Hey y'all, how's it hanging? Happy 9th anniversary, am I right? Ok so I said this in the monthly update and I'll say it again here. As much as this is fun and all, this is not the main focus, and that next year, you'll see the last one of the Corona shorts for a long while, or maybe not. I don't know yet, haven't decided.

I have the next short sort of vaguely outlined, but whether or not I do it is up in the air, and if I do, it'll be the last one for a long while. I want to focus on doing the episodes / the re-edits, so you'll see one or the other next, whenever I can get around to it.

Anyways, have a Happy Anniversary, and see you for the big 1 0 next year assuming we are all still here...

Have a good one and enjoy!

Wow… you’re still here? I mean honestly I thought you would have left, but you’re still here.

I feel like I should point at you and yell out loud, “Hey look everyone! This guy is still here! Can you believe it! Ha ha ha!”

I mean wow, you got this far in this weird part of the journal, then you are something else. I don’t even know why I’m writing this part in here other than Wolf made a bet and won. I could be using this time to do the other parts of my life; yet here I am doing it. It pretty much its own thing like a spin off or something. And then for some reason I decided to follow it.

I’m not even sure which timeline it follows either… but it follows some kind of timeline and rules. And it’ll eventually come full circle back to us and Stalia and the ponies and stuff. Well since you’re here, how many of you would like for me to continue the tale of the Corona? Huh? How many...let me imagine how many hands are raised up in my mind that will be in the future when you read this journal of mine… one two, three… four… five six seven eight…. Nine…. I think I see a ten, eleven… yup I think the majority rules here.

And on top of that I think I received some mailed in votes at three in the morning at the ol’ witching hour… it’s from the witches… and they too say they want to hear some more. So sorry opposing group, better luck next time… and when I mean by next time, I mean never, it’s all rigged, fuck you, nobody loves you, suck my ass. And I don’t mean in a gay way either.

Anyways, let’s continue the Tale of the Corona!

Now let’s see, where did we leave off on last time? Oh right! So to briefly recap, the Corona had to go to the courthouse in the city somewhere to try and get the right to parent his two daughters, Ebola Chan and Corona Chan. One American, one Japanese. But then he failed, china probably had something to do with it like always, and his two daughters were taken and the Corona screamed to the heavens that he will get them back, he swears… and now that you are all aught up, let’s continue…

The Corona was screaming at the top of his lungs as he was yelling, “I Swear I’ll get you back one day. I swear I’ll see you one day. I SWEAR TO YOU LINDA, I’LL GET THEM BACK YOU BITCH!!! I’LL GET THEM BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!”

And then Forrest quietly walked up behind the Corona and raised a brow with a look of worry on his face and asked the Corona, and interrupted the Corona as the Corona went dead silent, “So… can I go home now?”

The Corona stopped looking towards the heavenly sky and turned to look and stare at Forrest as Forrest just stood there. And then there was an awkward silence between as a little gust of wind on flying by.

And then after a few seconds of silence and Forrest just staring back, hoping for an answer from the Corona, the Corona said to Forrest, “Huh. Who are you? Get away from me you bum.”

The Corona even did a little pushing motion towards Forrest to try to signal him to go away like an annoying fly that won’t leave you alone, so you have to go out and murder that fly’s entire family; his wife and children and his little fly pets and burn his house down. That’ll show the fly who’s the boss. Those flying fuckers.

Anyways, Forrest was looking at him funny while he was looking a bit confused as he then explained to the Corona, “But… but I just helped you out, remember? I somehow got here through a portal that opened up and I came here against my will and I testified how you were a capable father so you can get your two daughters?”

It took a few second of more silence as the Corona looked slightly up into the air a bit, thinking, and then the Corona finally said, “Oh yeah. Well… do what I tell you to do… or I won’t open the magic portal….oooooooooooo.”

I think that last part the Corona was trying to symbolize he was waving his non-existing arms up and down while wiggling his fingers… even though somehow he has some kind of arms… that’s invisible. Don’t question it. Forrest then just stared at the Corona while giving him a look of disappointment. His eyelids were halfway down on his eyes and he lowered his body a little bit while lowering his wings and ears down as well.

He was looking a tad bit cynical like how I would you could say, (I was rubbing off on him I suppose), and he said to the Corona, “You have no idea how to get me back home do you?”

While Forrest was keeping his cynical and disappointed position, the Corona then said to Forrest while moving around a bit and giving some invisible gestures that you have to make up in your mind, “Of course I do… I-I went there before… and came back…and summoned you here… by conjuring up the spirit of Ike Turner oooooooooooooooo…”

Once again, it looked like the Corona was waving his non-existent arms up and down while wiggling his fingers towards Forrest’s face. And as soon as the Corona was done, there was silence between the two for like thirty seconds and Forrest returned to his normal, more innocent look about him and looked confused, yet curious on his face as he stared at the Corona.

He then asked the Corona, “Who is Ike Turner?”

Then there was more silence as another gust of wind came rolling on by.

And then the Corona spoke up and said, “I don’t know, I heard it from some skeleton in a wheelchair once while waking up face down in a pile of my own puke in an alley way once.”

And then there was silence between the two again for like another thirty seconds and another gust of wind from nearby. It was kind of windy where ever they were at.

And then Forrest just looked at the Corona even more confused and started to look more curious as he then asked the Corona while raising his left hoof up off the ground very slightly, “Who?”

Then the Corona ignored everything that Forrest asked him and said to him as the Corona floated or walked I guess, past Forrest and back into the courthouse as Forrest followed him with his eyes, “Come on, let’s see if those bastards from Vietnam or whatever they are. I bet they have something to do with this!”

As the Corona was walking away, Forrest gave a little silent shrug and decided to follow behind the Corona. As the two were walking back into the big main lobby with still no one else around, the Corona was kind of taking his time. And then for no reason at all, the Corona tripped over and fell on to the floor, in which case Forrest stopped as the sound of falling echoed and bounced off the marble floor and walls and ceilings.

Once the Corona fell flat on his… face… he said out loud while giving a little bit of grunts and moans, “God damn it!”

As his words echoed throughout the halls of the courthouse, he got himself back up rather quickly and continued walking towards the direction of the court room with Forrest continuing to follow not far behind. Then the Corona eventually made it to the somewhat big wooden doors of the court room that he was just previously in not long ago with Forrest catching up to him right before he opened the doors.

Once the Corona was ready, he mustered up some energy in his rounded body with thorns sticking out and kicked down the door to the court house just because he wanted to do it I guess. And only in silence, the two waltzed right back into the room that they were previously in as they did, everyone else that was in the room was gone. The judge was long gone and the Chinese man who were previously there as well were also nowhere to be seen.

The only who was still there was Steve Jones, the puppet who testified against the Corona in the court case. He was sitting on top of the witness stand, all stiff like and all by himself. He looked a little sad, yet not so much, but it was just an ol’ dummy sitting by himself… and somehow alive.

The Corona saw this, except for the dummy, and yelled out loud as it echoed in the room a bit as him and Forrest walked slowly deeper into the room itself, “Hey! Where did everyone else go?”

Forrest then started to flap his wing and lift his body from off the ground as he had wide eyes and was looking around the place and was still behind the Corona and a little bit above him.

He said to the Corona while shrugging his arms, “Maybe they were in a hurry?”

Corona then turned around a bit, kind of sideways to look at Forrest a bit and said to him, “No, that can’t be right. Go and have a look around and see what you can find. They must have left something behind.”

Forrest didn’t say anything afterwards, and instead just started to fly around the room and looking at every corner from a view as a way of saying ‘ok, whatever you say you fucking Jew.’ He probably wasn’t saying Jew in his head, but let’s be honest, if you were Forrest, you would be saying it… don’t lie…

While Forrest was flying around and searching to see if he could find of anything that might be a clue, the Corona was walking forward in between the benches where the audience would be sitting at for their entertainment… not the coliseum, but a trail. It’s either you see it on TV or go see it live and see what embarrassing punishment the guilty receive.

The Corona was walking forward, looking left and right, looking in between the seats and looking on the floor, hoping to find some of value that would help him get his daughters back, even though that would be a stretch. As the Corona was doing this, Forrest was going over the seats as well and spotted the dead body before, the old lawyer that was killed by the Chinese. It was still there, slowly rotting away and started to give off a foul smell.

