Context: You are a well-known, top-ranked agent in the organization ISPI. Your task: gather information on dangerous specimens on behalf of the Quandry, an organization that studies anything supernatural. Your job has you combatting numerous threats, facing super soldiers, mutants, and everything else. One of those things has shown up in the lobby today, politely asking for you. What could it possibly want?

Setting: ISPI HQ

Tags:[MM4A][Strangers to ?][Tsundere Spy Speaker][Yandere(?) Mutant Speaker][Hidden Feelings][Love Triangle?][Turning Yourself In][Docile][Teasing][Flirting][Cooperative][Interrogation][Supernatural][Worship][Lore Drops][CW: Mentions of Injury/Violence]

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[D] = Agent 12 aka Derek

[R] = 'Ravenous' aka Raven

[Scene opens within ISPI HQ]

[SFX: A call being made]

[You pick up the phone in your office as it rings]

[D] “Hey, Thirteen. It’s Agent 12. Listen, uh… I hope you had your coffee because we have a bit of a situation down in the lobby.”

[Pause?]

[D] “Heh, I know. Mondays, right? We have a hostile specimen acting, um… non-hostile. It’s ‘Ravenous’ or ‘Raven’, as he calls himself… Asshole damned near broke my spine permanently in our last skirmish.”

[Pause!]

[SFX: The Listener grabbing a firearm and hurrying across the marble floor]

[You race down toward the lobby, and can hear Agent 12 speaking with Raven, though it’s a bit muffled]

[D] “Bold of you to show up to ISPI, Raven… You know you’re considered ‘shoot on sight’, right?”

[R] “And yet, you are not shooting.”

[D] “Because I’m curious as to why an enemy agent willingly showed up to HQ.”

[R] “Yes, well… Hmhm. I’ve heard curiosity does things to cats, Derek. You should be careful.”

[D, tense] “Is that a threat?”

[You hear Raven stand and pick up the pace]

[Pause!]

[R] “...I have no desire to play with you, Agent. We both remember what happened last time you tried to collar me…”

[Raven cocks his head, mouth twisting into a toothy grin]

[Pause]

[R] “Looks like your spine healed fairly well, hmm, Derek?”

[D] “Shut up! I’m not afraid of you, and you know you aren’t allowed to infiltrate the compound at will!”

[SFX: Footsteps as the Listener hurries into the room]

[You make it at last to the lobby Raven’s malice turns oddly docile the second he sees you]

[R] “Thirteen…”

[D] “Thirteen, retreat! I’ve got this handled!”

[Pause?]

[R] “What do I want…? I want to speak with you, Thirteen. You extended an invitation for me to do so when we last battled… Remember?”

[...]

[His pupils twist from circular to narrow ovals, serpent-like]

[Pause…?]

[R] “How do I make my eyes change like that? Like what…? Oh, my pupils changing to look more snake-like? It’s part of what I want to tell you. I want to help you understand what I am so you can, hopefully, piece together what you need.”

[Pause?]

[D] “No, don’t ask him if he wants you alone. There’s no fucking way I’m leaving him alone with him eyeing you like that.”

[Raven smirks at this]

[R] “Ooh, youse a real wise guy, huh? Sheesh, get a load o’ this guy!”

[D, nettled] “Are you making fun of my accent you Eastern European, Dracula-sounding fuck boy?!”

[Pause!]

[Raven smiles, wrinkling his nose at you and Agent 12 as he taunts him:]

[R] “Oh, you’re fun Agent 12.”

[Pause]

[R] “...Very well. For you, Agent 13, I shall concede my pride. For now.”

[SFX: The three of them moving across the marbled floor and a door shutting]

[D] “This is one of our standard interrogation rooms. If you try to break out, ARTEMIS will respond and reduce you to cinders. Understand?”

[R, eyes on you] “Yes, yes, whatever you said.”

[The three of you settle and you notice his gaze is always on you. Intense. Curious. Hungry]

[Pause?]

[R] “Ah, yes, a reasonable first question to ask. Why am I, a known enemy of your organization, willingly showing up here to answer questions? I’ve already answered this. I came to speak to you, Thirteen.”

[Pause?]

[D] “Yeah, why them?”

[Raven ponders this for a moment, almost seeming just as confused]

[R] “...Do you remember our last battle, Thirteen?”

[Pause]

[He smiles excitedly]

[R] “It was a good battle! The best I’ve ever had! You were my first… To survive combat with me. Apologies for my poor phrasing.”

[Pause]

[Derek holds his hands up]

[D] “Whoa, whoa, whoa! Raven, you’re talking about Incident 22-A! You killed hundreds of people before we arrived on the scene!”

