CyberTech Worlds Clash
Chapter XXVII
Protectors
It was about five months since Wanda had gotten grounded for running off to bother the X-Men, and her brother hadn't tried getting her to bother the X-Men since. In fact, Wanda had kind of made a friend. She talked with Kitty on the phone all the time, which was fun. The girl was a little more upbeat than she liked but it was nice having someone closer to her age to speak with.
However, Wanda had more pressing issues, and she wasn't too sure whether she should be annoyed or not as she had been teleported to London, England by Lily with Betsy. It had just been a spare of the moment thing that that had been building for months. Lily had decided that she needed to turn herself in, and by extension her too, though she suspected that it was more something to do with Xavier.
Okay, so Lily gave Betsy the choice to say with Wanda, but nope. The younger in that messed up relationship was so in love they were all going to be lumbered up in the Crater, and Wanda doubted that her dad would try getting her out.
Lily seemed to have seen the error of her ways after their visit with the X-men, and now the three of them were being held in - well a nice looking, if plain apartment within CyberTech. It obviously hadn't been lived in, and as far as Wanda could tell; this was the nicest prison she had even heard of.
The three of the were startled as suddenly the elevator door slid open to admit a girl with icy looking skin just wearing a white tee shirt and shorts. She was carrying - or more like dragging a large black suitcase along the floor with one hand and a package wrapped in brown under her other arm.
The cold looking girl Wanda took note was quite cute with her long brown hair and blue/purple lips and frosty eyes. She took bare footed steps that left patches of frost on the varnished wooden floor.
Neither Wanda, Lily, nor Betsy got up as they watched the girl come to a stop by Wanda and set her case up against the sofa with a sigh, her expression neutral when she dropped the package into Wanda's lap before moving around the older girl and taking a seat next to her on the sofa.
Wanda looked down at the package in surprise to find her name on it before back to the strange girl to see her watching her. She was going to open it to see what it was when the elevator opened again, and this time a hot young man exited with a grin.
"Good afternoon Angels!" he spoke laughingly.
"Yeah. If you sent a speaker box that might have worked!" Betsy said as she stood up looking confused as she eyed her girlfriend's son suspiciously. "Why are we here, and who's Miss. Icy?"
Harry Avalon smirked at them. "You don't want to go back to jail… so you now belong to me, until such a time as I feel you've made up for being evil villainesses. And Evelyn here is your new commanding officer… your boss, your-."
"Err… Ha… Harry," Lily mumbled as she interrupted, as she stood up looking uncertain. He just let his eyes roam over her before turning around and he took a deep breath.
"Please don't… neither, Amy or I are ready for…" Harry trailed off with a deep breath. "Just please. I'm already going above and beyond to keep you out of jail," he said turning around and looking the three over. "Just take orders; do as needed, and you and your team will get everything you need or want.
"This apartment is yours while you are here," he continued sighing. "I want you suited up and ready to leave in one hour. Inside Wanda's package there are some newly designed devices I've called a Focus; they'll fit on your ear, either is fine, and Seraph will be in your ears and eyes at all times you wear them on missions for the time being, and other than Evelyn, she is in command. Evie, show Wanda to your room, and Laguna and Psylocke to theirs," he finished quickly leaving the apartment.
Betsy put her hand on Lily's shoulder for comfort. "Don't worry Lils', I'm sure he'll come around eventually," she said gently kissing her lips, Lily kissing back. "He seems like a good guy, and you heard, just… give them space, and I guess we're being hired out as security or something, so as long as we do our jobs – he'll come around; they'll come around."
"Follow me," Evelyn interrupted without the slightest embarrassment like Wanda showed. She then led both older women to one room with a large queen-sized bed before leading Wanda to the next larger room with two double beds.
Wanda wasn't big on sharing her space, but it was better than going to jail she supposed, and if they'll get everything, they need for just using their powers, then… well it's a better deal than her father gave her. Also, the room was huge, and Evelyn didn't seem like she would be an annoyingly chatty roommate, so that was something.
She opened her package to find four small white cases with the CT CyberTech cog like logo imprinted into the cases in blue. She took them and passed one to Evelyn as she had returned from collecting her suitcase and placed the last three to the side on her bedside cabinet as Evelyn seemed to be new enough to their new sleeping arrangements that they both chose their beds. Wanda would check out this new Focus device once she checked out what was in her package and gotten changed.
