Somewhere Off The West Coast - Human Liberation Front Main Camp/HQ
"Miss Sealy... Kin..."
"NOT NOW!" Karla shrieked furiously, pulling out a pistol-sized crossbow and firing an arrow into the foot of the trafficker who had just entered her office. He screamed in agony as he landed on his back clutching his foot while Karla spoke on the phone, and a smug, excited grin came to her face as she heard what they were saying on the other side.
"Hm... yes... yes, very interesting... oh no, of course. Yes... yes, you can count on me to honour our arrangement, doctor... I'll wait til after you're done to take a piece for myself... oh, come now, you really think that narcissist Malcolm's going to help them...? Ha ha... and here you are questioning my sanity... ugh... alright, we'll talk later... I've an urgent matter of business to take care of... Zàijiàn..."
Karla put the phone down and looked at the man she had shot, putting on a faux-sweet tone as she said "so... what's the news, dear?"
"It... gah... it's K... Kingston, ma'am... she's b... back... AAAAGGGGHHH!" she stamped on the man's injured foot with a surprising amount of force, chuckling a bit as she said "excellent. I'll go speak to her, then..."
Karla walked out of the office and down the hallway to where Kingston and her men were. The hallway's walls were lined by a series of stuffed dinosaur heads that hung as hunting trophies, with several completely stuffed dinosaurs standing as statues and displays. These would not have looked out of place in a museum of natural history.
"Adaku! Darling, how good to see you!" Karla called out as she extravagantly entered the room, only for her smile and wide-spread arms to drop in disappointment as she noticed the empty, mangled cages that were behind Kingston and her traffickers. One of the traffickers gulped audibly as Karla's eye twitched slightly and she froze like a statue, saying "um... where are the dinosaurs...?"
"Miss Sealy... Miss Sealy, I assure you, we had dozens captured, bu-WHOA!"
ZZZZZZIP! ARGH! Kingston tensed in fear as Karla pulled out the crossbow and suddenly fired an arrow straight into the forehead of one of the other traffickers. Everyone went silent as the man fell back lifelessly like a ragdoll, with the bloody head-point of the arrow protruding from the back of his head. Karla straightened herself up and exhaled lightly, pulling out another arrow from the pouch on her belt as she said "terribly sorry about that, it's just... well, I just found out you didn't have any dinosaurs for our new friend, so I needed to let off a little steam before I heard your excuses..."
CLICK-CLICK! she casually loaded the new arrow into the crossbow, twirling it in her hand as she added "now... let's hear those excuses, shall we, Adaku?"
"It's a dinosaur man!" one of the shorter men said as Karla kept the crossbow aimed at Kingston's face. Kingston panted quickly as she added "a masked vigilante... he is an iwin, a ghost, who comes in the night and releases the dinosaurs we capture... we almost had him before we left, but he says there are more just like him..."
Karla kept the crossbow aimed at a petrified, sweaty Kingston's head for a good extra five seconds, before casually chuckling as she put it down and said "well, as far as excuses usually go... that wasn't bad..."
She turned away from them, saying "funnily enough, I've just got a call regarding a dinosaur person... an actual one, though, no masks... living with our dear friends, the Gradys, on their reserve..."
Kingston and her men went wide-eyed at this, while Karla opened a cabinet in the corner and pulled out an empty wooden trophy shield. "Hm... yes... yes, this'll do just nicely... now, I need you lot to pay a visit to that little Hammond And Lockwood dinosaur park... one last big collection..."
Removing the adolescent Triceratops that hung in the middle of the long line of dinosaur heads placed on the wall, and throwing it in the fireplace for good measure, Karla placed this new shield in it's place. Kingston gulped as Karla turned back to them, fumbling her hands nervously as she said "so... what exactly do you want us to do about the iwin, Miss Sealy...?"
"It's quite simple, dear... you take care of your dino-human..." Karla suddenly drew out the crossbow again, firing the arrow directly into the centre of the new shield. "And I'll take care of mine..."