And Forrest happened to spot it and said to the Corona, with a bit of a loud tone since he was a bit too high, “Hey uhhh… a dead body is just laying there… is that important? Should we be worried? Should I be worried?”

When Forrest was asking the questions, he had a curious look on his face while giving a shrug, unsure as to what to make of all of this.

But the Corona however then responded back to Forrest while continuing to look forward and away from Forrest, “That guy? Oh who cares, I’m sure he was sleeping with my ex-wife… like the cunt she is…”

And after scanning the room enough, the corona finally noticed Steve Jones was still there and sitting on the witness stand, staring at him.

And once the Corona made eye contact with him, Steve Jones raised his hand and said to him, “Hi! How ya doin’? They call me Steve Jones, my friends call me by Sloppy Joe!”

Forrest at noticed once Joe talked and then descended down near the Corona while also looking forward as the Corona was.

The Corona, while not looking, noticed Forrest was near him and said to him, “Hey, did you know that Sloppy Joe guy was still here.”

Forest then said while looking at him from the side and the Corona also looking at Forrest at the side as well, “Yeah, I noticed him the second we got in here. I thought you saw him too.”

The Corona then said, “I-I didn’t see him at all. I didn’t see him until I got closer.”

Forrest then asked the Corona, “Well why not? Is there something wrong with you?”

The Corona then said, “Yeah… yeah there is. I need some glasses. I’ve been meaning to get some but uhh… I just don’t have the money for glasses. It’s why I’m not allowed to drive… legally at least… I-I don’t want to talk about it… ok? Le-Let’s just go…”

And so the Corona slightly went ahead first and went towards Sloppy Joe while Forrest slightly followed behind him.

Once they went up to Sloppy Joe and Forrest was hovering next to the Corona, Sloppy Joe said to the Corona with a dummy smile, “Hey guys, how’s it hanging. Doing anything tonight?”

The Corona and Forrest were both silent and just stared at Sloppy Joe with a neutral look at him.

Sloppy Joe then spoke up again despite no response from the two and asked them, with still giving a dummy smile no matter what, cause he was a puppet after all, “Cause I could like maybe… hang with you guys. I’m…I’m kind of lonely now…”

Sloppy Joe started to hang his head low and continued to say, “I’m really… really lonely… I have no friends…”

And then he went on to make some whimpering sounds while he was at it.

However the Corona didn’t care and then spoke in which case Sloppy Joe’s head shot right up and said to him, “Where the hell is everybody else? Last time I was here, there was a bunch of Taiwanese here or something. Where the fuck did they go?”

Sloppy Joe then said to him, “First off, Taiwan belongs to us, it’s our little bitch. And second, they left.”

The Corona then asked, “What do you mean they left?”

Sloppy Joe then said to the Corona, “When you left the building, we celebrated a little bit for rigging another court decision like usual, we hanged a bit, and then they got on their paper dragon and left… without me…. It’s like me when I pull out early…”

That last bit, Sloppy Joe hanged his head for a few seconds, but then shot his head back up again.

The Corona then asked him, “Well… where did they go then? Maybe it’s not too late, maybe I can catch up.”

Sloppy Joe then said to him, “Fat chance, they left to go and invade Taiwan again… cause you know… it’s their little bitch.”

The Corona then said, “Damn it! I was so close!”

Sloppy Joe then said to him, “Well since you’re here, do you want to meet my son, Cracker Jack?”

Without warning, and without their consent, Sloppy Joe pulled his left arm around to his back, moved it around a little bit near his puppet asshole, and then pulled it back out while holding a smaller puppet on his left hand that looked like a normal, American like puppet with a crack pipe in its mouth. It also looked like it was on a lot of drugs and Viagra.

Cracker Jack then said in a swindling type of voice without letting the Corona or Forrest respond with a comment first, “Heya their fellas. You wanna buy a crack pipe? How about some Chinese girls? They’re not legal… Or how about a fine painting done by yours truly… 500 each of course….”

As he was pointing out these things, Cracker Joke was moving his left arm towards his ass crack like a cartoon and pulling out the items as examples. First he pulled out a crack pipe, then a smaller puppet then him that looked like a Chinese Girl that didn’t move or anything, and then he pulled out a small painting as well that looked like total dog shit.

However this was not helping the Corona at all as he then said out loud, “Enough of this!”

He had moved up a little bit when he did say that while Forrest had a little bit of a worried look on his face and moved a bit backwards when he did it.

The Corona then exploded in both Sloppy Joe’s and Cracker Jack’s face and said, “I need to find those Chinese bastards now! Or the Judge! Or my wife, or anything! I just lost my two daughters for fuck’s sake! And right now, I don’t need your little old puppet ass try to fuck with me or your son trying to sell me shit that I can’t even afford!!... although just know that if I did have the money, I would take a crack pipe… I smoked some crack back in my college days.”

Cracker Jack then said to the Corona while making a stopping motion to him with his two little puppet arms, “Woah Woah Woah… cool it with the anti-Semitism there buddy…”

And then there was silence between the two of them and neither said anything to each other.

But then Cracker Jack quickly broke that and leaned in a little bit close to the Corona and asked him while raising his right eyebrow, “You know where I can get a laptop fixed at? I swear there is nothing illegal on it. And if you do accuse me that there is, I’ll make you commit suicide.”

The Corona then said to him, “First off, lower your voice. Second, this isn’t getting me anywhere.”

And so without another word, the Corona walked around where the judge sits at and went to look around under there. There was no words being said either, not even Forrest who just hovered in mid air, slightly above the ground awkwardly, and just waiting to see if the Corona will say anything to him. However the Corona went snooping if there was anything hidden under the judge’s chair or anything at all, anything that he could scourge up that will help him in his case to get his daughters back, even if it seemed like a fool’s dream to do so.

As the Corona was doing this, Forrest slowly flew forward to Cracker Jack with a smile and then asked him, “I might take a painting. I think it looks kind of neat.”

The Corona then said to Forrest while searching and not looking at him, “Don’t encourage him.”

The Corona continued to look and look, yet he couldn’t find anything. To the Corona, it seemed like he had hit a dead end and that it was all hopeless for him.

The Corona then mumbled to himself, “Uggh… isn’t there anything here?”

The Corona, out of frustration, gave up and looked up. And when he did, in silence, he looked towards the back of the room. And there, something caught his attention that he couldn’t quite put his finger on. He had noticed something was missing from the back of the court room, but the Corona couldn’t figure out what was gone. After a few seconds of thinking, it had finally hit the Corona’s head.

The Corona then asked out loud while staring into the back of the court room, “Hey, wasn’t there a guy there in the back… you know in a coat and everything?”

Forrest then gave a little shrug, not really paying attention to any of the details that was there before.

Sloppy Joe then said to the Corona while the Corona looked towards him, “The guy with the beard? You just missed him. He went out the back after you two had left. He said not to tell you that he went out the back or else he’ll kill me by ripping me in half while shoving my organs up my anus… fuck…”

The Corona then took a quick second to gather all of this new information into his mind while looking at Forrest as Forrest stared back and he immediately rushed to the back while telling Forrest kind of, “Quick, we might still catch him!”

As the Corona and Forrest rushed out the back to try and see if they couldn’t follow the mysterious guy who was there, Cracker Jack and Sloppy Joe were alone with one another.

Cracker Jack then looked up to Sloppy Joe with a loving puppet smile and said to him, “I love you papa…”

Sloppy Joe then gave a worried, yet confused look on his face and looked down at him while asking him, “Who are you again?”

And then Cracker Jack lowered his head down in sadness while making a small wimping sound of disappointment.

OUT IN THE BACK ALLEY OF THE COURTHOUSE…

Yeah, this court house was a little different to other courthouses… as this one had a back alley that was filthy like the 80’s. Once the Corona and Forrest made it to the back, the Corona kicked open the back door and went into the back alley. Like I said, it was dirty like the 80’s. There was garbage everywhere, with some smoke coming from somewhere like a dirty man hole or something.

There was some overfilled dumpsters on the side of the building, and as the Corona kicked open the door, a black cat jumped from off the dumpster and yelled a bit while scurrying away.

To top it all off, the sun was starting to set and the star gave off that warm orange glow when the day was about to end as it hit the alleyway a bit. As the Corona rushed out the back alley, he was looking around frantically while Forrest came outside more calmly.

Forrest then asked the Corona, “Who are we looking for?”

