Chapter 64 The Floran Colony 19 (2/2)
He took John's arm and started to use John's PIPS.
He selected the option to beam up.
With a blinding white light, both Lenny and John disappeared from the planet and were teleported toward John's ship.
...
Jevil was happily staring at white briefcase when he received a notification from his pilot.
”Master, we have a hologram call incoming.” Jevil heard the voice coming from the ship's speakers.
Jevil was already inside his ship and on his way toward the nearest Ancient Gateway.
”Who's it?” Jevil frowned. He was now very unhappy that someone interrupted his joyous moment.
”It's Dreadwing.” The pilot replied.
”Oh, that Penguin pirate, again...” Jevil was sick of dealing with Dreadwing.
He always hated making deals with Penguins, they always try to pull something shady behind his back and this really pisses him off.
Jevil helplessly sighed and walked toward the Briefing Room of his spaceship.
He couldn't just ignore Dreadwing they had a lot of deals, including some that was very beneficial toward his business in the Underworld Facility.
He stopped by the hologram projector and turned it on.
Soon enough a blue light flashed out from it and a holographic figure slowly started to appear.
A small blue Penguin wearing a eye patch and a pirate hat with crossed bones as the illustration on it, appeared as a holographic projection.
”Dreadwing.” Jevil greeted the Penguin.
”Jevil! My friend, how you have been.” The Penguin greeted enthusiastically like they were best friends.
”I have been better.” Jevil's lips twitched when he saw the enthusiastic greeting. Usually when Dreadwing goes like this, it means that he wants something from him.
”Hahahaha... True, true.” Dreadwing gleefully laughed.
”Cut the chase.” Jevil rolled his eyes. He really doesn't had the patience to deal with Dreadwing. ”What do you want?”
”Well...” Dreadwing embarrassedly scratched his bald head. ”As you know since the last time with Dr. Akaggy's... Problem, I took in another engineer, Akaggy's brother, Cog.”
”Yes, and...”
”And...” Dreadwing dryly coughed. ”It happened again... Cog ran away, just like Akaggy did.”
”Ah...” Jevil helplessly sighed. ”You really need to watch out how you deal with the members of your crew, principally the important ones.”
”It happens.” Dreadwing doesn't want to admit that he was on the fault. ”I had asked around and I got the information that he is currently on the Underworld Facility, looking for jobs on the Beakeasy Saloon.”
”So... What you want me to do?”
”Before he ran away he asked me if I would allow him to quit from the crew, I, of course, rejected it. I took his family as hostage so that he wouldn't suddently ran away, but... He was so adamant of leaving that I allowed it when I went on a fit of rage. He asked for his family and I said I would only free them once he paid me 50 millions pixels.” Dreadwing narrated the series of events that lead to the situation he currently was. ”So... I don't want to let go of this mechanic talent. I want you to pass around the word so that no one would hire him. He then would become helpless and end up coming back to me.” Dreadwing hopefully looked at Jevil. ”It's a good plan, isn't?”
”I have seen and done better.” Jevil said. ”I can't do it. You know that something like this would ruin my reputation, you know.”