Chapter 29

"Well, well, how the mighty have fallen." Gambi said smugly as he entered an interrogation room in the Pit to find the monster called Martin Proctor sitting there in handcuffs and a prisoner uniform at the table.

"Peter Gambi, when I asked to speak to the person in charge of this base, I didn't think it would be you? I thought that you'd be in hiding to keep yourself from ending up like me." Proctor said and Gambi chuckled.

"Nope, I'm in charge of Argus's operation in Freeland and unlike you, I actually have regard for human life. I saw what you were planning on doing before the ASA was shut down and you were arrested. You were planning on restarting the metahuman experiment and putting even more kids in pods. I don't even want to know what the hell made you think was a good idea, but you'd better tell me what the hell was so important that I needed to give you the time of day." Gambi said angrily.

"I did what I felt needed to be done to keep America safe and make it great again." Proctor said with no regret in his voice.

"You sound like Odell, only with more emotion. Now tell me what the hell you want." Gambi said.

"I want to help you take down a target that I know is a much higher priority to you and Argus than little old me." Proctor said.

"Talk." Gambi said.

"Tobias Whale." Proctor said and he could tell that he had Gambi's attention.

"I'm listening and depending on what you say, it might be worth a deal." Gambi said.

"Tobias worked with the ASA for years, who do you think put him in charge of the 100?" Proctor asked and Gambi honestly couldn't believe that he'd forgotten about that.

"And I think you just reminded me of someone else who's much more likely to talk and can give me a lot more information on him and doesn't make me quite as sick to deal with." Gambi said.

"What are you talking about?" Proctor asked, panicking that now any chance of a deal he might've had was gone.

"You're forgetting that I trained Tobias's handler. Lady Eve." Gambi said with a grin, since while he and Evelyn had their problems, especially since he suspected that she might've had something to do with the attempt on his life in the old universe, but that hasn't happened yet in this reality and now he had something to offer her that would get her attention.

"You really think that she'd deal with you?" Proctor asked, trying to find a way to get a deal for himself.

"I'd rather deal with her than you, since she's someone I can tolerate." Gambi said.

"What if I could give you something else." Proctor asked, desperately trying to get himself out of this cell.

"What else could you have to offer?" Gambi asked.

"The briefcase." Proctor said, causing Gambi to look at him, his curiosity peaked.

"What is so important about a briefcase?" Gambi asked, since he remembered that both the ASA and Tobias had been obsessed with some kind of briefcase in the old reality, but they'd never found out why.

"The briefcase is the master control of the ASA's metahuman operations. It has everything you need to prosecute Odell." Proctor said.

"Keep talking and make sure your words are important." Gambi said.

"That briefcase is linked to the pods that you recovered from the ASA. It contains the genome of every metahuman the ASA has come in contact with, including Black Lightning. It's the key to opening those metahuman pods properly and so much more. Trust me, once you see what's in it, you'll see the ASA in a whole new light." Proctor said.

"I can think of a few problems with that. For starters, this briefcase, if it really is everything you claim, it was lost when the ASA was taken down, so we don't know what happened to it and even if it is still intact, I'm assuming that we'd need you to unlock it?" Gambi asked.

"Unless you know someone who can hack through it, yeah." Proctor agreed.

"Tell me how to find the briefcase. Once we find it, you confirm your story and then we'll talk about a deal for you." Gambi said, since while he hated Proctor, he knew that this was too good for them to pass up and they couldn't let something like the case fall into the wrong hands. Again, since he knew that Tobias had it in the old reality and now he knew why it was valuable, if what Proctor was saying was true.

"I put a tracker on the case when I heard the ASA was going down, since I figured that something like this could be my golden ticket to freedom." Proctor said.

"I wouldn't go that far. But if your information checks out, then maybe I can talk to the Argus director about getting you a deal." Gambi said and Proctor nodded, knowing that he was in no position to demand anything in advance and should consider himself lucky that Gambi was willing to offer him anything at all, so he didn't push his luck. For now anyways.

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