Chapter 25 - Collaborating with Orthrus (2/2)
”The Orthrus Group has verified that you mother has indeed been abducted and they managed to acquire her back. You can talk to her to confirm on this,” said Bruce ask he made a call to someone. A minute later, Roger's mother appeared on the screen and talked to Roger in front of Bruce and Abel. It was then that Abel realized that his partner had actually not been forthright with him.
”Now that your mother is safe and sound, it is best you tell me everything you know unless you go relish being strapped on to the table,” said Bruce.
”I will. I will,” said Roger. ”I was told only to cover for the Burns brothers and keep Abel from checking their locations or have him doubt anything about them. I couldn't let the Orthrus Group know anything about them if I wanted to see my mother again.”
”You did say something about being able to locate the Burns brothers. If you talk quickly about that, it would be very nice,” said Bruce waving one of his instruments to intimidate Roger.
”Well, I can't actually give you information directly on them, but I know someone with the credentials to do that,” answered Roger.
”Be quick.”
”The Orthrus Group has allowed us to employ personnel at other planets whom can help us occasionally. They are being used by the Burns brother temporarily and were the ones who supplied them arms and intelligence,” said Roger.
”We can remotely contact them as long as Abel is convinced to help us. The Orthrus Group have nothing to do with it. He has the total control over them. Only he can help us. He has the code that allows us to contact them and it is best if he is on board.”
”Well, then unlock him,” said Bruce nodding towards Abel with his head. ”Try to convince him while I inform your boss about the same.”
He immediately went through the door and contacted the Orthrus Group and in a minute later he came back into the interrogation room. A video call was immediately screened into the interrogation room. The person on the other side was someone that Abel and Roger held in high respect and were extremely afraid of.
It was Yassin Achaemenid, the one who established the Orthrus Guardian Group. Though the Achaemenid family always denied their involvement in the Orthrus Guardian Group, they had Yassin remove himself from the family to create the group. He was one of the most feared men when he was in the alliance military and fiercely led many infiltration missions when he worked as a black operations agent.
”Sir,” shouted both Roger and Abel saluting at Yassin.
”Both of you shall provide any and all kind of support requested by Bruce,” said Yassin.
”But Sir, it might compromise our security protocols and,..”
”I don't care. They managed to find out about our assets and agents. I need to know the extent of their infiltration within our organization. This is an extremely critical situation. You two can be up-front and open with Bruce. He is independent from the Blyth family. In case, he determines that you are being uncooperative, he can shoot you dead and I would make sure that there would be no legal intervention.”
”We will do our best to do find out who managed to gather intelligence from us and how,” said Abel.
”That will be all. I hope you will be able to find out who were involved in this mishap, Bruce,” said Yassin as he cut the call.
”So, could you please contact your goons and get them to divulge a few details of what your dear ex-partners are doing?” asked Bruce.
”Yes, give me my wrist band and I would be able to connect to them through a secure channel,” said Abel stretching his hand.
”Just tell me how to access the secure channel, I will do it through my own device,” said Bruce as he was one of the few outsiders who had been allowed into the forbidden region and knew that normal communication devices wouldn't work here. He also had to change his device whenever he entered the forbidden region.
”Can't be done. We have some hardware modification in our devices which make it differ from a standard one. I need to use my own,” said Roger. It was common knowledge for them to use special hardware for such purposes.
Arthur suddenly came into the room and took out a gun from his waist and fired two shots at them. It was a tranquilizer gun and they both were immediately out of conscious.
”Was that really necessary?” asked Bruce.
”Don't need them to know about the forbidden region. Let us take them to the family grounds outside. We can discuss there,” said Arthur.
About 10 minutes later, Abel found himself waking up on a bench in the Blyth family garden in front of the mansion building. He had Arthur and Bruce on either side and Roger was still knocked out on a bench to his left.
”Here is your wrist band,” said Arthur throwing it towards Abel.
Abel caught it and looked towards Bruce for confirmation. ”It is fine,” said Bruce nodding his head. Abel immediately contacted his contact at the planet BR-64.
”Hello Sir, I hope that you have heard from Wilhiem Burns. He had requested quite an amount of ammunition and details about the Apropos facility yesterday. But we are unable to contact him for the past few hours.”
”What did he actually request for?” asked Abel.
”The usual firearms and explosives. Explosives enough to level an area of about 30 sq yards easy.”
”OK, Michael. I need you to get me the location on the William and Wilhiem. I hope you can track the firearms,” asked Abel.
”Yes. of course, Sir. I will get you their location right now,” said Michael.
”Get him to send the tracking codes to you. We will take it from here on. We already have our men ready there,” said Arthur to Abel.
”No. No. Bruce I need you to be able to assure me that they find out how them managed to gather intelligence from us. That is the only reason I am helping you,” said Able looking at Bruce.
”Calm down. They have been attacked and used by these guys for a lot longer than you two. They want to get information from them a lot more than Yassin and you two,” said Bruce waving a gun at them.
”Abel. I have a long-standing issue with these people and have been getting nowhere for the past decade. Believe me, by the time we are done interrogating them, anything and everything they know, even their repressed memories would be known to us.”