THE ONE CALLED J

Chapter 35

The car dealer got down from a 2021 Lamborghini Sián Roaster.  He had an excited look on his face, he was now dressed in a three-piece suit, his hair was stylishly gelled.  He stood in front of Restaurant Turandot.  A valet approached him.

"Mr. Abdulov, I am surprised to see you here," the valet smiles.  "I heard you were in Norway."

"Drop with the pleasantries, will you?" He smiles.  "Just call me Ivan.  And yeah, I was in Norway for about two weeks but then duty called and when duty calls..."

"Every man comes running," the Valet completes his sentence for him as he extends his right arm.  "May I?"

"Sure," Ivan smiled as he tossed the key to him, the Valet stretched his hand as he caught it.

"Pending the time I wait for my entourage to come back," Ivan thought to himself as he got into the restaurant.  "I will have a pleasant meal, though when I heard the strategist duo; Boris and Andrey were on the case, I was beginning to think I had wasted my time taking a flight," Ivan took a seat at the far edge of the eatery.   He picked up the menu and began to scan through it.  "Nothing has changed in the menu from the last time I was here but I am so glad the strategist duo failed.  Being in Madame's good graces and having a hundred million dollars is more than I can ask for."

Max and Hendrickson had tense looks on their faces as they began to check around but Dave and Joshua stood transfixed to their spots.

"Why aren't you guys moving?" Max asks.  "The guy could be anywhere."

"He's gone," Joshua answers.  "Besides, there are more pressing issues," he says as he points to his right arm, there was a purple paw-mark above his palm.  "The dumbass mistakenly brushed me while he dropped his book earlier."

"J isn't the only one," Dave sighs as he removes his jacket, there was a paw print on his shoulder.  "He patted me while I handed him his pad," looking over in Henry's direction.  "Look at your palm."

"f**k!!" Hendrickson mutters as he looked at his palm, the paw print was etched on his palm.  "I shook him."

"Something else intrigues me," Dave begins as he looked at his paw print, it was shining radiantly.  "Why is mine glowing?"

"It doesn't matter," Joshua sighs.  "Your entourage is capable of restoring anything to any point it has or will be to any point in time, just use it to turn us back to normal, don't like the look of the paw prints."

"Sure," Dave answers, he tries to move his entourage with his mind but his entourage just stood still at the spot.

"Dave!" Joshua shouts.  "What the f**k?! Move your entourage."

"I can't," Dave tried his best to keep his cool.  "It's impossible, it won't budge no matter what."

"It's presently his turn so he won't be able to use his entourage," came a squeaky voice.  They turn in direction of the voice, it was a blue slender humanoid entourage, it had a conical head, disproportionate body, and a big bulging belly.

"And I thought Freddy Krueger was ugly," Joshua mutters.

"I shall explain the rules," the entourage says.

"His voice is annoying," Joshua bites his lower lip.  "And I hate things that annoy me," Joshua's entourage dashes towards the entourage, it punches it aggressively on its face.  Its face compressed due to the ferocity of the punch but it retracts back to normal.  "The hell."

"J," Max had a terrified look on his face.  "That's a long-range entourage, they don't take damage.  They practically just shrug off every damage."

"You have faced one of them before?" Hendrickson asks.

"How do you think our city is safe?" Dave answers.  "Max and I have been fighting against entourage-users for a while."

"The rules are simple," the entourage had a maniacal smile on his face.  "Three questions shall be asked per person.  Failure to answer any question means I can take anything from you.  When your print glows, it means it's your turn, while it's your turn, you are not permitted to use your entourage or move from your position."

"He has a childish voice," Joshua smiles.  "I am sure he's going ask simple questions, the hardest he'd probably ask is what alphabet comes after A."

The entourage vanished and reappeared before Dave.   Dave took in a deep breath as he tried to calm himself down.

"Your friend Joshua," the entourage continues.  "Created a black hole not too long ago, calculate with respect to the new change in the reduction of stars in the cosmos how many stars he had to fuse to create it and the distance it will take for the Blackhole to finally encroach milky way galaxy."

Everyone opened their mouths wide, they were quite shocked.  Joshua could feel sweat breaking off his forehead.  He had been too distracted by his fight with Boris that he had not taken the time to count the stars he had thrown together or the absorption rate of the black hole.

"That's bullshit!" Joshua growls as his entourage dashes towards the enemy entourage, it detaches its arm which bounced against the skin of the enemy entourage sending it flying backward at an amazing speed; knocking Joshua off his feet.

"I was asked a question I would never be able to get," Dave could feel sweat breaking off his forehead.  "Even Joshua doesn't know the answer to the question, that must have been why he got hysterical.  How can I find out the number of stars when I was stuck on earth," Dave kept thinking as he then remembered when the Santiurns came, the rift by which they came through.  There were several falling stars he had seen within the rift. He smiled, the answer had come to him, it wasn't full but he began  "A falling star is the sign of a dead star that occurred billions of light-years away but there was one star which was unique, it was extremely big and it seemed to have exploded," Hendrickson and Max had shocked looks on their faces, Joshua too was impressed but he didn't let it show on his face.  Dave took a deep breath as he continued  "And based on the way it exploded, I would say roughly seven hypergiant stars had been fused at the core.    For the second question, based on the size of the created black hole, it would absorb everything within a radius of 3.21 million light-years per hour so calculating the way it jettisoned matter..."

"Time's up," the entourage had an evil smile on its weird face.  "There was a rule I forgot to mention, you only have five seconds to answer the question."

This sent dread across the heart of everyone else, this was impossible!!!

"And now," the entourage continues.  "I shall take your entourage abilities," it said as it swung his arm on Dave's face.  It phased through, Dave couldn't help but grunt in pain as he gritted his teeth.

"AHRRGHHHH!!!!" He screamed as the hand finally passed through, he drops to his knees sweating and panting heavily.