The Corona, not seeing anything or anyone, then got pissed off as he then kicked off a nearby metal tin garbage can as rats fled from it while making little rat noises as he said, “Damn it, I just missed my only lead! What am I going to do now?”

Forrest then hovered slowly behind the Corona and then asked nicely, “I know it may seem like a bad time for you and everything but uhhhh… do you think you can take me back home now. I think it’s getting kind of late and I shouldn’t be out after dark.”

He had said that while scratching the back of his head with his left hoof.

But the Corona wasn’t having any of it as he then snapped at Forrest and said to him, “Can’t you see I just lost my two daughters! Don’t be selfish and think about others for once! I just lost my only hope to get my kids back! And now… I might never see them again…”

As the Corona said that last part, he looked down in sadness and looked a little depressed. He then started to walk away out of the alley without another word.

As he was doing so, Forrest still asked the Corona, “Yeah but… can you take me home or what?”

However the Corona was in too deep with his thoughts and didn’t respond back to Forrest as he kept walking away from him.

Once the Corona was out of sight, Forrest then said to himself, “Uggghhh…. Ok then… I guess I’ll look around then… where am I even?”

As he was saying that right before he had finished, he started to fly away with his wings and out of the alley way while turning his head left and right while having a confused look on his face.

But somewhere on his face, he was trying to see this as a positive and see this as some kind of an adventure and that he can still have fun and put on a smile in this new world that he was put into against his own will.

MEANWHILE, THE CORONA…

The Corona was all by himself by this point, with no one else around him to look at him or to stop and ask what was wrong. He was simply somewhere in the city all by himself as the sun was slowly going down and was about to be put out by the night sky. The direction that the Corona was walking was with the buildings and alleyways to his left and the open ended street to his left.

As he was walking by himself, he hanged his head low and was sobbing quietly to himself, weeping that he wouldn’t see his two daughters, the fruit that came from his loin ever again.

As he was walking by himself, he was telling himself, “Keep it together man. Just keep it together. You-you just gotta… I mean… come on… they were going to have to leave the nests anyways… they were getting older. But… but it was too soon though. Dad-d-daddy isn’t going to be able to see you again… II just need a drink… just a little drink to keep the pain away from me… that’s all…”

as he was walking, time passed a little fast than he would have noticed as the sun was all but gone by this point and the night sky was taking in full right above him. As he was walking, the street lamps started to turn as the crickets started to sing their little songs in the far distance, even though they sounded like they were near him. And the Corona, he was still all by himself, not seeing another person or anything for that matter around him as he was walking the city in the night.

As the Corona was walking, the Corona put his head up a bit and started to get a weird feeling. A kind of feeling that you get when you are walking the city at night and you are all by yourself. That feeling that someone is watching you and is following behind you.

Perhaps a rapist or a mugger is following you. Or maybe one of them shadow people are tailing you, waiting to take your soul when you least expect it. Or maybe it’s your star crossed lover that is obsessed with you and will just end raping and mugging you at the same time… and steal your soul cause your star crossed lover is a shadow person… but it only did it out of love… awwww…

The Corona was starting to hear footsteps as well, as some nice fine shoes was clicking on the concrete sidewalk as it echoed into the night time air. And it all was coming from behind him and the Corona could sense it without having to look behind him. It felt like whoever or whatever was behind him was walking in sync with his movements, despite him just hovering in mid air, slightly off the ground of course.

But still, the Corona felt like someone was watching him from behind. Yet he was thinking in his mind that it was all in his head and that it’s his mind playing tricks on him, especially in his state of distress. But the Corona didn’t feel right, as if he had a sixth sense and it was going off. So, without warning, the Corona quickly turned and to catch whoever was following him in the act. But to his disappointment, nobody was there. There was nothing but an empty street with one of the street lights flickering on and off, almost about to go out and a city that was too lazy and cheap to replace it.

Without a word or a sound from the Corona, he simply turned back around and continued to head towards the bar for a nice drink. Although before he did, he seemed a little hesitant to keep going forward, but it was either that or stand there the entire night.

But the moment the Corona continued to push forward, a shadow emerged from a nearby building that had an alleyway connected to it. It was of course the mysterious man from the court house following him, and he was keeping his distance… for now… but for now the Corona made it to the bar…

AT THE CITY’S BAR…

So eventually the Corona made it to the bar without much of a fuss. Well, he was still down in the dumps, but he made it all in one piece and was ready to dull his sense with some organic drinks to slowly kill his liver and brain cells. When the Corona entered through the double doors of his local bar, the inside of the place was kind of clean compared to most bars.

It wasn’t any five star kind of a bar where they serve wine and expensive champagnes. It was like a bar that you would usually see, but if they had actually put in the effort to make the place look nice. They had some booths to one side with some decent looking high tables in the middle. They had a classy looking jukebox and clean bathrooms to do the dirty in it if you had a date with you.

You could do the stinky without worry about getting floor AIDS… or any other diseases… except for syphilis; you always get syphilis no matter what. And for the bar counter, it was glossed over with a nice kind of paint with the back shelves stocked with all kind of drinks. Sure you could get the usual beer that you can get at a 7/11, bottled or from tap, but you could always spend the extra dough and get some of the more finer drinks.

And in the background playing on the jukebox, some classy, chill piano music was playing to add to the atmosphere.

In the bar, there wasn’t but no more than a couple of people in the place, one of them being a familiar face to the Corona who he didn’t notice right off the bat. It was a slow night for the place, but the Corona stumbled on in with despair on his face, and a mouth ready to drink the pain away.

The first thing that the Corona did was head straight for the bar counter, pulled up a bar stool, and sat at the counter, waiting for the bartender who looked a bit rough with some hairy arms and an eye patch, along with some missing teeth and a bit of a disgusting looking beard on his chin. Other than that, he looked like the average Joe that you could imagine in your mind… that forgettable…yeah.

As the Corona took a seat at the bar top, the bartender said to the Corona with a gruff sounding voice in his throat, “What the hell are you doing in here!? I thought I told ya I wouldn’t serve you till’ you pay your tab!”

Then the Corona said in a way that seemed like he didn’t care anymore and just gave up on life, “Can you not do this now? Can’t you see I need something to numb the emotional pain? I just lost my daughters to my ex wife, I can’t do my job, I’m a washed up loser with nothing left, I even have to be put on a list for the rest of my life now. I’m not in the mood for this right now.”

The bartender then said as he was picking up a beer glass and drying it with a rag while shaking his head and making some small grunts, “Linda huh? Yeah, she is a nagging bitch just like how my wife is you poor fuck…”

Then the bartender stood there and rolled his eyes for a bit and hesitated while making some more grunts.

Eventually he finally put the beer glass down and from behind the counter, he grabbed a cold beer bottle of some kind with his right hand and put it in front of the Corona and said to him while giving a quick sigh, “Fuck me and my sympathy! Here! One round for your troubles. And then you get the fuck out of here. I don’t want to see you back here till you pay what you owe. I’m not a fucking charity. And may god help you.”

After he gave the Corona his one and only beer, he started to walk to the other side of the bar top.

As he was doing so, the Corona spoke up and said, “Thanks… I guess…”

Then the bartender said as he was walking away, “Don’t mention it.”

And then the Corona somehow without arms, picked it up and started to drink it through his mouth… or ehhhhhh… absorb it through his… corona like body… thingy… however you want to picture that in your head. Just take my word for it ok, the beer was going into him and his system somehow. And somehow he was tasting that liquor and having it engulf his liver…assuming he had one. I’m not sure if he even had intestines and other guts in his own body.

As he was drinking, on the other side of the bar near the jukebox, Komo was standing there all cool like, looking through the selection while having a bit of a disappointed look on his face. He had his bottle of cold beer sitting on top of the box as he was concentrating on the machine.

Komo said to himself as he was flipping through the songs, “Come on, come on… doesn’t this place have any good music to lighten up this graveyard?”

As Komo was flipping through the list, the Corona on the other end made a bit of a loud grunt loud enough for Komo to perk his ears up and to take notice. Komo got a bit of a curious look on his face and turned around to find the Corona. In which case, Komo then had a little smile form on his face, put his right hand in his pocket, and took his cold beer from the top of the jukebox and started to head over to the Corona. Komo walked all sly like and as he got close, he went ahead and pulled up a bar stool right next to the Corona, sliding on in without a mistake.

