Chapter 17
At The Heroes Association the next day.
McCoy hasn't gotten word back from Septimus. The contracts have yet to be fulfilled and the clients were getting angry. He kept leaving message after message but still no reply from him or the other men on the project. "I can't believe this. We got money wrapped up in this, it's already spent! We cannot afford any more missteps!" he muttered.
McCoy was called to a meeting very suddenly by the board of directors. He was about to enter the room when he noticed Agent Guiches also approaching the same room as him. "Guiches?"
"McCoy? You got called too?"
Suddenly, both of them appeared far more nervous. They reluctantly walked in, yet tried to keep a calm persona about them. When the door closed behind them, McCoy placed on his charm and tried to appear as confident as he could. "Board of directors, and what do I owe…. No… not you!"
Sitting in the chair at the front of the table was none other than Garou. He smirked and leaned back in his chair as Guiches tried to get out the door. Yet the door was frozen solid. Locked by Garou's esper power. "It won't do you any good." Garou warned.
The two men were panicked now. He slowly rose from his seat and began stalking the men. "You… have attempted come after my family… People don't have a good survival rate after they come after my family."
"It… it's nothing personal, Garou. We weren't after your kids… it was the three heroes…"
"Ah… they are considered friends to my children… and they are considered friends to my mate. Friends… can become family." He warned. "Now… I know everything."
"What… what do you mean?" asked Guiches.
Garou's smile grew. "You sought out the clones who wished to restart the house of evolution in hopes of creating a new… breed of heroes. I must admit I am flattered that I inspired this notion, but I take offence since what happened to me was against my own will! You wish to do the same to others for the sake of what? Super powered humans? Yeah, you don't even know the full extend of this, or the side effect. The three who were turned are very, very luck the serum worked. It may not work for everyone, and yet it appears you want to take that chance?"
They began to notice Garou's tail lashing about, staring at them oddly. McCoy swears it was licking its lips!
"I will make this as plain and simple as I can for you two. Your little plan is done. The men you conspired with are no more, I saw to it personally. My daughter has every bit of information this new house of evolution was gathering. And we also have details of your involvement in it along with the contracts you signed and the money received."
Both men went white in the face. "Wh… what are you going to do?" asked Guiches.
Garou's smile grew. "Oh, that's not for me to decide. Besides, I do believe these companies don't like to be cheated out of product. And I heard you through the door, you already spent the money they 'paid' you for said product. How you pay them back, well that's going to be difficult now isn't it?" The smile then quickly vanished. "Consider yourselves lucky, that my daughter wasn't taken, she went of her own free will to GeneX Labs… had she been taken… and you were involved… You would have been just as dead as the men who ran it."
Garou turned and reached for the door. "That's it! You aren't going to do anything? Say anything? We're going to be able to walk away from this?" asked McCoy.
"Sure, I guess so. But then again, I am not the one who will be deciding that. Won't I Sitch?"
The two agents were stunned silent. They had been so focused on Garou, they didn't even bother checking the other seats that were turned away from them! Sitch turned and gave but a nod. "I will be taking it from here, thank you Garou for resisting you previous notion of their punishment."
"It wouldn't have been worth it… I'm full." Garou left the room and allowed Sitch to take it from there. He had to go find Hunter anyways, after that last take down of the house of evolution, he was call into the association. No doubt a promotion was in order.