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Night, Malta 2019

In on the undergound of the city many dinosaurs where on cages or chained, people around them selling and buying those beasts. A man with a dark hood, gloves and black long sleeve shirt under a bulletproof vest, Ace, walked through the spaces until reaching a man with light skin and a small beard.

Ace removed his hood, revealing his face and short dark hair. "I brought that dinosaur you asked for." He started saying as he moved his hand toward his waist, where a small pistol had been.

The man stared at Ace for a moment. "Where is it?" The man asked, slightly moving his eyes up. Ace signaled for the man to follow him and he did it.

The walked to outside of the black marked, a truck with a blue container with one bar window on each side. Suddenly the dinosaur inside slammed against the container, a loud rumble was heard followed by a loud roar. Ace Smilled as the man handled him a suitcase. "Here is the money you asked." The man said.

"The Broker must be happy with a beutiful specime like this" Ace said as he placed his hand on the container. "A carnotaurus is not easy to get, just one escaped the Lockwood's auction."

The man smirked. "Like I would allow them to get their hands on it." He said as he walked toward the container, stopping in front of its door. "I will sell this by myself, something like it will make me rich!" He shouted the last part.

"That was everything I needed to know." A female voice said before the man was shot on the chest. The owner of the voice stepped closer to the two man., it was a slender woman with long blonde hair and dark brown eyes, wearing a fine white button up shirt highlighted by a white gold belt, dark leather slacks, and black high heeled boots. Ace turned his gaze from the dieing man to the woman.

"Who are you?!" The man shouted as he tried to cover the bullet hole.

The woman smirked. "I am the one that hired you." She said shotting the man two more times. She then turned to Ace.

"I presume you are the Broker, am I right?" Ace asked unbothered by the gun pointed at him.

"You are right, Mr. Romano, I am the Broker." She said lowering the gun and offering hm her hand. "Soyona Santos, and I can give you a big help with your work, if you give me one."

Ace waited for a moment. "What help?"

Next day, Dubai

Ace watched the city from inside a float on a skyscraper. Santos stood behind him. "Isn't it beutiful? The look you get when you are over the rest?" Soyona said stepping next to him.

"It really is, but I didn't come here to talk about the sight." He replied harshly.

Soyona smirked. "Looks like you are the kind of person that is more direct with business." She said turning to a elevator on the room. "I like that" Shd clicked her fingers and the doors of the elevator opened revealing a metal suitcase on a pedestal.

"What, a suitcase? That is the thing for which you made such a secret and made me come here" Ace said a bit curius about the inside of it.

Soyona walked to the suitcase and showed the inside to him, It had 5 eggs inside. "Dinosaur' eggs, raptors to be more exact." She said.

"What do you want me to do with them?" He asked.

Soyona closed the suitcase and handled it to him. "I just want you to rise and train them to kill targets." She said calmly.

Ace tilted his head. "Why do you need dinosaurs for this? Can't you just hire a killer?"

Soyona turned back to the view of the city. "When someone is killed it start a investigation, but when a animal does the service, why inspect?" She said before being interrupted.

"And there is no animal that is a risk to humans in every country, but..." Ace started before being cut.

"But the dinosaurs aren't limited to a place, they are all around the globe without any restriction since the Lockwood incident." Santos completed. He smilled.

"Just one more question." He said moving next to her. "Why do you think I would be able to train them?"

She smirked "I searched about you. You are 24, worked on a zoo training animals from 17 to 23 when you decided to become a mercenary after the Lockwood. You were famous for your hability to handle animals. But when the dinosaurs escaped the auction you decided to work with them, even if it was illegally."

"And where do I get benefits from this?" He asked.

"Very simple, you can keep the raptors for yourself and you can use any instalation that I have, but you will teach them what I need and eliminate targets fot me, of course I will pay you during all this time." She said offering her hand to him. "What do you say?"

Ace took her hand and shook it. "I am just curius what kind of raptors will I dealing with?" He asked

Soyona pulled her hand back and turned back to the city. "Atrociraptor, deinonychus, pyroraptor, austroraptor and achillobator, 5 diferent kinds of members of the Dromeosauridae family. They are belived to be the smartest of the dinosaurs so the easiest to make into obedient killing machines" She said.

