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Setting : An alternate Earth, anything is possible...

Johnny Strokes sat in Pervert's Row, whiskey in one hand the other in his erm pocket.

Dude Dudely's bar was in the seediest part of East Metro. Only those that didn't need the protection of Citizens Patrol strayed into this neighbourhood.

Dude had his finger in many pies but prime business was in the slave trade.

Johnny gazed around the bar and took the last sip of his whiskey. He reached further into his pocket and pulled out a crinkled pack of Winstons.
"Bring me another," he said, turning his whiskey bottle upside down and balancing it on its neck.
Dude threw his head back to acknowledge that he heard the request as Johnny pulled a smoke out of the pack.
"You can't smoke those in here." Dude laid another whiskey on the bar in front of his patron. The music from the sound system overhead seemed to grow louder as Johnny struck his lighter.
"I'll do whatever I want, Mack. I'm doing you a favor. Remember?"

"And remember the slate is clean after this job!" Johnny growls. Dude nods vigorously his flabby cheeks trembling, thinking "More than you know, if you only knew what was in store for you..." "Just make sure you get it done right and fast."

"I always do," Johnny said, taking a drag off his cigarette. "Have one. It's lighten you up a little." Johnny passed the pack of smokes to Dude, who, even though he had only tried one cigarette in his life before, took one and held out his hand to borrow the lighter.


Johnny passed him the lighter and laughed as the pudgy bartender puffed to get the light started.

A red head, three stools down glanced over at the two men and revealed a seductive smile. She turned to Dude behind the bar. "Sweet vermouth on the rocks, please."

Dude gave her his best sexy grin and fetched her drink as she and Johnny eyed one another.

Johnny thought, "Your sweet mouth on my rocks." He was always partial to red heads.

A troubling thought or memory began to surface but he squashed it.

"What is a hawt dame like yerself doing in a dive like this?" he asked, as he sauntered over to the stool beside her.

"I like the bad boys," she murmured.

Johnny took a deep stoke off his cigarette and casually exhaled his contribution to the stale smoky air like he was doing the world a favor by doing so. He turned his head towards the red head and asked with a nod of his,"So . . . why have I never seen you in here before?"

Coyly sucking on her ice she hesitated for a second then replied, "My planet jumper just arrived this morning."

"Barkeep, another vermouth please?" she asked, with a smile.

Dude had her drink in front of her before she finished speaking.

"Lemme know if you need anything else, anything..."

Johnny guessed she was from New Uranus, her family proly owned it. he would wait and see what she would reveal.

A slight smile of amusement slipped out from her overly lipsticked mouth as she watched Dude fall all over himself to serve her. "This may be my easiest mark in years," she thought to herself, "but this buffoon next to me is going to take a little more work."

Not giving Johny the satisfaction of eye contact, she sipped her drink and stared blankly at her reflection in the mirrored wall behind the bar and said,"I was on my way to the Io mining settlement for some . . . business."

Even half cut Johnny's gut was telling him this dame was more than she seemed, in a word, trouble with a capital T.

Since the target of his contract was in the Lo Mining Settlement..., this chance meeting may provide his necessary cover.

"Well Darlin', do you have a name?" Johnny drawled.

"Eiliki Mephisto," she answered in a huff."Is there something I can do for you?" continued her huff.
Eiliki had been from one end of the galaxy to the other and has seen her share of men of all species. She figured she had Johnny sized up before he even spoke to her and knew he wasn't just hitting on her, but had ulterior motives.

"Mephisto... Your family owns the mines on New Uranus." Johnny uttered.

"So where's the goon squad?" he continued as he surreptitiously glanced around the bar.

"Hee hee, I ditched them at the spaceport." she laughed.

"How's a girl supposed to have fun with Cyborg Gorillas breathing down her back?" she winked.

"When the time is right, he should be more worried about me than those goofball gorillas." she thought.

All eyes swung to the door of Dude Duddly's as it slammed open. A woman stood there, glancing around the smoke filled room with distaste, taking in the action of the people inside. Leaving the door open, she strides with feline grace to the bar. " I'll have a whiskey, straight up." she purrs as she speaks to Dude..turning to Johnny, the purr grows softer.."Spare a smoke?"

Johhny feigns a smile as he offers this new fox the crumpled pack. Thinking, "Two hawt dames in this shytehole in one night,something isn't right, but for whom?"

Dudely reached for the watered down whiskey but thought better of it and grabbed the Space Aged 50 year double malt. With a sly grin he placed her drink on the counter. The stranger didn't even acknowledge his presence.

Johnny decided to wait before proposing to travel with Eiliki, he'd wait and see how the night played out.

Eiliki did a facial search on the newcomer with her implanted, Raspberry Nanochip.

" My name is Jaquarise" she said as she reached for the crumpled pack of smokes, defly blocking Eiliki's Rasberry Naochip at the same time. "You may call me Jaq." Lighting the smoke with a fingertip, she blew smoke into Johnny's face, through her well defined lips.

Eiliki bit her lip to stifle a scream as her Raspberry Nanochip produced a near blinding shock.


"Johnny Strokes is my name, Cocktail Sales is my game. Pleasure to mee you JAc." he rasped.

Dudely sat back bemused as he watched the three.

" Nice to meet you" Jaq purred in a deep throated way..." I'm ummm, looking for a man, a certain type of man." Her slanted silver eyes locked onto his.." maybe you can be of service?"

The room was silent as Dude rushed to help Eiliki set down, before she passed out from pain.

"Well I am pretty busy, you know how those Colonists can get when they don't get ther cocktails." he paused for effect, "Perhaps I can fit you in,what did you have in mind?"

Two heavily armed Cyborg Gorillas burst into the room. The bouncer got up and was laid flat with a bullet between the eyes.

"Anyone else?" they growled in unison, as they eyed all in the bar.

Dude suddenly remembered he had business in the basement... and scurried off.

The Cyborg Gorillas briskly walked over to Eiliki, picked her up and left the bar.

"Well perhaps I'll have time for this vixen named Jac after all." he thought.

"Well well" Jaq's purr had become a slight growl..picking up her whiskey, she downed it in one smooth drink, " I believe we can do business." She ran long claw like fingernails down his chest to the top of his belt, " follow me."

Stepping over the body of the bouncer, she glided to the door, never looking back to see if he was following or not.


Na vratih, Jaq ustavi, brez obračanja nazaj ... Ali prihaja moj globe prijatelj? Sem veliko v skladišču za vas.

At the door Jaq stopped with out turning..."Are you coming my fine friend? There are many surprises awaiting you".