Once he took a seat, the Corona didn’t notice until Komo spoke up and he said to him, “Hey, didn’t expect to see you here. Why the long face?”

The Corona then said to him without even looking at him, “Oh… hey… it’s you…you’re that guy…what do you want?”

Then Komo said to him, “Oh nothing, just checking up on my old buddy of course. It’s been a while, where you’ve been?”

Komo then took a swig of his beer. The Corona then said to him, “We met earlier today, don’t you remember? It was like a few hours ago.”

Komo then said to him, “Oh my bad. Sometimes I have a tendency to mix some of the time up. I’ve been keeping real busy you know with my work.”

Komo moved his index finger around, adding his commentary with emotion with his gestures.

However the Corona couldn’t care less as he then just said, “Yeah well, at least your work is going good for you. I’ve lost everything that I’ve had.”

The Corona then took a sip of his beer. Komo then said to him, “Well that’s no reason to have a frown on your face there Corona.”

The Corona then, “That’s easy for you to say. You probably have it all made for you.”

Komo then said to him with a smile, “Well I wouldn’t say I have everything. For example my job involves me traveling a lot and I can’t seem to enjoy the finer things in life. At least you can just stay here in one place and try to focus on one thing and embrace it. Me… I have to keep on the move at all times.”

The Corona then asked him while taking a sip, “Oh yeah… why’s that?”

Komo then explained to him, “Well I don’t want to go into the details. But I have a lot of people to meet, a lot to see, a lot to do. It takes a lot of energy from me to do it you know. It’s quite tiresome actually.”

The Corona then looked at him and then said, “Well I wish it wasn’t like this for me. I just lost my two daughters to my bitch of an ex wife who I used to give my heart to years ago. And I lost my only lead that could have helped me get them back too. I don’t even know how it even happened to begin with. It seemed like the judge was going to pick me for my girls to stay with me, but then at the last second he changed his mind for whatever reason and picked my ex wife. I mean what the hell was that shit!”

Komo looked a bit interested in what he was saying so he then said to the Corona with a small smirk, “For some reason huh? Well, sounds like there is more to it than what you think.”

The Corona then said, “Do you think I don’t know that? I’m telling you… there is a conspiracy against me.”

Komo then said as his eyes glowed a bit with interest, “Oh yeah?”

The Corona then said to Komo, “I mean, there is a reason for all of this happening to me. And I think I know who is behind all of a this. A group perhaps even.”

Komo then said as he leaned in forwards towards the Corona “Oh yeah… who do you think it is?”

Komo seemed very interested as to what the Corona had to say. The Corona then said to him, “The ones behind all of this is simple really… it’s Linda… and she has started a secret underground group to make my life miserable.”

Komo then looked a little disappointed while keeping the sly smile while leaning back to his normal sitting position.

He then said to the Corona, “Oh well, I think that might be farfetched there Corona. I know your wife can be hard on you sometimes, but I think that you and I from our work experience it goes way deeper than her.”

Komo then took a sip from his beer. The Corona then said, “Why do you keep saying we worked together? I don’t even remember doing anything with you at all.”

Komo then said to him with some hope in his voice, “Come on Corona, don’t you remember who I am and what we did in Japan and elsewhere? We worked together, side by side.”

The Corona then said to him, “No, I don’t. In fact, I quite frankly don’t give a shit.”

Komo then said to the Corona, “Trust me, we did work together Corona. You just forgot and need to remember.”

Komo then took a final sip from his beer and got up from his seat.

As he was doing so, he said to the Corona “Excuse me, I’ve got to go take a leak if you know what I mean.”

He then gave a quick wink to the Corona and was then off to the bathroom.

As he was walking away, the Corona went back to looking forward and holding his beer and said out loud under his breath, “Hmmph… I didn’t forget… you did…”

BACK IN THE LATE 90’S IN JAPAN…

Yeah why not? Why not have a flash back, besides I think the Corona was having a flashback as well around this point somewhere deep within his unconscious mind, so just roll with it. I’m seeing it just like how you’re seeing it in your head. It’s all in your head. So what about the Corona and his little flash back? Well we’re taking it back… all the way back to the year 1995.

March 20^th 1995 that is sometime in the early morning in Tokyo, Japan.

Located somewhere in the middle of the city sat the U.S. Embassy. And somewhere in that building, probably on the third floor or something, Komo and the Corona were sitting right next to an office door in a waiting room, a waiting room that was empty other than a lonely intern who was paid to just sit there and shuffle some papers around all day.

The walls were white and dry and the floor was made out of a carpet with the color of puke green. And the Corona and Komo were both sitting in average plastic chairs, waiting to go into the office next to them. The Corona looked like his average self and Komo looked about the same as well in his usual outfit, but just a tad bit younger.

The Corona said to Komo, “What do you think he wants to talk about?”

Komo looked over to the Corona with a warm smile, “I don’t know, but he’s our new boss now. We worked hard for this you know? So calm down and just enjoy the moment that we’re in the big league now.”

Komo started to relax his legs and back a little bit as his ass slid down the chair a bit as he put his arms around the back of his head, smiling away, not worrying about a thing.

The Corona then looked towards Komo while leaning in a bit towards him, “Yeah but, I don’t you think this isn’t the tippy top though. We still have a ways to go, and it was damn near impossible to get here.”

Komo while shifting his eyes over to the Corona’s direction, “Just relax Corona. The hard part is over. We passed what so many others couldn’t do. And now all we have to do is do what the boss tells us to do and we’re riding big Corona.”

Komo then pointed his finger at the Corona and said to him, “And don’t forget, think of all the stories we get to tell to the ladies back home. The things that we will be able to see and tell them, we can score big time with this gig.”

The Corona then asked Komo, “Yeah but… didn’t we sign that we wouldn’t say a word of what we see or else we’ll get sent to prison?”

Komo then said to the Corona while lazily closing his eyes a bit, “Yeah, true… but they won’t know about it. It’s not like they’ve got microphones in our pockets or cameras everywhere where they are always listening in on our private conversations. And unless one of the chicks that we pick up happens to be a secret spy, there’s nothing to worry about.”

The Corona then said, “Yeah but…”

Komo cut the Corona off and said to him while sitting up and opening his eyes to him, “Relax buddy. Look at like this, if it isn’t the chicks that’ll get you to cool it, just know that we’re going to be making a difference in people’s lives. That we get to actually be part of something greater than ourselves and we can actually help others and bring peace and harmony to everyone around the world. Sure it might get a little rough now and then, but isn’t that a little price for the reward of a good time?”

As Komo was talking, he began to hunch over a little bit while keeping a smile towards the Corona and trying to give him the look to just relax. And as soon as Komo’s little talk was over, the door right next to them opened up. A guy slightly walked out of the them. He was for the most part had a little bit of hair on the sides and back. He wore black rimmed glasses and wore an average grey suit and tie like an important business man.

He said to them, “Sirs, please take a step into my office.”

And then the guy walked back in as Komo and the Corona got up from their seats and headed inside the office.

The Corona was the last to go in so he closed the door behind them as the guy said to the both of them, “Take a seat gentlemen.”

Komo then said as the Corona was taking his seat along with himself, “It is a pleasure to meat you Mr…”

The guy cut him off and he said, “It’s Hopkins. And no need for the formalities. You two have earned it.”

Hopkins started to shift through some papers on his desk as silence filled the air. The two pals remained silent, waiting for their new boss to speak to them.

Hopkins then said with an awkward smile on his face, “Seems here you two passed our tests… congratulations… you two are “special.”

The Corona then said, “Why thank you. My mother always said I was special.”

Hopkins then gave a little bit of a chuckle in his voice.

Hopkins then said to the two of them, “Don’t flatter yourselves too much. Of course none of us are special. We’re just living on this planet… day by day… living life. But… you two are ‘special’ though. You see you two passed all of our tests that only a fraction who enter our program ever get to even see. Hell, most of them don’t even past the standard school part where all you have to do is study and write essays. And that within itself is well… a great accomplishment. You two along with nineteen others are the only ones who got approved for this job. And the jobs we give you are going to be important ones. The ones that the likes of you two can actually handle compared to the majority of the population. So… you are special, special in our point of view. That’s why we chose you.”

He had said it all with such enthusiasm almost as if he was a door to door salesman.

Komo then spoke up with an ego smile on his face, “Well both me and Corona here knows it was good without having you tell us that. Especially considering it was because it was the both of us, we both worked as a team.”

