“Pepper! Nice to see you! Everything okay? I heard some bad Things about Tony and General Ross. I hope he hasn’t more trouble than usual.” She a...sked as both of them Woman hugged each other.“You know him better don’t you? Ross thinks that Tony knows where the other Avengers are and now he wanted to force Tony to inform him.”“I hope he didn’t told him? I don’t like what Thunderbolt Ross did to capture the Hulk. He is a Fanatic and I am not so sure if the Avengers would get a fair Process when he. Thus he was used to people confronting him in anger, but the idea of someone actually conspiring against him was a new and frightening experience for him. But to give into the fear was tantamount to surrender to his unknown adversary.Vanlo hoped that it had been an Overlord. That would make it a little easier to deal with, knowing that most of them were far from the Manor.Vanlo returned to his office to find Lanno sitting in the back room near Vanlo's apparatus. In his hand was the small glass. ? I hope that doesn'tmean I'm going to get sick.? Ifelt great. Then the voice told us all to sit up and beg and we alldid.? I whined a little becausethe silly human girls werestill pretending to be dogs.? Andthe voice must haverealized something was wrong, because the voice saidwe were all dogs.? And when Ilooked again I realizedthe voice was right.? I must havebeen mistaken before. They were all bitches just like me. The voice had the long blond bitch do some tricks inthe center of the room.?. Alexandra?" No, my name in Manuela and I'm supposed to pick you up here. Alexandrais waiting for you now." She stood up and walked toward the parking lot.I hesitate a brief moment, then I decided to go along; my curiosity aswell as my fear were growing steadily.Without saying much I got into her car and we drove about half an hourinto a Zurich suburb, where we went into an office building. On thefourth floor we came to a firm by the name Mental Trading, Inc. Manuelaled me into one of several.