The Machine [Open/Accepting]

[lil_lollypop1]

"S-sir, it's awful! I-It's like one thing after another." the soldier began.

"Stop being a baby and talk!" Shadow yelled in the background.

"What do I say?" The soldier asked.

"Anything he wants to hear!" Shadow yelled back.

"I uh... Well, we're in the middle of a gun fight." The soldier told Damien, obviously partly in shock.  

[Eternal_PrinceOfFire]

"With who?" Damien asked. Who had the gall to attack Diethelmian soldiers? Unless...the military was attacking itself.  

[lil_lollypop1]

"Not sure, sir. They appear to just be mercenaries, but they're not acting like it. They're too unified." The man replied. "Shadow doesn't know either. Oh, sir, Miss Ravenstone wanted me to tell you to look in the file taped under the desk if it's still there."  

[Eternal_PrinceOfFire]

Damien checked under the desk. He didn't see anything. He opened up a drawer though and felt under the top. He came across something and pulled it off. Sure enough, there it was. "Ah, found it. Thank you, soldier" the Absolute Leader said.  

[lil_lollypop1]

"My pleasure sir." The soldier replied. Suddenly there was a loud explosion nearby as the soldier yelled and phone skidded across the floor.  

[Eternal_PrinceOfFire]

Damien held the phone away from his ear. "OWW!" he yelled as the explosion gave him ringing in the one ear. He then showed Jian the file. "Seems Ms. Ravenstone made sure we had something to go on. We need more people like her in here" he said.  

[lil_lollypop1]

"I agree." Jian replied, opening up the file and looking inside. "Looks like Shadow was right about that group. There's a lot of evidence here, and a list of names."  

[Eternal_PrinceOfFire]

"So, who should we start with, you think?" Damien asked, looking over the list of names and taking a glance at the information.  

[lil_lollypop1]

"Why not start with arresting them all. If we grab them one at a time, they might catch wind and try to escape." Jian suggested.  

[Eternal_PrinceOfFire]

Damien nodded. "Of course. Now we have proof that implicates each one of them. Now we can make them backstab each other once they're all being interrogated" the Absolute Leader, seemingly with sadistic delight. He enjoyed making his enemies squirm, especially treasonous ones.  

[lil_lollypop1]

Jian nodded in agreement, giving a silent thanks to Monica for laying everything out for them.

((Time skip.))  

[Eternal_PrinceOfFire]

((Sure. Where to? Should Damien and Jian be interrogating them now?))  

[lil_lollypop1]

((If you want, sure. ))  

[Eternal_PrinceOfFire]

All those whose names were on the list were arrested on the order of Damien. Some were placed in the holding cells in HQ by themselves. However, there wasn't enough cells, so a few were trucked off to a nearby jail until further notice. Damien wanted the more important ones first.

Currently the Absolute Leader was standing over one of the media department members who was strapped to the interrogation chair. Many tools for the aid of interrogation were at the ready and Damien wasn't afraid to use them. Was Jian? Probably not, due to the fact that they probably knew where Monica was.  

[lil_lollypop1]

Jian said nothing, running his hand over the torture equipment. Doing this sort of work always put a bad taste in his mouth, but he would put up with it for now. Monica's life was on the line. Jian hesitantly picked up a crop and walked over to Damien. "Shall we begin?" He asked Damien.