Looking through the rest of her package Wanda was surprised to find a long deep scarlet coloured coat. She picked it up surprised at the perfect quality and material; it was lighter than her usual thick red one, and felt a lot stronger, and armoured.
She found some black combat trousers made of a material she couldn't identify, but it was the same as her new coat and it was easy to tell they were armoured. The trousers came with a scarlet belt with black buckle and CT logo, and a black body armoured top with no sleeves, and scarlet boots with grip and some kind of memory gel within them.
Wanda looked over the coat a little more as it had a pentagram design like some kind of die pattern like wires imbedded on the back, and a smaller one over her left breast with the CT logo shadowed within a smoky colour, with some scarlet belts attached around the waist in triple with black logoed buckles, along with a large hood, and a black lining.
"Aren't you going to change?" interrupted Evelyn suddenly startling her.
Wanda looked round her eyes widening, and her cheeks staining scarlet (ironically) as Evelyn was just holding something to wear butt naked, showing her small but firm breasts and naked between her legs.
Wanda was quick to turn away in embarrassment. "Y-yea… I'm going to, but-but, why are you naked?"
"Oh, I made you uncomfortable," she said sounding uncertain. "I am sorry, my big sister told me to be more mindful, but I figured that being naked in front of each other is perfectly okay, as we are both girls, and we are now roommates it would be a common thing to be undressed in front of each other, and my older sister has never acted oddly. As for why I'm naked, I wasn't wearing underwear under my clothes, just a sports bra which needed removing for my armoured suit to fit correct… I will inform R and D that I shall need some underwear for my suit, Cornelia will understand and make something comfortable."
"Okay… but, no, it's okay," Wanda said embarrassedly looking back at the naked girl. "Y-you just caught me by surprise is all," she answered. "I don't mind really, but I've never had a roommate before, so this will be… fun… I think. A-anyway, I-I'm going to just change now."
Evelyn nodded. "Okay, I'll finish dressing then too."
Wanda sighed in relief as she looked away and started stripping down to her underwear and looking at the armoured vest and tee she peeked at Evelyn before quickly pulling off her bra; there was a black sleeveless shirt, so that would do as she pulled it on and marvelled as it seemed to pull itself taught to the contours of her body before pulling on the body armour – she made mental plans to try getting some better underwear too, for use with her suit. The body armour only covered her chest and moulded around her body like memory foam feeling good with the top underneath.
She pulled on her trousers and secured them with her belt before pulling on her new boots, and clamping them firmly with black logoed buckles before sliding on her new coat with it hanging to her ankles, she buckled it around the waist before picking up the scarlet leather gloves she had almost missed and pulling them on they fit so tight to her skin they were like a second skin to her.
Wanda looked herself over in the mirror, and not only did she look good, but she felt really comfortable, and protected. She pulled up the hood and was awed as her face was hidden in shadows.
She startled when something cool to the touch slid onto her face and moulded around her eyes. She half ignored Evelyn as she looked into the mirror to see the scarlet mask moulding around her eyes with some kind of lining of darkness spreading over her eyelids like eyeshadow and making her eyes deepen, and somehow it did shift her appearance.
"It slipped off your package," Evelyn said from the side but Wanda didn't look from the mirror as she wouldn't recognise herself. "You are really, pretty; I wish I had boobs like yours; mine are so small, but I'm okay…" she said smiling slightly as she squeezed at her chest with a thoughtful frown.
Wanda blushed as she wasn't sure how to respond to that and wondered whether her new 'friend' had watched her change. However, she did look away from their reflections, and paid closer attention to Evelyn, and couldn't help but lick her lips as her traitorous hormones made her heart skip a beat, and she wished her girl kept squeezing herself like that, but she stopped and looked up at Wanda.
The younger girl was wearing padded/armoured white leotard with loads of scattered icy blue snowflakes and the CT logo over her chest in icicles, and an icy blue belt slanted around her waist, icy blue half boots, and icy blue fingerless gloves. Then she was wearing a long half cut skirt to her ankles hanging to her left, attacked to the belt.
