Chapter 23 - Encounter with Bruce (2/2)
”Well, he is a professional. He was called from the DH-6 planet. He worked in collaboration with us quite a few times. Apparently, he used to work with Walter on some black ops stuff when Walter used to work in the alliance military,” answered Albert.
This surprised Balthazar and Robert a lot. They both knew that Walter had brought home their parents from their grandmother. If Bruce worked on the same team as Walter, he might be aware of their secret.
A few minutes later they went into the big training hall through which they entered the armory. They went to one of the doors which opened into a small interrogation room. There was a wall dividing the room into two parts. The wall had a transparent crystal which works as one-sided glass.
They could see two persons strapped on a couple of work benches on the other side. There was a man wearing a black mask covering most of his face. He was a little more than 6-feet tall and was holding a couple of instruments in both his hands.
One of the men strapped on the bench was half-n.a.k.e.d, convulsing and spitting all around the place. It was Roger. His face was pale with his eyes red and looked very frightened. Most of his upper torso had red and blue. Bruce pulled the gag out of Roger's mouth.
”You feeling a bit more talkative now?” asked Bruce in a gravelly voice.
”I will. I will. Please stop,” said Roger quickly half stammering. ”I have no idea where they are right now at BR-64.”
”Here we go again,” said Bruce taking the gag into his hand.
”No. No. I got another way you can reach them. I heard they would be moving tomorrow to meet some guy called Troy Harper,” said Roger.
”Troy Harper?” asked Bruce. ”You sure about that?”
”Yes. Yes. I don't know anything other than that. I swear. I only did it because they had my mother in custody. I got nothing against you guys.”
”Oh! Is that so? We will confirm that,” said Bruce.
He immediately came out and asked, ”Give me the video of him saying that.” His voice suddenly changed to smooth and pleasant tone.
”What do you need with the video?” asked Albert.
”I know someone at the staff of the Orthrus Group. With the information, we just got we can have them look over his mother's place. Then, we can get their support.”
”How sure you are that he is not lying?”
”Very sure.”
”OK. That's fine. These are Balthazar and Robert, Winston and Walter's grandsons.”
”Hi guy, nice to meet you. I have a lot of stories about Walter and Winston which would have you laughing on the ground. We should have lunch sometime. It would be fun,” said Bruce with a devious smile.
”Yeah sure, we would love to hear more from you,” said Robert with interest. People would hardly say no to learning the stupid and silly things their parents/grandparents did in their youth and Robert was definitely not going to be an exception to it.
”Of course, you would. Robert's here to have a look at your interrogation,” said Albert.
Bruce stared at Albert. ”He is going to be observing me?” asked Bruce back in a gravelly tone. For a second, Albert got extremely fl.u.s.tered. Hearing Bruce's voice tone, he thought that Bruce had misunderstood Robert observing him to be Robert supervising him.
”No. No. You misunderstand. He is actually here to strictly observe the interrogation process. You know. Broaden his horizons. Experience new things. No interference of any kind,” said Albert trying to explain.
”Haha, I was just kidding. You are a lot different from Arthur in this aspect. I know, they would be here to just learn. Walter is not into Filicide,” said Bruce with a silly smile on his face.
”Ha. You got me,” said Albert. ”Walter's going to come here. I will leave young Robert in your care. Bel and I need to go to BR-64.”
”Young Balthazar is joining you at BR-64? What's he going to do there?”
”We need someone Bolena trusts without needing to tell her about the attacks. So, we are taking him with us.”
”But he is still a kid. Is he on the same level as you guys?” whispered Bruce into Albert's ear.
”He is not bad, and he did manage to help take down Abel there,” said Albert nodding towards Albert.
”He helped take down Abel? You might be exaggerating a bit there. Aren't you?”
”No. No. Abel would have successfully knocked down Salazar and his team, if he didn't interfere. He also managed to take down Max in a combat challenge.”
”Really?!”
”Yeah. It was so crazy. The entire family is still talking about Max challenging him and then losing,” said Albert.
”Well, they are both Walter's kin. So, I guess crazy is a given,” said Bruce as if it is expected of them.
”Anyways, we got to get going,” said Albert.
”OK. Be careful kid,” said Bruce. ”Don't do anything too crazy. I heard you almost died once. If you carry on like this, you might end up with a reputation as bad as Walter's especially since work in the alliance army.”
”What? Walter is well known,”
”Ah. Story for another time. You need to get going,” said Bruce waving his hand down.
”Come on in, Robert. Let me introduce to the tools of my trade,” said Bruce going back towards Abel and Roger.
”OK. See you later,” said Balthazar as he walked out of the room along with Albert.