Hopkins then said to them as he looked directly into their eyes, “We know. That’s why the agency is putting you two together from now on for the jobs that we give you.”

He had a smile on his face, as he was proud to announce the news to the both of them. The Corona looked like he was happy… somehow… as he then looked towards Komo and looked like he was trying to give his best friend a high five. Komo of course, while looking giddy, gave him a high five back as well all with the slapping noise even though it looked like he was slapping just air.

Hopkins though sort of ruined their little celebration as he said with a selling smile, “Congrats you two… your first assignment is gassing people on the metro right here in Tokyo!”

The Corona and Komo then stopped in the middle of their little celebration and quickly turned to Hopkins with horrified looks on their faces as the Corona said to him, “Wait what?”

Hopkins then said to the two bluntly, “That’s your first job. Dress up as the Aum Shinrikyo cult and go gas some people on a train.”

Komo then said as he leaned in a little bit while moving his left arm around a bit, looking confused, “But we thought we signed up to help others, to help the United States, to… help the world?”

Hopkins then said, “You are. This is helping others.”

The Corona then said to him, “But how could this be even helping others? I mean, unless you mean… giving them gas…?”

The Corona then looked towards Komo and asked him, “He-he means giving right? Like just farting on them or giving them gas for their cars.”

Komo just looked irritated by the Corona and simply ignored him and looked back towards Hopkins as put his hands on his desk as he leaned forward and asked him, “This has to be some kind of mistake. We didn’t sign up to do any of the sort. If this is what we’re going to be doing, then we quit.”

Komo was determined to be the top dog in this conversation, and that he felt like he was going to get his way.

However, Hopkins only had a gloom look on his face. Not that he was sad as to what his job was or angered by Komo’s comments, he just looked annoyed that he had to have this conversation again with someone else. It wouldn’t be the first time this happened. Hopkins then took off his glasses and gave out a long sigh while rubbing his eyes a bit. He then put his gasses back on, stood up, and walked over to the window for dramatic effect… or maybe he worried about his car or something, who knows.

Hopkins then said in a calmly manner to the two, “Do you two know about Jonestown?”

Komo said, “Yes,” while the Corona said, “Uh huh.”

Hopkins then continued to say, “That was us… this agency, the FBI, the CIA, everything that we are connected to… everyone here was behind that little experiment.”

Komo then questioned, “Experiments, the hell do you mean by that?”

Hopkins then said to him as he looked at him, “Let me speak.”

He then looked back out the window as he said, “Jonestown wasn’t just some crazy cult that went crazy and drunk the Kool-aid. It was a little bit more than that. How should I put this? To begin with, Jones was one of us, a CIA asset. He was a little crazy, but we made a deal with him and worked together for at least several years before the experiment. We traded another dead body when they were doing autopsies. It was a great use for the MK Ultra program that the CIA was researching. Gave us a lot of insight into the mind of a human being and what made them tick and how we could use it to our advantages, as well the higher up’s goals. It was also a great excuse to get rid of certain people that was a pain in our asses. Leo Ryan wanted to reveal CIA operations; he didn’t feel right what the CIA was doing. So they had to correct him by sending him there and kill him. He almost escaped but they tied that loose end.

‘We also needed to get rid of George Moscone and Jeannie Mills. Especially Jeannie since she knew too much… too bad her family had to go with her. And then there was Mark Lane. famous for defending that shooter who killed MLK; was even looking into the JFK assassination. We couldn’t have him snooping around about what happened that day so we convinced him to talk kindly about the town, just so we can end up making him look like a fool to the rest of world to discredit him and make him look like a nut case. Hell, it was even a good excuse to train freedom fighters in the region to do some of the dirty work over there, and if things went south with that, we wouldn’t take the blame.

‘It wasn’t easy though, Richard Dwyer was a pain in our asses, trying to work with him. But it was worth it all in the end when we gave the rest of the community the poison. Some of them were dumb enough to drink the Kool-aid cause they thought it was the only way to be free… bunch of fucking dumbasses. Course some were smart enough to not do it, more credit than what we gave them, but we couldn’t let them leave so we just either forced it down their fucking throats or shot them. And the kids… I’ve heard their screams in the recordings as the poison burned their insides, crying out in pain as they suffered, it was like a sweet tune to our ears.”

The Corona and Komo were both left shocked and almost speechless as to what they were hearing, especially Komo, he couldn’t believe what he was being told.

Although he tried to keep it together and keep a constant posture and look on his face as he looked towards Hopkins and said, “Why? Why would you even do it to begin with?”

Hopkins looked over, curious as to what Komo’s words were saying.

So he then walked a bit towards him and looked down on him as he said to him, “Why? Because we did it for the greater good. It’s our job as the government to help. It isn’t even just me. There are others way above my pay grade that gives these orders, others that are way beyond your understanding.”

The Corona then asked, “You mean aliens?”

Hopkins then said as he looked at the Corona annoyed, “No you dipshit, other human beings.”

He then looked back to Komo and said, “It’s other people who pull the strings and their ideas. And they want to help us much as me or anyone else here in this place. This isn’t about you. This isn’t about me. This is about for the good of all of humanity.”

Komo then looked dead in the eyes and asked him, “What possible help could come from something like that? That’s not helping humanity, that mutilating humanity!”

Hopkins then said with a stern look on his face, “It’s about protecting. Protecting people.”

Komo then asked, “From who?”

Hopkins calmly with a little growl from his voice, “From themselves.”

And then there was silence between the two, an awkward silence as Komo looked angered, yet couldn’t find the words to speak up.

So the Corona felt like he needed to break the silence as he then said, “Well, we best be going here and…”

Hopkins said to him without looking at him, “Shut up!”

There was another few seconds of silence as he looked deeply into Komo’s eyes and asked him, “Now, you two have a job to do. You signed up for it, and we’re counting on you two to make things right for this world. Are you still going to work with us, or are we going to have a problem?”

And then Komo just stared back at him in silence, not showing any signs of weakness towards him. The air was getting a little intense, as Hopkins waited for his answer.

A FEW MINUTES LATERS…

And then the two walked out of the embassy and out on to the Tokyo streets. They were done with their meeting as they both looked a little bit on edge. They were walking down the streets of Tokyo, walking past some Asians who were going about their busy Asian day, doing Asian like things, like eating rice at some point, you know they always do.

As the two were walking, the Corona said to Komo, “Well I think it went very well in there!”

Komo who was looking worried and a little afraid said to him, “Are you kidding me Corona? Did you not hear what he said in there just a moment ago?”

The Corona then said to him, “I did, but… come on… it isn’t all that bad.”

Komo then looked at the Corona with angry eyes as he said to him, “This is wrong! We shouldn’t even be doing this! We should have just got up and left and let someone do their dirty work for them! I don’t even know why I even said yes after all of that talk.”

Komo started to hang his head in shame as the Corona said to him, “Maybe it’s because they would slit our throats open in our sleep so we wouldn’t talk about it to the press?”

Komo raised his head up with a doom and gloom look on his face as he said, “I think I’m more afraid of what we’re going to do than them threatening my life Corona. This isn’t right; we shouldn’t have to do this. How the hell can he even stand there with a straight face and tell me this is helping! Oh god this is all fucked… and I’m not even sure what to do other than to go on.”

The Corona then said to him as he leaned towards him while walking a bit and giving him a little nudge with his… arm…, “Oh come on… cheer up there buddy! Look on the bright side, there’ll be less people in the world… more food for us at the store… less waiting in lines at theme parks… a lot of empty seats at the theatre. A-And besides… so what if we have to… uhh… gas some people and… take their lives away from them and from their families… he he… people die every day. So what’s the difference? I mean, we’re just sending uh… God more angels and helping him along with his plan… if you want to uh… go there… you’re religious right?”

The Corona looked at him while asking that question, as Komo lowered his head down a bit as he said while looking dead straight, “I don’t think God would smile down upon us for what we’re doing. I think by the time that we die, our souls won’t be worth saving and we’ll be living in eternal damnation with all of our sins.”

The Corona then went on to say, “Maybe we should switch to Islam. Then we can pretend they are infidels and we are doing it in God’s name. Or maybe change to that Jedi religion cause there is no God there. Or maybe even make our own religion and that way God doesn’t have dibs on us!”

Komo then said to him with a cynical tone in his voice, “Just shut up Corona. Now what did the boss say again?”

