CHAPTER 36: TAKEOVER
"Hi," Wallace walked into the uncompleted building where the three mafia families' head and the CEO of Maximus Corporation had been held captive. Their eyes widened as they looked at the man who had just made his way into their building, the one whom everyone feared. In his second week in the country, he had kicked up a storm.
"Please spare me," CEO Maxim begged, the three mafia heads did not even bother to beg because they knew that they wouldn't be spared.
"Do you know what you people can do for me?" he asked.
"I want to swallow all your businesses, but there are some we can't swallow without due legal processes, so I need you to sign this for me," he said as Laura went towards them and handed them documents one after the other.
After the documents had been handed to them, "You might be thinking that why must you sign this since you will soon die anyway, you see I don't have time to torture, so I have tabs on all your families. You are going to die anyway, why must you make life miserable for them? They won't be able to get any property, but they will become miserable," He said as he bent down and smiled to them, the smile looked like the devil's smile.
"The easiest punishment for the ladies of your families will be them becoming pregnant and not knowing the father of the child because I will have at least three guys rape them each, including those from their families. A brother will have no choice but to rape his sister," Wallace said, and their body shook when they heard the ruthless judgment Wallace was going to pass down.
"As for the guys that can still provide, I won't have them do that. I will just lock them in a house where I'll have them kill each other, and the last one will become one of the workers I can control. There's this device the S.H.I.E.L.D wanted to use to control me," He said as he brought out a dark device.
"I can make it explode, so I will put it in his brain, and will control him to go through various death missions using it," He said. Their faces were ghastly pale when they saw that.
"Please stop, they're innocent," Nuvoletta pleaded.
"Why don't I see you preaching that when you went all the way to France to kill innocent people?" Wallace asked, while Laura's body on the side shook.
"Either sign it now, or you see your family turn miserable before you in a video," He said.
"You're the devil," Matteo nodded his head vigorously.
"I'm not the devil, I'm just someone that went to hell once and came back," he said.
"Sign," he shouted.
The four quickly picked up their pens and signed the documents. They knew that they were going to die, but they couldn't do anything about it.
Wallace pointed a gun at Valerie's head and "Bang" his head was blown off.
"Boss, please let me pass judgment to these three," Laura said.
"Ok, just make sure to clean them," he said as he walked out of the building into his car.
He lighted a cigarette as he took his phone and pressed an unknown number.
"Hello," The president's shaky voice was heard.
"I told you not to make any foolish move, but you still went ahead and did it. Well, I've killed some now, but I won't kill you. Just get ready tomorrow because there will be some nasty revelations about the president of the country who is supposed to be working for the country," He said.
"No," The president wanted to plead, but Wallace had already cut the call.
"Boss, should we do it?" Antonio asked.
"Release everything on the platform, then let's make him known internationally," He said.
The following morning, as Laura made her way into the Maximus branch building, the news station within the country all carried a topic with different content and headlines, the past misdeeds of the President of the country.
"That's quite a skeleton," Wallace thought.
The evidences posted online were verified overnight, and the newspaper reported seeing everything was true, all carried it immediately.
That morning, while Laura was busy taking over the establishment in the country, the president was receiving countless calls, and in the evening, while Laura was exhausted from the day's job, the president was escorted out of his apartment.
Just like that, the hegemon of a country fell.
Wallace worked through the whole night and slept in the office the following day, while Laura, Lucia, and Antonio were busy working when his sleep was disturbed by the arrival of countless black vans. He frowned as he stood up groggily and went downstairs.
Close to fifty people in black suits were all arranged in five files. The moment he got down, they all bowed down immediately.
"We welcome our family head, our god, and our belief," They all echoed at once, and fifty people tailing all at once created an effect that made everyone look out, and even those tenants.
"Ahh, what brings you here?" Wallace asked, as he suddenly had a strong headache.
"We've been told that we can start jobs back, and we have many things to do, but the Consigliore told us to pay our respect to the head first, and as workers under you, you must know about us working under you," One of them walked out and said.
"We are the head of various departments working under the Carlos family. We've been trained since a young age. Some of us have died, so their vice has taken over," He introduced them.
"Ok, just continue the good job," Wallace answered.
"You won't be seeing me most of the time unless there is an important matter, so you will be seeing the vice head most of the times. Just accord her the respect that you will accord me, and there will be a day I will meet all of you, maybe during the weekends. Just let everything cool down first," He said.
The third day of the week passed just like that, and the rest of the week days passed with Wallace not doing anything other than just staying at the Maurinez plaza and sleeping. But despite him just sitting at the office and sleeping, a lot of storms were kicked up. Those politicians that opposed the rise of the Carlos family at the beginning were all destroyed, as information about their dark deeds were brought out.
All their properties were seized, while they themselves ended up behind bars, while their families turned into poor families overnight. This made countless politicians fear the Carlos family, and their operations had started in full force.
What remains is for Wallace to be crowned as the head of the family, then he will help Lucia deal with her problems before he starts looking for answers to his question through the underground channels.
It was a Saturday, just like that, marking the end of the second week that Wallace had been in Italy. Everything had basically been solved. They were in the office while Laura was informing him about how the inauguration ceremony that will take place the following Monday will be like, just to ask about his opinions about some things.
A knock was heard on their door. "Enter," Antonio said.
Two men in black entered, "Mr. Wallace Ace."
They walked directly to Wallace. "What can I do for you?" Wallace asked.
"Please, do you have time? We want to meet with you, and it's very important," The man said.
"Who is looking for me?" He asked.
"It's not in our discretion to say it now, but trust us, we won't harm you. We just want to invite you for a friendly conversation," The man answered.
Wallace turned to Laura, "You can all retire for the day. We will meet here tomorrow to talk about it then."
"Should we follow you, boss?" She asked.
"You can also follow us, as you will also be needed," The man smiled.
Wallace squinted his eyes dangerously, as the aura around him turned cold.
"We don't mean any harm, sire," The man said.
"Ok, let's go, but it will be in our car," He said.
"Ok, sir," The man answered.
They left the office, and their cars drove through the city until they arrived at a mansion.
"That's the mansion of Bruce Wayne," Laura explained.
"I've heard about Bruce Wayne. He is Batman in Justice League," Wallace said.
"Justice League does not exist in real life. They're fictional," Laura answered.
"Hmm, let's see if it's just another businessman that just wants to threaten us. We will destroy them," Lucia said with a smile.
They entered the compound and got down from the car. They were led directly into the mansion that has many rooms. They went to the room at the far end of the building and entered. It was a large hall with a lot of chairs, and each chair had people sitting on them.
The man sitting at the head of the table stood up and smiled when he saw them.
"Good evening, Mr. Wallace, Mrs. Laura, and Lucia, and Mr. Antonio. I'm Bruce Wayne, in real life, but I'm also known as Batman of the Earth Justice Federation (E.J.F)," The man explained.