Collab between Kalas & AcerRo

[i]"Shade! Is that you old boy? My lord its been an age! How's the underground crime world been treating you?"[/i]

Karma smirked slightly as he recalled the laid back attitude of the man known as Baba Yaga, or Elijah Craig to those close enough to learn his true name.

[b]"It has been a while, old friend. Too long some would say. Ahh you know, same old, same old. Scrubs still trying to move up in the world and bosses still shitting on their heads. Got some bad news though..."[/b] Karma's voice wavered a little as he recalled the events of the past week.

[i]"After what's been going in this town for the last few, I'm waiting for someone to tell me they got some good news. It'd be nice, for the change of pace you know?"[/i] Eli couldn't help but wonder how this might go south for him. How could this get that much worse?

[b]"Well here's some good news for you; I'm already in L.A. and I heard you needed a hand with busting some heads. I'm down for that."[/b] He remembered back to a few of their earlier jobs together, it was hard to believe that it'd been so long ago. [b]"The bad news, however...I-It's Dad...He's...Dead."[/b] Karma went silent then.

Eli always liked Karma's father. Not as much as some but much more than others. It brought a thought to Eli's mind, if that's the bad news, Karma didn't know about his brother yet. Eli thought to play on that but that was low even for a guy like him.

[i]"My condolences, I liked that old man. When did it happen? Did he get sick or did someone knock him off?"[/i]

Did someone knock him off? That question threw Karma slightly, but he managed to hold on to his resolve. [b]"It was about a week ago. We believe he was killed. I'm out here looking for Aster, someone has to let him know. But enough about that for now, it can wait. Your call sounded pretty urgeant. Just how much shit are you in anyway?"[/b]

[i]"You remember that time in Mexico? Where I pissed on some federal and half the fuckin' military got called in?"[/i] Eli chuckled a little bit, partly out of embarrassment. [i]"Yeah, this is going to be way worse than that. I'm after a meta named Ruby Greenfoot. The catch to it is, so are the feds and the military and whoever the fuck else knows. What I do know for certain is this shits gonna be crazy. Still interested?"[/i]

Karma laughed as he recalled the incident in Mexico, he also distinctly remembers saying something about Eli's piss probably tasting better than the beer they served down there. [b]"Oh man, that was a riot."[/b] He continued to listen as his old friend relayed the information about the job. [b]"Jesus, Eli, you're neck deep into this, huh. Well, if there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that whenever we team up against Governments, shit always hits the fan and it never fails to fly in all directions. Besides, I think I'm a little overdue on crazy right now, I'm in."[/b]

[i]"Meet me at... There's a fast food joint not far north of Apature HQ. Meet me there and we can figure out how this gonna work without the ire of the government coming full force."[/i] That was all he said, his next stop was going to be a place with poorly made fries and decent double cheese burgers.