“Well isn’t this just adorable?” Starswirl scoffed as he entered the room and laid eyes on Tatsu. “You’re all alone. Do you expect to reasonably take us on yourself?”
Tatsuya was surprisingly confident as he glared at all four of them. Each of them staring him right back with menacing glares all while he gave a lackadaisical grin.
“...You gonks don’t know a damn thing about how we operate do you?” he cackled, “This may be your city, but I’ve got eyes and ears all over the place.”
“What are you talking about?” Flash spoke up, “You’re done! There’s nowhere left for you to run and all of your other cronies are being subdued by our friends as we speak.”
“Mm-hmm--yeah, small price to pay,” Tatsu rolled his eyes and shoved his right hand in his pocket. “But I think you should check yourselves before someone gets hurt.”
Micro tried to refute his statement. “Excuse me, but you’re the only one here who’s at risk.”
“Am I?”
With the press of a button, a chair was lowered from the ceiling…and Wallflower was sitting in it--strapped to it by metal clamps around her arms and legs with a bloody towel in her mouth. She was visibly bruised from her head down to her abdomen with her sweater torn in various places…and still fully conscious.
“...Wallflower?!” everyone minus Starswirl shouted her name in horror upon seeing her.
Micro immediately took a rage-filled, bloodlusted tone, “You…y-you…” but the fumes of rage were quelled when he looked at her damaged face. “How…how could…?”
“Relax, she’s alive,” Tatsu spoke in an alarmingly casual tone, “Screamed like a damn bitch when we shocked her--”
“You shut your goddamn mouth you son of a bitch!” Micro screamed, “Touch her again and I’ll rip your eyeballs out of your skull!”
“And I’ll feed ‘em to you!” Flash added to back him up, “What kinda sick, twisted freak are you?!”
“Hey for the record, I haven’t touched her,” Tatsu evaded the question entirely and held up a small remote in his hand. “But here’s the thing. I can press this and shock her again. So I suggest you all comply with what I have to say.”
“...Rrrrrrgh…” Aidon grit his teeth and held back his inner darkness.
“...I don’t want a dead child on my conscience,” Starswirl muttered to the shadow man, “What should we do?”
“Wait to hear what he says,” Aidon replied, “Don’t make any sudden movements…”
“Alright now--you old farts,” Tatsu spoke to Aidon and Starswirl specifically. “Back your asses right on up outta this room. This is between me and them. Do it now or I’ll fry the green girl’s brains out.”
Aidon came up with a new plan on the spot.
“...We leave. These two are strong and can handle themselves,” said the shadow man, “We’ll find another way.”
With no room to complain, Starswirl would follow Aidon as he backed out of the room, eventually leaving Flash and Micro by themselves against Tatsuya.
After which, Flash would try his best to negotiate with the enemy in a calm manner to ease the tension in the room.
“Alright…they’re gone. Now what do you want?” he asked.
Micro Chips was seething with his fists balled up and aggressively shaking in place.
With the press of another button, the doors would lock automatically, and become blocked off further by a set of silver-colored laser beams.
“There. The anti-magic barrier will keep them from getting in and you guys from getting out. Like it? Developed it myself,” Tatsu chuckled as he leaned against the table. “Now let’s get down to business here: I have something you want--this girl. You can let me go and this’ll all be over. Or! You can keep acting like the beastly boars you are and watch her suffer.”
Flash was quick to toss that offer aside. “After all the trouble you caused? Yeah right, buddy. We’re not letting you get away anymore. You got some nerve to call us animals when you’ve been the one scurrying away like a sniveling little rat!”
While they were talking, Micro Chips had actually sneakily controlled some of his nanomachines to crawl around the floor and up one of Tatsu’s pant legs. It seemed as if the latter didn’t even notice until…
Crack!
“Seriously?” Tatsu had actually managed to not only detect them, but pull them out of his body with his fingertips that appeared to be able to attract metals. Then he crushed the tiny mechanical particles in his hand as if they were nothing. “You may be smart, but your little tricks don’t work on someone who’s simply way stronger than you. Guess we’re doing this the hard way after all…”
“Agggh! Damn you!” Micro screeched as he charged directly at Tatsu.
“Hang on!” Flash called out as he joined in…
BLAM!
…only for them to both be subdued immediately by a punch so hard that the air around Tatsu’s fist caught ablaze and blew them backwards, sending them crashing into the nearby wall.
“...Heh…I always knew my enhancements would come in handy when I needed ‘em. Now it’s time to play a game.”