The Press and everyone else in the room erupted in curiosity as one of the most press deterrent people just dropped one of the biggest pieces of news they've had from him in years, not to mention the fact that he just announce that he was shutting down an entire division of his company in which a lot of people work within, basically firing them so of course he had to try to diffuse the situation.
"Everyone calm the hell down and pay very close attention to what I fucking said! I said that I will be TEMPORARILY shutting down the weapons division, not permanently…..yet, but in the meantime while I decide on what to do next, all employees in this division will either be moved to a different division or be put on paid leave." He explained, looking back at Ibara and Tsunagu, signaling them to go get the car ready because he was in no mood for getting pressed by the press today, nor did he feel like dealing with a pissed off Stane, because even though he was hiding it, Katsuki could tell Obadiah was fuming.
But as the crowd started asking more questions, the gray bearded man realized that he had better help and get Katsuki out of there before he got himself put on the news for something other than what he just announced, "What we should take away from this is that Katsuki's back! And he's healthier than ever.
Katsuki, seeing this as his chance to escape the situation, quickly made his way off stage with Ibara and Kirishima in tow, leaving Obadiah to deal with his mess, like always.
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"Now, we're going to have a little internal discussion and we'll get back to you with the follow-up." the gray bearded man finished as he finally answered all the questions that he could at the time and got the press to calm down. Hastily making his way off the stage, hopping on his Segway and rolling off. "Well someone is going to receive a giant check today and unfortunately it's not me, goddamnit Katsuki!"
After looking for a while, he finally found Katsuki's limo parked outside of the central power building, as Obadiah casually rolled inside he spotted Tsunagu leaning on the doorway, when the blonde man met his gaze with both of them not even having to say a word, Tsunagu pointed his thumb to his right while uttering the words "Arc Reactor.", continuing his warpath to give Bakugou a piece of his mind, Stane also noticed Kirishima and Ibara talking amongst themselves and it wasn't hard to guess what they were talking about, but putting them aside he spotted Katsuki upstairs gazing at the the giant and currently active Arc Reactor in the middle of the room.
Breaking himself out of his thoughts, the ashy blonde noticed Obadiah coming up the stairs, rolling his eyes in annoyance, Katsuki quickly talk to himself on what his options were, "okay Katsuki, Captain Greybeard over there is coming towards you and so you have two options, 1) immediately walk right back downstairs and tell Tsunagu that you're ready to go home therefore postponing your talk with Obadiah, or 2) face the music and listen to think the old man's nagging, yeah I think I'm going with option one."
Unfortunately for the young CEO, by the time he was done going through his options over dials already standing right next to him, so he literally couldn't run away now. "So Lebowski, what can I do for you?"
"Oh you know, I would really love it if you stopped being a jackass and started thinking with your brain instead of your dick." He said, just about ready to explode. "But I'm a fair man, so I'm giving you a chance to explain your reasoning before I blow up at you with my seething rage, so please proceed to explain."
"All right then, I chose to shut down the weapons division because 1) when I was captured by those terrorists, they wanted me to build the Jericho missile for them, using parts from my weapons that they stole and they didn't just have a few guns and grenades, they had an entire artillery that could arm an entire military and that leads me to point 2) given the sheer amount of weapons they had, it can be assumed that they were relatively easy to steal, meaning other terrorist groups could be stealing them also, so it was better to cut their supply of at the source and stop mass producing weapons that they can steal." Obadiah looked at Bakugou with shock, taking the time to think about it he realized that Katsuki had a point, the weapons they made were too dangerous to end up in the wrong hands, especially the Jericho missile. "Will that be all Obi-Wan?"
"No, not yet, I have another question, just how do you plan on replacing the company's main source of income?"
"Truth be told? I have no fucking idea, we can try to keep the weapon division open, but that would mean we can no longer make country decimating weapons anymore and those are our top sellers, I think I have a plan, but for right now I need you to put some of our weapons people into the arc reactor technology."
"Wait?! Come on. The arc reactor, that's a publicity stunt! Katsuki, come on. We built that thing to shut the hippies up." The Old Man, kind of making a good point, but Katsuki still wanted to try and argue his.
"It works."
"Really, that's all you got to say? The arc was never cost effective. We knew that before we built it. Arc reactor technology, that's a dead end, right?"
"Maybe."
