Who: Subrosa Agents What: Plot. Plotty Plotting Plot Where: Parts Unknown When: Recently, possibly today but who knows Warnings: None
The office was normal enough. You'd never guess that the people there planned their lives and work around immortals. Staplers or insurance, maybe. But not the gods.
A man walked in and placed down a file labeled "Z" on the desk of his superior. . He was plain, boring. If you had any real brains, you knew the real 007s didn't try to be good looking. The best agents were the ones you could forget. "I have my results, sir."
The other one was even plainer in appearance, if that were somehow possible. That would be a dead give away of his higher position for anyone in the know. But the books seemed to pin him as a land ordinance guy, not a researcher of the divine. He picked up the file and flipped through it, “I still think we should have named it a more clever file name, but, I digress. Was it successful?”
The first man nodded. "Yes sir. The site went down as planned. The casualties, while unplanned, actually gave further evidence towards our experiment."
The second man skimmed the file as the first spoke, “I see the larger amount of explosives were used. Sasaki will be displeased but he has become compromised in all this.” He raised his hand to keep the other from talking as he continued to read, “And he was spotted in Greece a while after at the site?”
First Man nodded. "He, and his mate. I can only presume, but to me, he appeared paler, tired... I would dare say older. He was clearly stressed by the situation."
“Very interesting.” The file was placed down for now and the second man gave the first his undivided attention, “And he appeared this way almost a week afterwards. This is a very good sign and hopefully we will never need to do something this scale again.”
The other agent nodded. "If I may voice my opinion, sir?"
“Go ahead.”
"I feel this may be a useful tactic," he said, face blank as he did. "Perhaps not against this god, but against others. Not as a last resort..." But as a standard method, said the silence.
“It is a slippery slope. It hurts them but destroys our history.” The second man sighed but nodded, “We may have no choice against the violent and the mad however.”
First Man's face twitched slightly but he quickly controlled it. "Are we going to continue tests, sir? On other gods, or continuing with this one?"
“No experiment has ever been proven with one test or one test subject.” Was the second man's response, his features unwaivering and emotionless. “But we need to be more careful about human casualties. Otherwise we become no better than the mad are. We are doing this to see if we can protect ourselves if it came to it, not to hurt our own blood.”
"I believe I may have a test subject in mind, then. One who is as old as the Greek, and in the same pantheon. However, his worship has far evolved compared to the king's."
“Just be careful Their pantheon has proved violent when touched and Sasaki and his cell may have endangered us with their exploits in New York City.” The second man did not seem to have any other hesitation or suggestion beyond that and what he had previously said. “I will inform Ms. Crane and let her go through the proper channels.”
First Man nodded, and headed towards the door. But once he reached out and put his hand on the handle, he turned back to his officer. "Sir, may I ask. Will action be taken against Sasaki?"
“Some action has already been taken. He is not being Cced anymore. However, his insight and information has been invaluable so anything further will have to depend on if he has endangered us.” The second man looked down and opened the file again to read it more in depth, “Will that be all or do you have something else?”
The man smiled a little, pleased. Well, at least that boy was finally getting what was coming to him. Not what he would've done but...
Well, he wasn't one of the superiors. Was he.
"That will be all," he said with a smart salute before he left, ready to prepare for the next trial.
Summary: Having finished up their tests of late, one branch of Subrosa discusses the future.