Nathan comes from around a corner pointing a pistol at Stan. Stan puts his hands up.

Stan: Hey look i just wanna know where your wife went?

Nathan: She’s not my wife anymore, and you're that famous Hunter that was supposed to kill her. Why should I trust you?

Stan puts his hands down and grabs a plant off an in table.

Stan: Cause if I really wanna kill you, me and you both know I can. That little pistol of yours ain't stopping shit. Just like your guards out there were useless to stop me.

Stan throws the plant at Nathan. Nathan fires a shot but the plant hits his hand and he misses. Stan rushes over and grabs Nathan.

Stan: Don’t make this uglier than it needs to be.

Nathan walks away and sits on a nearby chair.

Nathan: Look all I know is she was heading to Alaska.

Stan: Why?

Nathan: Her words “People don’t look for you there. Even before the war.”

Stan: When did you last see her?

Nathan: Maybe a week ago or so.

Stan: Any idea how she would have got there?

Nathan: Smugglers, she was gonna pay some guy a lot of money to smuggle her and her daughter there.

Stan: And I’m guessing you don’t know who this person is?

Nathan: What more do you want from me?

Stan grabs him by the collar.

Stan: ANSWERS!!! My wife was killed and your wife has something to do with it so I need to know everything. Or I can start taking my grief out on you.

Nathan: Shit look I’m sorry. She downloaded a bunch of files off my computer and was talking to someone about using what she found to expose the G.B.P.

Stan: Expose them of what?

Nathan: I can’t tell you.

Stan: WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

Nathan: What you think I’m here hiding from you? They found out it was me she stole the files from. They asked me to take care of it, but I couldn’t just kill her. I tried to convince her to give up on exposing them, I even tried to find her a safe place to hide. But she was dead set on telling the world, and nothing would change her mind. Then one day we got the letter she and her daughter were to be hunted. I used my connects within the G.B.P. to find out that it would be you. She decided then that she would try and leave. Like I said I saw her the last time about a week ago.

Stan lets Nathan go and starts to walk away.

Nathan: I’m sorry about your wife man.

Stan: Yeah me too.

Stan makes his way back downstairs to Quiet and Dariüse.

Dariüse: Soooo……

Stan: We head for Alaska. We find the women, we find out what’s going on.

Quiet: So we stealing another car?

Stan: I guess so.

When they leave, they look for a car dealership.

Dariüse: So what are we doing here?

Quiet: Stealing a car.

Stan: Yeah it’s a thing me and him used to do.

Dariüse: Ok…… I guess this should be interesting.

Stan and Dariüse enter the car dealership, while Quiet walks around the lot looking at the cars.

Stan:YO I AIN’T ‘EVER SEEN CARS LIKE THESE BEFORE.

Stan hops in one of the cars, and begins to act like he is driving. A car dealer walks over to see what’s going on.

Dariüse: BUT DO THEM SPEAKERS BUMP THOUGH.

The dealer walks over to Dariüse. Stan turns the radio on and begins blasting music.

Stan: AHHH THIS MY SHIT RIGHT HERE.

Dealer: Is there anything I can help you gentlemen with today?

Dariüse: WHY YOU FRONTING YOU DON’T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS?

Dariüse looks at the dealer.

Dariüse: Nah we chill just you know giving it the old look around. A nigga pockets feeling heavy tryna lighten up feel me.

Dariüse laughs. Another dealer walks over to Stan.

Dealer: Sir you can’t play music in here nor can you be in the cars.

Stan: WHAT?? YOU GONNA HAVE TO SPEAK UP THIS BITCH BUMPING.

Dealer: YOU CAN’T PLAY FUCKING MUSIC IN HERE.

Quiet pulls around front of the dealership in a car. Stan turns the music off and stands up.

Stan: No need to be rude. We were leaving anyways.

Dariüse and Stan leave laughing and hop in the car.

Dariüse: I can’t believe you guys used to fuck with people like that.

Stan: We did a lot of shit to get by some of it more fun than others. If we stick to the back roads and small towns in Canada we should be able to avoid the G.B.P’s forces.

Dariüse: Is it really a smart choice to ride through the G.B.P’s base country of operations?

Stan: We honestly don’t have a choice and we should be fine as long as we avoid most people.

They drive for hours and hours until they reach a small town in Yukon just outside of Alaska.

Stan: Let’s find somewhere to sleep for the night.

Dariüse: Sounds good to me.

They get a room in a motel above a small mom and pop shop. They settle in for the night.

Stan startles awake to the sound of glass breaking downstairs. He looks around to see Quiet awake. Stan mouths the words “Break in”. Quiet shakes his head no. They begin to smell smoke. Then BOOM! CRASH!! The floor falls in underneath them. Dariüse jumps awake and pulls out his Nodachi.

Dariüse: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!?!?

They are surrounded by fire and standing in front of them are two figures dressed in all black. They have all black masks on having just holes where the eyes should be. Stan and Quiet immediately start attacking them. Stan starts to notice whoever he is fighting is matching his moves pretty well. While Quiet is fighting his person Dariüse rushes them and they both jump and subdue him. Stan manages to get a hard punch in on the person he is fighting, breaking a piece of the mask. All Stan can make out is the persons eye. “Jeff !?!?” Stan thinks to himself, but before he can get a good look in the person throws down a flash grenade. Everyone is blinded for a second. When they look around the person was gone.

Dariüse: Welp we got one of ‘em.

Dariüse picks the guy up and smiles. Stan looks over at them.

Stan: Yeah I guess we got one.

They drag him out to an abandoned cabin in the forest.

Stan: So you wanna tell us what you know or are we gonna have to do the whole whose balls are bigger thing?

Hunter: What do you mean?

Quiet punches him in the mouth. The hunter laughs and spits out some blood.

Hunter: I see you boys are a little impatient tonight. You know if you hurt the brain I might lose my memory.

The hunter laughs again. Stan stomps him in the nuts. The hunter cries out in pain.

Stan: Look I don’t have time for this. Why are you trying to kill me and who killed my wife?

The hunter looks at him and blinks.

Hunter: Oh shit it’s you. HAHAHA! I knew we were going after you, but I figured we’d find the little girl first.

Stan: What are you talking about?

Hunter: We have been following you since San Francisco idiot. You’re about to be the most wanted man in the world buddy. HAHAHAHA. I had already found the wife but she didn’t have what they were looking for. I tortured and raped that bitch for at least a week tryna figure out where the fuck that little girl is. And then I hear from some crazy hunter you're looking for her. He said he had been tracking you and that you could lead us to her.

Stan: Ok so what does this have to do with my wife and what do you mean most wanted man in the world?

Hunter: HAHAHAHA!!!! See that’s the kicker after you went to see Nathan, we killed him. HAHAHAHA!!!! OH OH And get this not only are people gonna think you did it, but crazy guy I was with said he could make it seem like you did it cause he had evidence of you killing your wife. HAHAHAHAHA!!! You fucked with the wrong people man. If you find whatever the G.B.P’s looking for they are gonna bring everything down on your head. Guess you should have just taken the hunt like hunters do. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Stan grabs the hunter and starts beating him to death. Quiet and Dariüse watch not really knowing what to do. -- End of Ninth issue???