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2012 July 18th
In the Computer Help Zone, Techmo is in his office on his computer, having calls and completely focused on helping people with computer errors.
A small bubble on the side of his computer appears; it’s a text from skips. Techmo’s cursors swifts to the bubble to click on it. The text reads “Hey, Techmo. Do you want to hang out with me and some of my old friends at the mall? We haven’t really brought you into anything and my friends really want to meet you, unless you’re busy with fixing computers.” Techmo realizes he spent too much time in this tiny office almost just working. Maybe I should take a small break, Techmo thought to himself. He replies back
“Totally! Be there in a few mins!” After replying, Techmo turns off his computer and heads out his office. He locks his door behind him and walks away. He shout outs to his co-workers
“Ima take a break, take over the place for me!” then walks to his DeLorean DMC-12..
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Techmo arrives at the mall and tries to find skips. He isn’t really familiar with this place because he doesn’t go out that much. Skips calls out Techmo’s name. Techmo turns around and sees Skips friend group. He walks towards the group. Techmo says “Skips! Haven’t seen you in a while!” Skips nods in agreement. Techmo looks at the group and recognizes some of these people from the EXIT 9B battle, he looks at the 4 flying large babies, then to a skinny man with star eyes you could look at all day and long flowy blonde hair. Techmo looks in confusion but Skips interrupts his thoughts and says
“So, Techmo. I’m pretty sure you met some of these people. So here’s the Giant babies, the Guardians of Eternal Youth.” The babies nod to Techmo in approval “We have heard of you a lot by skips. He sure talks about you a lot” One of the large babies say. Skips shakes his head “Ignore them, but last is Gary. He’s also a Guardian of Eternal Youth. You’ve seen him once or twice there.” Gary looks at Techmo, greeting him with his calming voice
“Hello, Techmo. I’ve heard you about you a lot.”
Techmo waves at Gary but his face twists into a state of confusion. Gary’s current expression turns into a puzzled expression on why this man he barely met is looking at him weird.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” Gary asks.
Techmo feels like he has seen this man before, like he was a close friend before or maybe a classmate. In his mind, he tries to piece it all together. Then it clicks. This skinny man in front of him actually went to high school with him, but why did he hate him again? Oh, right.
“You went to high school with me before. Bennett high school right..?” Techmo addresses Gary. He nods “I went to that high school but I’m pretty sure I never saw you ever there, but there was a kid that looked somewhat familiar to you.”
“His name was Samson”
Techmo’s eyes widen with both fear and surprise. Hearing his actual real name from a person he just met. This is the guy. The guy that always had a rivalry and competition with Techmo during high school. This realization hits him harder than any punch could. This makes him sick to his stomach, reuniting with the man that you hated your whole high school year.
“GARETH?”
“Samson. We meet again, don’t we?”