The Corona then said to him, “He said that our stuff is going to be in an alley by the entrance to the Tokyo Metro. We’ll dress up like the Supreme Truth; carry the Sarin that are in bags that we then poke with a stick that then releases the gas. And in case we need it, we have gas masks. And then as soon as we can, make a run for it, change our clothes, and deny that any of this happened. And if we do get caught, they will let us hang out to dry and will probably be raped in a prison somewhere. Also there is 8 other people doing this… I wonder who our co workers are? I bet one of them has a wife that will be willing to invite us over for dinner one night. Maybe we can even have a cook out to get to know each other.”

Komo then gave a sigh and said to him, “Let’s… Let’s just focus on the task and get this over with.”

And so the two continued to walk on until they got near the entrance of the underground Tokyo Metro, and spotted a nearby ally to their left. Once they did, they both stopped in their tracks and both gave looks of misfortune to each other.

The Corona asked, “Well… uh… are you ready then… buddy?”

Komo then said as he looked towards his destiny in the alleyway, “Ready as I’ll ever be.”

And so the two without a single word from them for the rest of the job, walked to the alley way. It was filthy with trash lying everywhere, but luckily no witnesses to see what they were doing. They then looked towards the nearby green dumpster, looked behind it, and saw the black duffle bag. In it lied their disguise, a couple of gas masks, and two bags with the gas so all they had to do with poke it with a stick to release it, along with the stick to poke a hole in it of course.

So they changed their clothes, put it behind the dumpster for now, and put on a white shirt and pants that they looked more like they were from the cult. And yes, even the Corona dressed up in this as well... somehow cause he was literally a corona virus, how the fuck does that even work?

And then the two were set, they grabbed the bags filled with Sarin with Komo carrying the pointy stick and the Corona carrying the two gas masks in the duffle bag, and headed towards the Tokyo Metro, and it was during rush hour so it was going to be like chickens to the slaughter house. They both went down the steps and deep into underground; both keeping their cool and keeping their eyes forward, not making any suspicious movements.

They were just two people going about their day as the others. They entered through the station, went past the security with no complications all the while the two of them were keeping a steady heart rate, breathing in and out as they needed to.

They walked by all the other people, as they looked at them, thinking some of them are going to die, but there was nothing they could do about it. They had jobs to do, and one way or another, some people were gonna die motha fucka. Eventually the two made it to the platform and stood behind some people who were waiting for the next train. As the two stood there many things were going through their heads.

For the Corona, he was keeping it cool and thinking of other things like what he was going to eat later that night and how much would it be to pay for an escort for that night… and will the condom break? For Komo, even though he looked calm, on the inside, he was having second thoughts. A part of him felt like he could just drop everything and run away; change his name and hide, walking away from all of this.

But another part of him knew that he can’t. He was already too deep, he couldn’t walk away; he had to do what he had to do, even if it was something that he didn’t want to do. Perhaps that Hopkins was right, maybe this was all for the better of mankind.

He was trying to rationalize it all in his head, thinking that maybe everything will be ok, and that this is for their own good… somehow… Hopkins did say to him later after scolding him in his office about how this is all to put the scare into people’s hearts and put the Aum Shinrikyo on the map for dangers to avoid. This was all part of the plan to help people. It was the right thing to do in his mind. The train eventually made its way and came to a complete stop. From there everyone who got off, got off, and everyone who got on got on. The two weren’t the first to get on, but not the last either.

They blended in with the crowd, nothing unusual. Eventually they made their way into the middle of the train car and stood up, not taking a seat as the Corona placed the duffle bag down on the ground. Everyone else just either took a seat or stood up. And then the train went into motion and started to run forward as the two stood there, looking at all those were going to probably die in front of their eyes.

Even the Corona was starting to look a little worried for the poor souls, but they both looked at each other, both gave a nod to each other, placed the bags on the ground. Komo then used the stick that he was carrying and poked a hole in both bags, letting the gas of Sarin rush on out of the bags. And from there it was all over for the people on the train. Some couldn’t breathe, some started to scream in fear and runaway. Some didn’t even know what the hell was even happening to them. It happened all so fast.

And as for Komo and the Corona, they opened up the duffle bag quickly, put their gas masks on and tried to get out of anyone else’s sight till they could find a place to get off and make a run for it.

As for the poor souls on the train, fourteen had died, fifty severally injured, and about a thousand more affected by the gas.

But in the end the deed was done, and the only take away from this is… the one who smelt it dealt it.

BACK IN THE PRESENT DAY…

Alright so back to where the Corona was drinking away on his only beer at the bar as Komo was taking a leak. the Corona just sat there as he was chugging on his only beer as he held his head back a bit, and as soon as he stopped feeling the liquid hit his lips, he looked deep into the bottle, shook it a little to get the last drop out.

And when he saw nothing was coming out of it, he then placed the empty bottle down on the bar counter and said to himself, “Oh well…”

The Corona got off of the bar stool and left the bar after wards, all the while Komo was still in the bathroom and not letting him know without a care. After the Corona left, he headed straight back to his shitty apartment place as the night took hold of the sky.

LATER AT HIS APARTMENT…

The Corona walked the streets at night, all alone and with no one else in sight. It was only him and him only. And to him, it was sad. He was hanging his head down in shame and walking at a slow pace, giving a slow with a slight sigh to himself every few minutes or so as he inflicted self pity on to himself. He couldn’t help but feel alone as he didn’t have is daughters with him walking back with him or the feeling of getting to see his daughters when he got back inside.

He was going to arrive at an empty nest from here on out. Eventually the Corona made it to his crappy apartment building with no one else around. Everyone living in the place was probably asleep or up for some dirty late night sex and the like. The Corona climbed the stairs and past all the crummy little doors and mold filled walls. It looked like the place should be condemned. The Corona got up to his floor which was the third floor and went over to his room 331.

As he went to his door, he noticed a little note taped on the front door along with a big red sign as well saying that he was going to be evicted soon within twenty four hours if he didn’t pay up the money soon. All along with a little note from the landlord stating to the Corona:

Dear Corona,

I know that I owed you that favor before from when you helped me with that little side business with the drugs and stuff. And while I am grateful for your assistance, I can’t keep doing this anymore. I’m running low on money, the other tenants aren’t paying their bills and honestly it’s hard to make ends meet now. And you’re kind of dead weight to my establishment so I’m going to have to let you go. I’ll give you a chance to pay what you owe by the day after tomorrow, but after that, I’m kicking you out so someone else can move in and give me the money. Sorry it had to be this way Corona. But look on the bright side; at least you’ve got family with ya to be by your side in your time of need, that’s always worth something.

Sincerely, your shady former business partner John Doe

P.S. don’t go snitching to no fucking pigs about what we did or my real name. Remember, Snitches are Bitches that get Stitches.

The Corona just stood there as he grumbled to himself under his breath as he said, “Son of a fucking bitch. He promised me he got my back that fucking liar.”

And so the Corona… somehow from somewhere, grabbed out the keys from his back, unlocked the door and turned the lights on to his apartment. And it was as dirty as he had left it, along with not seeing his daughters to fill up the empty space. He then put the eviction notice on the dirty kitchen counter next to him by the entrance and closed and locked the door behind him.

He then went to the kitchen area, reached for the top cabinet, and took a bottle of aspirin. He then twisted the cap, opened the small, overpriced container, and tried to shake a couple of pills out. But nothing came out, so the Corona looked inside real quick, and saw the entire bottle of aspirin was empty.

So he threw the empty bottle down to the ground as he was irked by this as he said to himself quietly while groaning a little bit, “Damn it…”

He then walked over to the TV that was in the front living room that was old and still had antennas attached to the top of it and was from like twenty five years ago, turned the dial to turn the TV on, and turned it to whatever static filled station that looked decent enough to put on as background noise and that he could make out.

He had turned it some kind of low budget game show, with the audio only being mono and the picture being really crappy. The Corona then went over to the nearby door, turned off the lights, and then across the room again to a little side table that was over by the windows, right next to the pull out couch bed that used to be his daughter’s bed.

And on that table had some poorly framed pictures of him and his two daughters from better days along with a nearby lamp that the Corona turned on so he could see better. The lamp gave off a warm, orange glow, that kind of glow that made you feel a little safe and warm in the middle of the night.

