Chapter 3: The Underdogs (1/2)

Chapter 3: The Underdogs

Over the summer holidays, it had been an eventful time for Gary It was not just because he had chosen to dye his hair and get a new look, but because he had co that he had kept hidden from his friend, his mother and even sister didn’t know about

“Had you been late I was thinking of chopping one of your toes off, so you didn’t forget,” thedown told hiht club had a few hours before it would officially open However, the club itself was actually just a front, run and used by the gang known as the Underdogs The s to Gary, was the leader of the Underdogs, Da e businessman or someone orked for the secret service This included their leader, although even a student could tell he wasn’t a businessman He had this crazy look about him which was just too wild for someone as supposed to sit inside a cubicle all day He had a black ht ear

Yet the most prominent feature about the man were his eyes They were the eyes of a e If he wasn’t, he would have never gathered the courage to join a gang in the first place… But these people scared hi a word The pal to sweat a little

“Hey, I’hed, “Why don’t you head to the back while the grownups do a bit of talking? I’ll get so, Gary was shaking a little It was hard to tell whether Da about this sort of punishment There had been times when he had been forced to witness the leader actually cut off one of his ownGary had decided to do sos Unfortunately, he had only ended up reading a few coa books here and there, and to be honest, this had led him to the conclusion that it wouldn’t be too much trouble Even the odd internet searches andin a real gang had turned out to be nothing like in those co to s, killing, stealing, or extorting others There were many times when Gary had wished to just leave, but there were two things keeping hi the place Would they even let hi he had seen and heard? It was a question he didn’t dare to ask out loud

‘Come on, Gary, you can do this! Just think of the money, man, come on!’

And that was the second reason

Pushi+ng the door open, Gary entered the back of the night club where there was a large staff rooe to hile one of them spoke a word

Gary had seen them a few times before, but from what he could tell none of the at the here Not why they were there today, he knew that, but why they had decided to join a gang Most people his age only joined out of necessity

The world was a tough place to live in at the reatly affected ever since the introduction of autonomous otten rid of many old jobs Gary’s own family had suffered the aftermath

His oldout parts, but she wasn’t the only one Mass uneovern in the new skills and departra, mechanics and so on But it had proven to be too hard for her to go through any type of training with the little ti odd jobs

All of this had created a tiering syste the divide between the rich and poor eventhe lowest, while Tier-1 would be the highest These tiers were based on how high their GDP per y, the s were better the enerated

However, there was one sector that had started to boohly profitable for them, as they catered and fed on the truly desperate, ere clinging onto anything that lived in the tier fives, while also serving the very top in the higher tiers

Gangs would exist in all of the tiered cities, and would often work together as the roup They weren’t a huge gang, due to Gary co from a small town in the first place, but they idely known and feared in the town He are of the bad things they had conore it

Their toas a Tier-3, so the quality of life was okay, but they had to make sacrifices to stay here Forced to live in a small rundown place, with little roo on, and both children knew that despite theirit from them

Gary had seen the bills that would come in the mail If this carried on, then it would just be a matter of time until they would have to move to a lower-tier city The education would be worse and cri to let this happen Their life had already turned to crap as it was and he didn’t want it to deteriorate No, he wanted a better future for his mother and his little sister… even if he had to pay the price for it

He was the older sibling, the only man of the house, and he wished to return the favour to hisafter theh He did not wish to run like thatin the staff rooain When Gary saho it was, his eyes started to light up with excitereeted him with a sht thisup from the sofa

The man who had entered the roo earlier today with Toht

Most Altered worked for soanisation and Kirk was no different He worked for the Underdogs as well They were his sponsor or at least they owned the corporation which Kirk was part of Gary didn’t know much of the details of how the relationshi+ps between theine how s must have put into Kirk for him to become the Altered se man jumped up like that, and you used your raer to sround, it all seemed too easy for you,” Gary continued to speak excitedly

“It s I did today, I onlyto do things like that yourself, otherwise, you will just end up hurting yourself” Kirk cautioned his overeager fanboy

“I know,” Gary replied, a little depressed as he thought about how different his life would be if he could be an Altered hie look on his face and noticing soht bulb lit up above Kirk’s head