Interrogation

Ready to wake up the three dressed in black on the floor, Vance reached his hand out and snapped his fingers.

As this happened, water appeared over their heads, falling on them and waking them.

"What? Where am I!?!?" One of them asked with a garbled voice.

"Oh? You're on vacation, don't you remember? You got caught kidnapping dummy." Vance said while lightly kicking them in the stomach.

*Grunt of pain*

"Well then. Lads and lasses. I've got a few questions I need answered. And you're gonna answer them. Otherwise... I can't promise what I'll do." He said as he reached out a hand and let lightning course through it.

As the three fully became awake, they looked at each other and made a large biting motion.

Quickly guessing what they were going to do, Vance made the shadows in their mouths keep them from finishing the bite.

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk. Suicide? No no no, you're too far in to be able to do that. Even if you died I would just bring you back. So be good and tell me what I want to know."

Fear spread in the three people's eyes and they nodded

"Good, I hope you stick to that, or this won't be very pleasant."

Watching Vance work, the little boy stared with his mouth wide open. The man seemed to be shocked at his methods.

"Hmm. I guess my first question is, why did you try and kidnap the kid?"

"It's our orders. We have to bring children back for testing."

"Oh... orders. Interesting. Who's orders?"

"Watcher Reginald."

"Watcher Reginald? I'm gonna guess that's his title. So what kind of testing are the kids going through?"

"We don't know, they don't tell us that level of information."

Vance nodded.

"Where exactly are you bringing the kids then?"

"We bring them to one of our bases here in the capital."

Vance began smiling.

"Where at?"

"An abandoned warehouse."

"An abandoned warehouse in the royal capital? That doesn't make much sense. Plus it's so cliché. You guys couldn't get anything else?"

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"Whatever." Vance stretched once again and looked at Celine, Alice, and Ryoko.

"I think I'll make them lead me to this factory. I wanna see what kind of tests they're running. You guys can keep exploring. Do as you please."

Next he looked at the man and little boy.

"Do you two have a place to go?"

They nodded.

"The boy here is my son, I couldn't just let him get kidnapped. Me and him will simply head home. His mother won't even believe what happened."

At the mention of his mother, the boy started bouncing.

"OOH! WE HAVE TO TELL MOM!"

Vance chuckled.

"As long as you have a place to go. Oh yeah." He created a bag filled with gold coins and handed it to the man. "Here, have this. I don't know where exactly you live, but maybe find a safer place. Hopefully next time I run into you, it won't be because you're getting kidnapped."

The man took the money with hesitation.

"I- I don't know how to thank you. With this money, me and my wife can finally chase our dream of having a top quality inn. How can I repay you?"

Vance smiled. "Just open that inn. Me and my group will probably end up staying there one day."

"It'll be absolutely free of charge for you Sir. Oh! I forgot to say, in case you do run into us again, my name is Harold. This is my son Zachary."

Vance nodded.

"Well then Harold, Zachary, you guys should probably head home now, I'm sure your wife is worried about you."

As they were leaving, Vance put a small spell on them that would let him check how they were doing from time to time.

"Well now that I've gotten that out of the way." He looked at the three that were still on the ground. "Get up. Take me to the factory."

They stood up quickly to avoid making Vance angry.

"Well then girls, I'll be off." He handed each of them a bag of money. "Here's some funds. I'll be back in a bit. Oh and I'll be removing the spell on this room."

Celine, Alice, and Ryoko happily took the money and waved as Vance removed the spell and walked out behind the three dressed in black.

As he followed them, Vance put a spell on them so that no one else could see them or touch them.

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After thirty minutes of walking, they came to a large abandoned factory.

Vance whistled. "Woooooow, it really does suit the cliché. Well, I imagine that everything isn't just out in the open once we go in. So bring me to whatever hidden staircases, elevators, ladders, or whatever you use to get down there."

The three went in and went to a machine that looked like it hadn't been touched in years. Vance watched as they toyed with a few buttons on the device before a somewhat loud noise was made and a different machine slid to the left.

"Oh? Quite neat. Let's keep going, shall we?"

The three had no choice but to keep walking ahead of him as he followed.

Eventually they came to an all white room.

"Hmm, I suppose if experiments are going on down here they would need a sterilized environment. Makes sense."

In the room were three doors. One led to a room that had lockers filled with white coats. Another led to a room filled with beds. The third door led to a long hallway with a door at the very end.

"Let's keep going." He said as they started walking down the hallway.

Opening the door at the end, Vance saw several glass windows. On the other side of the windows were various children strapped to chairs with adults in white coats doing various things to them. Some were being injected with needles and others were being tormented with magic.

"What a horrible place. And I haven't even found out what their goal is. You three stay here or I'll hunt you down. I've got some work to do."