Ace smirked "It will really be a fun experience"

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Dubai, Day

Ace was standing next to an incubator where the five eggs were being incubated, his eyes focused on it.

"You have been very obsessed with theeggs." Santos said as she approached him.

Ace turned toward her "You hired me to train them, what will be easier if they imprint on me, therefore I need to stay with the eggs to not lose the moment of the hatch." He said and Santos rolled her eyes.

"Anyway I am going out to meet with some for a deal, so don't do anything stupid while I amaway." Soyona said.

Ace giggled. "You are looking like you are my mom." He said and Santos shared a smirk before leaving.

Ace turned back to the eggs. "So is just me and you eggs." He said.

Some hours passed, Ace have stood by the incubator waiting for the eggs to hatch, but nothing happened. He was now walking around Santos' paintings. "For a dinosaur trafficker, she makes a good painter." He said.

Suddenly a cracking sound was heard and Ace darted toward the incubator, one of the eggs was hatching. The other started craking too, except by one. The cracks became bigger and finally the babies broke out of their shells. All the babies stared at Ace. "Hello there, little ones" He said as he started analyzing the raptors. The biggest one, an Achilobator, had fur-like feathers, as well as the Austroraptor, the second biggest, eventhough its body was slimmer than the others. The Deinonychus had a scaled skin, looking more like a reptile while the pyroraptor had feathers all over its body.

Ace lowered himself and the four raptors started going toward him. Soyona opened the door and entered the room, changing the raptor's attention toward her. "Yes, I want the carnotaurus DNA ready for a new..." She was saying on the phone until she noted the baby dinosaurs near Ace. Santos turned off the phone, a smile on her face. "So they finally hatched, it took more time than it should." She walked closer to see the babies.

"Yes, theytook." Ace said petting the Deinonychus's head.

Santos turned her gaze toward the egg that didn't hatch. "What is the matter with that one?" She asked taking itonher hands.

"Looks like it might had some problemonthe formation and didn't hatch." He said turning his attention back to the babies.

The egg Santos was holding suddenly startedcraking, thesurprissemadeshedrop the egg. Luckily she caught it back in her hands before it hit the ground. The baby on the egg finally pushed its head out, staring rightarSantos. "Why is it looking at me?" She asked.

Ace giggled "Looks like she imprinted on you" Soyona's eyes widened.

She placed the baby with the others and stepped back. "No, it can't be! You were the one supposed to have her imprint on!"

Ace walked to her. "Calm down this isn't so much of a problem, I can still train her but she won't be as loyal to me as the others and she might get attached to you" He explained trying to calm her down.

Soyona had calmed down and looked at the babyatrociraptor, who was staring right at her eyes with her cute reptilian eyes. She stepped closer to her. Soyona moved her hand closer to theatrociraptorand slowly petted her head. Santos smiled. "Maybe you are right, Red might not have any problem imprinting on me"

Ace tilted his head. "Red?"

Santos turned to him. "What? It fits her, she is red, even though she has those brighter parts." She looked away from Ace. "It isn't like I have any emotional connection with her."

Ace smirked. "Then why are you petting her?" He said sarcastically.

Soyona turned to Red and pulled her arm back. Her face was now embarrassed. "Anyway, when will you start their training?"

"We should wait sometime after they hatch to start, so next week might be a good idea." Ace said as he stared at the raptors.

Dubai, one week later.

Ace stood in a small room with the five raptors, which were all staring at him. Ace raised a small piece of meat with his hand and looked at them. "Sit" He commanded.

The raptors chirped and tilted their heads, except for Red who followed the command. Ace threw a small piece of meat toward her, which she caught and ate rather fast. The other raptors followed Red's lead and all sat down. Ace smirked and then threw a piece of meat at each of them.

Soyona watched all thescenefrom a room filled with monitors. A smirk formed on her face. "Looks like my girl is doing a great job there." She said trying to hide the smile on her face.

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On the Biosyn Valley, 2020

A young dark greenish theropod ran through the woods of the valley. It was a giganotosaur that stood around 7 feet tall and 10 feet long. It stopped for a moment and turned his head back, searching for something.

Some raptors' sounds are heard. The young theropod went back to running away from the sounds.

Suddenly, a red atrociraptor jumped in front of the theropod, growling. Others four raptors stepped out of the foliages. A vibrant red pyroraptor and a brownish austroraptor from the left of the young theropod. From the right, a dark blue Achilobator and a white deinonychus.