The suit fit her form snugly around her firm body, with a hood attached and up like Wanda's and similar icy blue mask over and around her eyes with a blue shadowed around her eyelids. Then on her right ear was a white and blue device like a small three-D arrow head, flat to her ear, but angled down the centre, and down that centre angle was a blue light and it seemed impossible that it held onto the girls head because there didn't seem to be any earpiece.
"You should set up you, Focus," Evelyn startled Wanda out of her curiosity as she gestured the device in her own ear.
"Oh, right," she said sheepishly as she picked up one of the little cases and popped open the hinged lid. She was surprised that the device inside came with a USB-Type-C threated charger cable, and the case turned out to be a charge dock with an OLED status screen. However, she ignored the cable and screen, and picked up the device from the charge cradle and put the case back down.
"How do I turn it on?" she asked as she looked for the power button. "This thing is surprisingly light but feels pretty durable."
"Just slid it on like I have," Evelyn said smartly. "Just slide it towards your ear," she said popping hers off and then sliding it back into place where the light went out when she pulled it off, and back on once in place it just seemed to stick.
Wanda frowned as she felt silly doing as she was told, sliding the device up to her left ear. However, she heard a bleep as it felt like it pulled itself from her hand and stayed put. She was surprised by that, but she could only stare in shock as a transparent CT logo popped up in front of her with 'Initiating Start Up' for a few moments before she watched as page after page flew by and synced with a CyberTech staff email address she didn't know she had, and went through all of her details like somebody else was setting it up for her.
"There; that's better." Wanda turned around looking all over, but she couldn't see where that new voice came from. "Silly… I'm communicating through the Focus. My name is Seraph," she said as the last step of initiation popped up with 'Seraph Network Sync Complete' before the words disappeared. "I will be your humble guide my darlings, Wanda and Evelyn, and don't you both look adorable in your super costumes?!"
Wanda blushed as she looked at herself in the mirror as her Focus was lit with blue like Evelyn's for a second before it turned red for no apparent reason. "You are going for the red look, right, 'Scarlet' Witch?" Seraph asked the surprised girl. "You can choose any colour you like really, and you can sync them to whatever accounts you use on your phones and surf the net and all that. They have a primitive 'assistant' you can name, change voices; that sort of thing, which has some incredible voice recognition and they have gesture controls too for more precise needs, but for the time being for missions I will be your assistants, and you can play with them and sort everything else out later."
"Umm… okay, I guess, Miss. Seraph," Wanda said sheepishly as she looked to Evelyn and the younger girl shrugged.
"We should see whether Laguna and Psylocke have finished changing," Evelyn said as she ignored her new friends and Seraph's meeting and led the way out and to the lounge as Wanda grabbed the two spare Focus's. "You may call me Snowdrift while in uniform," she finished off as they entered the lounge to find Psylocke and Laguna waiting for them, and Wanda handed over their Focus's each.
"Whoa, Wanda, you're looking good, girl," Betsy complimented while Lily nodded in agreement. "But… what the heck are these things…?" she asked as she looked over her Focus and looking at Wanda and Evelyn, she slid hers on and Lily watched in surprise as moments later the blue light on the device turned purple.
"Holy crap," Betsy said in awe. "This thing is incredible, Lily, put yours on," she said eagerly.
Lily frowned at the device before sliding it on, and a minute later her mouth was hanging open in shock while the light in her Focus turned green. "There's this girl talking to me, and what do you mean, augmented reality…-?"
Seraph answered Lily with what looked like a holographic screen appearing out of nowhere, but it moved with her, so it was a screen in her vision only. Though, Lily was sure the others had a screen too since they were reacting as strangely as her.
In front of them on the screen was the image of a fit looking girl. She had long smooth black hair to her shoulder blades. She was wearing a white tee that was a little loose on her, and tight black jeans with a black leather jacket and black leather boots. The girl was young and looked angry with onyx coloured eyes and light brown skin. However, it was the twin metal claws coming from between her knuckles that drew most of their attention, and the single blades coming from within the boots from her feet as her image rotated as the screen seemed to not quite be there.
"This is your target," Seraph's voice suddenly spoke to all four of them at the same time. "Physically, sixteen years old… however, she is roughly three. She has no normal name that we are aware of, but the designation X-Twenty-Three. She is a cloned mutant with enhanced regeneration, and some pretty impressive adamantium claws. She was created from the Wolverine's DNA to be an anti-mutant weapon and is now being used as an assassin against governing and powerful officials who are pro getting along and peaceful cooperation."
