Journey to the junkyard.

Something did catch my eye though when I was looking outside. A guy on a floating golden chair was being harassed by a couple of dudes with cybernetic eyes. You wouldn't be able to tell they were cybernetic without my feline senses but they are definitely cybernetic. I recognize them well.

After all I've been stealing from them for a while now. Not that they'd ever notice that and not that I will ever tell them obviously. The guy on the chair meanwhile is shouting at them in what even I can tell from my location is a haughty tone. They're a bit of a distance away but I've got good ears so I can still hear what they're saying though tones are usually missed.

Even then I can tell this guy is shouting things like 'I am the son of blah, blah important person blah, blah.' and continuing on with things like 'I shall have your whole family hunted down for this insolence' honestly your typical corrupt guy with power nonsense. Afraid that's not gonna fly here pal but good luck. That's my first thought and for some reason it brings a small smile to my face.

As I predicted the guys respond with something along the lines of 'we don't got families you think we'd be here if we did' and then punched the guy in the face. He flies off his floating chair spewing blood out of his nose all the while. Once he reaches the floor a thudding sound can be heard. Well I can hear it from where I am but even the people nearby probably only barely heard it.

I mean sure he's fat but he's not like tons level of fat and making a thudding noise when hitting the ground that humans can hear takes a fair amount of weight he just doesn't possess. Regardless I heard the thudding sound and upon hearing it alongside the blubbering excuses the man makes as the guys approach him sends me into a peel of laughter.

Now someone laughing in their door while watching seemingly nothing will seem a bit strange to onlookers but I just don't care at the moment and it's not like they're gonna remember me so why should they care either? Still even if they did I wouldn't hold back my laughter. It's good for mental health and this is hilarious for some reason.

I watch as the men approach the fat guy and drag him into a nearby alley taking his chair along with them while they're at it. For some reason I'm drawn to watching this scene play out so I climb to the top of my house which is actually a round bunker by the way so it took quite a bit of effort to find the little holes to put my fingers in.

Anyway I get up to the top and start hopping across the round bunker shapes along the side of the road. With my flexibility gymnastics like this is kinda my specialty and so I reach the top of a nearby building that has a good view of the inside of the alleyway and what do I find but the men pinning the fat guy against the wall with a bio-electric knife to his throat.

I once again break out into a peel of laughter for some strange reason and I start smiling like a giddy child watching a prank. Yes, what are you going to do to him? How are you going to make him beg? How is his life going to end? I can't wait.

Laughing like the child I am and hopping from foot to foot I watch excitedly as the man pees his pants while the men threaten him with things like 'Give us all your money' and 'If this fancy throne thing is all ya' got you're dying right here'.

Smelling the ammonia now in the man's pants and seeing the wet stain that formed on them I once again break out into a little dance of excited happiness. "I bet that was worth a ton of coin and he wasted it like that." I say to myself in an ecstatic tone sounding almost intoxicated.

My breaths become heavy and quick not that I notice but my cheeks become a little red as well as I watch the scene continue to play out. The corrupt fatty hurriedly puts his hands in his pockets and takes out a rod similar to my own. His however is black and has gold trimmings.

When he presses the button on the top of the rod the slit in the side suddenly gives out a blue light that forms into a tablet like shape. This shape has a login screen on it that he quickly goes through before opening his banking app and transferring his funds to the men.

They proceed take out similar rods and after opening their respective banking apps they grin. "Yes, Yesss. This is the climax. Now make him despair! Make him realize his money can't buy his life! Make him realize that money means nothing when you have absolute control!" My words come out despite myself. Still ecstatic and now sounding very much under the influence I can feel my self-control slipping.

No one can hear me because of the wind up here. Even people of my own kind wouldn't be able to hear me and there are no security cameras up here so no one's watching either. Well satellites would be able to see me but no one with access to those would care what I'm doing any way.

Just as I'm starting to indulge myself in fantasies of what would happen to that fatty something happens that instantly kills my mood. The guys let go of the fat man and he drops to the ground limply in a puddle of his own pee. Then they walk off taking his throne with them as they go.

"No! No, nonnononoooononoo. You're not done yet! You haven't finished the job. YOU IMBECILES!" I stomp the floor and start having a tantrum. I kick everything nearby and my breath becomes ragged for a different reason.

"I guess I'll just have to give in to my rage and teach you how it's done huh?" I say to myself with an obviously crazy smile on my face when suddenly I come back to myself and my smile vanishes replaced by fear.

What did I… What did I just say? Was I about to murder them? Why? What have they done to me? What am I even doing here? Where was I going again? The junkyard right? Yes, I need to go to the junkyard. What am I doing on this building? Why do I care about a couple of junklad thugs and some rich kid?

