Chapter 40: The Homeless Man
"I heard your prison recently almost had a breach?" Ocean Empress questioned as she took a seat next to Boy Genius.
The child was in a spinning chair, playing around with some cube-like invention. Boy Genius reached up and messed with his glasses. "Yeah. Fairy Queen randomly tried to make an escape attempt. It was weird. She's usually just sitting in her room all day, not doing anything ever since she was captured fifteen years ago. It spooked me a little, to be honest. I told the Victorian to be on the lookout for anything bad."
"You think it could be related to the Emperor?" Ocean Empress asked quietly.
The Emperor's army had primarily consisted of monsters created by the villain. Some more beast than man. There were four villains, however, who served him, each said to be just as twisted as he was. Golden God, a demented cyborg created to wipe out planets. Fairy Queen, a Super that seemed to bend reality itself. Princess of Life, the heir to the Emperor. And, of course, the final member, his faithful Hell Hound.
Of the four, only Golden God had managed to escape. The others were either dead or rotting in Nightshade.
"Eh. I doubt it has anything to do with the Emperor." Boy Genius spun in his chair and tossed the cube away. "That guy is either long dead or so burned and plagued; he'll never be a threat to us again."
"I wouldn't be so sure."
"What?"
"Nothing." Ocean Empress shook her head. "Let's change the subject to something less dark, shall we? Did you figure anything out about that man?" The woman asked, folding her arms.
"You're still on about that." Old Dog snorted as he stared up at the roof of the lab he found himself in. It wasn't in his majestic home city of Oleander, instead being in the filthy lands his ex-wife and daughter called home. It took everything he had not to curse at the oddly shaped buildings and weirdly spaced roads. "I thought you were interested in that fire girl, but now all you ever seem to talk about is that man."
"Dad." Ocean Empress sighed.