Lily was surprised and thankful that an image of the Wolverine appeared on another 'screen' as she didn't know who that was and was glad the guy with much more muscle and bigger claws was on their side, but she didn't have enough time to read much of his bio.
"Ex's, next targets… well, the first," Seraph continued. "A mutant by the code name Beast: A Mr. Hank McCoy who works in human-mutant relations. Ironically, Ex is being controlled by humans who don't want to see peace between humans and mutants or mage or any such. They're so 'scared' and I use that word loosely that they'll start a war to get their way and have humans hating mutants… and… well thousands of innocent deaths, but people like them are thankfully becoming quite the minority," she said.
The picture of X-Twenty-Three was replaced by a muscular blue furred mutant with fangs and claws with the whole gorilla monster thing going on wearing some trunks with an X on them in one picture and a full brown suit in another.
"Mr. McCoy is scheduled to meet with the British Prime Minister tomorrow afternoon, and it is rumoured that she is authorised to kill the Prime Minister too. Mr. McCoy has arrived in the country and is now in his hotel.
"Your mission is to capture X Twenty-Three alive and to make sure Mr. McCoy doesn't end up in a fight with the target. It would not look good. We have evidence to say that she will be attacking sometime this evening. Angel one, Aurora is charged and ready to fly…!"
"Sweet," Betsy said in excitement. "We get to fly in a CyberTech…"
"However, due to the short distance you can all walk," she was interrupted by Seraph.
"Oh; that is so not right!" Betsy complained while Lily was laughing, and even Wanda had to hold back by biting her lower lip. "Can't we at least get a freaking car?" she moaned while pouting.
In answer the wall at the far end suddenly pixelated and became glass before opening into an elevator.
"I guess," Seraph agreed with a small laugh.
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Wanda climbed out of the 'car', which turned out to be a silver Bentley that drove itself, something Betsy complained about. Apparently driving an expensive Bentley was a dream of hers, but Wanda was sure she would settle for any expensive car.
Snowdrift had already exited, and Wanda hurried after the girl while Laguna and Psylocke were in the lead.
The four entered the hotel when Laguna paused with her eyes flashing gold. "I… I think she's here already… I sense something wrong…"
Snowdrift nodded as her eyes scanned the lobby. "It does seem that even during the mid-evening they would have staff at the desk," she agreed as she gestured the empty check in desk.
"Sorry, hardware, firmware, and some of the better apps are only in alpha," Seraph said through their Focus's, "and detective mode isn't working, bloody app. I will have words with the team, and it will be working properly next time. I promise. Sorry."
"Its not your fault, Seraph," Lily said gently as she had discovered that Seraph was through a roundabout technicality her granddaughter. Betsy tried telling her that wasn't how things worked and Seraph was a highly advanced artificial intelligence, and Lily thought she was probably right, but Seraph was the closest thing she had to hold onto since her daughter was gay, and Harry was apparently super-single according to Seraph, and neither of them were really speaking with her.
"I'm sure you'll all have it sorted out in no time," Lily continued. "We'll get plenty of chances to test out any equipment you have for us."
Psylocke shook her head while rolling her eyes at her girlfriends' crazy antics as she jogged over to the desk and looked over; her eyes narrowed. "Enough yatter. The desk staff are unconscious and bound," she said as purple lines and nodes in her sight surprisingly checked their vitals. "Wow, the medical scanner app is working okay as its given me a green light on these three," she said as she returned to their team.
"See, Seraph," Lily said. "Some things are working fine."
"Well… good," she said slowly before she spoke only to Betsy. "She isn't going to ask me to call her Grandma or something is she? Because I think that would be weird."
"No… I think you're fine," Betsy said sheepishly as the rest only got one side of the conversation. "I got your back."
"Our mission," Snowdrift interrupted as Seraph was giving her instruction while talking to Betsy about Lily, and talking to Wanda about how the medical scan worked as she had peaked over the desk, as they had discovered that Seraph could do millions of things at once and have thousands of different conversations with different people at the same time.
"Psylocke…" Evelyn began to reclaim their attention. "You are to take the emergency staircase around back."
Psylocke was surprised when schematics and directions appeared in her right eye transparent like the map marker of a video game; it even had a yellow way point marker.