The giganotosaurus growled as she stared around, searching for a way out of it. The sound of a tongue clicking is heard. Ace stepped out of the bushes, he was wearing a black t-shirt under a dark green bulletproof vest and pants.

The young theropod turned his attention to Ace and snapped. The deinonychus took a step forward snarling at the young dinosaur. "Easy, there, Snow!" Ace said as he raised his hand in front of the deinonychus making her stop growling.

Ace turned his attention toward the young dinosaur in front of him. He slowly took a step forward and the young dinosaur snarled. Ace raised his hand flat toward the giganotosaur. "Hey!" He shouted before clicking his tongue and the giganotosaur stopped. "That is much better, Gaia." Ace then stopped moving and stared at Gaia, the giganotosar. The young dinosaur took a step forward and slowly rested his head on Ace's hand.

Ace stepped back and took out some pieces of meat. The 6 dinosaurs turned their attention to the food. "Stay!" He said, clicking his tongue. Ace took some more steps back. "Prometheus!" He said as he threw a piece of meat to the pyroraptor. "Astro" He threw a meat to the austroraptor. "You earn one too, Snow and Stellar." He threw to the deinonychus and achilobator, respectively.

The young giganotosaur let out a small growl of impatience. "I didn't forget you, Gaia!" He threw a piece to her and then turned to Red as he took out the last piece of meat. "Red, you did well keeping them under control." He threw the meat to the atrociraptor.

Some claps were heard, the dinosaurs turned their attention to the origin of it. "Very well..." Soyona said as she approached them. The raptors stood quietly while the giganotosaur let out a low growl. "Looks like I hired the right guy." She placed her hand on the man's shoulder.

Gaia started snarling, but Soyona stood unfazed. She looked at Ace, who nodded in response. "Gaia, you can go now." He said and the young theropod slowly turned away, not before giving a stare at Soyona and huffing. Ace turned to Santos. "Didn't know you were watching it."

Santos giggled. "I always watch it, I like to keep my eyes on my assets." She said, earning a small growl from Prometheus. Ace quickly raised his hand toward him and the pyroraptor calmed down.

Ace gave a small smile to Soyona. "Are you sure you aren't here just for Red?" He joked, making Soyona blush. "Because you always try to have her by your side when we are with you, you even made me train her to pose for your paintings."

Soyona turned her head away. "I... I just got bored of inanimated objects and wanted something with more life on them!" She replied, a bit childishly. Ace nodded and she turned her head back to him. "Anyway, I wanted to talk to you about a target." The raptor's eyes shone with expectation, with Red and Prometheus even licking their lips.

"Looks like they are excited to have another meal of human flesh." Ace joked. "Who is it?"

"James Lee." She said as she handed him some photos, documents, and broken glasses. Ace started looking at them as Santos continued. "He is a reporter who is investigating some of my study facilities in Germany."

The raptors went close to Ace sniffing the glasses on his hand, some droll eacaping, Atros and Stellar's mouth. "Just intimidating for now, or go straight for the kill?" He asked.

"Straight for the kill." Santos said, Ace smiled and Santos did the same. "I have the feeling that even if I said to just intimidate that man would lose an arm."

Ace giggled at the comment. "I prefer to show that my threats are real." He said as he petted Snow's head, the deinonychus leaning into her trainer's hand.

Santos sighed. "Just load them into the plane, and go!" She said walking leaving Ace and the raptors alone again.

DPW German Center, night

An Asiatic-looking man moved silently around the warehouse filled with dinosaurs in transport containers. He was crunched as he moved from one container to another, trying to not be spotted by the cameras.

The man heard some footsteps then hid behind some crates and withdrew his phone, putting it to record. The door of the warehouse was open. Two workers of the DPW entered the warehouse, one middle-aged woman and a young man.

"How much will the Broker pay for them?" The man asked.

The woman turned to him. "If they reach their hands, the Broker will make us enough money to leave this dirty place with..." She was interrupted by the dinosaur getting more agitated. "These annoying dinosaurs!" She shouted the last part, trying to get heard by the man since the dinosaurs were getting louder with each moment. The man nodded his head and followed her as she walked toward one of the containers.

