Underground (Pt. 2)

“Wanna get some rest?” Riven asked Joel.

Dr. Chi said his goodbyes and headed off with a bowl of what looked like fried chicken…

Delilah was silent at that sight. The irony.

Joel nodded, still feeling a bit shy after meeting so many people.

“This way,” Delilah chimed and showed them to the hallway of rooms. Metas of all shapes and sizes were walking down the halls, some in little groups as they chatted. Stopping at a room, Delilah pulled out a key and unlocked it. “I had rooms set up for you boys, so here is yours Joel. I hope it’s good enough.”

Joel looked around the room the walls were painted like the forest he used to live in. Shyly smiling he hugged her. “Thank you.

Delilah grimaced and patted Joel on the head. “You’re welcome.”

Joel blushed “ sorry I'm…. Going to lay down now.”

“Sleep well, dear.” Delilah said and would lead Riven to his own room. The wolf man would be thankful, but his room was too warm, so he froze it over and slept in that.

Joel crawled into his blanket and fell asleep hugging his tail.

Radar would be helping Mark go through the hard drives.

Delilah would find Mark and Radar, knocking on the doorframe as she entered the room. “How are things going?” She asked them.

Mark looked up from his monitor and smiled “ looks like these kids stumbled upon quite the jackpot here. Plenty of classified documents from megacorp just gotta go through it all.”

Delilah caught sight of a name and stopped the scrolling. “Holy shit…they have the meta known as The Beast hidden somewhere?” She sounded almost afraid. Of all the metas in the world, Nero was the one that nobody wanted to run into. His rage and hunger were well known to the point no one ever wanted to hunt him.

“This could be beneficial to us.If we can find out where they're containing him, they might be able to find some other profile metas. “ Mark replied looking through the file.

Sadly, the file would only mention that Nero needed to be more securely locked up. It never mentioned anything about his location. There was a video attached, so Delilah had it place and it would show a room…

Nero was resting in his clawfoot bathtub, a teddy bear with a missing eye hugged to his face, when the sound of a door opening filled the room. He woke up and turned his head toward the right, the camera zooming in toward him as he climbed out of the tub. “Food…” He growled as the sound of the door echoed again. It was followed by someone banging on the door, begging to be let out.

“They starve him and feed him misbehaving metas…” Delilah whispered in horror.

“Thrane is a real sick bastard” he growled, placing a hand on her shoulder in comfort.

She had to stop the video when it showed Nero dragging the poor man from the direction of the door.

Mark sighed and closed it before looking back over to Delilah “you ok?”

“Yes, but I don’t know if Nero could ever be conformed to society.” Delilah said with a sigh and sat down.

“Perhaps not but we’re still getting him out of there” he replied wrapping an arm around her “after all I know you too well.”

“You do,” Delilah murmured and offered him a small smile.

After they looked over the footage, sadly finding nothing, Delilah went to check over what James and Alex had sent their way. “A cold place with a high energy output…” She murmured. “Dr. Chi mentioned the only place he knew of with that was the North Pole at the moment.”

Mark scratched his chin before typing something into the keyboard accessing a satellite “with that much output it should show up on thermal imaging.”

Delilah looked at the screen and grinned when they got an image of a beautiful hot spot at the top of the world…

“Klaire's gonna want to see this” he commented studying the image.

“We’ll have to get in contact with her. I think she and the group went to another facility.” Delilah said as she typed a quick text and sent it to Klaire.

“I'll see what information i can grab on the place” he replied “knowing her she's gonna want to go immediatel”

“She’ll probably go before we can even get transportation ready…” Delilah laughed.

“We'll see about that” he chuckled.

“Klaire says they’re on their way here.” Delilah said, checking her phone. There was a cute picture of Ami sleeping against Klaire.

“ good, I think I might know a way to get them there” Mark replied focusing on the screen.

“Details,” Delilah chimed, looking at Mark with that naughty expression of hers. This was a woman that hid bazookas around her home, so…

“So swapping out dinner date for an assault on a MegaCorp complex?” he teased.

“Oh, please, when do we ever have normal dates, Mark?” She leaned over and kissed his cheek before slipping out of the room to get things ready.

“wear something sexy then” he called out as he arranged transport and supplies.

Oh, she would. She would…