"Laguna," Snowdrift continued. "Since you are capable of flight you shall take the window," she said and then directions to Beast's room appeared in her eye, showing an outside view of the building. "As for us;" she said gesturing herself and Wanda. "I shall take the elevator, and Scarlet Witch shall take the main stairs. We are to reconvene on the top floor outside of Beasts room, understood!?"
"Got it," Psylocke agreed.
"Okay," Laguna said. "Be careful you two."
"Right!" the Scarlet Witch said nodding as she left towards the stairs while Psylocke was quick to head off through some doors towards the emergency staircase, and Laguna exited back outside.
Snowdrift walked calmly over to the elevator and pressed the button. The door was quick in opening and she stepped in before pressing the top floor button and waited as the doors closed and the elevator started moving up.
She had to endure that horrendously boring music while tapping her right foot in annoyance. She waited, and waited, and waited before the speakers mysteriously froze over, cackled once and stopped working, leaving her with a small smirk while pretending that Seraph didn't reprimand her.
However, just two floors away from the top the elevator stopped, startling her. She tried pressing the up button, and even the door open button, but nothing happened when she staggered as the lift lurched and shuddered.
Gritting her teeth, Evelyn held the sides of the elevator as she heard the ominous tearing of metal and the lift lurched violently forcing her to her knees before she heard the snap.
Snowdrift screamed as the lift started falling and she was lifted from the ground by gravity. She fell several floors before a huge explosion of white, ice and snow exploded out from her.
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Wanda grimaced as she was halfway up the stairs when she heard some screaming before a huge explosion and crash coming from somewhere else in the building.
"Snowdrift…?" she asked in worry. "Snowdrift, are you okay?"
"I can't see her," Seraph answered instead.
Scarlet Witch got nothing from her knew friend and heard the slight worry in Seraph's voice, so hurried up following her map. She just hoped Evelyn was okay and hadn't – no – she was not going to think that. This was their first mission together and they couldn't just fail it and…
She came to a stop one floor down from the top on the landing where dark eyes were glaring down at her coldly. The onyx eyes of their target as she clenched her fists two huge metal blade claws pierced through her skin between her knuckles with a smidgen of blood.
"Umm… maybe we could just… talk?" Wanda tried and barely moved back avoiding having her face sliced off. "I… I guess not huh?" she asked rhetorically as she ducked under another swipe where the girl actually growled.
X23 swung round with a kick that made Wanda back up into the wall from when a new blade sliced out of her boot between toes and cut into Wanda's body armour over her stomach surprisingly melting through it and leaving a stream of current.
Wanda grit her teeth in pain as the blade nicked into her before flinging her hands forward and blasted Ex across the landing into the end wall where she crashed down with a painful grunt, her claws retracting back into her.
Scarlet Witch grabbed at her stomach with a grimace. It stung, and she was just thankful she got the girl away from her. Those blades were ridiculously sharp. They were apparently made from some kind of super alloy from a crashed meteorite or something; the same stuff Wolverine's were made from – well, technically, this girl was kind of Wolverine's daughter.
The black-haired assassin climbed to her feet with anger flashing in her eyes as she clenched her teeth and fists before pausing and looking to her knuckles in confusion, she flexed her fists a few times but nothing.
"Got you," Wanda called out as she rushed forward quickly and planted her fist into X23's face causing her head to whip back and crash into the wall.
"Ow, shit that hurt!" Wanda cried out shaking her hand as that was going to bruise; she didn't think about the fact that metal covered Ex's skeleton.
However, the weapon made girl didn't go out, but only growled before grabbing Wanda, picking her up by her coat and running her crashing into the far wall painfully before throwing her down a flight of stairs.
Wanda groaned in pain as she tasted that metallic ting on her lips and tried to pull herself up and promised to thank Lily's son for the armoured protective outfit. She looked up the stairs to see X23's claws on her hands had finally retracted, and the girl glared down at her with a split lip that was healing perfectly before Wanda's eyes.
Scarlet Witch was seeing double and couldn't quite focus as they locked eyes. She now knew how it felt to always be fighting the 'bad guys': painful because they didn't hold back.
However, expecting, at the very least an ass kicking and trip to the hospital after, and at most death she was surprised as she pulled herself onto her hands and knees panting painfully for breath to see X23 just turn and flee up the stairs.