The Asiatic man smiled. "So my informant was right, they are selling the dinosaurs to this Broker." He said taking his phone back, stopping the recording. "I need to send this to her" He then went inside a site called 'Dark Jurassic' and sent the audio to a user called '3sth3r St0ne'

The sound of claws clicking on the ground was heard. The dinosaurs on the containers started slamming their bodies against the walls of the containers. The man started typing on the phone. The sound of clicking started moving closer until a realization came to him "This isn's the sound of claws on metal, it is claws on concrete!" He muttered. He lowered his phone and looked around before moving outside the warehouse.

A pyrotaptor emerged from behind one of the containers, it was staring right at the man. He turned back and started running back, an austroraptor and a deinonychus blocked his path. The raptors started circulating him.

"Stop." Ace said stepping into the scene, petting the atrociraptor and achilobator by his side. He turned to the man. "James Lee, right?" James fell to the ground and crawled with his back to the containers as Ace drew the documents Santos gave him and started reading them. "You seem like a good reporter. You exposed a dinosaur trafficking scheme in Brazil... interesting!" Ace dropped the files. "Sadly, you won't write anymore." He then clicked his tongue and the five raptors lunged on the man.

Prometheus was the first, biting the man's right arm and using his feet as support to remove the arm from the rest of the body as the others started eating the man alive. As James was being eaten, Ace walked toward the removed lib of the man and took the phone from it, seeing the open chat. He deleted the audio before throwing the phone on the ground and stomping on it.

Denver, Colorado

In an apartment, a girl with blue and pink hair was sitting on a chair as she stared at her laptop in disbelief as the audio she just received was erased from the chat history and then the account she was talking to, suddenly went offline.

"James, why did you delete it?" She said to herself. "Unless... you didn't and someone else did" Her voice turned worried. She got up and walked to the door of the flat. "Looks like Brooklyn will start a new investigation."

A/N: hello my readers, thanks for reading this chapter, and if you like my work, check out my other stories, they are pretty good too.

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Biosym Lab, 2021

A black skinned woman walked through the empty lab, then sat down in front of a laptop, tapping something in it. A low growl was heard from behind her. The woman rolled her eyes and turned to a container on the corner of the lab.

She approached it, looking through the small wired window, revealing the pyroraptor inside. "Can't you just be quiet, stupid overgrown chicken!" She said annoyed, which the raptor responded to by slamming his side on the walls of the container. The woman took out a sedative rifle and put the barrel inside before shooting a dart at the raptor's neck.

The raptor fell to the ground within a second. "Much better." Said the woman, as she lowered the rifle and went back to the computer. She then opened a chat with a contact called '3sth3r St0ne'. Just one text was visible:

'Send the archives and the specimen. The archives and files decrypted, or else I won't pay' 

It was sent by the other side, the woman then closed the chat and started checking the files, containing the DNA information of many dinosaurs. First therezinosaur, then triceratops, giganotosaur, tyrannosaur, until she found one with the name 'SPRAS' on it. She opened it, revealing 5 other files, each one containing the DNA information of 5 different species of Dromeosaurids.

The woman smiled and attached the file to the chat. "Just this and I will be a millionaire." She cheered before pressing 'enter'.

Suddenly the lights of the lab were turned off. "What is happening?" She looked again at the computer, a red line over the chat with the message: 'Privacy violation, erasing all data'

The woman stared in disbelief at the screen. "This shit should have been removed! How is it still up?!" She raised her voice almost screaming.

A low whistle was heard and the woman's eyes widened in fear. "No, it can't be, she couldn't have come so fast, unless... They already knew." She said right before the laptop was suddenly turned down.

She quickly dragged her phone from the lab coat pockets and turned it on, the weak light illuminating a white atrociraptor's head with black stripes right in front of her. She got paralyzed, and the raptor then seemed to smile before pouncing on her.

She dropped her cellphone as she was being eaten alive by the raptor. A slim and pale woman in a vest similar to that of a safari stepped closer to the scene, 2 other atrociraptors behind her. Her face was unfazed by the guts and blood on the ground.

The two raptors from behind her, both orange, one with a darker tone and the other with some black stripes just on the back, stepped toward the lifeless body. They glanced at the pale woman, she nodded and they joined their similar on eating.

