees, crying.  The security guard is now the burning man.  Blood continues to pour out of his head, the other Chino’s just look on.

Chino:  “Don’t leave me alone.  Please.  I’m sorry I’m so horrible.  Please don’t leave me here.  I’m in hell.  There’s no way out.  Please, take me with you.”

Chino (Id):  “Fucking pathetic.  No wonder they left, they couldn’t deal with your moaning.”

PAGE 17.  PANEL 3.

The dead person has shifted to Breanna.  Bloody Chino now stands with the other Chino’s.  Anima Chino is now next to Breanna.

Chino:  “I’m sorry about everything.  Maybe I can heal you.”

Chino (shadow):  “Better to be alone.  No one to hurt you.”

PAGE 17.  PANEL 4.

Anima Chino stands over the Breanna, hands out, to heal her.

Chino (ego):  “I don’t want to be alone, no matter how much it hurts.”

Chino (anima):  “If we fix her, we’re not alone.  I don’t know if I can do it alone though.”

PAGE 17.  PANEL 5

A light is forming behind Chino, and above the Breanna.  Chino is concentrating, looking down, we can’t see the Breanna.

Chino (anima):  “Is it working?”

PAGE 18.  PANEL 1.

Chino’s eyes burst open, he is in Scorpio’s apartment, his head is in the lap of Scarlettt, and Sho is above him, on his right.  Both their hands are by Chino’s head.

Chino:  “What’s that smell?”

Sho:  “FUCK!”

Scarlettt:  “HE’S AWAKE.”

PAGE 18.  PANEL 2.

They have helped Chino over to the couch.

Chino:  “You guys saved me.”

Sho:  “Barely.  It was touch and go until the end there.  I really needed you using those healing abilities but they were not coming.”

Scarlettt:  “We anchored your conscious to us, so you wouldn’t get away.  But you were dormant for so long.  We used our ability to regenerate on you, to fix your brain, but we needed your help most of all.”

PAGE 18.  PANEL 3.

Chino is holding his head.  Sho holds up his hand, with the bullet in it.

Chino:  “Where’s the bullet?”

Sho:  “Here.  There is a fragment missing.  I think its stuck in there.  We could try--”

Chino:  “No, no, that’s good.  It’ll be a reminder.”

Scarlettt:  “Of what?”

PAGE 18.  PANEL 4.

Chino looks at Scarlettt.

Chino:  “Who are you?”

Sho:  “Another one of us.  Scarlettt, this is Fei, or Chino.  This is Scarlettt Weissman.”

Scarlettt:  “Nice to meet you.”

PAGE 18.  PANEL 5.

Chino stands up.

Chino:  “Thanks for saving my life, guys.”

Sho:  “You’d have done the same.”

Scarlettt:  “You are welcome.  I’m sorry, what did you want that thing to remind you of?”

Chino:  “Oh, um, something bad that I did, and that I’ll never do it again.”

Sho:  “You better not shoot yourself again.”

PAGE 19.  PANEL 1.

Scorpio comes bursting out of the bathroom.

Scorpio:  “That fucker is dead.  I am going to kill him, and you are going to help me, right?”

Chino:  “Guess you were healed too.  I don’t know.  He needs to be stopped, but I don’t think we should kill him.  I’ve done to much killing.”

PAGE 19.  PANEL 2.

Scorpio stands with the four of them.

Scorpio:  “We don’t kill him?  The fuck?”

Chino:  “It’s not his fault he’s that way.  It’s mine.  I donated blood to the service, and he must have gotten mine after his accident.”

Sho:  “You’re not at fault either, Chino.  Whatever he became after that is his choice, so don’t let him off the hook that easy.”

Scarlettt:  “Where is he?”

PAGE 19.  PANEL 3.

The B.M. stands on the Golden Gate bridge, hat on, and sunglasses.  People walk around him.

Scorpio (caption):  “Probably looking for his next victim.”

Sho (caption):  “Possibly.  Even though Chino does not want to hurt him, he does need to be stopped.”

Scarlettt (caption):  “I believe Sho is right.”

Chino (caption):  “But how do we find him?”

Scorpio (caption):  “When the bodies start piling up, we’ll know where to start.”

PAGE 19.  PANEL 4.

All of them are fixing things in Scorpio’s apartment.

Scorpio:  “So where are you from, girlie?  Just wonder in off the streets?”

Sho:  “Actually, I’ve been meaning to ask you that question myself.  You just appeared out of nowhere.”

Chino:  “A good looking girl comes in out of nowhere, I’m not complaining.”

Scarlettt:  “Hmm.  I don’t think you’d believe me if I told you.”

PAGE 19.  PANEL 5.

Scorpio has placed himself in a chair, and lit a cigarette.

Scorpio:  “Try me.  I’ve heard my share of crazy things.”

Scarlettt:  “Nevada.”

Chino:  “Vegas?  That’s cool.”

Sho:  “No, that doesn’t sound right.  Where in Nevada?”

PAGE 20.  SPLASH PAGE.

Scarlettt tells them and they are shocked, Chino is happy.  Scorpio has dropped his cigarette, and Sho has a worried look on his face.

Scarlettt:  “Area 51.”

Chino:  “We’re fucking aliens.”

THE END