Beta Earth: Between Worlds 2.0 Edition Read Online Free

name than Jester.” Tooth says irritably. With a short breath, Tooth releases Jest-Ker and walks toward Zuri and Vin. Jest-Ker recovers from his trauma and rubs his neck. Then, as if nothing happened, continues talking to the rest of the guys.
    Tooth approaches Zuri and Vin. They are still eating and pay no attention to Tooth. He slams his fist on the table. The act startles both of them. “What the hell makes you think you can come in late and eat with us?”
    “Late? What the hell, man? There is no time to meet here.” Zuri says.
    “When the sun is in high in the sky we meet.” Tooth points up.
    “Well, what are you waiting for, look up! How else you gonna know?” Zuri rolls his eyes at Tooth.
    “We are inside.” Zuri responds. Tooth is irritated with Zuri’s growing arrogance.
    “What the hell? Just because you two got families means you can do whatever you want whenever you want? None of us have family, so we gotta meet when the sun is high! So look up! Both of you, dammit!” Zuri sighs and looks over to Vin. Vin nods, puts down his sandwich and they both cast their eyes upward. Tooth grins as he sucker punches Zuri hard in the side of his face. The force knocks him out of his chair and onto the ground.
    He then winds up to hit Vin. Almost instinctively, Vin grabs the top of Tooth’s head and slams him on the table, pinning him down. Zuri rubs his face and stands back up. Tooth as struggles against Vin’s strength. “Let go of me or you’re a dead man, Vin!”
    Vin continues to hold his head down. Shane bursts out of the back room and silence enters the room. “You two!” Shane yells. He points at Zuri and Vin. “In here now!” Zuri walks toward the bone room. Vin lets go of Tooth’s head and follows Zuri. Tooth rubs his head as he recovers.
    “I’m gonna kill you! —” Shane pops his head out again.
    “I gotta speak with you next, Tooth. Don’t leave.” Tooth stops his charge, spits on the ground and folds his arms as the two enter the bone room. Zuri and Vin sit down in the guest chairs next to the desk. Shane sits down on his couch next to two lethargic women dressed in punk attire. As the women lean in close and rest against him.
    “So, boys.” Shane says. He is eerily calm and relaxed, as if under the influence of a drug. “I like you,” Shane says as he stretches back on the couch. Making the women shift to accommodate him. He smacks his lips and continues. “You do your work and don’t question. However, many people around here don’t like you.”
    Shane stares at Zuri and Vin. Who wait patiently for him to continue. “Just … lay low and watch your backs. It doesn’t take much to tick these guys off ... and they don’t forgive easily. That being said, I have a mission for you.”
    Shane points his finger at a folder on the desk. “Easy mission, fast money. You’ll start tomorrow. Oh, and tell Jest-Ker he’s going with you. I would have told him myself but I can’t stand all his talking.”
    Zuri grabs the folder and both of them stand up to leave. “Hey, send Tooth in, will ya?” Zuri nods in reply as they exit the room. Moments later, Tooth enters the room. He sits down in the guest chair and immediately puts his feet up on Shane’s desk.
    “I can’t stand those two, ya know! You should really let me do a special mission on them.” Tooth flashes a shiny, wicked grin. Shane sits up slightly moving the girls off of him. “Forget about that. We got important stuff to discuss.” Tooth puts his feet on the ground and sits up proper.
    “Oh? Is that so?”
    “I got a call from Riken.” Shane says.
    “What!” Tooth says excitedly. “Riken personally? What did the big boss himself want?” Shane stands up very slowly.
    “Seems one of his lieutenants died recently. He wants me to come to Beta Earth and take over his territory. Do you know what this means?” Tooth tries desperately to control his amazingly big grin. Shane slightly smiles.
    “So, starting tomorrow,