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Chapter 4; Friendly Chat

The interrogation room was actually Onier's room. The trio had simply just taken out his bed, tied their trio of "prisoners" up to some spare chairs and turned all of the room's lights off. Unfortunately, the light from the hall still seeped in and lit up most of the room. That kind of eliminated the mysteriousness or the fear factors. Once the room was ready, Onier used his powers to wake them up.

"Que whaaaaa?" Rex said, bolting up. Unfortunately, the sudden action caused his chair to tip over and fall on its side with the teen's legs flailing in the air.

"Behold," Oliver said sarcastically as he gestured dramatically. "Providences former secret weapon! Tremble in awe and terror!"

Amyna sighed, shook her head at her friend's antics and the Hispanic teen on the floor then walked over to flip the disoriented E.V.O back up. As she did so, the sixth deadliest man on the planet looked around the room, raised a single eyebrow and spoke. "Is this supposed to be an interrogation?"

"Uh, well, kind of," Oliver said. "More of a friendly chat considering you can most likely easily break out of duct tape bonds."

"Then why are we tied up?" Bobo asked. He shook the duct tape to make a point. "I'm not an animal you know."

"Because if we didn't tie you up, you'd just escape. And we need some information." Oliver pointed out. "And technically, you are an animal."

"Then this is animal abuse." Bobo retorted.
"I have rights!"

"So what do you want to know?" Rex asked, completely ignoring Bobo. "Favorite color, favorite sport...Oh! I know! Favorite hobby?"

Bobo looked at Amyna. "You could have just asked, beautiful. I can't believe you did all of this for me. I'm touched."

"One more word, monkey," Amyna raised a sai threateningly. "And I'll..."

"I'm still a chimp." Bobo muttered. He tried to adjust his now holey red fez but couldn't due to his bonds.

Onier sighed and tried to get the "interrogation" back on track. "First, what were you breaking into to get back? And what's your relation to Providence?"

"We broke in to get a package of unstable nanites, which we still need by the way, for Doctor Holiday," Rex said. "She needs them for some science-y thing that I don't understand the details on. And as for Providence, we are effectively fighting them. Unless it's a life-or-death situation than we sometimes team up, kind of like frienemies. Like a while back, there was this E.V.O pollen spore things that turned anything it touched into an E.V.O. Even people."

"Frienemies?" Onier's face was a mask of confusion. "What in the name of Morpheus is a 'frienemie'?"

"You know, like we fight but still help each other when necessary? Like Professor X and Magneto." Rex explained. "They're still the bad guys but sometimes there is a bigger threat and everybody helps out."

Amyna walked back over to Oliver and Onier. "How about the control collars? And how do you feel 'bout those?"

The reaction was immediate. Rex and Bobo instantly looked repulsed. Even Six grimaced at the mention of the devices. Rex spoke out first. "I hate them. I've been collared myself. Once, my own brother tried to put one on me. It's horrible; you lose your will to chose and have to obey any orders even if you hate them. I had to attack my friends. Providence was better off without them."

"Uh-huh. We will be right back." Amyna said. She grabbed her two friends and pulled them out into the hall. Once they were alone she asked, "Do you guys believe them?"

"They seem sincere enough," Oliver said. "And they defiantly don't like the control collars."

Onier nodded in agreement. "I believe them. Plus, Rex doesn't seem skilled enough to lie."

"Soooo... Maybe we could get some help from them?" Amyna suggested. "We could offer a trade, maybe give them the nanites, since we didn't know we had them in the first place and they need them. In exchange for some help on our Providence problem? With their help, we might be able to win."

"Like the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend?" Onier inquired. Then thought of another phrase. "Or if you scratch my back I'll scratch yours?"

"Yeah, like that! It's the best option we got. Unless either of you has a better idea." Amyna grinned and her male counterparts were both silent. When neither spoke up with a better plan or any at all, she continued. "So are you guys game? It's this or letting them go and trying, emphasis on the trying, to fight Black Knight and her goons solo. And we all know what will happen then."

The boys nodded. Amyna's idea made sense. Alone, Providence would just overpower and collar the trio. Then, Providence would have the unstable nanites, which probably are really important if the defected group that came all of the way here just to get them back. They must be pretty important, whatever it is they do...

Heading back inside, Oliver noticed that their "prisoners" had broken out of their bonds. Probably with one of Rex's builds or something Six did. Or maybe even the talking monkey broke them out. They're all were capable of breaking out relatively easily. As soon as Oliver, Onier and Amyna entered the room they got three opposing sets of weapons pointed at them. Looking back at it, storing their weapons in the same room as their "prisoners" probably wasn't the best idea.

"Woah, woah. Woah!" Oliver threw his hands up in the universal sign for surrender. The three ex-providence agents lowered there weapons slightly. "Before anyone gets trigger happy, hear us out..."

*Author's Note; Thanks for reading! You guys are awesome! And some of you take the time to review, favorite and/or follow the story. I just really appreciate it. I'm really sorry for the delay on the updates, though. But, if anyone here likes Spider-man, I'm going to be publishing a Spider-man one-shot soon. Anyhow, I'm still extremely thankful to have some authors, Legend's Fighter and *technical difficulties* as two amazing and selfless Beta-readers!