Okay, someone had failed to mention that they would be working with the government on this one. Four days into the mission, they had an "underground" meeting with agents of Interpol. Seems the people who were running the slave ring were high on Interpol's "To-do" list. It was a precarious situation if Ororo had ever seen one.
"I know that human-mutant relations are rather shaky. I'll level with you. The governments of the world are afraid, and they think that with your help we'll be able to stop this thing. They are afraid of what Morrow will do with so many mutants. They are afraid of what people who buy mutants will do with them," the female agent said.
"How is he controlling all of those mutants? Surely, some of them have tried to fight back. Why haven't they succeeded?" Ororo asked.
"Details are sketchy. However, our informant tells us that he uses some kind of device to control their powers. A collar, I believe she said. These collars may also give the owner a certain amount of control over how and when a mutant uses his or her powers. Don't quote me. She also mentioned that Morrow isn't as helpless as he seems; he may harbor some mutant power of his own."
"If we take down Morrow and his entourage, it'll only leave the position open to the next power hungry warlord, and we'll be back at square one. We want to bring down everyone involved, and we want to recover as many missing mutants as we can. We also need to find out how they are finding the mutants. Do they have a spy? Or do they have some way of tracking mutants?"
"Let's talk about the key players…" Scott said, as the discussion continued to move forward. Joy, Ororo thought to herself, this was going to be one of their more interesting missions especially now that Interpol was involved.
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A/N: I don't know when the hell this is going to end. It's been so on-going. I'll see what I can do about concluding this story… sometime… in the near future… maybe… The next chapter will be up soon. I'm just trying to decide if I want to go route A, route B, or route C.