Xavier stared at the file in his hands and stared up to look at the man that had put it there. The question in his eyes was as clear as day."Con, what is this?"Con shot Xavier a glare and shook his head."Won't you even check it out before you ask me something you might as well be able to see for yourself? I went through an amount of trouble to get those files y'know."Xavier cocked an unbelieving eyebrow up at that and chuckled a minute after. There was no way he would believe that, at least not when he knew the man that was in front of him.Con didn't experience an amount of difficulty doing anything. If he was finding something tasking to do, it wouldn't be because he was finding it difficult, no, it would be because something was hindering him from finding it easy to do.And that wasn't any amount of difficulty to the God of Mercenary. A task was either difficult or easy and there was no middle ground for Constantine Easton.He wouldn't admit to anything more or less."Is this g
The file had been in Xavier's hands for a while now and he seemed to be contemplating something.There was a lot on his mind, and this file just complicated things.Con watched on while he flipped through and paused to think about what he had read. It felt like the most unhelpful thing to do at the moment but Xavier took it in passing.He could tell Con might just be as confused as he was about whatever was happening to them and most of all about the information he had just taken from the national database.The fact that he had even broken into the defense systems of the very people they had worked for over twenty years ago meant he had some long standing resentment towards them.Which was normal considering how they had treated him at the time. They had blamed him for something that was not his fault and disgraced him for it, they were lucky he hadn't made the decisions to become a terrorist in revenge and make a mockery of their defenses and whatever other thing they decided to use
Lisa stared at the male in front of her and cocked her head to the side, amused."And you are?"Clay let out yet another sigh and turned around to see his outfit well. It wasn't really much to be honest.Just black pants and a black button up, with black leather shoes and some ridiculous cape looking thing he had placed around his shoulders.Apart from that there was also the cap he wore on his head, another totally ridiculous looking piece of clothing that wasn't needed.She had asked him what he wore all that for but he just asked her to guess.Lisa frowned and took one good look at the whole outfit yet again It fit him, in a strange way, but at the same time it just didn't make any sense to her."Are you going to a party?"Clay shook his head and frowned."No.""A cosplay event then? I don't really know what to say about this outfit if that's the case. It looks good on you but it makes you look silly."Clay groaned and rolled his eyes."I'm a detective dummy. A detective who's her
The moment Lisa got into her lab she set herself to checking for something that might be off.She had checked for anything that might look misplaced or scattered earlier when she had discovered the hard drive was missing, but she had found nothing at all.The whole place had looked the same way she had left it when she had worked in the lab the night earlier. What she was working on was something that would help Con and her father see the world around them in a new way.Clay had inspired the idea in her head with his glass helmet, the helmet could see light signatures, it revealed the world around them in a new way and it made her feel it could be something that was much more useful than the format it lay in now.Clay had let her take the helmet back to study, that and the gloves he had made.The gloves could bend the light in a way that no other piece of tech she had seen could not. It could manipulate the rays invisible to the human eye and it was something remarkable.She had bee
By the time Xavier came down from his office to try and salvage some of the information he had gotten from Lisa, he could tell something was wrong the moment he stepped foot on the very first staircase.His room was up the stairs while Lisa's lab was located on the main floor.He could help her search for the hard drive but first he would have to speak to her and they would have to discuss what she could do and the things she could not.The fact that she had stolen from him actually hurt him . Lisa was his daughter, one he had raised up himself. He knew that if she had wanted to take something from his vault of information she would come to him. The fact that she did not come to him meant she knew what she wanted to take was something that was off-limits and amongst all the files in his folder, there was only a select few that were off-limits.Those files contained information on things that would shock even her as a person, which was why he never wanted her to see it. Lisa was an inq
"Lisa is trying to track who infiltrated her lab and stole the hard drive."Con looked at the group of them and nodded."As fascinating as that sounds, I don't think that's our priority now. What are we going to do about Horizon."Xavier groaned as he grumbled and the whole sound came out feeling messy.How many times would he say they should do nothing?Nothing could be done at a time like this. This sort of situation could easily be one that would leave the whole country devastated again, and apart from all this Con seemed to have forgotten that they still had problems they had not yet solved yet.That was still the problem of the earthquake that had struck both cities 10 years ago. Everyone knew he was somehow responsible for it and there was footage of Lisa's scan on that hard drive. Anyone who now possessed that hard drive could easily access those files and leak them to the general public.They would be a social uprising. Everyone would want his head. Secret organizations would
Jake stood in the room full of people and tried his best to understand what he was looking at.There would always be a sense of strangeness in things like this to him. He could tell that beneath the hoods the members of Horizon wore, faces lurked underneath. Real faces of real people that had joined themselves to this agency and who would not want their identity exposed.He could tell they had their reasons for doing that, but it also felt like a really stupid action to him. There was no way he would be associated with an organization like this and still want to keep it a secret, he would have made it public knowledge. The man he had met before had been the one who brought him all the information he now had on Horizon. The fact that the man who had gone ahead to initiate him was also just a member had made him settled on the fact that if he ever got the chance to fully meet those who owned Horizon, then he would ask them to take him in as one of them.Most of the elders that had been
Jake was introduced to a lady he had not seen when he had come in here.The members of the organization had put their hoods down for him to see their faces. He could already tell that they would never do so again.This would be a one-time thing and a one-time thing only. He really couldn't be bothered about all of that though. It wasn't like he knew most of their faces anyways.The world was a wide place and the people in it were even wider. The fact that he didn't know all of them didn't faze him. The faces that he did know though, the people who owned those faces surprised him. They were all high-profile billionaires and multi-billionaires. They were worldwide philanthropists and globally recognized business tycoons.These were the people that stood at the helm of his world, but seeing them act like timid little kids in his presence made him know that they had only just been lucky enough to graze a tip of the iceberg. The power Horizon possessed was one that could not be compare