Yanick exits the cab a little after Raven, Raven watches as his enigmatic friend's excitement shows visibly on his face, he and Yanick make their way through the HQ's walls while Yanick looks around excitedly, stifling his laughter as the teen know for his herculean strength fiddled lightly with the equipment trying desperately not to break anything they then make their way through the hallway stopping in shock at the sight before them, Yue's body guard, Luke clutching a bloody ear full of pins and Yanick near teleporting as Raven watches his first shatter the thugs jaw,

{compression stage, i can sense the early stages of 'BONE CONTROL', Silver states, Raven looks on wide-eyed not in the least bit worried about Yanick hurting the thug, he deserved it, Raven stares in genuine curiosity trying to understand the glint in Yanick's eye when he saw Luke's injuries, running up to Luke Raven removes his hand from the injury before slowly pulling the remainder of the pins out slowly

"Luke!…are you okay?" Raven inquires helping him to his feet, "Yanick, Yanick!" He calls out toward Yanick who jolts from his thoughts before apologizing

Seated by her side was Kevin volt, but he'd done little but ignore her all evening, Yue watches him as he gets up to his feet walking towards the opening door with a light smile,

"Hello everyone" Aylin greets while steeping into the room, watching KV offer the girl his jacket while apologise for his abrupt call, jealousy burns through her quickly turning to hate as she watches the director. Writer and producer fawn over the new arrival, even offering 'her' role!,

(Doesn't matter anyway she's a fake plastic bitch!…she's a peasant while i'm a star....)

"She's busy, she's learning to take over her father's businesses"

"What business is that the director inquires offhandedly"

"the, 'HIDE CONGLOMERATE'" Kevin states making the lot fawn over her even more, watching this scene Yue's takes a sharp intake of breath, before squeezing her eyes shut, the sense of superiority that kept her sane fading, he jealousy mixing with her complex causing her to almost flare at the duo,

(it's taken everything for me to reach the top, why?, Why do i feel like i'm still inferior, i'm better!, I worked for everything!, she's nothing but a silver spooned plastic bitch!),

The gathering eventually comes to an end and Yue swiftly makes her way toward's the president's office,

"Good evening sir" she called while showing herself to a seat, Mildly displeased with her behaviour the president speaks nothing of it before mirroring her action now sitting across from her,

"Let's save ourselves the flattery and get straight to business" he says he

"I want an advance"

"On a contract you already signed?, You might as well make it a loan"

"Done", she replies

"And your parameters for payment?" He inquired

"Profits"

"We always get the profits"

"My profits, systematic deduction from my earnings"

"Very well, and you want to keep this off the books?" He replies

"There's no need to", she smiles in response

"Excellent, i'll have my lawyers get in touch, ah by the way how much do you intend to receive?"

"Five million" she replies with boiling confidence

"What!…what do you need a five million credit advance on your next contract for!?" The president bellows now glaring at Yue

"Can't you just give it to me?, I'll make you twice this much anyway, just a few ads, a hit song and a good movie, in exchange i'll extend my contract by a year" she replies

"And when would you be needing this advance?"

"Within three days" smiling at the president visibly contemplating the option. After several minutes of doing so he concedes

"Alright"

"I'm here!" Yue states walking into a warehouse full of people moving boxes, turning at her call the presidents friend turns towards her smiling

"Oh your here already?" He states smiling at her,

(It's sad the things dumb men will do for a woman, doesn't matter, this is the first step to making my dream a reality), she muses, "that's just cause i missed you darling" she replies returning his smile,

"Yue it's nice to finally meet you, i'm a friend of the presidents" a man in dark rimmed glasses greets extending his hand, taking the hand Yue greets jovially in reply

"Shall we get started then?" The man inquires confusing her, (started? The setup is cheap, there's no make up artist? And the lighting hasn't being done properly), She shrugs off the uneasy feeling creeping up her spine as she pulls her fur coat off, turning to her boyfriend he signals the man in rimmed glasses who smiles towards her

"Strip"

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"Huh?" Yue pauses momentarily before inquiring again not quite sure she'd heard wrong,

"Strip!" The formerly meek man screams forcing her to recoil, realising the situation she turns to her boyfriend who only smiles mockingly in response

"Babe" she calls out to him to which he looks on in reply barely stifling his laughter,

"Of course, this is part if the job" he replies...

"You really thought you where going to get five million just to re-sign?, I knew you where an idiot but did you really not learn a thing in three years of show-business?" Another voice speaks up from the side, turning she inhales sharply at the sight of the president,

"What...what are you doing here?!" She raises shocked

"You really thought you where smart huh?, Blowing my money, cheating with other artists, making a fool of me?!" Her boyfriend shouts barely holding himself back from assaulting the girl,

"Wha..."

Stopping mid sentence she grips at the arm around her neck,

"Boss always said you where an idiot but i really didn't know how much" her body guard states sinisterly towards her, "why the hell do you think he stuck me with you?, To protect you?, I even got my jaw broken cause of you, maybe having a little fun with you after this will compensate" he states sporting an absolutely diabolical grin,

"LET ME GO!, THIS IS A CRIM...Hugh..."

Going down clutching her stomach she struggles to breath while blinking away the tears

"A crime?....you really thought you'd use my money to start a new company?, You even had the gall to tell my brother" the president states squatting next to her squirming frame,

"Brother?" She gasps Turning her head towards the now smirking culprit

"how about this, I'll let you go" he says smiling at her hopeful expression, "just pay me the five million" he states pulling out a piece of paper, the contract,

"What...what!?" She stares in question at the absurd request,

"my manager read the contract, he would never agree...."

