A Wizards Misadventures

~~Level Twenty~~

"You kidnapped Dinah Alcott," Taylor said stoically. There was a tremble in her voice.

"So I deserve to be executed?! Slaughtered like a dog at the pound?!" He seemed genuinely angry now, probably working himself up to seem more honest with his emotions.

"She's twelve. You drugged her," Taylor argued weakly.

"So take her! Don't you want to be a hero?! Save the princess, capture the bad guy, and everyone will love you! Kill me and you're the bad guy. A villain." Taylor flinched and the frost in the room faded a little.

I decided to help out a little. "Dual timelines. Ask him what he was doing to Tattletale before you got here in the other timeline." Taylor looked between Tattletale and Coil once.

"Dual timelines," she said. Tattletale blinked before her mouth changed to an O. Coi's face darkened. "What were you doing to Lisa in the other timeline?"

"Asking her-"

"Lie," Lisa said immediately. The frost grew again.

"My interests were in-"

"It's something personal. Something he doesn't want you to know," Tattletale observed. "Something that could get him killed? Something villainous. Like, really bad. You killed him the moment you saw him in the other timeline for it… what the fuck were you doing to me in the other… no." Tattletale paled. Coil scowled.

"He was… Taylor, kill him. Please," The girl pleaded.

"What was he doing?" she asked mercilessly.

"He was… He…" Tattletale was turning green.

"Rape," Irisai said simply, a grave expression on her face. Coil swallowed, realizing that he was in a room with two extremely deadly women. They both turned to him. His hand flew into a drawer beneath his desk and-

A chunk of ice, just a malformed mass of it, flew into his head, painting the wall behind him crimson with a nice crater where the ice hit the wall. He fell backwards and slumped against the wall.

"A debt repaid. The base is mine?"

"It's yours," Taylor said hoarsely.

"Good. Leave it and give the mercenaries to the PRT or police. Or leave them, though know that they'll all be dead if you leave them when I take the base. I'm far less merciful than you are."

"We're getting the mercs out of the base," Taylor said.

"They're not dead?" Tattletale asked in alarm. "Fuck, I was kinda hoping for a secret base, Tay."

"Grab what you want. The base is… it's not mine. Or yours. It's somebody else's."

"Abyss'," Irisai said.

"Abyss? Edgy… you owe him? Ooh boy, a lot… hold on. We'll talk about this later. Money now, talk later." Tattletale ignored Coil's corpse and leaned over his computer. I left the scene and gave the crew a half hour, in which time they moved all of the mercenaries out of the base and dragged Tattletale out.

"Mine," I said. And with that I wrapped the base in space affinity and folded. The whole construction site seemed to sink into the earth, the dirt closing up over it, stretched by my magic. It was still there, just buried in-between folds of space.