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Laguna landed on the edge of the correct window to find it open and hopped in without knocking or anything - with a look and name like Beast's, she expected him to at least smell her coming.
"Ah, Miss. Laguna," a surprisingly soft and gentle voice came from the large blue furred mutant. He wearing a grey suit and sat at the table with a lap-top computer in front of him with a custom keyboard for his use. He was doing something on the computer and had a cup of coffee beside him. "I had assured Mr. Avalon that all of this was quite unnecessary," he said looking up and smiling at her. "But where are my manners, would you like a cup of coffee? Or perhaps a tea?" he asked her kindly.
"Umm… no thank you," she replied feeling a little self-conscious. "But… the assassin's in the building," she said at the moment the door was sliced in two and kicked in, and there stood X23 with metal claws out.
"Hmm… you must be X23," Best said as he stood and moved closer. "I must say… I expected you to be bigger!"
She growled and charged passed Laguna before she could react, swinging for Beast, but he back flipped out of her reach and when she struck again he caught her wrists with his hands when a claw came from her left boot, but he wasn't wearing shoes and caught her ankle with his foot before throwing her painfully into the wall.
X23 got up quick, charging him, but was hit by an invisible force and pinned, crushed into the far wall crying out in pain as Psylocke stood in the doorway and held her left hand outstretched as she pinned the girl to the wall.
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"N-next time, I'm taking the stairs," stuttered Snowdrift as she glared up at the spot X23 escaped from behind Scarlet Witch.
Wanda grimaced as she looked over the frosty girl to see her looking shaken and scared, and her hair was a mess sticking out from under her hood with blood on her lips and a few scratch lines on her checks, arms, and legs.
Wanda groaned out in pain as she pulled herself shakily to her feet and almost fell with a cry, but Evelyn managed to catch her, helping her stand.
"Y-you doing okay, Snowdrift?" Wanda asked her breathlessly.
The icy girl nodded while her breathing was also laboured, and Wanda held on a little tighter to support herself. She would have thought Evelyn would be freezing but she was actually comfortably cold, like an ice pack.
"I'm okay," she answered as they helped each other hobble up the stairs.
It took them a little while, all battered and bruised, bleeding in places and sore all over, but they made it to the top floor where Wanda saw the elevator looked like a blizzard flash froze the whole shaft popping the doors off with the pressure making a half-assed ice slide if you discounted the spikes.
They made it to their target room to find the door had been cut down and Laguna, Beast, and Psylocke having already caught and knocked out X23.
"All of t-that and w-we don't get her," Scarlet Witch complained as she and Snowdrift fell to their knees breathing heavily.
"Wanda! Evelyn!" Laguna cried out in shock as she rushed to both girls as they both lost the fight to stay conscious; she skidded to her knees catching both of them in her arms.
"Are they okay?" Psylocke asked worriedly.
Laguna nodded. "Yeah; my Focus says they're fine, just a bit beaten up," she answered in relief. "You grab Miss. Claw girl, and I'll bring these two. You should be okay now Mr. McCoy. We'll have the staff rescued and they'll get you a new room… like one with a door."
"I thank you for your assistance," he replied gratefully as Laguna levitated Snowdrift and Scarlet Witch while Psylocke picked the bound and gagged X23 up bridle style and grimaced a little as she was fairly heavy for such a small girl. "I do hope that young Wanda and her friend will do well."
"Thanks," Psylocke replied grateful, giving him a nod before Laguna grabbed her arm and they disappeared.
As soon as they had gone, Beast returned to his computer where a window housed a bald-headed man in a cream suit while another had a feral looking man with dark hair and long sideburns.
"X-Twenty-Three has finally been captured Charles," Beast spoke calmly. "She has been taken back to CyberTech."
"And what will they do with her?" the wild man asked.
Beast shook his head. "I do not know, but I do know she will be given a chance to be free," he said but the other man just growled.
"Harry had said that he will bring the girl to the institute," Charles said trying to placate the surprisingly older man. "Once she is capable of being around others then he will bring her. We must be patient; she has not known anything other than following orders."
"Yeah… whatever…" the wild man said before just getting up and leaving the room he was in.
Charles sighed. "He understands no matter how much he denies it."
To Be Continued…