Downtown Chicago - February 22 - 1991

The room was dark and hazy, a man was tied up to a uncomfortable chair as he moved around, his chest was exposed with wounds from previous altercations, he had electrical plugs on his body as well, dirty torture tools rested on the wall now, Andrea walked in with Nora to her side and narrowed her eyes with intent. Her mind was racing with many thoguhts there, every moment she was considering what to do.

To the side there was the one who was condicting this interrogation, one of her more loyal subjects, she turned to him and he started speaking.

“He was the one who leaked the moment and exact date where Olive would be, he is the idiot who gave the info” he said, cleaning his hands wiht a towel and tossing it into sink, Andrea then looked at the man on the chair “what happened?”

“The idiot was drinking with his buddies, drinking and living and doing all the stuff, some girl approached him, apparently she was quite beautiful and was into him.”

“So... honeytrap?” Andrea seemed annoyed as she looked at the man terrible state “And just that was enough for him to just spill out information that would need to be specifically asked? Even if he was an idiot that degree of cluelesness...”

“You are right boss.. That would be too much of a stupid thing to do... What makes him an idiot is that he followed the woman to a special place... Somewhere full of drugs and Muties...” he groaned a bit frustrated

“And then he took the drugs and sang like a bird” Andra frustration was palpable, she could have thought a traitor, an complete idiot, something like that, at least the leak was dealt with, however these people are organized, her frustration grew “So... do we know our enemy?”

“Apparently not exactly but he does remember where they took him, would be a great place to start anyway”

She gazed at him with an expectant look, waiting for the answer there.

“Its a nightclub called Danii Desires, never heard of it, he said its a place where the Muties go around to drink and be left alone”

She nodded “Take care of him, Nora, come with me... Call our forces as well , we must take care of some... bugs” she said already turning around and walking out of the room in a ancient warehouse. As Andrea and Nora arrived at the car again the gunshot echoes and then stops. Nora grabbed her sattelite connected phone and started making calls “Gather the teams, bring all the guns, we are doing a raid... and” she looked at Andrea once more, and she just nodded in confirmation “and bring Caterina”.

Danii Desires Nightclub - That same night.

The nightclub had three bouncers, all of them were meta, all of them looked very angry and not up to play, Andrea observed them all from her car, her men were getting ready, she hated being made to look weak, that is what they wanted, to make blood soak the water, make her men distrust her, other mobs attack her, no, it would stop there. She grabbed a radio.

“Caterina group... you can advance... control group you can follow, cover her team back.” the voice was calm and collected in general but she was afraid her anger would betray her. She waited a bit and then she sees Caterina moving in, a small framed girl, curly colorful hair and a strange aura floating around her. Her impact made the floor tremble close to Andrea and she immediately lunged herself into one of the security guards, the guard barely had any time to react before he was on the ground bleeding.

The other guard created what looked like some form of energy blade out of his fist and struck Caterina who seemed to shrug it off before punching the guard so hard that he flied around into the asphalt, she had two other people with her there at that moment at least. while doing it the other two lunged at the last guard, decapitating them into a gruesome display.

Several cars stop at there soon after, armed men get out and start protecting the street. Andrea sees caterina moving into the nightclub as she herself gets out of the car, waving at Nora and her other bodyguards to accompany her to the nightclub.

It stood in a corner of the street , hidden between two buildings in a cross alley there, was almost hidden from everyone else at that point at least , with a smile she looks at the men and waves for them to accompany her to the inside of the building where screams were happening, the raid would start now.

The entrance of the nightclub had a neon sign above it, the door lead to a corridor where Andrea could see blood of another guard immediately, the corridor soon opens into a large hall full of people and a few appliances, people were cowering into the corner afraid, she advanced with her men that move pointing guns at everyone who could move. “keep the civvies alive for now... I just want the beetle headed imbeciles who thought would be a good idea attacking me... Let this be a message” she ordered them before walking in the chaos.

Caterina was fighting someone there, it seemed to be a meta with metal powers, they were completely made of metal and were shaping their own body, Caterina was dodging everything with a smile as she laughed, Andrea looks at her “Stop playing with pawns! But I do want that one alive!” Andrea screams at her seeing how the expression on the tiny woman changed from playful to extremely focused immediately.

The meta girl that was fighting is immediately grabbed and pressed against the floor breaking the tiles and then the snapping of her arms as Caterina mooves fast and strong, with skill and force to grab into her , she disables the woman below her with a few swings then. Andrea approached calmly, hands in her pocket with a smug smile “so... lets talk... ” she was feeling pretty good now at least.

“You see, someone interfered with a friend of mine, someone very , very important to me” she paced in front of the girl as Caterina kept her in place, she could see her gritting her teeth a that brought pleasure to her “I wat to know... who was it and why” she stopped and looked above the woman.

