Chapter 105 Encountering Trouble (3)

"Incompetent morons!"

The news of his men losing Vi’ivando’s nephew and subsequently being captured by the Alliance Police when trying to recover their captive had just reached Iniquus.

His already dented desk received two additional hits that dug deeper into the metal than usual. Of all the frustrating things to occur, this one was the last straw.

Angrily he called his aide into the room and began discussing plans of recourse. To keep Vi’ivando compliant, he had agreed to allow the man to have a fifteen-minute holo-call with his nephew each day.

Originally this had been a small price to pay to have the expert engineer work on what he wanted, but now it was coming back to bite him.

"We were so close to being ready too. And now this happens at the worst possible moment." Iniquus said, slamming his fists into his desk once more.

His aide, remaining calm in the face of his master’s outburst, simply continued with the conversation.

"I’ve already located which station our men and Vi’ivando’s nephew are at. Unfortunately, breaking into an Alliance Police station would be impractical."

"Obviously I know that already." Iniquus grumbled. "Even if I sent all of my agents and they were successful, the attack would be linked back to me."

Feeling backed into a corner, Iniquus’ mind raced with what to do. In order to keep his public image clean, he was unable to do anything too overtly. There would be no point in eliminating all of his competition for top dog of the system if he ended up arrested by the Alliance Police in the process.

"It’s a bit early but have Dusad rile up those extremists to act. The Alliance Police will be far too busy dealing with them to notice a small break-in at one of their stations. Make sure to retrieve Vi’ivando’s nephew and collect the imbeciles that let him escape."

Bowing his head, Iniquus’ aide went to work on enacting his master’s orders.

…

At the police station, Avery, Jasmine, Ezra, and Kaiden gave their statements on what happened to Sergeant Farash. While they did this, Kasandra had gone off to receive the rewards for the bounties they had collected.

Around the time that they were finishing up, the Baccigan they had rescued finally woke up.

"What?! Where am I!?"

Confused by his surroundings and not recognizing the people around him, Vi’ivando’s nephew was naturally confused.

He immediately began


Seeing that whatever was going on was trouble, Avery, Jasmine, Kaiden, and Ezra got up to leave.

However, before they could go the only other person that knew what was really going on spoke up.

"I know I shouldn’t have run, but they were going to kill me. I promise I’ll testify against the Odium Syndicate like I was supposed to. Just please help me save my uncle."