The lights were turned on and the automatic door opened. Soyona and Ace stepped into the room, Santos quickly looking away from the feast the raptors were doing of the dead woman.

"See? I said Another handler would be helpful" Soyona said as she stared at the ceiling.

Ace narrowed his eyes at the blonde woman. "You just needed to get her ready to kill someone you already knew was betraying you and could have been killed easily by any of my raptors." He said.

Soyona rolled her eyes. "Okay, 'lone wolf', you could have prevented this, but you might not be able to in the future, or even if I need two targets in different locations that need to be eliminated as soon as possible? The time from the travel and from preparing for the death could mean we lose an important piece."

The pale woman turned to them. Ace rolled his eyes as he walked to the container and opened it. "That bitch really deserved what happened to her, no one sedates my raptors!" He said, examining the dart on the pyroraptor's neck before removing it in a quick motion. "When you wake up you will get a threat for having to go through this" He then petted Prometheus' snort.

The woman tilted her head seeing the scene. Soyona stepped by her side and lit up a smile. "He just likes to keep his assets in good condition, otherwise they would eat him." She said to the pale woman.

Ace turned to the women and got up. "What is your name?" He asked looking straight into the pale woman's face.

"She didn't answer during her hiring" Santos replied.

Ace raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure she is trustworthy?" He asked, making the pale woman narrow her eyes.

"Yes, I checked everything about her..." Santos said but was quickly cut by Ace

"Except the name!" He complained. "You are getting into a rabbit hole, and it might cost you... No, us everything!" He reached a shout at the last part.

"Could you just calm down!" Santos said, keeping her face steady.

"I might do it!" He shouted as he left, stomping the ground. The 3 atrociraptors stopped their feast to stare at him as he stepped out of the lab. The pale woman started changing her look from Santos to the door and vice versa.

Santos turned to her. "Can you do me a favor? Just make sure at least one of your atrociraptors gets the smell of the pyroraptor." She said and the woman tilted her head in confusion. "He might be trained but still is aggressive and has a tendency to escape the valley, so getting another helper on the search wouldn't be bad." 

The pale woman walked to the dark orange raptor, whispering something to him. She then stepped back and nodded. The other two raptors resumed their feast.

The atrociraptor with the darker orange tone turned its head to the opened container and started sniffing the unconscious raptor, getting used to the smell. It then came back to the pale woman and nuzzled her hand, asking for some affection, and she lit up a timid smile.

The pale woman looked at Santos and pointed at the door, worried about Ace. "He? Don't worry he will come around eventually then you too can get to know each other better." The woman's face then showed a hint of fear. "Don't worry, I won't tell him about your secret."

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Biosym Valley 2021

Ace's raptors, except for Red, were being kept in a container each. Two workers of Biosyn, one blonde white woman, in a lab coat kneeling, in front of her an open metallic suitcase containing many veterinarian items, and a Latin man, this one wearing a bulletproof vest and holding a sedative rifle, also having a pistol on his waist.

The woman looked at the suitcase and took a deep breath. There were 4 bottles, 3 filled with blood, each with a name on it. "Just the psychopathic raptor to call it a day," She said as she took one syringe and the empty bottle then walked to the last container, her body trembling with fear as she stood in front of the container.

The armed man gave her a worried stare. "Are you sure you don't want to wait for the trainer?" He asked as he moved closer to the container, his hand ready to digit the code to open it.

The woman took another breath. "He is in Dubai with Santos, so he will take some time, and Santos wants her assets to be checked weekly." She then gulped down. "But can you just make sure it is sedated?"

The man nodded and moved to the wired opening on the container. "It is still asleep, so nothing to worry about, just get the sample and we are done" He moved back to the control panel, not realizing the smirk on the raptor's mouth.

The woman sighed in relief. "Okay, you can open it now." She said and the man typed a code on the panel, the green light on it becoming red as the gate was pulled up.

She narrowed her eyes for a moment, noticing something wrong with Prometheus, then her eyes widened. The man looked at her and then at the pyroraptor. "What is the matter?" He said as the woman slowly stepped back.

"He isn't sedated!" She said in a tone slightly above a whisper. The raptor huffed and quickly got up, charging at the man, who tried to raise his rifle in an attempt to defend himself.