And the Corona just went there and stared at the pictures, looking at it and staring at it, reminiscing about the memories that he had with his two daughters when they used to be happy and when they were all a family together. The Corona gave a slight sigh as he looked sad and was about to cry a bit as he missed them very much.

But as the Corona was busy having his head in the clouds about memories past, he wasn’t alone as someone was with him in the apartment. A tall shadow appeared behind the Corona, without him even knowing. It was standing in the kitchen, just standing there, tall and menacingly.

The shadow then started to walk towards the Corona’s back. And slowly and into the light it came, it was the mysterious man with the light brown duster coat and detective hat from the court room. And he wasn’t looking too pleasing as he looked angry. He silently walked up and stopped behind the Corona. From there, he raised both of his arms up, with revealing that his right arm was a metal, prosthetic arm like a robotic cyborg.

And then without a second notice, the mysterious man came down with sheer full force with his arms, pounding and breaking the side table in half, missing the Corona by a mere few inches as the Corona stumbled back in surprise as to what was happening.

The Corona wasn’t sure what to make of this as it happened all of a sudden as he said out loud, “What the fuck!?”

The mysterious man saw that he missed, so he gritted his death and was determined not to miss again. So he darted his eyes towards the Corona with a fiery look in his eyes as he then raised his right arm and aimed it straight to the Corona’s face.

But once again, the Corona swiftly dodged it to the right and moved towards where the TV was at. The mysterious man however instead hit the walls and made a hole in it as asbestos came pouring out of it. So the mysterious man turned his attention back to the Corona quickly and was pissed that he was missing him with what should have been an easy target for him.

The Corona then said as he was backing up very slowly and was nervous as all hell to talk to him, “Ah! Who are you!? Don’t come near me! I’ll infect you, I’m serious this time, I swear!”

However the mysterious man didn’t care for a response as he then immediately went for the Corona. But once again, the Corona was too quick for him as he then swiftly moved to the couch and jumped on to its soft cushions. The mysterious man instead broke the TV screen into pieces with his right metal arm.

So he then looked to the Corona over to the couch and swiftly made his way over in that direction. The Corona jumped, but not before the mysterious man took another swing towards him. But the Corona was able to dodge his attack as the mysterious man broke the couch in half just like he did to the side table. The Corona then made his way to the door to exit the apartment, but before he did, he froze in place as he was trying to open the door as the mysterious man came closer to him.

The Corona then said nervously, “Ah! What do you want!? Is it money? Because if it is, I don’t have it! My wife took most of it in the divorce, go get her instead! Ah!”

The mysterious ma didn’t care as he just kept coming for him. So the Corona bolted out the door as fast as he could and the mysterious man followed suit. As he was doing so, the Corona made it into the dirty hallway and was trying to head for the stairs and out the building, but he was stopped as he saw Forrest was coming his way.

Forrest was calm and didn’t see anything wrong with what was happening. He was using his Pegasus wings and flying through the hallway, he didn’t want to touch the dirty floor of the place. He was kind of like that sometimes. Not that he was germaphobic, but he wanted to keep some clean hooves though from time to time.

So Forrest with a small smile on his face as soon as he saw the Corona went towards him immediately, as the Corona was then forced to stand in one place because Forrest was blocking the way. For the mysterious man, he didn’t care about the magical, talking, Technicolor pony that was right in front of him; he was just wanting the Corona.

So the mysterious man got near the Corona and just kept swinging at the Corona, trying to hit him and knock him out real good, while the Corona was looking at his movements and trying to dodge his attacks. Meanwhile, he tried to talk to Forrest.

Forrest said to him as he then landed down on all four hooves of his as soon as he close to the Corona and looked a bit confused, “Hey, there you are. I’ve been looking everywhere for you!”

The Corona then said to him as he was desperately trying to dodge the mysterious man’s right metal filled arm, jumping and ducking, “I’m kind of in the middle of something here!”

Forrest then said to him with a straight forward face, “Oh? Did I catch you at a bad time?”

The mysterious man said as he was making holes in the wall with his right arm while constantly missing the Corona, “Hold still!”

But of course the Corona wasn’t and was trying to leave. So Forrest said to the Corona, “Oh well sorry to bother you, but I’ve been looking all day to get back home or how I even got here. And I would really appreciate it if you can help me get back home to Stalia to me and my friends. I’m sure they are worried about me… I hope.”

We weren’t.

So the Corona said to him, “Can’t you figure that part out yourself!?”

Forrest then said to the Corona, “Yeah… but I tried everything. I tried flying into a wall and into one of those metal moving thingies that are constantly everywhere. I even tried a wardrobe and it only took me to some snowy place with a weird goat like creature who asked me if I wanted some crack. So I think only you can help me now.”

Then the Corona didn’t say anything as he was trying to think while still dodging the mysterious man’s advances towards him.

After a few seconds of thinking, the Corona said out loud, “Wait, I’ve got it! I know how I can get you back home.”

Forrest then said to the Corona with a bit of glee on his face, “You do?”

The Corona then said to him, “Yeah, just hold still for a minute!”

The Corona then dodged his last attack from the mysterious man, quickly went to the right side of Forrest’s torso and grabbed a hold of him.

He then yelled out loud as the mysterious man was a bit confused by what he was trying to do, “Follow my lead!”

Forrest looked worried as to what he was trying to do with him, but he rolled with it as the Corona started pushing him straight forward as he started to run ahead. The mysterious man then stepped to the side to see what was happening and the two ran straight for the end of the hallway, which had a decent sized window that the Corona was aiming to jump out of.

The Corona then said out loud, “Get ready to jump!”

The Corona then quickly hoped on to Forrest’s back, minding his wings, as Forrest then jumped through the window and broke through the glass. Thankfully it didn’t hurt Forrest, well at least to Forrest that is, and Forrest was jumping through the third story glass window of the apartment building and to the outside world.

The Corona then yelled out loud, “Fly you fool!”

However, the Corona lost his grip on Forrest’s back torso and fell to the ground. But luckily for Forrest, he started to flap his wings and the second he did, a portal opened up right in front of him that lead back to his own universe.

And as he saw that, he smiled with joy and yelled out loud to the Corona before he left the universe, “Oh cool, thank you!”

And then as soon as Forrest was through and back to his universe, the portal closed behind him, leaving the Corona alone once more to face the mysterious man.

As the Corona was falling in mid air, he saw the portal open up and he said to himself, “Huh, didn’t expect that…”

However since it was only merely the third floor of the building, as soon as he hit the ground, he did a little rolling and landed without much of an issues or a scratch as he landed in the parking lot. The Corona however hesitated, thinking he might have died or something, but he looked at himself and looked around and saw that he was perfectly fine. This filed him with glee and excitement as he had never really done something like this before.

So with finding out that he was still alive, he was jumping up and down with joy for a little bit. As for the mysterious man, he was looking through the broken window very disgruntled, and the window was a bit too small for him to simply fit through unlike Forrest and the Corona who was about the perfect size for it.

And the Corona saw this as he then looked up at him from the ground and started to tease and mock him by saying to him, “Ha ha! … Hey… he he! I’m all the way down here! And you are all the way up there! What are you going to do about it huh!? You can’t get me you big fucking dumb looking son of a…”

The Corona was cut off as the mysterious man quickly backed up from the window a bit, and then ran and broke through the whole damn wall like the brute that he was and landed on the ground right in front of the Corona with a big thud, making some cracks on the pavement.

As soon as he landed, he looked directly at the Corona, ready to finish the job. The Corona started to back up slowly as he started to get nervous again.

The mysterious man started to slowly walk towards him as the Corona then said to him in a nervous tone of voice, “Woah woah woah…. Uhhhh… ok then… let’s talk about this ok? I didn’t think you’re actually that dumb…”

The mysterious man then said in his gruff and scruff voice, “You’re coming with me.”

In what felt like in the far distance, but not too far, the sound of a very powerful car engine could be heard, but neither of them noticed.

The Corona then said, “Stay back… I know how to conjure up Ike Turner.”

Then the mysterious man’s right metal arm started to extend and form a new shape and started to form some kind of a big electric taser like some weird robotic, cyborg Swiss army knife. The Corona saw this and got nervous and was scared for his life. And then without warning, a cool, red sports car came from out of nowhere, drifting and making a one hundred and eighty degree turn, knocking down the mysterious man to the ground on his back.

The Corona saw this and said to himself, “Wow, didn’t think I had it in me…”

The Corona spotted the driver of the car as he squinted a little bit and said to the driver, “Who the hell are you?”

