"Send her in." I told my guards at the front gate. My leather chair was warm from me sitting in It all day, and paperwork was piled up on my desk from all of the handicaps that I had just issued. Headphones, weights, masks... it was disgusting how many people needed these saving graces.  as I was sorting through the last of the expenses we made for the high-tech radio wave emitting headphones, I heard a knock at the large oak door at the front of my office.

"Come in." I called. I sat up straight and mentally prepared myself for the person I was about to see.

the woman I saw was shoved in  by the guards and she looked pitiful. She had a split lip and a swollen black eye, her blond hair was matted with blood and her green eyes were fiery. I immediately recognized her as one of my former friends;

"Hello, Perry." I said wryly. my voice cracked the slightest bit, but I cleared my voice and regained my posture as the person in authority.  

I am the person that is above her. Do not waver.

"Hello, Traitor." She snarled. She tried her best to glare, but was overcome by the pain in her left eye. I chucked and started to walk down at the kneeling body, my high heels clanking against the hard wood floors.

"You've become weak, Per." I said gleefully. she used to be one of my biggest supporters, until she too wanted my power. "You used to be such a spit fire! What happened?" my words stung in my throat, knowing that she still was an active spitfire, and that she could exploit me and spread humors.

She replied with an angry glare. "Your weights, masks, and headphones happened. What do you think your little 'Quest to make humanity equal' is going to accomplish?" She was getting red now, and looked like she was going to explode. "You think that sending twenty-gun-salutes through someones skull when they have an original thought is going to make the world EQUAL? or having 200 lb weights on their arms?"

I smirked at her unfiltered tongue. she might have four children, but she still knew how to put up a fight.

"hmm." I responded, trying to give her absolutely no reason to believe that I was even listening, "And what about your children? Jake? Alyssa? or the smart one... what was his name." I was faking that I didn't know who I was talking about. Everyone knew him, because this child was the smartest kid in the whole goddamn world.

I hate him.

"Jack!" I snapped my fingers and whirled back toward her, making it way more dramatic. I felt gratitude when I saw her face go white as a sheet. 

"He's the genius one, isn't he!" I yelled to the wind. "AND only seven years old! Excluding the fact of his age, I still cannot figure out how he was able to thwart my top of the line headphones!" It was true. A puny little toddler was able to destroy my minions. humans. whichever, he was able to get rid of the headphones without me knowing...

I grabbed her face, making it scrunched up, and said to her in harsh whispers, 

"I will find your daughter and son... and I will turn them into mindless zombies, just as you will be." Her eyes turned to ice, and she smiled and bit my finger.

"Ugh!" I yelled and grabbed my finger which had a drop of blood that was growing. I turned and slapped her.

She swung her head back at me with tears in her eyes and said, "We were friends. You ate our food, slept in our bed, shared in our life. Just because you want to take over the world does not mean its going to happen. just like the fact that I want to see my babies again, and I know thats never going to happen." Her eyes grew sad and tired, but she regained her feet and stood right in front of me.

"You will never take control of my family. I assure you, I taught them all of your weaknesses. You are nothing to them."

I turned to my desk and pulled a pair of headphones from my top drawer. I loved her and her family once. Then I realized they took away my family. Its time I return the favor...

"no... but I will be." I turned and shoved the headphones onto her head, which immediately emitted an ear-spitting scream, causing her to pass out where she stood.

I called the guards to carry her body to the nearest jail cell, and I returned to work.