The raptoe pinned the man down, the rifle locked on his mouth. Hw let out a growl as he used his twisted claws on the man's chest, the bulletproof vest keeping it safe. The raptor tightened his jaw on the rifle before pulling it back and throwing it aside. The man's eyes widened as he stared at the raptor's eyes.

Prometheus tilted his head with a smile-like face, as if mocking the man. The Latin slowly moved his hand to his waist, where his emergency pistol was. The raptor noticed it and quickly moved one of his feet over the man's hand before using his twisted claw to cut it off.

Prometheus made a chirp-like sound, clearly enjoying the agony of the man. The raptor bit on the man's arm, the one that still had a hand, and pulled it off as his twisted claws dug into his chest.

As the man was screaming in pain, the raptor turned its gaze to the blonde woman, who had been paralyzed by fear. The woman fell back and Prometheus slowly moved toward her, the fear widening her eyes. The pyroraptor approached his snort from her face as he growled. Tears started forming in the woman's eyes. The raptor let out a loud huff and then dashed out of the area.

The woman stood still, paralyzed by fear. She slowly dragged her hand to her chest, checking her heartbeat. She took a look around. "No sign of him still here... that is good... that is very good!" She said as she stared in the direction the raptor ran. "Good for now, but Santos will have my head"

She then turned back to the other containers and the body of her coworker, a quick nausea hitting her. She looked away and tapped on the dead body until she found the walkie-talkie. She looked around for a moment and walked to a nearby observation post. She climbed on the ladder and once up, she tuned in the device.

"Security center, we have a problem with the pyroraptor!" She said.

Dubai, same day

Soyona and Ace were at Santos' apartment, Red with them. Soyona stood next to Red, a golden remote with a red laser. "Are you sure this will really work?" She asked. "I was just joking when I said that you should train them to obey me with a remote!" 

Ace giggled. "I still think it was a funny joke, but it might work out, I have conditioned Red to focus on the laser and attack at the sound. Now we just need to see if she will do the same for you" Soyona nodded.

The woman pointed the remote at one of her paintings, the atrociraptor's eyes focusing on it. "Now the important part..." She muttered before pushing a button releasing a sharp sound from the remote. Red stopped for a moment, her gaze turned to Soyona. The raptor growled slightly and the blonde's hands trembled for a moment. Ace got ready to move if anything happened.

Then Red... turned her gaze back to the canvas and pounced on it before tearing it into pieces. Santos smiled. "It worked!" Ace said as he moved toward Red, petting her neck and chin. "That is my girl!"

Santos' eyes narrowed as she looked at the raptor. It seemed to her that Red wasn't looking at Ace for approval, but at her. Her smile grew wider noticing it. She did a timid nod and Red turned her attention back to Ace, nuzzling his hands and chest..

Santos' phone rang, making both turn to her. "A moment." She said bringing the phone to her ears. "WHAT?!" She shouted before regaining her composure and walking to a distant room of the apartment. "How did you lose a 250-pound raptor!"

"Sorry, Soyona it was just that he pretended to be sedated, he killed one of our workers, we are trying to hire the best trackers to capture it." A calm male voice said.

"Don't even try to do that, Dodgeson, Ace trained the raptors to ambush and escape any possible member of DPW who gets in my way. If you hire someone they will just get eaten alive  and my money will be wasted." She replied harshly.

"Do you have any other way to get the asset? Because the last time that overgrown chicken escaped your little 'boyfriend' threatened to cut ties with us, due to lack of security for his assets." Dodgeson said, Soyona grinding her teeth.

Soyona stopped for a moment, a smile emerging from her face. "First, we are not dating!" She said almost shouting, then lowering her voice to not startle Ace. "Second, simply send my other trainer, her atrociraptors can track and shepherd the pyroraptor into a transport for us to bring him back." Sh

"What about you? Won't you come back?" Dodgeson started questioning her."You said you would be away for 3 days and it has been almost a week!" He raised his voice.

Santos bit her lip and then looked at the hallway. "I had to solve a little problem here, I need just 2 more days." She said.

Dodgeson sighed. "Just speed up, I think your operation might be under investigation by someone" he alerted.

"I can assure you, 2 days, then whoever is interfering won't lose just an arm." She said and then turned her phone off. "I just need to convince Ace to go on that date" she muttered to herself before walking back to the main room of the apartment.