Tape held onto Kirby as he drove away from her house. She didn't put up a fuss, which surprised Tape. When he stopped at a red light, he brought out his phone and video called his Boss.
"Ah, Tape. I see you've done it. Congratulations are in order."
Kirby started squirming under Tape's arm.
"Dumb goirly's babysitta didn't even try ta do anything about it! She did try ta call the cops but she failed!" Tape laughed. "Stop movin', brat."
"I suppose I did think that would take longer. Get her here and the money's yours."
"Ya neva told me what tat whole experiment biz was about. I wanna know wot we're gonna do ta her."
"You know, it has been a while since you started working here. I'll cut you some slack. You remember how everybody working for me has some sort of special ability?"
Tape blew his bangs out of his face. "Yeah. Wot about it?"
"We're going to do that to her. Raise her as one of our own. If that succeds, we'll go younger."
"Baby age? Isn't tat a bit too young?"
"Nonesense. If we can grow our little family members from a young age, they'll be less likely to fight against our ideas."
"Wot about teh others? Like me an' stuff?"
"We make sure to wipe their memories the best we can first. Then we test them out. Your successor didn't get fully erased, so he turned against us, tried to fight us. We had to...finish the job."
"Couldn't ya just start off with teh kidders?"
He shook his head and tsked Tape. "Tape, Tape, Tape. If we had done that, we could have killed them from the start! We had to test it out on others first. Older, more mature people. Unfortunately, our first few attempts went awful."
"Oh. I see."
"Yes. It's unfortunate-" Kirby kicked Tape's phone, sending it flying into the road. Tape stopped his bike and saw a truck run over his phone.
Tape's jaw dropped. "Why ya little brat! Ya know how much tat costs?! I'm hardly holdin' onta anythin' at the moment 'ere! Tat costs ya a thousand bucks, goirly!"
Kirby fought her way out of Tape's arm, but he grabbed her before she got to run away. Kirby was able to get the tape off of her mouth enough to speak when she landed on the floor.
"You kidnap people and mind-wipe them? Then you turn them into super villians?! That's one messed-up job!"
"Villains? No no no. We're tryin' ta help people. Mind-erasin' is the best way ta get the wrong ideas their so called "parents" put inta their heads when their young."
"You've been lied to! You were mind controlled too!"
"'Ey! I've been wit them my whole life! I chose dis path! And now you are going ta as well." Tape re-taped her mouth and twisted the handles. It inched forwards, then putted out, coughing up smoke. "Great job, goirly. Now ya made my bike run outta gas."