==> Acquire sustenance. [closed]
Dirk wasn’t entirely sure how he was to go about finding a job. Money seemed important enough, but there didn’t appear to be a thriving economy. People living in boxes was the first clue. He spent the first half of his day Dirk wandered around the fifth and sixth districts, inquiring about any need for a genius level programmer and mechanic. Unfortunately there was a distinctive lack of shops requiring anything other than wait staff or retail clerks.
Basically, no luck.
As lunch time was approaching Dirk figured he might as well get something to eat food wise, potentially lifting his spirits and giving him enough energy to push on through at least one more sector and hopefully convince someone to hire him.
He entered a local grocery store that was nearby, walking around idly with no concrete idea of what he wanted or what he could afford. There was a small allowance for food, but not much else. Turning the corner of an aisle though, the blond stopped dead in his tracks.
What the hell was he even looking at?
Spoken like a true black man, Dirk. Finally make it out of the ghetto/oppressive post apocalytpic setting with all of this experience in a really cool and cutting-edge field, and a brother can't get a job to save his life. Forced to result to flipping burgers or asking if they'd like to apply for a Wal-Fart shopping card. Talk about degrading, right? Hell, and the kid probably had a baby mama or three to provide for.
Bro couldn't handle the lifestyle, unfortunately. It was bad enough that he'd been told to live in a box upon arrival. A box. And no, we're not talking about some metaphor for a somewhat ramshackled and decrepit home in the shape of an evenly measured rectangle. No, it was literally just a cardboard cutout shit hole.
Which was what had led him to hit the streets and set his mind towards turning his slump into a Slumdog Millionaire. Rags to riches, hags to bitches, etc etc. With Lil Cal at his back and a video camera in his hand, the elder Strider of beta fame set out to make a little money the only way he knew how.
Filming porn.
"I'm telling you. Those crows feet? We'll make that shit into an eagles might talons shrieking the national anthem. Stretch marks? More like stretch out because your rockin' bod makes me want to spank that ass marks. Girl you are a fine piece of work. If I were twenty years older and hitting my mid-life crisis I would be all over that."
And that was how Dirk and Bro met. With his older self harassing some older woman that had wanted nothing more than to pick up some cantaloupe and enjoy her soap operas. After a vicious struggle with her trying to push that camcorder out of her face and wheel away as fast as possible, the Guardian turned to find...himself staring back through that little screen.
"...Sup."
















