Chapter Thirty-EightFive years had been a long time. Mike honestly didn't know what the others had been up to this whole time, but him. After that last nightmare. He never wanted to see them again, never wanted to be in space again. Instead he took great advantage of his teleportation armlet on his arm. He used it to port from place to place, ringing up a hefty Zop tab at the bar, drinking himself to near blindness, then disappearing. With millions of little settlements all over the world, it was a perfect situation.
The life of the criminal, the drunk and the parasite had suited him well. Then Jay walked back in to his life. The Outlanders decided to change everything. Like it or not his lifestyle he came to enjoy was going to a come to a crashing and immediate halt.
This is why Mike wa