I quickly jump down from the top of the bunker I was on, startling the people on the street I land on as I seemingly appear out of thin air. Then I start walking down the street with my pale face and trembling hands.

Honestly what was I thinking? Giving in to my rage? What rage? Why was I angry? I have to… I have to ignore this. Yes, nothing happened a minute ago. I was just walking my way to the junkyard. That's all.

So I continue my walk to the junkyard or more specifically to the gravity tube that will take me to the junkyard. Thinking about the junklads to distract myself from the nothing that happened earlier. I walk in the direction of the plaza where the grav-tube stops by and get ready to head to the junkyard.

If the junklads are around the city like that I'm guessing they've gotten more bold which likely means they've got some new tech or a bunch of new human resources. Either way they've clearly gotten stronger than they were before.

The amount of people increases as I near the plaza still thinking about the junklads until eventually I reach my destination. A massive open space or it would be if there weren't so many bodies that it's practically a human cesspit. Worse they're still moving.

Regardless I walk through or past all the obstacles and find myself in front of a huge plastic looking tube with black rings in equal intervals from each other around the plastic. These black rings have accents of a turquoise blue in the form of a smaller ring inside of themselves.

I walk up to a part of the tube that looks a little like an incredibly large submarine window. A circular metal ring around part of the clear plastic tube with a latch at it's side. I take the latch off and open the hatch before jumping straight through it. Behind me the hatch closes itself as I float in the middle of the plastic tube for a second or two before suddenly moving at speeds I couldn't even drive no matter how hard I tried.

In a matter of moments I'm once again suspended mid-air in front of another hatch similar to the one I entered from. However on the other side of the plastic is an area completely different from the plaza. There are fancy looking buildings everywhere. Even a space elevator in the middle and some are straight up mobile ship homes albeit incredibly fancy ones.

Everything in front of me screams 'I'm incredibly rich' and obviously I want nothing to do with that so after another few moments I am once again whisked away. This time when I stop at the next hatch the only thing I can see is a hanger. A massive one but a hanger nonetheless.

It's filled to the brim with ships. It's like they're split into groups like social classes in school. with the small-class freight ships or similarly sized civilian ships being the nerds. The freight ships have hexagonal shaped heads with a window showing the view of the outside to the people on the bridge. Behind the head of the ship is it's wings or to be more technical it's thrusters. One for each side of the ship branching out like a bird's wings.

Finally the back of the freight ship is mostly square with one thruster on each side though this time they aren't branching out like wings but look a little more like they were just glued onto the side of the square part at the back of the ship. On the top of all this there are a few satellites for quantum internet and a few guns though they look pretty wimpy even to me.

The civilian ships on the other hand look a little like a joystick. The head of the ship is above the rest of it and actually resembles a human head fairly well. Though obviously it's not exactly the same. On top of this head-like protrusion is a satellite and a gun though again this one looks incredibly wimpy.

Below the head on the other hand is just a long handle like protrusion with absolutely nothing adorning it. Honestly it's definitely most alike to a joystick. Though I guess it's got to do with space aerodynamics or something though I'm pretty sure space is a vacuum but whatever I'm never going to be riding one so who cares.

In the medium-class category I'm gonna call jocks you have military and civilian transport ships. The military ones are as you would expect. Massive with lots of guns. I mean it honestly looks a little like a flat square filled to the brim with guns. These aren't the wimpy guns either, no these are large and intimidating and they should be. I know for a fact they tear through metal like paper and human skin is far weaker than metal.

I don't know the exact details because it's classified military intel but the guns on the military ships are of all different varieties. Laser, railgun and even explosive types. I know the laser ones fire at shields more often than not and railguns are used to tear through metal but that's pretty much all I know.

Civilian transport ships on the other hand are just huge space trains. I mean they don't need rails or anything but that's the best I can describe the design. A massive space train. It's so similar to a train in fact that they've gained the nickname space-trains that has been ignored and thus tacitly accepted by the people who run them.

There are a few other types of ships that are incredibly unique but I don't really get a good look at them before I'm whisked away to a different hatch. This time though there's nothing of note for me to look at. It's all just wasteland. Well it's not nuclear or anything so we could probably make it affable again but who would bother doing that for a waste planet.

So I just sit there doing absolutely nothing for a few seconds before I get to the next hatch and this one is the one I'm looking for so I tap the hatch and it opens for me. I then get pulled towards the hatch before being ejected out through it.

Rolling to dampen the momentum I look around at my familiar surroundings. This feels more like home than my house ever does. At first glance it looks similar to the wasteland area I was just in. The difference however is the little metal glint in the distance.