The driver then lowered down the window and revealed himself to the Corona and it was none other than Komo himself. He had a very serious yet pissed off look on his face towards the Corona.

He then yelled out to him, “Get in Corona!”

The Corona then said to him, “Wait, you again!? Are you stalking me or something? Cause I don’t swing that way…”

Komo then interrupted him as he said, “Get in now!”

The Corona then said as he was rushing to the other side of the car, “Ok ok ok…”

The Corona then quickly got into the shotgun seat, closed the door, and put his seat belt on like a responsible citizen. And as soon as he was in, Komo put it in drive and tried to take off… but he couldn’t as something was holding them back.

As Komo pushed the gas pedal down all the way, they weren’t moving and there was a screeching sound coming from the back of the tires. So Komo looked into the rearview mirror and saw that the mysterious man was back up quickly and was holding on the to the bumper of the car and holding his position, not letting them go.

Komo then said to himself with an angered look, “Damn it! Hold on tight Corona!”

The Corona then asked Komo, “Why? What are you going to…”

Komo without hesitation pressed a button down near the stick shift that was big and red. And he pushed it like there was no tomorrow that then triggered a little bit of nitro on the back that then caught the mysterious man off guard as it burned part of his clothing.

The mysterious man saw this and groaned loud a bit as he had no other choice but to let go to put out the fire on his legs. And as soon as he let go, the car went flying forward and Komo made a quick turn with the wheel and turned to the other direction. But the mysterious man wasn’t letting them go that easily.

As soon as he put out the fire, he sprinted and followed the trail of the car down the empty streets of the city. With Komo and the Corona, Komo turned on some metal tunes on to get in the mood and get the heart pumping.

As Komo was taking turns left and right and fast down the streets, the Corona asked Komo, “Who was that guy!? And why was he after me!? And how did you know where to find me!?”

Komo, as he was looking in his review mirror, said to him, “I’ll explain that part later Corona. Right now he’s still on our tail.”

The chase went on for a while, like it was out of some big budget action movie and that there was going to be several explosions every second.

As Komo was trying to shake off the mysterious man from their behind, Komo said out loud, “Damn it, I can’t shake this son of a bitch!”

Komo then looked towards his left and saw an empty park with no one else around.

He then got an idea quickly as he then said to the Corona, “Hold on Corona, we’re taking a detour!”

And so Komo turned a sharp left, through some bushes and avoiding some trees and started to drive to the park. This put off the mysterious man a little bit, but only off by a few seconds as he then made a detour for the park also.

As the two was running past the park benches and swings and water fountains, the Corona then asked him, “Are you fucking nuts!? We’re going to get in so much trouble for this!”

Komo then said, “Just shut up and let me do the driving Corona.”

And drove he did, as he went swiftly and easily without much of a scratch through the park, with the mysterious man somewhat falling behind him. Soon, without realizing, the Corona noticed someone out there in the middle of the night out in the park, digging up something in the dark. And as they got close quickly to the figure, it turned out it was the judge from the court house that ruled against him.

The Corona saw this and said as he rolled down his window as they were passing him by, “Oh hey it’s the judge from my court hearing… HOW YA DOING JUDGE!?”

And that was it from him as the judge looked scared and confused. The little meet and greet went by so fast the judge didn’t even notice as it felt like it was a voice in his head saying that to him.

He turned around quickly as he then said, “Who’s there!? Was it from a ghost from my past… trying to hunt me for my sins and what I have done?! I said I was sorry!”

He started to cry a little bit, but he then turned back around and finished digging up a little shoe box that he had buried there previously years ago. Once he did, it was a little brown shoe box with some holes poked in it as he then opened it up with tears flowing down from his face. As he did, he dug up his old, terrible secret from his past that got him to rig in favor of the Corona’s ex wife. The judge had a dead Tamagotchi pet.

The judge said quietly to himself, “No one must never know the terrible truth… that I forgot to feed you and that you starved to death back in the Nineties! If anyone found out, I would have to resign from my position…”

And then the little virtual pet that was a rabbit from the machine woke up and said with a little smile and held up a middle finger to him and said, “Fucka you! You killed me! Yay!”

The judge then said out loud, “Stop haunting me! I tried to save you damn it! It wasn’t my fault!”

And then the mysterious man came running as fast as he could with his robotic legs and punched him out cold, almost killing him with his right metal arm.

Anyways, back to the other two.

Komo eventually made it out of the park and back onto the streets.

And as he went forward, he looked in the rearview mirror with a slight smirk on his face as he said, “Lost him…”

Until he popped back up from behind the bushes and was still hot on their tail.

With this, Komo was pissed as he then said with an annoyed look, “Damn it! He’s too fast.”

Thankfully, Komo spotted that they were passing by a nearby gas station around the block.

Komo saw this and had his smirk return while saying, “I’ve got an idea to slow him down.”

He then made a sharp left again and into the gas station, which he then started doing circles around the pumps.

From there, the mysterious man was dumb enough to still follow the car in a circle, and once Komo saw this, he then said to the Corona, “Corona check the glove box for my gun.”

The Corona then said out loud, “What are you talking about, we need to… oh cool, look there’s a gun in the glove box.”

The Corona went ahead and opened the glove box and found a standard hand gun with some ammo in it. From there, he looked at Komo while showing the gun to him.

Komo then said to the Corona, “Alright, when I say to, aim and shoot at the gas tank by the pumps as much as you can.”

The Corona then asked him, “How many times?”

Komo then said with a smirk, “You’ll know when.”

And then Komo then stopped making circles around the gas pumps and headed for the exit of the gas station.

From there as soon as they were clear, Komo yelled out to the corona, “Do it now!”

And then the Corona, rolling back his window down quickly, leaned outward a bit, aimed at the white gas tanks by the gas pumps, and started shooting like crazy. And without much of an issue, and much practice, the Corona was able to shoot enough bullets to cause a leakage of gasoline all over the place that then triggered a big explosion, that then caused the mysterious man to be pushed back by the sheer force of the explosion and knocking him out cold.

As soon as the Corona did this, he got back in to the car, rolled up his window and said to him, “Huh… didn’t know I could shoot a gun.”

Komo didn’t say another word as they kept on driving into the distance, getting far, far away from the mysterious man. However, the mysterious man was a little hard to put down as he then slowly, but painfully got up.

He knew he had lost his target as he then put two fingers up to his right ear and spoke into an ear piece and said, “Yeah… it’s me… Yeah I found him. I was chasing him and… almost had him. I know I know… I… but… understood. I’ll be coming back to base then.”

And then he got off the phone to his superiors as he then said to himself quietly, “Run as much as you like Corona. But your fate will catch up to you. The ones that are in power will have you one way or another… run while you can… I’ll find you eventually you bastard…”

And then the mysterious man started to walk away. As for the other two, Komo started to slow down his and speed and as soon as he felt the two of them were safe, he took a route to the nearby woods and followed a dirt path to a secure place that he knew, far from the prying eyes of the city and cameras and such.

As soon as he got to a secluded spot out in the middle of the woods in the middle of the night and came to a complete stop, Komo put it in park and the Corona said to him, “Well then. That was a ride for sure. Not many can say they been through an experience like that. Well I best get going and…”

Komo cut him and said to him, “shut up! And stay in your seat… we’ve got business to discuss.”

He wasn’t looking happy and looked rather tired. The Corona, already have to deal with the mysterious man, said with a nervous tone in his voice, “What uh… what kind of business are we talking about here?”

Komo slowly looked towards the Corona as he then said to him, “I’ve been looking for you up and down the city, let alone this entire damn country just to find you. You were hard to find, that’s for sure, and they certainly put an alibi on you. But I was able to find you. Tell me Corona… what do you know of another universe… a certain universe filled with talking ponies and magic?”

And I’ll leave you off from there. Well that was a good session huh? Why even bother writing this down you may ask? Why not just lie to Wolf since he’ll never read this? Well… just because… a bet is a bet.

Well, I’ll see you guys some other time when I write again in this ol’ journal of mine. And believe me, me and him crossed paths eventually so it’s important to tell the tale of the Corona I suppose… it means something… like 9/11 or something… ok good night I’m out of here… back to Cantorlot I suppose…

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m got to go give Wolf a good punch in the arm for him making me do this.

The Corona will return… next year at this time… maybe…