Seeing the look of realization donning on her they burst into a fit of laughter,

"you see the law's a funny thing, slavery's gone....well not really, when you owe anyone enough money you've essentially signed a binding contract, it's more or less the same, you see according to this I've paid you the advance requested, the five million credits, you gave my brother your 'boyfriend' this money to handle company logistics, I've received it back from him, but you still very well owe me, now if you would be so kind, STRIP!"

Racing down the hallway to find KV, Raven's hand halts at the familiar studios door nob, his instincts flare in warning

{Stay there and don't make a move} a foreign voice speaks into his mind nearly jolting him into action, forcing himself to calm down he quickly recalls the familiar voice from memory,

(Kevin Volt?)

(I'm afraid so)

{How?…how come you didn't even know he was a shifter?} He inquires from Silver

{My powers are a far cry from what they once where, they are mainly now closely tied to you, as you grow i grow, my memories and strength depend on you, and currently this body is at the zone advancement, meaning}

(He's a Brain Shifter?!)

{Don't be foolish of course not he's close though, he's probably at either 'full' or the 'perfect' zone},

The conversation having barely taken five seconds comes to a quick conclusion allowing Raven to refocus on their discussion,

(You're needed to complete the task at hand)

(Which is?)

(To save the girl, Yue, there's reason to believe she will be forced into adult performances),

(What!? We have to do something)

(Go gather the rest),

"They're forcing her to perform sexual acts on camera?!, You knew and didn't say a word?!, Call my dad right now!"

"Why?, It's not really my business nor would the boss care, i was informed by an informant of mine and i'd rather not be involved"

hearing the plethora of voices speaking he gets the nagging intuition he's met the odd one out somewhere, putting his ear against the door to listen while Silver sneers into his mind,

{Tch it really is such a waste}

(Are you going to help or not?), Raven replies exasperatedly

{If you'd actually take your training serious instead of waisting time prancing around like a headless chicken you'd be able to do something as paltry as this instinctively)

(Fine!, I don't need your help)

(Your and idiot through and through, though i suppose that is one of your manageably charming points, i can guarantee your listening in on a room of shifters and at least two are at zone and well experienced, let me spell it out this way, much like your mother was, they're well aware of your presence},

(I promise to take training serious from now on)

{Not interested, In case you haven't realized your word isn't worth much, I've resigned myself to the fact that unless i find another who thirsts for power i'm stuck being a spectator in your dreadfully boring life}

(Please this is important, KV's sure Yue's in trouble!, We need to do something!)

(Learn this Raven Voss and do not forget, to protect you need strength, peace is born of war, as is life from death, being a weakling both in mind and body is off no advantage, i just hope you won't learn this the hard way, .....now Extend your senses, fall in sync with your heart run the force through your pores center yourself to the weak pulse from your head, focus on your senses, your ears precisely, now release and control Force outside, keep it just before the door, where their sound waves end, isolate the room, then breath!)

Exhaling a stream of steam through his pharynx and in a feat of acrobatics Raven catches his falling frame in a hand stand, taking a few seconds to steady his disoriented senses from the change in perception Raven steadies himself before focusing into the room, having followed the sequence of events occurring Silver frowns falling into deep thought

{I hate to admit it, but he is quite gifted, it really only took him one try}

"KV you knew and didn't do a thing?, Why!?…"

"I didn't expect you to care this much" the other distinct male voice replies, "to achieve our ultimate goal this is nothing but a small stage of the plan, if things go according to my calculations then she'll be saved before anything drastic happens and should be fine with mild trauma at best" the ethereal voice concludes

"That's not the point here what's wrong is wrong!"

"When did you get so sentimental?", Vin inquires apathetically

"It's fine, Vin you call boss, Aylin you head over there with ..... Vin are the boys valid?" KV states turning to Vin

Yawning he replies tepidly "Paltry at best"

"They'll do" turning back to Aylin he proceeds, "take Voss and the friend with you Vin and i will meet you there"

Stepping away from the door Raven speeds down the hallway managing to make as minimal a noise as possible,

(Vin?, I remember him!…Aylin's bodyguard....wait i only heard three voices....a Shifter.... she's a Shifter?!)

{Barely, first advancement flow sub stage at best, enough for any normal human, and an ant before a real Shifter},

Raven arrives at the training room before barging in, relieved at the sight of everyone in one place he spends the next minute rushing through an explanation to get them up to speed,

"What?!, We need to go!" Darla shouts racing to her bad before pulling an old scholl recorder then out the training room and down the hall with Raven and the rest following closely behind.

The president stands with Yue's shoulder-length hair in hand, "we can't use violence so i guess we'll do this the hard way, brother... call the boys"

"Seriously?, You're going with that?… Well it does sell well" his brother inquires his pants bulging forward. A testament to his sickening arousal, the president looks back to the squirming girl Trying desperately to force her hair out of his grip,

(those bastards are! quite vile.... but they're rich vile bastards and will pay anything for shit like this, she wouldn't be the first star to end up in one of these), "Get the camera men too", (it doesn't matter Gerald, if it's not me someone else will provide this product, just think about the money to be made)

"SIR!"

Gerald turns startled by the bang,

"What the hells going on?!"

"Sir! We've got Intruders!".