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Post by fierano on May 8, 2007 11:41:41 GMT -5
Glimmer felt like a child entering a real haunted house as he made his way down the barely lit tunnel down to the laboratory where he hoped he wouldn't receive as bad news as he was currently hoping...and he was expecting the worst. Not like he didn't have a reason to, given his very dismal performance and antics in the first two races of the Cup that was supposed to launch him to global stardom.
The CLK Stock car (if there were ever such an irony) stood before a large sliding door, whose sleek, almost spaceship-like style contrasted with the decaying industrial theme of the outside environment. He gulped, trying to get rid of any urge to delay his fate any longer.
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Post by Kamui.EXE on May 8, 2007 11:53:36 GMT -5
Up in one of the hidden 'skyboxes' was none other than Franzeska von Richthoven herself. She watched what was going on on the labratory floor on a few TV screens she could hear Glimmer loud and clear.
She only said a few words in referance to Glimmer.
"Send him in and do not keep me waiting," said Franzeska.
Her thick German accent bore an eere deep and calmness to it. But the owner of that voice inside the deepest reaches of her mind was far from calm. It was almost a silent undetectable buisness like anger that hung there. While most assumed that it was just Franzeska meaning buisness, no one knew her actual fustration. She kept that hidden like a wild cat's shieved claws.
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Post by fierano on May 8, 2007 11:57:05 GMT -5
"You may enter," came a voice from a receiver embedded in the wall, and with that the doors slid open with a light whoosh, revealing even more darkness. Glimmer sighed and slowly rolled in, his engine revving almost deathly low.
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Post by Kamui.EXE on May 8, 2007 12:08:14 GMT -5
Franzeska's silent witheld anger festered like a disease as she watched Glimmer enter the main area. Perhaps she would allow him to explain himself. Not that it would change her thoughts or opinions, but just more for pure curiosity.
Franzeska went up to one of the intercom consols, switched on the voice distroters and spoke in to the microphone.
"Explain yourself, Jens," said Franzeska calmly.
Again was that chilling calm as her distorted voice made its' way from the speakers out on the main lab floor.
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Post by fierano on May 8, 2007 12:14:49 GMT -5
Glimmer suddenly froze, as if 100,000 volts suddenly charged up his spine. He never expected to explain himself to someone different, and if his fears served him right, this was someone very likely above his current Manager. This clearly was going worse than he'd expected.
"I...I...uh...I didn't perform...up to expectations..." he stammered, trying to explain himself in as much formality as he could muster.
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Post by Kamui.EXE on May 8, 2007 12:22:24 GMT -5
This piqued Franzeska's curiosity a bit further.
"Elaborate further, Jens," said Franzeska in that icey calm.
(OOC: Heh heh heh heh! It's fun being all evil like this! XD )
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Post by fierano on May 8, 2007 12:33:39 GMT -5
"I...placed out of the Top 10...in the most recent race...and I ended up in a duel...went off of comm-link for several hours..." Glimmer explained, trying to avoid the subject of his humiliation at the hands of Kamui.
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Post by Kamui.EXE on May 8, 2007 12:43:15 GMT -5
"Excuses!? We have never taught you such thing NOR have we taught you to become such a dismal failure!" said Franzeska finally.
She pressed a button on one of the consols closest to her. This sent an electrical charge right to where Glimmer was currently parked.
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Post by fierano on May 8, 2007 21:57:29 GMT -5
Glimmer screamed as the literal electrical charge surged up into his wiring, triggering every nerve in his body. "AAAAAAAGH! I'm...sorry...urgh...there is no....excuse!" he growled as he tried to withstand this charge...which was stronger than anything Kamui delivered so far.
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Post by Kamui.EXE on May 8, 2007 22:00:26 GMT -5
Franzeska stopped pressing the button.
"Then tell me - what did we teach you? Say it!" said Franzeska.
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Post by fierano on May 9, 2007 0:10:11 GMT -5
"You taught...you taught...you taught me that..." Glimmer found the words he really wanted to say escaping him for the first time in years, and it was not a welcome feeling of emptiness. "...you taught..."
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Post by Kamui.EXE on May 9, 2007 7:20:00 GMT -5
Franzeska narrowed her eyes. This stammering was not a good sign. Perhaps it was time for a little white lie.
"Jens, as you may be aware, we have retrieved your on board videos wirelessly. What I am seeing is very interesting. Do explain.... the truth and tell us what we taught you!" said Franzeska.
In reality, she still had to retrieve the videos and hadn't seen them yet.
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Post by fierano on May 9, 2007 7:49:20 GMT -5
Glimmer gasped, wondering how they could've been able to withdraw his videos from below...then again, there were a lot of things about the technology in him that his Managers never really told him about.
"I ran into...this agent of this...FIBBER grüppe...and then I found myself...in the underground for about 24 hours before I made it out...they were waiting but me and Barnes were able to fend them off..." The speed at which Glimmer's speed ran was so varied that he sounded a lot like some G-Car...
That was as much as he could explain without having to go into his emotional outburst or Kamui's involvement. If anything, having revealed the existence of the Managers to Kamui would result in a slow painful death and replacement.
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Post by Kamui.EXE on May 9, 2007 8:02:37 GMT -5
Franzeska was now getting somewhere. She never told Glimmer about FIBBER. Franzeska was certainly well versed with FIBBER since they were constantly the thorn in her side. She had resigned from FIBBER years ago to start up The Managers. But since the start of The Managers, FIBBER was always there one step ahead of her. She hated that greatly.
However, there was one thing Franzeska did have at her disposal which was sound clips of when Glimmer encountered the FIBBER agents. She played them back again quickly to herself.
"Explain. Who's the other women on the sound clips, Jens," said Franzeska in referance to some of Kamui's shouting.
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Post by fierano on May 9, 2007 8:12:13 GMT -5
Glimmer hesitated. It was a very risky hesitation, as in that time he had to figure out whether to tell whomever he was talking to about Kamui or not. If he did, she would very likely question him into revealing the sand-writing...if not, that chance was a bit greater.
"She was that...crazy Shooter who challenged me after the race..." Of course, that was available on most sports channels as well as in plain sight on Glimmer's cameras. "...these...FIBBER group agents interrupted our challenge and I was forced to flee...I told her nothing..." that was a half-truth, of course, talking and writing were different, "...and Barnes and the agents were the only other ones in the vicinity of the escape."
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