"Honey, you home?" The Councilwoman's deep voice called out as she entered the old brick Victorian home and closed the door behind her and making sure it was bolted shut.
"Up here, Pookums!" The voice of her husband traveled from the upstairs bedroom to her ears as she took off her hat and gloves.
She traveled up the stairs slowly, the heel of her boots clicking against the newly refinished wood. The boys really had done a good job of fixing this place up. The elegant purple wall paper and the decorative cocoon on the banister filled her heart with a twinge of guilt. She had been too busy with the New Guild to help them at all. She was so happy to be moving forward with her career but she missed being The Monarch's number two.
She found The Monarch sitting on the edge of their bed, waiting for her in their room. His maroon robe a little more open than was appropriate at 4 in the afternoon. Gary, his loyal henchman, in his grey sweat pants and twenty sided die t-shirt stood over him. They were scanning over what looked like blueprints for the house.
"I don't know, tell Manolo to do whatever he wants." The Monarch whined, passing the papers over to Twenty-one, who grabbed them with one hand, becoming a crumpled, folded mess. They looked up as The Councilwoman approached them.
"Good, you're both here." The Councilwoman entered the bedroom and closed the door behind her.
"What's up?" Gary asked turning toward her, his arms crossed over his chest. The blueprints crushing a little more in his grip and under his arm.
The Councilwoman sighed "Well, I've got good news, and I've got bad news. I ha-"
"Good news first." The Monarch cut in.
"Seconded." Gary raised his hand before putting it back across his chest.
"Okay?" The Councilwoman sighed and rolled her eyes. "Good news is, is that I may have found you a new henchman."
"Henchman?" Gary's eyebrows raised.
"What? Oh, no no no." The Monarch stood up from the bed and waved his hands in front of his face. "I'm not taking in some Guild endorsed goon they'd rather pawn off than give an unemployment check!"
"That's the bad news. You don't really have a choice." The Councilwoman's voice was grave and her face turned stern. "The person we're sending isn't a recruit, she's a prisoner of The Guild, and since The Guild is, well, shall we say less than equipped at the moment. She needs someplace to relocate and serve her sentence and she's unfortunately become my responsibility, which means she'll be staying here."
"No way! That's even worse!" The Monarch's hand sliced through the air. "I don't want some criminal living here! This is a house, not a prison!"
"We don't have a choice!" Sheila's voice raised ever so slightly. "I promise you she won't be a problem."
"You're not going to know that until we've all had a throats slit in the middle of the night." Gary added.
"Trust me, I've met her. She's not going to be a problem." The Councilwoman reassured. "She's coming tonight, I know we don't really have a lot of space right now, but we'll have to make due. You can set her up on the couch or something. Twenty-one I want you in charge of training her till you have the cocoon set up again." A vibrating noise came from The Councilwoman's pocket and she pulled out her round phone and looked at the screen briefly. "I have to go back to New York, Wide Wale has this whole new system he wants to unveil for keeping Guild records in order."
The Monarch looked completely flabbergasted at The Councilwoman's dismissive behavior and watched her with an angry look as she left the room. He shuffled after her as she descended the stairs and exited the house.
"Bye, Sweetness! I'll be back in a few hours! And please put some pants on!" She called before closing the door behind her.
The Monarch sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Dude, we can not have another henchman while we're doing our whole Blue Morpho thing." Gary turned to The Monarch, a pleading look on his face.
"Don't you think I know that?" The Monarch grabbed the blue prints in 21's hands before storming off down stairs.
This is my very first Venture Bro's Fanfic. Let me know if something's off or if anyone seems out of character!