Chapter 35: An Execution
The conference room door opened, and Andre walked in, half dragging a short and stocky young man with curly black hair and brown eyes, who was wearing a food-stained white lab coat. He was clearly not happy to be there, and was trying to pull away from Andre’s grip.
"Status on the reactor Mario," demanded Aaron, as Andre shoved Mario into a chair.
"We’ve been over this already Aaron! We need to fully stress test the reactor core and water loops before we can do anything else!" snarled Mario.
Natasha immediately picked up on Mario’s body language. Behind his blustering indignation, he was terrified and trying to hide it.
"Andre, leave the room," said Aaron, getting up from his chair.
Andre swallowed and moved to the door. Mario tried to jump up and run, but Aaron grabbed him by the collar and shoved him back into the chair, he tried to struggle against Aaron’s grip, but Aaron gave him a vicious backhand across his face.
"Andre, get out. Natasha, zip-tie this filth," said Aaron, his fist closing around Mario’s throat, sapping the strength out of him.
Natasha quickly pulled out the zip-tie dispenser and grabbed a zip-tie.
She quickly secured Mario’s hands behind his back, and then pulled out a second zip-tie and secured his feet to the chair.
"Aaron, wait!" began Mario, but Aaron’s fist smashed into his the side of face, almost knocking him to the floor.
"You know, I had observed that you were not in the same league as Harry and James," said Aaron conversationally, as he turned off the conference room lights, and activated the large monitor on the wall, which showed a paused security camera feed from the mine entrance.