Ra looked down at Reggie processing the information he was just given, maybe Ra should have checked in on Reggie since he had left. Ra narrowed his eyes at Reggie this was far from over.<br/><br/>"Later Reginald." Was all Ra said to him as he knelt down next to the man and looked him in the eyes.<br/><br/>"can you talk?" The commander looked at him eyes wide with fear and pain, his tongue hanging out of his slashed cheek the blood running off of it and onto the ground. Ra snapped his fingers and repeated the question.<br/><br/>"mrah nrahme ish grordan." The commander frowned as he worked the words around his newly opened cheek. Ra sighed and grabbed a seed from his pouch an idea forming in his head. Ra held the seed against the open wound and focused letting the seeds roots stretch out to the frayed edges of his cheeks slowly threading through his skin and knitting the upper and lower edges together in a makeshift cheek. The commanders eyes widened as his body arched up in pain, when Ra took his hand away from the mans newly formed cheek the commander collapsed against the floor breathing heavily.<br/><br/>"Okay lets try this one last time. what is your name?" Ra asked the commander again. The commander looked at him then at Reggie and then opened his mouth again.<br/><br/>"My name is Jordan." Jordan spoke slowly wincing as his new cheek moved with his mouth. His speech was still slurred but it was easy to understand. Ra smiled he was glad to see that his idea had worked.<br/><br/>"Good now answer Reggie's questions." Ra smiled down at the man, a not so nice glint in his eyes.<br/><br/>"Your uncle knows that you are trying to kill him, he knows that you are jealous of his power and money. Since you have tried to kill him he has doubled the security, better guards, higher fences, twice as many checkpoints, and better weapons. He has your useless sister the only thing she is good for is as a bargaining chip to use against you." Jordan got braver as he spoke his cheek slowly getting numb. Ra shot Reggie a pointed look making sure he would wait until Ra was done with Jordan.<br/><br/>"Ok now you answer my questions. Who hired you?" Ra watched the mans eyes flicker down and to the right as his pupils dilated.<br/><br/>"I don't know." Jordan's eyes flickered at Ra and then away again. Ra sighed and reached into his pouch again grabbing another seed this time placing it on Jordan's hand.<br/><br/>"One more time who hired you?" Jordan just turned his head this time. Ra shrugged then focused on the seed again causing the roots to burst out of the small seeds and slowly bore just under Jordan's skin. They slowly started traveling up his arm making sure to stay between his skin and muscle. Jordan's eyes widened with unknown pain as the roots continued crawling up his arm. It was easy to see where the roots were as they raised the skin as they went. Ra stopped the roots at Jordan's elbow and spoke again.<br/><br/>"Now who hired you?" Jordan gasped as the roots stopped inside of his arm eyes wide with fear and pain.<br/><br/>"We were hired... by Alfred Alexander... His uncle." Jordan spoke in short breaths trying to control his breathing, the pain had lessened but it hadn't gone away he could feel the roots underneath his skin almost as if they were pulsing not wanting him to forget about his presence.<br/><br/>"Good now tell me what your mission was." Ra made the roots grow a little more just to remind Jordan what would happen if he refused to answer again.<br/><br/>"We were sent in to take out a group of men and bring back Joseph alive that is all I was told I swear." There were tears forming around Jordan's eyes threatening to run down his face. Ra made the roots travel up his arms again this time stopping them at his shoulder. Jordan was visibly crying now his arm searing with pain as the roots steadily crawled up his arm peeling the skin off of his muscles.<br/><br/>"Why was that your mission? Now start telling me everything or I will make it worse." Jordan looked up at Ra his eyes red and puffy.<br/><br/>"Fine all we were told was that these men were interfering with the Core's plans and that they needed Joseph to undue the damage he was making. I swear that is all I know." Ra looked down thoughtfully at Jordan this man certainly held up better then most people when roots were crawling around under his skin, but he doubted the man was lying at this point.<br/><br/>"Does anyone know about us?" Ra tapped the seed deliberately the message clear.<br/><br/>"No we were only told to eliminate everyone in the bar and not leave any witnesses we just thought it was our good luck that it was almost completely devastated." Ra smiled at Jordan and stood up walking over to the two unconscious bodies and paused for a second looking around.<br/><br/>"Hey Gremlin do you see Naureen anywhere? Hmm oh well I am gonna take these two back to Joseph see if I can't find a place to lay them down. Try not to enjoy Jordan too much ok, meet me in the office when you are done." With that said Ra grabbed the two unconscious men and walked through the dead bodies. Ra stopped for a second and put them down quickly walking around and grabbing the guns and ammo he could find, stuffing them in his belt. Satisfied that he had gotten all the guns and ammo he picked the two men up again and headed back to Joseph's office. Ra stopped in front of Joseph's door and kicked the door open with a crash. Joseph jumped with a start as Ra walked in.<br/><br/>"Hey were can I put these two? they may not wake up for awhile." Joseph stood up a little shaky at first then a smile spread across his features an he pressed a hidden button in his desk.<br/><br/>"Actually I have the perfect place to put them." Ra was a little nervous at the strange smile and mysterious demeanor of Joseph. Ra's paranoia didn't improve when the desk started sliding across the room revealing a staircase. Joseph started down the staircase motioning for Ra to follow him.<br/><br/>"So I know this whole mysterious staircase thing is probably giving you a boner or some shit but A little explanation would be nice." While Ra's tone was light there was an obvious threat buried in it Ra did not like the idea of following a man he did not trust down a mysterious staircase while he was carrying to unconscious people full of dead weight.<br/><br/>"Oh don't worry I built this place specifically for you guys and for the job I am paying you for. You know how I said I would provide lodgings for you, well this is it. By the way that was some impressive work you guys pulled off out there I am guessing that is the monster that was attacking the bar?" Joseph asked the question  as he stepped off of the stairs and stood in front of a door with a keypad on the wall beside it. "This wall is almost impenetrable a super carbon nano polymer three feet thick and the keypad only operates for specific people namely you guys and whoever else we allow in to the system. The pass code is 76937." Joseph said this as he punched in the code and stood back as the door slid to the side revealing a large circular room. In the center was a large table surrounded by chairs. Joseph walked across the circular room and pulled open a door. "This leads to the infirmary I think it will be the best place to put these two for now." Ra followed a little overwhelmed at the complex and the thought Joseph must have put into it.<br/><br/>"This is quite a feat I never knew there was anything except sewage under the cities." Ra followed Joseph down the hall to the infirmary and laid the two on the nearest beds. The room had five beds along one wall and on the opposite wall was a counter with cabinets hanging above it and a deep sink set inside of it.<br/><br/>"Yes it took a lot of time and a lot of money from some very lucrative people that are now dead." Joseph walked over to a chair and sat on it. " I will watch over them for now. Once everyone is in here let me know and I will give you the full tour." Ra nodded and left heading back across the room to the main door and walked back up to the stairs and into the office and leaned against the desk waiting for Reggie.