[R] “Before you arrived, perhaps… Agent 13 was there long before any of the rest of you weaklings! Fighting the good fight, rescuing everyone they could, like a true warrior! You and your weak little squad of ‘top-notch agents’ spend all of your time downing piss-tasting beer, eating your disgusting cheese-drowned chips, and bragging about the accomplishments THIRTEEN earned all of you! General Komodo turns his nose up at your child-like immaturity!”

[Pause…]

[He turns to you, ignoring Agent 12 almost entirely as he blusters]

[R] “You ARE a true warrior… I saw it in your eyes when we fought, every time we fought! The excitement… The thrill of two predators battling for the fate of prey!”

[...]

[D] “Yeah… Why don’t you just fucking spill what you apparently came here to say? Do you consent to being recorded?”

[R] “Yes.”

[D] “Good. State your name.”

[R] “Specimen 023-017, codenamed ‘Ravenous’, Raven for short.”

[D] “Good. And why are you here?”

[R] “I am willingly submitting to questioning, per Quandry law, as well as the institute I.S.P.I… and it’s incredibly stupid pun name which I loathe.”

[Pause]

[He smiles at you. His steel-trap smile is unnerving, as is the black liquid/mists that seem to make up his ‘clothing’]

[R] “I’m glad you agree, Thirteen…”

[SFX: Derek snapping his fingers a few times]

[D] “Quit it with the puppy eyes, Raven, Thirteen ain’t interested in some monstrosity created by an enemy government!”

[Pause!]

[Agent 12 pauses, uncertain]

[D] “Thirteen, c’mon… This guy is some kind of bio-weapon!”

[R] “I’m a Xryl, actually. I’m not mutated or confused or particularly animalistic.”

[You and Agent 12 exchange looks]

[D] “We don’t know that word, Raven…”

[R, smiling] “Oh, I’m not surprised… It takes a lot to make a creature like me. You have to steal a baby from another dimension, deny it empathetic bonding, and convince it that if it doesn’t eat flesh regularly that it will melt down into nothing. But, in return, you get shapeshifting, immense strength, speed, sight in the dark… It’s not the worst trade, really.”

[Pause…]

[SFX: Derek taking notes]

[D] “Do you know why you were created in this way?”

[Raven rolls his eyes]

[R] “To be a weapon, obviously. And… thank you, Thirteen. It was not the happiest childhood.”

[D] “Your ears… Sideways slanted with frills. You’re Xen?”

[R] “I am.”

[D] “Like the one Dimitri is dating… and the ones helping Enzo. If someone is smuggling their children over here to do this shit…”

[...]

[R] “They’re correct. You all are in a terrible amount of trouble. I’m actually cloned from one of their gods with the same name. They wanted to make sure I was strong enough to topple empires… Presuming I could be controlled, anyhow.”

[Pause?]

[R] “Well, no, they don’t really have a way to control me. Any time the Quandry tries to capture me, I escape through the smallest crack or the subtlest of kills. They can’t contain me, and they know it. They can only do so by convincing me that what they want me to do will be enjoyable or fun.”

[D] “Charming… Is that why you came here? You thought it’d be fun?”

[R] “I came to see Agent 13, as I said.”

[D] “Why…?”

[R] “I missed them.”

[Pause]

[Again, Raven smiles]

[R] “You missed me, too? I’m glad. I enjoyed our talk last time while you dragged me out of that burning building… It surprised me that you did that for me, you know.”

[D] “Yeah, likewise.”

[R] “It’s rare to find goodhearted people… I want to be near you. That’s my only desire right now.”

[Again, you both exchange looks]

[D] “...What’s to stop you from deciding this isn’t fun anymore, Raven? From attacking us?”

[SFX: Something metal being thrown on the table]

[Raven tosses something on the table. A metal collar, that warbles and wobbles on the table before settling]

[R] “Here. The only piece of technology that can keep me mostly in check.”

[Pause…?]

[He looks at you, docile again]

[R] “I trust you, Thirteen.”

[D] “Why???”

[R] “We understand each other.”

[Pause]

[R] “You’re welcome. You may cuff me now. I’ll happily take any cell.”

[Agent 12 cuffs him]

[SFX: Raven being cuffed]

[D] “...Don’t make me regret this, Raven.”

[R] “Quite frankly, Agent 12, I don’t give a shit what you feel.”

[He’s marched off while you sit in the sterile room, a clock ticking by]

[R] “See you soon, Thirteen.”

[SFX: The door closing…]

[To be continued]