The price of the hustle

Prologue

"Mmmm" Craig groned as he lazily dragged him self out of bed, he sat up and yawned as he scratched his unkempt afro before answering the phone " What" he answered " Wake up Craig it's Dominguez I have a job for you and your partner come down to the warehouse at 11:00" the voice on the phone explained "alright" Craig responded as he hung up and yawned once again, he slowly stood up and made his way toward the door clad in a pair of gray sweatpants and a black tanktop exiting his room and walking down the hall to his partners door. "Wake up Eric, Dominguez has a job for us we gotta be at the warehouse by eleven" he said as he knocked on the door, there was a groan on the other side, as the door opened a half naked woman exited as she was putting on the rest of her clothes and walking hurriedly toward the front door followed by an angry looking man. "Come on bro you couldn't have waited five minutes" Eric said bitterly "Dominguez has a job for us we don't have time to sit around we only have an hour and a half to get to the warehouse" Craig responded "who was that" Eric shook his head "I don't remember her name but we met at the party last night, anyway I gotta shower"Eric stated as he closed the door. Craig made his way back into his room to the closet  and getting dressed in to a pair of timberland boots, a pair of baggy black jeans, and a black pullover hoodie with the words "trappin ain't dead" across the front and a Jesus piece. As he walk out of his room there was a knock on the front door "who is it" Craig yelled as he looked through the peep hole "UPS delivery" the voice on the otherwise of the door responded, Craig opened the door "are you Dr Henderson " the post man asked "Yeah" Craig responded as he signed for the package and closed the door. Placing the package on living room table and sitting on the couch as he felt for the remote "who was at the door" Eric asked as he sat next to Craig on the couch clad in a pair of black and red Chuck taylors, a pair of red skinny jeans, a black T-shirt with the rockstar logo in red on the shoulder, and a black and red striped beanie. "Just some ups guy with a package for some doctor guy named Henderson" Craig responded as he fliped channels on the tv coming to a stop on a music channel playing Money trees by Kendrick Lamar "thats one of those scientist guys next door" Eric said " it's mine now" Craig responded "come on let's take this thing to the basement and open it up" he said getting up and walking towards the basement door followed by Eric. Craig pulled the string to turn on the light reveling a room with any gun you could think of covering the walls, boxes of seemingly unlimited ammo for said guns, makeshift shooting range,shelves of knives of every length and shape,and a work table for cleaning and upkeep. Craig placed the box on the on the work table and using a box cutter to remove the tape he opened the box as he and Eric examend the contents, a baseball sized cube  with the words equis-tech engraved on its side. "What the hell is equis-tech" Eric asked grabbing the cube from Craig "I don't know man, but this shit is wierd" Craig answerd making his way to one of the many cabinets for a much needed joint. "We could ask next door" Eric stated "No way dude then they'd know we stole the box" Craig responded as he inhaled the vapors from the joint "we'll take it with us when we leave and ask Dominguez about it" he said  as he used said cube as an ash tray and turned to walk away. "Uh dude take a look at this" Eric said shakily, Craig turned around with a shocked expresion to see the cube in question glowing a neon blue as it floated up toward the basement ceiling and began to spin and rapidly beep. "What the fuck" Craig exclaimed the cube ceased beeping and flashed taking the house and garage with it leaving only a crater where the basement was.The house came in contact with its new resting place resulting in a loud echoing "CRASH"  leaving the two men in the basement dazed and confused "Craig are you ok " Eric asked searching through blured vision for his best and only friend "What the Fuck was that, what happend to the cube" Craig responded as he moved to help Eric to his feet "The cube probably exploded or triggered an earthquake or something" Eric answered as he and Craig walked up the stairs and returned to the couch, the Tv was now nothing but static so Craig and Eric began discussion over what movie to watch, finally coming to the conclusion of watching Craigs favorite movie Pineapple Express. As the movie came to an end and the credits were rolling Craig and Eric were on the floor out of breath and laughing "ahh" Craig sighed " That movie never gets old" just as Eric was about to respond there was a knock at the door "What now" Craig said angrily "It's probably those scientists next door, and they probably want their box back" Eric said as he quickly turned of the Tv and all the lights "I'll answer the door you go down to the basement, grab one of the guns, and cover me in case they get any ideas" Eric instructed Craig nodded and quickly make his way down stairs as Eric slowly crept to the door as Craig returned ak-47 in hand ammo belt slung across his chest, he took cover on the corner by the door as Eric slowly griped the door knob and looked through the peep hole silently cursing when he realized it was blocked "Ready" whispered to Craig "ready" he responded, Eric stated to countdown as Craig took the safety off the gun "3.....2....1....NOW" Eric jerked open the door and let Craig take point as Eric grabbed the glock he keeps under the couch when he returned to Craig's side they both stood frozen in the doorway, staring down the sights of their guns, standing deathly still, standing outside the door were six technicolored girls in school uniforms. But there was something off instead of skin they had fur, ears on top of their head and, instead of feet and shoes the had what looked like hooves. The purple one move forward hand extended and began to speak "Hello my name is Twilight Sparkle.... before she could finish Craig bolted  forward and slamed the door in her face before turning to Eric and yelling "What the Fuck is going on!!!!"