Chapter 32: Elsa Gate's True Intentions

Elsa Gates is in her office with Ace the assassin. What is going on?!?

"You seem rather confident to be walking around without your uniform."

Ace walks to the couch and then completely undresses. She then sits on the chair, "Is that better?"

Elsa Gates rubs her temple in irritation, "That's not what I meant."

Ace laughs and then responds to Elsa, "Oh by the way thanks for saving my skin back there."

We flashback to when Ace was attacked by the huge flame by Colonel Johnston.

"I could've died." Ace makes an exasperated face.

Elsa Gates doesn't humor Ace, "Stop fooling around. I'm surprised the so-called most dangerous assassin is so childish."

Ace laughs again and then gets in a more comfortable position, "Hey come on, give me a break. Besides I'm just living life."

Elsa Gates rolls her eyes, "Did you really struggle that much with them?"

Ace responds, "Yeah I was surprised too. Despite me not being allowed to kill them, I shouldn't have struggled that much. However, the appearance of Harrison and those kids made things much more difficult."

Elsa Gates thinks to herself about their interference and then responds back to Ace, "They were that much of a factor huh. Regardless next time I would appreciate it if you didn't mess around the entire time."

Ace responds lackadaisically, "Yeah, yeah. Serious lady."

Elsa Gates sighs, "Well I think it's time you contacted your employer."

Ace salutes her, "Yes mam." Then she put her hands together and a button arrived in her hand. She pushed it popping open a holographic screen.

In the holographic screen, a man sits there in a white suit looking around his 20s. He has slicked-back red hair and overall looked very clean and professional. This man is known as Bob Smith, the richest man in the world.

Elsa Gates stands in front of the screen, "It's been a while, Bob."

Bob Smith notices Elsa Gates and addresses her, "Hello Ms. Gates, hope everything is going well."

Ace greets Bob as well while she's eating a chicken leg still completely naked, "Sup boss."

Bob Smith then looks over to Ace and sees she's completely naked. His eyes open wide and then blood start pouring out his nose causing him to fall back on his chair.

Elsa Gates looking irritated then tells Ace to put some clothes on.

Ace sighs and goes to put on some clothes.

Elsa Gates sighs, "You never change Bob."

An older butler comes and gives Bob tea and a handkerchief to clean up his nosebleed. Then Bob drinks his tea and feels better. "That's not nice Ms. Gates I think I've changed quite a bit."

Elsa Gates then glares at Bob Smith, "Get serious I don't have time to fool around."

Bob Smith puts his tea down and looks a bit more serious, "Very well, so how did your plan go."

Elsa Gates then begins explaining what happens as she pulls up a holographic screen of her own of the events, "Overall the results were successful, however, some unexpected occurrences took place."

Elsa Gates then starts explaining her plan, "As you know the plan revolved around the new special dampening technology I was working on. Creating a device to disable special abilities over a wide range. This was important for multiple reasons that will be discussed in the future. However, I knew the World Government would be sneaking around and I had no good way to test it properly. So I decided to hit 2 birds with 1 stone. It was fortunate for me I knew one person on my staff who was looking to betray me already, so we used him to initiate the plan. With your help, you reached out to him and made him believe he had a chance to take over my city, so I allowed him to kidnap me and take control of my technology. This is also what forced the World Government to get involved eventually, but we knew we needed some kind of force to bring the entire plan together, so we hired Ace to deal with the military and act as a double agent essentially. Considering the situation I knew the Marine Corps would be sent to deal with the city. That is when I gave Ace a list of Maines she could and she could not kill. We waited for someone that Ace could not kill and that's when Colonel Johnston arrived. At that moment the next phase of the plan began. Ace captured Colonel Johnston and tested my technology on him. It was a success. The rest of the plan was to have Colonel Johnston escape and take out the traitor. Then Colonel Johnston would've put all the focus on the traitor and his technology and that would get the World Government off my back. However, with the unexpected appearance of Harrison and those kids, things changed quite a bit. Ace was defeated, Colonel Johnston was saved and now the World Government might be keeping their eyes on my movements. So I would say the plan was about 75% successful."

Bob Smith listens and nods his head, "I see, I see. They were that much of an unexpected variable."

Elsa Gates then changes the screen of her holographic, "Yes, the Wandering Priest is a threat in himself as I'm sure you're aware, but the two kids with him piqued my interest far more."

Bob Smith responds with curiosity on his face, "Is that so?"

Elsa Gates changed the screen again, "Yes, the girl was a telepath, so I'm sure you know what that means."

Ace returns looking confused, "What does that mean?"

After Bob Smith heard this news he was very surprised, "That's huge news! What about the boy?"

Elsa Gates then switches the screen again, "The boy is even more unique. It seems like he is a lightning elemental at first glance."

Ace cosigns saying," Yeah that's what it looked like, pretty skilled too for being so young."

Elsa Gates then continues saying, "The impressive part is he can command lightning itself, even more than that he can create his own lightning at will."

Bob Smith was very confused considering how normal elementals work so he asks, "How is that possible, I thought only prime elementals were capable of such things?

Elsa Gates responds, "They are, in theory, he should not be able to do such things, but what's even stranger is the special dampening device for a moment did not affect him..."

Bob Smith opened his eyes wide and was surprised, "Interesting..."

Ace looks uninterested, "I don't get what the big deal is."

Elsa Gates sighs, "Basically it means that there's something about Christian's DNA that is different from other specials. He's someone I would be very interested in learning more about."

Bob Smith smiles and responds, "Is that why you had your son go with him?"

Elsa Gates gets up and looks out the window, "That's part of it. However, I have a feeling Christian is about to show my son things that I could never imagine."

Bob Smith with a bit of sarcasm replies, "I see, such a good mother."

Elsa Gates rolls her eyes and looks back at Bob Smith, "I don't appreciate the sarcasm."

Bob Smith laughs a bit, "Well Ms. Gates let's keep in touch and make sure to let me know what you plan to do next. "

Elsa Gates responds, "Very well."

Bob Smith then looks at Ace, "Also Ace I have another job for you if you don't mind."

Ace shrugs, "Yeah sure, as long as you keep paying me. Well, I'll see you later Ms. Gates."

The meeting ends. Then we see Bob Smith get up, throw off his shoes, mess up his hair, take off the suit, and put a robe on with anime girls, and then he starts playing video games. Basically, he's an otaku.

*Purgatory City Arc*