So what do you know on Fictionpress one of these scammers not only sends me a PM message of their Scam but does what I really don't like and leaves one of their scam reviews on my most recently updated story! Fortunately that was the story starring an Anthro Naked Mole Rat so it's not one of the stories I'm the most attached to but dang is it infuriating!
Jonathan than scowled and realized he was not going to let the younger rogue bully him so easily!
"No see here Nygma!" Jonathan said "Before I go on you are going to tell me what exactly you mean by saying you want to 'thank' them! I know you Nygma! You hate it when anyone outsmarts you! You feel you have to be the smartest person in the room and when anyone is better than you at anything you feel small and then you have to have revenge! Are you wondering how some random teenager knew it was your signature riddle-coding when they tried to hack these scammers? Because you probably put your signature green question marks all over it! These teenagers...Particularly the girl who is a writer who got particularly offended by all these false offers got me the medicine I needed in exchange for me contacting you as part of the favor...That's the only reason I bothered to call you about this thing you know I would likely care nothing about! So if you're thinking of harming these teens I warn you Nygma I have a fear gas bomb with your name on it!"
"Edward sighed "All right, all right...I should be grateful these random nobodies cared to alert me my intellectual property has been stolen even it was for their own purely selfish reasons of not wanting to be annoyed by it anymore I suppose if I were in their position I'd feel the same way to…"
"Does it surprise you that other people have wants and needs of their own?" Jonathan sneered "I know you spend so much time kissing the mirror you mostly think of ordinary people as just a potential audience…"
"I'm sorry…" Edward finally said "...I'm just really irritated because of the betrayal I know had to happen to these petty crooks to have gotten my riddle-codes in the first place! And I was mostly thinking about which of my previous henchmen could have done it!"
"So you really meant you just wanted to thank them?" Jonathan asked as he cocked his head
"At the very least question them more about this situation…" Edward said "...So I can learn more before I go in to exact my revenge on these idiot scammers! The fact their using a military bunker for their base of operations it...Well it raised some questions about why put all that effort into something most of the people who do these scams do from their basements…"
"All right…" Jonathan said "...If you're going to come over to meet them I have to warn you...One reason why these teenagers were willing to help me despite knowing full well who I was it was more than just a way to contact you...These Teens...Aren't exactly normal…"
"What are you saying?" Edward asked "What are they like...Runaway circus freaks?" Edward thought back to Killer Croc's misadventure when he was befriended by a makeshift family of retired circus freaks during one of his escapes and blew a chance of living a peaceful life among them by trying to steal their money…
"Worse than that…" Jonathan said gravely "...You remember Kirk Langstrom's Man-Bat experiments or the stories we heard of his former associate Emile Dorian's experiments with trying to create an intelligent feline creature…"
And Edward felt a chill go down his spine "You mean…"
"These teens…" Jonathan said "...Are Mutant Animals...Animals who can speak, walk on their hind legs and wear clothes like humans...The girl I mentioned...Buttercup is a Mutant Potbellied Pig! That's probably part of the reason she was so incensed by these scams...Writing seemed to be her only real outlet as she has lived most of her life cooped up with her 'Father' the scientist who mutated her!"
So pretty good that I was able to wrap up this conversation in two chapters