Chase was pacing the streets as he usually did, learning the streets more and more. He’d figure the city out eventually, and with every new bit he explored, he was building up a map in his head. He’d know it better than the back of his own hand, that was for sure. Chase was in Sector 1 again today, trying to discover a pattern in the randomization of the building movement, when he heard a commotion from a nearby building.
Chase made a faster stride over to make sure nobody was hurt, only to find a number of children crowded around a machine. The crowd was formed, and the middle parted, revealing to Chase’s vision a boy of white hair, a silly looking purple top, and the sharpest of teeth. Chase wondered if that was normal among humans. He heard the boy call out to the crowd, requesting a challenger. It would appear he was playing a game of the sorts. Nobody stepped forward, and since Chase had the time, he decided he would.
Chase walked in front of the machine, scanning the controls and inputs labeled on the machine. It seemed to be a fighting game of the sorts, Road Puncher 2: Turbo Deluxe to be more exact. Chase didn’t understand the concept too well, why not just fight for real? “I am not familiar with this game, but I’m willing to accept your challenge.”, Chase looked over to the boy, seeing just how sharp his teeth were now. It was odd to him, but hopefully by the time Chase was done he wouldn’t have much to be opening his mouth about.
It was the dawn of a new venture for Suigetsu. That morning, he had decided to wander down to the arcade in Sector 01 and see if can’t earn him some extra cash. He had spent some of his off time practicing Road Puncher 2: Turbo Deluxe in secret and wanted to test his skills on some of the random kids that ventured to the arcade at this time of day. Was it morally wrong to make an attempt at swindling children out of their pocket change and weekly allowances? Yes, it’s very wrong. The real question was, did Suigetsu care about taking part in this malicious act? Not really. They had to learn the hard way that there are no rewards without risks.
And sometimes there’s no reward at all.
Suigetsu snickered to himself as he thought about that. He popped into the arcade with his sack of quarters that he’d soon convert into usable tokens, his wad of cash that he would use to make bets (and not lose any of it cause he was sure not to lose), and his confident smile. Once the time came for all the regular customers to come in, posted up and waited for an opponent. He would put a dollar or two on the game and always lose the first time. Suigetsu would offer a rematch with double or nothing stakes in order to lull them into a false sense of immediate victory or reward. This is when he put on his real shoes and perfected his opponents with no thought put into it. He would do this put anyone he faced in their place. He would start as early as the character select screen. He picks a small girl character named Sally Sue Dunkeroo who was by far the weakest in the game, if you didn’t know how to use her.
He beat everyone who faced him in the arena from Mikey Strauhausen to the Loomey Twins and even Jimmy Nakata and his crazy cross handed way of playing the arcade stick. Suigetsu was getting bored, and he was sure he made enough cash in children’s disappointment to warrant an end. He noticed there was a crowd watching, and he didn’t want to disappoint them. He began asking for challengers, but nobody stepped up.
Suddenly, an older guy walked up. He had a bland hairstyle like a background character in one of those Japanese anime. He had a pretty big nose that didn’t exactly match his face. The only thing Suigetsu liked about him was his choice of color, but even then he had to go and edge it up with his chest chains and scarf. That kind of edge may even be sharper than his Kubikirobocho. That aside, the guy accepted the open challenge. Since he was an older guy, Suigetsu wouldn’t play around. He tossed the guy two tokens to join the game and on character select he went straight for his best character, one that nobody had seen him play all day: Punch Man Commander Fistor. This character had high damage punches and command throws a plenty. While he waited for the other party to choose their character, he made his proposition.
“Hey stranger, there’s a crowd watching so why don’t we make things a bit interesting? This’ll be a money match.”
Suigetsu pull out a wad of cash from his pocket and smacked it down on the arcade machine. The crowd made an “oooh” sound as if directed on cue.
“If you win, you get to keep this dough, but if I win, you’ll match me.”