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Joel reaches for her weapon, but Nicolas gestures for her to remain calm. "This is the face I do the MIB's work in," he replies. "My civilian identity is anonymous."
"Oh! So like Batman and Bruce Wayne? Only, like... you're evil, and give yourself douchebag hair."
"Douchebag hair?" asks Nicolas.
"Yyyeah," says Joel. "I didn't want to tell you, but it really does look awful."
"Horrible," agrees the scientist happily.
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"Anyway, we're going to need a number of these weapons for inspection. About eight should do."
"Eight?" whispers Joel sharply. "Do we really need eight?!"
"Alright, sir," says the scientist. "If you'll just follow me."
Nicolas is lead to another section of the room. The scientist procures a key and twists it in a lock. A metal panel opens, revealing an array of prototype weapons. Nic can see a trace of psionic energy in their battery cells.
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"Thank you," says Nicolas, trying not to worry about his apparently douchebag-like hair. "I actually have one more question, though. What did you do to keep your job when the rest of the Ignometics employees were fired?"
"Fired? We weren't fired."
"You... weren't?"
"Well, a few of us were," she says. "Mostly top brass. The CEO's in hiding, the regional manager is... dead, I think. You're kinda silly, you know! This all happened just last week."
"I'm a transfer," says Nicolas. "Apparently my briefing was insufficient, and I'll be talking to a manager about it soon. In the meantime, perhaps you could fill me in."
"Huh. Well! It happened about last week. I was in the break room playing my DS when someone sets off the alarm, and I step out to find the place surrounded. Tanks, robots... awesome robots! Seriously, where did you get the robots? Anyway, you had the place surrounded and basically took it over. A few scientists..." she hesitates, choosing her words carefully. "... attacked your men, and were disposed of. But most of us didn't fight! Because... we don't want to be blown up. I like to think of it as a good life choice."
"And then we converted the place into a weapons factory," says Nicolas.
"Right. With amazing speed, might I add. Seriously, it sucks getting taken over, but the robots building the place up was just really fascinating to watch. We were, uh... offered positions, in your place. We would get a generous amount of currency units for our efforts - and if I can be honest, that's the funniest name for money ever. But yeah. Basically, my options were to keep working with you guys or be, um... disposed of. And I like lasers! So I guess it wasn't a hard choice. I know the other scientists aren't very happy with the situation, but we're... working faithfully for you!"
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