Chapter 4: A Few Heads and Indoctrination
V was indeed ready to kidnap Evey as he continued to masquerade as a Norsefire secret police officer as a ruse to kidnapping her and indoctrinating her into his philosophy. But V had to accomplish a few other tasks first was to squash the Voice of London. A certain Lewis Prothero was indeed about to take his last shower, when indeed V was stepping into the scene to silence the Voice of London for good. A certain Red X, however was still unaware of the whereabouts of V, not knowing V's next move. Prothero indeed was taking his last shower watching himself recently bashing the rebel known as V onscreen, not knowing that V had acquired access to his own private chambers. After mimicking himself in a speech bashing V, Prothero ends up turning off the television after his shower, only to find the notorious V, V ends up promptly ending Prothero's life. A certain Eric Finch was called to the scene, after being debriefed what happened to Prothero, as the debriefer left, Red X showed up on the scene.
"My, my what a pity sight" said Red X as he examined a deceased Lewis Prothero.
"Listen, we trusted you to protect them" said Inspector Finch who wasn't but the least happy as much as Peter Creedy wasn't as well.
"Listen, I'll start caring more when they raise the amount of money they'll give to me to stop this V guy" said Red X.
"Is that it, these atrocities are all just about money to you?" continued Inspector Finch.
"Mostly" replied Red X who was being honest to Finch, "but I will eventually catch up with V."
As Red X darted off again, Finch had an uneasy feeling about Red X's true agenda which may not be capturing or killing V at all, but instead even hoodwinking the Norsefire regime to give the mercenary money so that he could run off with it. A meeting was being discussed about the matter between High Chancellor Adam Sutler and Peter Creedy.
"What the hell is going on?" cried Sutler who roared at Peter at the other end of the table.
"Red X claims to be working for us" continued Peter.
"But he also has allowed that V to kill some of our top leaders!" barked Sutler.
"He seems to have his own agenda and terms of dealing with V" continued Peter.
"I do not care, I want that V gone for good!" continued Sutler as he slammed his fist on the table, "Is that very clear? Because if it is not clear, I would like to put that same so-called friendly mercenary known as Red X also on our target list!"
"You do not understand his capabilities" continued Peter who was reluctant to follow Sutler's orders.
"Are you questioning my authority?" continued Sutler.
"No sir" replied Peter.
"Good, because if one more party leader dies at the hands of V, I want you to put out Red X as target number two" continued Sutler, "the mercenary is trying to short change us out of our finances!"
"It seems that way sir" continued Peter as he nodded in agreeing with Sutler.
"Good, then if one more ball drops, make sure the one who was supposed to pick up after goes as well" continued Sutler.
As the meeting ends, Peter Creedy felt he was given the green light to go after not just V, but also Red X, he had a small chat with some of the top secret police officers.
"You think it's wise that we go and take down Red X, if another party official dies at the hands of V?" asked a top secret police official to Peter.
"The mercenary is ripping us off" continued Peter, "he cannot be trusted."
"But what if he's a more dangerous opponent than V?" asked another.
"I do not care, the High Chancellor told it straight to me himself, that if another top Norsefire party official dies at the hands of V, we should treat Red X just as we do treat V with, as the enemy of the state" continued Peter.
Indeed one of the final balls was going to drop, a certain Delia Surridge was having second thoughts on her work at the concentration camp with the recent events surrounding the rise of the mysterious rebel known as V. She felt remorseful for her actions at the camp which she thought would be idealistic, until flash backs of her viewing the man that had escaped the concentration camp through a massive explosion. She would indeed not be aware V had given her a lethal injection that was obviously painless versus what he had done with the others. Red X, typically enough was one step behind, along with the Norsefire regime after the news broke of Surridge's death by V, Peter decided it was time to turn the tables on Red X for good. Peter wanted to provide a trap for Red X, pretending that they were going to give Red X money anyway.
"I thought this day would never come, you have finally have given in, in handing me more cash to stop V, right?" asked Red X.
"Not exactly" said Peter as he pulled out his gun.
Members of the Norsefire secret police then began to fire their weapons at Red X, as Red X was now a target for the Norsefire regime for trying to rip them off into pretending he'd fight for them to stopping V. But V needed his accomplish Evey as he ended up apprehending her disguised as a secret police officer as the other secret police officers were giving chase toward Red X instead.