"Huh? Am I right? We haven't had a breakthrough in that in what? Thirty years." Katsuki could see that he was bluffing, hell, a blind man could see he was bluffing, so the blonde decided to call him out on it.
"That's what they say. Could you have a lousier poker face? Just tell me, who told you?"
"Never mind who told me. Show me."
"It's Eijirou or Ibara."
"I want to see it."
"Okay, Kirishima." Katsuki then proceeded to open up his button-up shirt to reveal the arc reactor in his chest, leaving Obadiah in shock. "Okay? It works as it is quite literally keeping me alive right now."
"Okay you're right, but listen to me, katsuki. We're a team. Do you understand? There's nothing we can't do if we stick together like your mother and I."
"I apologize if I didn't give you a heads up beforehand, but if I had…"
"Katsuki. Katsuki, no more of this "ready, fire, aim" business. You understand me?"
"Ah Ah, that's mom's line and I haven't heard it in years, so as far as I'm concerned, it died with her, but I understand and I also think I have a plan, but I'll need you to trust me."
"Alright, I'll trust you, whatever this plan of yours is, don't fuck it up." He said before walking back downstairs and making his leave. Katsuki, feeling a lot more stressed out, leaned against the railing, pulled out a cigarette and lit up, he stared at the Arc Reactor as he thought about what he was going to do next while taking another puff of the cigarette, suddenly his mind started going back to the soldiers who were assigned to protect him, Katsuki still felt directly responsible for their deaths and truth be told, he was, had he decided to not walk down the path he chose, those soldiers were probably still be alive to fight today and not just them, everyone who's ever been affected by his weapons were probably still be alive right now had he not made it said weapons in the first place.
"But this can't be completely my fault, it's not my fault those terrorists decided to steal my weapons, it's the man that pulls the trigger not the gun, I made those weapons to protect not destroy, so it can't be my fault that those terrorists decided to use them for that purpose." Katsuki thought to himself, making excuses as to why the suffering and death of the people affected by his weapons wasn't his fault, but even a person could see the truth, but how long will it be till he does?
Half an hour later, him, Ibara, and Eijirou we're sitting in the back of the limo and silence neither Shiozaki nor Kirishima we're willing to bring up the press conference in fear of getting blown up at by an angry Katsuki Bakugou, but the truth was even if they did say something they wouldn't even response as he was still in in deep thought, thinking about how he's going to replace the company's main source of income, with making weapons being out the window.
Prosthetics was an option, but the amount of money that the average man makes a day is way too low, even if you were to lower the price the company wouldn't be making back the money that it would be putting in, even if it's for a good cause it's not an option.
Technology and Electronics, Katsuki could probably design a phone that was better than anything that was out at the moment, but again not worth it and the company wouldn't be making back the money that it would be putting in to make said phones and that's not even mentioning the marketing costs or the multiple deals that Bakugou would have to sign.
He could put more focus into inventions, but planning and thinking men cost money and actually building the things if they will think of would need tons of funding so obviously that was out, although he could mass produce his new grenade and sell it to military as a way to keep the weapons division open, but the US military wants nukes not grenades and Katsuki was no idiot, he knew the second they got their hands on enough missiles, especially the Jericho, the first thing they'd do is point them at another country for something stupid like oil, that's why he never made too many of the big weapons,because then he'd have to sell to other countries to make sure the world kept itself in balance.
One thing that Bakugou always made sure to do with all his good missiles was make sure that no military on the planet could reverse engineer his missiles and figure out how to make them, so that way he was the only man on the planet who could make his weapons and being completely honest this reason was probably why those terrorists kidnapped him in the first place once they realize they couldn't rebuild his missile, although it probably wouldn't be hard to figure out that he was doing this, he still kept it a top secret with the only people knowing he did this (that he told) being Ibara and Eijirou, so not even Obadiah knew, although again, Katsuki isn't dumb, he knew Obadiah probably suspected that this was the case, but since it didn't affect his cash flow it didn't bother him, so he didn't bother to look into it Katsuki figured.
Katsuki seemed to have run out of ideas, but then one suddenly popped into his head, he decided that he wanted to hold a surprise fundraiser and during said event, it was more than likely that some loser was going to come to him with a business proposal, therefore getting him out of deep shit, but there could be a lot of backlash if he went through with this plan and the sane man wouldn't take that bed.
But luckily Katsuki Bakugou is the perfect example of what a Sane Mandoesn't look like.