“As if I would tell a disgusting vermin lik-” she was stopped by Caterina slamming her face several times against the ground, her aura getting unstable

“YOU. WILL. RESPECT. MISS. ANDREA!”

With a smile andrea simply raised her hand “now now... lets not kill her yet...” with a gaze ahead Andrea could see the team Cateina lead, one of her girls was trapping someone withe her fast moves and precise control and the other girl was using telekinesis to move another person into the wall. The sounds of gunshots were still echoing through the venue. She licks her lips a bit.

“Thank you Caterina” her hand pets Caterina and then moves to grab the hair of the woman, pulling her head up a little bit “Now. You see that I have conquered this place and I will get this information out. If you do not know who did that Then tell me who know, you might even leave here alive”

Caterina slammed her head against the now broken tiles once more “Miss Andrea asked you a question!”

“Ghu...” there was blood leaving out of her mouth “Mister.... Louis”

Andrea was feeling pretty good now, her mind was racing, perhaps this was going to end quickly after all, she could even use this as a political tool, much could have happened here, so she waves to Caterina “kill her , lets go see this Louis”. And so Caterina obeyed.

Andrea did not see the snapping of the neck but she definitely heard it as they walked ahead, the sounds of shooting were far less present now. Going into the administration area it was just a few rooms , she goes ahead stepping over a corpse on one of the corridors to arrive at the scene of a man with glimmering sapphire eyes looking at her, he was under gunpoint by several of her men and one of Caterina underlings. She smiled.

“You must be Louis” with a move she pulls the chair and sits on it, crossing her legs comfortably with a soft look to him, she was feeling rather powerful now and studied the man. “Do tell... was it you who thought would be a good idea to attack me?”

The man looked at her causing a strange sensation in her body, maybe it was his meta powers there, she sighed

“no... but that does not matter does it... I will be leaving here in a coffin regardless” he smiled at her, she grins back

“Oh! Perhaps you will. But I must say that is the good option for you in this situation, I might even give you a bonus and let you live if you are nice enough”

“Lying wont work with me, miss Marconi”

“Is that so?” she got a bit annoyed and got up “Very well then” said in an annoyed voice before pacing a bit around the room “You might think yourself smart. You might think yourself clever even. You are not” with a low and serious voice she looked back at him “If you can tell when someone lies. I will tell you that a coffin is the good ending for you. How does that sound?”

He looked down “Like you are not lying...” his voice was also low. His posture changed a bit. and then he looks around. She was studying him.

“Do not try anything stupid as well. It will make it so much worse for you.” She grins with satisfaction “So, who was stupid enough to attack me?”

Caterina goes and holds his shoulder with such strength that he flinches an groan “Answer miss Andrea!” her voice was angry. Andrea thought she might need to help her loosen up after, still , she crossed her arms.

The man looks at her and then down, gulping a bit “The trio of them came in two weeks before they captured your man. They had some proposal, something big, really. Their leader, she had this powerful eyes, something you don't see usually” she eyes his hands as they were trembling and nodded.

He continued “I had no right to refuse, I knew it” his eyes moved around towards the books and then at his cabinet “They were crazy of course, kept saying something about a new world order, something to bring the divine again... And that I , along with the metas around here. We would be at the center of it all.”

“So you acted as their base of operations or something?”

“no... a Recruitment ground. They came here to talk to the people that hang around, recruit them into their little group or something, for a couple of weeks they just stood there, talking to people, preaching almost to them. Until one day they brought your man and conscripted me to help them”

Andrea let out a laugh “So you claim no fault in that? Seems convenient” she was now browzing the books he had and throwing them around “So why did you do it?”

“Money, recognition... and I must say that their promises were quite interesting as well, something big” he gives a smile “And purpose”

Andrea raised her eyebrow “Purpose. I see. What kind of purpose?”

“To bring a world that is not controlled by vermin like you, for one”

She gives a smirk “And you did believe them? What are they? Pretend revolutionaries? A cult? Maybe a club?”

“I think they were looking for salvation or somethting. They preached a lot about a new era that was being gifted to us, something about being the chosen ones”

“To us... huh. So a cult” She groans in frustration, a murderous cult, that was a problem she was not expecting to deal with. Crossing her arms Andrea focused on him again.

“Not you... Us , metas. Every meta around ”

With a laugh she just shrugged “Of course, I do not care about their insane ramblings, where are they?” her eyes focused about him.

“Honestly? I dont know where are they exactly but I do know where they bring in things, Southeast docks” he smiled “You know they will get you, they are-”

Andrea pulled a pistol and shot him in the head before he could continue “I told you I do not care about their insane ramblings.” she looks at Caterina “Gather every single person of our force, gather everyone, we are going to do a little trap for these assholes”

Caterina smiled “Of course miss!” her eyes were focused on Andrea, she smiled and pets her head “Good girl, lets move”